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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Latest Episodes:

102: Marco Is Not a Platform Jan 30, 2015

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson)
- Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
- How do you learn a new language?
- Apple's earnings
What's going on with Photos.app?
Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles:
Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt)
Post-show:
- Microsoft today
  - HoloLens
  - Kinect
  - Maya
  - Rocket
  - Oculus
- John's sad TV news
  - John's TV
  - Destiny
  - HUD
  - HUD Issues
  - Full House

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101: Big Plastic Finger Jan 23, 2015

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Follow-up:
- 12" MacBook Air
  - Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
  - RIP Thunderbolt?
  - How do you power it?
- Reliability Probability
iPad Pro with an optional stylus?
- Paper Pencil
- Cosmonaut
CES
Audio Hijack 3
- Screenshot
- Workflow
Post-show:
- How much is Marco saving by using Go?
- WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps

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100: MacBook Shuffle Jan 16, 2015

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Pre-show:
- 🎉 Episode 100 🎉
- Showbot woes (again)
Follow-up:
- Anecdotal evidence of USB usage
- Context of the 12" Air discussion
  - Keynote
- Thinness
- Powering a 12" Air
  - Troy Gaul's first theory
  - Troy Gaul's second theory
- Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebooks?
  - Molar
  - Stampede for iBooks
- Are Thunderbolt and Lightning dead? (via Oliver Agar)
What can Apple do to fix reliability issues?
- Interview with Andy Matuschak
- Marco on The Talk Show
Post-Show Neutral

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99: Pop-Up Headlights Jan 09, 2015

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Follow-Up:
- SSL
  - In schools & corporations
  - Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL
  - SOCKS
- Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger)
- Marco's Go feed poller update
Apple's Software Quality
How to write for understanding
- Marco laments about software quality in the past
Rumored 12" MacBook Air
- PlugBug
- Chockenberry on a potential ARM transition
- Fat binary
- Special thanks to _DavidSmith for finding "bezels" in Hypercritical #22

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98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits Jan 03, 2015

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Follow-up:
- More on John's windowing strategy
  - Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
  - DragThing
- Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
Marco (mostly) hates new things again
Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
- App Store Review Guidelines, specifically 5.6
- Apple's humorous announcement
- Pointy-haired boss
- Panic
Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
- Tweetbot
- The Incident
- Space Age
- objc.io
- phpBB
Post-show
- Textshotting
- Boar's Head Pancetta
- Oxford comma
  - Examples
- When to give up on a language
  - Node Timers module

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97: You Have to Know When to Stop Dec 26, 2014

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Follow-Up:
- Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey)
- Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs
- Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately
Marco expands his horizons
- POODLE attack
- cURL
- SSL/TLS
- Node.js
- supervisord
- beanstalkd
- curl-multi
- camo
- Heroku
- memcached
- nginx
- JavaScript prototypes
- Pentium Pro
- V8 Engine
- setTimeout()
- Go
- NSURLSession
- MacMiniColo
- Linode
- Zend Framework
- Hack
- HHVM
- CloudKit
Holidays as the family tech support expert
Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci
- Casey's Review (posted after this show was recorded)
- Analog(ue)
- Synology NAS Devices
Post-show:
- Holiday equipment physical inspections
- Hopscotch
  - Turing completeness
- Be sure to turn on relatives' iCloud Backups
- John's etiquitte guide to real-time tweeting to podcast hosts while listening
  - Yes, John knows you can copy to the clipboard from Google Authenticator
  - IRLTalk
- Hopscotch achieves Turing completeness

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96: The Windows of Siracusa County Dec 19, 2014

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Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience
Follow-up:
- App Store Woes
- Crossy Road financials
- PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_)
- Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast)
  - However, rollout will be staggered
- Sleazy Twitter app scans
- Nick Arnott corrects Marco
- Christmas comes early for John, perhaps because of Romain Moisescot
  - Pastebot (RIP)
Microsoft Acquires Hockey App
- Azure Mobile Services
Should HTTP or HTTPS be the default browser state?
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Eric Schmidt is confused, as usual
Finally, a very special after-show, starting with John missing WindowShade (image).

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95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You Dec 11, 2014

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Follow-Up:
- Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.)
- Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response
Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps
This week's App Store drama
Obligations to maintain your apps
- Why Casey discontinued Fast Text
- Open-source time commitments
  - Casey's Accidentalbot and Camel
  - John's CPAN modules
  - Marco's FCModel and BugshotKit
Post-show:
- John has some opinions on his PS4 so far.

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94: Spirited Defense of Pong Dec 05, 2014

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Follow-Up:
- Casey clears up his car intentions
  - Golf R Wagon/Estate
Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
- App Store Rule 5.6
- Paul Haddad's Idea
Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
- Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
  - One, two, three, four
- PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha
Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating?
Game monetization and Crossy Road
Post-show:
- Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
  - (John's son dominates Jason Snell)
- More on profitability (AppFigures)
- Desert Golfing
  - Up Up Down Down Interview
- Frog Fractions
- Scorched Earth
- Super Gravitron
- Super Hexagon
- VVVVVV
- Threes!

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93: I’m Not Running a Boarding House Here Nov 26, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Correction on battery increases year over year
  - Hypercritical #74
  - Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
    - The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
    - Palm V
- IIS on !Windows
- Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does
- Homescreens
  - Some people like them empty
Group homescreen shaming
- #Homescreen and the top apps
- John
- Marco
- Casey
Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
Post-show Neutral:
- VW Golf R
  - Autoblog photos
  - Interior photo
- Flat-bottomed steering wheels
- Possible upgrades for Erin's car
- Oxymoronic Cars
  - X5
  - SRT-8
  - Tesla Model X
- Other options:
  - 3-series GT
  - Outback
  - CTS-V Wagon
  - Lexus ES
  - Honda Accord
  - Volvo V60
  - Honda Odyssey
  - F-150

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