Next, John Siracusa returns to the show to follow up on Federighi’s segment on Swift. ‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’, With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John SiracusaĪpple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift - Apple’s new programming language that just went open source. She is one of the Studiomates crew in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband, Keith and her dog, Jax. That didn’t work out in the end, which is a shame because it was a lovely piece of work.īefore that, Mandy worked as product lead at Typekit, whipping their communications into shape. More recently, Mandy assembled a dream team to work on her startup Editorially, an online platform for collaborative writing and editing. She has edited articles for A List Apart and books for A Book Apart (including the particularly handsome first book). Mandy edited Frank Chimero’s The Shape Of Design. She takes other people’s words and hammers them into shape. And if we aren’t careful, it may not change in all the ways we want it to. The ways we transmit information-and the ways in which that information accumulates into narratives-is changing.