Edge Cases
A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 128
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2015
Edge Cases 108: Playing Jenga with Microsoft Word
Andrew on sample projects for bug reports and Wolf on rolling your own server backend.
00:30:11 |
Thu 09 Oct 2014
Edge Cases 107: A Furrier Jony Ive
Wolf on Stream Control Transmission Protocol and Andrew on Apple's (growing?) tendency toward luxury products.
00:32:40 |
Thu 02 Oct 2014
Edge Cases 106: Flappy Kit
Andrew on Sprite Kit and Wolf on Macs as servers.
00:34:47 |
Sat 27 Sep 2014
Edge Cases 105: Demonolithization
Wolf on mogenerator 1.28 and Andrew on ARC debugging.
00:27:07 |
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Edge Cases 104: It Is Great for Robots
Andrew on data-driven testing and Wolf on Romantic Versioning vs Semantic Versioning.
00:27:46 |
Thu 04 Sep 2014
Edge Cases 103: Microcosm of Security
Wolf on Fat Pointers and Andrew on using Swift enums for representing errors.
00:27:14 |
Sun 31 Aug 2014
Edge Cases 102: The Grubby Particulars of the Hardware
Andrew on size classes and Wolf on field-programmable gate arrays.
00:23:38 |
Thu 21 Aug 2014
Edge Cases 101: A Program That Runs on Metal
Wolf on Unikernels and Andrew on Swift Access Control.
00:22:49 |
Thu 14 Aug 2014
Edge Cases 100: Apps for iWatch and Apple TV
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: …
00:44:14 |
Sat 09 Aug 2014
Edge Cases 99: Swift Is a Really Good Thing and a Step Back
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.
00:55:51 |
Wed 30 Jul 2014
Edge Cases 98: When the Bubble Bursts
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 Andre…
00:45:10 |
Thu 24 Jul 2014
Edge Cases 97: The Dynamics and Politics of Code Reuse
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.
00:45:58 |
Thu 17 Jul 2014
Edge Cases 96: “Refactoring Sucks!”
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.
Sat 12 Jul 2014
Edge Cases 95: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
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 theo…
00:53:17 |
Sat 05 Jul 2014
Edge Cases 94: What's New in Xcode 6
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.
00:48:04 |
Sat 21 Jun 2014
Edge Cases 93: The Culture Didn't Change First
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…
00:48:04 |
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Edge Cases 92: Edge Cases Live
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-pa…
00:57:51 |
Tue 03 Jun 2014
Edge Cases 91: Our Broken Job Interview Process
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.
00:36:41 |
Thu 08 May 2014
Edge Cases 90: Closed Captions and Subtitles
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 …
00:37:26 |
Sun 27 Apr 2014
Edge Cases 89: Multipeer Connectivity Is a Terrible Name
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.
00:41:03 |
Sat 19 Apr 2014
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