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Fatal Error

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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5. Reactive Programming

5. Reactive Programming

This week, Chris and Soroush finally get to the topic they've been waiting for since they started the podcast: reactive ... Read more

26 Sep 2016

49mins

Ranked #2

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55. Fired Up about Firebase

55. Fired Up about Firebase

After an update on Chris's bread project, Soroush tells Chris about Firebase Cloud Functions, and we discuss deduplicati... Read more

2 Feb 2018

31mins

Ranked #3

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3. View Models, Again

3. View Models, Again

After recording Episode 2, Soroush remembered some other questions about View Models. In this special episode, your host... Read more

29 Aug 2016

41mins

Ranked #4

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39. Our First Apps

39. Our First Apps

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter!This week, Soroush and Chris revisit their firs... Read more

21 Aug 2017

37mins

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45. Fault Tolerance with Actors

45. Fault Tolerance with Actors

Chris and Soroush continue their discussion of the future of concurrency in Swift by considering how Erlang achieves fau... Read more

2 Oct 2017

39mins

Ranked #6

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27. Core Data

27. Core Data

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter!This week, Soroush and Chris talk about why the... Read more

24 Apr 2017

24mins

Ranked #7

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59. Why did they even hire Chris??

59. Why did they even hire Chris??

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about impostor syndrome, starting a new job, team dynamics and rockstar developers. Th... Read more

2 Mar 2018

36mins

Ranked #8

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29. Protocols with Associated Types

29. Protocols with Associated Types

This is the last non-Patreon-exclusive episode of our second season. Episode 30 will appear on our Patreon page next wee... Read more

8 May 2017

29mins

Ranked #9

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33. Server-Side Swift in Practice

33. Server-Side Swift in Practice

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter!Chris and Soroush dive deep on server-side Swif... Read more

10 Jul 2017

34mins

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4. Promises

4. Promises

This week, our boys talk about promises: where do they come from, and what they are good for? Soroush's post about the ... Read more

12 Sep 2016

34mins

Ranked #11

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25. Interviewing, with Erica and Sara

25. Interviewing, with Erica and Sara

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter! This week, Soroush and Chris have two very spe... Read more

10 Apr 2017

45mins

Ranked #12

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6. Singletons

6. Singletons

Singletons get a bad rap. Why? Should you use them in your application? And if you've inherited several of them, what sh... Read more

10 Oct 2016

27mins

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23. Metaprogramming (Objective-C vs Swift)

23. Metaprogramming (Objective-C vs Swift)

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter! This week, Chris and Soroush try to compare Ob... Read more

27 Mar 2017

39mins

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8. Domain-Driven Design

8. Domain-Driven Design

Soroush tells Chris about some of his takeaways from Eric Evans's book, Domain-Driven Design, and they discuss how we ca... Read more

7 Nov 2016

30mins

Ranked #15

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61. Hypothetical Testing Tricks

61. Hypothetical Testing Tricks

This week, Soroush and Chris get ready for Dynamic Callable and Dynamic Member Lookup by thinking through how you could ... Read more

16 Mar 2018

33mins

Ranked #16

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Teaser: 48. Productivity

Teaser: 48. Productivity

This week, Chris and Soroush chat about productivity tools and techniques.Listen to the whole episode — and get access t... Read more

30 Oct 2017

1min

Ranked #17

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57. Lattnerianly In-Depth

57. Lattnerianly In-Depth

This week, Chris and Soroush discuss the world of independent Cocoa conferences, then debate Chris Lattner’s recently-ac... Read more

16 Feb 2018

31mins

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Teaser: 40. Async/Await

Teaser: 40. Async/Await

This week, Chris and Soroush chat about async/await in Swift!Listen to the whole episode — and get access to the entire ... Read more

28 Aug 2017

1min

Ranked #19

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35. The Ownership Manifesto

35. The Ownership Manifesto

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter.This week, Chris and Soroush talk about Swift's... Read more

24 Jul 2017

33mins

Ranked #20

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13. The Law of Demeter

13. The Law of Demeter

Get a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a Patreon supporter! The Law of Demeter (also known as the Principl... Read more

16 Jan 2017

28mins

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