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.
83: Linda Dong & Lia Napolitano on prototyping experience
Formerly on the Apple design prototype team that brought us, among other things, the Pencil, and the Siri experience team that put voices in our cars and televisions, Linda Dong and Lia Napolitano join Guy and Rene in a chat recorded right after WWDC 2016 in June… but saved as a special holiday gift for us all now. Grab a beverage and hit play!
12/23/2016 • 0
82: Ashley Nelson-Hornstein on what's next
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.
6/13/2016 • 0
81: Melton & Ganatra episode V: Transitions
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, going to OS X, going to Intel, going to iOS, and saying "no".
6/7/2016 • 0
80: Jaimee Newberry and corporate culture
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!
4/8/2016 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 28 seconds
79: John Poole of Geekbench
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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Rene Ritchie
3/15/2016 • 2 hours, 8 minutes, 52 seconds
78: Jaimee Newberry's journey
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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Rene Ritchie
3/3/2016 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 2 seconds
77: James Thomson of PCalc
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!
12/31/2015 • 1 hour, 56 minutes, 21 seconds
76: Melton & Ganatra episode IV: Management
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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12/22/2015 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 35 seconds
75: James Cuda on Procreate for iPad Pro
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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11/23/2015 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 42 seconds
74: Paul Haddad on Tweetbot 4
Paul Haddad returns to Debug 3 years later to talk to Guy and Rene about Tweetbot 4, watchOS, tvOS, the App Store, and more.
11/5/2015 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 1 second
73: Michael Lopp on managing humans
Michael Lopp, reposer at Rands, talks about working at Netscape, the Apple Online Store at Apple, and now, Pinterest. More specifically, the art of managing humans and retaining and nurturing talent.
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Show notes
Rands in Repose
Pinterest
Guests
Michael Lopp
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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10/23/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
72: Arik Devens, developer gadfly
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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Show notes
Cinema Gadfly
Guests
Arik Devens
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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10/15/2015 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 20 seconds
71: Chris Liscio, part II (fixed)
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!
9/1/2015 • 2 hours, 29 minutes, 20 seconds
70: Chris Liscio is Super Mega Ultra Groovy
Chris Liscio of FuzzMeasure 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.
8/14/2015 • 1 hour, 56 minutes, 56 seconds
69: Melton & Ray on Safari, standards, and blockers
Don Melton and Jim Ray join Guy and Rene to talk about "Safari as the new IE", web standards, and content blockers.
7/17/2015 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 53 seconds
68: Ken Case of the Omni Group
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.
7/6/2015 • 2 hours, 56 seconds
67: WWDC 2015 roundtable
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 Nelson-Hornstein, Matt Drance, Don Melton, and Marco Arment!
6/13/2015 • 2 hours, 25 minutes, 5 seconds
66: Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba
Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba joins Guy and Rene to talk the realities of developing software in the age of App Stores.
5/29/2015 • 2 hours, 38 minutes
65: Steven Troughton-Smith (Live from Ull)
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.
5/15/2015 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 32 seconds
64: Horace Dediu of Asymco (Live from Ull)
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.
4/30/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 7 seconds
63: Weinstein, Kramer, Frey on Workflow
Ari Weinstein, Conrad Kramer, and Nick Frey talk to Guy English, Rene Ritchie, and a surprise guest about their amazing iOS automation app, Workflow.
3/27/2015 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 50 seconds
62: Edwards and Gruber on Apple Watch
Watchmaker and developer Jon Edwards, and Daring Fireball's John Gruber join Guy and Rene to talk about the Apple Watch and watch culture.
John's Superman Watch (potentially)
Super Mario Watch
Master/slave clocks
Tissot T Touch
Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
Quartz Crisis
Accutron Tuning Fork Watch
Early Electro-Mechanical Watches
Braun BN0106
PepperUICore Class Dump (Digital Detent)
Ming-Chi Kuo
Hodinkee Apple Watch Review (Failed Cuff Test)
Surface Acoustic Wave (Ultrasonic) Touch Sensing
Vesper
iOS Apps Jon has worked on
Panel
Jon Edwards of jonedwards.co
John Gruber of Daring Fireball
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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3/6/2015 • 2 hours, 18 minutes, 16 seconds
61: Andy Matuschak and Khan Academy
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 helping to bring a world class education to everyone in the world.
Show notes
Sparkle
UIKit
Khan Academy
Controlling Complexity in Swift
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory
Debug 56: Laura Savino and Khan Academy
Guests
Andy Matuschak
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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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.
In memory of Jordan Breeding.
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Show notes
Debug 48: Melton & Ganatra episode II: Understanding Apple
Debug 47: Melton & Ganatra episode I: Demoing software to Steve Jobs
Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
Debug 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS
Debug 39: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon
Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari
Guests
Don Melton
Nitin Ganatra
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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1/23/2015 • 3 hours, 9 minutes, 52 seconds
59: Space Age episode 2: 2014
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 2 hours of what is! Time travel!
