Manton and Daniel talk about the upcoming Dark Mode in macOS Mojave, and the challenges and joys of accommodating it as a developer. They bemoan Skype’s emotionally intrusive notifications, and reflect on other overly-touchy-feely interface designs. And Manton shares his experience booting up an older 2008 Mac Pro and taking it for a spin.
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June 29, 2018 at 5:47 pm.
Daniel and Manton talk about upcoming travel plans, and the challenge of carving out time for work during the summer. Daniel shares his experience hacking on macOS Mojave’s new “Marzipan” support for iOS apps. They both talk about the deprecation of WebView and their respective plans for migrating code to WebKit2’s WKWebView.
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June 22, 2018 at 7:25 am.
Manton and Daniel talk about Daniel’s latest MarsEdit updates and the speed record of one’s App Store review. Daniel talks about a quick fix he made to a crashing bug, and whether using Swift would have prevented it. They reflect on Dominik Wagner’s criticism of Swift, but carefully avoid a full-on Swift debate. They follow up about the shortcuts of Siri Shortcuts and hope for similar, but slightly different long-term improvements. Finally, they talk about a new open source IAPKit from Black Pixel, supporting developers who want to provide App Store Trials, and talk about the improvements coming to the Mac App Store in Mojave.
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- MarsEdit 4.1 – Daniel ships a significant update for image metadata location data protection.
- Soroush Khanlou – The thoughtful blog of an iOS developer and Swift aficionado.
- My Misalignment With Apple… – Dominik Wagner’s thoughts about Swift and how they fall short of his hopes for a language.
- Custom Intents with SiriKit – Ben Dodson explains the shortcomings of Siri’s new Shortcuts.
- A New Vision for Siri – Federico Viticci offers a comprehensive exposition of the new Siri Shortcuts and automation on iOS 12.
- IAPKit – New open-source framework from Black Pixel supporting App Store Trials.
- Ersatz Free Trials – Daniel’s blog post about the shortcomings of IAP-based free trials.
June 15, 2018 at 11:45 am.
Daniel and Manton catch up on WWDC announcements. They weigh the likely impact of UIKit on macOS, try to get a handle on the extent of SiriKit improvements, and appreciate Apple’s renewed emphasis on iOS automation. Next they talk about Apple’s purportedly new support for App Store trials. Finally, they wrap up with reflections on WWDC week so far, and Manton appreciates the enthusiastic attendance at his Micro.blog meet-up.
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- San Jose Drainage Ditch – David Sinclair of Dejal Systems snaps a picture of the famous landmark.
- Steve Troughton Smith – Twitter account of an engineer who often tweets about binary analysis of Apple software.
- UXKitDemo – Example project taking advantage of Apple’s private UXKit framework.
- Transmit 5 – Panic’s file transfer app which was cited in the WWDC Keynote.
- BBEdit 12 – Bare Bones’s text editing app, also cited in the WWDC Keynote.
- Ersatz Free Trials – Daniel’s blog post breaking down the shortcomings of Apple’s free trial support.
Manton and Daniel check in just before WWDC to talk about expectations from the conference, and strategies for saving money on the trip. They indulge in a bit more Siri criticism, hope that Apple will announce new MacBook Pros, and question whether Apple will dare to poke fun at Google’s Duplex technology during the keynote.
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