390: I Invented This Anti-Pattern
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Zip ties vs. Velcro cable ties
- Follow-up:
- Apple’s Public Policy Advocacy (via Kyles the Gray)
- macOS Catalina 10.15.6 can read Big Sur APFS volumes (via Ole Begemann)
- Would we distribute our iOS apps outside the App Store? (via Wade Tregaskis)
- HEY
#askatp- How do we move data between computers? (Yes, again.) (via Jon Aumann)
- Will iPhone-only apps be rotated appropriately for usage on macOS/iPad OS? (via John Demco)
- How does John “back up” the junk valuable artifacts in his attic? (via John Larson)
- Post-show: John’s incorrect photo-taking preferences
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's been so long since we've talked. |
| 0:01.8 | I know, I feel like it's been far, far too long. |
| 0:05.0 | I did tear apart my entire beach office and put it back together. |
| 0:08.0 | Why? |
| 0:09.0 | I finally got the setup I wanted in most ways. |
| 0:13.0 | One of the ways that I'm different at the beach is that I try to have a minimal of a setup as possible. |
| 0:20.0 | Now this is still me here, so I still have speakers and a carplay dev kit and all this. |
| 0:27.0 | I still have a lot of stuff here, but I try to keep it simpler than what I have in my regular life. |
| 0:35.0 | Anyway, so yeah, it took apart the whole thing, rewired. |
| 0:38.0 | I finally did the zip ties in the back and of course, as you do, instantly upon zip tying a bunch of cables together, I would go, |
| 0:45.0 | oh, I want to put one more cable in there. |
| 0:47.0 | Yep, that's the rules. |
| 0:48.0 | Yep, break that zip tie or just put another one on top of the whole bundle. |
| 0:51.0 | Then you have four different levels of zip ties simultaneously working with each other. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, God. |
| 0:56.0 | Poor Stephen Hackett is getting so stressed. |
| 0:57.0 | You got to get the Velcro ones. |
| 0:58.0 | Don't use actual zip ties. |
| 1:00.0 | It's way overkill for wires. |
| 1:01.0 | The Velcro ones is much nicer than you can just on Velcro and re-velcro. |
| 1:04.0 | I have some of those. |
| 1:06.0 | The kind I got for the beach is not a very good one. |
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