511: Moving to Antarctica

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Sharrows
  • EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed.
• The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs!
• Follow-up:
  • Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham)
    • Marco’s 🍑💨
  • Some updates on Mastodon
    • Ivory by Tapbots
    • Don’t Use Services that Hate the Internet
    • John’s 🍑💨: He’s outraged!
    • A Better Mastodon Friend Finder
    • Merlin & John’s excellent discussion about Twitter (starts @ 1h36m)
  • There’s a WWDC video about instrumenting/tracing async issues
  • Xfinity Wi-Fi does not use customer’s bandwidth (via Clayton O’Neill)
  • Casey’s 🍑💨 about iPad at the park bench picnic table
• ffmpeg has been ported to web assembly
• Reactions to App Store ads
  • Gambling ads
  • iCloud Storage Over the Years
  • The Talk Show #361: A Fit of Pique with Federico Viticci
  • Apple Keynote Search Engine
  • Apple Pauses Gambling Ads
  • Gruber’s Take
  • Michael Tsai
  • Employees aren’t happy either
    • More from The Information
  • Xcode Ads?
    • defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
• Post-show:
  • Namesake
  • The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird
  • Titanium - The Metal That Made The SR-71 Possible

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