Podcasts by Debug
Debug is a conversational interview show about developing software and services, primarily for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and gaming. Hosted by Guy English and Rene Ritchie, it's all the great talk you get at the bar after the conference, wrapped up in convenient podcast form. Pull up a chair, hit play, join us.
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82: Ashley Nelson-Hornstein on what's next from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, formerly of Apple and Dropbox, joins Guy and Rene to talk about making everything more accessible, going independent, and what happens next.
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81: Melton & Ganatra episode V: Transitions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk to Guy and Rene about handling transitions, taking Mozilla open-source, ...
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80: Jaimee Newberry and corporate culture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jaimee Newberry returns to talk corporate culture with Guy and Rene. How to you set it from the start, how to rebuild it over time. How do you make sure it’s healthy. You know, the easy stuff!
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79: John Poole of Geekbench from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
John Poole of Geekbench joins Guy and Rene to talk how he got started, that Apple A9 thing, the state of the silicon, and what's coming next.
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78: Jaimee Newberry's journey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jaimee Newberry — @jaimeejaimee — joins Guy and Rene to talk about how she got started in tech, her career in graphics, consulting for teams, and her new roll as COO of Martian Craft.
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77: James Thomson of PCalc from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Thomson of DragThing and PCalc fames joins Guy and Rene to talk about that time he was at Apple and Steve Jobs found out he was working from $^%#$ Ireland. And more!
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76: Melton & Ganatra episode IV: Management from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about managing teams, managing up, retention, rivalry, and more!
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75: James Cuda on Procreate for iPad Pro from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Cuda of Savage Interactive joins Guy and Rene to talk about bring Procreate to the iPad Pro, optimizing for the Apple Pencil, Apple TV, the market for pro apps, and more.
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74: Paul Haddad on Tweetbot 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paul Haddad returns to Debug 3 years later to talk to Guy and Rene about Tweetbot 4, watchOS, tvOS, the App Store, and more.
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72: Arik Devens, developer gadfly from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Arik Devens joins Guy and Rene to talk about his time at Easel, Netscape, Palm, and everything between and after. And to bug guy about AppKit.
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71: Chris Liscio, part II (fixed) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris Liscio of Super Mega Ultra Groovy is back, but before he can get into computer nerd history, Guy English sideswipes him into Reactive Cocoa and then the Swift debate begins!
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70: Chris Liscio is Super Mega Ultra Groovy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chris Liscio of Fuzz Metric and Capo fame joins Guy and Rene to talk about marketing apps, his time at ATI, Be, and BlackBerry, and making ridiculously smart audio apps for Mac and iOS.
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50: Brianna Wu, Amanda Warner, and Revolution 60 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brianna Wu and Amanda Warner of Giant Spacekat join Guy and Rene to talk about their new Unreal Engine-based iOS game, Revolution 60. From creating their company to modeling their characters to dea...
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44: WWDC 2014 developer roundtable from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Matt Drance of Apple Outsider, Ryan Nielsen of Tumult, Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater, and Jason Snell of Macworld join Guy and Rene to talk about Apple's WWDC 2014 keynote — the Swift programming la...
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69: Melton & Ray on Safari, standards, and blockers from 2015-07-17T15:55:50
Don Melton and Jim Ray join Guy and Rene to talk about "Safari as the new IE", web standards, and content blockers.
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68: Ken Case of the Omni Group from 2015-07-05T23:21:57
Ken Case of the Omni Group joins Guy and Rene to talk about developing for Next, starting the Omni Group, going all-in on the iPad, and experimenting with the Apple Watch.
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67: WWDC 2015 roundtable from 2015-06-12T20:12:13
We’re live from WWDC 2015 and we’re talking about the keynote and all the developer announcements, from Apple Music to Swift 2, and everything in between! With Guy English, Rene Ritchie, Ashley Nel...
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66: Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba from 2015-05-29T15:25:14
Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba joins Guy and Rene to talk the realities of developing software in the age of App Stores.
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65: Steven Troughton-Smith (Live from Ull) from 2015-05-15T08:26:32
Live from the Ull conference in Ireland, Guy and Rene talk to Steven Troughton-Smith about incredibly nerdy developer stuff and Grace, an app to help children on the autistic spectrum.
