017 - Ruin Your Life with Pythonista
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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
- Fussy coffee. Exemplar
- The move from crack to fine coffee roasting
- The inevitable slide towards coffee mediocrity
- 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
- Temper tantrums overhead
- Shell inception
sudo
- Dagerous commands
- Gmail Goggles
- Breathalyzers
- Legally drunk
- PSA (with bonus callback)
- Hazel needs a drunk mode
Python Guy
- 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
- 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
- Constraints foster creativity
- Android’s freedom and iOS’s artisanal app market
- CyanogenMod
- Android text editors are nothing special, however,
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plus Vim is wonderous - iOS-only as clickbait
- Quitting the internet as clickbait
- The misjudged Federico article
- Peak iPad
- Thumb-typing
Rumors!
- 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
- Rosetta
- Android apps on Chrome OS
- Some officially
- The rest unofficially
- Webapps are fine (or awesome)
Styluses…Stylii?…Digital-Marker-thingies
- 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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