
72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day
07/03/14 • 111 min
- 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
- John's Yosemite review status
- More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
Sponsored by:
- 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
- John's Yosemite review status
- More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
Sponsored by:
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71: Security By Guilt
- Pre-show:
- Casey's Showbot returns.
- SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned
- Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology
- Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point-S"?
- Hat colors
- Google I/O
- Overview
- Material Design
- Android Auto
- Moto 360 Watch
- Lock-in by visual affordances
- Gmail API
- The API doesn't replace IMAP
- Marco's prediction about IMAP support
- ART Runtime
- Are web APIs still necessary?
- Post-show:
- "Follow-down" on Swift and openness (Lattner's comment on Mike Ash's Friday Q&A)
- More silly business metaphors
- Casey's Showbot: web sockets, error handling, and developing for work vs. "play".
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- Raizlabs: A full-service development firm looking to hire experienced mobile developers, designers, and product managers in Boston and San Francisco.
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Next Episode

73: Notifications Duck
- Follow-up:
- Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
- RAW editing in iPhoto
- Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
- More on health monitoring by Ben Griffel
- Control Plane
- The death of plasma
- The challenges of making a 4K plasma TV
- Are 4K TVs worth it?
- Crutchfield
- Netflix Shows 4K
- Leaked "iPhone 6" "Sapphire" Display Video
- Post-show:
- Overcast and Content Security Policy
- Firefox memories
- Rescue Time
- THE SHOWBOT SURVIVED!
- Quick Neutral
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