Gyroscope provides a dashboard for your life, integrating all kinds of data and giving you a beautiful view on that data. I spoke with their CEO, Anand Sharma about how they built it. Running by Gyroscope is one of the first React Native-based

5: Programming Languages in 2015 with Dion Almaer

Dec 22nd, 2015 59m 22s

I didn’t plan on doing a 2015 retrospective of any sort, but then Swift was open sourced and I realized that this year was amazing for evolution of mainstream programming languages. Join Dion Almaer and me for a conversation about programming l

4: DevEx and the Netflix cloud with Sangeeta Narayanan

Dec 8th, 2015 56m 33s

Few internet companies operate on the scale of Netflix (this is a mathematical certainty with respect to bandwidth, given that Netflix accounts for almost 37% of all traffic). To make that work, Netflix relies on a host of microservices built a

3: Khan Academy’s Mobile Apps with Andy Matuschak

Nov 24th, 2015 57m 20s

Andy Matuschak, iOS development expert (formerly at Apple), shares his views on app development as the mobile development lead at Khan Academy. We talk about building cross-platform apps, application architecture, having a “source of truth” wit

2: Elm at NoRedInk with Richard Feldman and Aaron Strick

Nov 13th, 2015 38m 4s

NoRedInk builds a web-based grammar and writing platform for English teachers, solving the problem of workbooks not being adaptive or personalized to the learner’s interests. Over the past few years their front end code has migrated from jQuery

1: Frank Krueger of Calca and iCircuit fame

Oct 16th, 2015 45m 31s

For the first episode of How Apps Are Built, I had a chance to talk with Frank Krueger. Though I hadn’t spoken to Frank before this podcast, I have been a happy user of his app Calca for a long time. In addition to Calca, Frank is known for iCi

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