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
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   Accessibility
   Continuous Integr
   

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3. Let’s talk about where we were,
   where we are now, and where we’re going
   

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4. Really Important Things
   Empathy is essential
   Be mindful
   Let’s do Community-Driven Development
   

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5. Empathy
   

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6. Empathy for yourself
   

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7. Past → Present → Future
   

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8. Past → Present → Future
   
   

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9. Past → Present → Future
   →
   
   

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10. Past → Present → Future
    
    → →
    
    

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11. Empathy for others
    

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12. Everyone has similar fears
    and similar doubts
    

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13. We have science'd empathy,
    and the results are awesome
    

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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.”
    

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15. Communication
    

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16. –Harold Abelson, SICP
    “Programs must be written for people to read,
    and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
    

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17. Good Programmer → Good Communicator
    

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18. Good Programmer → Good Communicator
    Good Communicator → Good Programmer
    

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19. So, communication is important
    

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20. Text-based communication is
    really bad at conveying empathy
    

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21. Move to hangouts early and often
    

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22. Empathy for ourselves
    → Empathy for others
    → Better communication
    → Better programming skills
    

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23. Mindfulness
    

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25. Look for better ways to solve
    familiar problems
    

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27. Examples
    • Dependency managers
    • Fastlane
    • Jazzy
    • Swiftlint
    • Swiftcheck
    • chswift
    • CocoaDocs
    • nsdateformatter.com
    • Quick & Nimble
    • Inclusive Toolkit
    • FBSnapshotTestCase
    • swift-compiler-crashes
    

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28. Mindful communication
    

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29. Think ahead
    

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30. Listen
    Affirm
    Respond
    Add
    

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31. Automation
    

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35. Look for opportunities
    to automate
    

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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
    

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37. Danger
    

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39. Automate team invitations
    

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40. Community-Driven
    Development
    

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41. Sharing an idea is the easiest
    way to validate it
    

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43. Sharing an idea is the easiest
    way to improve it
    

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45. iOS has become more
    community-focused
    

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46. iOS circa 2013
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47. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident
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48. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident
    iOS today
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49. iOS circa 2013 left-pad incident
    iOS today
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    Good middle ground
    

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50. “If you’re the smartest person in the room,
    find a new room.”
    

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51. This is really easy in open source
    

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52. This is really easy in open source
    … because we’re all in several
    rooms at once
    

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53. Open Source by Default
    

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54. Really Important Things
    Empathy is essential
    Be mindful
    Let’s do Community-Driven Development
    

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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.”
    

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