iPhreaks

Panel: Jaim Zuber Special Guest: Michael Fey In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk about 1Password with Michael Fey. Michael is the team lead for the Apple team at 1Password. 1Password is a password manager that helps to keep people safe online by allowing people to store all their passwords and credit card information in it and it keeps it all safe behind one password that you know, your master password. They talk about why someone would use 1Password, iOS 12, how the data is stored in the app, home pod integration, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Michael intro
• 1Password
• Been working with 1Password for 5 years
• MoneyWell
• Unique product that everyone needs
• 1Password increases your security
• Works with Have I been pwned?
• People are as secure online as they think they are
• What’s it like developing for 1Password?
• Were you surprised by Apple’s iOS 12 password announcement
• UI of apps is slowly disappearing
• Home Pod integration
• How do you integrate the new password management
• How is 1Password data stored?
• How do you store data securely?
• Is storing data in the keychain enough?
• How do you keep from getting p0wned?
• What is unique about working for 1Password
• How did the change to a subscription model go?
• Can I still by a standalone license?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• 1Password
• MoneyWell
• Have I been pwned?
• @MrRooni
• mrrooni.com

Sponsors:

• FreshBooks
• Loot Crate

Picks: Jaim

• World Cup

Michael

• WhenWorks

Panel:

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

In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk about Marizipan. Marzipan is the compatibility layer that Apple invented in order to bring UIKit apps to Mac. They talk about the rumors behind the creation of Marzipan, why Apple is waiting until next year to launch it, and discuss what will make these new Mac apps iOS capable. They also touch on how you can run iOS apps on the Mac prior to Marzipan’s release, Marzipanify, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Intro to Marzipan
• UIKits on Mac OS
• This was rumored several months ago and is not coming out until next year
• Announced at Apple Keynote 2018
• Why isn’t Marzipan ready now?
• Been working on it for a while
• What makes it an iOS app?
• Link with UIKit framework
• What are the roles of the different frameworks?
• UIKitCore
• What’s up with the Tea?
• Is Apple developing a reactive UI layer?
• UIKit vs AppKit
• Dummies guide to running your own iOS app on Mac
• Marzipanify
• Is there a simulator network to run iOS apps on the Mac?
• What iOS apps would you like to see on the Mac?
• What iOS elements are supported?
• What is ProKit?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Marzipanify
• AppKit
• UIKit

Sponsors:

• FreshBooks

Picks: Jaim

• Sturgill Simpson

Erica

• Rainbow Cake

Andrew

• Princess Cake
• Pi PDP8

Gui

• Brigadeiro

Panel:

• Jaim Zuber
• Erica Sadun
• Gui Rambo

Special Guest: Leo Dion In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk to Leo Dion about MicroConf and writing apps for Apple Watch. Leo has been a developer for almost two decades and six years ago he created his own company called BrightDigit. He mostly focuses his time and energy to the Apple space and enjoys developing apps for the iPhone, iPad, and the Apple Watch. They talk about what happens at MicroConf, what he is working on now, tips for starting a meetup, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Leo intro
• BrightDigit
• MicroConf
• What happens at MicroConf?
• Startups for the Rest of Us Podcast
• Listening to your customers for what they need
• What are you working on?
• The technologies that people are interested in now
• What is an info product?
• Getting into a regular habit of writing
• Do you have tips for running a meet up?
• The “ideal” meetup
• Meetups that push you forward in your developing career
• Creating content marketing
• Leo’s Exercise App
• What kinds of coaching would benefit from Apple technology?
• New Apple Watch functionality
• Getting info from your devices without looking at a screen
• Augmented Reality without images
• We love stats!
• And much, much more!

Links:

• MicroConf
• BrightDigit
• Startups for the Rest of Us Podcast
• @leogdion
• leogdion.name
•  

Sponsors:

• FreshBooks
• Loot Crate

Picks: Jaim

• Content Marketing Example - Prima Coffee
• Baratza Encore Coffee Grinder

Erica

• Fitbit Aria

Gui

• Siri Shortcuts

Leo

• The Qualities of Great Design

Panel:

• Andrew Madsen
• Erica Sadun
• Jaim Zuber

Special Guest: Paul Hudson In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist speak with Paul Hudson about Writing, Swift, & Writing Swift. Paul is the author of Hacking with Swift, Pro Swift, Swift Design Patterns, Server-Side Swift, Hacking with macOS, Hacking with watchOS, Hacking with tvOS, Swift Coding Challenges, and more. Suffice it to say, he quite likes Swift. And coffee. (But mostly Swift.) (And coffee.) In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Books Paul has written
• How did you get into writing?
• How do you switch from Php to Swift?
• What took you from Objective-C to Swift?
• Is Swift’s rapid pace of change a good thing?
• How do you teach technology?
• Who inspires you as a writer?
• Rory Cellan-Jones https://twitter.com/bbcrorycj
• How can technical writers improve their writing?
• What’s your process for getting feedback?
•  Tell us about your videos
• How do you make your life more Mac development and less 1 Minute Swift?
• And much much more!

