A weekly Apple news and rumors podcast from a developer's perspective. Hosted by 9to5Mac's Gui Rambo and John Sundell.
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Stacktrace has moved!
As we've mentioned in the last episode, the Stacktrace podcast is no longer a part of the 9to5Mac network. If you're seeing this entry in your podcast player, then you probably nee…
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178: “Let’s try something new”
John and Rambo celebrate the show’s 4th birthday with a big announcement, and then talk about security research, project priorities, and how to combine SwiftUI views with protocol-…
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177: “The stand is included!”
John and Rambo share their first impressions of the products announced at Apple’s “Peek Performance” event — including the new iPhone SE and iPad Air, M1 Ultra, Mac Studio and the…
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176: “Extra Keynote Poker”
On this extra episode of the show, John and Rambo share their bets, hopes and predictions for Apple’s upcoming “Peek Performance” event. Sponsored by Sentry: Actionable iOS error t…
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175: “A Bluetooth fanboy”
Unit testing SwiftUI-based views, view and data architecture, as well as a behind the scenes look at Rambo’s home automation setup. Sponsored by Sentry: Actionable iOS error tracki…
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174: “An operating system toolkit”
John and Rambo speculate what the SDK for Apple’s rumored AR/VR devices might look like, and what sort of user experiences that we might be able to build using it. Sponsored by Sen…
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173: “The fabric of space-time”
SwiftUI for animations, prototyping, and game development. Plus, a second review of the M1 Max-based MacBook Pro, and an update on how well it performs for gaming. Sponsored by Sen…
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Stacktrace Podcast 172: “The ‘weak self’ dance”
How memory management works when using Swift’s new concurrency features, getting out of productivity traps, remote pair programming, and the process of installing Mac apps. Sponsor…
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Stacktrace Podcast 171: “Three levels of happiness”
Continued discussions around using SwiftUI for custom animations and layouts, more on phased rollouts and prioritizing bug fixes, content exclusivity and acquisitions, and various…
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Stacktrace Podcast 170: “Welcome to programming”
John and Rambo revisit the topic of SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability, and discuss which of the two UI frameworks that’s recommend for beginners to start with. Also, the launch of…
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169: “Choosing what bugs to ship”
Stacktrace is back! On this first episode of 2022, John and Rambo talk about their holidays, using Swift Playgrounds to build apps on the iPad, Mac gaming, and project goals. Downl…
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168: “The 2021/2022 New Year’s Eve Special”
Join John and Rambo on this special New Year’s Eve episode of Stacktrace, on which they celebrate some of their favorite moments, products, media, and learnings from 2021. Sponsore…
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167: “iPad is now Turing Complete”
John and Rambo share their first impressions of the newly released Swift Playgrounds 4, which enables developers to build full iOS apps right on the iPad. Also, the value of narrow…
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166: “A little bit of compiler magic”
The importance of sleep for both humans and async tasks, transferring apps and Apple developer accounts, and what things John and Rambo carry in their bags at all times. Download M…
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165: “It’s not the technology, it’s the people”
John and Rambo discuss software quality trends, async functions and unit testing, Apple’s approach to private data with CloudKit, and dealing with technical debt. Download MP3 Host…
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164: “Your wattage may vary”
It’s time for the first ever Stacktrace Headphone Holiday Guide! Along with discussions about writing technical articles, view models and the MVVM design pattern, and using Swift a…
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163: “The Rambo Objective-C Manifest”
Rambo shares his set of principles for when and how to rewrite existing Objective-C code in Swift, John talks about his preferred workshop formats, and the two discuss the current…
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162: “Hanging on the cliff for a whole week”
John and Rambo discuss asynchronous unit testing, using Windows as a development platform, SwiftUI previews on laptops, and conclude their deep dive into Swift’s concurrency system…
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161: “One big data transformation engine”
Rambo longs to get back to UI development, John releases a new open source project, and the two embark on part one of their deep dive into Swift’s new concurrency system. Also, org…
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160: “M1 Macintoshes”
John shares his first impressions of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro and how he has been utilizing Swift’s new concurrency features to get the most out of the M1 Max. Also, Rambo’s wor…