Worst Case Scenario

By Baz Taylor, David Sims, Thomas Bibby.

A podcast recorded in the west of Ireland about App Development, Tech, Education and Life.... more

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How many episodes does Worst Case Scenario have?

The podcast currently has 86 episodes available.

Worst Case Scenario episodes:

December 08, 2016026 – With Alexa, I can do whatever the hell I want
One of us has no heating. We argue about trivial stylistic differences in code, and the pros and cons of style guides. The noise that the new MacBook Pro keyboard makes. Battery life and browser choice. Dave gets an Amazon Home and reflects on 11 years on Reddit.
Links
raywenderlich.com Objective-C styleguide
Objective Clean
What if I had bought Apple stock instead? – Kyle Conroy
Limerick iOS Developer Meetup – 10th December
What’s making us happy?
Baz: FFXV and The Last Guardian
Dave: ParcelMotel.com
Thomas: iPad
...more
1h 20min
December 08, 2016026 – With Alexa, I can do whatever the hell I want
One of us has no heating. We argue about trivial stylistic differences in code, and the pros and cons of style guides. The noise that the new MacBook Pro keyboard makes. Battery life and browser choice. Dave gets an Amazon Home and reflects on 11 years on Reddit.
Links
raywenderlich.com Objective-C styleguide
Objective Clean
What if I had bought Apple stock instead? – Kyle Conroy
Limerick iOS Developer Meetup – 10th December
What’s making us happy?
Baz: FFXV and The Last Guardian
Dave: ParcelMotel.com
Thomas: iPad
...more
1h 20min
December 01, 2016025 – A resounding meh
Thomas abuses WordPress and writes some JavaScript. Another take on cross-platform app development. Apple stops making wireless routers. We imagine a world without the Mac. What do the alternatives look like on the PC side? We give some surprisingly useful advice for Christmas presents.
Links
NSHipster
Thomas’s code swap plugin – hipsterpress
Thomas’s syntax highlighting plugin – aibhsitheoir
I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and I’ll never do it again
Apple said to abandon development of wireless routers – Bloomberg
Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Cards Against Humanity Holiday Hole (autoplaying video)
What could make other people happy
Anker Battery pack – Amazon UK
Amazon under $5 – Reddit
LifeX smart light – Amazon UK
Amazon Echo – Amazon UK
Jaybird headphones
Classic Mini New
Bluetooth Receiver
LIFX
Readly
...more
1h 12min
December 01, 2016025 – A resounding meh
Thomas abuses WordPress and writes some JavaScript. Another take on cross-platform app development. Apple stops making wireless routers. We imagine a world without the Mac. What do the alternatives look like on the PC side? We give some surprisingly useful advice for Christmas presents.
Links
NSHipster
Thomas’s code swap plugin – hipsterpress
Thomas’s syntax highlighting plugin – aibhsitheoir
I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and I’ll never do it again
Apple said to abandon development of wireless routers – Bloomberg
Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Cards Against Humanity Holiday Hole (autoplaying video)
What could make other people happy
Anker Battery pack – Amazon UK
Amazon under $5 – Reddit
LifeX smart light – Amazon UK
Amazon Echo – Amazon UK
Jaybird headphones
Classic Mini New
Bluetooth Receiver
LIFX
Readly
...more
1h 12min
November 23, 2016024 – And then you cry in the corner quietly
A listener asks us about the best way of getting in to iOS development, we give wildly contradictory answers. We take another look at Swift. The many faces of Visual Studio. We discuss the new UK surveillance law and paranoia takes hold.
Links
Alan Gill – Twitter
Big Nerd Ranch
Ray Wenderlich
Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’ – ZDNet
Primitive for macOS
Surveillance camera gets infected in 98 seconds – Rob Chapman – Twitter
We didn’t find the dog, but you can find more open ports on Shodan
What’s making us happy