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Show notes
Big Bucket Software
Space Age
The Incident
Panic
Guests
Neven Mrgan
Matt Comi
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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1/3/2015 • 2 hours, 24 minutes, 50 seconds
58: Space Age episode 1: 2013
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 sat on the show until now. So, this week you get 2 hours of what was, and next week you’re getting 2 hours of what is! It’s a Debug experiment!
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Show notes
Big Bucket Software
Space Age
The Incident
Panic
Guests
Neven Mrgan
Matt Comi
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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1/3/2015 • 2 hours, 19 minutes, 13 seconds
57: Extensibility roundtable
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 just-announced WatchKit.
Show notes
App Extensions
Making Dropbox for iOS more accessible
Building Quality Code That Lasts: A Dropbox Story
What we learned building the Tumblr iOS share extension
Calculator widgets will be allowed in Today view
Extensibility in iOS 8: Explained
WatchKit
What you need to know about WatchKit
Panel
Brad Ellis of Pacific Helm
Bryan Irace of Tumblr
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein of Dropbox
James Thomson of PCalc
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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11/26/2014 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 24 seconds
56: Laura Savino and Khan Academy
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!
11/6/2014 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 19 seconds
55: John Siracusa, round 2
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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Show notes
Siracusa's Yosemite review
Siracusa on Debug, round 1
Guests
John Siracusa of Hypercritical and ATP
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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11/1/2014 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 19 seconds
54: Melton & Ganatra episode II: Understanding Apple
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 how they manage.
Show notes
Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari
Debug 39: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon
Debug 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS
Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
Debug 47: Melton & Ganatra episode I: Demoing software to Steve Jobs
Guests
Don Melton
Nitin Ganatra
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
Feedback
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10/22/2014 • 2 hours, 10 minutes, 25 seconds
53: Melton & Ganatra episode I: Demoing software to Steve Jobs
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, the importance of affordances, and more.
Show notes
Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari
Debug 39: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon
Debug 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS
Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
Debug 16.1: David Gelphman on Apple, Core Graphics, and AirPrint
Guests
Don Melton
Nitin Ganatra
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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9/26/2014 • 2 hours, 10 minutes, 31 seconds
52: Developing for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, with Murley, Richter, and Simmons
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 Vesper's Brent Simmons talk it out with Guy and Rene.
9/13/2014 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 26 seconds
51: Jim Ray on the Web and BBQ
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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Jim Ray
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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8/27/2014 • 2 hours, 17 minutes, 40 seconds
50: Brianna Wu, Amanda Warner, and Revolution 60
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 dealing with game dev culture, this one is crackalacking!
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Revolution 60
Unreal Engine
Iterate 45: Briana Wu, Amanda Warner of Revolution 60
Guests
Brianna Wu
Amanda Warner
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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8/14/2014 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 47 seconds
49: Marco Arment on Overcast
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.
7/30/2014 • 3 hours, 8 minutes, 43 seconds
48: Swift roundtable
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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Show notes
Swift Blog
Swift in Flux
Pedal to the Metal: Inside Apple's new graphics technology
iOS 8 explained
Inessential
The Record
Panel
Natalia Berdys of TUTU LAB
Don Melton of donmelton.com
Brent Simmons of Vesper
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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7/16/2014 • 2 hours, 14 minutes, 16 seconds
47: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
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 next.
Show notes
Debug 39: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon
Debug 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS
Guests
Nitin Ganatra
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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7/2/2014 • 2 hours, 20 minutes, 2 seconds
46: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS
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 would ultimately deliver the iPhone.
6/25/2014 • 1 hour, 58 minutes, 32 seconds
45: Nitin Ganatra episode I: System 7 to Carbon
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 Copland era, and the advent of Carbon.
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Show notes
System 7
Copland)
Carbon)
Guests
Nitin Ganatra
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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6/18/2014 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 57 seconds
44: WWDC 2014 developer roundtable
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 language, Extensibility, Cloud Kit, Metal, and more.
6/4/2014 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 31 seconds
43: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber and Vesper Sync
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.
Show notes
Vesper 2.0 and Vesper Sync
Vesper Sync Diary Follow-up
iOS 7 Human Interface Guideline
Debug 15: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber, and Vesper
Guests
Brent Simmons of inessential
Dave Wiskus of Better Elevation
John Gruber of Daring Fireball
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations
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5/27/2014 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 44 seconds
42: Rich Siegel on BBEdit
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.
5/21/2014 • 2 hours, 1 minute, 2 seconds
41: Scotty on NSConference and RemObjects
Steve Scott (Scotty) talks to Guy and Rene about the early days of developer podcasts, NSConference, and his work with RemObjects.
