2015-09-26

talk by Maciej Cegłowski

a note to future Mike

made with Unity

100 ms lag is what we have now, 10 ms is way better but not good enough, 1 ms is game-changing

talk by Rachel Potvin

one codebase, 86 terabytes, development without branches, 45 thousand commits a day

“Focus effects are the crux of what makes tvOS communal. Focus effects provide visual feedback not only to whomever is quarterbacking the remote, but also to any onlookers who are following along. They’re what separate this native TV experience from AirPlay-ing your iPad to the big screen.”

“By making the view controller conform to the protocols for the ValidatesUsername and ValidatesPassword mixins, it automatically pulls the isUsernameValid() and isPasswordValid() methods into the code. […] This is a nice trick to keep your view controllers clean without having to use extra helper objects.”