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Feb 27, 2015 • 1h 51min

106: That’s Slightly Right

Follow-up: Tesla and "customer sat" Tweet from Elon Musk Apple's Minivan Apple Columbus iPhone prototypes BMW X7 testing BMW i3 Apple/Tesla poaching 9to5Mac staff details 9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D What is Apple building? Jason Snell at Six Colors Fortune Sugar water explained Triumph of the Nerds John Sculley recounts getting hired Steve Jobs on Microsoft Auto parts suppliers ZF Bosch Harman Retina MacBook Pro image-retention test Tesla Roadster & Lotus Magna Steyr (Wikipedia) Mazda MX-6 & Ford Probe Scion FR-S & Subaru BRZ Mitsubishi 3000GT & Dodge Stealth Knight Rider 2000 Knight 4000 Super Pursuit Mode KITT Greeble Maybe it's not a car after all? Or perhaps they're self-driving? Tesla Superchargers Whole-plane parachute People love their cars Roderick on the Line China and manufacturing capacity Pebble Time Connected Post-show: Marco did his homework Tesla Model S Tesla Model S P85D Review Interior picture Insane mode launches video Rock 'n' Rollercoaster Range calculator Charge time calculator Superchargers map PlugShare BMW Performance Driving School Sponsored by: CocoaConf: A touring training conference for iPhone, iPad, and Mac developers. Save 20% on upcoming events in Chicago, Washington D.C., Portland, Austin, and Yosemite National Park by purchasing with code ATP by March 20. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Harvest: Simple, beautiful online time-tracking software. Use code ATP for 50% off your first month.
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Feb 20, 2015 • 1h 46min

105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?

Follow-up: Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync? Trailers App? Keyboard Shortcuts? React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak Apple making a car? Neutral CarPlay 9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D Wall Street Journal Tesla GM EV1 Nissan Leaf Mr. Fusion Flux Capacitor Neutral on car UIs BMW iDrive Saab Saturn Mitsubishi Volkswagen Service Bus Volkswagen R32 MyFord Touch Ford Sync Post-show: What shape would an Apple car take? Tesla Model X Ford Crown Victoria Smart car Jony Ive Profile Leander Kahney's book about Jony Ive Arguments about what cars are pretty Toyota Supra Lexus SC Lexus GS BMW M3 (F80) Acura MDX Acura RL 2016 Nissan Maxima Sappy (and thoroughly confused) Nissan Super Bowl commercial C7 Corvette 2014 Accord 2015 Camry BMW M5 (E39) Casey's car Toyota Avalon Mazda 6 Picture BMW i8 video Tesla Roadster Sponsored by: Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off, and check out Jeff Bridges' Sleeping Tapes. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP15 for 15% off your first purchase. Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. Prior toaster episode This week's toaster
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Feb 12, 2015 • 1h 42min

104: Minutiæ

Follow-up Email to the show's feedback form What's a toaster oven? The canonical "Breville" J'SON Photos.app does exist! Jason Snell's Preview Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links The Verge's FAQ Learning to Love Photo Management Casey's script Dr. Drang's script Aperture Lightroom Bridge UXKit Also in Xcode? Guy English New UI Frameworks & Paradigms Async Display Kit SMP React Native Josh Abernathy's Reaction Deep dive video Reveal, the Sherlocked exploded-views app John's joke retweet Flipboard's crazy canvas Copland 2010 Andy Matuschak's thoughts Ember Angular Post show: Marco GOes on another adventure Hivelocity GitHub Camo SSL proxy Go vs. Nginx benchmark Titles LAME MP3Rage Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code SLOTTOASTERPEOPLE for 10% off.
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Feb 6, 2015 • 2h 17min

103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan

Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator Follow-up: Handwriting recognition @dansherson Will Hains' Video Jumanji Inkwell John's OS X 10.2 Review Marco hates everyone and their email FCC and Net Neutrality Title II Tom Wheeler Apple sensor cars Running Overcast Linode Rackspace Digital Ocean Kryptos Vips ImageMagick libgd Family Sharing woes Family Sharing in John's Yosemite review Post-show: More Destiny woes John's Destiny TV UI issues John teases Marco John's retweet Toaster judging criteria Neutral: Casey drove an M4 Casey not driving an M5 well The referenced Car and Driver article is on page 24 of the March 2015 issue Elon Musk's tweet P85D launch reactions (NSFW) Cayman GT4 Rear spoiler New versus old Maintaining old supercars Car and Driver Ferrari 355 ownership article appears on page 112 of the March 2015 issue Ferrari 488 Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. This week's toaster and John's usual toaster Hypercritical on toasters and acquiring John's Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP15 for 15% off your first purchase.
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Jan 30, 2015 • 1h 37min

