There have been a lot of changes in the world of X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and even how our favorite apps work or don't work without logging in. We discuss this new world walled garden and also the fall of LK-99!

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It is time for some lightning topics! We have all sorts of good ones including the new and maybe real LK-99 superconductor, a chat about MacCatalyst, should you use 3rd party libraries? What is on Frank's desk and when will this all end?

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We are diving back into RealityKit which got some nice updates and potentially some visionOS optimizations as well as we start to scan real world objects and turn them into digital goods!

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• Scanning objects using Object Capture | Apple Developer Documentation
• Meet Object Capture for iOS - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer

James does some experiments with building .NET MAUI UI without any XAML at all and completely in C#! We discuss the pros, cons, and if James will continue his journey to C# only!

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• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit - Markup - .NET Community Toolkit | Microsoft Learn
• jamesmontemagno/ThreadsApp
• C# UI and .NET Hot Reload - A Match Made in .NET MAUI - DEV Community

.NET 8 is on the way and we have some great updates on C# 12, NativeAOT for .NET iOS apps, and oh.... .NET MAUI gets a VS Code extension!!! Tune in!

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Frank dives into building his first app with visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro headset and he walks through everything you need to know to get setup, interact with the simulator, and actually build an app.

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We often get questions around building 3D apps and games and with visionOS getting it's first preview we thought it would be a great time to discuss in more detail for .NET developers.

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AI is all around us and everyone is talking about it. As a developer, what do we actually need to know to start developing for and with AI? Are we data scientists? Are we prompt engineers? Or are we just consumers of APIs? We discuss in this week's pod.

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Let's talk about all good things upgrades! Upgrading to the new Mac Book Air M2? Upgrading Xcode? Upgrading macOS? Upgrading Android Billing Libraries? Upgrading Internet? Upgrading GPUs?!?! We got you covered!

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It is follow up week on some topics we touched on earlier. We first break down our thoughts on C# 12's new Collection Literals, Apple Vision Pro + iCircuit, iOS 17, and some great developer productivity feature for .NET.

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• What’s new in C# 12 and beyond | BRK203H - YouTube
• [Proposal]: Collection literals · Issue #5354 · dotnet/csharplang
• Announcing C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Blog
• New Visual Studio Feature is a Game Changer for API Developers - Put localhost Online - YouTube
• Web Devs 🚨🚨 Easily Test Web API and Apps with a Public URL with Dev Tunnels CLI - YouTube