The Iphreaks Show

This week, we’re bringing to you a behind the scenes look at the man behind the mic and the guy who puts out over 5 hours worth of free audio content per week to support the development community: Charles Max Wood.   Long-time listener, Thom Parkin, asked Chuck if he would sit down and do an interview with him to describe all the interesting things he’s been up to and his goals for the future. In this interview, Chuck gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at all of his podcasts, the DevChat.tv platform, RailsClips, his remote conferences and his upcoming book that will focus on tips for getting hired as a developer.

01:25 - Open Source Swift iPhreaks Show Episode #138: Open Source Swift 06:13 - Is Apple going to continue being innovative? 09:46 - Will Apple gain or lose market share in 2016? 13:01 - The Apple Watch 16:33 - The iPhoneHeadphone Jack and BluetoothCamera Quality 22:05 - iOS10 24:22 - Frameworks Rewritten in Swift 26:46 - Writing Objective-C 28:37 - Siri 30:50 - Force/3D Touch 32:39 - Apple Watch (Cont’d) 34:54 - Purchasing Options/Financing 36:04 - The App Store TestFlight 41:24 - Apple TV Picks Tortuga Travel Backpack (Alondo)Twelve South PlugBug World Charger and Power Adapter (Alondo)Creating App Previews with iMovie (Andrew)Know It All! (Andrew)RushMyPassport (Chuck)Trello (Chuck)

00:59 - Sean Stephens Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Kyle Jessup Introduction Twitter GitHub 01:04 - Perfect 03:14 - The Lasso Language and Framework Lasso (Wiki) 07:10 - Lasso Parts => Perfect 13:42 - Developer Response to Perfect 15:32 - What Perfect Currently Consists Of PerfectLiblib/gcd.clibdispatch 20:02 - Getting Started on Perfect 23:50 - Open Source, Licensing, and Contribution 28:50 - Swift on Windows 29:40 - Swift and the Backend Ecosystem 30:55 - Why Choose Swift? 33:48 - Performance 35:39 - Benchmarks 38:26 - Use Cases Picks Charlestown, SC (Jaim)Amphibious (Kyle)Pleiades (Sean)SwiftyGPIO (Andrew)Anker (Andrew)

Check out Freelance Remote Conf and iOS Remote Conf!   01:20 - Josh Brown Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogParsing JSON in Swift by Josh Brown 02:23 - Why Parsing JSON in Swift is Tricky 03:53 - Basic Approaches 06:11 - What do you do if it doesn’t work? 07:59 - Libraries to Parse JSON SwiftyJSONNSJSONSerialization 09:06 - Testing 13:14 - Libraries (Cont’d) 14:07 - The Pyramid of Doom 16:15 - Guard 18:34 - Encoding 19:17 - Writing a Book 21:58 - Parameters 24:42 - typealias How to use typealias to make JSON parsing more readable in Swift 26:34 - App Architecture 27:37 - Model Mapping 28:41 - Handling Arrays 29:33 - Handling Nested Data 30:47 - Resources Picks PlayNow (Andrew)VIM Adventures (Andrew)Mondo (Andrew) Eat a healthy snack (Jaim)Honeybadger (Chuck)New Relic (Chuck)Ash Furrow: MVVM is Exceptionally OK (Josh)Coupon code for 10% offParsing JSON in Swift: iphreaks

iOS Remote Conf will be from April 13th - April 15th. Get your ticket (or submit a CFP!) Check out Freelance Remote Conf! Get the top 10 episodes of iPhreaks! Text IPHREAKS to 7656263464.   02:23 - Swift is Open Source: Why? SwiftWebKitPerfect 05:59 - Running Swift on Linux and Raspberry PiAndrew Madsen: Swift on Raspberry Pi 08:40 - Benefits of Running Swift as an Embedded Program Go 10:50 - Is this a different Swift? 11:35 - Cross-Platform Approaches Java 13:27 - What is included in Open Source Swift? The Swift Package Manager 19:00 - Vs CocoaPods and Carthage 20:38 - Building and Installation 21:30 - IDE Integration; Opening Things Up with Xcode 22:26 - Developing on GitHubErica Sadun 24:56 - Downsides to Open Sourcing Swift ? 26:47 - Benefits of Swift as a Server Side Language 28:01 - Linux Support FreeBSD 29:21 - Are we going to see Apple support other efforts? 34:37 - REPLs (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop) Picks Alexandros Salazar: The Ghost of Swift Bugs Future (Jaim)Andrew Mads

This episode is from Ara T. Howard’s talk at Ruby Remote Conf 2015. You can watch the full, unedited presentation, Program Like You Give a Damn, on YouTube at your convenience.   Check out All Remote Confs for next year’s remote conference lineup! iOS Remote Conf will run from April 13-15 2016. Buy a ticket or submit a CFP! JS Remote Conf is running from January 14th-16th 2016. Check out the speaker lineup! Freelance Remote Conf will run from February 24th-26th. The speaker lineup is all but complete!   We, the iPhreaks Show panelists (And, Mandy!), hope you had a very happy holiday season.  

