Strictly Untyped Strictly Untyped

Ramón and Passy get back in front of the mics after a long, long break to catch on their careers and other topics. The two start by filling in the gaps the last two years have left in both their personal and professional lives. Ramón talks about his experience in fin-tech startups while Passy talks about Flipper, an extensible mobile debugging platform, that his job now revolves around. The two then try to find a definition for what tech lead really it, but - spoilers! - end up just as clueless as before. Nevertheless, they manage to find some common ground and at least realise where they do not want their jobs to go. Ramon has some questions about the viability of monorepos, which Passy tries to dispel. The duo wraps up the show with a quick check-in on entertainment, featuring Game of Thrones, Billions, Barry, Sekiro and Cuphead.

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Passy has a new job and phone. Ramon will have a new drone. Google announced some stuff. So did GitHub. We later continue with our discussion about app development workflow, covering release management in this episode. Why do many large companies prefer the train model to the feature-based cut-off model? Could this have something to do with the mysterious "Bugfixes and improvements" changelogs you see everywhere? Spoilers: yes.


Topics
madebygoogle happened.

Headphone jacks gonna headphone jack.
GitHub released some new features.
Software Release Trains


Picks

Passy: Game, The Last Of Us (Remastered)
Passy: Podcast, Embedded.fm
Ramon: Drone, DJI Mavic Pro
Passy: KeeWeb Password Manager
Passy: CPK KeePass Chrome Extension


About

Ramón Argüello on Twitter
Pascal Hartig on Twitter
Strictly Untyped on Twitter


Music

Outro jingle - Ramón Argüello

Ramon and Passy continue on their journey of explaining how big applications are built on the example of Twitter for Android and iOS. The main topic this time is code review. How do you write patches that are easy to review, structure your workflow and which guidelines do you follow when evaluating others' work?


Topics

YakYak authentication problems
The Fall 2016 Special Apple Event
Ramon's (un)success story of switching to a Nexus phone for a week
Passy's small Haskell web service rendering PNGs and SVGs (on GitHub)
It's Passy's last week at Twitter. :( But Strictly Untyped shall persevere!
00:19:45 - Code Review at scale


Code Review

Gerrit for code review.
https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/397664295875805184
IBM's study on effectiveness of big code reviews.
stacked git for breaking down large patches.


Picks

Ramon: Game, Inside for PS4
Passy: Podcast, Magic Read Along
Ramon: Podcast, Rocket
Passy: Paper, Type-level Web APIs with Servant

Ramon and Passy work on the official Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android apps respectively. After a rather long break, they're back and discuss the workflow that's used at Twitter to bring you those apps.


Topics

Ansible for server provisioning.
Scaleway cloud hosting.
PureScript.
FFI Chapter in "PureScript by Example" by Phil Freeman.


Workflow For Large-Scale Mobile Applications

No, we won't link to Jira here. Or Basecamp. Or Pivotal Tracker. Sorry.
Gerrit for code review.
OWNERS approval plugin for Gerrit. Yes, this stuff is actually written in Prolog.
Crashlytics Beta for dogfooding.
Jenkins for CI.


Picks

Ramon: YakYak Open Source Google Hangouts desktop client.
Passy + Ramon: Mr Robot Season 2
Ramon: No Man's Sky by Hello Games
Passy: Episode 189 and Episode 225 of JavaScript Jabber with Phil Freeman and John De Goes.
Passy: Dell XPS 13 9530 Developer Edition


About

Ramón Argüello on Twitter
Pascal Hartig on Twitter
Strictly Untyped on Twitter


Music

Outro jingle - Ramón Argüello

Passy attends Google I/O 2016 in California and catches up with Ramón on what's new for Android developers.


Topics

What's new in Android - Google I/O 2016 on Youtube
Android Instant Apps
Ramon's Tweet about Smart Replies
Marco Arment's Podcasting Microphones Megareview


About

Ramón Argüello on Twitter
Pascal Hartig on Twitter
Strictly Untyped on Twitter


Music

Elevator Music - Bensound
Outro jingle - Ramón Argüello

Ramón and Passy catch up on their most recent adventures in the world of mobile development and neuroscience.
Want our opinion on a topic or just say hi?
Tweet at us!



Topics

Static and Dynamic Frameworks in Swift
Upgrading an Android App from Android 1.5 to Android 6
Mind-controlled sphero robots on Github
Activities and ViewControllers
rss-markdown-proxy on GitHub
Ramón's Achording Guitar Tabs app on Google Play and iTunes


Picks
Ramón


Core Intuition Podcast
Dark Souls 3

Passy


Acquired Podcast
Lens over tea


About

Ramón Argüello on Twitter
Pascal Hartig on Twitter
Strictly Untyped on Twitter


Music

Outro jingle - Ramón Argüello