Casey Liss

Casey shares the story of his tech fandom (starting from early childhood), through to his discovery of the tech podcasting community, work as an independent app developer and co-hosting of shows such as Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue). He also elaborates on career highlights, the friends he’s made along the way and what motivates him as a creative producer. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (producer) Find Casey at caseyliss.com. Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text. Links and Show Notes It Was Accidental 00:00:00 Marco Arment Dan Benjamin Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. 5by5 John Siracusa Hypercritical (podcast) Neutral SoundCloud Accidental Tech Podcast Serial 99% Invisible Apple, Inc. Back to Work Merlin Mann App Store (iOS/iPadOS) Apple Podcasts iPod Tech Fandom and Community 00:09:29 IBM The photo of Casey as a toddler with an IBM computer All-in-one PC Mac (computer) Windows 3.1 i386 DOS IBM Disk Operation System Version 3.30 User Manual in the Internet Archive Command-line interface Intel 8088 Intel 8283 AUTOEXEC.BAT Discman Visual Basic (classic) Floppy disk Software development (what Casey refers to as ‘professional development’) Virginia Tech Linux Unix C++ .NET C Sharp (programming language) (also C#) Microsoft Charlottesville, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Web development Personal computer (PC) (Casey refers to Windows PCs specifically.) Marco and Casey’s extensive Tumblr discussion ThinkPad Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Ubuntu 8/04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) MacBook (2006–2012) (polycarbonate model) iPhone iPod touch iPad Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, “Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.” - Michael Lawrence Films (YouTube video) Giving a Crap 00:28:27 Casey’s apps on the App Store Peek-a-view MaskerAid Vignette (no longer available) Callsheet (launched after this episode was recorded) Casey’s use of the word ‘cancelled’ refers to cancel culture. Connected ATP membership (including the bootleg) ATP store Studio Neat ATP × Studio Neat Chicken Hat Collab Rocket Relay FM Christina Warren GitHub Tiff Arment Business and Additional Media 00:39:00 Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic Do By Friday Patreon Twitter Three member-only instalments to celebrate 500 episodes ATP Movie Club: My Cousin Vinny ATP Movie Club: The Rundown ATP Movie Club: Edge of Tomorrow Swift (programming language) Analog(ue) Myke Hurley Cotton Bureau YouTube A Great Equaliser 00:46:14 RSS Spotify Sirius XM Sydney, Australia What Is Dynamic Ad Insertion? Roman Mars What Is the Open Web? Facebook Name Your Heroes 00:55:15 Upgrade Jason Snell ‘Underscore’ David Smith (or @_davidSmith) Widgetsmith on the App Store Highlights 00:59:38 Analog(ue) #5: The Only Way Out Is Through Stephen Hackett iOS Phil Schiller Casey’s ATP highlights 317: We’re Customers Too 96: The Windows of Siracusa County Window management Earlier episodes of Hypercritical featuring the words ‘Siracusa County’ 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County 66: The Housewives of Siracusa County 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U The Human Element 01:04:53 Parasocial interaction Two Headed Girl Casey’s Instagram profile The joke about temperature refers to the ongoing discussion between Casey, his fellow podcasters and listeners about the pros and cons of Celsius and Fahrenheit as measures of ambient air temperature. Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion Contact Website: rsspod.net Email: [email protected] Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of Casey Liss's shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Casey as a participant of this academic podcasting project.