01:20 - Neal Ford Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogiPhreaks Episode #84: Building Your Technology Radar with Neal FordiPhreaks Show Episode #119: Ambient Information and the Apple Watch with Neal FordThoughtWorks 02:16 - Efficient Engineering Practices for Software Projects Test-Driven DevelopmentContinuous Integration Continuous Integration Servers CruiseControlContinuous Delivery 08:42 - Feature Branching Martin Fowler: FeatureBranch 12:13 - Bad Things About Feature Branching Merge Ambush No Opportunistic Refactoring ClearCaseMerge Conflicts 17:02 - Trunk Based Development Feature Toggles Martin Fowler: Feature Toggles 24:10 - Continuous Integration (Cont’d) 26:58 - Hypothesis-Driven Development (Experiment-Driven Development) Radiolab Podcast: The Trust Engineers 32:08 - Pull Requests 35:32 - Feature Branching (Cont’d) CircleCI 40:32 - Implementing Feature Toggles 44:47 - Automatic Machine Provisioning Unit TestingFunctional Testing 49:15 - Consulting Judo - Michael Nyga

Check out JS Remote Conf and Freelance Remote Conf   Submit a CFP for iOS Remote Conf!   01:43 - Jeff Kelley Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogDetroit LabsDeveloping for Apple Watch by Jeff Kelley 02:39 - The Apple Watch (Overview) 03:33 - How do people decide if they need a watch app? 04:53 - Notifications 07:16 - Interacting with an Apple Watch 09:42 - Complications 14:39 - 2.0 Changes to Making Apps 16:57 - Models, Controllers, Views Sharing Code 18:12 - Compatability 19:48 - Developing with HealthKit 24:41 - New Releases with 2.1 26:40 - Screen Sizes and Resolutions 28:36 - Should developers buy more than one watch to test apps? 30:52 - Minimizing Delays 33:00 - Resources WWDC Videos 35:17 - Pain Points with 2.0 Development 37:30 - Phone/Watch Communication 40:39 - Testing 42:09 - Gotchas 43:20 - Memory/Performance Constraints Picks The Song Exploder Podcast (Jaim)Erica Sadun's Blog (Andrew)Hacking Atom to create a Swift IDE that runs on Linux and Mac (Andrew)Authy (Andrew)Seria

01:06 - David Mauro Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogBuzzFeed 01:17 - Kevin Lord Introduction Twitter GitHubBuzzFeed 01:54 - mattress 05:01 - Caching and Implementation NSURLCacheUIWebView 10:19 - WKWebView 14:55 - NSURLProtocol 20:56 - Can you use Mattress with other systems? 22:07 - Performance Implications 26:43 - The Conception and History of Mattress Entering the Open Source World 31:20 - Swift, adoption, and will it work in Objective-C? 39:13 - What’s next? Picks How The Wrong Name Cost Our Startup $10,000 (Alondo)Patterns (Andrew)CodeRunner (Andrew)Odesi (Andrew) Recognizing what things are truly important (Chuck) Cleaning your office (Chuck)Mattt Thompson: NSURLCache (Jaim)Josh Johnson: Intercepting Requests with NSURLProtocol (Jaim)Swift.org (David)@wkwebview (David)Hackaday (Kevin)Jamaica Ting (Kevin)

01:14 - Jared Richardson Introduction Twitter Blog 01:31 - Andy Hunt Introduction Twitter BlogThe Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt Teach Me To Code #41 – Andy Hunt 02:35 - Background, The GROWS MethodAgile Software DevelopmentThe Agile ManifestoScrumDreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition 16:51 - Getting Things Done 19:18 - Transitioning to GROWS Ship It! by Jared Richardson 23:45 - Experiments 28:39 - Blind Spots 30:22 - Pain Points and Benefits 35:52 - Where do I start? Starting with GROWSChecklist-driven Development 43:30 - Can you do GROWS on a small team? 50:25 - Working on Stage 2 before Stage 1 is Done The Unit 54:06 - The Growth of GROWS Announcement Check out Freelance Remote Conf and iOS Remote Conf at All Remote Confs Picks Dan Wilson: Regarding Ground Rules For Collaboration (Jaim)Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck)Unboxing of saramonic smartmixer for periscope. #ufy (Chuck)Clash of Clans (Chuck)Derek Sivers: The /now page mov

