Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself. What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you escape from that? You can’t put the success of something you build before your own personal and mental health, no …

Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity. The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know the intricacies of your chosen cloud provider infrastructure, and the like. You end up building your software aro…

Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop. Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow. Being aware of the maintenance cost of each decision, keeping things focused, avoiding building yourself into a bloated cor…

Fredrik paid a visit to Hogia and got the opportunity to talk to Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo about mob programming, innovation, and keeping an open and curious mind. Mob programming is still new. Every time you say “that can’t work”, you tend to be proven wrong eventually. Try it, for a year or two. You can’t evaluate things after trying it for j…

Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more. The experience of attending - a lot about the great community.News from the conference - a Snow leopard year, in a good way. Lots of nice fixes and additions - Swiftui, fun widgets, and of course lots of question mar…

Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather, their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June. The first big topic is the developer conference Deep dish Swift. Malin and Kai not only participated in the conference itself, b…

Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot. First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nic…

Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask. Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the concept of lenses - ways to look at various aspects of your domain, model, and code in order to better consider vari…

Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is the point? And why does Arrow only feel more and more interesting and useful the more you think about deeply i…

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Diana Larsen about leadership and building good teams. How to get into leaderhip? Often it’s more about picking up expectations than getting a formal onboarding Learning to not do things yourself when you start leading - everything you do is one less thing the team learns to …

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after his keynote, Fredrik chats to Cyrus Clarke about plants, imagining things, exploring, and building. And not presenting speculative things as possible here right now. Daring to not be useful right now. How to bridge the gap between theory and academia on one side and practice and industry wanting to build …

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Na’Tosha Bard about picking good building blocks, getting products done, and code outliving you. Software outlives you. How early is it meaningful to consider that fact? Will we get better at handling long-lived software? Make tradeoffs with open eyes. Na’Tosha has worked on …

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Galit Ariel about being inspired by the right science fiction, uninspired futures, and much more. It’s all thanks to Star Trek - a vision of the future which is actually positive and thoughtful What science fiction can teach us about what we think of as the other Uninspired f…

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Monika Bielskyte about finding, building, and approaching better visions for the future. We discuss things such as: Disabilities for innovation and better design More inclusion in design for people on edges improves the world for precisely everyone Why does a concept like pro…

Recorded at Øredev 2022, Fredrik chats with Natalia Tepluhina about perhaps the most complicated part of frontend development: state management. Why is state management so tricky, and what can we do about it? Natalia tells a fascinating story of a beautiful abomination of state management libraries in a single application. Don’t be the bottleneck. …

Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic, polygon drawing tool Handstract, and photo polygonizer Centroid. Code lets you create art which is interactive and immersive in a way many other art forms can’t. Deve…

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Michele Riva about writing a full-text search engine, maintaining 8% of all Node modules, going to one conference per week, refactoring, the value of a good algorithm, and a lot more. Michele highly recommends writing a full-text search engine. He created Lyra - later renamed Oram…

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Cliff Hazell about connecting the whole organization as it grows, priorities, and more. Don’t just sit around in your room and think about horses. Talking across silos and departments, all without overloading everyone with meetings? Learn to surf rather than trying to control the …

This time we're chatting about WWDC23, Vision Pro and visionOS, and Malin's Vision Pro hands-on experience. Links Glucomate Mercury Weather Timepage for macOS Hosts Kai (Mastodon / Twitter) Malin (Mastodon / Twitter) Zach (Mastodon / Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Mastodon / Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews)…

This time we're briefly chatting about what we've been up to, and spend a lot of time talking about our (lofty) WWDC23 and Apple Headset predictions. Bonus Band Prediction: boygenius (credit to Oliver) Links Glucomate Mercury Weather Timepage for macOS Core Coffee Meetup Core Coffee WWDC #1 Core Coffee WWDC #2 Core Coffee WWDC #3 Core Coffee WWDC #…

