Nationaal Archief

Gabe, Potatowire, and Erik talk about Coffee DRM, Breathalizers, Python, Ruby, Pythonista, Editorial, thumb typing, iOS and Android app cultures, styluses, and spider bites.

Truth in Advertising

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• Fussy coffee. Exemplar
• The move from crack to fine coffee roasting
• The inevitable slide towards coffee mediocrity
  • Tonx
  • Blue Bottle
  • K-cups
• Coffee with DRM
• HP Ink coffee synergy
• Did someone ask for an avenging angel to be added to Boards of Directors?
• Board of Average People

Drunk Modes

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• Temper tantrums overhead
• Shell inception
• sudo
• Dagerous commands
• Gmail Goggles
• Breathalyzers
• Legally drunk
• PSA (with bonus callback)
• Hazel needs a drunk mode

Python Guy

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• College nicknames
• Pythonista
• Reasons to use Python
  • Good science support
  • Whitespace matters
  • AppleScript is a dumb language
• Node.js and learning through problem solving
• Ruby
  • _why or why the lucky stiff (not unknown anymore)
  • Nothing really disappears from the internet
  • why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby
  • “Some jerk researched him”; Lots more
  • Sad hipster
  • Related, anonymous people on the internet are weird

Seriously, Back to Python

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• Resizing and cropping images for fun and profit
• Macdrifter Editorial workflow for images
• Workflow distorts images
• The fiddler
• Breaking iOS within the Rules
• Ruin your life with Pythonista
• Doxing oneself
• Peak scripting
• “Exhaustive” app research instead of scripting
• Kids ruin Daddy’s concentration
• Actually creating script on iOS
• “It’s all Ole”, i.e. genius
• Tasker as Android’s uglier utilty tool
• Scripting: The Nerd’s Song
• Inability to read documentation indicates a lack of seriousness
• “Big-boned phone”

Forcing Apple Evolution

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• Constraints foster creativity
• Android’s freedom and iOS’s artisanal app market
• CyanogenMod
• Android text editors are nothing special, however, ssh plus Vim is wonderous
• iOS-only as clickbait
• Quitting the internet as clickbait
• The misjudged Federico article
• Peak iPad
• Thumb-typing

Rumors!

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• 12” MacBook Air
• We want a small device with a built-in keyboard
• 13” MBPr vs. MBA
• Airline seats are getting smaller](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-narrower-airline-seats-20150206-story.html)
• “And Leon is getting larger”
• iPad apps that should be on OS X
  • Editorial
  • Pinswift
  • Mr. Reader
  • Drafts
• Rosetta
• Android apps on Chrome OS
  • Some officially
  • The rest unofficially
• Webapps are fine (or awesome)
  • Fastmail
  • Feedbin
  • Trello
  • Slack
  • Pocket Casts

Styluses…Stylii?…Digital-Marker-thingies

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• FiftyThree
• Wacom
• Bob’s Surface Pro 3 replacement
• Finger-painting
• The software is better even if the hardware isn’t

Spider bites and Farewells

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• Blizzards in Boston
• Tauntaun survival
• Trains in the snow
• One-handed keyboards