Chapter 1: What weather events are impacting Richmond?
I survived the bitter blast, and now I believe we're on to the, I don't know, Blue Mountain Freeze.
Are these coffee flavors?
Yeah, what are we talking about? This is the names that the local weather station that plays in my coffee shop that I see many mornings gives to weather for the week. So this past week it was cold. It got very cold. It is January. That happens. That was apparently the bitter blast. Like, were weather... as heavily branded in the past as they are now?
I don't know, but now that you've opened this can of worms, buckle up, because I have thoughts about weather right now. So to recap, and I've been through this many times, Virginia, or Richmond anyway, I shouldn't generalize to Virginia, Richmond, if we get like three inches of snow in a day or so, the kids will be out of school for probably a day, right?
So if they know that three inches is due on a Tuesday, they'll be out that Tuesday. Right. Six plus inches of snow, you're looking at multiple days off of school, generally speaking, like anywhere between two and five days off of school, right? As I sit here now on Wednesday evening, we are slated for three inches of snow on Saturday, which is manageable for us, but a little aggressive.
On Sunday, we're due for 24 inches. In total, that is 30 inches of snow, which I don't even know. I think it's like three quarters of a meter or something like that. It's ridiculous how much snow we're going to be. It's about three quarters of a meter of snow.
That is something.
That's not good. I said to Aaron just yesterday, you know what's about to happen is that we're going to get the COVID we thought we were getting in 2020 where we don't leave the house for two weeks and then we'll leave again.
because we will be utterly screwed if richmond gets a damn near meter of snow and it's going to be awful but no i haven't heard any branding for the snow that we're getting to come back to your actual point um it hasn't been branded but we are getting so going to be getting so much snow and i was out running errands earlier today and everyone is driving like idiots because they're all trying to go to the grocery store and buy all the things aaron went to costco during the like
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Chapter 2: How does snow affect school closures?
Now, that being said, oftentimes, like when it gets close, it'll peter out and decide, oh, actually, I'm going to take a turn to the north or the south or, you know, something will happen on the way. But yeah, I'm screwed. I am legitimately lightly concerned about my presence on the podcast. Not obviously tonight, but a week from tonight, because who knows? We may not have power for a week or so.
I don't know. It's going to be great. Jeez.
Oh, by the way, so first of all, yes, good luck, everybody, getting through that. That could be quite something for a lot of our listeners. Totally separately, not even close to related, you mentioned she went during the plebeian hours or whatever.
That was before the plebeian hours that she was there.
Anyway, I just finished Pluribus on Apple TV. It's really good. I haven't seen it yet. I'm not going to say anything about it, except I really enjoyed it, and I can recommend it. Oh, good deal. The less you know, the better.
Look at you watching modern TV shows.
I know. I'm feeling behind now. Aaron and I are cruising through the pit, which I like quite a lot. We're almost, we're like three quarters of the way through season one. But look at you go. Very well done. Thank you. So before we continue, we should talk to you and announce that there is a new member special. And we went back to our favorite trough.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of heavy snowfall in Richmond?
We went to the HP tier list. And now we're doing, this time we did automotive logos. So the tier lists, I think, are certainly most listeners' favorite member special. And honestly, I think they're kind of mine too.
um and so this time we talked about various automotive logos and john put together the list of logos he very clearly did announced on the episode that he did not do all of them he's well aware of it you can see some of john's preferences and the choices he made but i still think it was a very very fun episode uh and you should check it out so john if you've never heard any of our member specials how could you hear only the most recent one or maybe older ones
Oh, you just joined to become a member. Go to adp.fm slash join and become a member. Get access to all of the member specials. You can just download them all because you're a computer nerd and then unsubscribe and listen to them at your leisure. Or you just stay subscribed and listen to them as they come out. We have a lot of tier list episodes, as Casey mentioned.
This is probably the biggest one we've ever done in terms of the number of little tiles that we dragged up into the tier list. And yet there are just so many possible logos, especially since we did historical ones. I tried to pick ones that I found interesting, acknowledging that there are many that I missed. The only one that I regret that I missed. I regret when people are like that.
People are enthusiastic about tier lists like, oh boy, automotive logos. I can't wait to hear about the logo from this company. And I know before they even started listening that we didn't do that company at all. There's just too many of them. But the one I regret not including is Kia because they really messed up their logo and I would have loved to trash them.
Oh, no, I think that would have been the fight. That would have been the biggest fight, I think.
You think they actually improved the Kia logo? I don't remember the history, but I like the new one. Kia's not in this episode, but there are 91 other logos. We may do another Automotive Logo 1 some point in the future. No promises. Some people are asking us to do European car brands that we have never heard of, which might be fun. But anyway, we've got this one.
Automotive Logos, 91 in total, put into a tier list. We were ruthlessly efficient, and we got the job done in record time.
You know, this is my brave, bold stance and my hot take. The current Kia logo, I think it's good. I like it. Whoa. Nope. It's very bad.
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Chapter 4: What are the key points about the upcoming member special?
It's not 100%.
But you can use private cloud compute now, and I'm assuming it works exactly like they announced. So that's one of the things they actually did ship.
You can, but it's in a very limited capacity, at a very limited scale.
And if you look at everything else that was announced during that Apple Intelligence presentation, I think a lot of that stuff is going to get memory hold, and we're just going to move on like air power and pretend like it never happened, and the reality of what's delivered might be different, because a lot of that stuff didn't pan out.
The assumption that Apple will always run the models that use your personal info on what they already describe as private cloud compute... Maybe, but I would not assume that's a given. I think it can just as easily end up that they work out the technical details with Google to do something that is similarly private on Google's hardware in Google's data centers with Google's models.
