115: Empathy for the Machine

ATP Shirt: Last chance, buy now! Available until Wednesday, 6 May. 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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