Author, UX designer and keynote speaker Kate O'Neill concludes the 2019 series of podcasts with Phil and Dan, covering topics such as algorithmic and dataset biais, the rise of AI and algorithms, diversity, profit and engagement, building smarter companies, ethical and meaningful experiences, Apple Watch friendship and NY vs Montreal bagels.…

Designer, engineer and DotHealth CEO Huda Idrees joins Phil in a wide-ranging conversation on health data, privacy and regulations, hiring the right people in a small company, transitioning to CEO from an engineering perspective, the misnomer of "soft skills", how engineering is design, playing video games for downtime and populating your office wi…

Analyst, Podcaster, YouTuber and prolific writer Rene Ritchie chats with Phil about the move from audio to video, following Apple tech news, a reflection on Apple vs Nintendo vs Lego, and seasonal flooding.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Speaker and engineering manager Leena Mansour joins Dan and Phil to chat about entering the tech world through Programming 101 in University, moving to iOS and Android development, diversity in tech offices and the startup world, some of the difficulties of moving from engineering to management, learning sign language and competitive dodgeball.…

Speaker, author, trainer and storyteller Daniel Steinberg returns to NSNorth to chat about Swift, teaching kids and adults to program, functional versus object-oriented programming, knitting and design patterns, and single-source sheep. You can find out more about Daniel at https://dimsumthinking.com and https://editorscut.com.…

Speaker and Lickability co-founder Matt Bischoff joins Dan and Phil from New York City to discuss changing roles in an evolving company, opening up iOS apprenticeships, co-located vs. remote employees, enjoying and building apps for the New York theatre scene, and answering business emails in grade 8.…

Speaker, journalist and budding indie developer Guilherme Rambo chats with Phil and Dan about his apps Chibi Studio and AirBuddy, the Stack Trace podcast, the art of spelunking, why he can't be in the the Mac App Store, his WWDC app, and the prevalence of iOS devices in Brazil. Link to Gui's NSSpain talk: https://vimeo.com/290322018.…

Speaker and author Christina Moulton joins Phil and Dan to chat about taking some years of retirement early, sailing in the Caribbeans with a small dog, writing custom iOS software to control a life-size R2D2 unit, updating a Swift book over time, and boat yoga.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Speaker James Thomson talks to Phil and Dan about older british computers, his first Mac, how Apple had a presence in education, the origins and evolution of PCalc, Scotland, Ireland, software subscriptions, and how writing a README with your career goals might just get you the attention you want.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

ObjC.io founder Chris Eidhof chats with Phil and Dan about starting a conference in cities whose name start with a "B", Functional Programming as more than an academic exercise, how depressing the state of programming can be and how working with people who question everything can bring back the joy of programming, DeckSet, and running.…

Author and Principal Developer Namrata Bandekar spends some time with Dan and Phil to chat about researching and later writing tutorials on the Internet, the process of collaborating on a book about ARKit for Ray Wenderlich, being the only mobile developer at small startups and scuba diving as a motivator for learning to swim and overcoming one's f…

Speaker, iOS developer and network engineer Ish Shabazz joins Dan and Phil to chat about daily planners on iPads, "App, the Human Story", quitting your day job to go indie full-time (and going back to a day job), App Store changes, re-designs, and their effect on business, and mentoring others.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Speaker and Medium engineer Alaina Kafkes shares with Phil and Dan her stories of developing a love for running in Chicago, Northwestern University, writing unit tests, favorite tutorials and love of books.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Keynote Speaker Ken Kocienda joins Dan and Phil to talk about early iPhone, the origins of UIKit, the significance of the Blue & White G3 Mac Tower for iOS, software patents, animations, and fast cars.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

NSNorth is back! For our fifth time, we'll be in Old Montreal at the St-James Theater, April 26-28 2019.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Designer Tom Creighton joins Adrienne, Dan and Phil to talk about the design scene in Toronto, how design is all about the constraints and not the open world, and delicious Chlebíčky sandwiches.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

TinyHeart's Robleh Jama speaks with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about being inspired to make apps for kids, the experience of being featured in the app store, and sharing learnings with the community.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

GetSetGames founder Rob Segal chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about small independent games and the various game engines that power them, how he sees VR in the near future, as well as Toronto's Game Jam (pronounced TO-JAM), now in its 11th year!By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

The OmniGroup's Liz Marley joins Adrienne, Dan and Phil to talk about challenges in engineering school, working with office cats, making the transition from software engineering to testing to developing and how knitting, like code, has the ultimate undo.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

RaizLabs Software Architect Michael Gorbach chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil from snowy Boston about starting on the career path of a physicist, working on the Xcode project at Apple, moving from a manager to an architect and maintaining a family media server.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Venmo engineer Ayaka Nonaka joins Adrienne, Dan and Phil to talk about mathematics and linguistics, learning Swift by teaching Swift, camping in Death Valley and how to improve your focus by meditating.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Attorney and PSPDFKit co-founder Jonathan Rhyne chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about growing a sustainable business, what "business development" really means, how PDFs are in even more places than you think, and shares his passion for amateur photography.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Software developer Janie Clayton joins Adrienne, Dan and Phil with her beloved pugs to discuss continuous learning in the software field, getting coaxed into writing books, and how cooking at home is a relaxing and delicious activity.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Watchmaker and iOS developer Jon Edwards chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about classic watches and watchmakers, spending formative years in Europe and Scandinavia, and building apps to accompany thousands of dollars' worth of testing hardware.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Software engineer and mathematician Gwen Weston joins Adrienne, Dan and Phil to talk about learning iOS programming while also learning Chinese, resources to help you with your iOS learnings, transitioning to full-time independent development and, of course, #a157e8.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Teacher and trainer Daniel Steinberg chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about teaching evolving concepts like Swift, publishing e-books, how Playgrounds are changing how we can teach kids about programming, and taking specialized baking classes on German Rye Bread.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Change Sciences founder Pamela Pavliscak chats with Adrienne, Dan and Phil about specializing in human-technology interactions while in Russia, what we can measure in this evolving field, and a bit about rural life not far from The Big Apple.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

