Accidental Tech Podcast

26: Three Phones Ago

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  • 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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