Stacktrace

Stacktrace

By John Sundell and Gui RamboTechnology
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Stacktrace episodes

  • 91: “Just check the checkbox”

    After a bit of speculation as to whether or not Apple will ship this year’s iPhone without a charger, John and Rambo go on a deep dive into SwiftUI state management, and discuss various approaches for sharing code between an app and an extension.

    Links
    • WWDC by Sundell & Friends
    • Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box
    • A guide to SwiftUI’s state management system
    1 hr 9 min
  • 90: “Adaptive lightning”

    The macOS Big Sur redesign doesn’t mean the end of the world, right? Or does it? John and Rambo discuss the reveal of Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS apps coming to the Mac, and much more — all during a recording session stretched out over two days in the middle of a Brazilian lightning storm.

    Links
    • WWDC by Sundell & Friends
    • John’s SwiftUI app prototype
    • Swift by Sundell episode with Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block
    • “Bring keyboard and mouse gaming to iPad” from WWDC20
    1 hr 8 min
  • 89: “Did you wash your hands?”, a WWDC 2020 special

    On this WWDC20 special, John and Rambo start diving into the main announcements from Apple’s conference, focusing on iOS, App Clips, Widgets, Siri, Maps, watchOS, AirPods and iPadOS.

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    Links
    • WWDC by Sundell & Friends
    1 hr 37 min
  • WWDC by Sundell & Friends #1: Keynote and Platforms State of the Union first impressions

    John and Gui Rambo share their first impressions of Apple’s WWDC20 opening keynote, as well as the Platforms State of the Union session. This is the WWDC by Sundell & Friends podcast, subscribe to our daily show on the website.

    Did Apple’s first ever online keynote live up to our expectations, which of the announcements were the most exciting, and what technologies are we looking forward to dive deeper into during the week? Those are just some of the questions that we’ll discuss on this first episode of the WWDC by Sundell & Friends podcast.

    23 min
  • 88: “WWDC20 Keynote Poker”, with special guests Ellen Shapiro and Kaya Thomas

    On this special episode of the show, John and Rambo are joined by Ellen Shapiro and Kaya Thomas for the grand WWDC20 Keynote Poker game. Bets, speculations, and discussions around what Apple might release next week at the 2020 edition of WWDC.

    Links
    • Poker scorecard
    • Apollo GraphQL
    • We Read Too
    • Episode 77
    • Kaya’s “Meet the developer” interview with Apple
    • Rambo’s WWDC20 wishlist
    1 hr 18 min
  • 87: “An ARM and a leg”

    A deep dive into the iOS background operations model and how it could potentially be improved, rumors about both ARM Macs and a new iMac design being unveiled at WWDC20, and a discussion around designing custom systems for apps. That, and your regular updates from both John and Rambo, on this week’s episode of Stacktrace.

    Links
    • Watch Time episode with Ish ShaBazz
    • ChibiStudio
    • WWDC by Sundell
    • Bloomberg’s report about ARM Macs being announced at WWDC
    • Rumor about a redesigned iMac being announced at WWDC
    • How the Australian COVID-19 contact tracing app is reminding its users to open it
    • Grand Central Dispatch
      • Apple’s official documentation
      • On Swift by Sundell Basics
      • Sharing UserDefaults data within an app group
      • URLSessionConfiguration
      • Rambo’s dotSwift talk about app architecture
      • 1 hr 18 min
      • 86: “Into the void of the internet”

        Preparations for WWDC, a look at the first COVID-19 exposure notification apps powered by Apple and Google’s system, and a deep dive into the world of Reactive Programming through frameworks like RxSwift and Combine. Also, will cross-platform technologies like Flutter ever take over native iOS development?

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        Links
        • CocoaHub
        • Italy’s Immuni exposure notification app
        • Apple and Google’s exposure notification system
        • RxSwift
        • Combine
        • Build your own Futures and Promises library
        1 hr 3 min
      • 85: “Magnetic mumbo jumbo”

        What could an iPhone without any ports look like, and is it likely that Apple would ever adopt USB-C for the iPhone? Also, Mac development, using multiple programming languages, sharing utilities between projects, and much more.

        Sponsor
        • ZeroSSL: A new, completely free and trusted certificate authority and SSL Platform, aiming to make it easy and extremely affordable to create SSL certificates.Try ZeroSSL today for free.
        Links
        • ASCIIwwdc
        • The WWDC Mac app
        • Rambo’s macOS-style emoji picker for iPadOS
        • John’s first and second “micro podcast”
        • “A fully wireless iPhone is more likely than a Smart Connector”
        • NSView’s isFlipped property
        • Rambo’s event tracking loop implementation
        • “Beyond the Checkbox with Catalyst and AppKit”, by Steve Troughton-Smith
        • Rambo’s talk from BA: Swiftable
        • Identity
        • Codextended
        1 hr 18 min
      • 84: “We traversed the whole responder chain”

        This week, John and Rambo go on a deep dive into the responder chain and how UI events are propagated on Apple’s platforms. Also, SwiftUI vs Catalyst, Apple’s mysterious new QR codes for AR, and a visit to the Sundell R&D division.

        Sponsors
        • Bitrise: iOS Continuous Integration and Delivery for building better applications, faster. Sign up for free and learn more here.
        • Clubhouse: The collaborative home for modern software teams.
        Links
        • Apple’s custom QR codes for AR
        • Rambo’s AR article on WWDC by Sundell
        • The responder chain
        • Using the responder chain for error handling
        • Rambo’s dotSwift conference talk about MVC
        1 hr 13 min
      • 83: “When you link a framework...”

        The recent Facebook SDK crashing incident leads John and Rambo into a deep-dive on third party SDKs and various ways to handle them. Also, new thoughts and details on the rumored AirPods Studio headphones, how writing about a topic can make you re-examine your opinions on it, and the launch of FusionCast.

        Sponsor
        • Bitrise: iOS Continuous Integration and Delivery for building better applications, faster. Sign up for free and learn more here.
        Links
        • John’s “Propagating user-facing errors in Swift” article
        • FusionCast
        • Raphael Lopes on Dribbble
        • Bloomberg’s report on AirPods Studio
        • 9to5Mac’s report on AirPods Studio
        • The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep
        • Rambo’s Washington Post interview
        • Facebook’s iOS SDK
        • NSObject’s load method
        • Charles Proxy
        • MultipeerKit
        1 hr 8 min

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      A podcast about life and technology from two developers’ perspectives. With John Sundell and Gui Rambo.