

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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Mar 20, 2019 • 30min
161: Gears, Knobs, and Buttons
The design challenge of a podcast app's now-playing screen, how Overcast's design has progressed over the years, and the unexpected usability failures along the way.
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Links and Show Notes:
Overcast v1
Overcast v3
Overcast v4
Overcast v5
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Mar 6, 2019 • 30min
160: Working Staycations
Taking vacations or staycations to get a lot of work done in a short time and take full advantage of being in the zone.
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Links and Show Notes:
Cortex
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Feb 22, 2019 • 29min
159: New App
Creating a new app as a fun exercise, and making choices that minimize its ongoing maintenance needs.
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Feb 8, 2019 • 29min
158: Bundled Data
Including large or small databases and other data files with your app.
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Links and Show Notes
ATP where Marco discussed Instant Search
FMDB
UTR where we discussed implementing Search
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Jan 23, 2019 • 30min
157: Editorial Content
Producing and embedding content in your app that changes continuously, such as monthly challenges, directories, and user-generated content.
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Jan 9, 2019 • 30min
156: The Nightmare After Christmas
Running servers is easy the vast majority of the time. But sometimes, something goes wrong at the worst possible time.
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Links and Show Notes
Xdebug
webgrind
Linode NodeBalancers
Cloudflare
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Dec 27, 2018 • 30min
155: Difficult Bugfixes
Tracking down hard-to-find, hard-to-reproduce bugs that don't show up in your own usage.
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Dec 20, 2018 • 29min
154: Knowingly Shipping Bugs
When, why, and how it's OK to ship updates to your app with known bugs.
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Dec 13, 2018 • 30min
153: Fear of Major Changes
Good and bad fears of embarking on major code changes to our apps.
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UTR #143: Implementing Step-Counting
Core Motion Bug Report: Radar #46606259
Pedometer++
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Dec 5, 2018 • 29min
152: Removing the Bumpers
Exercising atrophied programming muscles by experimenting with languages, technologies, and environments that lack the safety and convenience of our usual work.
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