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Follow-up:
Windows Hello
Demo video
Telling Twins Apart
Rubber-hose cyptanalysis
Relevant xkcd Comic
Apollo Robbins
mDNSResponder
Never re-write software
Vint Cerf
Zero-config
mDNSResponder source
Siracusa on Rendezvous
On rewriting dyld
Mac IIfx
F/X
Movie Magic
...
229: Just Smush the Screen Somewhere
Follow-up:
DragonDrop replacement: Yoink (App Store)
Mac stuff for 👵🏻👴🏻 (including Stephen Hackett)
dyld vs. dyldd vs. closured
App launch time thanks to dyld
Relevant WWDC 2016 talk
Encoding/decoding new formats on old hardware
Sorenson
WebRTC and Opus
WebKit annou...
228: I Never Cancel a Drag
- Follow-up:
- MacBook Adorable
- Keyboard "shim kit"
- USB-C hubs
- HomePod's "screen"
- Echo Show
- iOS Drag and Drop
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dyld3 - Marco gets his VBR wish
- Original ATP discussion (Overcast timestamp link)
- This episode, for example:
- Official CBR version, 80 MB
- VBR version, 56 MB
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
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227: Typing on Pillows
Follow-up:
Serenity Caldwell on the new iPad
Body size comparison
Screen size comparison
Typing to Siri
Ryan Jones makes some observations
New lock & power off behavior
"Offload"ing unused apps
Springboard treatment
Steve Troughton-Smith makes some observations
...
226: Smooth Scrolling Is For Suckers
Pre-show: Lots of Follow Up
John's ancient, slow, Mac Pro
APFS WWDC session and file name encoding
Norm forms
Compression vs. HFS+
iOS 11
Dots vs. Bars for signal strength
Drop of third party service integration
Perhaps the APIs were removed?
Many touch options for i...
225: A Conversation with Siri
Our WWDC 2017 live show!
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224: Yearning for Reflection
- Follow up:
- Multiple versions of photos
- Quietly improving MacBook Pro keyboards
- Pre-WWDC hopes and dreams
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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223: Throw the Fork Away
- Follow up:
- Those ✂️️🔑
- More on box lunches!
- Denise Young Smith: VP, HR → VP, Inclusion & Diversity
- Thunderbolt to become royalty-free (Intel press release)
- Apple Siri-speaker-with-screen
- Google I/O
- Kotlin
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate
- Follow up: Revisiting the quiz from last episode
- MP3 is dead; long live MP3
- iPad Mini is dead?
- MacBooks and MacBook Pros are alive?
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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221: Personal Body Chemistry
Follow up:
The politics in the last episode
Rear Touch ID and prototypes
Dirty laptop fabric
Alcantara
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
Oleophobic coating
Are people being backed into liking touchscreen laptops?
WikiTribune
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220: Executive Box Lunch
- Follow up: Moscone food research by Daniel Jalkut
- More on the potential rear Touch ID
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Assistive Touch
- Turning off Haptics:
Settings→Sounds & Haptics→System Haptics
- WikiTribune
- Basic humanity
- Amazon Echo Look
- Microsoft Surface Laptop
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Casey really loves his new copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Mario Kart over LAN
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219: Million Dollar Lunch
- ATP WWDC Live at AltConf! Monday, 5 June at 5 PM PDT. Get tickets here, and hurry in case they sell out!
- Follow up:
- APFS compression?
- WWDC lunches are probably about $40 each (via David Carlton)
- Connected #139 where Casey discusses Plex
-
Touch ID moving to the back?
- Revisiting the iPhone 7 Taptic home button
- Touch ID is capacitive
- Overcast improvements
- M4A chapter support
- Forecast
- Watch support 1 & 2
- Apple Design Awards
- Uber is über-gross
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: John travels to 🇬🇧
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218: MagSafe Cups of Water
Follow up:
APFS iOS app updates hit the app store
Marco's Overcast hacks
Podlove Simple Chapters
APFS free space
Nvidia coming back to the Mac
Kieran Healy's thoughts regarding Marco's comments about schedules
Clips gets special treatment in the app store
T-Shirts! wi...
217: Apology Mac Pro
- Follow up:
- Mac Pro transcript posted
- Workflow on ice
- APFS and free space
- T-Shirt Update
- Clips
- Mac Pro
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- Marco convinces himself Casey owes him $5
- Managing Mac Pro expectations
- Apple speed bumps
- MacRumors Buyer's Guide
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216: Thermal Corner
- Follow up:
- APFS file name encoding
- WWDC sitrep
- RIP Jason Seifer
- The Mac Pro
- The new iMac... Pro?