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64: Horace Dediu of Asymco (Live from Ull) from 2015-04-30T00:33:11
Live from the Ull conference in Ireland, Guy and Rene talk to Horace Dediu of Asymco fame about his background as a developer, his time at Nokia, and his current job-to-be-done: analyzing Apple.
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63: Weinstein, Kramer, Frey on Workflow from 2015-03-26T23:41:55
Ari Weinstein, Conrad Kramer, and Nick Frey talk to Guy English, Rene Ritchie, and a surprise guest about their amazing iOS automation app, Workflow.
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62: Edwards and Gruber on Apple Watch from 2015-03-06T10:57:13
Watchmaker and developer Jon Edwards, and Daring Fireball's John Gruber join Guy and Rene to talk about the Apple Watch and watch culture.
61: Andy Matuschak and Khan Academy from 2015-02-25T18:03:21
Andy Matuschak, creator of the Sparkle update framework for Mac, member of the UIKit team from iOS 4.1 to iOS 8, and current mobile engineering lead at Khan Academy talks to Guy and Rene about help...
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60: Melton & Ganatra episode III: Shipping software from 2015-01-23T00:02:18
Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about managing deadlines, development cycles, and shipping software.
59: Space Age episode 2: 2014 from 2015-01-03T01:04:14
18 months later, we sat down once again with Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan of Big Bucket Software, to talk about Space Age. This time, post release. So, last week you got 2 hours of what was, this week...
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58: Space Age episode 1: 2013 from 2015-01-03T01:03:25
Way back in early 2013 we sat down with Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan of Big Bucket Software to talk about their previous game, The Incident, and their then in-development new game, Space Age. Then… we...
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57: Extensibility roundtable from 2014-11-26T08:03:14
James Thomson of PCalc, Ashley Nelson-Hornstein of Dropbox, Bryan Irace of Tumblr, and Brad Ellis Pacific Helm join Guy and Rene to talk about Extensibility, its benefits and limitations, and the j...
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56: Laura Savino and Khan Academy from 2014-11-06T16:50:03
Laura Savino of Khan Academy joins Guy and Rene to talk about how she got into development, the importance of language and education, not shipping, building teams, and more!
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55: John Siracusa, round 2 from 2014-11-01T12:25:59
Fresh from his review of OS X Yosemite, John Siracusa returns to talk interface, vibrancy, file extensions, and a whole lot of Swift.
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54: Melton & Ganatra episode II: Understanding Apple from 2014-10-22T01:48:16
Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about working hard, promoting diversity, touch screen technology, and ho...
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53: Melton & Ganatra episode I: Demoing software to Steve Jobs from 2014-09-26T01:48:19
Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about presenting to Steve Jobs, web vs. native, implementing gestures, t...
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52: Developing for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, with Murley, Richter, and Simmons from 2014-09-13T17:38:59
Apple has announced the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Pay, and the Apple Watch. What does it all mean for developers? Former Apple Safari Evangelist Vicki Murley, MartianCraft's Kyle Richter, and ...
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51: Jim Ray on the Web and BBQ from 2014-08-27T15:20:33
Jim Ray joins Guy and Rene to talk about his actually joby job and ends up talking about everything from the web, to San Francisco culture, to the importance of barbecue.
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49: Marco Arment on Overcast from 2014-07-30T14:32:57
Marco Arment joins Guy and Rene to talk about his new podcast client, Overcast, getting low level with Core Audio, writing downloaders, and many, many other things.
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48: Swift roundtable from 2014-07-16T14:47:53
Natalia Berdys of Foodo Kitchen, Don Melton, former director of internet technology at Apple, and Brent Simmons of Vesper join Guy and Rene to talk about Swift, its future, Sprite Kit, and more!...
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47: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad from 2014-07-02T13:23:31
In part 3 of the Nitin Ganatra trilogy, the former Director of iOS apps at Apple talks to Guy and Rene about iOS interface and API decisions, scaling to iPad, life after Apple, and what comes ne...
