26: Three Phones Ago

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Episode: 26: Three Phones Ago
• Website: Accidental Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://atp.fm/episodes?format=rss
• Duration: 01:43:23
• Published: 2013-08-15 21:03

• Instapaper's web redesign beta.
• Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
• Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
• The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
• The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
• How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
• Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
• Non-nerd backups.
• After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.

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