Links:

• https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
• https://github.com/twostraws
• https://twitter.com/twostraws?lang=en

Picks: Paul

• OpenTerm
• louisdh/openterm: Pull Request 142
• Best Of Star Trek Voyageur
• Glitch Mob - See Without Eyes

Erica

• Gui’s WWDC App

Andrew

• Andrew’s UPS system

Panel:

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

Special Guest: Andrew McKnight In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist speak with Andrew McKnight about Surveying How Swift Evolves. Andrew provides information on a presentation he did at iOS Dev Camp Colorado, on a survey looking at the open source Swift repositories to see how developers are extending the language, foundation, or standard library. This is a great episode to gain insight into how developers on the iOS platform are helping evolve the Swift language and much more. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What was being surveyed? - Utility Libraries and general purpose
• How did you search for Utility Libraries?
• What is the purpose of the utility libraries?
• Duplicate extensions
• What are the most popular extensions that are recreated?
• String and Trim
• What is trim()?
• Why is targeting utility libraries problematic?
• What is the goal?
• Did you find wrong or dangerous implementations?
• Why is their discussion/drama around gathering these extensions?
• Would these be good topics to file Radars?
• Brisk - https://github.com/br1sk/brisk
• What is it like entering the Swift Evolution Process?
• Can a community-driven proposal gain traction?
• Did you look into custom types like Result?
• And much much more!

Links:

• https://forums.swift.org/t/surveying-how-swift-evolves/12726
• https://github.com/armcknight
• http://armcknight.com/
• https://medium.com/@ndrewmcknight/has-recommended
• @ndrewmcknight
• Chris Lattner
• Ted Kremenek

Picks: Gui

• Daily WTF
•  

Erica

• Live Lava Feeds
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtihmXFWqGo

Andrew

• Antibiotics
• Tic-80 Tiny Computer

Jaim

• Black Mirror

Andrew McKnight

• Public Extension mailing list

Panel:

• Gui Rambo
• Erica Sadun

Special Guest: Marin Todorov In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist Erica and Gui talk about backups. Why are backups important, how to maintain up-to-date local and off-site backups and backup service suggestions. Gui and Erica share examples and horror stories of neglecting to backup data. This is a great episode to learn about when, why and how to backup your devices and computers to cloud services, and best practice for categorizing your personal and business data for backup. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Paranoid back up
• Not everything can get synced up to GitHub
• Email,  personal materials, etc.
• Horror stories
• Personal catastrophe
• Losing a business
• Where does your data live?
• Personal and financial cost
• What are not backups -  Dropbox, cloud, etc
• DropBox is only one component of a backup
• Cloud storage components
• Having a mix of cloud, and localized backs, and introducing redundancy
• Natural disasters and thief
• Offsite Github backup
• Git Repo
• Privacy, private repo, etc.
• Bit Bucket -  similar to GitHub
• Source Forge
• Amazon web service
• AWS Glacier
• AWS S3
• ARQ
• Back Blaze
• Back Blaze B2
• Time Machine alone is not efficient
• Bootable backups
• Carbon Copy Cloner
• Scheduler for backups
• Time Machine fail
• And much much more!

Links:

• https://github.com/github/backup-utils
• https://github.com
• https://bitbucket.org
• Amazon web service
• AWS S3
• ARQ
• Back Blaze
• Back Blaze B2

Picks: Gui

• CloudFlare Workers

Erica

• NOTI

Panel:

• Gui Rambo
• Andrew Madsen

Special Guest: Marin Todorov In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist speaks with Marin Todorov about Realm. Marin is an independent developer and works exclusively in the iOS platform. Marin does contract work, open source projects is an author of multiple publications, a speaker,  and does in-house training. Marin answers questions about the inner workings or Realm, what and who is using Realm, how it functions and popular ways to implement Realm in your projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is Realm?
• What are differences from other data options?
• Is Realm a SQL database?
• Live objects in Realm
• Multi-threading and Reactive
• What is data type returned from Realm?
• What is an Object Graph?
• Realm Cloud
• Marin’s Realm Book
• Realm World Tour
• And much much more!

