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

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 Apple gives you a free deadline, you take i