The iDeveloper Podcast

This week the boys try and get ahead of the curve and discuss what they want to see at WWDC2021. John shares his continued dive into the mire of AVMutableComposition and the patchwork of available documentation. Scotty talks his unintentional tech news blackout and the best ways to prevent and deal with burnout.

It Could Be Worse | YouTube

Debugging AVComposition

This week the boys touch on the various ways communicating errors through the user back to the developer. John shares his successes with AVMutableCompostiton from the last few weeks work around his HackDay project. Scotty talks the recent decisions being made with MoneyWell iOS, and the possibly soon to be expansion of the company.

Splice | An amazing video editor for iOS

Learning AV Foundation

Thanking your friendly neighbourhood Apple Engineer

This week John has been experimenting with Speech-To-Text with some work relating to his recent HackDay project and shares his thoughts of Apples Voice Recognition API. Scotty shares his distinctly average week of some client work mixed with some MoneyWell error squashing.

Are We The Baddies? | YouTube

This week John announces the results of his most recent HackDay and the lessons learnt from HackDays long past, also talks the use of PDF / SVG for Netflix badges. Scotty talks his recent work with reworking the old MoneyWell codebase and his search for views, also a possibly unknown power tool for GitHub.

Month Python - "Not Dead Yet" | YouTube

One second to read GitHub code with VS Code | GitHub1s

This week the boys talk the progression of languages in parallel with hardware. John hints at some possible near future success with his most recent HackDay and likens coding in Swift with landing on Mars. Scotty talks his steadily growing pile of dead MacBooks, using XcodeGen in MoneyWell and some work with fastlane including some issues with multi-factor authentication.

Die Toten Hosen, predecessors of Scotty's new band Dead Laptops | Wikipedia

Thomas Friedman on the dichotomy of American Greatness (Perseverance landing on Mars) and Failure (Texas electrical grid) | NYTimes

Making Plans for Nigel, Jenkins CI is the new British Steel | Wikipedia

App automation done right | fastlane

Automated Organization for Your Mac | Hazel

Heroic System Recovery For Mere Mortals | SuperDuper!

This week John talks some design issues with Dynamic Type being used within Tab Bars and some problem solving using SwiftUI. Also a bug within Full Keyboard Access. Scotty talks his recent work on MoneyWell and re-implementing sync into the existing codebase and the decisions that need to made on what sync platform to use. 

Kaleidoscope

Magnification View: This is used to help people with low vision read the labels on tab bar items. It’s shown with a long press on a tab bar button when the largest Dynamic Type sizes are set.

This week Scotty shares his first experience with Apple's new M1 chip with a client's 2021 MacBook Air, how this compares with last years DTK and his 2018 Intel MacBook Pro, as well as some quirks that are still to be ironed out. John share his work this week with A/B tests on VoiceOver, the connection between what's visibly happening on screen through VoiceOver. As well as the difficulty of integrating Voice Control.

Nike Hands Free Shoe

This week the boys continue their discussion of business within the software world and how Scotty has been trying to put business decisions ahead of technical ones, with mixed success. Scotty also talks about updating the MoneyWell website and some decisions being made for the app itself, especially regarding sync possibilities.

Paul Hawken | Wikipedia

Growing a Business | Good Reads

Brad Cox, Inventor of Obj-C | Wikipedia

Gus Mueller's Appreciation of Obj-C

This week the boys share their goals for 2021 and talk the difficulty of making better technical vs. better business decisions. John talks the first Netflix release of the year which includes dynamic text support for casting menus also the milestone of over 200 million Netflix users. Scotty again shares his fairly strong thoughts on KVO and how it's been used within the existing MoneyWell codebase. Also his most anticipated return to the world of iOS.

Taligent: The MoneyWell 4 equivalent of Modern Mac OSes

Amanda Gorman | Wikipedia

Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem | YouTube

John’s Accessibility Motivation | Twitter

Back with the first show of 2021 and amongst the current political quagmires on both sides of the Atlantic John talks Apple's latest Racial Equity & Justice Initiative, Netflix's new show Arsène Lupin, and finally getting some decent internet. Scotty talks taking on more contract work and the hopeful future benefits that could be brought to MoneyWell. Also shares some frustration with certain website chatbot AI.

Arsène Lupin | Wikipedia

Arsène Lupin | Netflix

Apple’s Racial Equity & Justice Initiative

Post Brexit Travel