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This episode was recorded 26 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in sunny, lovely Ballard.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Brent has worked at UserLand Software and NewsGator and as an indie at his company Ranchero Software. These days he’s one-third of Q Branch, where he writes Vesper. He is also the co-host of this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by Tagcaster. Tagcaster is not just another podcast client — it solves the age-old problem of linking to specific parts of a podcast. You can make clips — short audio excerpts — and share them and link to them. After all these years, that problem is finally solved.

This episode is also sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today.

This episode is also sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code MANILA. (Manila was the name of the blogging system worked on at UserLand.) Take a look.

Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance:

• NetNewsWire
• MarsEdit
• Glassboard
• Vesper
• Manila
• The University of Chicago
• DuPont
• Punched cards
• University of Delaware
• Newark, Delaware
• Fortran
• 1980
• Apple II Plus
• PLATO
• Brent's Mom
• 6502 Assembly
• 80 column card
• ALF II
• Music Construction Set
• Beatles
• Rolling Stones
• Pil Ochs
• Judy Collins
• Boby Dylan
• West Side Story
• Hair Broadway Soundtrack
• Delicious Library
• Epson MX-80
• Columbia House Records
• Cindy Lauper
• Born in the USA
• The Clash
• London Calling
• Pascal
• Evergreen State College
• 1992
• 1989
• Seattle Central Community College
• City Collegian
• QuarkXpress
• LaserWriter
• Mac IIcx
• Radius monitor
• Silo
• Goodwill
• Symantec C
• Grenoble, France
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Seattle
• Boeing
• Photovoltaics
• University of Washington
• Institut de Biologie Structurale
• CEA
• CNRS
• Alps (the mountains)
• Gopher
• Pine
• International Herald Tribune
• Kronenbourg
• Killian’s Red
• Isère River
• Chinook's
• Eskimo dial-up account
• Zterm
• Lynx
• AltaVista
• Seanet
• MacTCP
• MacPPP
• AppleTalk
• Yahoo
• Info-Mac Archive
• Kagi
• Maelstrom
• Performa 604
• After Dark
• Bungie
• Andrew Welch
• Usenet
• fuckingblocksyntax.com
• Dave Winer
• UserLand Frontier Aretha release
• UserLand Software
• AppleScript
• HyperCard
• WebSTAR
• MacPerl
• MySQL
• Spotlight
• Filemaker Pro
• Indianapolis Star News
• Woodside, CA
• Jake Savin
• San Francisco
• Robert Scoble
• Millbrae
• Palo Alto
• Windows
• Visual Studio
• CodeWarrior
• PowerPlant
• MacApp
• Toolbox
• Xcode
• Project Builder
• Carbon
• QuickDraw
• Open Transport
• Manila
• EditThisPage.com
• Daily Kos
• joel.editthispage.com
• Aaron Hillegass’s Book on Cocoa
• Radio UserLand
• Python
• MacNewsWire
• RSS
• WebKit
• Safari
• MSIE for Mac
• Camino
• NetNewsWire 1.0 screen shot
• RealBasic
• BBEdit Lite
• TextWrangler
• Carmen’s Headline Viewer
• Syndirella
• AmphetaDesk
• My.Netscape.Com
• Safari/RSS
• Ecto
• Movable Type
• Mac OS X Server
• NewsGator
• Palm Treo
• FeedDemon
• Nick Bradbury
• Greg Reinacker
• Outlook
• TapLynx
• Push IO
• Sepia Labs
• Cultured Code and Things
• Black Pixel
• Red Sweater
• Oracle
• Justin Wiliams
• NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 for Macintosh
• Vesper Sync Diary
• WWDC
• Parc 55

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This episode was recorded 6 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in lovely, sunny Ballard.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Chris has worked at Adobe and as a founder of Rogue Sheep, which won an Apple Design Award for Postage. Chris’s new company is Aged & Distilled with Guy English — which shipped Napkin, a Mac app for visual collaboration. Chris is also the co-host of The Record. He lives on Bainbridge Island, a quick ferry ride from Seattle.

