Episode 115

115: Empathy for the Machine

Photos follow-up, Apple Watch impressions, and this week's Microsoft Build announcements.

May 1, 20151h 49m

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Show Notes

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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!
- 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
- Project Astoria & Project Islandwood
  - WINE
  - Dalvik
  - GNUStep
  - Microsoft Band
  - Session video (posted after this episode was recorded)
Post-show:
- Connected follow-out