I think that is a very, very likely outcome for this, either short-term or long-term. Because, again, this scale of hosting this kind of compute power and developing that kind of model is just not in Apple's wheelhouse. And that's not to say it never can be. But so far, Apple has not at all made the required effort to get themselves in that position. So...
The Apple that we know today, it's like Apple could at some point get better at lots of things that it's not currently good at, but the Apple that we know today is not good enough in those areas to probably host this the way that we assumed that it would be hosted with private cloud compute. I think private cloud compute is... going to be probably memory hold in the next few years.
And if and when that happens, I don't think that's that big of a problem or scandal or downside because I'm sure Apple would insist on similar privacy expectations if they did move it to Google. I'm sure they would design the whole thing with Google. They would work with them to ensure all the same privacy and encryption and transparency.
I'm sure if they make this change, we would look at it and be like, yeah, that makes sense and it doesn't matter. We are sponsored this episode by Squarespace, the all-in-one website platform designed to help you stand out and succeed online.
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Chapter 5: Why does the badge remain visible in my application?
Why is the badge still there? The badge will eventually go away. Sometimes you need to log out and back in. Sometimes you need to check for update a couple times. Rest assured the badge will eventually leave. And then Rob also suggests making an alias.
Chapter 6: What are the steps to manage app updates and aliases?
Once you've installed the thing, once you can make an alias to sort of re-up it for another 90 days. So the next time a badge appears, you can just open terminal and type no Tahoe and it return and it will re-up it for another 90 days. Still have to do that in every account.
But I set up those aliases and I set up those things just so I won't be bothered to upgrade to Tahoe because I don't plan to do that anytime soon. If ever, if you are in the same camp, This is the blog post for you. Thank you, Rob Griffiths, for figuring this out. I hope Apple never does fix this bug. And if they do fix it, you know, I mean, I've lived with it since 26.0 was out until this week.
And now I have a blessed vacation. If 15.7.4 comes out and they fix this, I'll be pretty surprised because normally at that point, they're just doing security updates. But, you know, it is what it is.
So, John, at this point, what is, and I'm genuinely asking you, what is keeping you away from Tahoe? Like, obviously, you have complaints, but what is it about Tahoe that's enough to say, it's not ready for me?
Well, there's nothing drawing me to it, and many things repelling me. So, it's just a pretty easy balance, you know what I mean? Like, I just, everything I, you know, the thing is, I use it every time I do software development.
my apps like i have to be using it like i'm using xcode in tahoe like it's unavoidable my apps are on tahoe they're updated for tahoe and fixing tahoe specific bugs it's not like i'm not using tahoe like i know what it's like i'm using i'm using it every single week for some period of time although often i um remote desktop into the little uh the the macbook air on my big screen so i can get a little bit bigger screen but i'm using it but that experience has just led me to think like
I don't want this on my main Mac. There are no features of it that make a big difference to me. And there are many things about it that I dislike. So I might just skip it entirely and hope 27 fixes something. But we'll see. You know, I just take it on a day-by-day basis.
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Chapter 7: What are the key differences between Alan Dye and Jony Ive's design philosophies?
I do that balancing act. Like, for example, if there was some app that only ran on 26 that I desperately wanted, I would update. You know what I mean? Like, there needs to be something pulling me to it. And right now there isn't. And there's a lot of things pushing me away.
So no carrots, maybe a couple of sticks. So many sticks.
So many sticks.
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Chapter 8: How can I implement passkeys for my website?
I'm blaming everything in the Allen Dye, in the Ive era on Ive and everything in the Allen Dye era on Dye. Whether or not, to Marco's point, there was overlap, I'm just saying, look, if you're in charge, the buck stops with you. And by that criteria, it's easy for me. Dye era worse, no contest.
Even though I didn't like a lot of the stuff that Johnny Ive did with software, if you look at, well, like, what is Johnny Ive's, like, signature sort of, like,
signature achievement or project or whatever i would say was ios 7 and for all the complaints about ios 7 uh comparing it to alan die's sort of crowning achievement which is the 26 os's oh my god ios 7 was better than 26 os it's like yeah you know we had we all had complaints about ios 7 and it went a little bit overboard but the general design direction wasn't terrible and i think it was like a needed break from the style that came before it and it evolved into something pretty good and
And it was better than 26 OSs from day one. It was better thought out. It was better. There was more reasoning behind it. The mistakes that it made it pretty quickly fixed. Granted, we don't know if that's going to happen with 26s because it's just been out for a year.
But pretty much everything else I've did with software is not as bad as I think all the things Alan Dye has done in the era when he has been there and Johnny has not. To be clear, I don't like what either one of them did with the software. I don't like, I'm not saying either one was good, but if I had to personally pick, it is I've was better than Dye.
Yeah, I think if we're comparing... If we take the people's names off of it, and if we compare the big iOS 7 redesign to the big iOS 26 redesign, I agree. iOS 7 did have a lot of problems. But I think where iOS 7 was better is that... it left a lot more room to tweak it into something that ended up being pretty good.
Whereas the 26 OSs, I mean, maybe because they're just brand new and it's hard for us to see right now, but like a lot of the changes that 26 made, it's hard to look at them and find a good path out that isn't just like going back to a different style entirely.
Yeah, and the benefits aren't as clear. Like iOS 7, it was such a clear contrast, and we could see this is doing X, Y, and Z better than the other era. It does some things worse, but I see where it is an improvement. I see how it is a refreshing change. I see the areas where it is better. I see the benefits for app development. I feel like iOS 7 really did improve
make it easier to develop apps that conform to different screen sizes and that are flexible. And it did make app development easier in kind of the same way that SF symbols did and sort of making Apple caliber design approachable to developers who weren't artistic experts. You know what I mean?
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