This episode is sponsored by Tagcaster. Tagcaster is not just another podcast client — it solves the age-old problem of linking to specific parts of a podcast. You can make clips — short audio excerpts — and share them and link to them. After all these years, that problem is finally solved.

This episode is also sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today.

This episode is also sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code PANIC. As in “Don’t Panic! Use Hover.” Take a look.

Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance:

• Oklahoma
• Wikipedia
• The shopping cart
• Rust
• Homestead Act
• Pong
• Atari 2600
• President Carter
• Pinochle
• Republicans
• Democrats
• Apple II
• Apple II Reference Manual
• Floppy Disks
• Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure
• Marco
• Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer
• Parallel port
• BASIC
• Apple II graphics modes
• LiteBrite
• Apple II Star Wars game
• Assembler
• Text adventure games
• Paper app
• Graph paper
• Merlin assembler
• Pascal compiler for Apple II
• Locksmith for Apple II
• Apple II copy protection
• Radio Shack
• ROM chips
• Tin foil
• Alligator clips
• The Complete Graphics System
• The Incomparable
• Mike Lee on The Record
• SATs
• University of Oklahoma
• LaserWriter
• Linotronic image setter
• The Clampetts
• The Joads
• Seattle
• Las Vegas
• Belltown
• Capitol Hill
• Everett
• Queen Anne
• Magnolia
• Adobe
• Microsoft
• Windows
• X-Wing video game
• 8086 Assembly language
• Microsoft DOS
• Sierra On-Line
• PowerBook Duo
• Apple IIGS
• Think C
• Sega
• CD-ROMs
• Postscript
• Pagemaker
• Quark
• Aldus
• Pioneer Square
• 1995
• Java
• Natural Intelligence Roaster IDE
• Illustrator
• QA Partner
• Test-Driven Development
• InDesign
• COM
• Matt Joss
• Version control
• 2001
• SourceSafe
• Visual Studio
• C++
• OpenDoc Resource Compiler
• Sharepoint
• Azure
• FrameMaker
• Rogue Sheep
• CMYK separation
• Optical character alignment
• University of Washington
• HITLab
• Gel Electrophoresis
• Jeff Argast
• PowerPoint
• Western blots
• The Guardian
• Bush Administration
• Postage
• Twitterrific
• Brad Ellis
• Lehman Brothers
• Jake Carter
• Cocoa
• Quartz Composer
• Motion
• After Effects
• Kyle Richter
• Ian Baird
• IAP
• Rickenbacker’s
• The House of Shields
• John Gruber
• Dave Wiskus
• Napkin
• Guy English
• Thomas Unterberger
• C4
• United Lemur
• World Cup
• Brazil
• WWDC
• San Francisco
• NetNewsWire
• 1999
• Eddy awards

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This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s beautiful offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Mike Lee, Appsterdam founder, has worked at Alaska Airlines, Delicious Monster (with Wil Shipley), Apple, and is now Chief Lemur at New Lemurs.

This episode is sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code BMF. (BMF -- Be My Friend — is Mike Lee’s Twitter handle.) You notice how people with a lot of domains are always talking about Hover? It’s because of their excellent service. Take a look.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work. It’s also deep: write JavaScript in your favorite text editor. Test with mocha. Deploy with git.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (mostly):

