482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
- Apple’s New Developer Center
- John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
- An aside about password managers
- Protobuf
- John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
- Casey’s Ethernet Project
- Playdate impressions
- The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
- …it meets the same fate as macOS Server
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| 0:00.0 | So how is the honey do list be itself imposed or otherwise? |
| 0:03.5 | So I'm still working on it. |
| 0:05.4 | There's things like so much longer than you think. |
| 0:07.4 | Oh, and I mean, we talked about this and we talked about this and it's like, anyway, |
| 0:12.2 | pre-show, COVID has visited my family. |
| 0:16.6 | I did. |
| 0:17.6 | I wanted to ask of what the status was and I meant to do it during the pre-flight and |
| 0:20.2 | I forgot and then I took a mental note to ask you after the show was over. |
| 0:24.0 | So now that you've brought it up, how's everyone doing? |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, well, I mean, everyone's fine. |
| 0:29.2 | Not a big deal. |
| 0:30.2 | We're all vaccinated and boosted and stuff like that, but we did have positive tests and |
| 0:34.7 | so far the rest of us are negative and we're hanging in there. |
| 0:37.3 | But what this does relevant to your question, all the things that we have like appointments |
| 0:41.4 | to do, like see people or like sign documents or good things set up or whatever, now it |
| 0:46.8 | just gets pushed out because we're not going to go anywhere and do anything. |
| 0:51.5 | Again, even though most of us are fine and of course we're taking tests every single |
| 0:56.0 | day, so my streak of never, not only not getting COVID as far as I know, but also not taking |
| 1:00.4 | a test that has ended and now the entire family is testing every single day. |
| 1:04.0 | Good thing we have a pretty big backlog of tests. |
| 1:07.4 | Testing is not fun. |
| 1:08.4 | It makes my eyes tear a lot. |
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