Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Apple and Professionals: A Mixed Message

  [caption id="attachment_127158" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Apple Store[/caption] Something has been stirring in the undertow of the developer and creative communities. It started when Apple…
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  Is It Time to Kill the Whiteboard Interview?

  Tech interviews are hard enough, but for many tech pros there’s an aspect that’s downright unbearable: the whiteboard. Developers complain about it often (and have for years), while some tech com…
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  Apple's Hour of Code Features Swift Playgrounds

  [caption id="attachment_138340" align="aligncenter" width="3840"] Hour of Code[/caption] Apple is bringing its Hour of Code initiative back, and extending the learning to its new Swift Playground…
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  Open Source App Shows Devs Must Be Kinder

  [caption id="attachment_138324" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Open Source App Dash[/caption] Recently, Dash developer Bogdan Popescu found himself on the losing end of Apple’s war against fak…
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  Nokia Moonraker: The Better Microsoft Band?

  [caption id="attachment_138307" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Nokia Moonraker[/caption] Thanks to a newly discovered video, we know what a smartwatch from now-defunct smartphone manufacturer…
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  Apple: Mac Touch Bar a 'Part-Time' Experience

  [caption id="attachment_137961" align="aligncenter" width="880"] MacBook Pro Touch Bar[/caption] Though Apple routinely says a touchscreen Mac would be a bad idea, it turns out the company has te…
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  InVision Inspect Bridges Design & Development

  [caption id="attachment_138238" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] InVision Inspect Design[/caption] Designers and developers often coexist in a tense back-and-forth of iterative design and hard-c…
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  Visual Studio for Mac Launches This Month

  [caption id="attachment_138265" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Visual Studio for Mac[/caption] It’s (almost) official: Visual Studio is coming to the Mac. In a now-deleted blog post, Microsoft…
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  5 Subreddits Every Developer Should Follow

  [caption id="attachment_138218" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Reddit for the Developer[/caption] Google might be a developer’s best friend, at least when it comes to quickly looking up progra…
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  This Handy Tool Simulates Mac's Touch Bar

  [caption id="attachment_137961" align="aligncenter" width="880"] MacBook Pro Touch Bar[/caption] Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, a touch-sensitive strip that can display a range of custom…