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Aino Vonge Corry about patterns and their effects on our lives. Aino works with both academia and industry, regularly switching between the two, and talks about what each can and wants to learn from the other. We also discuss Aino’s own research, and how programming languages and …

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Denis Radin about React, Webgpu, standards development, coding standards, and a lot more. We start way back, with early React development - while React was still in beta, on amazingly bad hardware. A project where focus was actually on optimization and education instead of throwin…

Tune in to a fascinating episode, featuring Josh Holtz! He's the Founder of Deep Dish Swift, the lead maintainer of Fastlane, and much more! Hear him tell all about it! Find Josh on Twitter @joshdholtz https://twitter.com/joshdholtz Josh's conference: Deep Dish Swift https://deepdishswift.com Josh's newsletter: Indie Dev Monday https://indiedevmond…

Fredrik talks to Kai Dombrowski and Malin Sundberg of Triple glazed studios about their new weather app Mercury weather. Malin and Kai tell us how the app went from idea to release in a few short months, and why they will try not to pick the summer months the next time they start a new app. What was the release like, what was it like to be mentione…

Fredrik chats with Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla Javascript, the pros and cons of libraries, the state of web components, and a lot more. Chris tells us about how and why he became the vanilla Javascript guy, and why he dislikes vanilla-js.com. We talk about why we as web developers pick up so many libraries, and why we often seem to use really la…

This time we're talking about Apple's "Unleashed" event and score our event predictions. Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

Fredrik chats with Niels Østergaard about working with AR and VR. How is the experience is different and how can you think differently about VR and AR? VR can take you to a completely different place, but you still have to worry about the physical world around you breaking the immersion (or your TV). We discuss “the M-word” - metaverse - what and w…

This episode is sponsored by Snyk. Fredrik talks to Snyk founder and president Guy Podjarny about building security tools for developers, tools which you will actually use and enjoy. Guy talks about how Snyk was built to bring developer focus into security, building with a great focus on the user instead of on the person paying the bills for tools …

Another Apple Special event means another predictions episode (this sure is a busy time of year 😅)! We’re chatting about what we expect (and wish) to see announced at Apple’s “Unleashed” event. Support Cup of Tech Links Predictions Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star…

This time we talk about Apple's iPhone event and figure out who won the prediction episode. Support Cup of Tech Links Prediction Results Hosts Kai (Twitter)Malin (Twitter)Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

It’s time for predictions again! This time we’re chatting about what we might see at Apple’s “California Streaming” event. Support Cup of Tech Links Predictions Hosts Kai (Twitter)Malin (Twitter)Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

Fredrik chats with Tommy Maloteaux about his VR god game Deisim and all the interesting stuff which has happened in and around the game since episode 406 where Tommy first was a guest on the podcast. We start with some background on Tommy and how he got into game development from a start as a web developer. Then Tommy tells us how he got started cr…

Kristoffer chats with Harald Achitz about test-driven development, Djinni, meetups, and the standardization of C++. How does Harald do TDD? His focus on code coverage plays a role too. Clouds make it easier to skip tests, because everything becomes part of a big puzzle which only lives in production? Building habits are the big thing, not which act…

Kristoffer chats with Harald Achitz about Harald’s path as a developer, test-driven development, seeing the big picture, and more. The first part of the discussion is Harald’s background: Growing up on the far side of Europe, focusing on music, and how he eventually landed in computing. Freelancing as a developer in 1995 - what was that like? How d…

Let's see how we all did with our WWDC21 predictions. Support Cup of Tech Links Prediction Results (SPOILERS!) Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

130: WWDC21 Predictions – Respect & Boos To avoid spoilers, we decided to predict all things WWDC a week earlier this time. Support Cup of Tech Links Predictions (SPOILERS!) Hosts Kai (Twitter)Malin (Twitter)Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter…

