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#54: Works As Intended

June 19, 2013 at 1:30pm • 57 minutes

Gina and Kevin discuss Android 4.0's controversial Ok/Cancel swap, and the optimal order of common action buttons on touchscreen devices. Then, how to weather the storm of a major redesign backlash: when to yield to user demands and when to stand strong.

#53: Shocked, Pink, and Flattened

June 13, 2013 at 12:00am • 60 minutes

Gina & Kevin poke around iOS 7 and wonder how developers can and will respond to such a notable change, and ponder how to choose which SDK/API/platform is worth a dev's time.

#52: Schrödinger's Fitbit

June 5, 2013 at 1:00pm • 53 minutes

Gina & Kevin go all quantified self and discuss the personal API, data capture apps, and how mundane and interesting visualizing personal analytics can be.

#51: Space for Text About Things

May 29, 2013 at 1:00pm • 59 minutes

Gina & Kevin get blog-y: Launching a new blog, thinking about your current blog, blogs as necessary story spaces, and writing spaces that have no server at all.

#50: Offload Your Mini-Fridge

May 23, 2013 at 1:00pm • 1 hour 9 minutes

Kevin and Gina talk Google I/O, Larry Page, negativity, hypocrisy, and how everything is amazing (but moving too slowly). Then Kevin looks back at CoworkBuffalo's first year and discusses what it takes to start up a co-working space.

#49: Battery-based Packing Scheme

May 15, 2013 at 10:00pm • 1 hour 8 minutes

Google I/O 2013 is coming up, and it's supposedly all about the developers. What can Google really give them? And how far has Chrome come as an app platform?

#48: Draper-esque Long-view Thinking

May 8, 2013 at 12:45pm • 57 minutes

Kevin & Gina discuss the gotchas and benefits of using services like TaskRabbit to hire strangers to run errands for you on the internet. Then, they cover audio transcription services versus speech-to-text apps, and Kevin's Don Draper moment.

#47: Forks with Benefits

May 1, 2013 at 12:30pm • 57 minutes

Gina wrestles with her open-source project reaching slow, stable, less agile maturity—and then getting forked! And Kevin just finished going a week without email. Weird lessons all around.

#46: Attic of Notifications

April 24, 2013 at 8:45pm • 60 minutes

Kevin & Gina discuss notifications: on your smartphone, desktop, from the browser, on your wrist and on your heads-up display. How do users and developers reduce noise, increase signal, and make our apps tell us what we need to know and no more? Then, Kevin describes his love affair with custom notifications thanks to IFTTT and Pushover.

#45: The Perfection of the Drumming

April 17, 2013 at 1:15pm • 1 hour 2 minutes

Gina & Kevin get on the therapist couch and talk about their relationships and biases with Google, and whether there's room for improvement. Also: contributing to open source projects, and Rush.