102: Marco Is Not a Platform

Follow-up: Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson) Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy Overcast earnings Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply Analog(ue) #16: I Don't Trust Systems Back to Work How do you learn a new language? Casey's blog post Tour of Go Stack Overflow NSHipster Apple's earnings Brewster's Millions Debug #60: Shipping Software The Talk Show #108: 'Malapros' Andy Matuschak interview What's going on with Photos.app? Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles: NSConference Úll CGP Grey explains the United Kingdom How to pronounce UK place names Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt) Bad Assumptions Horace Dediu (Asymco) quote Macalope Sega VR Post-show: Microsoft today HoloLens Kinect Maya Rocket Oculus John's sad TV news John's TV Destiny HUD HUD Issues Full House Sponsored by: lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off, and check out Jeff Bridges' Sleeping Tapes.
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Jan 23, 2015 • 1h 39min

101: Big Plastic Finger

Follow-up: 12" MacBook Air Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port. RIP Thunderbolt? Sessile Thunderbolt Display Duo Dock Belkin Thunderbolt Dock How do you power it? WiTricity Demo video Artemis/pCell ATP #61 ATP #62 Back to the Future 2 Reliability Probability Dr. Drang Kieran Healy Network Effect iPad Pro with an optional stylus? Paper Pencil Cosmonaut CES Wirecutter highlights UHD Alliance CES: Worse Products Through Software Audio Hijack 3 Screenshot Workflow Post-show: How much is Marco saving by using Go? WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps Sponsored by: Harvest: Simple, beautiful online time-tracking software. Use code ATP for 50% off your first month. lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 7-day trial. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated.
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Jan 16, 2015 • 1h 44min

100: MacBook Shuffle

Pre-show: 🎉 Episode 100 🎉 Hypercritical Build and Analyze Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels Showbot woes (again) Camel updates marked markdown-it Showbot issue screencap Follow-up: Anecdotal evidence of USB usage Context of the 12" Air discussion Keynote Thinness Jason Becker reminds us of Hypercritical John's post on thinness Hypercritical #91 Solving for x Powering a 12" Air Troy Gaul's first theory Troy Gaul's second theory Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebooks? Molar Stampede for iBooks Are Thunderbolt and Lightning dead? (via Oliver Agar) What can Apple do to fix reliability issues? Interview with Andy Matuschak Marco on The Talk Show Post-Show Neutral New NSX Intro video New Ford GT CTS-V RC F BMW at CES recap video C7 Corvette Ferrari FF Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP for 15% off. (Marco's app-icon Fractures) Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off.
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Jan 9, 2015 • 2h

99: Pop-Up Headlights

Follow-Up: SSL In schools & corporations Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL SOCKS Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger) Marco's Go feed poller update IDE Eclipse Rust Communicating sequential processes Apple's Software Quality Marco's post Marco's retrospective Mention on CNBC Hypercritical #55 Casey's response to Marco Glenn Fleishman's list How to write for understanding Marco laments about software quality in the past Rumored 12" MacBook Air PlugBug Chockenberry on a potential ARM transition Fat binary Special thanks to _DavidSmith for finding "bezels" in Hypercritical #22 Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code HIGHGROUND for 10% off. Casper: A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code ATP for $50 off.
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Jan 3, 2015 • 2h 8min

98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits

Follow-up: More on John's windowing strategy Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down) DragThing Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites Marco (mostly) hates new things again Node Go Python Generics C Macros Operator overloading Rails John's thought on Twitter AnyEvent libev libevent Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts Core Intuition on Swift Garbage Collection in Objective-C Apple Java Bridge CodeWarrior Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger) App Store Review Guidelines, specifically 5.6 Apple's humorous announcement Pointy-haired boss Panic Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad Tweetbot The Incident Space Age objc.io phpBB Post-show Textshotting Example from MG Siegler Example from Farhad Manjoo WAP Boar's Head Pancetta Oxford comma Examples When to give up on a language Node Timers module Sponsored by: Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP for 20% off your first order. (Marco's app-icon Fractures) Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase.
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Dec 26, 2014 • 1h 27min

97: You Have to Know When to Stop

Follow-Up: Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey) Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately Marco expands his horizons POODLE attack cURL SSL/TLS Node.js supervisord beanstalkd curl-multi camo Heroku memcached nginx JavaScript prototypes Pentium Pro V8 Engine setTimeout() Go NSURLSession MacMiniColo Linode Zend Framework Hack HHVM CloudKit Holidays as the family tech support expert Fill Your TV DiskWarrior Communication Pyramid Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci Casey's Review (posted after this show was recorded) Analog(ue) Synology NAS Devices Post-show: Holiday equipment physical inspections Hopscotch Turing completeness Be sure to turn on relatives' iCloud Backups John's etiquitte guide to real-time tweeting to podcast hosts while listening Yes, John knows you can copy to the clipboard from Google Authenticator IRLTalk Hopscotch achieves Turing completeness Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated.

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