This week, the boys discuss the adoption of SwiftUI, the newly released iPhone 16, and iOS 18. John shares insights from his recent hackathon, focusing on Netflix’s new companion mode. Meanwhile, Scotty tackles the discontinuation of Realm by MongoDB, exploring possible replacement options and how this impacts the development of MoneyWell.

This week, the guys dive into ‘office politics’ and share their thoughts on the upcoming iPhone announcement. John discusses his preparations for an upcoming hackathon, while Scotty gives updates on his ongoing work with the iPad.

This week the boys open up about their thoughts and personal experiences with tech interviews, discussing the ups and downs of the process. They also explore the possible role of AI in software development and share their expectations for WWDC24. John recounts his recent trip back East and provides insights into his work on transitioning a codebase to SwiftUI from UIKit, highlighting the challenges and rewards of the process.

UIKit vs SwiftUI Performance Comparison

This week the boys talk this years WWDC and how its changed over the course of the pandemic. John talks his continued work on video and animation with AVComposition and his newfound love for double.random(in:). Scotty talks the ever-developing nature of client work and when it's best to move on. Also some results on last weeks question of user onboarding.

UserOnboard | A frequently-updated compendium of web app first-run experiences

Show me, don't tell me | Adding demonstrations and tutorials to a SwiftUI app

A week of object success stories with John sharing his recent praise and developed conversations of last week's release of his Dynamic Type success. Also talks about his find of a great music isolation app with a great first-run experience. Scotty shares his recent commit successes on a new project from an existing client and keeping the balance of working on multiple projects simultaneously.

Moises | AI platform for musicians looking to isolate instrument and vocal tracks from any digital music file.

John shares his latest adventures into AVMutableComposition and also his latest ship which contains his recent Dynamic Type work. Scotty talks his not-so-much-a-failure of his recent work on CoreData and sync within MoneyWell, namely, when is the best time to persist the data?

Dynamic Type for the Netflix iOS app’s Detail Pages

This week the boys talks the progression of technologies using MemoryMiner as a yardstick. John talks the difficulty in finding the right feature set for software for use by human beings. Scotty talks his recent frustrations with debugging CloudKit and his deep dive into the iDeveloper archives by listening back to Episode 1 and how much things have changed vs. the similarities.

After finding an additional fractional listener from down the back of the couch thanks to the new Apple AirTags, this week the boys talk the nature of social media companies tracking and privacy policies. John talks his recent dynamic type BugBash and the world of high speed text rendering, namely the problems with widows and orphans. And the boys talk the culture of consuming content, from Netflix's new 'Play Something' feature to the seemingly infinite choice of possible content.

Signal trolling Facebook over privacy

Dynamic Type Shuffle Dance

John shares his recent hold up with a failed screenshot test with some dynamic type on a certain canvas with some certain languages. Also talks the surprise joy of SwiftUI Buttons. Scotty talks his recent client work on a more complex Mac app after a 6 month hiatus and the joy of finding a few helpful comments. Scotty also attempts to liken software development to electrician.

Hacking With Swift: well-worth the subscription fee

This week the boys discuss the recently announced Spring Apple Event. John shares his successes with the debug tool mentioned last week and some accessibility improvements being made off the back of it. Scotty shares his more successful week of working with test data on some recent client work and his work in graphic contexts and the complexity of drawing to different outputs.

Monty Python skit: Whizzo Chocolate Company, Spring Surprise

John shares his week of working on a card game based app for a friend, the noticed differences between SwiftUI and UIKit, and some developer decisions that have cropped up. Also his upcoming day of accessibility bug fixing. Scotty shares his week of growing incompetence, starting with the ever more difficult task of recording a podcast, down to his work with NSBitmapImageRep.

I Think Therefore I Question

Programming Languages That Suck

Alex’s next career move after the RubyCocoa re-write fails

Alex Repty @ NSConference running away from Obj-C

With reflections on their WWDC premonitions from last week against the latest announcement and rumours, John shares some surprise praise for the fractional listener and his recent troubles with passing Objective-C to JavaScript. Scotty talks of a Command Line Tool he's been working on this week and the lack of resources that comes bundled with that.

This week the boys try and get ahead of the curve and discuss what they want to see at WWDC2021. John shares his continued dive into the mire of AVMutableComposition and the patchwork of available documentation. Scotty talks his unintentional tech news blackout and the best ways to prevent and deal with burnout.

