PODCAST

Edge Cases

Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch

A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development

technology software how-to

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Edge Cases 108: Playing Jenga with Microsoft Word

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2014/10/09

Andrew on sample projects for bug reports and Wolf on rolling your own server backend.

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32:40

Edge Cases 107: A Furrier Jony Ive

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2014/10/02

Wolf on Stream Control Transmission Protocol and Andrew on Apple's (growing?) tendency toward luxury products.

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34:47

Edge Cases 106: Flappy Kit

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2014/09/27

Andrew on Sprite Kit and Wolf on Macs as servers.

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27:07

Edge Cases 105: Demonolithization

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2014/09/11

Wolf on mogenerator 1.28 and Andrew on ARC debugging.

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27:46

Edge Cases 104: It Is Great for Robots

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2014/09/04

Andrew on data-driven testing and Wolf on Romantic Versioning vs Semantic Versioning.

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27:14

Edge Cases 103: Microcosm of Security

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2014/08/31

Wolf on Fat Pointers and Andrew on using Swift enums for representing errors.

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23:38

Edge Cases 102: The Grubby Particulars of the Hardware

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2014/08/21

Andrew on size classes and Wolf on field-programmable gate arrays.

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22:49

Edge Cases 101: A Program That Runs on Metal

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2014/08/14

Wolf on Unikernels and Andrew on Swift Access Control.

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44:14

Edge Cases 100: Apps for iWatch and Apple TV

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2014/08/09

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the third-party apps that might be feasible on Apple's unusual devices, the hypothetical iWatch and the Apple TV. Plus: the future of Edge Cases (hint: there is one).

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55:51

Edge Cases 99: Swift Is a Really Good Thing and a...

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2014/07/30

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about the upsides (it will help advance the industry at large) and downsides (its disturbing lack of dynamism) of Swift.

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45:10

Edge Cases 98: When the Bubble Bursts

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2014/07/24

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the current tech bubble: is it one? Is it web or mobile, or both? Is it like the 90s dot-com bubble? Plus: the tech industry in San Francisco, and Andrew's tips for surviving a bust.

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45:58

Edge Cases 97: The Dynamics and Politics of Code Reuse

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2014/07/17

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about the dynamics and politics of code reuse: from the complexities of the simple case to the control issues of relying on Apple's code.

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62:51

Edge Cases 96: “Refactoring Sucks!”

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2014/07/12

Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about refactoring, including Martin Fowler's influential book, what ASTs are and aren't, and Andrew's time working on the refactoring feature in Xcode.

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53:17

Edge Cases 95: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

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2014/07/05

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious Conflict-free Replicated Datatypes (CRDTs), an exciting new suite of simple data types that are explicitly designed for distributed data storage. Also: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and Indiana Jones.

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48:04

Edge Cases 94: What's New in Xcode 6

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2014/06/21

Andrew Pontious takes advantage of Apple's looser WWDC NDA to talk with Wolf Rentzsch about some of the new features in the prerelease version of Xcode 6.

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48:04

Edge Cases 93: The Culture Didn't Change First

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2014/06/14

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about technical culture: how various technologies are associated with beliefs and their priorities. Examples include Linux, Perl, Python, the Web, and of course Apple and Swift.

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57:51

Edge Cases 92: Edge Cases Live

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2014/06/03

Wolf Rentzsch and Andrew Pontious record before a live audience at AltLabs during WWDC. Topics: avoiding Sherlocking, seriousness/elegance vs. fun/extensibility at Apple, the "tidal wave" of third-party developers (Wolf) and Swift as a half-step (Andrew).

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36:41

Edge Cases 91: Our Broken Job Interview Process

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2014/05/08

During Wolf's continuing hiatus, second guest cohost Ashley Nelson-Hornstein talks with Andrew Pontious about how tech industry job interviews don't work, and what can be done to fix them.

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37:26

Edge Cases 90: Closed Captions and Subtitles

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2014/04/27

As Wolf takes an extended hiatus, first guest cohost Justin Kaufman talks with Andrew Pontious about how you use text and audio to describe video, such as closed captions, subtitles, and descriptive audio. Also: many contributions by Andrew’s cat, sorry!

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41:03

Edge Cases 89: Multipeer Connectivity Is a Terrible Name

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2014/04/19

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about Apple's new promising but troubled Multipeer Connectivity framework and his new app that takes advantage of it: Rumor Monger.

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