iPhreaks

Panel:

• Erica Sadun
• Andrew Madsen
• Jaim Zuber

Special Guest: Paul Shelley and Eric Ludlow In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica, Andrew, and Jaim speak with Paul Shelley and Eric Ludlow, both graduates of a boot camp at Dev Mountain. The topics cover, what is a boot camp, computer science,  app development, duration of training, investment, who goes to boot camp, iOS programming,  and much more. This is a great episode to learn more about how developer boot camps work. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is a bootcamp - 3 month intensive training
• Costs of attending a bootcamp
• Investment
• Who goes to bootcamp?
• iOS, Fullstack, etc.
• What kind of boot camps are out there?
• What do you learn at bootcamps, platforms, etc
• Growing industry
• Geting a sense of the hiring?
• Competitive fields
• Job markets
• Locations of bootcamps
• How do you find out about the job market in (Utah)
• Going to Bootcamp with families at home
• Recruiters
• SIRR- reports of numbers -  students getting jobs
• Working with team and real world activities
• Git Repos, Scrum, Agile,
• Who succeeds at a bootcamp?
• Apple educational event
• Everyone can code
• Graduating from bootcamp and looking for a job
• Job offers  at Dev Mountain Labs
• Apprenticeship
• And much, much more!

LINKS:

• https://devmountain.com

Picks: Erica

• Bike paths

Andrew

• Speed Test app Okla with cat easter egg

Eric

• Ipad with Smart Pen

Paul

• Bike paths plus 1
• Family

Panel:

• Andrew Madsen
• Jaim Zuber
• Erica Sadun
• Gui Rambo

Special Guest: Gregorio Zanon In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk to Gregorio Zanon about data transparency and iMazing. Gregorio is in Geneva, Switzerland currently and is the code leader at DigiDNA which created the app iMazing. He talks about the inspiration for creating the app, its main functions, and what kind of people use this app. They also touch on the topic of data transparency, what it is, and how it affects developers. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Gregorio intro
• iMazing
• Who is the average user of the app?
• 3 types of users
• What motivated you to create the app that does so much for so many types of people?
• Go beyond iTunes
• Where to start?
• C++ toolkit
• Apple reasons for trouble reaching data
• Need for control
• Why not split up functionality into 3 apps?
• Do iOS updates break iMazing?
• Does iMazing handle changes in APFS?
• What is Data Transparency?
• How did Facebook get my What’s App info?
• Should I delete Facebook?
• Delete Facebook article
• How can we get iMazing?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• iMazing
• Delete Facebook article
• @RealGregzo
• DigiDNA
• Friendly 30% off for developers: PHREAKS-GET-IMAZING

Picks: Jaim

• pprof - Ruby Gem to list, filter, search and print Provisioning Profiles files

Erica

• Teletubbies

Andrew

• Outline Edit - Use OutlineEdit to sketch ideas on your Mac

Gregorio

• Notion

Panel:

• Andrew Madsen
• Jaim Zuber
• Erica Sadun
• Gui Rambo

Special Guest: Joe Fabisevich In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk to Joe Fabisevich about the new mailing list that he has recently taken over, and you can sign up for it here. He talks about the type of snippets that they send out in the newsletter and gives general information about the newsletter. Joe loves the reception that he has gotten, and this is what fuels him to find new extensions every week to help other people learn. One of his goals for this project is to try to figure out the formula that keeps people coming back each week. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• Joe Fabisevich intro
• Public Extension twitter
• GetRevue
• What is an example of a snippet?
• How did you start the newsletter?
• Public Extension archives are at https://github.com/mergesort/Public-Extension
• Does the playground work on iPad?
• Who follows the twitter account?
• Is this for learners or production code?
• Are these snippets performant?
• Did you have any goals for the newsletter in particular?
• What have you learned?
• 80-90% of people actually open the newsletter
• Find something that is focused for your newsletter content
• Carbon
• Is it time for a new Mac & iOS design refresh?
• Are touch screens for Mac’s coming?
• What technologies are you excited about?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• @PublicExtension
• @Mergesort
• GetRevue
• Public Extension Archives
• Carbon
•  

Picks: Erica:

• Leet Code

Gui:

• MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume I by Jonathan Levin

Andrew:

• Tea Code
• Oregon Trail

Jaim:

• iOS Ref
• @EugeneBelinski

Joe:

