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863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek

August 23, 2026 · 1 h 20 min

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Werner Jainek of Cultured Code on nearly 20 years of Things: implementing Siri AI, building a custom sync engine, and staying independent and unfunded since 2007.

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Werner Jainek

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