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John and Rambo discuss some of the key new features that are being introduced in iOS 14.5 and Xcode 12.5, as well as their preferred debugging workflows, and how to deal with tech debt and refactoring in a pragmatic and sustainable way.

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• John’s SwiftUI articles
• Avoiding SwiftUI’s AnyView
• Emitting custom compiler warnings
• SwiftLint
• Apple’s Core ML Models
• An overview of what’s new in iOS 14.5
• Xcode 12.5 beta release notes

The joy of writing apps using SwiftUI and modern UIKit, a review of the AirPods Max, will FaceID come to the iMac anytime soon, and what sort of things are good to consider when working with third party SDKs and frameworks?

• Building modern collection views
• How SwiftUI can now be used to build entire iOS apps
• Mark Gurman’s latest report on new Macs
• Using Swift compiler directives

John and Rambo react to the latest Mac and iPhone rumors, design a new feature for AirBuddy, talk about Swift Evolution and not-quite-public language features, and discuss various ways of using frameworks and libraries on Apple’s platforms.

• John’s article about accessing a Swift property wrapper’s enclosing instance
• The Swift Evolution proposal for property wrappers
• Bloomberg’s latest reports
  • New iMac, Mac Pro, and external monitor
  • New MacBook Pros
  • Foldable iPhones
  • The Power Mac G4 Cube
  • Swift Package Manager
  • Linking an Xcode target to frameworks and libraries

Rambo goes indie, John realizes once again how important breaks are, and the two discuss the latest rumors around Apple’s AR glasses in great detail, all the way down to the API design level. It’s Stacktrace, after all.

• Rambo’s indie announcement
• Summary of the latest “Apple Glasses” rumors
• Microsoft HoloLens
• Pessimists Archive
• WidgetKit
• Siri intents

On the final holiday special for this year (or, last year?), John and Rambo discuss their expectations for 2021, and what products and new developer tools that they hope to see from Apple during this new year.

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• AirTags expectations
• Swift Package Manager

On this second Stacktrace holiday special, John and Rambo look back at the past year and what some of the highlights were among the hectic, strange rollercoaster ride that 2020 has been.

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• Building an App Clip
• SwiftUI
• Getting started with WidgetKit
• Swift by Sundell Discover
• FusionCast
• AirBuddy

On the first ever completely non-technical episode of Stacktrace, John and Rambo answer #askstacktrace questions about everything from local holiday traditions to what their favorite airplanes are.

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• Christmas in Brazil
• Christmas in Sweden
• Christmas in Poland
• Panettone
• “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson on Apple Music and Spotify
• “Telegraph Road” by Dire Straits on Apple Music and Spotify

An accidental deep dive into how the AirPods’ transparency mode is activated over Bluetooth, the launch of Swift by Sundell 3.0, running macOS code in the cloud, multiple headphone reviews and a comparison between the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 mini.

• Grand Central Dispatch
• CloudKit
• Beats Flex
• Steelseries Arctis 7X
• Splash

More on using the M1 Macs as development machines, thoughts on the newly announced AirPods Max and its pricing, the importance of maintaining URLs as stable identifiers, and how AirBuddy is made aware of new audio devices.

• AirPods Max in James Thomson’s Dice app
• Apple introduces AirPods Max
• Steelseries Arctis 7x headphones
• rbenv

On this slightly more code-focused episode of the show, John and Rambo discuss cross-platform SwiftUI development and techniques for integrating SwiftUI with UIKit and AppKit. Also, how the original HomePod can now be jailbroken, using the M1 Mac mini for gaming, and much more.

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• Screenshot of John’s Cloudflare analytics app
• FusionCast
• First-generation HomePod can now be jailbroken with Checkra1n
• SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability
• Published properties in Swift