• Service Pocket

Panel: Jaim Zuber Erica Sadun Gui Rambo Special Guest: Fernando Bunn In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk to Fernando Bunn about different storage option for the iPhone, such as Core Data. Fernando has worked with mobile as a hobby since 2006 when apps were developed in J2ME and started to develop apps since the first day the iOS SDK was released in 2008. He is also passionate about using technology to improve people’s lives. This episode is great for those wanting to know more about iPhone storage and Core Data in general. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• Intro about Fernando
• C and C++ developer at first
• Core Data
• Is core data still relevant?
• What are alternatives to Core Data?
• Realm, FMDB
• Encourages people to stay with Apple’s framework of personal
• What is the cutoff point at which you move into Core Data?
• The Core Data curve
• What happens to Core Data at scale?
• Why not just use SQL?
• Swift debugging problems
• Would Swift change your opinion of CoreData?
• Performance problems with Realm
• FMDB
• FCModel
• Springboard
• What about the Cloud?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• FMDB
• FCModel
• @FCBunn

Picks: Gui

• Craig Hockenberry article

Erica

• Jessica Jones Season 2

Panel: Jaim Zuber Andrew Madsen Gui Rambo Special Guest: None In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk about Andrew’s client project that he’s been working on. To combat an issue, he has been using the audio port on the iPhone in order to transport data. With this, you don’t need any approval from Apple and the hardware is very simple. They go more in depth about how this process works and how iPhone updates affect it, such as the loss of the headphone jack. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• About the Project
• How does it work?
• Bell 202
• Frequency Shift Keying
• How does it work with iPhones without new headphone jacks?
• What libraries are available?
• JM FSK-25 Modem
• Andrew wrote his own library as well
• How do you get around transmission issues?
• Erroring checking
• What type of device is on the other side?
• How do you structure your data?
• What other apps can use this?
• How is the audio with Bluetooth?
• Tech support
• Getting into the DSP weeds
• Zero cross detector to determine frequency
• Channel Coding
• How can I learn about the Core Audio APIs?
• Audio Queue Services
• And much, much more!

Picks: Gui

• System-Bus-Radio

Andrew

• 34th Anniversary of the Original Mac
• Altair 8800 Playing Music Over Am Radio
• Mini vMac
• Soft Modem Arduino Library

Jaim

• Trade Wars

Panel: Jaim Zuber Andrew Madsen Special Guest: Joe Rhodes In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel, Jaim and Andrew talk to Joe Rhodes, a developer in Atlanta who is currently working on an app called Kite Compositor. This app is an animation and motion design app for Mac that came out in about March 2017. He left the corporate world to pursue his dream to be an app creator, and has never looked back since. This episode contains a great conversation about the process that goes through the mind of a developer when they are creating their respective apps. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• Kite Compositor
• How did you come up with the idea to create the app?
• Adobe After Effects
• Why use Kite Compositor?
• What makes Kite Compositor better?
• Graphics underpinnings
• How can designers or developers use this app?
• Zeppelin and JavaScript
• Is creating this app a full-time job?
• Did you do validation?
• He created an app that he would want to use
• Computer science in college
• Launching the app
• How did you do source code generation?
• Swift or Objective-c?
• Does Xcode handle projects with both languages better than it did?
• What learning materials are there?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Linode
• Microsoft App Center
• @JRho
• Kite Compositor

Picks: Jaim

• The ‘King of Kong’ could be stripped of his high score
• Blog post on the “King of King” fraud

Andrew

• Chasing Ghosts - Beyond the Arcade movie
• OpenEmu

Panel: Erica Sadun Gui Rambo Special Guest: None In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel, Erica and Gui talk about his app ChibiStudio, the challenges and lessons learned, and specifically about how it's like to have a freemium app in the App Store. The app allows people to create their own avatar, or Chibi, that they the can share through the iMessage app. This is a great episode to learn about the thought processes that go into creating a new iOS app. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• Where did the idea for ChibiStudio come from?
• iMessage apps
• How to improve the iMessage app success
• Discoverability
• Free app with in-app purchases. Why?
• Different theme packs, especially during holidays
• Balance between free content and paid options
• Corporate outreach
• Developing your own brand
• Small and specialized audience
• 2 pathways to monetary success
• Using ads in apps
• King Games
• Ethical apps
• Lessons he’s learned from developing
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Linode
• ChibiStudio
• Microsoft App Center
•  