New team member Adrienne joins Phil and Dan to talk about NSNorth 2016, which moves to Toronto in a wonderful new venue. NSNorth now features a Community Kickoff and a Training Workshop, in addition to the main conference. Come join us in Toronto on April 28th, 2016.By Philippe Casgrain, Dan Byers & Adrienne Marshall

Mathemaethete Rob Rix joins Phil and Dan to talk about his interests in functional programming, making the Swift language do things it was not meant to, strongly-typed languages, cats, and hula-hooping.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Author, musician and all-around Cocoa expert Jonathan Penn joins Dan & Phil to chat about experiments in learning, writing books, real-life prototyping, the origins of Rubber City, and the Quantified Self.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Matt Klosterman of Infofission chats with Phil and Dan about building apps that help people and businesses succeed. When he is not building apps for the Apple Watch, Matt enjoys photography and documents his trials and opinions at camvergence.com. We also speculate on how the Apple Watch can integrate into your life beyond photography, thinking abo…

One-man-band Chris Liscio from SuperMegaUltraGroovy.com joins Phil and Dan to talk about the research that went into Capo's chord detection, how his VIP users influence the product, translating symbolic Matlab into Objective-C and Swift, and playing music in general.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Dropbox iOS engineer Ashley Nelson-Hornstein chats with Phil and Dan about the challenges of multiple file formats, attempting to learn C++ in 21 days at age 11, working in rotation teams at Apple, how to adapt quickly in a startup environment, the Apple Watch and organized sports.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

The Loop's Jim Dalrymple joins Dan and Phil in a discussion about the state of Apple-centric blogs, how he coins the world's shortest and highly-cited three-letter posts, and, of course, playing several guitars.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Keynote speaker Georgia Dow of iMore chats with Dan and Phil about multi-media and podcasts, CES, psychotherapy and type-A personalities, and shares her excitement about the Apple Watch. It might also be the first time that falconry is mentioned on a tech podcast.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Flixel engineer Mark Pavlidis joins Phil and Dan to discuss software engineering graduate studies, debugging code on set at America's Next Top Model, and, of course fussy coffee-making. Stay tuned until the end for a special announcement regarding #nerdlearn, a Toronto-based event on February 19th all about the Apple Watch.…

Rogue Amoeba's designer Christa Mrgan chats with Dan and Phil about designing visual interfaces for sound effects, prototyping fun at AppCamp4Girls, and the constant dream of remodeling the house.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

From the offices of Realm in San Francisco, Ottawa-native Jean-Pierre "JP" Simard joins Phil and Dan to chat about re-inventing mobile databases, the Summer of Swift and some ideas about the future of mobile development.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Dan & Phil are joined by Sago Sago's Technical Artist Vanessa Logan to discuss creating mobile games for children that adults will also enjoy, how to run a play-testing group and a very special kind of antique containing microphotographs.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

From snowy Boston, thoughtbot's own Gordon Fontenot chats with Dan and Phil about the recent re-discovery of functional programming, how Swift may change the landscape of Apple development, contributing via podcasts and open-source projects, and a little bit of baseball.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

All the way from across the globe and the hemispheres, we are joined this week by Ash Lindquist of Storybird to talk about learning quickly how to build iOS apps, transferring your skills to a distributed team, and how to make the best of a working vacation down under.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

We are very excited about NSNorth 2015 and we give you a behind-the-scenes look at what led us to create the most ambitious NSNorth yet.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

KST founder and president Bob Kressin chats with Dan & Phil about hardware engineering, the interface between hardware and mobile, Bluetooth, the exciting possibilities of iBeacons, and getting motivated about advances in the biomedical field.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

New Relic's Mobile Product Manager and Chicago-to-Portland transplant Brittany Young joins Dan & Phil to discuss starting and running a consulting company, how the local indie scene makes a big difference, discovering Portland and Application Performance Metrics and learning to ski while not flying off the mountain, figuratively. We also touch on d…

Independent developer David Smith chats with Dan & Phil about moving to iOS from Web development, making apps to scratch an itch (and making a living at it), the "many apps, few hits" strategy, fostering a sense of community around iOS and Mac development, and the joys of parenthood.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

The co-founder and General Manager of Pacific Helm joins Dan & Phil to chat about the west coast Mac scene, her time at Apple Retail, being a part of Delicious Monster, growing a small design studio and the joy of cooking.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

The co-founder of AgileBits, Torontonian Roustem Karimov talks to Dan & Phil about the beginnings of AgileBits, the original reasons behind 1Password, moving from enterprise software to the Mac, and a little bit about hockey.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Keynote speaker and former Fruit Company employee Don Melton chats with Dan & Phil about starting the "super secret" Safari project, podcasting about 80's movies, Faustian bargains and taking care of evil genius little dogs.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Ottawa's own Nicole Belanger talks to Dan & Phil about Ladies Learning Code, a non-profit, non-gender-specific organisation to help beginners understand better what "code" is. We also discuss women in startups, entrepreneurial spirit, and tech blogging as part of your online identity.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers

Freshly-minted Panic developer Mattt Thompson is our guest as he goes over his own career path of web to mobile to app developer, self-publishing books, the differences between San Francisco and Portland, and how extreme sports led to marital bliss.By Philippe Casgrain & Dan Byers