5/7/2014 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 58 seconds
40: Sexism in tech
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 clients to conventions to culture and beyond.
4/24/2014 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 10 seconds
39: Ken Ferry on Auto Layout, Passbook, and Understudy
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.
4/10/2014 • 2 hours, 5 minutes, 44 seconds
38: John Siracusa on Copland 2014
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 figure out what comes after Objective C.
4/1/2014 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 5 seconds
37: Miguel de Icaza on Mono
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 modern development platforms.
3/19/2014 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
36: Casey Liss on C# and .Net
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.
3/4/2014 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 6 seconds
35: Jeff McLeman on porting kernels
Guy and Rene talk to Jeff McLeman about his time at Digital, porting the NT kernel, and the current state of kernels in general.
2/21/2014 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 38 seconds
34: Mike Ash on VoodooPad
Mike Ash of Plausible Labs joins Guy and Rene to talk about working at Rogue Amoeba, taking on VoodooPad, and speaking truth to bloggers.
2/6/2014 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 2 seconds
33: Joe Hewitt on Facebook and gardening
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.
1/24/2014 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 22 seconds
32: Evan Doll on Apple and Flipboard
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.
1/3/2014 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 23 seconds
31: Vicki Murley on evanglizing Safari and CSS transforms
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 book game.
12/9/2013 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 48 seconds
30: Jalkut, Nielsen, Siracusa on OS X. Still.
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.)
11/29/2013 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 41 seconds
29: Jalkut, Nielsen, Siracusa and the future OS X
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.)
11/22/2013 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 58 seconds
28: Jonathan Deutsch on Apple and Tumult
Jonathan Deutsch talks about HyperEdit, his time at Apple, the origins of Tumult, believing in Hype, and hitting people with kendo sticks.
11/14/2013 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 9 seconds
27: Hockenberry, Rhyne, Vandal on iOS 7
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.
10/24/2013 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 32 seconds
26: Arment, Drance, Heber, Simmons on iOS 7
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.
10/10/2013 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 52 seconds
25: Ryan Nielsen on Tumult and Hype
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.)
9/25/2013 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 47 seconds
24: Ryan Nielsen on Apple and OS X
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 2.)
9/4/2013 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 3 seconds
23: Wil Shipley from NeXT to Delicious Monster
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.
8/20/2013 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 8 seconds
22: Gus Mueller of Flying Meat
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.
8/8/2013 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 8 seconds
20: David Gelphman on Apple, Core Graphics, and AirPrint
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).
7/22/2013 • 0
21: Krzysztof Zabłocki and Foldify
Krzysztof Zabłocki 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.
7/8/2013 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 43 seconds
19: David Gelphman from Adobe to General Magic
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 prognostication equations. (Part 1 of 2)
6/19/2013 • 0
18: WWDC 2013 live
Guy English of Debug, Marc Edwards and Seth Clifford of Iterate, and Rene Ritchie of iMore team up to talk WWDC 2013 with guests Mark Kawano, Don Melton, Dave Wiskus, Dan Moren, Brad Ellis, Brent Simmons, and more! Also: Hall of Fame awards!
6/12/2013 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
17: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber, and Vesper
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, testing, app pricing, and more. Also: Mad Men.
Show notes
Vesper
The Talk Show 42: No One has a Higher Horse
Glassboard
Brad Ellis at Çingleton
Michael Jurewitz at Çingleton
Guests
Brent Simmons of inessential.com
Dave Wiskus of Unprofessional and Better Elevation
John Gruber of Daring Fireball
Hosts
Guy English of Kickingbear
Rene Ritchie of iMore.com
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6/6/2013 • 1 hour, 58 minutes, 33 seconds
13: Don Melton on Blink, Servo, and more
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 Servo HTML rendering engines, and to tell us what us which new bear he's trying to get dancing.
5/24/2013 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 53 seconds
16: Ben Lachman and Robert Cantoni have a Nice Mohawk
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 how to have a really Nice Mohawk.
Show notes
SousChef for Mac: Your cooking assistant
Ita - A list app with which to do lists
Nice Mohawk blog
TwUI: Fast core animation UI for the Mac
Chameleon: UIKit for Mac development
Facebook Home
Guests
Ben Lachman of Nice Mohawk
Robert Cantoni of Nice Mohawk
Hosts
Guy English of kickingbear
Rene Ritchie of iMore
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5/4/2013 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 17 seconds
15: Mike Lee and Lemur Chemistry
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 Appsterdam project, New Lemurs, and dressing like a space pirate.
Show notes
- [Delicious Library](http://www.delicious-monster.com)
- [Tapulous](https://www.facebook.com/taptaprevenge)
- [Obama '08](http://mantia.me/portfolio/obama/)
- [Apple Store app](https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8)
- [New Lemurs](http://le.mu.rs)
Guests
Mike Lee of New Lemurs
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of iMore.com
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4/16/2013 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 25 seconds
14: iCloud and Core Data sync
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, and how, if at all, Apple can fix it.
