Episode 482

482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses

Playdate first impressions, home-Ethernet-wiring updates, and fond farewells to two products that — let's be honest — most of us had already forgotten.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

May 12, 20222h 9m

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Show Notes

Follow-up:
- A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
- Apple’s New Developer Center
  - More from Parker Ortolani
- John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
  - An aside about password managers
  - Protobuf
- John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
- Casey’s Ethernet Project
  - Cat 6A cable types
Playdate impressions
The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
…it meets the same fate as macOS Server
#askatp:
- Will an Apple Silicon Mac Pro have ECC RAM? (via Robert Boyle)
  - HBM4
- Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS? (via Jon Sulek)
  - Pacifist
- Does choice of programming language matter for server-side crawling? (via Abel Demoz)
  - Go
  - Rust
Post-show: Marco’s capture system