01:02 - Felix Krause Twitter GitHub Blog 01:17 - Fastlane 01:37 - The Background and Motivation of Fastlane 03:19 - Fastlane as a Collection of Tools 04:06 - Plugin Architecture 05:08 - Language = Ruby 06:29 - Nomad 08:32 - What do these tools help with? snapshotdeliver 12:23 - Using Fastlane for Continuous IntegrationJenkins CITravis CICircleCIBitrisescanXcode Server 14:17 - Fastlane Growth and Community 17:14 - Contribution 20:29 - Integrating and Using Tools in Workflows 26:10 - Keeping Up with Changes 27:00 - Twitter + Fastlane 29:34 - Support and Community (Cont’d) 32:12 - Getting Started Felix Krause: iOS Continuous Delivery with Fastlane @ CocoaHeads Stockholm 33:10 - Difficulties and Gotchas Code Signingsigh 34:23 - Naming Tools Picks Swift Sandbox (Andrew)Chris McVeigh (Andrew) Brine your turkey (Jaim)Tower (Felix)what-terminal-is-felix-using (Felix)Google Flights (Felix)

01:12 - MIKMIDIThe iPhreaks Show Episode #57: MIDI 02:17 - Adding Features or Changing the Way a Library Works in an Open Source Projects 04:49 - Deprecation 07:23 - Deprecation vs Replacing 09:37 - Semantic Versioning 15:14 - What is a breaking change? 17:51 - Choosing Issues and Bugs to Tackle; How long should it take? 24:31 - Maintainer Responsibility 26:33 - Being a Good Contributor; Documentation & Examples Contributor Covenant   31:01 - Using Badges 32:12 - How Travis CI Integrates with an Open Source Project ClangFormat 35:22 - Hosting for Open Source Projects GitHubBitbucketKiln 36:37 - Generated Documentation CocoaPodsCocoaDocsDash 39:07 - Licensing The MIT LicenseThe Apache LicenseGPL LicenseAGPL License 40:56 - What’s changed in MIKMIDI? (Since Episode #57) Picks The Big Star Story (Jaim)Searching for Sugar Man (Andrew)Erica Sadun: A handful of Swift style rules #swiftlang (Andrew)appledoc (Andrew)jazzy (Andrew)Toastmasters (Chuck)

01:02 - Fei Wang Introduction Twitter BlogSecret Sauce 02:24 - Validating an App Idea 03:54 - Identifying Your Market and Your Market’s Pain Points 08:52 - Networking and Communication 14:24 - Dealing with “Low-Tech” Clients 16:24 - Tools and Approaches for Prototyping SketchInVisionMarvelIonic Creator 24:51 - The Value Proposition Facebook Ads 28:07 - When Things Fall Through… 29:35 - Validating Your Marketing Channels Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman 33:10 - Pricing 36:20 - Building a List 39:23 - Recap Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal 41:34 - Validating You’re on the Right Track Picks Sketch Toolbox (Alondo)Clever Coffee Dripper (Alondo)You Must Remember This Podcast (Jaim)FamilySearch (Chuck)Relative Finder (Chuck)The New Yorker Podcast (Fei)Adblock Fast (Fei)More Resources From Fei (Fei)

01:08 - WebRTC 03:23 - Advantages 04:51 - Approaching WebRTC BowserPristine IO: Build iOS AppRTC iOS AppRTC Deep Dive (Pt. 1)webrtc-build-scriptsAppRTC on CocoaPods openTalk API OpenTok Developer Center 08:24 - Use Cases and Gotchas PodClear Zencastr ICE Candidates ExplanationThomas Gorissen: jQuery for WebRTC @ JS Remote Conf 2015JavaScript Jabber Episode #155: Webtorrent with Feross Aboukhadijeh 15:51 - Capturing and Collecting Data 18:35 - Handling Errors 20:31 - Encryption 22:35 - Alternatives to WebRTC Picks Observable-Swift (Andrew)CocoaHeads-SLC-Presentations (Andrew)Karma (Alondo)Eden Twig Tea (Jaim)iphreakstopics (Chuck) Geek Toys (Chuck)ThinkGeek (Chuck)Sonic Screwdriver (Chuck)

00:58 - Cesare Rocchi Introduction Twitter Studio MagnoliaRay WenderlichPodrover 01:55 - JavaScriptCoreasciiwwdcwebkit.org/blog 04:15 - WKWebViews Web Assets: Local vs On The Web UIWebViewThe Ionic FrameworkAdventures in Angular Episode #064: Ionic with Matt Kremer and Mike Hartington  JSContext MacOS and iOS Platforms ElectronCordovaReact 21:58 - Hybrid Apps 27:48 - Performance and Upgrades LLVM 32:17 - Organizing JS Code with Exports 33:47 - Background Processes in JavaScript Picks Highrise (Chuck)The Ionic Framework (Chuck) Podcasting (Cesare)Pick Up Podcasting (Chuck)

