Retro Speculative: Recent Episodes

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Humans speculating about the past and future. An interview series with software developers and designers.

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This language as problematic because it doesn’t have pointers

Leo Tindall joins your hosts, Charlotte and Karl, to get really sidetracked on the way to discussing diversity, acceptance, precise language, retro computing and online communities.

Leo Tindall * Website: SilverWingedSeraph.net * GitHub: github.com/silverwingedseraph * Twitter: twitter.com/swingedseraph

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Andyy Hope drops in to talk about community perceptions on naming; ie: Javi, Jim and the Beard Bash; Pop Culture, Politics and his love of cheesy 80’s movies. Programming, influences and challenges being an introvert trying to stay active in the community.

Andyy Hope Andyy works at Punters in Melbourne, Australia.

He is also speaking at the try! Swift NYC conference this year. If you are attending too, say hello and buy him a coffee.

  • Website: AndyyHope.com
  • Twitter: @AndyyHope
  • Medium: @AndyyHope

Javi / Jim Tweetstorm

The iOS dev community trying to stay inclusive to all genders with WWDC events such us the "Beard" Bash.

— Javi.swift (@Javi) May 19, 2016

  • Javier Soto @Javi
  • Jim Dalrymple @jdalrymple
  • CODE - Debugging the genger gap

Pop Culture: Music * M83

Movies * Interstellar * Jonathan Nolan’s Ending to INTERSTELLAR Made A Lot More Sense * Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey * Morgan Freeman - Through the Wormhole * Deadpool + Alternative dream casting: Seann William Scott * Fight Club * Kung Fury * Pretty in Pink * Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon * Kung Pow! Enter the Fist * Shaolin Soccer

TV * House of Cards * The Walking Dead * Fear the Walking Dead * Vijay Santhanam recommends The Wire * Veep

Holy war

@ericasadun I think you under appreciate 3 space indent. It looks the best, and conclusively settles the tabs vs spaces debate.

— Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm) March 31, 2016

  • Tabs vs Spaces: TABS!
  • Emacs or VIM: Xcode
  • Colour: Black (Because accessibility)
  • Gold or Rose Gold: Gold (Because aesthetics)
  • Squirtle
  • Emoji: 🙌 Person raising both hands in celebration

Personal topics:

On being an active community member and an introvert

  • Discovr
  • Matt Comi
  • Darcy Laycock
  • Big Bucket Software
  • Neven Mrgan
  • Space Age
  • The Incident
  • Why big apps aren’t moving to Swift (Yet) by Ben Sandofsky

Recommended listening * Mobile Couch * Accidental Tech Podcast * Build and Analyze * Hypercritical with John Siracusa + John’s rants on the filesystem: + 56: Belt and Suspenders + 57: Computational Skeuomorphism + 58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners

Coffee * Brother Baba Budan / on Bean Hunter * Seven Seeds * Coffee Supreme * Finca Tamana by Tim Wendelboe

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Willow keeps an amazingly positive outlook despite her experiences. She shares her journey into iOS development and teaching as well as identifier and age discrimination; employer ethics and killer native animals.

Willow Bumby

iOS Developer - Teacher - Leader

  • Vancouver
  • Twitter: @istx25
  • She, Her
  • istx25.io
  • istx25.svbtle.com

Iris * @Irisapp

Lighthouse Labs * iOS and web development training * @Lighthouse_Labs

Grace * Willow + Opportunity to teach and mentor students * Karl + Beyond compare - awesome for resolving git merge conflicts + Getting solid at Git rebase vs. merge

Pop quiz * Bands + Blind Pilot + Tom Rosenthal * Movies + Martian + Interstellar * TV

+ Criminal Minds

  • Holy war

    • Tabs vs Spaces: Spaces
    • Emacs or VIM: VIM
    • Colour: Piercing Red
    • Gold or Rose Gold: Rose Gold
    • NO POKEMON
    • Emoji: 🍍

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Charlotte generously chats with me about the intersection of transgender life, functional programming and getting kicked out of school.

Charlotte Tortorella

The lambda thumping FP evangelist

  • Twitter: @transprogrammer
  • She, Her
  • Transgeneral podcast
    • with co-host Chelsey Laserbeam
    • Transgeneral on Pateron

Entertainment * Against Me! * Penn & Teller: Bullshit! * Hackers

Programming Functional Programming

Functional - but not exceptional - programming

  • Elm language
  • Rust language
  • Scala
  • Frege - Haskell for the JVM
  • Haskell for Mac by Manuel Chakravarty

Android swift support

“The Swift Android port is merged! Thanks @zhuowei and many others!” - Brian Gesiak

  • twitter.com/modocache/status/720139771771805697
  • Google is said to be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android

FRP * ReSwift * ReactiveKit * Batch updates on collection views

Projects * BarMagnet * GammaThingy - Flux like project for iOS * AirFlick - Erica Sadun * Redox - a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust

Life * Montessori Australia * Telstra statement on same sex marriage debate * Telstra - Renewing our active position on marriage equality * Bruce Springsteen * Laura Jane Grace Plans ‘Protest’ Concert in North Carolina * Statement on LambdaConf 2016 * Germaine Greer

Support the show Now go support Transgeneral on Pateron in the hope of getting us to release the after dark special.

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To kick off the interviews, Matthew Palmer joins me to talk about entry into development, publishing software, our techniques and struggles with being productive, software value perception and learning to deal with and appreciate failure.

Matthew Palmer

“Programming is a series of battles with the computer.”

  • http://matthewpalmer.net
  • https://twitter.com/_matthewpalmer
  • https://github.com/matthewpalmer

Links * How to Remove Icons and Text from iOS Folder Previews * Protocol Oriented Programming in the Real World

Frameworks * https://github.com/matthewpalmer/Locksmith

Apps * Second Stop * Weekling * Charter * Transducer

Productivity * Pomodoro Technique * Getting things done * Things * Eli Goldratt - Theory of constraints