iOS Checkup

My talk from MCE 2016

http://2016.mceconf.com/

Copy with presenter notes and citations is available: https://static.ashfurrow.com/mce2016_with_notes.pdf

Transcript

1. Dependency Mana Unit Testing ☑︎ ☑︎ ☑︎ ☐ Accessibility Continuous Integr
3. Let’s talk about where we were, where we are now, and where we’re going
4. Really Important Things Empathy is essential Be mindful Let’s do Community-Driven Development
5. Empathy
6. Empathy for yourself
7. Past → Present → Future
8. Past → Present → Future
9. Past → Present → Future →
10. Past → Present → Future → →
11. Empathy for others
12. Everyone has similar fears and similar doubts
13. We have science'd empathy, and the results are awesome
14. –Me, about depression, 2013 “I wish that I had something more substantial to add to the dialogue than ‘me too’, but sometimes it’s worth knowing that you’re not alone, and that it can get better.”
15. Communication
16. –Harold Abelson, SICP “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
17. Good Programmer → Good Communicator
18. Good Programmer → Good Communicator Good Communicator → Good Programmer
19. So, communication is important
20. Text-based communication is really bad at conveying empathy
21. Move to hangouts early and often
22. Empathy for ourselves → Empathy for others → Better communication → Better programming skills
23. Mindfulness
25. Look for better ways to solve familiar problems
27. Examples • Dependency managers • Fastlane • Jazzy • Swiftlint • Swiftcheck • chswift • CocoaDocs • nsdateformatter.com • Quick & Nimble • Inclusive Toolkit • FBSnapshotTestCase • swift-compiler-crashes
28. Mindful communication
29. Think ahead
30. Listen Affirm Respond Add
31. Automation
35. Look for opportunities to automate
36. I wrote unit tests → I want tests to run on pull requests → I set up Continuous Integration → I can use CI to automate code coverage analysis → I can use CI to automate deploys with Fastlane → I can use CI to automate common PR responses
37. Danger
39. Automate team invitations
40. Community-Driven Development
41. Sharing an idea is the easiest way to validate it
43. Sharing an idea is the easiest way to improve it
45. iOS has become more community-focused
46. iOS circa 2013 …
47. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident …
48. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident iOS today …
49. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident iOS today … { Good middle ground
50. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, find a new room.”
51. This is really easy in open source
52. This is really easy in open source … because we’re all in several rooms at once
53. Open Source by Default
54. Really Important Things Empathy is essential Be mindful Let’s do Community-Driven Development
55. –Buckminster Fuller, 1969 “So, planners, architects, and engineers take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.”