• Kurt Cobain
• Grunge
• Honolulu
• Hawaii
• University of Puget Sound
• Tacoma
• Puget Sound
• Alaska Airlines
• SeaTac
• Lead ramp agent
• Skilled labor
• 1993
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• DHTML
• Flash
• Web Standards Project
• XML
• Java
• C#
• DotNet
• Macintosh
• PC
• Microsoft
• Windows
• Windows 95
• Mac OS X
• Terrorist watch list
• WWDC
• JavaOne
• Objective-C
• Xcode
• 2005
• 2001
• Renoir Hotel
• WWDC Student Scholarship
• Wil Shipley
• Wil Shipley’s Speech on the Indie Dream
• Devry
• FedEx
• Core Data
• Bill Bumgarner
• Federal Way
• I-5
• Delicious Library
• Apple Design Award
• Campus Bash
• Denny’s
• Omni Group
• Rumpus Room
• Apple Store
• Barnes & Noble
• Lucas Newman
• Mike Matas
• Knoxville
• Samurai
• Yoko Ono
• Seattle Xcoders
• Gus Mueller
• Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
• Dave Winer
• Superman
• IL 7
• John Geleynse
• Lemur Chemistry
• Cabel Sasser
• “Hi, I Make Macintosh Software” T-shirt
• altWWDC
• Debug podcast
• Tapulous
• Tap Tap Revenge
• iFart
• DTS
• IL 3
• Caffè Macs
• Rands
• Matt Drance
• Michael Jurewitz

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This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Nat Irons has worked at Apple Developer Relations, as a WebObjects consultant, and as IT director at The Stranger. He’s now QA Manager at Black Pixel. He once delivered pizza to The Far Side author Gary Larson.

This episode is sponsored by Igloo. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like, with shared calendars, microblogs, file-sharing, social networking, and more. It’s free for up 10 users — give it a try for your company or your team today.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work.

Things we mention, in-order-of-appearance-ish:

• Lode Runner
• Dark Castle
• Windows
• Boston
• San Francisco
• Berkeley, CA
• Bay Area
• High school
• Seattle
• Tim Eyman
• Sit & Spin
• Blogger Meetup
• Natty Bumppo
• bumppo.net
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Leatherstocking Tales
• Michael Mann
• Daniel Day Lewis
• Last of the Mohicans movie
• AOL chatrooms
• Berkeley Macintosh User Group (BMUG)
• BBS
• First Class BBS
• Tim Holmes
• Purple Harley
• BMUG Newsletter
• Modems
• Heidi Roizen
• Bleeding in six colors
• Twitter
• Bolo
• Spectre
• Stuart Cheshire
• Virtual Reality
• Bonjour
• ZeroConf
• Cheshire Cat
• Stuart Little
• Alice
• PERL
• Excel
• Mac OS 9
• iMac
• Floppy drive
• ADB
• USB
• NeXT
• Rhapsody
• UNIX
• Terminal.app
• BBEdit
• SE/30
• Apple in middle of menubar
• MPW
• MacPerl
• Latent Semantic Mapping (LSM)
• Regular expressions
• WWDC
• Homer Simpson in The Land of Chocoloate
• Schadenfreude
• MacInTouch
• NPR
• Microsoft
• Microsoft invests in Apple and pledges to keep developing Office for Mac
• Powerbook G3
• Filemaker Pro
• Claris
• Microsoft Access
• Bento
• Apple events
• Farallon
• Chuck Shotton
• WebSTAR
• MacHTTP
• StarNine
• Quarterdeck
• Apache
• Open Transport
• Xcode
• WebObjects
• Java
• Bill Bumgarner
• Objective-C categories
• SSH tunnels
• 1999
• Redmond
• 2000
• Maria Cantwell
• King County
• Pierce County
• Eastern Washington secession
• Shoreline
• Queen Anne
• Ballard
• Magnolia
• Discovery Park
• Capitol Hill
• Pagliacci Pizza
• 2003
• Sand Point
• Gary Larson
• Dumbledore
• The Far Side
• San Francisco Academy of Sciences
• Workmen’s Compensation
• Virgina Mason
• 2001
• 2002
• Upcoming.org
• Seattle Weekly
• Dan Savage
• The Rocket
• Lynda Barry
• Life in Hell
• Matt Groening
• Evergreen State College
• University Village Apple Store
• Seattle Xcoders
• Dave Winer
• Daniel Pasco
• C4
• Paul Goracke
• Black Pixel job listings

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This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. (Check out the OmniFocus 2 public beta!)

