Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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22: Full Brichter Jul 18, 2013

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Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions.
Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time.
Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment.
Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+.
Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives.
iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator, which comes recommended by storage expert Dave Nanian.
NAS backup options, since Backblaze doesn't do network drives: CrashPlan (with widespread upload-speed issues), or Arq (with potentially expensive Amazon Glacier or S3 costs).
Backing up Mac filesystem metadata, Backup Bouncer, and current scores of online backup apps.
Data hoarding and falling into John's backup vortex.
The Apple Keynotes podcast feed.

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21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness Jul 12, 2013

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iWatch follow-up.
Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch.
Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch.
iWatch as a means of identity.
How regular people use iOS devices, as witnessed by John.
Multitasking-switcher implications in iOS 7.
iCloud's priority within Apple.
Dropbox Datastore API, including its JavaScript API.
Does the Datastore API obviate the need for a web service?
Nerd-targeted products.

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20: A Box and a Strap Jul 05, 2013

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Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch".
Technological Conservatism.
Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery.
Chris Harris on iOS 7 icons.
"Free-to-play" games.
Coding for practice, and learning new APIs or languages.
Overly specialized apps.
Glympse (Casey's road-trip-tracking app).
Feed Wrangler by _DavidSmith as a Google Reader replacement that's compatible with Reeder for iPhone.
Lex Friedman's RSS-sync roundup.
ReadKit for Mac as a potential NetNewsWire replacement.
Dr. Drang's branch of Marco's RSS-subscriber-count script.
Why is OS X version adoption slower than iOS, and could Mavericks be free?

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19: Designed by App in Cal Jun 27, 2013

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John's review progress and show-duration predictors.
The WWDC 2013 intro video. (Siri's WWDC 2012 intro)
Apple's "Making a Difference, One App at a Time" video.
"Designed by Apple in California".
"Jobs" (Ashton Kutcher) trailer.
Why developers should (or shouldn't) require iOS 7 this fall.
"The Transporter" series.
iOS 7 Calendar app UI.
Cool-looking vs. well-designed.
Our iTunes reviews.
"Better" and "worse" programming languages.

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18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum Jun 20, 2013

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Casey's fans at WWDC.
Mac Pro followup. (John's halo-car post)
The Xbox 180.
Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iOS 7.
Predicting iOS 7 adoption.
Neven Mrgan on iOS 7's icon grid and a rebuttal.
New Mac Pro appears in Geekbench
parallelize.c/xargs parallel processing

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17: Can’t Innovate Anymore Jun 11, 2013

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Special early WWDC episode this week:

Reactions to the keynote.
New Mac Pro
Initial iOS 7 design impressions.

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16: John, We Don’t Play Games Jun 07, 2013

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Opening theme by Larry King (@laking).
The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon/TwUI.
The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book.
Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C?
Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15".
Mac Pro speculation.
Major iOS 7 API wishes: better inter-app communication mechanisms, "default app" associations, and periodic background updates.
Quick WWDC tips.
- Casey's WWDC predictions
- Casey's WWDC tips from last year

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15: Cat, Modifier Cat May 31, 2013

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Why Marco sold The Magazine.
Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass.
Tim Cook at AllThingsD.
Cook's presence and speaking style.
What Cook implicitly said about future Apple products.
WWDC predictions for OS X.

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14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars May 24, 2013

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Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree.
Transcendental Money.
Square Cash.
B2W 120 on financial "safety nets".
Tumblr, Yahoo, and not screwing it up.
Cloud hosting and moving up the stack.
The modern game console's role. the Xbox One's hardware design, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes.

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13: Animated Kale May 17, 2013

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Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Thanks for the ATP theme song, Jonathan!
Casey and Marco get deluged with to-do app recommendations.
The difficulty in getting people to change to a new app, but conversely, the potential success for slightly differentiated apps in an otherwise crowded market.
Google I/O keynote reactions.
Localizing apps to different languages.
The sad state of iTunes Connect.
Staged rollouts, purchase analytics, beta testing, and the different developer attitudes of Apple and Google.
Why Google is consistently able to kick Apple's butt in services (and engineering?).
Google Play Music All Access, Hangouts, and the new Google Maps.
Apple's Objective-C to Javascript bridge.
The App Store UI.

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