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Accidental Tech Podcast

262: A Clear Path to Okayness

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 113 minutes

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0:00.0

John, how are you? Let's lighten the mood. How's things going with you, John?

0:03.0

I'm tired. I'm exhausted. You guys are making me more exhausted.

0:09.8

I seem to have become the authority on not seeing easy solutions to my problems.

0:16.9

Is somebody going to tell you about our sink now?

0:21.0

I have heard about our sink and I actually have used it for years, literally years, but that's not the issue.

0:27.2

I'm working on an app that I don't particularly want to talk about these specifics on the show,

0:31.2

but, so if I used to say it, it relates to health kit, which already means I'm kind of treading on

0:35.5

underscores waters, actually, but whatever. So I asked him, hey, is there any way to export

0:43.0

health kit data and bring it into the simulator? Because I prefer to do most of my development

0:48.4

against simulator because it's quicker and easier. So I need a whole bunch of health kit data

0:52.3

on the simulator. And I was like, man, is there any way to export it than like import it?

0:56.9

Is there somewhere on the file system or something like that that I can do this?

1:01.7

In the most polite way, which is underscores, you know, M O, in the most polite way, he said to me,

1:06.8

these are my words mind you, you friggin idiot, you can get on iCloud on the simulator,

1:12.3

just join your account on iCloud. I don't know, you can do that, actually. Well, I'll see.

1:17.5

But I did know that you could do that, but I didn't put two and two together. But this is where it

1:20.5

gets really bad. And I shouldn't share this publicly, but here I am. I said to him, but underscore,

1:26.7

here's the thing. I want to be able to like save things to health kit, but I don't want them to

1:31.8

actually save to, you know, like the canonical instance of health kit. So in other words, if I

1:37.2

save, I don't know, like a workout, which is not actually what this app does, but for the sake of

1:41.7

conversation, I save a workout. I don't want it to go to like my actual canonical health kit,

1:48.5

I don't know, identity for lack of a better word or repository. I want that to kind of just live

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