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

John Chaffee is a co-founder of BusyMac which makes the awesome BusyCal. John talks about being a Mac developer in the ’90s, what it was like at Now Software, and how he got tired of mobile and came back to the Mac.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace’s designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in JavaScript in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Good stuff.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly):

• BusyMac
• BusyCal
• Now Software
• Extensis
• Farallon
• SplashData
• PhoneNet connectors
• AppleTalk
• Berkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG)
• Berkeley, CA
• QA
• A/UX
• Desktop publishing
• Mac iici
• SCSI
• Santa Barbara
• Mac Store
• Pagemaker
• Mac 512
• VIP Technologies
• Atari ST
• Apple IIgs
• Lotus 1-2-3
• Taxes
• Mac SE/30
• Portland
• Bay Area
• San Jose
• System 7
• 1991
• Now Utilities
• Dave Riggle
• Claris
• MacWrite
• Filemaker Pro
• Bento
• 1990
• Macworld Expo
• Floppy disks
• iCal
• Now Up-to-Date
• Macworld Expo Boston
• Compuserve
• Windows
• Altura Mac2Win
• Qualcomm
• Osborne Effect
• Dotcom Bubble
• Aldus Fetch
• Quark
• MacMall
• OnOne Software
• 1999
• Adobe InDesign
• OpenDoc
• Mac OS X
• Carbon
• AppKit
• NetNewsWire
• Office Space
• Getty Images
• PhotoDisx
• 2001
• Palm PDA
• Handspring Visor
• PalmGear
• Handango
• SplashPhoto
• SplashMoney
• SplashID
• SplashShopper
• SplashWallet
• Windows Mobile
• Symbian
• Android
• SplashBlog
• Instagram
• 2006
• SixApart
• Movable Type
• 2007
• Mac App Store
• BusyCal, LLC
• Google
• WWDC
• RSS
• Safari/RSS
• Google (Partly) Shuts Down CalDAV
• MobileMe
• SyncServices
• iCloud
• Sandboxing
• JCPenney’s
• Apple Pulls out of Macworld
• Twitter
• AirPlay
• Apple TV
• Type A Personality
• Domain Name System
• BusySync
• HotSync
• iCloud Core Data Syncing
• iCloud Key/Value Storage
• ActiveSync
• ExchangeWebService
• Blackberry

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This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Tim Wood, CTO of The Omni Group, talks about how Omni got started and what it was like being a NeXT developer before the acquisition.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace’s designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Regular-old Git, not Git#++. Git.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less):

• Atari 800

• BASIC

• Tacoma, WA

• Commodore

• Apple II

• 6502 Assembler

• Atari ST

• Compute! Magazine

• Burroughs

• Mainframes

• Radio Shack

• NeXT

• Mac

• University of Washington

• H19 Terminal

• Fortran

• Mathematica

• LaTeX

• Java

• Ada

• Boeing

• Department of Defense

• VMS

• IBM 360

• Objective-C

• AppKit

• Interface Builder

• Project Builder

• Makefiles

• Read-write Optical drives

• Wil Shipley

• Ken Case

• Greg Titus

• Tom Bunch

• Massively multiplayer games

• Minecraft

• MOOs

• MUSHes

• CompuServe

• Ultima Online

• William Morris Agency

• McCaw Cellular

• 1992

• Framemaker

• Adobe

• Lighthouse Design

• Diagram!

