Listen "115: Empathy for the Machine"
Episode Synopsis
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Pre-show:
Neko Atsume ("the cat game")
Follow-up:
Bad Seagate hard drives
How Hard Disks Work (page 7)
The MacBook Air survives... for now!
launchd
launchd plist generator
Lingon
cron
Photos
Background processes
iStat Menus
Hard links
John on symbolic and hard links in his Leopard review
Shared album photo limit (via Lance Hildebrand)
Performance
Mucho Spanish
Will Hains
Deleted photos
Restoring from backups
Deletion instructions
Apple Watch, one week in
Luca's wrist
Apple Watch bands
WSJ on Taptic Engine manufacturing issue
Serenity Caldwell's tweet
Complications
Jason Snell's take
Casey's take
Repairability
iFixIt's teardown
MacBook teardown
Microsoft Build
Visual Studio Code
Atom
IntelliSense
Eclipse
Visual Studio Code Node support
Mono
Homebrew
Chris Dias
Casey on node-inspector
PHP syntax highlighting
Gruber on Markdown support
Electron
Project Astoria & Project Islandwood
WINE
Dalvik
GNUStep
Microsoft Band
Session video (posted after this episode was recorded)
Post-show:
Connected follow-out
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