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It Shipped That WayWinning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor JohnstonJane App Co-Founder & Co-CEO Trevor Johnston shares lessons from building a vertical SaaS that now serves hundreds of thousands of clinicians worldwide. We discuss the geometric power of referrals, obsessing over churn, turning your customers into your salespeople, scaling product engineering past Dunbar’s number, transcending a Rails monolith, and finding the fun in 6 hours of Zoom meetings. Jane App Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-10-2451 min
It Shipped That WayMaking Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCueLorilyn McCue, head of AI product at Superhuman, joins to share what she’s learned building LLM-powered products. She talks about how Superhuman executes on shipping delightful software, how to pursue both attention to detail and rapid iteration, optimizing your roadmap for learning, questions that are surprisingly easy (and hard) for LLMs, evaluation and testing of AI-powered features, and ruthlessly prioritizing the user. The Superhuman Blog Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-09-1846 min
It Shipped That WayBuilding What Customers Need, with Milun TesovicMilun Tesovic, founder of Metrolyrics, Cmd, and Gitalytics – and now Parter at Expa – shares lessons learned building startups. We talk about building the largest lyrics site in the world, turning organizational dysfunction into startup ideas, solving problems without making people change their behaviour, getting acquired by Github a month after launch, making early hires on a product team, and how to get a great domain with one weird trick. expa.com Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-08-2859 min
It Shipped That WaySolving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo FalolaThe Browser Company’s Head Of Engineering, Dolapo Falola, shares lessons from Google, Facebook, and Slack, and how they’ve informed his leadership of the team building Arc. He shares about the rush to launch Stories at Meta, reinventing the browser with Arc, finding work that energizes people vs. finding people energized by the work, “working out loud” for velocity, the challenge of bringing Arc to Windows, rewarding complexity vs. business impact, and playing the long game to hire exceptional talent. dolapo.io The Arc Browser Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipp...2024-07-1745 min
It Shipped That WayScaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate HustonCate Huston joins to talk about her new book, The Engineering Leader. She shares why she wrote a book, leadership problems endemic to fast-growing organizations, why career growth is more than promotions, coachability, levelling up your hiring pipeline, how hiring “bars” can go wrong, and why energy management matters more than time management. It Shipped Ep. 4 with Cate Huston Cate’s new book, The Engineering Leader cate.blog Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-06-121h 02
It Shipped That WayBuilding Slack, with Johnny RodgersJohnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme responsiveness to customer feedback, how features like threads and reacji came together, Slack’s positioning and north star, product-led growth as a path to building startups, and how to have an outsized impact in a scaling organization. johnnyrodgers.is buildingslack.com Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-05-2256 min
It Shipped That WayContinuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa TorresTeresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, joins to share lessons from her popular and acclaimed book. We talk about the benefits of constantly talking to customers, why it can be worth seeking delight rather than strictly building products in terms of problems, how to avoid choosing perverse outcomes and metrics, and how to get the truth from customers – despite their aspirational overconfidence. ProductTalk.org Teresa on LinkedIn Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-05-0155 min
It Shipped That WayThe Problems Get Squishier, with Luke HutscalLuke Hutscal, Principal Engineer at Clio – formerly of Shopify and Testflight – joins to talk about finding ways to learn rapidly, the downsides of a mercenary mindset, spending time with people who intimidate you, building a coaching village, making wrong things look wrong, choosing boring technology, resume-driven development, and putting in the reps to get great at hiring. Luke Hutscal Choose boring technology Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-04-1056 min
It Shipped That WayFocusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James CliftJames Clift, Founder and CEO of Durable and VisualCV, joins us to talk about helping folks build great businesses, staying long-term optimistic yet short-term pessimistic, choosing between exciting ideas vs. clearly profitable ones, the distraction of “fake work”, getting good at rapidly trying and killing ideas, lessons learned from two years of building on LLMs, and the longevity of non-chat workflows. @jamesclift on Twitter Durable Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-03-2052 min
It Shipped That WayThe Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric AmodioEric Amodio, creator of GitLens, GitKraken CTO, and former Principal Engineer on VS Code, joins us to talk about founding products by scratching your own itch, building GitLens from an idea to tens of millions of users, the audacity of charging for software, the origins of github.dev and Copilot at Microsoft, LLMs as a new layer of abstraction for developers, and how GitKraken is helping engineers understand large codebases faster. GitKraken GitLens Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-02-2850 min
It Shipped That WayBuilding and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci GraceMerci Grace, CEO and co-founder of Panobi, and former partner at Lightspeed Ventures and first Head of Growth at Slack, shares lessons about growth as a discipline, pitfalls of fundraising and her “Marauder’s Map” to raising capital, best practices for starting and scaling growth teams, and her vision for making metrics and growth tooling far better. Panobi Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-02-0756 min
It Shipped That WayWinning with Boring Competence, with Ian CrosbyIan Crosby, founding CEO of Bench and now Teal, talks building Bench from zero to hundreds, how vertical SaaS is transforming SMB startups, what it really takes to become highly profitable, why Teal hires for “boring competence”, paying highly for top talent, the psychology of firing, and the limits of culture docs. teal.dev Ian Crosby on LinkedIn Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2024-01-171h 00
It Shipped That WayA Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul LambertPaul Lambert, CEO and founder of Quilt and former Director at Google’s Area 120, joins Allen to talk society-scale problems, why searching for product-market fit is overrated, the power of building a better mousetrap, why the “internal incubator” model usually fails, how modern hardware startups iterate rapidly, and why different cities lend themselves to different startups. Quilt Paul’s Four Rules for Starting a Startup Paul Lambert Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-12-2752 min
It Shipped That WayDoing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis PilarinosDennis Pilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and now Unblocked (and former Director at Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) shares what he’s learned about product leadership. We talk about why you should build a product that is hard, how providing support is key to product culture, staying deeply curious about what’s not working, cutting down recurring meetings, and how startups with distribution outcompete the giants. Dennis on Twitter Get Unblocked Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-12-0644 min
It Shipped That WayThe Culture You Want to Build, with Charity MajorsHoneycomb.io co-founder and CTO Charity Majors joins Allen to share what she’s learned growing Honeycomb from idea to 170-person distributed company, including what goes into being a good manager beyond supporting your reports, how to build a team that feels supportive and safe while still keeping boundaries and limits, systems thinking for teams and cultures, the difference between generic company values and ones that take a stand, and why having a healthy culture is more important than having a novel one. Charity’s blog, charity.wtf The Honeycomb.io engineering blog Emily Nakashima on the Honeycomb blog: On Beco...2023-11-151h 02
It Shipped That WayBuilding Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David HaririAda co-founder David Hariri joins Allen to talk about an audacious product discovery process that kicked off a 250-employee startup, limitations of hand-scripted workflows, strengths and weaknesses of LLM techniques like code execution, RAG, and function calling, and how support automation may create whole new business models. Ada Support David Hariri Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-10-2558 min
It Shipped That WayThe Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael LoppMichael Lopp, aka Rands, joins Allen to talk about the fundamental need for growth, finding your team’s core motivations, the value of writing for developing clear thinking, the joys and perils of writing a book, the art of a compelling presentation, habits for editing and refining writing, and fostering clarity of responsibility – and curiosity – on your team. Rands in Repose The Important Thing Rands Leadership Slack The Software Developer’s Career Handbook Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-10-0448 min
It Shipped That WayCoaching New Managers, with Tiffany ConroyTiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support them, considering whether you want to be a manager at all, the value of explicitly asking those around you what success means, the power of having the confidence to say “I don’t know”, coaching managers through their first case of underperformance, how rigid role definitions hold back folks that perform both product and engineering work, the power of the Six Thinking Hats for making intense decisions, and the cultural responsibilities of senior leadership. Tiffany Conroy – theophani on Mastodo...2023-09-2055 min
It Shipped That WayTelling Product Stories with Adam Lisagor of SandwichAdam Lisagor, Founder of Sandwich Video, shares what he’s learned about the nature of storytelling, about how to zoom out to tell the story of your product, understanding the emotional valence of our work, when pre-visualization and storyboarding does and doesn’t pay off, spotting great talent, the value of making pretty good decisions quickly, learning how to let go (a little bit) as a founder, execution-centric leadership vs. results-centric leadership, what kinds of products he likes to invest in, and making people glad to have worked with you. Sandwich Video The Breadwinner Fellowship adamlisagor.com Adam Lisagor on Mast...2023-09-0656 min
It Shipped That WaySmall But Mighty, with Ridwell Co-founder Aliya MarderAliya Marder, Co-Founder of Ridwell, joins us to share what she’s learned about the people-service mindset for product work, the demands of running a startup with a real-world footprint, the power of a higher mission for rallying a company, doing more with a smaller team, the pathologies of product backlogs, strategic communication past 150 employees, and the challenge of delegating for detail-oriented leaders. Ridwell Aliya’s LinkedIn Do Something, So We Can Change It! Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-08-2340 min
It Shipped That WayEngineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnonIan MacKinnon, CTO of Later and Mavrck, shares lessons learned building Later from founding to success to acquisition – and from the startups that weren’t so fortunate. We discuss early engineering practices that paid off, approaches for moving fast and tolerance for breaking (small) things in that pursuit, the pros and cons of PaaS platforms like Heroku, the insurmountability of building the wrong thing, the virtues of boring tech stacks, and Later’s successes using GPT-4 to migrate and modernize legacy codebases. Later and Mavrck Ian on Twitter and Threads Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach...2023-08-1146 min
It Shipped That WayThe Intersection of Business and Design, with former Shopify Product GM Lynsey ThorntonLynsey Thornton shares what she learned helping Shopify grow almost 100x as GM of Core Product, VP of UX, and more. We review some common challenges companies hit as they scale, how to identify hires that have high growth potential, how different personalities contribute to team effectiveness, how to design an org for maximum impact, user research as a driver of strategic outcomes rather than checkbox-checking, and how to level up as a leader. Backbone Angels Lynsey on LinkedIn Lara Hogan on the BICEPS framework Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It...2023-07-2654 min
It Shipped That WayProduct Management and Growing Up as an Organization, with Mailchimp’s Bruce AldersonBruce Alderson, Senior Product Manager at Mailchimp, shares what he’s learned in 20 years as a CTO, engineering leader, and product manager. We discuss the role of multi-disciplinarians in large orgs, engineering leadership vs. product leadership, the value of repeating yourself, finding the team members who can help share context across your company, what it means to stay focused as you scale, and being effective in the face of great uncertainty. Bruce on Mastodon Bruce on Twitter warpedvisions.org Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to yo...2023-07-0553 min
It Shipped That WayBuilding Developer Experiences at Slack, with Steve GillSteve Gill, Slack’s Director of DevRel Engineering, digs in to the craft of building great APIs for developers. We discuss the power of open source for informing platform work, building platforms that developers will actually use, the tricky issues around building and supporting SDKs, the concept of “raccooning” at Slack, how Slack’s new composable apps enable a whole new category of app, and the importance of saying “no” when a new feature isn’t working out. Slack’s new API stevesgill on Twitter Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way...2023-06-1348 min
It Shipped That WayPrincipal Engineering at AWS Scale, with Nik PinskiNik Pinski, Principal Engineer at AWS, shares how AWS is organized for autonomy and customer-centric product development, dealing with millions of events per second, and how Staff and Principal Engineer career tracks work across different software organizations. staffeng.com levels.fyi Amazon EventBridge Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-05-1747 min
Accidental Tech PodcastOn the Cheerleader Bus
Follow-up:
Marco’s new Kobo
Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol)
Games breaking the fourth wall
Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick
Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung)
Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (via Michael Lechter)
Fully == Uplift? (via Matthew Kraft)
Downside to camera shutters as sensor guards during cleaning (via Wade Tregaskis)
Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
Final Cut Pro
Logic Pro
Audio Hijack
Jason’s overview
Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, etc.
Post-show: SwiftUI trials & tribulations
.matchedGeometryEffect()
Under the Radar #268: Fancy Work
Sponsored by:
Backblaze: Making backin...2023-05-112h 15
It Shipped That WayScaling a UX Org from 30 to 450, with Shopify’s former Head of Design Kyle PeattKyle Peatt, former Head of Design at Shopify, shares lessons he learned helping rapidly scale Shopify’s UX team from 30 folks to 450. We talk about effective triads of product, design, and engineering leadership; building a UX organization without becoming a matrix org; the concept of UX Leads that manage folks from front-end engineering through design and content strategy; what makes a Staff Designer; and the importance of having an opinion in design leadership. kylepeatt.com Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-04-2656 min
It Shipped That WayEffective and Scalable Machine Learning, with Opendoor Co-Founder Ian WongIan Wong, co-founder of Opendoor, shares what he’s learned about machine learning and data science in his work as CTO of Opendoor and helping detect fraud at Square. We talk about the differences between descriptive and predictive ML, approaches to human-in-the-loop prediction, setting up a data science org to deliver real business impact, why so many internal tooling projects fail, and how leaders should be dividing their attention between top-level strategy and the details that really matter. @ihat on Twitter Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is br...2023-04-0546 min
It Shipped That WayArchitecting Apps at Netflix Scale, with Arik DevensNetflix’s Arik Devens shares what he’s learned about architecting mobile apps with many millions of users, building from early adventures at Netscape and Palm up to architectural roles at Fitbit and Netflix. We talk about Netflix’s culture of small, high-trust teams; some of the pathologies of very large engineering teams; how to sell new architectural patterns to a team working on a large existing codebase; and the challenges of A/B testing hundreds of millions of users. Netflix’s famed culture doc danieltiger.com, Arik’s website Fun Fact, Allen and Arik’s podcast about facts Have feedback for...2023-03-1756 min
It Shipped That WayMaking Billions with Ethical Onboarding, with Jaycee DayJaycee Day, a seasoned designer having worked at GitHub and Blinkist, shares what she learned designing a now world-famous app onboarding flow. We talk about onboarding flows, subscription and trial mechanics in apps, the tensions between ethics and short-term profiteering, the business model of mobile games, and A/B testing. Jaycee’s website, jayceeday.com Jaycee’s original article about her onboarding workflow, How Solving Our Biggest Customer Complaint at Blinkist Led to a 23% Increase in Conversion Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brou...2023-02-1541 min
It Shipped That WaySolving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate HustonCate Huston shares what she’s learned leading engineering teams at DuckDuckGo, Automattic, and Google. We talk about the challenges of hiring directors, what makes DuckDuckGo weird, supporting team happiness vs. team effectiveness, the quagmire of trying to measure team velocity, and the tradeoffs inherent in cross-platform app development. Cate’s blog Cate’s article on servant leadership Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2023-01-2039 min
It Shipped That WayEffectively Leading Technical Teams, with Khan Academy’s Shawn JanseparShawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, shares what he’s learned about keeping product teams engaged, effective engineering practices and how to teach them, and building trust. Shawn Jansepar on LinkedIn Khan Academy Square’s Engineering Growth Framework Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2022-12-2841 min
It Shipped That WayLessons Learned Building Alexa, with Product Manager Polly AllenPolly Allen, former Principal Product Manager on Amazon Alexa, shares what she’s learned about the challenging world of building products for voice and AI, as well the roles of data-driven decision-making and computing science education in product leadership. Polly is @yukonpolly on Twitter and is also on LinkedIn Polly’s business, AI Career Boost Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2022-12-0743 min
It Shipped That WayHow Not to Ship Your Org Chart, with veteran product designer Brad EllisBrad Ellis pulls from his experience designing for Square, Lyft, and many other products to share what he’s learned about the incredible value of user testing, scaling product design across a large org, and how to make great experiences instead of shipping your org chart. Have feedback for the show? Send us an email or reach out on Twitter. It Shipped That Way is brought to you by Steamclock Software.2022-11-1658 min
The Digital Project ManagerCan Sales And Delivery Teams Get Along? (with Nick Wilkinson from Steamclock)Galen Low is joined by Nick Wilkinson—the Client Partnerships Manager at Steamclock Software—to talk about the tension between business development teams and project delivery teams and how to make that a healthy tension that pushes your organization forward instead of creating drag. 2022-11-1048 min
InfinitumMnogo je kume, ali kamera ...Ep 150Miroslav ispravio Aleka oko JAMF-a i pre-package iPad sa MDM profilima.If the battery in your 2016 or 2017 MacBook Pro won't charge past 1% — Apple SupportFirst Malware Running Natively on M1 Chip Discovered — MacRumorsIntel Downplays Apple's M1 Chip With 'Carefully Crafted' Benchmarks — MacRumorsBeleaguered Intel delays its 7nm chips yet again, now expected in 2022 or 2023 — MacDailyNewsResearcher breaches Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, and others with installer hack — MacDailyNewsNorth Dakota rejects anti-Apple App Store bill drafted by Epic Games lobbyistApp StoreApple’s...2021-02-211h 26
Code CultureSo tun als obTesten mit Mockito
Feedback und Rückblick
Upload-Filter kommen! Art 17 leider schlimmer als befürchtet | Anwalt Christian Solmecke
POP-BÜRO Region Stuttgart
Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock
News
iOS and iPadOS 14.5 Betas Let Users Pick The Default Streaming Music Service Used by Siri
Google still has not updated most of its iOS apps since privacy labeling took effect
Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs? - Steamclock Software
Facebook is reportedly working on a Clubhouse copy
Cyberpunk 2077 studio falls victim to ransomware attack, data...2021-02-1457 minCode CultureSo tun als obTesten mit Mockito
Feedback und Rückblick
Upload-Filter kommen! Art 17 leider schlimmer als befürchtet | Anwalt Christian Solmecke
POP-BÜRO Region Stuttgart
Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock
News
iOS and iPadOS 14.5 Betas Let Users Pick The Default Streaming Music Service Used by Siri
Google still has not updated most of its iOS apps since privacy labeling took effect
Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs? - Steamclock Software
Facebook is reportedly working on a Clubhouse copy
Cyberpunk 2077 studio falls victim to ransomware attack, data...2021-02-1457 min
Apfelfunk262: Bringo!- Sehen wir jetzt klarer? Viele neue Gerüchte über angebliches Apple AR/VR-Headset
- Dringend: macOS 11.2.1 erschienen
- Schwierige Pandemie-Logistik: Apple und die iPad-Kartons
- Kartenausbau: Apple Karten bekommen neue Funktionen
- Künftig schlechtere Apps wegen App Tracking Transparency?
- Kleiner App-Tipp: Cloud Battery
- Kleiner App-Nachruf: Call Recorder
- Umfrage der Woche
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- t3n Magazin: Was wir bisher über Apples VR-Headset wissen - https://t3n.de/news/apple-n301-vr-headset-details-1354122/
- Bloomberg: Dan Riccio angeblich in neuer AR-VR-Headset-Abteilung - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-08/apple-s-riccio-shifts-from-hardware-chief-to-ar-vr-headsets
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Mind at WorkBuilding a People-Centric Workplace Culture with Allen PikeIn this episode, I speak with Allen Pike. Allen is the CEO of the Vancouver-based app design and development company Steamclock. Some companies they call clients include the likes of Arc'teryx, Intuit, Hootsuite, and HP.
Allen believes in taking care of his people. So, I picked his brain about how he does it.
In this episode, we chat about building a people-centric company, running effective 1:1’s, implementing well-being programs and perks, and fostering positive mental health
Episode show notes: https://www.mindatwork.io/episodes/building-a-people-centric-workplace-culture-with-allen-pike
I hope that you enjoy the ep...2021-01-2152 min
The Omni ShowHow Allen Pike uses OmniFocus to run SteamclockFull transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com
Allen Pike runs Steamclock, where he helps design and develop polished apps in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. His work ranges from strategy and product management to coordinating design and development. Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Apple. On weekends, he hosts a podcast about silly facts.
Allen leverages OmniFocus to capture and prioritize the best ideas when working at SteamClock. His unique blend of perspectives and workflow afford him the feedback he needs to make mission-critical decisions quickly.
Some other people, places, and things mentioned:
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Up Up Down Down48. We Made a GameMalin Sundberg joins us to discuss Two Spies, the new turn-based iOS spy strategy we’ve made, along with its UI, Swift as a game development language, and the pros and cons of shipping a game as a side project.
Two Spies
The game on the App Store
Steamclock
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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots264: Having a Realistic Mindset (Allen Pike)Chad discusses reflection & goal planning, the scope of internal projects, and balancing time & team structure for both client & product work with Allen Pike, CEO & co-founder of Steamclock Software.
Steamclock Software
WeddingDJ
Stables and Volatiles
Dunbar's Number
Allen on Twitter
Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots2018-02-2740 min
ConsultEpisode 16: Allen PikeAllen Pike, CEO of Steamclock Software, discusses his career, running operations at SteamClock, balancing in-house apps with consulting work, and the Vancouver iOS scene. Allen also provides his thoughts on the trade-offs between cross-platform JavaScript frameworks and native development.
consultpodcast.com2017-02-2400 min
Release Notes#191: Allen Pike (part 2)Today we continue our conversation with Allen Pike of Steamclock Software. We talk about consistency in blogging, building a consultancy, and balancing internal products with contract work. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and iOS development than we have time to discuss on the show. […]2017-01-0929 minRelease Notes#190: Allen Pike (part 1)Today we talk to Allen Pike of Steamclock Software about how he started Steamclock Software, building a music app that refuses to play Nickelback, what to do when Apple’s API is insufficient, and selling into a semi-pro market. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and […]2017-01-0234 min
Cinema Gadfly7. BrazilMy guest for this month is Allen Pike, and he’s joined me to discuss the film I chose for him, the 1985 dystopian science fiction film Brazil. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.
Show notes:
My original review of Brazil
The film was directed by Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam
Who doesn’t love a good black comedy
Or 1940s fashion
Or 1980s technology
Some might argue that bureaucracy has already gone wrong
1985 is, in fact, before 1990
I love Michael Palin in basically everything he’s ever done
Another Terry Gilliam film was Time Bandit...2015-11-1000 min
Iterate80: Allen Pike, the Party MonsterAllen Pike talks to Marc, Seth, and Rene about his time at Apple working on iWork for Mac and iPad, going indie with Steamclock, WeddingDJ, and Party Monster, pricing apps, and more.2015-01-0300 minUp Up Down Down21. A Complete Tub of CrapGuy English returns this week to discuss 3D graphics APIs, so hold on to your butts.
We start with the origins of the GPU, and recount the evolution of graphics APIs. We dig in to what a modern GPU actually does, and then discuss Apple’s new graphics API, Metal. Guy and Nigel reminisce about just how horrible programming for the PlayStation 2 was, we talk latency, and finally Guy explores his relationship with Riddler trophies.
OpenGL
The good but weird Voodoo GPUs
3dfx’ Glide API
Microsoft Direct3D’s long winding path
GLQuake
Retained Mode, an evolut...2014-07-181h 38Up Up Down Down19. They Shipped It AnywayPhilippe Casgrain of NSNorth and formerly of Transgaming joins us to discuss porting games. We discuss the technologies behind virtualizing games on the Mac, ports gone bad, and the effects of consoles on the PC versions of games. Then, we talk a bit about Wii U games and Hearthstone.
Transgaming
WINE
Cedega
MiniGL, the subset of OpenGL that 3dfx shipped to get Quake ported to their cards
Cider
Steamclock Software
Mario Kart: Double Dash
New Super Luigi Bros. U 3D Bros.
Hearthstone
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
2014-07-041h 05Up Up Down Down13. A QWOP Sort of HumourDeveloper and humourist Curtis Lassam joins us to discuss humour in games. We discuss comically hard games, sandboxes as a vehicle for comedy, what makes it hard to write a funny game, and a goat.
Octodad
QWOP
Enviro-Bear 2000
The Worms series
Dwarf Fortress Boatmurdered
Team Fortress’ “Meet The Team” shorts
Steamclock Software
Cave Johnson’s dialogue from Portal 2
The dialogue in Duke Nukem Forever
Goat Simulator Trailer
“Xbox Sign Out” trolling
Spelunky
Super Time Force review on Polygon
2014-05-161h 05Up Up Down Down2. A Perfect Storm of Crummy Business DecisionsParveen Kaler joins us to discuss sequels, plastic guitars, and the unfair advantage of being Batman.
Guitar Hero’s 20 games in 5 years
Top Rated Games of 2013
Top Rated Films of 2013
Steamclock Software
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Unprofessional52: Allen Pike — The Taco Bell UnprofessionalAllen Pike of Steamclock joins Lex and Dave to talk about drinking and the choice between violent bodily functions.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2013-08-0849 min