Accidental Tech Podcast

26: Three Phones Ago


<a href="http://blog.instapaper.com/post/57817543037">Instapaper's web redesign beta</a>.
<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html">Rewriting a codebase from scratch</a>.
Understandable code and <a href="http://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html">writing for maintainability</a>.
The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
The horrible mess of <a href="http://chambersdaily.com/bradleychambers/2013/8/3/regular-people-have-no-idea-how-to-manage-photos-their-iphone">smartphone photo management and backup</a>.
How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/staff/2005/11/1737/">John's old two-hard-drives article</a>.)
Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
Non-nerd backups.
After-show: <a href="http://www.studoesdesign.co.uk/work/osxivericks/">OS X Ivericks</a>, <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/wwdc_2013_expectations">Gruber on interface familiarity</a>, <a href="http://edgecasesshow.com/059-if-youre-a-file-system-geek.html">Edge Cases on filesystems</a>.

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.