John talks about his hack day success and shares his tips and tricks on how to be successful at hack day events. Scotty explains how Marzipan could alter the approach to the next version of MoneyWell.
Scotty and John continue their conversation on preparing a presentation, presentation software and accessibility issues and concerns. Scotty talks a little about his new contract while John starts to get excited by the next Netflix hack day. There is also a special guest appearance from Amy the dog.
Scotty and John discuss horrible hardware UX, the different ways to prepare a conference talk and how syncing is far more than just code that syncs data.
After a break away from the mic (because John couldn’t find his) the boys are back. Other than reminiscing over the 80’s they discuss team coding standards, focusing on the needs of new users vs existing users and preparing for WWDC.
Scotty & John discuss communication problems, the importance of acknowledging problems and objections when trying to sell to people and how bad indie developers often are at selling and marketing. John also shares how he designs and documents his classes.
Scotty & John discuss hard choices when designing app on-boarding and Johns colossal oversight.
John updates us on how there were a few problems with his efficient xib loading solution and Scotty shares how he is re-writing the ensembles server and making allowances for Wasabi / S3 differences. John also reports on his sons robotic, and Scotty makes a personal appeal for sponsorship to support his run to raise money for MS research.
John talks about his new found fame and a vegetarian free bug bash. Scotty totally forgets what he said he wanted to talk about so discusses the problems indie developers can encounter when they find it hard to set their own boundaries.
Scotty shares how he recently had some sync issue with an app he uses and how the tech support experience trying to get it resolved has made him totally reconsider how he is going to implement sync in MoneyWell. John also shares about his visit to the Steve Jobs theatre for an Apple shareholders meeting.
John talks in depth about optimizing the loading of xib files and Scotty discusses the decision to rewrite 30% of MoneyWell.
The week John continues his accessibility campaign both in the world of software and the physical world while Scotty goes on a crusade to rid MoneyWell of warnings. They also discuss how Marzipan might affect future macOS development.
This week the boys talk about Scotty's restored relationship with Objective-C, a hatred of bindings, broken iPhone X screens and bowing.
John talks about how important it is to have people "critique" your work. Scotty talks about how compiling against newer SDK's is causing issues and his hatred of bindings in macOS and his database syncing decision dilemmas. John also gets to brag about new features in the Netflix iOS app.
Scotty and John discuss Diligent Robot's acquisition of the app MoneyWell and John talks about how he has been messing things up and teaching kids in a robotics class that screwing up is alright.
In this last show for 2018, Scotty and John discuss the highlights of their year and what they are looking forward to next year.
Scotty and John talk about the recently released video of John's talk from Moscow as well as discussing the general challenges of giving conference talks in a culture that is not your own.
It's episode 200, and Scotty and John continue to underwhelm. This week they look back at the beginning of the podcast, talk about an app called Eyespeak and discuss Scotty's future application plans.
Scotty and John talk about John's new laptop, wireless debugging, self-promotion, boot camps, Apples new development program for women and the concept of it's always about who you know not what you know.
In this weeks episode, Scotty and John introduce Sam, the podcasts new editor, catch up on some responses to Johns newfound fame and the effects of the California fires on the tech industry before heading into a discussion about the differences between shipping code and shipping product.
John shares about how his Netflix Hack Day project has raised some interesting press articles. Scotty talks about trying to learn about Docker and Kubernetes to deploy server-based Swift applications. The discussion then moves on to examine the green credentials of Apples latest product announcements.
In this episode Scotty shares about his trip to the Swift By Northwest conference in Portland and John shares about his problems sharing.
In this episode, John gets excited about winning the Netflix hack day while Scotty shares about the talks he has been or is about to give at two conferences.
After a couple of weeks apart Scotty and John catch up with what has been going on. John tells of his trip to London, Athens and Moscow while Scotty talks of his upcoming trips to Romania and Portland. This episode has some background noise artefacts.... sorry.
Scotty and John discuss moving to Xcode 10, John's upcoming talk he is giving in Russia and Scotty's continuing journey with Vapor.
Scotty and John discuss the September Apple event, Scotty's trip to iOSDevUK , the server side Swift framework, Vapor and John's upcoming trip to Russia.
Scotty and John discuss the art of good documentation and how they organize their projects. They also discuss if the probable upcoming iOS hardware announcements are likely to cause any new work for the projects they are working on which leads into a discussion on Apple's release cycle. Apologies for Scotty's bad audio in this episode.
Maybe for the first time ever Scotty and John spend the entire show on follow up. John explains how he fixed his disappearing view problem while Scotty reveals his decision on a laptop and shares his experience at the Elixir conference.
This week it is John's turn to lie on the therapy couch as he explains issues he has been having with disappearing views. However, Scotty still needs to get a few things off his chest as he reveals his laptop purchasing dilemma.
After another extended absence, Scotty and John are back. This time they discuss Scotty's dislike of React Native and John becomes Scotty's midlife crisis therapist.
With John still away Scotty talks with Marc Palmer, the developer behind the new open source macOS and iOS framework Flint. John also makes a brief appearance from Amsterdam.
