Articles by Guilherme Rambo

On the final holiday special for this year (or, last year?), John and Rambo discuss their expectations for 2021, and what products and new developer tools that they hope to see from Apple during this new year.
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On this second Stacktrace holiday special, John and Rambo look back at the past year and what some of the highlights were among the hectic, strange rollercoaster ride that 2020 has been.
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On the first ever completely non-technical episode of Stacktrace, John and Rambo answer #askstacktrace questions about everything from local holiday traditions to what their favorite airplanes are.
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An accidental deep dive into how the AirPods’ transparency mode is activated over Bluetooth, the launch of Swift by Sundell 3.0, running macOS code in the cloud, multiple headphone reviews and a comparison between the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 mini.

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This weekend, developer Loren Brichter released a website claiming that Google Chrome for Mac — or more specifically its auto-update mechanism — was causing the WindowServer process on macOS to constantly have high CPU usage, damaging the performance …

More on using the M1 Macs as development machines, thoughts on the newly announced AirPods Max and its pricing, the importance of maintaining URLs as stable identifiers, and how AirBuddy is made aware of new audio devices.

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On this slightly more code-focused episode of the show, John and Rambo discuss cross-platform SwiftUI development and techniques for integrating SwiftUI with UIKit and AppKit. Also, how the original HomePod can now be jailbroken, using the M1 Mac mini…

John reviews the M1 Mac mini, and Rambo reviews the iPhone 12 mini. Two “mini products” that turn out to be not very mini in terms of performance. What’s it like using an M1 Mac for tasks like iOS development, and does the iPhone 12 mini feel like a p…

Apple’s lower App Store commission, the future of Swift by Sundell, shipping AirBuddy 2, M1 Mac benchmarks, SwiftUI’s potential as a cross-platform technology, and a review of the Xbox Series X. Yes, all of that in one episode — let’s dive in!
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The first round of Apple Silicon Macs is finally here, and John and Rambo have lots of thoughts on them. Also, adventures into Multipeer Connectivity and Bluetooth, and mixing development work with design.
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