iOS Dev Discussions - Sean Allen

"What I'm Working On" is a weekly show where I give a quick recap of what I worked on at my day job as an iOS developer at a small startup in Silicon Valley. I hope this give some insight into what it's like to work for a small startup as the sole iOS developer. 

In this episode I talk about how great communication might just be the most valuable skill a developer can have. I run through 3 different scenarios that happened this week where great communication was essential. I think this episode is extremely valuable to up and coming developers.

If this is your first What I'm Working On episode, be sure to check out the introduction episode for context as to what the Aluna app does.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with Jane Chung, iOS Engineer @ Calm. This was a really fun episode because I've known Jane for a long time now, as she was my partner throughout the iOS Development bootcamp we did back in 2015. It was fun to look back on the app we built together during that bootcamp. Jane then moved on to be one of the fist full-time mobile engineers at Coinbase where she converted the app from Objective-C to Swift and rode the crazy crypto wave of 2017 all the way to Coinbase being the #1 app in the App Store for a period of time. Lots of war stories there... After leaving the crypto space, Jane is getting ready to embark on her next chapter as an iOS Engineer at Calm.

Origin Stories is a series of interviews with iOS developers from the community where we discuss how they got their start in this industry. We discuss how they first became interested in code, what resources they used to learn, how they got their first job and much more.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

Swift News is all about curating this week's latest news involving iOS Development and Swift. In this week's episode I discuss Swift building on WebAssembly, the Unwrap app, what you expect from Marzipan, Self-Documenting code, Lottie, Design, ARKit & More!

Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest Swift News every Monday!

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/GWgcWdftOUw

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

"What I'm Working On" is a weekly show where I give a quick recap of what I worked on at my day job as an iOS developer at a small startup in Silicon Valley. I hope this give some insight into what it's like to work for a small startup as the sole iOS developer. 

In this episode I talk about how the skills used in solving those pesky whiteboard interview problem came in handy, as well as FINALLY getting to implement new ships and the issues we ran into there.

If this is your first What I'm Working On episode, be sure to check out the introduction episode for context as to what the Aluna app does.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

Thanks for joining the May monthly live stream and it's the last live stream in this format on YouTube. I'll be changing over to Twitch to stream video games while I answer iOS questions. I think that'll be more fun an interesting. Here more about that and the regular iOS Dev Q&A in this episode!

Twitch Channel:

https://www.twitch.tv/seanallen

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

YouTube Video Version: 

https://youtu.be/JJuSWEOz1NQ

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

Back in January of 2019 I put out a video (link below) asking people who had never had an iOS Developer job to apply for a new position at the startup I'm work at, Aluna. When I started my career someone took a chance on me when I wasn't quite ready, and it launched my career. I wanted to do the same for someone else. 

That someone is Chris and we sit down and recap his third week on the job as a Jr. iOS Developer. We talk about his impressions of startup life in San Francisco, what he worked on this week, as well as some thoughts on how having mentorship has drastically increased his skills in just a few short weeks.

The First Month - Part 1 - Video:

https://youtu.be/thXQGkxi_h4

Chris's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/chrislmauldin

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

Swift News is all about curating this week's latest news involving iOS Development and Swift. In this week's episode I UIMotionEffects, how to structure your model, saying no to new features, indie app development, UICollectionViews & more!

Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest Swift News every Monday!

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/J8JPlCtPqVc

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with Jazbo, iOS Engineer at a 3D Laser Printer company called Glowforge. I was thrilled to finally get to sit down with Jazbo and hear his story. It was fascinating to hear how he grew up in Jamaica and never touched a computer until he was a teenager. After college he decided he wanted to learn software engineering and started watching videos online, which led to him joining the developer community on twitter. Through this network, he was able to land his job at Glowforge. Be sure to stick around for the end of the episode where we have a great discussion about how people have different hurdles in their path to becoming a software developer.

Origin Stories is a series of interviews with iOS developers from the community where we discuss how they got their start in this industry. We discuss how they first became interested in code, what resources they used to learn, how they got their first job and much more.

Jazbo's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bugKrusha

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

"What I'm Working On" is a weekly show where I give a quick recap of what I worked on at my day job as an iOS developer at a small startup in Silicon Valley. I hope this give some insight into what it's like to work for a small startup as the sole iOS developer. 

In this episode it was a surprise that I was even in the office on Monday, I talk about the HUT 4 kickoff meeting, and how sometimes weeks are just not overly productive.

If this is your first What I'm Working On episode, be sure to check out the introduction episode for context as to what the Aluna app does.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

I have made the decision to forgo the opportunities at a large company and go "Full-Time" YouTube and content creation. I released a YouTube video on this, but it was a high level overview of how the decision came to be, and what to expect from my channel. In this episode, we got WAY deeper into my thought process on this big decision.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter: 

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram: 

@seanallen_dev

Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio: 

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen