Fletcher Penney, creator of MultiMarkdown and MultiMarkdown Composer, joins Systematic to talk about Markdown’s past and future, life on the App Store, and some awesomely nerdy Top 3 Picks.

Fred Cheng, co-founder of Simperium, joins Brett to talk about Simplenote, Automattic and working from coffeehouses.

Moisés Chiullan (Arthouse Cowboy, Screen Time, and a plethora of 5by5 shows and appearances) joins Brett for Systematic’s first live episode. Discussion of movies, fish tanks and top picks ensues.

Carla White, the designer and inventor behind the Happy Tapper apps, guests this week to talk about taking ideas from spark to completion and then getting them seen (and bought).

Dan Frakes, senior editor for Macworld, joins Systematic to talk about the life or a reviewer, the universe of an editor and everything about his top three picks for the week.

Collin Donnell, developer of the iOS app Pinbook for Pinboard, guests to talk about app development as a full-time job, drinking at soccer games, living in Portland, making great coffee and good reasons to wear a watch.

Myke Hurley of 70Decibels talks about getting along just fine without Inbox Zero, GTD, and the like.

Christopher Gamblée-Wallendjack guests this week to talk about the benefits of long walks in New York, loving his work and the evolution of home recording. Brett just keeps interrupting.

Writer and Commentator Patrick Rhone joins Brett to talk about conquering physical and mental challenges, career decisions and “unconscious computing.”

Jonathan Snook joins Brett to discuss open source web development, building careers in tech and the (mostly cheery) disposition of the web developer community.