01:11 - Azam Sharp Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogBlinds.com7 Minute Body 02:14 - iBeacons 03:50 - Retail Adoption 05:26 - Apps and iBeacons 05:56 - Can you fake out an iBeacon? Estimote Beacons 07:12 - Why the slow adoption of iBeacons? 08:48 - Setting Up Beacons 14:21 - Precision Nearables are here: introducing Estimote Stickers 18:12 - Range 19:28 - Life Expectancy Particle 21:08 - APIs and SDKs Beacons eddystone Arrived MactsAsBeacon 30:35 - More Use Cases Picks Anker PowerPort 5 (Alondo)FIRST LEGO League (Jaim)UIStackView (Andrew)Rewind (Andrew)DMG Canvas (Andrew)Allrecipes (Chuck)LinkedIn (Chuck)7 Minute Body (Azam)

01:10 - Janie Clayton Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogiOS 8 SDK Development: Creating iPhone and iPad Apps with SwiftThe Swift Apprentice: Beginning Programming with Swift 2Ray WenderlichBlack Pixel   03:02 - iOS and Robotics SonoPlot, Inc. Brad LarsonGPUImage 08:39 - System Architecture SerialPortExample-Swift 11:24 - History 14:19 - Robot Design Microns to Inches Mac Software SonoDraw 18:52 - Why is robotics more complicated? 20:09 - Assembly 21:24 - Rewriting Objective-C Apps in Swift 27:25 - Design Patterns 29:21 - Connecting Worlds 30:52 - Realtime 33:44 - Open Source and GPUImage Picks ORSSerialPort (Andrew)Honeycrisp Apples (Jaim)NSScreencast Episode #188: App Transport Security (Jaim)Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims by Rush Limbaugh (Chuck)The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (Chuck)MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)GPUImage (Janie)OpenGL ES Pixel Shaders Tutorial (Janie)Programming Sucks (Janie)

01:04 - Jake Gundersen Twitter GitHub BlogThe Ray Wenderlich Podcast 01:38 - GameplayKit Framework ReferenceGameplayKit Programming Guide 03:56 - What’s the advantage of GameplayKit? Unity 5 09:05 - Component Architecture 11:52 - ComponentKit | Component API 14:29 - Randomization 16:21 - State MachinesGKStateMachine GKState 24:10 - Rules Systems 24:51 - PathfindingGKGraph GKGraphNode GKObstacleGraphGKPolygonObstacle 30:50 - Agents, Goals, and BehaviorsGKAgentGKGoal 33:58 - Compatability 35:54 - Cross-platform Limitation Picks fastlane (Andrew)Swift State Machines (Andrew)Ryan Olson: Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps (Andrew)Charles Max Wood "Upgrading From Yesterday" (Chuck)Charles Max Wood: UFY 007: Standing Desk and Upgrading My Health (Chuck)A Simple, Portable, Inexpensive Standing Desk Solution (Chuck)Periscope (Chuck)Ray Wenderlich: Introducing the iOS 9 Feast! (Jacob)The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo (Jacob)

01:19 - Paul Cantrell Introduction Twitter GitHub BlogBust Out Solutions 01:41 - Siesta 07:31 - Is Siesta a specialized tool? 09:06 - Defining REST 10:35 - How Siesta Works 20:26 - Why use Siesta? 27:57 - Conversion 32:44 - Handling Requests 34:09 - Observers 35:51 - Checking 41:44 - Storing Resources, Caching 45:11 - Readability Picks Siesta README (Jaim) Standing Up (Chuck)SmartCells Anti-Fatigue Comfort Mat (Chuck)Lifehacker Ikea Standing Desk (Chuck)Periscope (Chuck)Katch (Chuck)The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique (Paul)Alexandros Salazar: The Ghost of Swift Bugs Future (Paul)99% Invisible Episode #52: Galloping Gertie (Paul)Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos (Paul)

01:15 - DevChat.tv: The App 03:51 - Basic Authentication OAuthNSURLSessionHTTP: Basic Access Authentication 08:05 - Making a Universal App Size Classes 09:24 - Possible Starting Points and Features Balsamiq 14:04 - Design and Finding a Designer DribbbleWeb => iOS Design 18:42 - Audio: Streaming, Downloading Overcast 21:23 - Recording 22:46 - RSS 23:21 - Is the DevChat.tv app idea overambitious? Stack Overflow 24:38 - Animations and Transitions 25:27 - Core Data? Realmfmdb 27:13 - Synchronization and Persistence 27:50 - Flagging Updates 29:00 - Social Integration & Subscription Content 29:59 - Security and Privacy 31:00 - Learning Resources Ray WenderlichStanford on iTunes U 34:55 - Third-party Libraries? 36:39 - HTTP Live StreamingAV Foundation Picks Exit Through the Gift Shop (Jaim) Learn Something New (Andrew)Michael Vey 5: Storm of Lightning by Richard Paul Evans (Chuck) Get outside and get moving (Chuck)