Picks: Gui

• HomePod

Erica

• Farscape

Panel: Erica Sadun Gui Rambo Special Guest: Lisa and  In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica and Gui speak with Lisa Dziuba and Ahmed Suljman about their new product called Flawless App. The discussion covers topics on design, how the app works, marketing, team size, and much more. This is a great episode to learn about new iOS products and their unique build and design, and implementation. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• What's Flawless
• Dealing with multiple screen sizes
• The story of Flawless
• Working on a small team
• Designing and marketing as a developer
• Marketing
• ProductHunt
• The future of Flawless app
• and much more!

LINKS:

• https://flawlessapp.io
• https://twitter.com/FlawlessAppio
• https://twitter.com/LisaDziuba
• https://twitter.com/ahmed_sulajman
• http://www.dailyui.co
• https://bendodson.com/weblog/2017/06/16/flawless/
• https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/https-medium-com-flawless-app-stories-the-ultimate-guide-for-mobile-developers-who-want-to-design-part1-a2d47c04fd49
• https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/designed-by-engineer-76cbc6ffe34d
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/reduce-app-optimizing-sketch-files/
• https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/how-flawless-app-will-make-you-a-better-ui-designer-23c7c5338e8c
• https://speakerdeck.com/lisadziuba/marketing-for-engineers
• https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers
• https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/flawlessapp-on-producthunt-7db3e561ce7a

Picks: Gui

• Tech Podcasts Lists

Erica

• Donuts

Lisa

• Marketing for Engineers

Panel: Erica Sadun Gui Rambo In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica, and Gui talk about the state of Apple in 2018 and what they would like to see from Apple in this new year. The discussion covers topics like where should Apple build their next campus, iMac Pro and desktop computing,  replacement Mac lines, Mac mini, Puck Mac, Developer market, control center issues, and much more! This a great episode to get a glimpse of the current needs and wants among the iOS and OS developer communities. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• Apples Second major campus - in Denver?
• iMac Pro
• Consumer market
• Other desktop computing possibilities
• Mac mini talk
• Puck Mac?
• Commit
• Cloud
• Developer Market
• Control Center issues
• Air Pods
• Swift Playgrounds on iPad
• Enable 3rd party developers to add to control center
• Evolution of iPads as pro computers
• Where do we put our developers?
• Touchscreens
• iPhone X
• MacBook keyboards
• Touch Bar
• WWDC 2018
• and much more!

Picks: Gui

• 8 Bit Guy Videos

Erica

• Libere Foldable Bike

Panel: Eric Sadun Gui Rambo Andrew Madsen Special Guest: Junior Bontognali, Marin Todorov, Scott Garner, and Florent Pillet In today's episode, the iPheaks panel discuss RxSwift with the four authors of the book RxSwift Reactive Programming with Swift. The co-authors are Junior Bontognali, Marin Todorov, Scott Garner, and Florent Pillet. The four authors are developers in their own respective jobs and companies who are experts in Swift and iOS platform. The discussion covers the specifics of  RxSwift and Reactive Programming. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is RX Swift?
• Web applications
• Asynchronous code
• Advantages of Swift
• Data is always in sync
• What are typical events?
• Coming from traditional Obj. C development, what is different?
• Reactive Cocoa vs Swift
• Concepts, languages
• Standardized terms
• How does RxSwift merge with Swift?
• Schedulers? GCD?
• How do you integrate RxSwift with Table View?
• Integrating RxSwift with UIKit
• Drawing patterns
• Do you think Apple will adopt some of this uniform design?
• Marzipan with RxSwift
• Coco for the Mac
• What are the first step to learning RxSwift? What do you want to accomplish?
• RxSwift Slack Group
• and much more!

LINKS:

• Junior Bontognali
• Marin Todorov
• Scott Garner
• Florent Pillet
• RxSwift Reactive Programming with Swift
• RxSwift Slack Group

Picks: Gui

• External Build Systems in Xcode

Erica

• RxSwift book
• The Vector Podcast

Andrew

• Classic Computing Podcast
• Swift Coding Challenges Book

Junior

• AppBuilders Conference

Marin

• Snippette
• Sourcery 

Florent

• Vert.x Reactive JVM Server Framework

Scott

• Paintcode
• RxFlow 
• Realm