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46: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS from 2014-06-25T09:37:08
In part 2 of the Nitin Ganatra trilogy, the former Director of iOS apps at Apple talks to Guy and Rene about working on Mail for OS X, and the early days of Purple, the experience project that woul...
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45: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon from 2014-06-18T10:05:21
In part 1 of the Nitin Ganatra trilogy, the former Director of iOS apps at Apple talks to Guy and Rene about his early career in Developer Technical Support (DTS), working on System 7 in the Cop...
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43: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber and Vesper Sync from 2014-05-27T18:19:49
Brent Simmons, Dave Wiskus, and John Gruber join Guy and Rene to talk about Vesper 2.0, architecting sync, the decision making process, design choices, and why Vesper for Mac comes next.
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42: Rich Siegel on BBEdit from 2014-05-21T03:37:01
Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software talks to Guy and Rene about the journey of BBEdit from the classic Mac OS to OS X, PowerPC to Intel, 32- to 64-bit, and the direct sales to the Mac App Store.
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41: Scotty on NSConference and RemObjects from 2014-05-07T18:23:30
Steve Scott (Scotty) talks to Guy and Rene about the early days of developer podcasts, NSConference, and his work with RemObjects.
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40: Sexism in tech from 2014-04-23T22:29:07
Serenity Caldwell of Macworld, Jessie Char of Pacific Helm, Georgia Dow of ZEN & TECH, and Brianna Wu of Giant Spacekat share their experiences with sexism in the tech industry, from coworkers to c...
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39: Ken Ferry on Auto Layout, Passbook, and Understudy from 2014-04-09T21:47:50
Ken Ferry talks to Guy and Rene about his time at Apple working on Cocoa, Auto Layout, and Passbook, and his new app, Understudy, which seeks to bring mentored learning into the iPad age.
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38: John Siracusa on Copland 2014 from 2014-04-01T13:53:10
John Siracusa of Hypercritical and the Accidental Tech Podcast shows up to fight with Guy over Copland 2014. That is, the idea that Apple needs to embrace elements of higher level languages and fig...
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37: Miguel de Icaza on Mono from 2014-03-19T10:30:44
Miguel de Icaza of GNOME and Xamarin fame joins Guy and Rene to talk about Mono, the .NET compatible open source project that lets you build iOS and Android apps in C#, and the pros and cons of mod...
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36: Casey Liss on C# and .Net from 2014-03-04T11:52:20
Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) tries to sell Guy on the advantages of Microsoft’s C# programming language and the .NET frameworks.
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35: Jeff McLeman on porting kernels from 2014-02-20T19:18:39
Guy and Rene talk to Jeff McLeman about his time at Digital, porting the NT kernel, and the current state of kernels in general.
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34: Mike Ash on VoodooPad from 2014-02-06T00:01:10
Mike Ash of Plausible Labs joins Guy and Rene to talk about working at Rogue Amoeba, taking on VoodooPad, and speaking truth to bloggers.
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33: Joe Hewitt on Facebook and gardening from 2014-01-23T21:29:10
Joe Hewitt talks to Guy and Rene about 100% time at AOL, building Facebook for iPhone, the freedom of the web, and soil-based startups.
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32: Evan Doll on Apple and Flipboard from 2014-01-03T17:20:25
Evan Doll talks to Guy and Rene about his time at Apple on pro apps and iPhone OS, conceiving, launching, and managing Flipboard, and the value of relentless audacity.
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31: Vicki Murley on evanglizing Safari and CSS transforms from 2013-12-09T18:17:43
Vicki Murley, former Safari Technology Evangelist at Apple, current founder of Sprightly Books, talks to Guy and Rene about web technologies, speaking at conferences, and beating Dan Brown at the b...
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30: Jalkut, Nielsen, Siracusa on OS X. Still. from 2013-11-29T00:37:29
Daniel Jalkut, Ryan Nielsen, and John Siracusa join Guy and Rene to talk about OS X Mavericks and the future of the Mac, continuing with interface, scripting, and more. (Part 2 of 2.)
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29: Jalkut, Nielsen, Siracusa and the future OS X from 2013-11-22T01:23:43
Daniel Jalkut, Ryan Nielsen, and John Siracusa join Guy and Rene to talk about OS X Mavericks and the future of the Mac, starting with free updates and file systems. (Part 1 of 2.)
