Episode 366: Five Sides of the Street
This week, your hosts talk about using Windows, technology modalities, making sane decisions as a developer, reality TV, 20th anniversary of The Dude, and more.
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Show Notes
This week, your hosts talk about using Windows, technology modalities, making sane decisions as a developer, reality TV, 20th anniversary of The Dude, Merlin's new fondness for Spotify, analyzing takes on the HomePod, options for high-quality in smart speakers, dealing with recurring financial (and psychological) eels, competitive heat in the smart home ecosystem, Canadians, and the name of Scotland Yard. They also answer a listener question about feeling overwhelmed by content options.
Links for this episode:
- Amazon Alexa
(Choose default music services)
- STAMP - Move to Apple Music, Spotify or Google Music
Stamp moves tracks and playlists across various services - Apple Music, Spotify, Google Music and others!
- Amazon.com: AcuRite 01014M Weather Station with AcuRite Access for Remote Monitoring: Home & Kitchen
- Under the Radar #120: Productivity by Inefficiency - Relay FM
Adopting inefficient hacks to save developer time, since hardware is so fast that it's often a worthwhile tradeoff.
- Under the Radar #70: The Hacks We Ship - Relay FM
The difference between good and bad hacks, and some glorious hacks we've shipped in our apps.
- GitHub Octoverse 2017 | Highlights from the last twelve months
- GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub
- Sid the Science Kid, “Checking Out Charts” on Vimeo
- Netflix
- Credit union - Wikipedia
- (1) The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained - YouTube
- Great Scotland Yard - Wikipedia
- Bored and Brilliant | WNYC
- The Beatles discography - Wikipedia
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