Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have been a topic of keen interest and heated debate for years now and indeed a frequent topic of discussion on Coder Radio. Overall the development of technologies that enable richer apps to be developed as PWAs has continued at a brisk...
Apple’s Big Brother Now
I'm sure we all remember the legendary Big Brother Super Bowl commercial in which Apple portrayed IBM as a Orwellian Big Brother figure to be smashed by its plucky Cupertino rival. Fast forward to 2024 and my how things have changed. The DOJ is reportedly looking into...
WWDC 2020 Wishlist
This year’s WWDC is a little weird for everyone involved. Hell, the entire year has just been weird. WWDC is still happening virtually on June 22nd and there promises to be an interesting one from a product release perspective - ARM Mac? New iMac body? Headphones? Oh...
Converting to SwiftUI Steps[0]
SwiftUI is the next paradigm in iOS and macOS user interface development. However, if you’re like me you already have Xcode projects that are using the now legacy storyboard technology. Luckily, it possible to update your existing projects to use SwiftUI and the...
Mac Wishlist
Coder Radio listeners will know that I’ve had a lot of angst for the last few years over modern Apple’s treatment of the Mac as a platform. What some of them may not know is that I actually want to love the Mac again, but I find the product design decisions to be...
A Farewell to Apps?
Ars Technica recently posted an article by Larry Seltzer that discusses the possibility of native mobile apps being marginalized by web-based solutions thanks to the increasing advancement of web standards on mobile. Normally, I’d ignore something like this — in most...
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