Edge Cases

Playing Jenga with Microsoft Word

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

Links:

• For You, I’ll File a Radar « Edge Cases
• ~/Projects/Bugs/ « Brent Simmons (inessential.com)
• Open Radar
• Virtual private server « Wikipedia
• Linode
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) « AWS
• Virtual Machines « Microsoft Azure
• VMware Fusion « VMware
• Flappy Kit « Edge Cases
• Apps I Love: Debian « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Ubuntu Server « Ubuntu
• MySQL « Wikipedia
• Relational Databases and Mac OS X, Part 2 « TidBITS
• InnoDB « Wikipedia
• PostgreSQL « Wikipedia
• Querious - MySQL Database Tool for Mac OS X « Araelium
• Sequel Pro
• PHP: a fractal of bad design « Fuzzy Notepad
• node.js
• Express - Node.js web application framework
• hapi.js
• creationix/nvm « GitHub
• isaacs/node-supervisor « GitHub
• nodejitsu/forever « GitHub
• Oracle VM VirtualBox
• Vagrant (software) « Wikipedia
• Ansible (software) « Wikipedia
• Parse
• Azure Mobile Services
• Learn the ropes of Mobile Services with Brent Simmons « Microsoft Azure

A Furrier Jony Ive

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

Links:

• Adaptive Layouts for iPhone 6 « Mathew Sanders
• Sprite Kit – Based on Cocos 2D? « Cocos2D Forum
• Stream Control Transmission Protocol « Wikipedia
• Why isn’t SCTP implemented in Windows and Mac OS X? « Quora
• How does SCTP compare to TCP? « Quora
• Head-of-line blocking « Wikipedia
• Bufferbloat « Wikipedia
• SCTP packet structure « Wikipedia

Flappy Kit

Andrew on Sprite Kit and Wolf on Macs as servers.

Links:

• letterpress « atebits
• SKShapeNode, you are dead to me « sartak
• WWDC 2014 Session 606 What’s New in SpriteKit
• rdar://18478101 SKSpriteNode + centerRect + alpha leads to crash « Open Radar
• Macintosh SE/30 « Wikipedia
• MacHTTP « Wikipedia
• Kerio WebSTAR « Wikipedia
• The Apache HTTP Server Project
• Nginx
• Fusion « VMware
• Backing Up Live VMware Fusion Virtual Machines « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Apps I Love: Debian « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Docker
• CoreOS

Demonolithization

Wolf on mogenerator 1.28 and Andrew on ARC debugging.

Links:

• mogenerator 1.28 « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Alien Reference Counting « Edge Cases
• Primal Debugging Systems « Edge Cases

It Is Great for Robots

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

Links:

• Alexis Gallagher tweet: “@apontious “enumerations with associated values” is Apple’s new name for a very old concept from Standard ML and other typed FP languages.”
• Datatype Declarations « Programming in Standard ML, Robert Harper, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Semantic Versioning
• Why Semantic Versioning Isn’t « GitHub Gist
• SemVer: A Technical Solution to a Social Problem « You work for me, Computer.

Microcosm of Security

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

Links:

• The Turing Frights « Edge Cases
• Object-capability model « Wikipedia
• Cyclone (programming language) « Wikipedia
• Bluespec Extensible RISC Implementation (BERI) « University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
• Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) « University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
• The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk (PDF)
• Low-Fat Pointers: Compact Encoding and Efficient Gate-Level Implementation of Fat Pointers for Spatial Safety and Capability-based Security (PDF)
• Intel MPX « Wikipedia
• Skylake (microarchitecture) « Wikipedia
• IntelMemoryProtectionExtensions « AddressSanitizer wiki
• AddressSanitizerInHardware « AddressSanitizer wiki
• Tuple for Your Thoughts? « Edge Cases

The Grubby Particulars of the Hardware

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

Links:

• Access Control and protected « Swift Blog - Apple Developer
• WWDC 2014 Session 202 What’s New in Cocoa Touch
• Field-programmable gate array « Wikipedia
• miniSpartan6+ : A Powerful FPGA Board and Easy to Use IDE by Scarab Hardware « Kickstarter
• VHDL « Wikipedia
• Verilog « Wikipedia

A Program That Runs on Metal

Wolf on Unikernels and Andrew on Swift Access Control.

