The Omni Show

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Liz Marley, unlike your host, is not afraid of math — and she brings that fearlessness to work every day on OmniGraffle, which is chock-full of math-y goodness. After getting a computer science degree from Harvey Mudd, then joining The Omni Group in 2005 and working as a tester, OmniBugZapper PM, tester, OmniFocus PM, and tester, two years ago she walked down the hall and switched to engineering. She also volunteers for App Camp for Girls, does innovative technical talks (using Swift playgrounds), and keeps up on her knitting. You can find Liz @emarley on Twitter. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: Africa by Toto Ken Case Brian Young Micro.blog Apple Radar Swift Objective-C Swift and Objective-C Interoperability Kristina Sontag Pancakes Bacon Fritz Klug OmniPlan Delta Drawing Logo Windows Microsoft SQL Server Craig’s List OmniOutliner OmniWeb Best Buy Costco Hula hoops Jumpropes App Store Grey Osten Laura Savino CocoaConf Seattle Xcoders Affine Transforms Swift by Northwest OmniFocus Curt Clifton

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Mark got hooked on video and special effects at the age of five when he saw a TV show about the effects behind The Empire Strikes Back. After creating videos for vast government bureaucracies and The History Channel, Mark moved to Seattle to come work at Omni — which, from his point of view, is a video production company that happens to create some companion software to go along with the movies. Mark also hosts The Optical podcast, which you should listen to. And — most critically — Mark is this show’s intrepid producer. You can find Mark @bobtiki on Twitter. You may, if you meet him in person, call him Bob. It’s fine. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: The Great British Baking Show Omni customer story video (an example video, shot at Camp 1 Vineyard) Omni Slack channel Computer Science BASIC Unix VAX OmniPlan OmniPlan videos James Bond villains Final Cut Pro Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Adobe Audition 4K Resolution Canon C Series Camera Tweening Special effects SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès Darth Vader Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill National Institutes of Health Scrooged Bill Murray Media 100 Avid PowerMac 9600 Gaithersburg, MD Boston Final Cut Server History Channel Ancient Aliens That one guy with the hair Digging for the Truth North Carolina Roanoke Colony MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson NSCoderNight DC Jose Vazquez Seattle Cinefex magazine Douglas Trumbull Harrison Ellenshaw Howie Weed Star Trek: The Motion Picture Tiki Kilauea Cove Tikibar.tv Rum DisneyLand Florida Fort Lauderdale Florida Keys Tampa Bay Critiki Raspberry Pi Adafruit Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Andrea studied fine art at Michigan State and human-computer interaction at the University of Michigan. One day, while working at the school library, it was discovered that she could make websites — which launched her career as a UX designer, and since 2012 she’s been designing apps at Omni. Andrea, it must be told, is firmly against stealing money from puppies — or maybe she’s against treating puppies as a particularly cuddly form of currency and then stealing them. Nobody knows which. Don’t do either! You can find Andrea @amcvittie on Twitter. And you can find her work in every single Omni app. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: User Experience (UX) User Experience and Ethics Mike Monteiro OmniFocus Sync Encryption Tim Ekl OmniGraffle Apple Pencil OmniFocus Tags Vesper Curt Clifton Jim Correia darkpatterns.org Seattle Art Museum Omni Slack Group Rosemary Orchard Omni Support Listener question from Twitter Michigan State Library Adobe Photoshop Shadows from the Walls of Death University of Michigan School of Information Oliver, who’s a good dog

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Brian Covey studied computer science at The Evergreen State College — which your host also attended, but back before computers were a thing. After some normal young-person-bouncing-around a little, Brian came to shore at Omni in 2001, where he became the leader, dear and fearless, of Omni’s Support Humans. You can find Brian @hidvorak on Twitter. (You can contact Omni support at support.omnigroup.com.) You can also find a video of Brian doing the worm in an Omni commercial from 2006. Absolutely not to be missed! Some other people, places, and things mentioned: The Music of Aaron Cherof (Aaron works at Omni and does the music for this show) Elevate Support conference Ken Case Chuck Toporek OmniWeb British Columbia Ninjas Droids Curt Clifton Pair programming OmniPlan Babylon 5 Seattle NetZero Mac OS X Boomerangs Nirvana K Dorm Experience Music Project (now MoPOP) Dave Grohl Nomeansno Skinner Box Mythical Man Month Spokane Antonín Dvořák Dvorak keyboard Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Curt Clifton came to Omni while on sabbatical from his computer science professorship at Rose-Hulman — and never went back. He’s spent much of his six years at Omni on the OmniFocus team, where he clicks checkboxes for a living. Curt’s a fan of the local association football team. He also likes woodworking and distance-running, though he has yet to explore the synergistic possibilities of doing both at the same time. You can find Curt @curtclifton on Twitter and at curtclifton.net. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: iOS 11 drag and drop OmniFocus 3: tags Files app World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) (aka Dub Dub) Lake Union iOS 7 The notch AppleScript OmniOutliner Ethan Schoonover Kinkless GTD Getting Things Done, by David Allen Indiana Omni Forums Ken Case Tim Wood The Amish Vanilla Ice Crocodile Dundee Pennsylvania Dutch Country Good ’N Plenty Restaurant Amana Colonies Tim Ekl Jim Correia Pomona College Harvey Mudd College Reid Callan Tom Bunch Cubs Major League Soccer Cup Boston Marathon Marathon Support Humans

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com For our first episode we interview Kristina Sontag, who runs Omni’s test department — a group tireless, fearless, and strikingly effective in its hunt for bugs. Kristina got her start playing games for a living at LucasArts. Between there and today she’s also worked on educational software, gotten a pilot’s license, volunteered for App Camp for Girls, and helped organize the Emerald City Supporters. When she’s not doing everything else, she’s playing Destiny. She may even be thinking about Destiny at this very moment. You can find Kristina on Twitter @knsontag. Some other people and places mentioned: WWDC Jean McDonald Liz Marley Grey Osten App Camp App Santa Rosa, CA Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Skywalker Ranch George Lucas Ron Gilbert Humongous Entertainment OmniFocus for iPhone Brian Covey Ken Case Float plane Kenmore Air Seattle Sounders Major League Soccer (MLS)