Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]
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Slope-intercept library design 05 April 2022 The equation y=mx+b defines a line in slope-intercept form. The line will intercept the y-axis at the value b and for each change in x its slope (the amount the line goes up or down) will change by m. Slope-intercept gives me a way to think about the design […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. In the 1960s, the psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was studying patients with terminal illnesses. She noticed a […]
Memory management is a big topic in Swift and iOS development. If there are plenty of tutorials explaining when to use weak self with closure, here is a short story when memory leaks can still happen with it. For the purpose of this blog post, let’s assume we have the following class with two functions. […]
Hard to believe it’s over. My time at Twitter wasn’t perfect but it was incredibly special and there’s little I would change about it (though less crypto would be cool). I was able to provide constant feedback about products across the entire platform and the entire organization, work on some of the most pressing digital […]
When disaster strikes — from the explosion of a space shuttle to the spread of a deadly virus — we want to know whether we could have avoided catastrophe. Did anyone speak up with concerns about the situation? And if so, why didn’t someone listen? This week, we revisit a favorite episode about the psychology […]
We released the fifth edition of our book Advanced Swift a few days ago. You can buy the ebook on the objc.io site. The hardcover print edition is printed and sold by Amazon (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de). Highlights of the new edition: Fully updated for Swift 5.6 A new Concurrency chapter covering async/await, structured concurrency, and […]
March 25, 2022 ∞https://marco.org/2022/03/25/overcast-redesign-2022 Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused on the home screen, playlist screen, typography, and spacing. […]
Product development has been a hit sauce for the last two years now. Not participating in this debate seems challenging when all that’s been trending is the widespread hiring of expert product managers to changes in product development aspects. Whether you’re building physical products or a software solution, this comprehensive list of product development trends […]