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28: Jonathan Deutsch on Apple and Tumult from 2013-11-14T11:12:01
Jonathan Deutsch talks about HyperEdit, his time at Apple, the origins of Tumult, believing in Hype, and hitting people with kendo sticks.
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27: Hockenberry, Rhyne, Vandal on iOS 7 from 2013-10-23T23:04:19
Craig Hockenberry of the Iconfactory, Rob Rhyne of Martian Craft, and Luc Vandal of Edovia talk to Guy and Rene about a lot of stuff not even vaguely related to iOS 7. And a bit that is.
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26: Arment, Drance, Heber, Simmons on iOS 7 from 2013-10-10T15:26:34
Marco Arment of Overcast, Matt Drance of Apple Outsider, Sean Heber of the Iconfactory, and Brent Simmons of Vesper talk about developing for, and updating apps for, iOS 7.
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25: Ryan Nielsen on Tumult and Hype from 2013-09-24T23:26:21
Ryan Nielsen of Tumult talks to Guy and Rene about leaving Apple to go indie, creating Hype, App Store vs. own store, remote vs. office, and dealing with Apple from the outside. (Part 2 of 2.)
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25: Ryan Nielsen on Tumult and Hype from 2013-09-24T23:26:21
Ryan Nielsen of Tumult talks to Guy and Rene about leaving Apple to go indie, creating Hype, App Store vs. own store, remote vs. office, and dealing with Apple from the outside. (Part 2 of 2.)
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24: Ryan Nielsen on Apple and OS X from 2013-09-04T09:06:18
Ryan Nielsen of Tumult talks to Guy and Rene about how Debug began, Çingleton, and his time as an engineering project manager on OS X at Apple where he helped kick big cats out the door. (Part 1 of...
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23: Wil Shipley from NeXT to Delicious Monster from 2013-08-19T20:35:46
Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster talks to Guy and Rene about coding on NeXT, forming the Omni Group, dealing with the "Air Force", making Delicious Library, and what he's working on now.
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22: Gus Mueller of Flying Meat from 2013-08-08T14:49:59
Gus Mueller of Flying Meat talks to Guy and Rene about his username, his company name, VoodooPad and Acorn, and what he thought about Apple's Mac offerings at WWDC 2013.
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20: David Gelphman on Apple, Core Graphics, and AirPrint from 2013-07-22T10:43:09
David Gelphman, former graphics and imaging engineer at Apple, talks to Guy and Rene about writing the book on Core Graphics, developing AirPrint, and discovers Montreal has bagels (Part 2 of 2).
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21: Krzysztof Zab?ocki and Foldify from 2013-07-07T23:05:49
Krzysztof Zab?ocki of Foldify joins Guy and Rene to talk about building game engines, the power and insanity of C++, swizzling and stomping Objective C, and how to pronounce Commodore 64 in Polish.
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19: David Gelphman from Adobe to General Magic from 2013-06-19T15:42:34
David Gelphman, former graphics and imaging engineer at Apple, talks to Guy and Rene about working on Postscript at Adobe, his time at General Magic, and how to avoid inverting bug fix prognosticat...
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17: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber, and Vesper from 2013-06-06T12:13:08
Brent Simmons, Dave Wiskus, and John Gruber join Guy and Rene to talk about their new app, Vesper, the value of ideas and collecting them, the art of collaboration, flat design, accessibility, test...
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13: Don Melton on Blink, Servo, and more from 2013-05-24T01:59:36
Don Melton, former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, returns for a special follow-up episode with Guy and Rene to discuss the newly announced Google Blink and Mozilla/Samsung ...
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16: Ben Lachman and Robert Cantoni have a Nice Mohawk from 2013-05-04T08:58:57
Ben Lachman and Robert Cantoni join Guy and Rene to talk about their list manager app, Ita, and the possibilities of it coming to the Mac, blogging as a duet, the importance of accessibility, and h...
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15: Mike Lee and Lemur Chemistry from 2013-04-16T09:11:20
Mike Lee of the New Lemurs talks to Guy and Rene about airline Java, Delicious Library, Tapulous and the early days of iOS, United Lemurs, VC mistakes, the Obama and Apple Store apps, the Appsterda...
