Guest

• Antoine van der Lee
  • Twitter - @twannl
  • Linkedin
  • GitHub
  • RocketSim

YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/bnAzZo3-N4g

Related Episodes

• Episode 70 - Maintaining & Migrating with Antoine van der Lee - Part 2
• Episode 14 - iOS App Architecture with René Cacheaux and Josh Berlin
• Episode 15 - Test-Driven Development with Joshua Greene and Michael Katz
• Episode 39 - Managing Code Quality with Anne Cahalan

Related Links

• 4 Tips to make it easier to fix crashes and bugs
• OSLog and Unified logging as recommended by Apple
• Adopting SwiftUI at WeTransfer
• Code Guidelines at WeTransfer 

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Intro

• Latest BrightDigit newsletter on Apple Event
• Fan or no Fan?
• Memory Limits?
• Trying to get Speculid out in the App Store 
• Back to the Mac 2020 Videos
  • Leo on Modern Mac App Dev and C++
  • Leo on Swift Argument Parser
  • Lucas from Episodes 59 and 60 on Custom Search Suggestions Window
  • Malin will be on in Dec to talk SwiftUI and Multiplatform Dev!
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On Simulators

• RocketSim
• Managing Multiple Simulators
• Creating Movies and Gifs from Simulator
• Preparing RocketSim for Big Sur

Dealing with Old Code

• Your old code vs Someone else's old code
• When do you need to rewrite the app?
• How do you convince a manager?
• Differences between agency and product work

Early Project Decisions

• Dealing with Third-Party Dependencies
• Refactoring by Unit Tests
• Keeping File Size Down
• Splitting Types with Extensions

Social Media

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GitHub - @brightdigit

Twitter
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Instagram - @brightdigit
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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Transcript

Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:00] Hello folks. Welcome to another episode of EmpowerApps. I am your host Leo Dion. Before we began the interview with Antonie, I wanted to cover a few things. We just finished the Apple event, revealing the new Apple Silicon Macs. And I wanted to talk about that. We recorded the episode the morning of today of the Apple event.

[00:00:20] So obviously Antonie and I didn't really cover these new Macs, but I figured I would just give you a quick, quick thoughts on the event today. So this was our last event from Apple last hardware event. It's been pretty quick. This year. We've had three events in two months, like Tim said, and we got the reveal of the  chip, which will be used in the Mac book pro, Mac book air, and Mac mini, which can be ordered today.

[00:00:48] I don't know when they're going to be out. Exactly. I haven't been able to check that out. I don't know which I'm really interested in. I'm kind of. Not really up for buying a...