Waiting For Review

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

249 episodes of Waiting For Review since the first episode, which aired on January 26th, 2017.

  • 169: I Really Like The Mac

    May 22nd, 2020  |  25 mins 27 secs

    The 13" MacBook Pro serves to confuse us, more so when we consider the recent MacBook Air refresh. If ARM chips are coming to the Mac, are these machines the last of their kind?

  • 168: A tale of two hosts

    May 15th, 2020  |  38 mins 4 secs

    Dave Nott mulls a mesh wifi network to improve his home connectivity. Meanwhile, Dave Wood has pushed a big button to leave behind a web host he's used for years, and taken his sites to Linode.

  • 167: Motivationally speaking

    May 8th, 2020  |  25 mins 46 secs

    Dave Nott faces a sudden lack of motivation to work on iOS side projects. We discuss how the current climate may be having an impact, and what can be done to rebuild motivation when it vanishes.

  • 166: A Bumpy Landing

    May 1st, 2020  |  27 mins 22 secs

    After a bumpy start, Dave Nott has his new iPad. One problem, he doesn't really know what to do with it...

  • 165: Avoiding Time Sinks

    April 24th, 2020  |  33 mins 14 secs
    approach, balance, development, hole, indie, ios, management, organisation, rabbit, sink, sinks, swift, swiftui, time, ui

    How we identify and avoid getting sucked into time sinks and rabbit holes. A timely episode as this week, Dave Nott has managed to (almost) dodge one while designing his new iOS app.

  • 164: Why Do I Even Make Apps?

    April 17th, 2020  |  37 mins 46 secs

    Dave Nott has taken an iOS dev hiatus these last few weeks. He's had time to consider his motivations for making apps at all and wonders what will become of his next iOS app once it's complete. Set up an indie-ios-shop again, or keep it as a portfolio piece?

  • 163: Prime Time

    April 10th, 2020  |  28 mins 21 secs

    We’ve started diving deeper into our on demand tv services. We discuss our respective experiences of Apple TV and the news of tighter integration of Amazon’s Prime video to the platform.

  • 162: Lockdown

    April 3rd, 2020  |  30 mins 20 secs

    With both of us in lockdown on our respective sides of the globe, we discuss how we're adjusting, keeping up with our development projects and think about what lasting good could potentially come from this terribly sad situation.

  • 161: Happy Thoughts

    March 27th, 2020  |  34 mins 51 secs

    We hope you're all staying safe and well. With everything going on right now, we decided to take some comfort in the shiney new Apple toys that landed recently, and to indulge ourselves in the details of it all.

  • 160: I Bumped My Head

    March 20th, 2020  |  25 mins 17 secs

    Dave Wood returns to the show after taking some time out to recover from a bump to head. We catch up with how Dave is recovering.

  • 159: Charlie Chapman

    March 13th, 2020  |  44 mins 43 secs

    With Dave Wood still recovering from a concussion, Charlie Chapman is here to fill in. We chat about gaming, managing side projects around being a parent, how WWDC might turn out and of course, we discuss his fantastic new podcast, Launched.

  • 158: Baxter Saves the Day

    March 6th, 2020  |  58 mins 42 secs

    In a suprise turn of events, (Daryl) Baxter joins Dave Nott for an impromptu episode as Dave Wood recovers from a concussion. They discuss the state of the iPad ten years in, whether WWDC will go ahead and how Dave Nott has jerry-rigged a gaming setup out of his 16" MacBook Pro.

  • 157: Navigating Personal Identity

    February 28th, 2020  |  17 mins 13 secs

    It's easy to hold on to a personal identity for longer than you should. After a hard nudge from the universe, Dave Wood considers if his has changed since moving to New Zealand and ponders his next app development move.

  • 156: An Untapped Seam

    February 21st, 2020  |  32 mins 16 secs

    Dave Wood gets an unexpected upgrade to a Series 5 Apples Watch, which sparks a new Apple Watch app idea. Dave Nott wins a battle with SwiftUI, but was it the right battle to have picked?

  • 155: Go Back to UIKit?

    February 14th, 2020  |  42 mins 11 secs

    After another week of frustration, Dave Nott begins to doubt the merits of continuing development with SwiftUI. Would it be easier to down tools and move back to the safety of UIKit to get the job finished?

  • 154: Is it broken?

    February 7th, 2020  |  26 mins 15 secs

    Dave Wood is in week 3 of moving his app from paid to freemium, and is beginning to have some regret. He's discovered some confounding factors, and maybe the opportunity is not what he thought it was.