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14: iCloud and Core Data sync from 2013-04-05T09:29:20
Daniel Pasco of Black Pixel, Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software, and Justin Williams of Second Gear talk to Guy and Rene about iCloud Core Data sync, why everyone seems to be in a bad mood about it...
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12: Don Melton and Safari from 2013-03-25T10:11:51
Don Melton, former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, talks to Guy and Rene about assembler on the Apple II, open-sourcing Mozilla, building Nautilus, creating WebKit and the S...
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11: Tammy Coron of Nickelfish from 2013-03-18T16:16:40
Tammy Coron of Nickelfish talks with Guy and Rene about coding (and re-coding!) the iMore app, the TRS-80 and text adventures, computers in schools, teaching kids to code, and surviving the zomb...
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11: Tammy Coron of Nickelfish from 2013-03-18T16:16:40
Tammy Coron of Nickelfish talks with Guy and Rene about coding (and re-coding!) the iMore app, the TRS-80 and text adventures, computers in schools, teaching kids to code, and surviving the zomb...
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9: The future of human interface from 2013-02-26T13:35:06
Marc Edwards of Bjango, Guy English of Kicking Bear, Loren Brichter of Atebits, Sebastiaan de With of DoubleTwist, and Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations talk human interfaces of the future, including ...
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9: The future of human interface from 2013-02-26T13:35:06
Marc Edwards of Bjango, Guy English of Kicking Bear, Loren Brichter of Atebits, Sebastiaan de With of DoubleTwist, and Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations talk human interfaces of the future, including ...
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8: Grant Paul aka chpwn from 2013-02-22T01:25:39
Grant Paul, aka chpwn, talks to Guy and Rene about developing for jailbreak, hacking the Nintendo Wii, the architecture behind SpringBoard and Apple TV apps, Siri, the future of file systems, and t...
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7: Jordan Mechner and Karateka from 2013-02-04T09:11:06
Jordan Mechner of Karateka and Prince of Persia fame talks to Guy and Rene about coding for the Apple II, bringing cinematic storytelling to games, adapting for iOS, and the future of creative cont...
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6: Adam Saltsman and Hundreds from 2013-01-23T23:27:21
Adam Saltsman podcasts with Guy and Rene for 90 minutes before hitting a wall and tumbling to his death. Also, designing Canabalt and Hundreds, sketching in Flash and Flixel, and the power of sw...
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6: Adam Saltsman and Hundreds from 2013-01-23T23:27:21
Adam Saltsman podcasts with Guy and Rene for 90 minutes before hitting a wall and tumbling to his death. Also, designing Canabalt and Hundreds, sketching in Flash and Flixel, and the power of swing...
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4: Dave Teare and 1Password from 2012-12-24T17:30:42
Dave Teare, co-founder of Agile Bits and co-developer of 1Password for Mac, iOS, and pretty damn near everywhere else, talks to Guy and Rene about project management, killing features, customer sup...
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3: Jury and Kaleidoscope 2 from 2012-12-10T21:25:08
Michael Jurewitz (Jury), formerly developer tools evangelist at Apple, now director of product development at Black Pixel, talks to Guy and Rene about Kaleidoscope 2, the realities of Apple, how to...
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2: Paul Haddad and Tapbots from 2012-11-26T16:25:30
Paul Haddad of Tapbots talks to Guy and Rene about coding on NeXT, deploying Tweetbot and Netbot on multiple platforms, for multiple services, pricing for scarcity, in-app purchases, push notificat...
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1: Loren Brichter and Letterpress from 2012-11-13T19:00:07
Loren Brichter of Atebits talks to Guy and Rene about working on the iPhone at Apple, Tweetie at Twitter, and now Letterpress on his own. OpenGL, Game Center API, in-app purchases, iOS 7 feature...
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1: Loren Brichter and Letterpress from 2012-11-13T19:00:07
Loren Brichter of Atebits talks to Guy and Rene about working on the iPhone at Apple, Tweetie at Twitter, and now Letterpress on his own. OpenGL, Game Center API, in-app purchases, iOS 7 feature...
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