iPhreaks

By Charles M Wood

Technology Education Business Careers

What's iPhreaks about?

Our podcast about building mobile applications for iOS devices, Macs, and Apple TV using Swift and Objective C.

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iPhreaks episodes:

09.03.2021
How to Launch the Next Stage of Your Career - BONUS
Charles Max Wood explains how podcasting has repeatedly opened up opportunities for him to move his career forward. He dives into how it helped early in his career, how he was able to use it as a tool to find...
08.13.2021
Don't Follow the Default Developer Career Path - BONUS
Charles Max Wood explains the default path that developers seem to follow in their career and why that doesn't give developers the fulfillment they're looking for. He then walks through some of the options to change the direction of your career. Panel Charles...
06.04.2021
The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main...
05.28.2021
How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview....
05.07.2021
Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make...
04.29.2021
Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles...
04.23.2021
BONUS: Relationships Matter Most
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He...
04.16.2021
BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can...
04.09.2021
BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer?
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over...
04.02.2021
BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working...
03.26.2021
BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode...
02.05.2021
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
02.05.2021
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
01.01.2021
BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting...
01.01.2021
BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting...
11.27.2020
BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds...
11.03.2020
iPS 309: Rewriting The Dashlane App with Rew Islam
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Steve and Alex chat with Rew Islam who manages the Apple and Android engineers at Dashlane. He shares how tech debt affects developer recruitment, how collaborating with their competitors led to new features,...
10.20.2020
iPS 308: SwiftUI Design Patterns with Mohammad Azam
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Azam and Chuck sit down and talk about the Reactive programming patterns and MVVM that go into building applications using SwiftUI in ways that allow the applications to be responsive, easy to test,...
09.29.2020
iPS 307: Game App Monetization and Live Ops with Tom Hammond
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex Bush talks to Tom Hammond about game app monetization and live ops in mobile gaming. They cover different ways to monetize your game and complexities of showing popups, surveys, and other live...
09.15.2020
iPS 305: Indie iOS and Mac Development with Curtis Herbert
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex talks to Curtis Herbert about challenges building your own indie iOS app. They talk about technical decisions, business priorities, and benefits and disadvantages of sticking with Apple technologies. Sponsors Audible.comCacheFly...
09.08.2020
iPS 304: iOS Development Books
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, the panel discusses iOS and other development books that are great resources to help during the course of the iOS developers’ journey. Sponsor CacheFly Panel Alex BushCharles Wood ...
09.01.2020
iPS 303: iOS Interview Questions
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Charles talks to Alex Bush about iOS interview questions and how to navigate the challenging job market. They go over an article Alex wrote that systematizes and summarizes commonly asked iOS interview questions....
08.25.2020
iPS 302: Executable Specifications and Behavior Driven Development for iOS with Mohammad Azam
Testing your iOS apps can be tricky. It's even trickier when you need to make sure that your non-technical folks to verify that your applications behave as they should. Azam shares his expertise in testing your applications using Behavior Driven...
08.11.2020
iPS 301: Getting Started With Combine In Your Apps with Donny Wals
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Donny Wals works for Disney on the systems that run Disney+ and other systems. He jumps on the podcast to talk about Combine. Combine is a functional reactive programming library provided by Apple. It's...
07.28.2020
iPS 300: How to Build a Million Dollar App with Steve Young
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Steve Young is an ASO and App Promotion expert. He walks Chuck and Soojin through the process of finding applications that will make you millions of dollars by competing in spaces where others are...
07.21.2020
iPS 299: An Experience of iOS Bootcamp with Alex Lundquist
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Guest, Alex Lundquist joins this episode of the iPhreaks Show to walk us through his experience with iOS bootcamp. He went into how he was laid off from his job and the rigorous pursuit...
07.14.2020
iPS 298: Splitting Your Monolith App Into Modules with Luis Ascorbe
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Soojin and Alex are joined by Luis Ascorbe who talks about his experience splitting a large monolith codebase into modules. They talk about general approach and specific tactics. Panelists...
07.07.2020
iPS 297: Keyboard Controls with Douglas Hill
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Douglas Hill and Charles Max Wood discuss keyboard control with UIKit apps. Mac Catalyst came out and made keyboard relevant on Mac where UIKit was mostly focused on iOS before. The discussion...
06.30.2020
iPS 296: Swift on Raspberry PI with Marc Aupont
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Alex Bush is joined by Marc Aupont who talks about running Swift on Raspberry PI. They talk about how conceptually development for Raspberry PI happens and how specifically it’s implemented with Swift. They also...
06.23.2020
iPS 295: Finding the Silver Lining in Hard Times
iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Given the current state of the world, we've been put into a position where things have lost jobs or lost in other areas of life. The panel discusses how to make the most of...
06.16.2020
iPS 294: Improving Performance on the SoundCloud App with Esteban Torres
Esteban Torres is an iOS developer at SoundCloud. He walks the iPhreaks through the process of upgrading the performance of their iOS app. Their app started out taking 2 hours to launch when they were testing. They started out fixing...
06.09.2020
iPS 293: Questions Every iOS Developer Should Be Able to Answer
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Charles Max Wood approaches Alex Bush to get questions answered about some of the applications he wants to build for mobile devices. The apps range from things for podcasters to other hobbies Chuck...
06.02.2020
iPS 292: Evolving Apps and Hacking Around with Eric Crichlow
Eric Crichlow joined the iPhreaks to talk about the journey of building a gifting app he build and the process of maintaining the application. He also talks about how he learns through personal projects and how he's worked the evolve...
05.26.2020
iPS 291: App Store Subscriptions with Jacob Eiting
Jacob Eiting, CEO and co-founder of RevenueCat joins Soojin and Chuck to talk about the ins and outs of running subscriptions through the Apple App Store. He shares advice on getting started, challenges with StoreKit, and ends with a couple...
05.19.2020
iPS 290: Building Community Based Apps with Tamar Nachmany
Tamar Nachmany joins the iPhreaks to discuss building applications that serve specific communities in allowing them to communicate and connect. She discusses the approaches used at Tumblr and other companies and how to learn enough about your community to build...
05.12.2020
iPS 289: Building Discoverable Apps with Dave Verwer
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave Verwer is the curator of iOS Dev Weekly. He also runs several other projects around the iOS community including the iOS Dev Directory. The show starts out talking...
05.05.2020
iPS 288: Accessibility, Dynamic Type, and Voiceover with Jeff Watkins
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Former Apple iOS engineer Jeff Watkins joins the iPhreaks to discuss accessibility and the capabilities Apple provides to support Dynamic Type and VoiceOver. He also talks about other forms...
04.21.2020
iPS 287: Gaming Engines and Game Development with Andrey Volodin
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Andrey is an iOS developer. He worked on Cocos2D and has worked on other gaming systems and has not worked much on UIKit. He walks through building games and...
03.31.2020
iPS 286: Building Augmented Reality Apps using AI with Soojin Ro
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Soojin Ro gave a talk and demo of an Augmented Reality application he built at try!Swift NYC Conference.. He walks Chuck and Alex through how to build and design...
03.17.2020
iPS 285: The Life of an Image on iOS with Jordan Morgan
Jordan Morgan is a mobile developer at Buffer. He gave a talk at Swift Tokyo. He goes into the issues around images and TableView. He went to WWDC and got a rundown of how images work under the hood on...
03.03.2020
iPS 284: Accessibility and Considerate Apps with Jeffrey Bergier
Former Apple iOS engineer Jeff Bergier joins the iPhreaks to discuss accessibility and the capabilities Apple provides to support Dynamic Type and VoiceOver. He also talks about other forms of considerate apps and the things that you should be doing...
02.11.2020
iPS 283: Charting Your Course
Charles Max Wood hosts a solo episode sharing his perspective on designing your perfect life. In this episode he addresses finding your dream job, building your dream life, and staying current. Start by deciding where you want to end up....
02.04.2020
iPS 282: The Art of Designing Code with Mischa Hildebrand
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show the panel interviews, Mischa Hildebrand, asking about a talk he gave at iOS Conf 2019. Mischa has a very varied background, he studied to become a physicist, then did some journalism on television...
01.21.2020
iPS 281: Our Builds
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show the panel introduces themselves and discusses their favorite tools and what their builds look like. They share their journeys in iOS development and their experiences in large teams compared to smaller teams. They...
01.07.2020
iPS 280: Siri Shortcuts with Christina Moulton
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show the panel interviews Christina Moulton. She starts by sharing her story and how she got into iOS development. The panel briefly discusses her work at Square and what she does there. The panel...
12.24.2019
iPS 279: Serverside Swift with Gopal Sharma
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show the panel interviews Gopal Sharma who gave a talk at try! Swift 2018 about serverside Swift. He starts by sharing his background and how got into building stuff for the serverside. In his...
12.10.2019
iPS 278: App Marketing Hacks with Steve Young
In this episode of the iPhreaks Show Charles Max Wood interviews Steve Young, founder of Appmasters.com.Steve shares was for apps to rise in rankings on the app stores. He shares specifics for both the Google and Apple app stores. The...
10.29.2019
iPS 277: 100 Days of SwiftUI with Paul Hudson
In this episode of The iPhreaks Show the panel interviews well-known author Paul Hudson. Paul is the creator and editor of Hacking with Swift. He does talks all around the world and writes books about swift. Paul went to the...
10.22.2019
iPS 276: Automating Painful Things with David House
In this episode of The iPhreaks Show the panel interviews David House about Continous Integration and Continuous Delivery. David is an iOS developer currently living in Georgia. He has been working in iOS development since the iOS SDK was int...
10.15.2019
iPS 275: Finding Quality Packages using SwiftPM Library with Dave Verwer
In this episode of The iPhreaks Show the panel interviews Dave Verwer about his new SwiftPM Library. Dave is an iOS developer from the UK, he’s been working with iOS since the beginning. He is mostly known for his weekly...

