Under the Radar
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From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
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Feb 18, 2021 • 29min
211: Logging
Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.
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Feb 3, 2021 • 30min
210: Thinking Like A Business
Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.
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Jan 20, 2021 • 29min
209: Binary Stars
Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.
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Marco's well established love of Solar
Screenshot of Marco's copy
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Jan 6, 2021 • 29min
208: The Road Ahead
The kind of year we expect 2021 to be for Apple-platform developers, and an update on Overcast's SwiftUI progress.
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Dec 22, 2020 • 29min
207: Privacy Labels and Analytics
Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.
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Privacy Documentation
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Dec 9, 2020 • 30min
206: Pivoting Your App
The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.
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Nov 25, 2020 • 30min
205: We Got a Raise
How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.
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App Store Small Business Program
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Nov 9, 2020 • 30min
204: Adopting SwiftUI
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
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Oct 28, 2020 • 30min
203: Modernizing Overcast
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.
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Oct 14, 2020 • 30min
202: The Calm After The Storm
Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.
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Scriptable
The Talk Show Episode
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