It Could Be Worse | YouTube

Debugging AVComposition

This week the boys delve into WWDC anticipation, with John teasing a secret project and sharing expectations for WWDC24. They also engage with listener interaction, discussing topics ranging from LinnDrum to Skip, a tool for building Android apps from Xcode. Scotty reflects on MoneyWell’s first full year, addressing subscription renewals, challenges with the onboarding process, and his current focus on SwiftUI development.

Skip, a Swift to Kotlin transpiler | Skip.tools

This week the boys touch on the various ways communicating errors through the user back to the developer. John shares his successes with AVMutableCompostiton from the last few weeks work around his HackDay project. Scotty talks the recent decisions being made with MoneyWell iOS, and the possibly soon to be expansion of the company.

Splice | An amazing video editor for iOS

Learning AV Foundation

Thanking your friendly neighbourhood Apple Engineer

This week John has been experimenting with Speech-To-Text with some work relating to his recent HackDay project and shares his thoughts of Apples Voice Recognition API. Scotty shares his distinctly average week of some client work mixed with some MoneyWell error squashing.

Are We The Baddies? | YouTube

This week John announces the results of his most recent HackDay and the lessons learnt from HackDays long past, also talks the use of PDF / SVG for Netflix badges. Scotty talks his recent work with reworking the old MoneyWell codebase and his search for views, also a possibly unknown power tool for GitHub.

Month Python - "Not Dead Yet" | YouTube

One second to read GitHub code with VS Code | GitHub1s

This week the boys talk the progression of languages in parallel with hardware. John hints at some possible near future success with his most recent HackDay and likens coding in Swift with landing on Mars. Scotty talks his steadily growing pile of dead MacBooks, using XcodeGen in MoneyWell and some work with fastlane including some issues with multi-factor authentication.

Die Toten Hosen, predecessors of Scotty's new band Dead Laptops | Wikipedia

Thomas Friedman on the dichotomy of American Greatness (Perseverance landing on Mars) and Failure (Texas electrical grid) | NYTimes

Making Plans for Nigel, Jenkins CI is the new British Steel | Wikipedia

App automation done right | fastlane

Automated Organization for Your Mac | Hazel

Heroic System Recovery For Mere Mortals | SuperDuper!

This week John talks some design issues with Dynamic Type being used within Tab Bars and some problem solving using SwiftUI. Also a bug within Full Keyboard Access. Scotty talks his recent work on MoneyWell and re-implementing sync into the existing codebase and the decisions that need to made on what sync platform to use. 

Kaleidoscope

Magnification View: This is used to help people with low vision read the labels on tab bar items. It’s shown with a long press on a tab bar button when the largest Dynamic Type sizes are set.

This week Scotty shares his first experience with Apple's new M1 chip with a client's 2021 MacBook Air, how this compares with last years DTK and his 2018 Intel MacBook Pro, as well as some quirks that are still to be ironed out. John share his work this week with A/B tests on VoiceOver, the connection between what's visibly happening on screen through VoiceOver. As well as the difficulty of integrating Voice Control.

Nike Hands Free Shoe

This week the boys continue their discussion of business within the software world and how Scotty has been trying to put business decisions ahead of technical ones, with mixed success. Scotty also talks about updating the MoneyWell website and some decisions being made for the app itself, especially regarding sync possibilities.

Paul Hawken | Wikipedia

Growing a Business | Good Reads

Brad Cox, Inventor of Obj-C | Wikipedia

Gus Mueller's Appreciation of Obj-C

This week the boys share their goals for 2021 and talk the difficulty of making better technical vs. better business decisions. John talks the first Netflix release of the year which includes dynamic text support for casting menus also the milestone of over 200 million Netflix users. Scotty again shares his fairly strong thoughts on KVO and how it's been used within the existing MoneyWell codebase. Also his most anticipated return to the world of iOS.

Taligent: The MoneyWell 4 equivalent of Modern Mac OSes

Amanda Gorman | Wikipedia

Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem | YouTube

John’s Accessibility Motivation | Twitter

Back with the first show of 2021 and amongst the current political quagmires on both sides of the Atlantic John talks Apple's latest Racial Equity & Justice Initiative, Netflix's new show Arsène Lupin, and finally getting some decent internet. Scotty talks taking on more contract work and the hopeful future benefits that could be brought to MoneyWell. Also shares some frustration with certain website chatbot AI.

