210: Thinking Like A Business
Feb 3, 2021, 2:00 PM
29:44
Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.
209: Binary Stars
Jan 20, 2021, 10:45 AM
29:29
Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.
208: The Road Ahead
Jan 6, 2021, 11:00 AM
29:17
The kind of year we expect 2021 to be for Apple-platform developers, and an update on Overcast's SwiftUI progress.
207: Privacy Labels and Analytics
Dec 22, 2020, 4:00 AM
29:01
Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.
206: Pivoting Your App
Dec 9, 2020, 12:00 PM
29:44
The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.
205: We Got a Raise
Nov 25, 2020, 2:15 PM
29:41
How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.
204: Adopting SwiftUI
Nov 9, 2020, 10:45 AM
29:45
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
203: Modernizing Overcast
Oct 28, 2020, 11:45 AM
29:32
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.
202: The Calm After The Storm
Oct 14, 2020, 12:15 PM
29:40
Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.
201: Widgetsmith
Sep 29, 2020, 10:30 AM
29:48
Dave's app is number one in the App Store! We explore the mind-bending scale and perspective of such a defining moment in an indie developer's career.
200: Time Flies
Sep 16, 2020, 3:15 PM
29:43
What Apple's event and iOS 14's timing means for us.
199: Spending Dan Riccio’s 2020 Battery Surplus
Sep 2, 2020, 4:45 PM
29:52
Our second-annual wishlist for how we hope this fall's Apple hardware spends the efficiency gains from another year of technological progress.
198: Store Wars
Aug 19, 2020, 8:15 PM
29:48
How Epic vs. Apple might affect developers like us.
197: iOS 14 Privacy Disclosures
Aug 6, 2020, 2:00 PM
29:50
The new App Store privacy disclosures and tracking-permission prompt in iOS 14.
196: Not-So-Secret Plans
Jul 21, 2020, 3:45 PM
29:50
What we're working on so far this summer, and why we're not keeping it secret.
195: Apple's Grand Vision of the Future
Jul 8, 2020, 1:30 PM
29:43
Adapting to the continued consolidation of Apple's platforms and frameworks.
194: WWDC 2020
Jun 24, 2020, 2:45 PM
29:46
How the online-only format of WWDC 2020 is working out in practice, and how quickly we plan to adopt the new APIs.
193: Unproductivity
Jun 10, 2020, 4:30 PM
29:48
Putting mental health above productivity during challenging times.
192: Backporting
May 27, 2020, 2:15 PM
29:43
Using compatibility shims and abstractions to gain some of the newest APIs' benefits on previous OS versions.
191: Self-Imposed Constraints
May 13, 2020, 3:15 PM
29:37
Imposing arbitrary limits on yourself to produce better projects.
190: Custom Fonts
Apr 29, 2020, 5:00 PM
29:16
The risks and rewards of using custom fonts, and how to implement them in a modern app.
189: Watchsmith
Apr 15, 2020, 3:00 PM
29:49
The launch of David's new app that pushes the boundaries of watchOS and finally makes our smartwatch faces actually smart.
188: watchOS Business Prospects
Apr 2, 2020, 8:45 AM
29:39
The business side of Apple Watch app development in 2020.
187: Uncertain Times
Mar 18, 2020, 12:45 PM
29:48
Business decisions for app developers during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
186: Replacing WWDC
Mar 4, 2020, 10:00 AM
29:56
Considering how Apple could replace and expand the roles filled by WWDC if it's canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
185: Advanced Math
Feb 19, 2020, 2:15 PM
29:48
How we tackle the occasional need for more advanced math skills than what we actually have.
184: The Past and Future of the iPad
Feb 5, 2020, 5:15 PM
29:25
Looking back at the launch of the iPad, and what its present and future hold, from an app-development and business perspective.
183: Compatibility Contrast
Jan 22, 2020, 2:45 PM
29:41
As Marco discovers the value of staying with the old, David plows headfirst into the new.
182: Ambitions, Goals, and Themes
Jan 8, 2020, 5:00 PM
29:51
Making plans, setting goals, and setting guidelines for decision-making — and, taking a page from our friends at Cortex, our chosen themes for 2020.
181: Supporting The Previous OS
Dec 24, 2019, 6:30 AM
29:28
Revisiting the decision to go iOS 13-only with Overcast, and the pros and cons of potentially re-adding support for iOS 12.
180: Shortcuts & Harnesses
Dec 11, 2019, 4:30 PM
29:49
Time-saving tips and tricks, and the value of test-harness mini-apps during development.
179: Silent Updates
Nov 27, 2019, 12:15 PM
29:24
If you ship a major update, but don't announce it anywhere, does it make a sound?