Debug

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 Feedback Question, comment, recommendation, or something you want us to follow up on for the next show? Email us at debug@mobilenations.com or yell at us on Twitter.

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.

Steve Scott (Scotty) talks to Guy and Rene about the early days of developer podcasts, NSConference, and his work with RemObjects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guy and Rene talk to Jeff McLeman about his time at Digital, porting the NT kernel, and the current state of kernels in general.

Mike Ash of Plausible Labs joins Guy and Rene to talk about working at Rogue Amoeba, taking on VoodooPad, and speaking truth to bloggers.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.)

Jonathan Deutsch talks about HyperEdit, his time at Apple, the origins of Tumult, believing in Hype, and hitting people with kendo sticks.

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.

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.

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.)

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.)