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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

• 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
    • Apple stores vs. U.S. population density
• 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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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...

Our initial WWDC reactions.

Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!

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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 ...

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...

• 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
  • "Fight the real enemy"
• Apple might be buying Beats: why, and what they'd probably do with it.
• WebKit optimizes Javascript with LLVM
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  • The Birth & Death of JavaScript
• "Full-stack developers" keeping up with the crazy world of Javascript frameworks.
• Using third-party code.

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ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week! 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...

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...

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...

Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam WWDC How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does How to write a live blogging system for keynotes Our winnings and losses in the WWDC Don't-Call-it-a-Lottery Levels of randomness and Apple's discretionary pool...

• Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus.
• Amazon Fire TV — no fan!
• USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector
• The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and dozens of other companies (Facebook apparently refused)
• Google checking with Steve Jobs first before making a hiring decision
• After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)

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Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity. Facebook buying Oculus: Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates ...

Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45). The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone. Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive ...

• Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile manifesto, and what Agile has become.
• What we found most useful from our computer-science educations.
• Marco's impressions of his new Mac Pro.
• External disks, PCI-Express SSDs, and cable management.
• John buys a home-theater AV receiver. (The newer version he didn't need)
• Stereo vs. surround speakers, and integrated vs. external subwoofers. (Marco's tiny, buggy amp and great speakers).
• After-show: Pono, ABX tests, mp3ornot.

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• Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production.
• Software methodologies. For real this time.
• Why don’t software development methodologies work?
• Evidence-based scheduling.
• Marco plugs FCModel, Casey plugs his Debug appearance, and John plugs bleeps and boops.
• After-show: CarPlay, and £1,600 audiophile Ethernet cables (via Dalton).

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Wolfram Language. The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million annual budget for such operations. Apple's warrant canary. Casey's and Marco's hard-to-find bugs and language misfeatures...

Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful. Kieran Healy's excellent article with science. John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09. Goofball Jones' anonymous criticism of John's "shtick", and John's defense including many links: An explanation of John's "schtick" Some p...

Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface. RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds. Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-sta...

The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story. More FU on iPads going pro, giant-tablet-desk ergonomics, trying to understand John's theory again, and a train analogy from Casey. New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Bill Gates' new wildcard role,...