Links:

• Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System « ACM Queue
• My first unikernel « Thomas Leonard’s blog
• For Subclass Eyes Only: Swift, UIGestureRecognizer, and the Protected Extension Pattern « Jared Sinclair

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: there is one).

Links:

• Nick Lockwood tweet: “Until now we all agreed these were benefits of Cocoa: * C compatibility * Dynamic dispatch * Nil safety * Duck typing. Now they’re all bad?”
• Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C’s default type is id « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
• Remove features for greater power, aka: Swift and Objective-C initializers « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
• Episode 146: A Swift Bias « Core Intuition
• iPod nano (6th Gen/1.54” Multitouch/Clip) 8 GB, 16 GB Specs « iEveryiPod.com
• iPod Nano Watch Project Makes Kickstarter History « Mashable
• Would They Call it iCode? « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Now You’ve Got an Inch to Play With
• A Little Bit of Text and a Button
• What Can You Do on a Watch?
• What Nanos Do What
• Overcast on My iPod Nano
• Everywhere Else, I Have My Phone
• Groove into a Throbbing, Shagadelic Thing
• The Marble in the Maze
• I Don’t Think I Said Velociraptor
• Also a Hard Sell
• I’m Just Going to Come Out and Say It: Pippin!
• And They Got Their Asses Kicked
• Now You can Play Crappy Games on Your TV
• Siloed in Their Own Apps
• Custom Stuff Is Always Crappy
• That’s Not Quite Stories, That’s Shooting Things
• A Forward-Looking Episode
• Eventually I Just Stopped Swiping
• Those Little Things That Vibrate
• Adding Another Target Isn’t a Big Deal for Them
• More Likely Under the Tim Cook Era
• An App Store Machine Like the iPhone Was
• That Apple Campus Is Coming Pretty Close To
• They Feel More Like a Real Media Company
• The Future of Edge Cases
• While Still Delivering Our Blather to You

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.

Links:

• Then, You’re Just Writing C++ « Edge Cases
• Ken Ferry tweet: “@timburks @andyarvanitis yeah… I do think “Objective-C without the C” is just… false. I don’t know why they said that. It’s C++++.”
• Joachim Bengtsson tweet: ““Swift is like as if C++ was toll-free bridged to ObjC” — @saurik succinctly summarizes this weird new language”
• Why Apple’s Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming « Wired
• AppleScript’s Glorious Failure « Edge Cases
• Drew McCormack tweet: “@chiefsucker Obj-C is a subset of Swift. The syntax of Swift is cleaner, but there are many more concepts than Obj-C.”
• Rafael Bugajewski tweet: “@drewmccormack Learning Swift in depth is harder, but I would argue that basic things are easier to learn for beginners.”
• Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution And The Meanings Of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett « Amazon.com
• Was Evolution the Greatest Theory Ever? « The Friendly Atheist
• Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach, by Brad Cox and Andrew Novobilski « Amazon.com
• Bitly: Lessons Learned Building a Distributed System that Handles 6 Billion Clicks a Month « High Scalability
• A Few of My Favorite Things « Edge Cases
• Prototype-Based Programming « Edge Cases
• prototypes vs classes was: Re: Sun’s HotSpot « squeak-dev archive
• Programming and Scaling, by Alan Kay « tele-TASK Video
• history - So what *did* Alan Kay really mean by the term “object-oriented”? « Programmers Stack Exchange
• The Case for Message Passing in Swift « Buckleyisms.com
• Christian Kienle tweet: “You may be doing something wrong if #swiftlang ‘s vtable-performance gain is important to you.”
• [objc explain]: objc_msgSend_vtable « Sealie Software
• BeOS « Wikipedia
• Chris Lattner tweet: “Most perplexing feedback on Swift: folks who see it (and judge it) as the end of a trek - but don’t realize it is the start of a new world.”
• Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift « iJoshSmith
• Alien Reference Counting « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Some U.N. Charter Thing
• Always One Step Ahead
• C++++
• C++ Without the C
• Crazy Amounts of Duplication
• Raised the Collective IQ of Programmers
• Definitely Kind of a Puff Piece
• We Have This Myopia
• Maybe He’s the New Rumsfeld
• The Weirdly-Named BACON Conference
• There’s No Message Sending in Swift!
• That’s Where the “V” in V-Table Comes From
• The Entire Compile-Time Business
• It’s Delayed Binding
• Everything Was Slow in the 10.0 Days
• It Makes Software Fragile
• He’s Got His Own Reality Distortion Field
• You’re in a World of Pain
• I’m on Team Alan Kay
• They’re Not Show-Stoppers
• A Horrible Temptation for Most People
• Jamming Stuff into a Giant, Static Codebase
• C4 All Over Again
• It Already Is Too Late
• We Don’t Get a Vote

