iOS Dev Discussions - Sean Allen

Latest Episodes:

WWDC Diary - Recap of My WWDC Experience Jun 22, 2019

Show notes

In this episode I talk about my week at WWDC. We discuss the live streaming the keynote, making the trip down to the event on Wednesday to give the live Swift Over Coffee podcast as well as the Mastering FiestaKit Party.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Origin Stories #17 - Stewart Lynch Jun 20, 2019

Show notes

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with Stewart Lynch. I really enjoyed my conversation with Stewart because this episode was a bit different. Steward has been involved in Computer Science since before Computer Science was an official term. We get to hear all about that and how he was an educator which eventually led to him developing with Swift as a hobby. Stewart has 10 apps on the App Store. 10! I got to ask him a bunch of questions about how he manages to keep them all up to date and how much he learned while building all those apps.

Origin Stories is a series of interviews with iOS developers from the community where we discuss how they got their start in this industry. We discuss how they first became interested in code, what resources they used to learn, how they got their first job and much more.

Stewart's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/StewartLynch

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Swift News - June 3rd, 2019 Jun 04, 2019

Show notes

Swift News is all about curating this week's latest news involving iOS Development and Swift. In this week's episode I discuss WWDC by Sundell, Advanced Swift, the 200MB over the air download limit, Swift with Machine Learning and Tensor Flow and the App Store.

I also discuss a scary story about an independent app developer having his app delisted, a great design tool from Muzli, Augmented Reality and more!

Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest Swift News every Monday!

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/dLEATulyCdw

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

What I'm Working On #22 - Big Picture & Refactoring Jun 04, 2019

Show notes

"What I'm Working On" is a weekly show where I give a quick recap of what I worked on at my day job as an iOS developer at a small startup in Silicon Valley. I hope this give some insight into what it's like to work for a small startup as the sole iOS developer.

In this episode I talk about keeping the big picture in mind to not let feature creep set in as well as catching up on technical debt by refactoring.

If this is your first What I'm Working On episode, be sure to check out the introduction episode for context as to what the Aluna app does.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Origin Stories #16 - Chris Ching - iOS YouTuber - Code With Chris May 31, 2019

Show notes

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with fellow YouTube, Chris Ching of Code With Chris to discuss how he got his start into programming. We get to hear the story of how he was introduced to programming as a teenager and then went on to university to study Computer Science leading to his first job. We also get to hear the origin story of his YouTube channel with 200k subscribers and how he decided to go full-time content creation.

Code With Chris website:

http://codewithchris.com

Education program for schools:

http://codewithchris.com/education/

His YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2D6eRvCeMtcF5OGHf1-trw

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Swift News - May 27th, 2019 May 28, 2019

Show notes

Swift News is all about curating this week's latest news involving iOS Development and Swift. In this week's episode I discuss the new WWDC app, John Sundell's review of Swift Playgrounds 3.0, GitHub Sponsorship, Spectre Retrospective, app performance & more!

Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest Swift News every Monday!

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/2G2lncVdsIQ

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

What I'm Working On #21 - Change of Plans... May 27, 2019

Show notes

In this episode I talk about how a new game mechanic idea came about and completely changed the next couple months of development for Aluna.

If this is your first What I'm Working On episode, be sure to check out the introduction episode for context as to what the Aluna app does.

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Are you a gamer? I'm now streaming video games on Twitch as well:

https://twitch.tv/seanallen

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Origin Stories #15 - Ben Sullivan - iOS Contractor May 24, 2019

Show notes

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with Ben Sullivan, AKA Swifty McSwiftface on Twitter and iOS Contractor based in the U.K. In this episode you'll get to hear the origin story of that great Twitter handle, as well as how he just decided one day he was going to be an app developer and started the self-learning process. You'll also hear how he landed his first paying gig after 5 months. In this discussion we also dive into a lot of details when it comes to the life of an iOS Contractor/Freelancer. We talk money, taxes, lifestyle, working environments, etc...

Ben's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MrMcSwiftface

Ben's Mastering TableViews Course:

https://www.udemy.com/ios-10-swift-3-mastering-table-views/?couponCode=SEAN10

Fireside Swift:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fireside-swift/id1269435221

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Swift News - May 21st, 2019 May 22, 2019

Show notes

Swift News is all about curating this week's latest news involving iOS Development and Swift. In this week's episode I discuss capture lists with weak/unowned, techniques for resizing images, App Dev Academy, iOS Dev Jobs, Laws of UX, developer quality of life, ARKit & More!

Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest Swift News every Monday!

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/m1ymWmocy-M

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev

Instagram:

@seanallen_dev

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/seanallen

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/seanallen

Portfolio:

https://seanallen.co

Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift:

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here:

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen

Links from the show

Weak self and unowned self explained:

https://www.avanderlee.com/swift/weak-self/

Image Resizing Techniques:

https://nshipster.com/image-resizing/

App Developer Academy:

https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/16/apple-developer-academy/

Ryan Nystrom Tweet & Githawk:

https://twitter.com/_ryannystrom/status/1128697277718175744

http://githawk.com

iOS Dev Jobs:

https://iosdevjobs.com

Developer Quality of Life:

http://cofounder.life/day-in-the-life-sahil-lavingia/

Laws of UX:

https://lawsofux.com

ARKit:

Sticky Notes - https://twitter.com/Wu_Shengzhi/status/1127773999876976640

Occlusion - https://twitter.com/londonrom/status/1128249497363144712

AR iMac - https://twitter.com/nicholasgranaa/status/1129947820784529410

LOL:

Dating - https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1130186675047542784

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

May Livestream Top 5 Questions - Final Livestream Highlights May 21, 2019

Show notes

Here are my top five questions from the Q&A session during my May live stream. This was the last live stream I'll be doing on YouTube in this format. I'm moving over to Twitch for my livestream stuff. You can hear more about it during the first question.

twitch.tv/seanallen

1. Why no more livestreams?

2. Advice for memorizing code

3. Advice for a new freelancer

4. Why I didn't go with a big company

5. Future app development plans?

Bonus Question -

How much money do you make on YouTube

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin

Books, hoodies and goodies:

https://seanallen.co/store