40: “Throwing a JPEG over a wall”, with special guest Ben Sandofsky

Ben Sandofsky, the developer behind the camera app Halide, joins John for this season 3 premiere of the show — to talk about designer/developer collaboration, what goes into building a camera app, iOS app architecture, handling dependencies, minimizing an app’s binary size, and much more.

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• Ben on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Halide
• Gui Rambo
• The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
• Web Typography - A Book Apart
• The Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams
• Conway's law
• Mike Acton’s “Data-Oriented Design” talk
• John Carmack
• Game Engine Black Book: Doom
• Ben’s article about controller hierarchies
• UIViewController’s show method
• Original Design Patterns book
• Peter Norvig
• Adding Delight to your iOS App - WWDC 2018
• Recode article about the effects of an app’s binary size
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk