Úll Radio

A return to the escape room!

How a technophobe ended up using technology to make better coffee.

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you’re taking notes.

Taking a winding career path, while keeping technology as a constant.

What the world of 500 years ago can tell us about ourselves.

Taking a leap of faith and learning to optimize for joy, while planning for entropy.

What do you do about a problem like iTunes?

The impermanence of our creations, and why we should always imagine the end of our projects as we embark on making them.

How MacPaw’s founder became a Mac fan via a Bluetooth keyboard (with no Mac) in Ukraine, and the origins of SetApp.

Avoiding the Swirling Vortex of Terror by getting a handle on your perfectionism and focusing on what you’re capable of doing personally.

An inspired special presentation in which the players have 15 minutes to escape from a secret Apple product-development lab.

App developer “Underscore” David Smith has made 51 App Store apps, but only considers a handful of them to be successful. How can you be principled but not prejudiced? How can you be inspired by Apple without being Apple?

“Why can’t we just go back to the Europe?” Úll co-organizer Dermot Daly checks in on the conference and explains why it’s structured the way it is and why it’s being held at the Europe resort in Killarney for a second (and in 2017, third!) time.

In his talk, Dermot Casey explored “the morality of software.” We discuss the two stories from his talk—an outward success he considers a failure, and an outward failure he measures as a success—and yes, we mention You-Know-Who.

Matthew Scharf of G.F Smith is Úll’s paper consultant and helped guide the process of designing the welcome packet for Úll visitors. The intersection of design and technology involved in papercraft might be a location familiar to those in the Apple community.

Stephen Coyle’s app Tapt emerged from an attempt to teach music and rhythm, and his twin pursuits of musical composition and app development have given him a unique perspective on how music notation and Swift have more in common than you’d think.

Kathy Campbell helps businesses get their acts together. Her life, career, and family changed dramatically six years ago when her husband suffered a stroke.

Úll is a conference about thinking different. This year’s conference will feature a series of audio recordings produced by Jason Snell and featuring the speakers, special guests, and attendees of Úll, all posted to this podcast feed.