The NSNorth Podcast
by Philippe Casgrain, and Dan Byers
The NSNorth Podcast features short interviews with the fantastic speakers who make up the NSNorth Conference.
Episodes
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 62: Kate O'Neill
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…
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 61: Huda Idrees
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...
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 60: Rene Ritchie
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 59: Leena Mansour
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,...
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 58: Daniel Steinberg
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...
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 57: Matthew Bischoff
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…
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 56: Guilherme Rambo
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...
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 55: Christina Moulton
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 54: James Thomson
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 53: Chris Eidhof
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…
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 52: Namrata Bandekar
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...
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 51: Ish Shabazz
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 50: Alaina Kafkes
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 49: Ken Kocienda
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.
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NSNorth 2019, Episode 48: Introducing NSNorth 2019
NSNorth is back! For our fifth time, we'll be in Old Montreal at the St-James Theater, April 26-28 2019.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 47: Tom Creighton
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 46: Robleh Jama
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 45: Rob Segal
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!
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 44: Liz Marley
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 43: Michael Gorbach
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 42: Ayaka Nonaka
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 41: Jonathan Rhyne
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 40: Janie Clayton
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 39: Jon Edwards
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 38: Gwen Weston
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 37: Daniel Steinberg
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 36: Pamela Pavliscak
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.
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NSNorth 2016, Episode 35: Presenting NSNorth 2016
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 34: Rob Rix
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 33: Jonathan Penn
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 32: Matt Klosterman
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...
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 31: Chris Liscio
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 30: Ashley Nelson-Hornstein
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 29: Jim Dalrymple
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 28: Georgia Dow
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 27: Mark Pavlidis
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…
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 26: Christa Mrgan
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 25: JP Simard
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 24: Vanessa Logan
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 23: Gordon Fontenot
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 22: Ash Lindquist
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.
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NSNorth 2015, Episode 21: A Special Message from Dan and Phil
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 20: Bob Kressin
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 19: Brittany Young
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…
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 18: David Smith
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 17: Jessie Char
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 16: Roustem Karimov
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 15: Don Melton
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 14: Nicole Belanger
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.
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NSNorth 2014, Episode 13: Mattt Thompson
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.
About this show
The NSNorth Podcast features short interviews with the fantastic speakers who make up the NSNorth Conference.
Hosted by
Philippe Casgrain, and Dan Byers
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