• OmniGraffle

• 1994

• www.app

• OmniWeb

• Blink tag

• Rocky & Bullwinkle

• Rhapsody

• Hewlett Packard

• Sun

• OpenStep

• Solaris

• Windows NT

• Be

• Jean-Louis Gasée

• Enterprise Objects Framework

• Core Data

• Avie Tevanian

• Jon Rubinstein

• Bertrand Serlet

• Craig Federighi

• Appletalk

• Yellow Box

• HP-UX

• Andrew Stone

• Doom

• Id Software

• Wil’s mail

• OpenGL

• John Carmack

• DirectX

• OmniOutliner

• Comic Life

• NCSA

• GCD

• Blocks

• Functional programming

• Mac Pro

• Go

• Rust

• Race conditions

• OmniPresence

• Own the Wheel

• iCloud Core Data Syncing

• Rich Siegel

• Yojimbo

• Sync Services

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This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Paul Goracke is a senior staff engineer at Black Pixel, where he works on things he can’t talk about but that you’ve used. He’s also a former instructor at the University of Washington’s Cocoa development program, and has at times been the lead organizer of the Seattle Xcoders.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. Better still: go work for Squarespace! They’re hiring 30 engineers and designers by March 15, and, “When you interview at Squarespace, we’ll invite you and your spouse or partner to be New Yorkers for a weekend—on us.” The great designers at Squarespace have designed an entire weekend for you, from dining at Alder to going to the Smalls Jazz Club and visiting The New Museum. Seriously cool deal at beapartofit.squarespace.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Write code — Javascript code — in your favorite text editor on your Mac. (Mobile Services runs Node.js.) Deploy via git. Write unit tests using mocha (or your tool of choice). Supports authenticating via Twitter, Facebook, and Google — and you can roll your own system. It’s cool.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less):

• CodeWarrior
• SIOUX-WASTE
• TextEdit 32K limit
• WASTE
• Usenet
• Metrowerks Ron
• John Daub
• Compact Discs
• Adobe
• MacTech on SIOUX
• WorldScript
• Unicode
• UTF-8
• PowerPC
• Apprentice CDs
• DNA sequencers
• California
• Stanford
• Sun workstation
• PC
• Minnesota
• Egghead Software
• NFR copies
• Think C
• Think C Reference
• Learn C on the Macintosh
• Inside Mac
• Scott Knaster book
• Ultimate Mac Programming Guide
• Apple events
• Inside OLE
• 4th Dimension
• Guy Kawasaki
• Apple II
• Atari
• Commodore
• VisiCalc
• BASIC
• Nibble magazine
• Elephant Disks
• Beagle Bros.
• Byte
• TRS-80
• Creative Computing
• 6502
• C pointers
• fseek
• Apple IIe
• Apple IIgs
• Lemonade Stand
• Token rings
• 1994
• The Computer Store
• Powerbook 180
• Filemaker
• SQL
• HyperCard
• Myst
• Broderbund
• Sierra On-Line
• King’s Quest
• PowerPlant
• Flash
• JavaScript
• Java Applet
• Remote Method Invocation
• Java Native Interface
• Windows NT
• Classpaths
• Bioinformatics
• Perl
• use strict
• Berkeley DB
• MySQL
• RedHat Linux
• Emacs
• Quartz Composer
• Grok
• Forth
• Seattle Xcoders
• 2004
• 2005
• NSCoder Night
• CocoaHeads
• Pirate flag
• Advanced Mac OS X Programming book
• Gus Mueller
• Rogue Sheep
• MacBU
• OmniGroup
• dBug
• Lucas Newman
• Mike Lee
• Wil Shipley
• Golden Braeburn
• Joe Heck
• Hal Mueller
• WWDC
• Luau
• SFMacIndie Party
• Jillian’s
• Jacqui Cheng
• Clint Ecker
• Guy English
• C4
• NeXT
• BeOS
• UW Salvage
• Subversion
• Versions
• John Flansburgh
• Northside