Thomas – Pitch Perfect
Baz – PS4 Pro
Dave – Articles about C, like this one
...more
1h 4min
November 23, 2016024 – And then you cry in the corner quietly
A listener asks us about the best way of getting in to iOS development, we give wildly contradictory answers. We take another look at Swift. The many faces of Visual Studio. We discuss the new UK surveillance law and paranoia takes hold.
Links
Alan Gill – Twitter
Big Nerd Ranch
Ray Wenderlich
Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’ – ZDNet
Primitive for macOS
Surveillance camera gets infected in 98 seconds – Rob Chapman – Twitter
We didn’t find the dog, but you can find more open ports on Shodan
What’s making us happy
Thomas – Pitch Perfect
Baz – PS4 Pro
Dave – Articles about C, like this one
...more
1h 4min
November 16, 2016023 – You can just stroll up to someone and start talking to them
We give our verdict on the new MacBook Pros, and discuss what is a professional anyway. Dave reminds us that “Bitchin’ ain’t switchin’”. Dongles. Thomas and Dave get overfamiliar with podcasters in real life. Baz and Dave discuss their recent trip to Ull. We discuss David Smith’s lessons from the app store. Baz reveals a secret.
Links:
Thomas’s breakdown of Irish MBP pricing
Shannon’s Law – Wikipedia
View from Baz’s hotel room at Ull
Ull conference
David Smith’s blog
Baz’s tweet from the Escape the Room game at Ull
What’s making us happy:
Thomas: Objective-C. Tim Berners-Lee’s 1991 source code for the WWW browser/editor
Dave: Swift Playground explaining how to create a tiny programming language named Mu
Baz: Steamboat Records (facebook link)
...more
1h 22min
November 16, 2016023 – You can just stroll up to someone and start talking to them
We give our verdict on the new MacBook Pros, and discuss what is a professional anyway. Dave reminds us that “Bitchin’ ain’t switchin’”. Dongles. Thomas and Dave get overfamiliar with podcasters in real life. Baz and Dave discuss their recent trip to Ull. We discuss David Smith’s lessons from the app store. Baz reveals a secret.
Links:
Thomas’s breakdown of Irish MBP pricing
Shannon’s Law – Wikipedia
View from Baz’s hotel room at Ull
Ull conference
David Smith’s blog
Baz’s tweet from the Escape the Room game at Ull
What’s making us happy:
Thomas: Objective-C. Tim Berners-Lee’s 1991 source code for the WWW browser/editor
Dave: Swift Playground explaining how to create a tiny programming language named Mu
Baz: Steamboat Records (facebook link)
...more
1h 22min
October 26, 2016022 – I’m not going to develop an operating system
This week we discuss our experiences with Baz’s new PSVR, and Nintendo’s announcement of its Switch hybrid handheld/console. Dave discusses life with no internet and his new iPhone 7. We discuss the potential for new Macs and iPads ahead of Apple’s announcement.
Links
Giant Bomb PSVR launch day special – YouTube
Satoru Iwata: CEO, Game Developer, Gamer – Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Furst – YouTube
Nintendo Switch graphics powered by NVIDIA Tegra – SlashGear
What’s making us happy?
Thomas: Narcos – Netflix, Carlos – Wikipedia
Dave: Westworld – Wikipedia, categories in Netflix
Baz: PSVR
...more
1h 20min
October 26, 2016022 – I’m not going to develop an operating system
This week we discuss our experiences with Baz’s new PSVR, and Nintendo’s announcement of its Switch hybrid handheld/console. Dave discusses life with no internet and his new iPhone 7. We discuss the potential for new Macs and iPads ahead of Apple’s announcement.
Links
Giant Bomb PSVR launch day special – YouTube
Satoru Iwata: CEO, Game Developer, Gamer – Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Furst – YouTube
Nintendo Switch graphics powered by NVIDIA Tegra – SlashGear
What’s making us happy?
Thomas: Narcos – Netflix, Carlos – Wikipedia
Dave: Westworld – Wikipedia, categories in Netflix
Baz: PSVR
...more
1h 20min

FAQs about Worst Case Scenario:

How many episodes does Worst Case Scenario have?

The podcast currently has 86 episodes available.