Arsène Lupin | Wikipedia

Arsène Lupin | Netflix

Apple’s Racial Equity & Justice Initiative

Post Brexit Travel

With that time of year again already and some tales of childhood french pastries, the boys talk their end of year wrap-up mode. John talks his jubilations with the release of dynamic type support and the response from the accessibility community. Also the use of AttributedString with VoiceOver. Scotty talks the trials of having a simple email address and the tribulations of having a to pick a new one. A bug within MoneyWell causing issues with bigger decisions. And some drawing work with the help of BezierPath.WindingRule.

Johns' Dynamic Type Success

Accessibility London

Retroactive

This week the boys delve into the announcement of WWDC2024, speculating on what to expect and reflecting on past WWDCs while contemplating the future direction of the event. They also discuss recent news surrounding Apple’s potential monopoly issues, offering insights into the implications for the tech industry. John remains tight-lipped about some of his ongoing projects, keeping the details under wraps once again. Scotty shares his increasing appreciation for SwiftUI and his views of the Composable Architecture framework.

Swift Composable Architecture | GitHub

After a break over Thanksgiving, the boys are back with an update on how remote working is developing the work environment and the pro's and con's of Auto Layout. John also shares more tales of travel, some Thanksgiving thoughts. While Scotty admits how hard working on MoneyWell part time is.

British Movie Villains
Run John Run
Virtual Volunteer | OFF DUTY

As well as talking build processes and toolchains, Scotty talks the universal MoneyWell 3.1.1 release and the feedback on the 3.1 release, as well as touching on the woes of his 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard. John talks the anatomy of the iOS Netflix transport controls and a re-creation in SwiftUI.

This week the boys review the latest Apple Event and share their thoughts on the first Apple Silicon machines. John also talks his recent work leading up to 'the quiet period', his ongoing work with languages and translations, and the release of Croatian. Scotty talks the release of MoneyWell 3.1, including the much anticipated full Dark Mode support as well as compatibility for Big Sur.

This week the boys share their thoughts on the recent US election race, with John showing off his democracy sausage. John also talks his recent work with link previews and getting them to work with multiple languages. Scotty talks his recent work with getting MoneyWell Big Sur ready, as well as some Core Graphics work.

From the variety of voting practices from country to country and even within the US itself to an honest realisation of MoneyWell. This week the boys talk John's appearance on this seasons Netflix quarterly film thanks to his work with accessibility, while also talking his latest work with dealing with support. Scotty talks the positive feedback on a recent public update to MoneyWell regarding the realisation of exactly what the project is.

This week the boys talk more on accessibility based design with John and what he learnt from his recent Data Week, and Scotty's daily use of text size control. Scotty also shares his current work with redesigning the spending plan within MoneyWell and what decisions need to be made going forward with John adding his recent experience with money based consumer software.

John Throws Punches - Part 1

John Throws Ounches - Part 2

This week John talks his latest translation success with Netflix now being fully localised for Russia and the work that goes into localising an app, from the many translations for singular English words to the expansions of others. Scotty talks the ever growing generational gap as iOS devices change and grow, compared with navigating the maze of Android. Also an update on his new Android life and thoughts on the new iPhone 12 family.

With John's return to his regularly scheduled programming this week, he announces his appreciation for user feedback, both good and bad. Also sharing some insight into his current WIP with navigation, and talks on how accessibility is starting to be perceived as more of a fundamental than as an afterthought. Scotty talks his recent delve into AppleScript and its system events control, his upcoming Apple Music album and the possible future of MoneyWell amongst the natural progression of tech.

After a much longer than expected break the boys are finally back with a bumper length episode of what's been going on in their world of tech, complete with all the usual incompetence. With Johns recent international adventure, the boys talk what comes with trying to continue to work with a more than significant time difference and how John has experienced both the current world situation and software usage within different cultures. They also share their thoughts on and challenges with the latest changes brought in with iOS 14 and possibly the same again with Big Sur. Scotty talks of the challenges of splitting work time between client work and working on MoneyWell, and his enjoyment of his new Android life.

Following a brief history lesson on English beer, John talks the changes in implementing the MDX (Multi Device Experience) within the new Network Permissions coming with iOS 14. And still firmly on the KVO train, this week Scotty gives more insight into his work on notifications and bindings within MoneyWell. As well as some small updates on the ongoing MoneyWell project.