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- We adjudicate a bet
- T-Shirts are for sale! until 26 April
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215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken
- Follow up:
- APFS on iOS
-
Settings→General→Storage & iCloud Usage→Manage Storage - Oddities with file names
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- Ahoy, Telephone!
- Naked-er Robotic Core
- APFS on iOS
- Marco eats waffles
- MacBook One vs. MacBook Adorable
- WWDC
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Tiff joins us to talk Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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214: Christmas Phone
Follow-up:
Wii U display lag from Steven Impson
Zelda heads-up-display woes
Intel X99 high-end desktop options
Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro
Americans are cheap jerks
Marco needs a new pair of shoelaces
Analog(ue) #9: My Shoes Are a Bit Dusty
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Apple executive di...
213: Siri in a Can
- Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018
- Follow up:
- Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard)
- Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playground
- Apple in Education
- Apple's HomeKit Promo Website & Video
- YouTube TV (Verge Writeup)
- Intel goes 14nm again
- AMD Ryzen
- Xeon Gold
- Tim Cook's tease at the shareholders meeting
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Initital thoughts on the Nintendo Switch
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212: Meatspace Windows
- Follow-up: USB-C iPhone 8
- MacBook Boost case
- Windowing on iOS
- Accidental programmers
- Apple's decline in the education market
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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211: Hardware Mind Virus
- Pre-show: Xeon Gold
- Follow up:
- Booting APFS
- Tesla harassment suit
- Uber, generic trademarks, Lyft, and alternatives
- Overcast Ads
- iPhones with USB-C?
- Nintendo Switch cartridges have bitter taste
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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210: My Stupid Thumb
Pre-show: Noses, Sinuses, and Snot
Do By Friday
Follow up:
Control Center and AirPods
Stagehand
Backwards Bike
Online chat latency
Booting macOS from case-insensitive APFS
Recipe parts 1 & 2
Overcast 3
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209: Making Sausage-Making Glamorous
- AirPods, a couple of months in
- Follow up:
- Chromebooks vs. ARM Macs
- Case sensitive HFS+
- Twitterrific for the Mac
- Planet of the Apps
- Caavo
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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208: Your Face Is Your Face
- Follow up:
- What could ARM coprocessors in Macs do?
- Windows Hello face recognition
- More on iPads vs. Macs
- Crazy locked-down ARM-Mac rumor
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Casey learns the fine art of waffling
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207: Selling Hot Dogs on a Stick
- iPhone 7 long-term review, waffling about sizes
- Marco's review of spam-call blockers
- Nomorobo, the one you should get
- Follow up: Casey is un-American
- Upgrading your iOS device from HFS+ to APFS
- Apple earnings results
- What's up with iPad sales?
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: ARM chip doing more in future MacBooks
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206: All You Need Is Five Nerds
Pre-show: Casey needs his morning coffee
Follow up:
Consumer Reports does an about-face
Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Apple Magic Keyboard
WebKit's new Garbage Collector: Riptide
APFS is in iOS 10.3
Developers will be able ...
205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts
- Follow up: MacRumors talks with Lattner
- LLVM
- Clang
- OpenGL
- Swift
- ARC
- Swift Open Source
- Casey's love letter to Swift
enums - Swift Evolution "Commonly Rejected Changes" list
- asm.js, WebAssembly & TypeScript
- RxSwift
- Garbage collection vs. ARC
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show Neutral
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204: You’re Only Stable When You’re Dead
- Follow up: Marco and AirDrop
- Mac Progress Quandary 1 2 3
- Consumer Reports test results
- Chris Lattner leaves Apple for Tesla
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Blog CMS languages
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203: Screaming At Us From The Future
Naked robotic MacBook Pro core
MacRumors post (Hands-on video from after we recorded that answers some of our questions)
VGA passthrough coupler
Powerbook G5 Faux Mockup
On pros leaving the Mac
Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings on CarPlay
Mac users are grumpy
Apple's 2016 Year in Review
Chris Adamson buys a Mac Pro he didn't want
Finding an Alternative to macOS
John's tweet
John's Google Home
Dan Moren's early impressions
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco goes for a drive
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202: Something Has Gone Wrong
- Pre-show: Back Channel
- Follow up: Ryan Jones on the AirPods charging port
- Gurman on Mac Malaise
- Q&A
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201: Volume Micromanager
- Windows and Tabs of Siracusa County (Overcast)
- Follow up:
- Android Battery burn-down chart
- Our reviews of Super Mario Run launches
- Updated numbers
- Angry reviewers
- Apple extends accessory discount
- Our reviews of AirPods
- Tim Cook's comment on Mac desktops
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- Marco discovers gasoline
- A new member of the Siracusa family
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