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Special #2 - Brent Simmons

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

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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.

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

29 May 2014

Special #1 - Chris Parrish

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

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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.

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

09 May 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #9 - Mike Lee

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

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

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

25 Apr 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #8 - Nathaniel Irons

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

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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.

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

11 Apr 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #7 - John Chaffee

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!)

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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.

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

28 Mar 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #6 - Tim Wood

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

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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.

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

University of Washington

Department of Defense

Read-write Optical drives

Massively multiplayer games

William Morris Agency

Enterprise Objects Framework

Functional programming

iCloud Core Data Syncing

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Seattle Before the iPhone #5 - Paul Goracke

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

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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.

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

28 Feb 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #4 - Gus Mueller

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

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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.

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

14 Feb 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #3 - Greg Robbins

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

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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.

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

31 Jan 2014

Seattle Before the iPhone #2 - John Nack

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.

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

17 Jan 2014