Links:

• http://www.underplot.com/
• https://github.com/icanzilb
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/marintodorov
• https://www.amazon.com/Marin-Todorov/e/B01N5IG4HR
• @icanzilb

Picks: Gui

• Livestream of coding a Mac app

Andrew

• Open Emu

Marin

• Xcode Treasures - Chris Adamson

Panel: 

• Gui Rambo
• Andrew Madsen
• Eric Sadun

Special Guest: Chris Adamson In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist speak with Chris Adamson, a freelance iOS and Mac developer from Grand Rapids Michigan. Also, Chris is an author and co-author of a number of books, including Xcode Treasures. Chris is on the show to talk about this book abut Xcode called Xcode Treasures. This is a great episode to learn about another avenue of valid information on the inner workings of Xcode. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Book Xcode Treasures
• Negativity about Xcode
• Tools
• Documentation
• Code Warrior
• Hardware
• 32 bit issues
• What are the biggest frustrations with Xcode as a developer?
• What are the things you love about Xcode?
• Xcode project format
• Xcode not savvy with version control
• Apple addressing these issues
• Interface Builder
• What did you learn about Xcode when writing the book?
• Code Signing
• Sand boxing app
• Git control
• VeraCode
• Fonts
• Who needs to buy you book?
• Mid Level and up iOS developers need this book.
• Pragmatic Programmers  Beta Program
• When are with going to see the book?
• Xcode for iPad?
• Xcode as an IDE
• Core Audio talk and updates
• And much much more!

Links: http://subfurther.com/bloghttps://www.linkedin.com/in/invalidname//https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/1045Xcode Treasures https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ Picks: Gui

• OS Log API

Andrew

• Online Swift Playground
• Juiced.gs

Erica

• Snippity

Chris

• We are X

Panelist

• Jaim Zuber
• Andrew Madsen

In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Jaim, and Andrew discuss conferences such as WWDC, AltConf, Next Door Conf NDC, and many of the events and attraction when attending conferences. This is a great episode to learn about the various facets of conference hopping. Topics covered involve the number of attendees at these individual conferences, speaking at conferees, logistics of attending, tourist attractions, parties, after events, and much more. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Conferences and Events:

• San Jose vs. San Francisco
• WWDC
• AltConf
• Next Door Conf NDC
• Layers Conference
• try! Swift
• Speaking at conferences
• Logistics
• Night of Dim Sum

Conference Tips:

• Avoid loud parties
• Podcast Recordings
• Swift Panel
• Cocktails
• Coffee
• Meeting new people over coffee
• Beacon Party App 

Picks: Jaim

•  Voltaire:

        360 S Market St #80, San Jose, CA 9511

• Social Policy:

        200 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113

• BBW Tri Tip Sandwich -  885 Delmas Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
• Sports Bar
• Gombei in Japan Town 
• Cocktail Bars:
• https://www.yelp.com/biz/haberdasher-san-jose  - 43 W San Salvador St - Smaller basement vibe
• https://www.yelp.com/biz/paper-plane-san-jose-2  - 72 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113 Large Bar

Andrew

• Computer History Museum
• Apple Park

Panel:

• Erica Sadun
• Andrew Madsen

Special Guest: Derrick Hathaway In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica, and Andrew speak with Derrick Hathaway about GraphQL. Derick is a mobile app developer and works at LifeOMic. Derrick is on The Freelance Show to discuss exactly what GraphQL is about. This is a great episode to understand the structure of GraphQL on the client and server side, and many other facets and features. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is GraphQL, why are you using it.
• How does GraphQL differ from REST?
• Where does this live?
• The server component of GraphQL
• What do you use to use GraphQL?
• GraphQL requests under the hood
• Where is the state of the technology?
• Apogee
• Subscriptions
• Security
• How to get started?
• GraphiQL - https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
• https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
• Query validation at compile time
• And much, much more!

LINKS:

• https://lifeomic.com
• https://cloud.google.com/apigee-api-management/
• https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
• https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrickhathaway
• Twitter handle  - @derrh
• https://github.com/derrh

Picks: Erica

• Salt Lake City

Andrew

• Nintendo Switch

Derrick

• Microbiology