In the final episode of Fatal Error, Chris and Soroush go through some follow-up, then recap the news from WWDC.

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Teaser: 70. The Finale

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about null, the billion dollar mistake. They talk about its past, its present and maybe even its future. Nice!

69. (null)

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about something engineers are stereotypically bad at: negotiating.

Teaser: 68. Negotiating

Soroush and Chris share some sad news, talk about Soroush's first official Swift Evolution proposal, and a post about giving presentations by Dave DeLong.

67. The Whatever Planet From The Sun

Soroush and Chris talk about Sequences, Collections, and Swift Evolution drama.

Teaser: 66. Sequence and Collection and Iterator, Oh My

Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer TimePub quiz question,"How many time zones are there"I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came aroundWhere is the extra 75 seconds coming from?I think a great interview question is“how do you compute the length of a string?” If the candidate responds by asking“what do you mean by‘length’ and what do you mean by‘string’?” they pass —  @txsectorBig-O NotationOle Begemann: Strings in Swift 4 (explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)Ligatures in Unicode (Wikipedia)Accidentally QuadraticSoroush: Safety in SwiftSpoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder SolutionBackspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs: 

65. Times That Do Not Exist

This week, Chris and Soroush review what inheritance in OOP is good for … and the problems it brings with it. Also: an update on the lights in Soroush’s bathroom.

Teaser: 64. AI Apoptosis

This week, after a brief detour into the subject of pizza, Soroush and Chris discuss how they’d go about the broad goal of “improving an app.”

63. Two People Who Like Type Systems

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss Soroush’s efforts to implement BigDecimal in Swift, recap Teki Con, and take a detour into evolutionary biology.

Teaser: 62. Convergent Swift Evolution

This week, Soroush and Chris get ready for Dynamic Callable and Dynamic Member Lookup by thinking through how you could use them to mock objects for testing. Plus: more Booleans, national parks, and chat about testing in general.

61. Hypothetical Testing Tricks

This week, Soroush talks Chris through his efforts to make an improvement to the Swift standard library.

Teaser: 60. Soroush in the Standard Library

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about impostor syndrome, starting a new job, team dynamics and rockstar developers. Then: toggling booleans and the Law of Demeter!

59. Why did they even hire Chris??

This week’s episode turns into a grab bag of nerdy topics: home automation, Raspberry Pis, music, time, and also MoviePass.

Teaser: 58. Pi, Delicious Pi

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss the world of independent Cocoa conferences, then debate Chris Lattner’s recently-accepted dynamic member lookup proposal.

57. Lattnerianly In-Depth

Chris and Soroush talk about boring startuppy administrative code, web frameworks in shell languages, before moving on to Vapor 3 and Swift 4.1. Conditional conformance is going to be huge. Huge! They close out the show talking about running your own little Heroku.Listen to the whole episode — and get access to the entire Fatal Error back catalog — at patreon.com/fatalerror.

Teaser: 56. A Chris-Shaped Scream

Fatal Error is a weekly show hosted by software developers Soroush Khanlou and Chris Dzombak. We discuss topics at the cutting edge of iOS software architecture, Swift, and best practices.

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