Today I give my hot take on the recent announcement that Spotify is acquiring Anchor and Gimlet Media.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Anchor is joining Spotify – Anchor – Medium
• Anchor
• Gimlet

This #TechTuesday, I give a quick review of the Peapod grocery delivery service and its app.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Peapod Grocery Delivery Service
• ‎Peapod on the App Store
• AmazonFresh — Amazon's delivery service. At the time of this podcast recording, it's sadly not available in my area.

It's #MovieMonday and today I wanted to give my take on the new Netflix show, Russian Doll.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Russian Doll | Netflix
• Groundhog Day (1993) | IMDb
• Donnie Darko (2001) | IMDb

How do you evolve as a developer and adapt to the ever-changing landscape of software development?

You can't know everything, but there are ways to keep up on what's important to your career or interests and today I talk about some of the resources available to keep evolving as a software developer.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Hacking with Swift – learn to code iPhone and iPad apps with free Swift 4.2 tutorials — This kind of tutorial-based book/website can help you learn the foundations of a complicated topic, like a brand-new platform and language, in a relatively short amount of time.
• The Swift Programming Language (Swift 5) — The official guide to the Swift language.
• Unlimited Online Developer, IT and Cyber Security Training | Pluralsight — This is the online course system I've used most recently.
• NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development — I love this bite-sized videos for learning new iOS related skills.
• Lets Build That App - YouTube — This is YouTube channel has been recommended to me, but I haven't explored it deeply, yet. YMMV.
• Recommended Reading for Developers — I've read or perused several of these books. There are some good recommendations in here, even if the list is old; good development techniques don't change as much as the tools do.
• A Philosophy of Software Design | Amazon.com — The book I'm currently reading.
• Philly CocoaHeads — Philly CocoaHeads is the Philadelphia area Mac and iOS programming group, a chapter of the worldwide CocoaHeads organization.

A tweet that I sent last night while testing out my newly renewed Micro.blog subscription went slightly viral. I talk about that experience and lessons learned.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• My Slightly Viral Tweet
• The Daily Chron Episode 23: Micro.blog
• The Daily Chron Episode 16: Fyre Festival Documentaries

Today I talk about why I re-subscribed to the Micro.blog service, what it is, and why you may want to look at alternative social networks.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Micro.blog — Check out or sign-up for the Micro.blog service yourself here.
• My Microblog
• The Mastodon Project — Another alternative, distributed, social networking platform that I'm checking out.
• jawns.club - jawns.club 🐘 — The Mastodon server I'm on right now.

A serious bug in Apple's FaceTime Group call feature was disclosed recently. It can be exploited to allow access to your microphone and even your front-facing camera, but you don't need to panic.

Apple shutdown the Group FaceTime servers until a bug fix is released in a few days, thus protecting everyone from a potential exploit. Even so, it's worth discussing this bug and the reaction to it.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• Serious FaceTime Bug: Apple shut it down and is fixing it but— - YouTube — Rene Ritchie's excellent summary of the bug.
• The Daily Chron Episode 13: Business Continuity Tools — There is some discussion about password managers in this episode; they are a key piece of any business or personal software security strategy, in my opinion.

I got back on my workout routine today and in this episode I talk about several iOS apps I use to help me track my fitness and health metrics.

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• iOS - Health - Apple — My "hub" app where I aggregate and review all the data from other health and fitness apps.
• Strong — The app I use to track my weight lifting workouts.
• Work out with your Apple Watch - Apple Support — How to track a workout with the built-in Apple Watch Workout app. I use this app to track my walks, mostly.
• Pedometer++ — David Smith's fantastic pedometer app!
• ‎Sleep++ on the App Store — David Smith's fantastic Sleep tracking app! I use this to get a morning update about how well I slept.
• MyFitnessPal | MyFitnessPal.com — I use the iOS app with this service to track my food intake (when I'm in a calorie counting mood).
• ‎Zero - Fasting Tracker on the App Store — The app I use to track my intermittent fasting routine.
• RECaf - Effortless Caffeine Tracking — The best caffeine tracking app I've ever used, created by the very talented designer/developer Joe Cieplinski.
• Happy Scale - Tame the Scale! — My favorite weight recording and tracking app! I use it every day. Created by the very talented developer Russ Shanahan.

Part 2 of my SEPTA Key saga! I once again attempt to use my SEPTA Key card on regional rail, this time during normal weekday travel hours!

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• The Daily Chron Episode 10: SEPTA Key — Part 1 of the SEPTA Key saga!
• SEPTA Key Home — Setup your own SEPTA Key card here and load it up with a Zone 3 or Zone 4 Trailpass if you want to try riding Regional Rail with it, too.

Continuing from my iPhone Concert Photography podcast last week, I tackle some basic tips on editing photos in Lightroom. If you want to see some basic lightroom editing of a RAW file in action, check out this episode's links!

The Daily Chron theme music, Rabbit Hole, is provided by the uber-talented E.Joseph.

Links:

• The Daily Chron 19: iPhone Concert Photography 201 – Editing - YouTube — This is a screen recording of some basic editing in Lightroom on an iPhone XS.
• The Final Edited Image | Instagram
• ‎Adobe Lightroom CC on the App Store
• ‎Darkroom – Photo Editor on the App Store — I often use this app when I'm not using Lightroom.
• ‎Snapseed on the App Store — Snapseed is from Google and is a popular choice for photo editing, with a lot of neat effects.
• Broken Goblet Brewing — Be sure to check out Broken Goblet Brewing, their beer is awesome and they are a big supporter of the local music scene!
• The Daily Chron Episode 14: iPhone Concert Photography 101 — Start your journey into iPhone Concert Photography here in part 1!