This week, John and Scotty dive into Apple’s latest offerings, discussing the new Apple Wallet API introduced with iOS 17 and the capabilities of Apple Vision Pro. John provides an update on his son’s progress in the Hackday event, sharing insights into the innovative projects underway. Meanwhile, Scotty reflects on the anniversary of MoneyWell’s release, sharing reflections on its first year in the App Store and what to anticipate in the coming month. Topics include user retention strategies and the overall future trajectory of MoneyWell.

This week Scotty talks more on notifications within the existing MoneyWell and the work being done to bring the code base back up to scratch. Also on the decision on deployment targets, how old is too old? John talks his recent cell sizing problems with dynamic type when viewed on different devices. Also a trip down 'MemoryMiner' lane.

Continuing on with accessibility, this week John talks bringing age-old techniques to the present. Whereas Scotty talks new techniques with the latest Big Sur beta and the decisions that developers need to make with each new macOS release. The boys also touch on the latest tech congress hearing.

John talks his latest victories with accessibility and the hidden benefits that come along with it. Scotty talks his recent work with MoneyWell and updating for Big Sur. Also the boys share some thoughts on the Swift compiler.

This week the boys talk testing with John talking through his recent endeavours with a variety of different tests for dynamic type. Also his recent "travels" and how the process of hiring is changing. Scotty talks about his week of list comparison and the future of NSDocument within MoneyWell.

John speaks of his rollercoaster of developer emotions this week with some dynamic type within certain cells. And Scotty talks moving MoneyWell from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager, the pros and cons of Firebase and Swift Package Index.

A week of refection of WWDC 2020 as John and Scotty share their thoughts on the first online only WWDC and share their own personal highlights. John also talks his teams recent feature ship and the importance of teamwork. While Scotty shares his recent successes with MoneyWell.

This week the boys talk build servers, especially Scotty’s recent mastery of Jenkins. Also the future of App Store vs. Direct sales. And of course they discuss the upcoming WWDC. John talks his week of interactions between Swift and Objective-C. Scotty also talks his recent delve into MoneyWell reconfigurations.

This week John talks Netflix’s latest addition of the Black Lives Matter collection, problems with malformed string formatters and gives his opinion on the earliest age to be introduced to GitHub. While Scotty again talks MoneyWell and leading up to the future Alpha release. Also talks how Diligent Robot is managing issue tracking using Zube.

This week the boys revisit John’s type dilemma and discuss how the modern way of learning programming is changing. John praises some of the more underrated aspects of our favourite fishy friend’s metronome software and shares his thoughts on the community based app - Nextdoor. While Scotty talks the use of Cocoapods within MoneyWell and some processes used to ease some of the issues.

This week the boys talk the process of blaming others for your own mistakes, especially if it’s a previous contractor. And share their thoughts on what WWDC might bring compared to last year. John talks his recent bug fixing with type and design. Scotty talks his recent work with sub classes and the problems with too much inheritance. Also the difficulties that come with dealing with multiple currencies.

This week, John and Scotty delve deeper into backend services such as Back4App, AWS S3, Wasabi, and Parse, emphasizing the importance of reliable support. John shares insights into his son’s recent hackday and highlights the benefits of participating in such events. Scotty provides updates on the SwiftUI developments within MoneyWell, offering a glimpse into the ongoing progress.

Wasabi

Back4App

Why Ollie is moving away from SwiftUI | Medium

This weeks the boys try to talk code and whatnot. John adds to his experience with Dynamic Type and also talks about how his son’s recent endeavours into the world of Java brings up some fond memories. Scotty talks more on the process of syncing data within MoneyWell as well as adding his experiences of Java and other older languages.

This weeks the boys talk about their recent experience with the newly online App Builders conference. John shares a glimpse behind the scenes of his preparation for his App Builders 2020 talk. And also talks his most recent work with parental controls. Scotty shares his thoughts on the current state of online conferences and the possible futures that they may have. Also talks this weeks endeavours into the world of sync.

This week the boys talk the recent developments with conferences and what they think the future might hold, whether thats physical or digital. John talks his recent work into Accessibility with Dynamic Type. Scotty gives an update on MoneyWell Sync and talks the changes of the work / life balance brought on by quarantine.