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 Andrew’s tips for surviving a bust.

Links:

• Dot-com bubble « Wikipedia
• Facebook’s $1 Billion Instagram Purchase: Was it Worth it? « TIME.com
• What’s Up With Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal? « InvestorPlace
• The Man Who Gave “Yo” $200,000 « Valleywag
• I Am Rich « Wikipedia
• Any Port in a Storm « [Time code];
• Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating The World « WSJ
• Wired Cover: The Long Boom
• Tulip mania « Wikipedia
• Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Google Invades « LRB 7 February 2013
• The Boom Interview: Rebecca Solnit « Boom: A Journal of California
• Quote Details: John Maynard Keynes: The market can stay… « The Quotations Page

Rejected Episode Titles:

• “Are You a Prepper?” “Like, Dr Prepper?”
• A Red Shed in Wisconsin
• I’m Going to Read from Wikipedia Again
• I Am Not An Economist
• I Looked at Their Little Graph
• All Feeding on the Trough of Dot-Com Companies
• The Next Facebook of Whatever
• When the Investors Say “Enough”
• Don’t Worry, I Have a Lot of Comments
• Be Conservative
• Not Fruit Roll-Ups, Just Roll-Ups
• Buy a Compound Bow and Learn to Enjoy the Taste of Venison
• You May Want a Plan B
• Do It Now, DO IT NOW
• The Biggest Initial Hurtle Is Mental
• While the Pond Got Smaller, a Lot of Fish Left
• My Phone Kept on Ringing
• Supplying Hardware for the War
• Doing the Matrix-Style Brain Upload
• Each Time, He’s Saying, Nah, Nah
• I’ll Wait for the Economy to Tank, and Then I’ll Be in Great Shape
• That’s Where the Money Is
• Right Now, We’re Sitting Pretty

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.

Links:

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Martin « Amazon.com
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Glass « Amazon.com
• Debug 39: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon « iMore
• Producing Open Source Software
• Google I/O 2008 - Open Source Projects and Poisonous People « YouTube
• The Tofu Scale « Edge Cases
• Semantic Version Branches for Submodules « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Stewardship « NSHipster

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Complexity and Control
• It’s All Methods Nowadays
• Pretty Much on the Same Side Here
• Right There You Have a Bunch of Problems
• As Hard-Core as Java
• No No, I’m a Good Programmer
• We’re Just Banging Rocks Together
• That Cost Is Complexity
• There Are No Solutions, Only Tradeoffs
• Another Way Software Can Break
• A Disjoint Narrative
• Use the Glorious Internet
• Pick a Side in the License Wars
• All We Have Is Symbols
• Controlled by Corporate Interests
• I Blame Rene Ritchie
• Code Is Liability
• Behind the Music About NSProgress

“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.

Links:

• Xcode Release Notes: About Xcode 6 Beta 3
• What’s New in Xcode 6 « Edge Cases
• apontious/BigFan « GitHub
• Law of large numbers « Wikipedia
• Refactoring (part of martinfowler.com)
• Code refactoring « Wikipedia
• Decomposition (computer science) « Wikipedia
• Catalog of Refactorings « Refactoring.com
• JetBrains AppCode: Switch into top gear of iOS development
• Caveat-Slash-Manifesto « The Powers of Observation
• JavaScript Plus Square Brackets « Edge Cases
• Putting Your Scent on the Code « Edge Cases
• Abstract syntax tree « Wikipedia
• Parse tree « Wikipedia
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code, by Michael Feathers « Amazon.com
• Swift, functional programming, & the future of Objective-C « SlideShare
• Supercharge your code with AppCode « CocoaHeads iOS and Mac Developer Meetup (Colorado Springs, CO
• Code Bubbles Home Page

