Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Featured
- Fetched
Follow-up:
Declan night one
It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg".
Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics.
Saturday Night Live
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
"Lazy Sunday"
"On a Boat"
"[Cheney] in a Box"
T-Pain
Autotune
"Semicolon"
App stor...
89: DeLorean + McLaren
Casey's new arrival
Some background
The Jackal
Follow-Up:
Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat
The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated
FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan
ECC RAM is actually worth it
Marco's intentions ...
88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym
Follow-up:
SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury)
Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping?
Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive
Dropbox document picker
Bluetooth mesh networking
Twitter's developer conference
Twitt...
87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills
- Follow-up:
- Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
- Unfunny funny skits
- Retconned Retina iPad Mini
- The A5 lives on for another year or two
- Apple's ASP strategy tax (John, previously)
- The new iPads
- John's iOS device plans
- Authy two-factor auth app
- iMac Retina 5K
-
John's Review
- Buy the iBook!
- Buy the Kindle eBook
- Buy Ars Premier to get all the things
- About John's review
- xScope
- Lattner's tweet
- Mike Ash's Friday Q&A
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86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block
Trends in social networks
App.net Broadcast
Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm)
Cupcake
The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
Follow-up:
iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research)
Dev Forums
Hendrik's video
Test patt...
85: The Unexpected Hard Part
Follow-Up:
John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
Thumb commercial
Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
iPad resizable-apps vid...
84: The Load-Bearing Finger
Follow-Up:
Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs
Upgradeable Apple Watches
Apple S1
How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store?
Apple Watch Edition's special box
Apple Pay and banking
The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling
Trade names and the NFL
If Steve...
83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life
Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
Follow-up:
More on Retina displays for the Mac
Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake
iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
Optical image stabilization
Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
Barefeats benchmark
Marco teaches Casey about photography
...
82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate
- Follow-up:
- Marco and John get excited about a monitor
- Sexism epiphanies
- TiVo Mega
- Macworld layoffs
- iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
- iPhone 6 & 6+
- Special guest appearance by Tiffany Arment
- Apple Watch
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81: You Left Your Money in a Bank
Follow-up:
TiVo service charges and OTA channels
Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
Anand's announcement
Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
Hackers stea...
80: Tangled in Version Numbers
Follow-up:
iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
Lightning cables
Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
When to ask for a replacement
Strain relief design
USB icon on the cable
There's still a Mac with an optical drive
CD-ROM nostalgia
CD caddy
Math co-processor
Kenwoo...
79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve
Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
Follow-up:
Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
PVC
Apple's official cable
Amazon's knockoffs
Monoprice's knockoffs
Cables' Springy Bits
TRRS conne...
78: Fleece the Whales
Pre-Show:
Casey's New Podcast
Follow-Up:
USB Type-C connector finalized
Peter Bright's comment
xkcd
ARM Macs
Summly
WIMP
_DavidSmith's Version Stats
More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
Jared's new job
Release Notes #65
_DavidSmith's Developing Perspec...
77: Full-Stack Businessperson
Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
Journey Soundtrack
Transport Tycoon
TT Original MIDI Music
TT Remastered MP3 Music
OpenTTD
Follow-up:
Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
Apple and IBM
John's review status
Synergy
Overcast status
Mixing server roles for burst capacity
nic...
76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose
Follow-up on Overcast:
Debug
Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
Previously on ATP
The Incomparable
Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4
Sega Saturn
Yosemite Public Beta
IMAP
VPN woes of the past
Radar
SuperDuper...
75: You Had Your Moment
Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
Follow-up:
Overcast week one update
Server side vs. local feed crawling
XML wonkiness
XPath
XSLT
UI Changes in 1.0.1
What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
Mo...
74: One Of Us Shipped Something
Follow-up:
Showbot status and pull requests
Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
Vindictive but self-defeating defections
Screen size, small hand...
73: Notifications Duck
Follow-up:
Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
Framily
Google I/O Inclusiveness
Penny-farthing bicycle
RAW editing in iPhoto
Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
More on health monitoring by Ben Gr...
72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day
Pre-Show:
Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
Follow-up:
Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Gri...
71: Security By Guilt
Pre-show:
Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia)
Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture
Casey's Showbot returns.
SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned
Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology
Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point...
70: The Endgame Is Omnipotence
- Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing.
- Whether games are more like apps or movies.
- Amazon's Fire Phone
- Who's it for?
- Mayday tech-support feature vs. Apple's retail stores
- Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at.
- Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8
- Only Apple (John Gruber)
- John's opinion of iMessage.
- Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment.
- OWASP top 10 web vulnerabilities
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69: Welcome to the Web, Casey
Follow-up:
It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both.
Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits.
Casey's broken Showbot.
Abusing new App Bundles and Complete This Bundle to achieve upgrade pricing in the App Store.
The WWDC NDA is mostly gone.
WWDC 2014 videos
Marco...
68: Siracusa Waited Impatiently For This
Our initial WWDC reactions.
Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!
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67: Tim Said, Man
We'll be guests on the WWDC live episode of The Talk Show: Tuesday, June 3, 6–9 PM. Get tickets here ASAP! John will be taking a plane... for you.
Follow-up:
Which is faster: installing Showbot or reimplementing it?
Casey's open-source Node version
PHP isn't faster than ...
66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake
The modern Apple-store experience
Follow-up:
Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever
Headphones mentioned:
B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound.
Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Case...
65: The Year Of Casey
- Casey's big news! (Much better than The Year of Luigi.)
- Casey and John discuss Monument Valley, the Escher-inspired puzzle game. (Marco didn't do his homework.)
- Apple and Google agree to... something
- Apple might be buying Beats: why, and what they'd probably do with it.
- WebKit optimizes Javascript with LLVM
- "Full-stack developers" keeping up with the crazy world of Javascript frameworks.
- Using third-party code.
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64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived
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Follow-up:
Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
ComiXology
Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
Vihart Video
Internet2
Who should b...
63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
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Follow-up:
Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
Apps and games Mentioned:
Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time...
62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology.
When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything?
Second C...
61: Perfectly Neutral
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites
Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Sa...