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This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Gus Mueller, Flying Meat founder, created VoodooPad (now at Plausible Labs) and Acorn, the image editor for humans. Gus is also responsible for open source software such as FMDB and JSTalk.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. Better still: go work for Squarespace! They’re hiring 30 engineers and designers by March 15, and, “When you interview at Squarespace, we’ll invite you and your spouse or partner to be New Yorkers for a weekend—on us.” The great designers at Squarespace have designed an entire weekend for you, from dining at Alder to going to the Smalls Jazz Club and visiting The New Museum. Seriously cool deal at beapartofit.squarespace.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Write code — Javascript code — in your favorite text editor on your Mac. (Mobile Services runs Node.js.) Deploy via git. Write unit tests using mocha (or your tool of choice). Supports authenticating via Twitter, Facebook, and Google — and you can roll your own system. It’s cool.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less):

• Rock climbing
• Luke Adamson
• Missouri
• 2001
• 2002
• Cocoa
• Apple IIc
• 1993
• Mac Color Classic
• BASIC
• ELIZA
• Artificial Intelligence
• Assembler
• Missile Command
• Java
• Eric Albert
• Perl
• Animated GIFs
• CGIs
• Server push images
• REALBasic
• PC
• Apple IIe
• DOS
• Colossal Caves
• Plover
• Nibble
• Civilization
• UNIX
• AIX
• A/UX
• St. Louis
• Columbia
• Math is hard
• Single sign-on
• Servlets
• OS X
• WWDC
• Rhapsody
• 1995
• MacPERL
• NiftyTelnet
• BBEdit
• FlySketch
• Coffee
• Picasso’s bull sketches
• VoodooPad
• 22" Cinema Display
• OS X Innovator’s Award
• O’Reilly
• Peter Lewis
• Rich Siegel
• Mark Aldritt
• Ambrosia
• Panic
• Transmit
• Audion
• O’Reilly Mac OS Conference
• Audio Hijack
• Paul Kafasis
• SubEthaEdit
• Mac Pro
• Ireland
• XML
• PDF
• Victoria’s Secret
• Caterpillar
• Adobe InDesign
• OS X Server
• Xserve
• Macintosh G5
• MacUpdate
• VersionTracker
• QuickDraw
• Kerberos
• HyperCard
• Objective-C messaging system
• Aaron Hillegass’s book
• Java-Cocoa bridge
• JDBC
• Oracle databases
• 2005
• Seattle
• Microsoft
• Parents Just Don’t Understand
• Vancouver, BC
• B.B. King
• Seattle Xcoders
• Joe Heck
• University of Missouri
• Evening at Adler
• Wil Shipley
• Daniel Jalkut
• Eric Peyton
• Quicksilver
• Rosyna
• Chicago
• Drunkenbatman
• Adler Planetarium
• C4
• Wolf
• Colin Barrett
• Delicious Generation
• Disco.app
• My Dream App
• Chimera / Camino
• Santa Clara
• World Wrapps
• Buzz Andersen
• Quartz
• Core Image Filters
• Bezier curves
• Wacom
• Unit tests
• Automated builds
• ZeroLink
• Metrowerks CodeWarrior
• NeXT
• BeOS
• Macintosh Performa
• Display Postscript
• SGIs
• Sun boxes
• Mac OS 8
• MachTen
• Netscape
• Internet Explorer for Mac OS
• Outlook Express
• OmniGroup
• Shakespeare’s pizza
• Pagliacci
• Neapolitan pizza
• Everett
• FIOS
• Fender Stratocaster
• GarageBand
• AudioBus
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• JSTalk
• AppleScript
• SQLite
• WebKit
• Napkin

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This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.)

Greg Robbins is Graphing Calculator co-author (a story you should already know about, that we don’t go over again) and has done such diverse things as bringing translucency to the Mac OS Drag Manager (way back in the ’90s), and writing an open source Objective-C library for Google Data APIs. You can follow Greg on Twitter.

