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Making Office Harmony Great Again. Quiet is the New Loud. One AirPod each. We go deep on tea. Schwift. Modern app development techniques. Container Views. Auto Layout. Stack Views. Design tools for great apps. The benefits of native UI. Links Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones The other drinking habit – An Irishman’s Diary on tea and … Continue reading "031 – Getting excited about development again"

Decentralising social media. Waking ourselves gently. Trolling Alexa. AirPods and where to find them. Bluetooth. Safari extensions. Thomas makes a big announcement. Links Micro.blog kickstarter Manton Reece’s website TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ – guess what happens next – The Register PSA: Finder for AirPods has been removed from the … Continue reading "030 – More of a fetish than a weakness, really"

Dave has to program over Christmas. Baz ponders the monetisation of Wordsnap. Thomas left-pads his home. Baz and Dave go deep on lighting. Thomas tries to listen to music from this decade and ends up giving out about apps from this decade. Money saving options for subscription services. We discuss recommendation engines. Links Thomas’s blogpost … Continue reading "029 – I tried that, but it resulted in me getting elbowed"

We review a posh handbag and a posh Kindle. We go deep on Soviet mechanical watches. Remembering the game Papers Please and celebrating all things Soviet. Feedback on our coding style guide discussions from episode 26. Thomas can’t understand why he’s an idiot for conflating sci-fi with role-playing games. The awfulness of The Big Bang … Continue reading "028 – A broken 24-hour watch is only right once a day"

Dave is living in the future. Thomas is living in the past. Baz is proved right. Links Bose Hearphones The Retr0bright project Polygon – Top 10 mechanical keyboards Logitech Wall of Keyboards Compelling Science Fiction magazine What’s making us happy: Thomas – Black Mirror Dave – Alexa and LIFX bulbs Baz – Final Fantasy XXV … Continue reading "027 – Any part of your computer that you touch with your body"

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 … Continue reading "026 – With Alexa, I can do whatever the hell I want"

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 … Continue reading "025 – A resounding meh"

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 … Continue reading "024 – And then you cry in the corner quietly"

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 … Continue reading "023 – You can just stroll up to someone and start talking to them"

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 … Continue reading "022 – I’m not going to develop an operating system"

Followup on Baz’s new iPhone 7, the recent Google event, abandoning Apple in the home, and competing VR platforms.

macOS Sierra has arrived and we talk about the new features: Baz collects his windows and Irish Siri makes her debut. We talk about our OS update styles, varying from cutting edge to maybe sometime. Dave bought a house and is looking at home automation solutions, what’s the state of the ecosystem and how does it all … Continue reading "020 – If you squint you’ll notice it"

We discuss the aftermath of last week’s iPhone and Apple Watch announcements. Baz and Dave discuss what phones they will buy. Thomas updates his phone to iOS 10 live on air, and then starts to fret as he is told that the update is bricking lots of phones. Baz gets enthusiastic about the new features in … Continue reading "019 – You Wouldn’t Download A Perfume"

Recorded immediately after Apple’s event on Wednesday, we discuss the new iPhone and Apple Watch announcements.

A slightly later episode this week due to some technical difficulties: Dave gradually descends into incoherence but he assures us that it’s was just his recording setup. So, Baz is still on the betas and Barbara Streisand leaks the release date of iOS 10! We talk about the latest rumours about the next iPhone. Dave talks … Continue reading "017 – Siri, what is The Streisand Effect?"

Dave spent a while away with very slow internet. We discuss how lack of broadband is stopping people from buying houses in rural areas and we test our mobile broadband speeds. Thomas launched his WordPress Theme but don’t expect him to announce any more projects on the podcast! What’s involved in making a WordPress theme these … Continue reading "016 – How do you pronounce T-U-P-L-E?"

We have a slightly shorter episode this week as we’re in the midst of the summer holidays. Thomas designs his own WordPress theme and we talk about WordPress and blogging platforms in general. We talk about what product or platform we would recommend to someone wanting to start a blog or website. Thomas talks about … Continue reading "015 – I’m left handed, as you can probably hear"

This week we talk about Uber (which we can’t use): their database switch and the acquisition of their Chinese brand, Dave makes a bad database joke and perpetuates conspiracy theories. We talk about Hailo (which we can use), which is merging with MyTaxi. We have a local taxi app: Swify Taxi. This leads Thomas to … Continue reading "014 – OK, You’re a Taxi"

We talk about the current state of the App Store, service supported Apps, the race to the bottom, subscriptions and upgrade pricing. iCloud CoreData is deprecated, Thomas talks about replacements and how he’s grappling with sync for his app. We fix our first bug as a programming mob and Thomas makes his first contribution to … Continue reading "013 – Cheap Development at Breakneck Speed"

This week we talk about Pokemon Go as it is finally released in Ireland. Nintendo to release a retro NES console with built-in games and they finally open up their developer program to anyone who can afford the devkits! We deep dive on the Top iOS SDKs in the top 200 free apps and muses on … Continue reading "012 – A bunch of men in their 30s hanging around"