Fatal Error

Fatal Error is a weekly show hosted by software developers Soroush Khanlou and Chris Dzombak. We discuss topics at the cutting edge of iOS software architecture, Swift, and best practices.

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Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 26 minutes
Episodes: 94
Years Active: 2016 - 2018

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70. The Finale

In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC.

00:45:41 | Mon 11 Jun 2018

Teaser: 70. The Finale

In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC.

00:01:51 | Mon 11 Jun 2018

69. (null)

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about null, the billion dollar mistake. They talk about its past, its present and maybe even its future. Nice!

00:36:09 | Fri 25 May 2018

68. Negotiating

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.

00:27:39 | Fri 11 May 2018

Teaser: 68. Negotiating

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.

00:01:24 | Fri 11 May 2018

67. The Whatever Planet From The Sun

Soroush and Chris share some sad news, talk about Soroush's first official Swift Evolution proposal, and a post about giving presentations by Dave DeLong.

00:30:52 | Fri 04 May 2018

66. Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My

Soroush and Chris talk about Sequences, Collections, and Swift Evolution drama.

00:28:11 | Fri 27 Apr 2018

Teaser: 66. Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My

Soroush and Chris talk about Sequences, Collections, and Swift Evolution drama.

00:01:59 | Fri 27 Apr 2018

64. AI Apoptosis

This week, Chris and Soroush review what inheritance in OOP is good for … and the problems it brings with it. Also: an update on the lights in Soroush’s bathroom.

00:38:37 | Fri 13 Apr 2018

Teaser: 64. AI Apoptosis

This week, Chris and Soroush review what inheritance in OOP is good for … and the problems it brings with it. Also: an update on the lights in Soroush’s bathroom.

00:01:46 | Fri 13 Apr 2018

63. Two People Who Like Type Systems

This week, after a brief detour into the subject of pizza, Soroush and Chris discuss how they’d go about the broad goal of “improving an app.”

00:40:59 | Fri 06 Apr 2018

62. Convergent Swift Evolution

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss Soroush’s efforts to implement BigDecimal in Swift, recap Teki Con, and take a detour into evolutionary biology.

00:47:00 | Fri 30 Mar 2018

Teaser: 62. Convergent Swift Evolution

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss Soroush’s efforts to implement BigDecimal in Swift, recap Teki Con, and take a detour into evolutionary biology.

00:01:34 | Fri 30 Mar 2018

61. Hypothetical Testing Tricks

This week, Soroush and Chris get ready for Dynamic Callable and Dynamic Member Lookup by thinking through how you could use them to mock objects for testing. Plus: more Booleans, national parks, and …

00:33:47 | Fri 16 Mar 2018

60. Soroush in the Standard Library

This week, Soroush talks Chris through his efforts to make an improvement to the Swift standard library.

00:29:32 | Fri 09 Mar 2018

Teaser: 60. Soroush in the Standard Library

This week, Soroush talks Chris through his efforts to make an improvement to the Swift standard library.

00:01:25 | Fri 09 Mar 2018

59. Why did they even hire Chris??

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about impostor syndrome, starting a new job, team dynamics and rockstar developers. Then: toggling booleans and the Law of Demeter!

00:36:55 | Fri 02 Mar 2018

58. Pi, Delicious Pi

This week’s episode turns into a grab bag of nerdy topics: home automation, Raspberry Pis, music, time, and also MoviePass.

00:36:48 | Fri 23 Feb 2018

Teaser: 58. Pi, Delicious Pi