Show notes
The Return of NetNewsWire
Why all my iOS Apps are on hold - or iCloud sucks Part II
Response to Sync Issues
Under the Sheets with iCloud and Core Data: Troubleshooting
Why is iCloud Sync not working
Your App Needs to Sync
Apple's broken promise: why doesn't iCloud 'just work'?
The Gathering Storm: Our Travails with iCloud
A tale of two iClouds
Why Developers Shouldn't Use iCloud Syncing, Even If It Worked
iCloud: State of the Union
Why Elements For iCloud Doesn't Exist
Guests
Daniel Pasco of Black Pixel
Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software
Justin Williams of Second Gear
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of iMore.com
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4/5/2013 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 24 seconds
12: Don Melton and Safari
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 Safari browser, teaching bears to dance, and cleaning cusses from code bases.
Show notes
Bitsplitting Podcast Episode 1: Guy English
Code Rush documentary
Nautilus file manager
WebKit.org
Safari
Keeping Safari a secret
Safari is released to the world
Why I retired from Apple
Regarding fake projects and loyalty tests
Guests
Don Melton of donmelton.com
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of iMore.com
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3/25/2013 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 39 seconds
11: Tammy Coron of Nickelfish
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 zombie apocalypse.
Show notes
Just Write Code
Happy Birthday Puppy
Ray Wenderlich
Hello World
Guests
@Paradox927 of Nickelfish
Hosts
Guy English of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie of iMore.com
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3/18/2013 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 19 seconds
10: Matt Drance, the Apple Outsider
Matt Drance of Apple Outsider and Bookhouse talks with Guy and Rene about working at and with Apple, the unsung heroes of software,the difference between marketing and developer-driven management, how to get started, and twiddling the PS4 bits.
Show notes
Apple Outsider
Bookhouse Software
iOS Recipes: Tips and Tricks for Awesome iPhone and iPad Apps
Khan Academy
Stanford iOS courses on iTunes U
Guests
Matt Drance (@drance) of Apple Outsider and Bookhouse Software
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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3/5/2013 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 42 seconds
9: The future of human interface
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 Siri, Google Now, Kinect, Leap, MYO, Project Glass, iWatch, Oculus Rift, and more!
2/26/2013 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 54 seconds
8: Grant Paul aka chpwn
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 taking things to 11.
2/22/2013 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 56 seconds
7: Jordan Mechner and Karateka
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 content.
2/4/2013 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
6: Adam Saltsman and Hundreds
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 swinging ropes.
Show notes
Canabalt
Hundreds
Hunger Games
Old Spice
Flixel
Don't Starve
Prison Architect
Spy Party
Guided Access
Guests
Adam Saltsman (@ADAMATOMIC) of Adam Atomic
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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1/24/2013 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 4 seconds
5: Craig Hockenberry, Sean Heber, and Twitterrific
Craig Hockenberry and Sean Heber of the Iconfactory talk to Guy and Rene about Twitterrific 5, the early days of the iPhone, Chameleon, beefs with nibs, underscores, colons, and ternary operators, App Store realities, and the importance of blame avoidance optimization.
Show notes
Twitterrific 5
Behind The App: Twitterrific 5
Iterate 35: Gedeon Maheux, David Lanham and Twitterrific 5
xScope
Astronut
Flare
Chameleon: UIKit for Mac development
Long boring history of the early days of Tapulous
Hall of fame: Craig Hockenberry, Gedeon Maheux, and Twitteriffic
Guests
Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberrry))
Sean Heber (@BigZaphod))
Of the (Iconfactory
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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1/5/2013 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 23 seconds
4: Dave Teare and 1Password
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 support, the challenges of going cross-platform, and the motivational value of coding Java for HP.
Guest
Dave Teare (@dteare) of AgileBits
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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12/24/2012 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 36 seconds
3: Jury and Kaleidoscope 2
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 ship software, how to price software, and dealing with that Daft Punk helmet.
Show notes
Makim schooling us on WebObjects
Project Wonder
Drawing smooth lines with cocos2d iOS inspired by Paper
Foldify for iPad
BBEdit 10.5
Fantastical
Çingleton 2
Guest
Michael Jurewitz (@jury) of Black Pixel
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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12/11/2012 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 49 seconds
2: Paul Haddad and Tapbots
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 notifications, iCloud sync, and his beef with AppKit.
Guest
Paul Haddad (@pth) of Tapbots
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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11/26/2012 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 3 seconds
1: Loren Brichter and Letterpress
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 requests, and other assorted nerdery follows.
Guest
Loren Brichter (@atebits) of Atebits
Hosts
Guy English (@gte) of Kicking Bear
Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of iMore.com
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