This time we're chatting about Apple's "Spring Loaded" special event and score our event predictions. Support Cup of Tech Links Final Reults (SPOILERS!) Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

We’re back! Apple’s Spring Loaded event lured us out of hiding to record one of our special prediction episodes. Support Cup of Tech Links Final Predictions (SPOILERS!) Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter…

Fredrik chats with Wilson Snyder about Verilator, chip design, performance, and open hardware. This episode is a bit of a follow-up to episode 389 where Robert Wikander talked - in Swedish - about verification of circuit designs. Afterward, Robert mentioned that we should really ask Wilson Snyder to talk about Verilator, and here we are! Wilson wor…

Fredrik chats with Tommy Maloteaux, developer of VR god game Deisim. Tommy tells us where the inspiration came from, how he started developing the game, the tools he’s used, and more. Deisim has been developed most of the time as an early access game with a active community of players contributing heavily to the process. Also discussed are the prob…

Get ready for a long & fun episode! In this one, Scott Smith had a blast talking to both Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski about almost everything! Terrible jokes, creepy crawlies (sorry!), Malin & Kai's awesome time-tracking and time-based invoicing app called Orbit, SwiftUI, developing for both macOS and iOS, marketing, and more! Find the Orbit a…

This week we're chatting about us taking a break and our favourite things of the year in our special 2020/2021 episode. Support Cup of Tech Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter

In this—the season 3 premiere—episode, Scott Smith has a fun chat with his guest, Donny Wals. They talk about Donny's blog, his newsletter, his books, Disney, guitars and more! Donny Wals on Twitter https://twitter.com/donnywals Donny's website (blog, newsletter signup, books) https://donnywals.com Practical Combine, book by Donny Wals https://prac…

This week we're chatting about the App Store's new privacy labels, the IDFA, Kai's & Malin's new YouTube channel "Developer Commentary", and the controversial launch of Cyberpunk 2077. Support Cup of Tech Links App privacy details – Apple Developer Commentary – YouTube Picks of the Week Zach: Rain Parrot Malin: Title Case Kai: Stadia Hosts Kai (Twi…

In this wrap-up episode of season 2, Scott Smith talks about his expectations vs the reality of his content creation output in 2020. He tells the story of the creation of the slef brand for the iOS dev community. He gives an overview of season 2 and also tells about his experience as an "early adopter" of SwiftUI in a full-scale production iOS app.…

This week we're chatting about Apple's new AirPods Max, spring cleaning, and our plans for Orbit. Support Cup of Tech Links Orbit Things of the Week Malin: iOS Dev Happy Hour Kai: ConnectKit Zach: Magnet Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) Twitter…

Fredrik chats with Dave Jones of Podcast index - a new open podcast directory and API, and also one of the drivers of a new podcasting namespace for RSS. Podcasting as infrastructure has not advanced much at all in a long time. Dave, Adam and Podcast index wants to preserve podcasting as free and distributed, and also advance what the ecosystem can…

This week we chat some more about Apple's Small Business Program, iOS apps on the Mac, hybrid Macs, our Big Sur impressions, and Apple Arcade. Support Cup of Tech Links Orbit Petty Things of the Week Zach: Sneaky Sasquatch Malin: carbon Kai: Raycast Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star reviews) T…

This is our first live show! 🤯 There will be $60k Apple.com carts, Apple TV show pitches, real and fake App Store reviews to identify, us exposing our lack of iOS 14 skills, and much more. Links Cup of Tech #123 on YouTube EveryWorld Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter) Guest Adam (Twitter) Feedback iTunes (best place for 5 star revie…

In this episode, Scott had the very fun opportunity to virtually/remotely sit down with Cesar Palma (whose job is—surprisingly—not as a full-time iOS developer!) to hear about his recent exciting news, his journey and experience in the iOS Dev community, and more! Cesar Palma on Twitter @R4S3CDev https://twitter.com/R4S3CDev Cesar's iOS app: Days O…