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

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170: Casey Beats John, 29–29

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169: My Fingers Are Still Moving

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168: Coffee Stops Working

Pre-show: Our lack of T-shirts Casey's "Doppelgänger" Casey's "Doppelgänger's" Twin Brother Follow-up: No more WWDC failed-charge issues Volvo trashes Tesla SAE Automated Driving Levels Ejecting volumes in Windows Overcast quicksync Unit testing is a Good Thing™ Clo...

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167: They’ve Opened the Door to Streakers

John was on vacation in California Alcatraz Cable cars Lombard Street WWDC 2016 tickets and considerations Under the Radar #24 Transfer Policy Layers Conference Expenses Follow-up on EV charging stations ChargePoint.com MacBook One update MKBHD pokes fun at himself...

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166: Fitness Turd

Tesla facelift Neutral #3: A Bra Phase Follow-up: Superchargers vs. gas stations SAE's automated driving levels Amazon Echo, Dash Button, and Siri outside the U.S. Siri feature availability Networking gear Ubiquiti's 8-port PoE switch Marco's big HP 1810G-24 switch ...

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165: Time Was…

Follow-up: Tesla model naming Today's Tesla Autopilot, tomorrow's self-driving cars? _David Smith's Tesla Review Self-driving truck convoy completes journey across Europe Tesla Superchargers Marco's surveillance camera Ubiquiti ERLite-3 router UniFi 802.11ac long-range ...

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164: Waiting for the Bla-Bloop

Flash drives for car music Samsung Flash Drive Fit Marco's modification Follow-up: Apple and renewable energy Purple Safari 1Password stable override 1Password beta TextExpander 6's controversial move to subscription pricing MJ Tsai's summary 1Password for Teams 1Pa...

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163: Wet Right Thumb

Pre-show: Theories on seasonal allergies Follow-up: Walmart is slightly less evil than we thought, at least in renewable energy Sustainability Walmart's Approach to Renewable Energy (PDF) Will we ever see USB ports on the iPad Pro? Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter Ubun...

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162: iPhone Sorry Erin

Follow-up: How many iPad and Mac users also carry iPhones? Why not use CloudKit or BackBlaze B2 for Overcast file uploads? Car break-ins via keyless entry amplifiers Apple's "Loop You In" Event Sad times for the Mac Intel Skylake Oculus founder's comments 40 Years in 4...

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161: Dark Mode Is Your Hat

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160: Be Careful Out There

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159: A Typo On Your Brake Pads

Pre-show: The Ferrari Siracusa (really) Ruf Dinan BMW 1M Cobb Follow-up: Mono vs. Xamarin Apple's self-blacklisted ethernet driver Disk Utility typos Disk Utility and SuperDuper John can't resist a history lesson about filesystems (🛎) MFS HFS HFS+ btrfs John's q...

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158: You Can’t Outlaw Math

Pre-show: Driving John's cold over to Craig's house The Talk Show interview with Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue Follow-up: Figma is in the browser Comic Sans was created for Microsoft Bob Microsoft Buys Xamarin Project Islandwood Ximian Apple and the FBI Statement...

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157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible

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156: A Mac on Fire

Follow-up: Previous-episode feedback and constructive criticism Einstein's quote Photos.app crop/aspect behavior theories Keyboard shortcuts Bluetoot (©MerlinCo 2011) headphone dongle concept TDK Boombox AGPtek Bluetooth to headphone converter Modern equivalent Se...

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155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original

Follow-up: Serial numbers on serviced Mac logic boards Long-distance wireless charging Artemis Shared iPad developer guidelines Walt Mossberg discovers the functional high ground Jim Dalrymple weighs in John Gruber weighs in Apple app design Marco's piece from last...

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154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy

Follow-up: Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable? John's Destiny Heads-Up Display HDR Panasonic P55VT60 Pirate Eye Patches Quirks &a...

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153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures

Pre-Show: Winter weather The Long Dark Memory barrier Pirate eye patches Follow-up: Protocol extensions Testing NSURLSession with Swift Studies on blue light and sleep quality National Center for Biotechnology Information (via @technorav) Harvard The shade of blue ...

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152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card

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151: The Opposite of Final

Follow-up: UpThere AWS Little Snitch Upthere's response EC2 iPhone 7 Headphone Jack New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One Griffin "MagSafe" Hyper USB-C Hub CES E3 Swift Code of Conduct linux-kernel mailing list Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post Swift pro...

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150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot

Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores Casey gets a new Apple TV Plex Harmy's Despecialized Editions Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini Apple SIM Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS Cintiq What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016? Marco — Apple TV:...

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149: Everyone’s on Vacation

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148: Your Feelings Are Real

Follow-up: Green shifting (see also) Continuous release schedules Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version iPhone 7 battery theories 4-inch iPhone 6S predictions Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case Marco's slim battery brick Negativity about Apple Apple TV App Store challenges Ctr...

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147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery

Follow-up: The iPhone Lightning Dock exists Benefits of Lightning headphones USB Type C supports analog audio Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV Swift/Foundation bridging Apple iPhone 6S battery case Porsche Panamera ...

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146: Control + Money + Smallness

Follow-up: iMacs and IR ports mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook German video Vint Cerf DARPA TCP/IP IETF Stuart Cheshire iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack Existing Lightning-equipped headphones Slimmed-down headphone jack Lightning Di...

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145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens

Pre-show / Follow-out‡: John Siracusa Paper Doll John riding on Merlin's back John on top of Hypercritical Mountain Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie Top Four on Take-Out Food Roanoke Colony Extracurriculars: Reconcilable Differences Top Four Robot or Not The ...

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144: Digital Schmear

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143: Capital F, Capital C

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142: Hateful Game of Frogger

Follow-out*: Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar Follow-up: Facebook's ineptitude Spotlight indexing for NAS drives Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts? CPM Apple TV S/PDIF The Talk Show #134 Upgrade #61 Konami Code John's Wii U Set...

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141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden

Apple TV and home theater Apple's guide to choosing a capacity Optical splitter from HDMI Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is Follow-up: 5400 RPM benchmarks, charts Mac GPUs, heat, and noise 2015 5K iMac overheats? Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV? M...