Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived
08 May 2014
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Hurry if you want an ATP T-Shirt! Just $19, and the sale may be over by the time you read this! Fol...
63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
02 May 2014
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ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week! Follow-up: Average age of gamers (more here and ...
62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
24 Apr 2014
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Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers,...
61: Perfectly Neutral
18 Apr 2014
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Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil...
60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
11 Apr 2014
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Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam WWDC How to make a lottery work, like Shmo...
59: The Little Puck That Could
04 Apr 2014
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Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus. Amazon Fire TV — no fan! USB-IF's rend...
58: Always On Vacation In California
28 Mar 2014
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Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and...
57: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
21 Mar 2014
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Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's S...
56: The Woodpecker
14 Mar 2014
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Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile mani...
55: Dave, Who Stinks!
06 Mar 2014
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Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production. Software methodologies....
54: goto fail;
28 Feb 2014
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Wolfram Language. The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an ...
53: There’s Gonna Be Some Flapping
21 Feb 2014
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Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful. Kieran Healy's excellent article with science. John Gr...
52: Necessary But Not Sufficient
14 Feb 2014
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Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural in...
51: Maybe We’re Just Dinosaurs
07 Feb 2014
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The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story. More FU on iPads goin...
50: Disk Light Observer Effect
31 Jan 2014
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Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people". Can iOS add m...
49: Roamio and Siracusiet
24 Jan 2014
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Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups, ...
48: Marco Bought Four
17 Jan 2014
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Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HD...
47: Better Pixels
10 Jan 2014
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Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store. Marco's Retina theory. PS4 and Xbone s...
46: A Compromised Machine
03 Jan 2014
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Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple...
45: Give Up On The Retina Dream
26 Dec 2013
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Explaining our podcast artwork. Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness. Dual-input...
44: A Plague With Very Minor Effects
18 Dec 2013
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What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning) Potential for...
43: Brilliance Enhancer
13 Dec 2013
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Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.) Desktop 4K/Retina reso...
42: The Ultimate Vanity Search
06 Dec 2013
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FU on PrimeSense. Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why. Apple's possible difficulty ...
41: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
29 Nov 2013
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David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits. Space Monkey, Transporter, Box, and Xdrive. ...
40: The Compliance Shark
22 Nov 2013
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Follow-up on Cisco VPNs on Mavericks and [photo backups] to SkyDrive on Windows Mobile Phone Series...
39: Desperation Mode
15 Nov 2013
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John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices. The confusing Photo Stream limits, and all of these ...
38: Auto-Update My Parents
08 Nov 2013
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Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop, Glide) Everpix's failure ...
37: A 3,000-Word Digression
01 Nov 2013
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Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one. iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion...
36: A Weird One
24 Oct 2013
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The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up! Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Cas...
35: Sea-Level Executives
18 Oct 2013
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Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date. Apple hiring the CEO of Bur...
34: Made The Dot Smaller
10 Oct 2013
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Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture. Can Apple ever dramatically improve their w...
33: A 30-Minute Skip Button
04 Oct 2013
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When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this). Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in...
32: It Doesn’t Bother Me
27 Sep 2013
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Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S. Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations....
31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold
19 Sep 2013
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Casey goes to an Apple Store. FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac fi...
30: Full Frontal Thumb
13 Sep 2013
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iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practi...
29: Computerized Garden Gnome
06 Sep 2013
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John's Mavericks review progress. iPhone event predictions. Design and security tradeoffs of a theo...
28: The Pit Of Irrelevance
30 Aug 2013
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Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right! The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer...
27: Overflow Gallery In The Bathroom
23 Aug 2013
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Querying Florida. Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore...
26: Three Phones Ago
15 Aug 2013
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Instapaper's web redesign beta. Rewriting a codebase from scratch. Understandable code and writing ...
25: Thrustmaster Joystick
09 Aug 2013
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Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks. Economic considerations and optio...
24: Double Meta
01 Aug 2013
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Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB, SQLite, and...
23: The X Or The X
25 Jul 2013
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FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine. iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme. Apple's extended De...
22: Full Brichter
18 Jul 2013
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Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions. Cutting features from 1.0 and tryin...
21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness
12 Jul 2013
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iWatch follow-up. Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch. Eric Welander's thoughts on Si...
20: A Box and a Strap
05 Jul 2013
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Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch". Technological Conser...
19: Designed by App in Cal
27 Jun 2013
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John's review progress and show-duration predictors. The WWDC 2013 intro video. (Siri's WWDC 2012 i...
18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum
20 Jun 2013
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Casey's fans at WWDC. Mac Pro followup. (John's halo-car post) The Xbox 180. Revisiting the potenti...
17: Can’t Innovate Anymore
11 Jun 2013
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Special early WWDC episode this week: Reactions to the keynote. New Mac Pro Initial iOS 7 design i...
16: John, We Don’t Play Games
07 Jun 2013
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Opening theme by Larry King (@laking). The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon...
15: Cat, Modifier Cat
31 May 2013
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Why Marco sold The Magazine. Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass. Tim Cook...
14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars
24 May 2013
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Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree. Transcendental Money. Square Cash. B2W 1...
13: Animated Kale
17 May 2013
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Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you ...
12: Accidental Server Hardware
10 May 2013
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FU on Apple's tick-tock pattern. Marco's PHP framework and sponsor-tracking web app, and why both e...
11: A Particularly Exuberant Adolescence
03 May 2013
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The WWDC ticket lottery and potential solutions, or a merit system. Why Marco sold Instapaper. (See...
10: Gradual Ramp Up To Nothing
26 Apr 2013
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Laptops in school. Getting a tech job with and without a college degree. Running mail servers in to...
9: Fish Bicycle Scenario
19 Apr 2013
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Why are PC sales down? Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past. Forgoing or neglecting ...
8: Hold Me!
12 Apr 2013
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Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck. Who Facebook Home is for...
7: The Forecast For iCloud
29 Mar 2013
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Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. (Marco, WSJ) The quality of...
6: Live Like Other People
22 Mar 2013
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How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does). Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI scree...
5: Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt
15 Mar 2013
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The upcoming Google Reader shutdown. The market for RSS today, and the way forward. Client-side vs....
4: The Bridges
11 Mar 2013
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The role of the Mac Pro today. How Apple might manage the launch of a bigger iPhone. App design and...
3: Conditions Led To Freecell
09 Mar 2013
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The Nifty MiniDrive The challenges of small-camera design Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business reviv...
2: The 7th Guest
28 Feb 2013
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The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, du...
1: iPhone Plus
07 Feb 2013
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Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.