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Foiled by Tweets Once Again
• I Could Listen to You All Night
• Refactoring Is Often Abused
• Not Like Jony Ive Design
• I Wouldn’t Say Hostile
• A More Computer Science-y Way of Describing It
• I Criticize a Lot of Things
• How Do I Square That?
• Wikipedia Is Fairly Mushy
• Always Been an AST Guy
• If You Have This, You Should Probably Go See Your Doctor
• That’s a Balancing Act
• There’s a Node for That
• Did a Whole CSI Thing
• Rewind and Enhance
• That’s a Great Theory
• Stymied by the Language
• I’ve Just Been Programming Too Long
• Every Little Bloody Transformation
• I Don’t Know What Kind of Magic They Do
• Powerful to Give Names to Things

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 theorem, eventual consistency, and Indiana Jones.

Links:

• apontious/BigFan « GitHub
• CAP theorem « Wikipedia
• Project management triangle « Wikipedia
• CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed « InfoQ
• Leslie Lamport « Wikipedia
• The Writings of Leslie Lamport « Microsoft Research
• Sequential Consistency « Edge Cases
• Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit « Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit « IEEE Software Design (PDF)
• Jepsen « Aphyr
• Atomicity: Concurrent Data Access Without Blowing Up « Red Shed Software via Wayback Machine
• Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network Partitions « YouTube
• A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types « INRIA (PDF)
• Strong Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types « Microsoft Research
• Sean Cribbs - Eventually Consistent Data Structures « Vimeo
• Make Xibs Look Good « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• In Your Little Process
• You Can Grab Pixels
• I Wanted to Make This Episode Better
• No Promises
• I Like to Go Historical
• The Terminology Is a Little Weird
• Generic, Academic Term
• Now They Can’t Talk
• Still Alive and Walking Among Us
• There’s No God Mode
• Each Node Knows What It Knows
• It’s a Jargon, and It’s Not Our Jargon
• A Big Gossip Circle
• Consensus Is a Bottleneck
• A Queue of Coffee Cups
• It Changed How I Did Laundry
• Consensus Is Not Free
• Our First Lady Gaga Reference in All of Edge Cases
• ‘et al’, If I Want to Be All Academic
• This Is Kind of Messed Up and Confusing
• A Survey of the Field

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.

Links:

• No Carbon This Time Around « Edge Cases
• Framing Your Work « The Powers of Observation
• WWDC 2014 Session 205 Creating Extensions for iOS and OS X, Part 1
• WWDC 2014 Session 217 Creating Extensions for iOS and OS X, Part 2
• WWDC 2014 Session 416 Building Modern Frameworks
• WWDC 2014 Session 411 What’s New in Interface Builder
• Interface Builder Object and Media Help: Creating a Custom View that Renders in Interface Builder
• Elizabeth tweet: ““All these screen sizes can seem really intimidating to develop on!” - Apple presenter “Bahahahahahaha” - Android developers #WWDC14”
• Source Editor Help: Exploring and Evaluating Swift Code in a Playground
• WWDC 2014 Session 401 What’s New in Xcode 6
• Intents and Extensions « Wires Are Obsolete
• A Few of My Favorite Things « Edge Cases
• Prototype-Based Programming « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• More Accurately: What’s New in Xcode 6 That Andrew Got to Before We Started Recording
• We Could Just Talk About It
• My First Xcode 6 Rant?
• Spilling Over into Dev-Land
• Stop Being Stupid About This
• I Cheated, Because I Read Your Tweets
• The First Thing I Tried, Because I’m a Bastard
• Take That, Interface Builder!
• Seamlessly Is Unseemly
• Points of Failure That You Can’t Reach
• Breakpoints Are All You Have
• Crappy UI That Fits Any Size
• Now They Can Pile on the Features
• The Belle of the WWDC14 Ball
• They Did Their Homework, They Ate Their Vegetables
• I’m All for Separation of Concerns
• You’re Live-Viewing Yourself
• A Fan of XPC
• Interface Builder Was Halfway There
• If We Had Real Live Development Objects
• I Give Them a Lot of Grief
• A Taste of Things to Come
• Heartened by the REPL
• We Are Agreed: It Would Be Neat

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 Apple and Swift.

