26: Three Phones Ago

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2013

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Instapaper's web redesign beta.
Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
Non-nerd backups.
After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You guys should both turn off your fans.
0:01.1	You should do a sweat lodge thing with me
0:02.6	and we'll start to have visions.
0:03.7	That'll be the best episode ever.
0:07.0	It is indeed the Friday night, the ninth of August
0:10.5	and we are recording early
0:12.2	because one of the three of us is disappearing for a week
0:14.6	again.
0:15.4	But after this, we should actually be recording
0:18.8	on a regular schedule and everyone keeps
0:20.5	bemoaning the fact that our schedule changes a lot
0:22.6	and I don't really blame them.
0:24.1	And people will ask, well, why don't you have
0:26.6	the schedule on the website?
0:28.3	And the problem is, 99% of the time,
0:31.6	it's Wednesdays at nine Eastern US time.
0:34.1	Well, that's not entirely true because we're only 25 episodes
0:36.5	in, 26 now, and there's been a lot more than, you know,
0:40.8	a quarter of one episode that's been non-scheduled pro.
0:43.2	You know what I mean.
0:44.2	That's the default.
0:45.0	Wednesday at nine is the default.
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