Contravariance. A Swift Podcast: Recent Episodes

Benedikt Terhechte

A podcast about Apple, Swift and other programming topics. By Benedikt Terhechte.

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(For now) the latest episode, reminiscing the times of the podcast, and index woes.

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In which we talk about build systems, dependency graphs, conferences (who would've guessed), and XCTest.

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In this episode, we meet a "surprise" guest and talk about the last couple of months and what it is like to work at a big company (... called Apple).

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In this episode we discuss platform teams. What are they, when do you need them, how do they work. With Special Guest Patrick Balestra from Spotify.

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In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of switching to a management position. What is it like, can you still code, and how should you go about it. We discuss this topic with Cate Huston and Tammo Freese. Also: Great recommendations and raccoons in the show notes!

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In this episode, we initially discuss SwitUI and Apple documentation, but then dive off into a random discussion about pets, time travel, fireworks, and much more

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In which Bas announces leaving the podcast (for now), and Bene upgrades his setup. We also take a look back at all the episodes we've recorded in the last three years.

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Where we talk about Apple's October event, and the announced iPhone 12 and HomePod mini, as well as Apple Silicon.

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Where we talk about Swift for Windows, GUI development, ARM Macs, side projects and the recent Apple Event

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Where we talk about Swift for Windows, GUI development, ARM Macs, side projects and the recent Apple Event

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Where we talk about the history of NSSpain, looking for new jobs, and Bas makes an announcement.

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Where we talk about iOS development being not so easy, blogging, and in-app purchases.

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Where Pawel introduces his app CodeConf and we talk about how he managed to work on this side project.

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Where Bas has moved to Spain and Benedikt has been spending time at his mom's... and discussing WWDC.

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Where Benedikt finally reveals the application he's been working on in the last months.

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Where Benedikt is anticipating a new computer, and Bas is anticipating remote conferences. And Star Wars is anticipating Bas... and chocolate chip babka!

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In which we talk about all things remote, like organizing a meetup, conference, or work. We also take a look at our perfectly normal homescreens. Bene is considering building a silent computer. All this with Pedro Carrasco!

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We talk about open source projects and contributing to them. Where Bas forgets what a CNAME is, and Benedikt has to look it up for him.

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Benedikt asks himself "what door?" watching Westworld, and Bas has a surprise!

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Where Bas remembers his open source projects and previous talks, Benedikt finally shares more on his secret project... and sets someone up for an interesting challenge, our dear guest, John "Paul Hudson" Sundell.

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Where Bas still has no reason to buy new hardware, and Benedikt learned more about unicode than he wanted to. And both have an exciting year coming up. Live from CocoaHeads Hamburg on January 9, 2020.

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We talk with Donny Wals on his Advent of Swift project, Disney+, working on an SDK and more.

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We're talking about the new 16" MacBook, the new AirPods Pro, GitHub's new Mobile app, SwiftUI learnings and more.

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We're giving an overview over some of Europe's awesome iOS conferences in the last months.

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We're talking about our initial Xcode 11 thoughts as well as the joy of just using Apple's latest tech in a brand new project.

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We're talking about AwfulUI, a project which aims to re-implement the syntax of SwiftUI on top of UIKit in order to support iOS 12 or lower

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In which Benedikt explains Vim to Bas, new Apple hardware apparently is(n't) interesting, and interesting projects.

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We talk about the Swift Island and Swift Aveiro conferences, static site generators and puzzles in our personal projects, iPadOS windowing support, Catalyst woes, refactoring tools and Swift UI guides

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We start talking about WWDC announcements, notably SwiftUI and iPadOS

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We talk about our interests outside of work, like watchmaking, electronic music, coffee and chocolate.

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Benedikt and Bas talk about the upcoming WWDC, how to make the most out of the conference, and what to expect. Also, career changes!

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try! Swift Tokyo, Swift 5, Strings in Swift, Apple Subscriptions, and picks of the week

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On technical writing and editing, finding unused code, and more.

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Solving puzzles, algorithms, macros, and Swift 5.

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Talking about more conferences (because of course), iPad, and cool projects we've seen on the web.

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Starting fresh into the new year with a discussion on Xcode 10.2 beta 1, the Swift Community Podcast, and more

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A discussion on how we recently refactored our networking stack at XING, from planning to implementation. And emoji.

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An interview with Paul Hudson about his career, talking about journalism, books, Venn diagrams, conference speaking and diversity.

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A general discussion around iOS conferences: Why you should go there, what you should do there, and what to do if you want to give a talk. Also a short report on two conferences we just attended: NSSpain and Try Swift.

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Bas and Benedikt discuss what a "Pro" device represents at Apple, what a Mac Mini Pro could be, and why the Touchbar should not be in a Pro device.

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Where Bas and Benedikt discuss iPad, our awful static site engine, Swift scripting, Strings in Swift and Zelda.