72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2014

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

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 Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD
Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
- Zoomed Photos UI screenshot
- Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility."
- We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques
Wonky design choices
- Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation
- OXO Good Grips
- iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme
- A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can
- Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time
After show:
- More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
  - John complains about Safari
  - John complains about the Showbot
  - Casey self-censors
  - XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks
- Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast
  - The ghost of Jury
  - Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013
  - Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks
  - Whether to wait for iOS 8
- John's Yosemite review status

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's all stalled by saying the showbot is back.
0:03.0	For how long?
0:03.9	Yeah, probably not much longer.
0:05.8	There have been a few pull requests from a couple of different people who as usual,
0:10.9	I don't have their names in front of me because I'm a jerk.
0:15.1	We can all laugh together when this goes down momentarily.
0:18.4	Well, we're laughing with you, not at you.
0:21.0	I think it's both, but I don't blame you.
0:23.2	We're laughing at your showbot with you.
0:27.0	There's no known vulnerabilities left, right?
0:30.0	No one and no, but I'm sure that they exist never though.
0:33.5	See, you reach Zaro Boogs.
0:34.8	You know, Zaro Boogs.
0:36.1	Nope. That's all right.
0:37.4	We can count that as the pop culture reference for the show if you'd like,
0:40.0	because it's kind of pop culture kind of programry.
0:42.2	I'll put it in the show notes and then you'll guys will know what it means.
0:45.6	Probably still won't.
0:48.4	Follow up.
0:50.3	Last week, I think it was last week, we talked about Google's material UI.
0:54.2	They demoed it at the Google I.O keynote,
0:57.1	and I mentioned that one of the things they showed in the keynote that I thought
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