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Episode 206 – Bend The Knee

We follow up on the new iPad Pro. We discuss Apple’s stellar Q3 results. Apple is shutting down the affiliate program for the Mac App Store and App Store for iOS. We debate the merits of implicitly unwrapping optionals. Picks: RenoRun, Hacking my shell prompt so I make fewer mistakes working with Xcode projects, RESTed. After Show: We discuss the merger/shutdown of Slack and Hipchat.

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Episode 205 – The Norwegian Moose

We answer #askMTJC about Touch Bar tricks and Canadian geography. We fact check on Roger’s Centre, Flixel subscriptions and the dots on Canadian Currency. We follow up on the new MacBook Pro keyboard, a fix for the heat based slow downs, as well as, Apple’s new T2 chip causing crashing and Twitter’s new requirements for developers. You can use the Apple Business Chat to order beer and water to your seat at Citizens Bank Park. NSHipster has a new article on Password Rules. iPhones, Apple Watches and Fibit devices can be hit by incoming US $500B tariffs on China. Picks: ShowSingleTouches on Simulator, LifetimeTracker, MacKiDo/CodeNames/DeveloperCDs. In the After Show we discuss Toronto leads Tech Jobs and Jaime’s experience with Beyond Meat.

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Episode 191 – Functional Brain Hacking

We follow up on Xcode Swift build times, Apple cracks down on drone flyovers at Apple Park and alternative music services that provide Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Bollywood tunes. Apple will replace Watch 2 devices with swollen batteries. What’s new in Swift 4.2? How to name UIButton actions. We discuss whether Apple has a problem fitting in features on the iPhone. Picks: Personalized Hey Siri, Introducing Flight School: a new book series for Swift developers by @mattt, How To Keep Learning After 50 and Other Ways to Hack Your Brain at any Age, Privacy Essentials Safari Extension

Tim & Tammy Brain Hacking Photo: Greg Heo

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Episode 190 – Test Is Green. Code Is Clean.

This week we follow up on Youtube changes, IBM Watson and CoreML, 3rd party Twitter apps. We discuss Xcode compilation on mutli-core Mac Pros. The Home Pod has a sluggish start in sales. Apple reveals the (Product)RED® iPhone 8. Apple Music has 40 million users and a new boss. We follow up on HTTP 400 error codes. We discuss Apple upcoming purge of 32-bit macOS apps, reliving Windows File Manager and the RWDevCon 2018’s post mortem. Picks: Understanding Git Version Control and Learn how to Use it in Xcode 9, Xcode TDD keyboard short cuts, App Store insights. Aftershow: Facebook testimony.

Photo: Greg Heo

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Episode 133 – All Green Across the Board

This week we discuss Blackbox’s update and T-shirts. We follow up on top 10 articles on Swift and Apple’s commitment to Pro computing. We discuss the outrage on Amazon’s web service S3. We discuss the Department of Defense’s entry into open source software. Google vs Otto and Uber is covered as well as more rumored features in the iPhone 8. Picks: Convolutional Neural Networks, Google Cloud Next and Twitter Image Pipeline iOS.

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Episode 127 – Empty Jay Sea and the Holy Grail

This week Tammy Coron, Jaime Lopez Jr and Tim Mitra follow up on What the iPhone Means to Me as well as Consumer Reports turnaround on recommending the new MacBook Pro. We also follow up on rumors of Apple taking of Netflix and Spotify by creating it’s own content. We discuss Google’s acquisition of the Fabric set of tools. We delve into the world of digital color discussing Instagram’s adoption of Wide Color. We also examine Ash Furrow’s post on Naming Things in Swift. Our Picks this week are; Affinity Designer, Universal Principles of Design, The History of Paper Money and Zepelin.

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Episode 85 – Roses Are Grey. Violets are Grey. I Am a Dog.

This week we discuss the inevitable death of Twitter, the rise of Pro iOS app pricing and the return of old formats. We follow up on feedback regarding privacy as discussed on Episode 84. We hear Tim’s opinion on the 9.7 inch iPad Pro and discuss the differences with it’s larger sibling. We discuss Joe Cieplinski’s post on iPhone SE upgrade woes. Booking.com breaks iOS 9.3. Picks: Linux on Windows, Safari Preview Edition, nscurl, Hermes knockoffs, Google Cardboard for iOS and Charles Proxy.

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Episode 73 – Making the Case for iPad

This week Aaron discusses his hands on impressions of the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4. We discuss new products revealed at CES for Macbook, Apple Watch, HomeKit and Apple TV. We discuss a new curated list for Apple TV apps as well as Stacks. Picks: iPad Cases from Khomo and Finite, Little things that can make your life easier in 2016 and Apple Pencil Tutorial: Getting Started.

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Episode 72 – Just Another Spin Around the Sun

We are graced by the presence of Tammy Coron and Greg Heo as guest hosts. We discuss the freshly minted update to the Twitter for Mac app. We discuss The IndieDevStock conference coming to Nashville TN in the fall. Starting with a follow up on building apps for the iPad Pro, we review the Best tech for developers in 2015. Picks: Parsing JSON in Swift, 12 Resolutions for Programmers and Procreate.

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Episode 52 – The Aaron App Store

This week we follow up on Twitter, who has hired Falcon Pro app developer to build an Android app. We also discuss limitations of iPad as a production device. Can it be used for high end productivity or will the rumored iPad Pro fill that need. Aaron open’s his Crazy Idea Corner with an independent App Store idea. Picks; Github Desktop, Microsoft Translator, iOhYes podcast

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