Kodsnack 584 - A free deadline in September, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

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, but also created the Slices podcast, interviewing the speakers of the conference. How are indie developers different from each other, and why might it be a bad idea for Malin and Kai to do a regular podcast with Charlie Chapman?

We then dig into the evolution of Mercury weather since the last episode - especially the trip forecast feature. Yes: timezones were a big part of the challenge. The secret marketing advantage of having a Mac version of your IOS app.

Next Malin and Kai talk about their movie industry project - an app for planning shoot days for movies and TV. A project which has given them lots of insight into the quirks of a whole new industry, and made them see whole different things in movies they watch.

We revisit our use of VR for work and gaming. VR of course shades naturally into bringing Mercury to Vision pro - a quick process, but some interesting adjustments were required.

With WWDC fast approaching, we talk wishes and ideas. What would we like the Ipad to become? We do some interesting speculation about Apple’s coming focus on “AI” and how that might work together with apps. Fredrik should perhaps spend some time on his Mac app?

Finally, Malin and Kai reveal their summer project: a kanban-style workflow tracking app. Done with paper cuts!

Also: good deadlines. If Apple gives you one for free, you take it!

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Links

Malin

Kai

Triple glazed studios

Mercury weather

Orbit

Core coffee - Malin and Kai’s meetups. There are both online and in-person events

Bahnhof

ICQ

JSDay in Verona

Grusp

Deep dish Swift

Josh - arranger of Deep dish Swift

Øredev

Slices - the podcast interviewing speakers of Deep-dish Swift

Charlie Chapman

Charlie’s Slices episode for 2024 (he participated in 2023 as well)

Jessie Linden - talked about Swift and gestures

Jessie’s episode of Slices

Deep-dish pizza

Giordano’s - one of the original deep-dish pizzas

Liu Malnati’s - much thicker deep-dish pizza

Kodsnack 493 - The last episode with Malin and Kai

Six colors on Mercury’s trip forecast

Tornado alley

Air force one

Fallout - the TV series

Roy Andersson

The last of us

The room

Red matter

Doom VFR

Meta remote desktop

Immersed

Imac G4: “The old Imac with the arm”

Swiftui

Swift charts

The Ipad event

Procreate

Stage manager

Ferrite

Lumafusion

Kanban

Jira

Trello

Shortcuts

Podcast chapters

WWDC meetups

Synk - Fredrik’s latest podcast

Titles

Gigabit for ten crowns less

Good job, brain

Completely solidified knowledge

In the right track already

A good strategy for conferences

The right amount of time to talk to people

Snub two people at once

It’s nice to be done

A procrastination project

Not the smartest time management decision

Proper pizza research

Podcasting and pizza

22 back to 3

An interesting pile of edge cases

How do we handle that in the app?

You lose most of your Sunday

Ask to push lunch

The logistics of filming

Making a movie versus building an app

The Ipad strapped to his belt

Everything gets to me

A world clock for weather

People have clocks for that

Xcode, but for touch

Done with paper cuts!

A very clean look into the state of our projects

Ever-growing “done” column

All the modes I made

A free deadline in September

If Appl