Links:

• C4 (conference)
• This Is Water « Wikipedia
• There’s more than one way to do it « Wikipedia
• PEP 20 — The Zen of Python « Python Programming Language Legacy Website
• I’m done with the web « The Crazy One
• Fillers and Spillers « Edge Cases
• Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift « Michael Tsai
• Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari « iMore

Rejected Episode Titles:

• You’re Playing the Long Game
• “Look at Me, I’m Reading Literature!”
• We’re the Fish, in the Water
• I Like Your Facets
• Your Name Personally Butchered by Me
• I’ll Go with That, Pedant
• A Framework ‘Du Jour’
• They’re Quantum Microlibraries
• You’re Going to Get Vtables for Everything
• One Line of Swift Code
• Worried About Your Icon Wiggling a Certain Way
• The Uptake Will Be Pretty Rapid
• Versus the Graybeards
• Lack of Real Software Discipline
• A Good Injection for Our Culture
• Some Cocoa Guys Writing a Web Framework
• Cut off in a Backwater
• Apple Is Still Thinking Like an Objective-C Company
• A Funny Little Tweet About It
• I Don’t Think You Can Bolt It on Later
• An Incoherent Language Which Has More Features That I Like

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-party developers (Wolf) and Swift as a half-step (Andrew).

Links:

• AltLabs « AltConf
• BusyCal
• Fantastical for Mac « Flexibits
• Downcast
• Instacast « Vemedio
• Overcast
• Deckset for Mac: Turn your notes into beautiful presentations
• Reveal App
• Alien Reference Counting « Edge Cases
• NuBus « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• How Many People Got Sherlocked Yesterday?
• Avoid the 800 Pound Gorilla That Is Apple
• Dodged the Leather Bullet
• “You’re Such a Downer”
• The Magpie of OS and App Development
• A Wow Factor
• Chase These Squirrels
• Try Not to Be a Feature
• Apple Doesn’t Care About Your Feature Request
• And You Were a Total Noob About It
• This Was Another Half-Step
• Maybe It’s the Drinking
• Being Creative in the Corners
• Java Has Its Problems
• I Don’t Know Who This Is Next to Me!
• Another Halfway Towards LISP
• God, the Endless Parens
• Thank You for the Topical Smack-Down
• I Only Visited France for the Day
• He Drained the Six Colors
• They Had the Elegance, and They Had the Fun
• The Fuel Ratio’s Been Kind of Off
• The Race to the Bottom Is Still There
• They’ve Put a Little Rug in the Cage
• The NuBus Episode
• One IDE to Rule Them All
• The Tidal Wave of Kittens
• Known Malcontents
• They’re Going to Try to Kill It

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.

Links:

• Ashley Nelson-Hornstein « Twitter
• Circa News – Save time, stay informed
• AltLabs — AltConf
• Texas hold ‘em « Twitter
• Testing Whether You Believe in Fairies « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Entirely Disenchanted with the Process
• Preaching to the Choir
• Kvetching About Stuff
• You’ve Changed Jobs How Many Times Now?
• This Process Is Awesome!
• A Ridiculous Luck-Based Dog and Pony Show
• Awkwardly Type into Your Web Browser
• Mobile Developers Should Interview Mobile Developers
• The Only Time They Use Computer Science
• It Could Be Anything
• I Hope the Computer Science Topics I Studied the Night Before Are Brought up Today
• Your Brain Wants to Crawl out of Your Head
• We’re Not Web Developers
• That Is Something That Should Just Never Happen
• You’re Not Whiteboarding Objective-C
• The Technical Deep Dive
• Look at Its Review Score, Hire Me!
• A Plethora of Options
• A Hundred and Eighty Degrees of Thumb
• I’ve Never Asked for Positive Feedback
• Dating vs Marriage
• You Did Get Me, Congratulations
• Interviews Still Pretty Much Suck
• Looking at Candidates That Are Like Themselves

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 audio. Also: many contributions by Andrew’s cat, sorry!