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This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you’ve been to the website already, you’ve seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that’s an easy way to get started. But don’t be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Regular-old Git, not Git#++. Git.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (pretty much):

• Real Networks
• Graphing Calculator
• Google
• Ira Glass on Graphing Calculator
• Drag Manager Translucency
• Mac OS 7.5.3
• Drag Manager
• Alpha channels
• Quartz
• CopyBits
• Black and white displays
• 68K computers
• PowerPC
• Blitting
• Desktop Pictures
• 1995
• NeXT
• Omni
• Assembly language
• DTS
• Newton
• Teletypes
• Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science
• Apple II
• 1979
• Mainframe
• Concentration
• Busboy
• Nolo Press
• ComputerLand
• Beagle Bros.
• Integer BASIC
• 80-column cards
• Apple II Plus
• Apple II Technical Manual
• Homebrew computers
• RF Interference
• Apple II GS
• Non-Apple Machines
• 6502 Assembly
• Missile Command
• 1992
• NASA
• Neural networks
• Robert Hecht-Nielsen
• 1980s
• Voice recognition
• Earth Observing System
• Goddard Space Flight Center
• comp.sys.mac
• Pascal
• C
• Macintosh Progammers Workshop (MPW)
• Lightspeed C / THINK C
• Lightspeed Pascal
• CodeWarrior
• PowerPC transition
• Toolbox
• Inside Mac
• Macintosh Programmers Toolbox Assistant
• QuickView
• Hypercard
• How to Write Macintosh software by Scott Knaster
• 1990s
• eMate
• Apple QuickTake
• Secret About Box
• Easter eggs
• Breakout in 7.5
• Herman the Iguana
• Pointers
• Ron Avitzur
• Airplay
• Front Row
• Windows Vista
• Microsoft Office
• Adobe Photoshop
• Seattle
• RealPlayer
• 1998
• Rob Glaser
• Macworld Conference
• Marching extensions
• Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher
• Carbon
• Cocoa
• 2002
• WinAmp
• Appearance Manager
• Kaleidoscope
• Copland
• InternetWorld 1997
• OpenDoc
• Dave Winer
• Quickdraw GX
• Apple Open Collaborative Environment (AOCE)
• iCloud
• LLVM
• Instruments
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• ARC
• C#
• Xcode
• Eclipse
• QuickTime
• Project Builder
• Google Desktop
• Spotlight
• Google Maps for iOS
• 2005
• Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU)
• RSS
• Google Reader
• Google Keep
• Self-driving cars
• Google Glass
• Big data
• Google Data APIs for Objective-C
• XML
• OAuth

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This episode was recorded 22 May 2013 live and in person at Adobe’s offices in Fremont in Seattle.

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John Nack is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Digital Video. He has a blog (definitely worth reading, especially if you use Photoshop) and is @jnack on Twitter.

This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. One of the cooler features recently added is the ability to create custom APIs. Originally you were limited to standard operations on your database tables — but now you can design any API you want. This allows you to create a full REST/JSON API that’s tailored to your app, that works as efficiently as possible. (And it’s all in JavaScript. Mobile Services runs Node.js. Write your apps in your favorite text editor on your Mac.)

Things we mention, in order of appearance (pretty much):

