Rambo goes on a shipping spree while also finding out exciting new info about this year’s iPhones. In the meantime John cheers himself up by writing a Markdown parser, and the Pixelmator team embeds their entire app inside of Photos. Also, what does it take to build up an audience and to make a blog successful?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

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Markdown

ChibiStudio

“Designing Fluid Interfaces” from WWDC 2018

Pixelmator Pro

Rambo’s report about this year’s iPhones

John’s “Sharing” talk from AppBuilders 2018

How to decide when to cut a feature from a project, what could the refreshed MacBook lineup tell us about the future of Apple’s laptops, and how is the current state of Apple’s betas affecting third party developers? Also, why on Earth did Rambo buy a 2008 MacBook?!

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Rambo’s App Builders talk

Triggering shortcuts using Amiibo

xcodereleases.com

Review Stacktrace on Apple Podcasts

Special guest Federico Viticci joins John and Rambo to discuss the current state of the iPad, how it has evolved over the years and his impressions on iPadOS. We also discuss automation and how it relates to focus and productivity.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Federico on Twitter

MacStories

Connected episode number 250

Beyond the Tablet

Eve Button

Homebridge

John builds a hot reloading tool for writing HTML in Swift, Rambo accidentally discovers details on how SwiftUI’s previews work, and Jony Ive goes indie. Also, tips on professional communication, different approaches when it comes to adding analytics to an app, and much more.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Using Grand Central Dispatch to observe file changes

DistributedNotificationCenter

SwiftUI’s ForEach does recycle views

The Talk Show episode about Jony Ive leaving Apple

Continuing to analyze the announcements made during this year’s WWDC, on this episode, John and Rambo turn their attention to the Swift Package Manager — and how the fact that it’s now integrated into Xcode is a big deal for many Swift developers. Also, how did Apple manage to hide SwiftUI for all those years, and do we think that other parts of Apple’s SDKs may be getting the “Swift UI treatment”?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

SwiftAveiro

A first look at John’s HTML DSL

The Swift Package Manager

Take the Developer Economics Q2 2019 survey now

John and Rambo dive deeper into backend-driven UIs using SwiftUI, as well as transparent backgrounds for third party apps, and the potential of using NFC for automation purposes. That, and more reflections on this year’s WWDC announcements, and whether the Mac Pro is actually designed for developers.

Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Shifting paradigms in Swift

Codable views using SwiftUI

Rambo’s transparent app background project

It’s time to dive much deeper into SwiftUI! John and Rambo talk about everything from how and when to adopt SwiftUI, to how it relates to app architecture, and how the Swift language itself has evolved to support its declarative new syntax. But of course there’s also a brand new Rambo Report, and the WWDC poker results are finally revealed.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

WWDC by Sundell

Linode

Cloudflare

Cast

Joe Groff on how long SwiftUI and Combine have been in the works

UIHostingController

UIViewRepresentable

Swift by Sundell episode with James Thomson

Model controllers

Logic controllers

Extracting view controller actions

Codable

The Swift 5.1 features that power SwiftUI’s API

Rambo’s 9to5Mac report on the Apple’s Tag device

WWDC 2019 is here, and it’s a big one! John and Gui break down the top announcements, features and new developer tools in this grand WWDC special episode of the show. So fasten your seatbelts, it’s keynote analysis time!

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

WWDC by Sundell

The video of the keynote

The pre-WWDC interview

PencilKit

SwiftUI

WWDC 2019 is just a few days away, which means that it’s poker time! But before getting to the predictions, gambling and the bets, John and Rambo talk about the launch of WWDC by Sundell, Rambo’s latest scoops on iOS 13, and Apple’s surprise-release of a new iPod touch.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Cloudflare

Linode

VSCode Browser Refresh extension

WWDC by Sundell

Chibi Studio beta

Require

Rambo’s iOS 13 scoops

Swift Playgrounds 3.0 review

WWDC 2019 poker scorecard

Rambo discovers evidence of CloudKit-based serverless functions and buys yet another iPhone XR, John takes another step towards making the iPad Pro his main computer, and Apple releases a new MacBook Pro.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Chibi Studio Beta

Shapeshift

The new MacBook Pro

Serverless computing

SwiftNIO

Vapor

Swift by Sundell episode with Ted Kremenek

Chimera jailbreak

OpenTerm