Links:

• Justin Kaufman « Twitter
• Raizlabs
• NSCoder Night: Your time to code!
• Accessibility « Edge Cases
• Hyperdrive (TV series) « Wikipedia
• Solaris (1972 film) « Wikipedia
• Closed Captioning on Television « FCC.gov
• Closed captioning « Wikipedia
• Subtitle (captioning) « Wikipedia
• Television Decoder Circuitry Act « National Association of the Deaf
• 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act « National Association of the Deaf
• WWDC 2013 Session 608 Preparing and Presenting Media for Accessibility
• WWDC 2013 Session 608 Preparing and Presenting Media for Accessibility, transcript « ASCIIwwdc
• QuickTime File Format Specification
• Subler, mp4 muxer and editor « Googl e Project Hosting
• Audio description « Wikipedia
• Media Access Group « WGBH
• AltConf

Rejected Episode Titles:

• My Cat Has Decided to Add Something to Say
• I Don’t Know Anything About Television
• We Love Rants on Edge Cases
• Abstraction Is Fantastic
• Civil Servants on a Spaceship
• As an English Monoglot
• You Had to Have a Decoder Box
• There’s a Technical Meaning Here and We’re Kind of Violating It
• This Whole Long History That I’m Going to Omit
• Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990
• Completely Illegible on Anything Smaller Than 13 Inches
• Never Meant to Be Crystal Clear
• How Is Netflix Covered by This?
• There Have Been Some Scuffles
• 21st Century Communications and Video Act
• Nobody Wants to Make Bold Statements
• Crazy Degree of Customization
• It Just Goes On and On and On
• This All Works with AirPlay
• You Can Throw That Up to Your TV
• You Have to Be Careful with HTML5
• It’s All Timed Media
• This Text, at This Time, in This Location
• Nobody Completely Agrees on the Right Way to Do It
• It’s Really an Art
• Instead of Trying to Jam Your Headphones Ever Deeper into Your Ear

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.

Links:

• apontious/Create AssetCatalog JSON File.py « GitHub Gist
• edgecasesshow « Twitter
• Ole Moritz tweet: “@apontious Haven’t listened to the entire episode yet, but os.walk returns a generator (roughly equivalent to an NSEnumerator), not a list.”
• Matt Connolly tweet: “Ruby tuples (and file scanning). @apontious @edgecasesshow http://mattconnolly.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/ruby-tuples-and-file-scanning/”
• Tuples and NSError « Michael Tsai
• How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World « Cult of Mac
• iOS 7 Multipeer Connectivity and Android WiFi Direct « Stack Overflow
• iOS 7 AirDrop – Is it really Wi-Fi Direct? « Absolute Zero
• iPhoneBluetooth « btstack Wiki
• WWDC 2013 Session 708 Nearby Networking with Multipeer Connectivity
• Asynchronous Background Networking On The Macintosh « MacTech
• Rumor Monger « Wiki Wiki Web
• Rumor Monger « Meme Motes
• Bloom filter « Wikipedia
• fpillet/NSLogger « GitHub
• rentzsch/JRTranscriptView « GitHub

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Well, That’s a Mouthful
• Everybody Does It the Same Way for the Same Reasons
• There Are No Ruby Tuples
• ♫ “Everything You Can Do I Can Do Better” ♫
• Mushrooms After a Rainstorm
• Massively Powerful Transceivers in Our Pocket
• I Don’t Know Exactly How All This Stuff Works
• In the Best Edge Cases Tradition
• Not as Good as “Wolf Rentzsch”
• We Tend to Make Fun of the Suits
• You’re Going to Release Code, Aren’t You?
• Viruses Jumping from Person to Person
• Have You Mentioned What It Actually Does Yet?
• “Now, Ten Years Later…”
• The Fog of Time Is Becoming Less Dense
• People Are Terrible, That’s Really the Root Problem
• Harry Couldn’t Kill It
• Fear Will Keep the Systems in Line
• Those Were a Lot of Rowdy People
• My Implementation Is Considerably Dumber
• I Haven’t Moved to France Yet
• Xcode Just Loves to Crash When You Do That
• This Is Me Getting Pissed Off Enough at UITextView
• You Have Advertisers and You Have Browsers
• I Had to Rip My Hair Out
• Unless You Want to Endure a Lot of Pain