What's iPhreaks about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

iPhreaks episodes:

How to Launch the Next Stage of Your Career - BONUS

Don't Follow the Default Developer Career Path - BONUS

The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS

How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS

Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS

Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS

BONUS: Relationships Matter Most

BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer

BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer?

BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021

BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working

iPS 309: Rewriting The Dashlane App with Rew Islam

iPS 308: SwiftUI Design Patterns with Mohammad Azam

iPS 307: Game App Monetization and Live Ops with Tom Hammond

iPS 305: Indie iOS and Mac Development with Curtis Herbert

iPS 304: iOS Development Books

iPS 303: iOS Interview Questions

iPS 302: Executable Specifications and Behavior Driven Development for iOS with Mohammad Azam

iPS 301: Getting Started With Combine In Your Apps with Donny Wals

iPS 300: How to Build a Million Dollar App with Steve Young

iPS 299: An Experience of iOS Bootcamp with Alex Lundquist

iPS 298: Splitting Your Monolith App Into Modules with Luis Ascorbe

iPS 297: Keyboard Controls with Douglas Hill

iPS 296: Swift on Raspberry PI with Marc Aupont

iPS 295: Finding the Silver Lining in Hard Times

iPS 294: Improving Performance on the SoundCloud App with Esteban Torres

iPS 293: Questions Every iOS Developer Should Be Able to Answer

iPS 292: Evolving Apps and Hacking Around with Eric Crichlow

iPS 291: App Store Subscriptions with Jacob Eiting

iPS 290: Building Community Based Apps with Tamar Nachmany

iPS 289: Building Discoverable Apps with Dave Verwer

iPS 288: Accessibility, Dynamic Type, and Voiceover with Jeff Watkins

iPS 287: Gaming Engines and Game Development with Andrey Volodin

iPS 286: Building Augmented Reality Apps using AI with Soojin Ro

iPS 285: The Life of an Image on iOS with Jordan Morgan

iPS 284: Accessibility and Considerate Apps with Jeffrey Bergier

iPS 283: Charting Your Course

iPS 282: The Art of Designing Code with Mischa Hildebrand

iPS 281: Our Builds

iPS 280: Siri Shortcuts with Christina Moulton

iPS 279: Serverside Swift with Gopal Sharma

iPS 278: App Marketing Hacks with Steve Young

iPS 277: 100 Days of SwiftUI with Paul Hudson

iPS 276: Automating Painful Things with David House

iPS 275: Finding Quality Packages using SwiftPM Library with Dave Verwer