• Adobe
• LiveMotion
• Photoshop
• John’s Blog
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Granfalloons
• despair.com
• Cocoa
• 64-bit
• Carbon 64-bit
• Unfrozen Cave Man
• Olive Garden
• South Bend, Indiana
• Tiramisu
• St. Sebastian
• Breadsticks
• Monkeys
• 2005
• Movable Type
• DeBabelizer
• GifBuilder
• Anarchie
• 1984
• Mac
• 2001
• Algonquin Hotel
• Apple II
• PCjr
• ASCII Art
• Clip Art
• Googly Eyes
• Bill Atkinson
• MacPaint
• Rorschach Test
• Apple II GS
• Great Books
• Quadra 840AV
• Quadra Ad
• Director
• SuperCard
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Immanuel Kant
• Notre Dame
• Football
• Windows NT
• HTML
• New York City
• 1998
• Flash
• Macromedia
• Illustrator
• Navy ROTC
• San Francisco
• GoLive
• NetNewsWire
• After Effects
• Thomas Knoll
• Camera Raw
• Photoshop Touch
• Germany
• Philistinism
• Perfectionism
• Volkswagen
• Carbon-dating
• Web Standards
• SVG
• CSS
• Gus Mueller
• Acorn
• Neven Mrgan
• Khoi Vinh
• Croatia
• Portland
• JDI
• Healing Brush
• Buck Rogers
• Creative Cloud
• Facebook
• Smugmug
• WWDC
• Jetta
• Ketchup
• Death-march
• Comic Book Guy
• John Gruber
• “If you see a stylus, they blew it.”
• Microsoft Surface
• Metro UI
• Rahm Emmanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
• The Mythical Man-Month
• Content-Aware Fill
• Shawshank
• InDesign
• Adobe Magazine
• Nike
• PageMaker
• Postscript
• SLR
• Lightroom
• Black & Decker
• Dr. Evil
• Loren Brichter
• Instagram
• Kickstarter
• NGO
• Tumblr Acquisition
• Troy Gaul
• Blurb
• The Onion: Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others
• Data
• T-1000
• Syria
• MacApp
• Resource Manager
• John Knoll
• Industrial Light & Magic
• QuickTime
• OpenDoc
• Corba
• OLE
• SnapSeed
• Mac System 6
• Apple events
• AppleScript
• Audio Bus
• 1992
• “The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin’”
• Alan Kay: “The Mac is the first computer good enough to be criticized.”
• TapBots
• Tweetbot 2
• Android
• Kai’s Power Tools
• Kai Krause
• Fremont
• RUN DMC
• Porsche Boxster
• Flavawagon
• Google Glass
• Robert Scoble

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This episode was recorded 15 May 2013 live and in person at The Omni Group’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.

You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes or subscribe to the podcast feed.

Luke Adamson is a founder of Toy Rockets. He’s a former instructor at the University of Washington’s iOS and Mac certificate program and a former developer at The Omni Group (where, among other things, he helped create OmniOutliner).

This episode is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Does your app need online services? Syncing? Storage? Mobile Services is the easiest way to get started. Create your own APIs. Write your code using JavaScript (Mobile Services runs Node.js). Store data in a SQL database and/or in blob storage. Develop using your favorite text editor and terminal app on your favorite computer — a Mac. And never ever worry about applying security patches to a server. A trial account is free.

Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly):

• Gophers
• Idaho
• Meth
• Maze War
• Boise State U
• Nextstation
• UUCP
• HP
• Usenet
• Commodore 64
• BASIC
• Pascal
• Objective-C
• C++
• Win16
• AppKit
• Foundation
• NSString
• University of Idaho
• The Omni Group
• Texas A&M
• OmniWeb
• OmniPDF
• WebObjects
• Lighthouse Design
• Diagram!
• Quantrix
• Wainscoting
• EOF
• Standard & Poor’s
• Mitsubishi
• Toyota
• McCaw Cellular
• Oracle 8
• Craig Federighi
• Bruce Arthur
• Solaris
• Sybase
• G4
• Ireland
• Quake
• HP-UX
• Doom
• John Carmack
• Java
• BeOS
• Adobe
• PowerPC
• Power Computing
• Webscript
• Lisp
• Swing Toolkit
• AWT
• Ken Case
• Tim Wood
• Wil Shipley
• Greg Titus
• Andrew Abernathy
• Tom Bunch
• Retrospect
• Steve Nygard
• Class-dump
• OmniOutliner
• Visio
• Rhapsody
• OmniGraffle
• Illustrator
• Mazda RX-7
• FrontBase
• Denmark
• Cinema Displays
• TiBook
• Everett, Washington
• Blue hair
• Sub-prime mortgages
• Bear Stearns
• Deutsche Bank
• Credit Suisse
• Internap
• Xserve
• Ubermind
• Deloitte Digital
• Societe General
• India
• iOS
• Jailbroken iPhones
• Lucas Newman