Spring cleaning, music apps, package managers, and coffee gear.

• Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day
  • Celiac
    • Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance
  • Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, YMMV)
  • Thera Cane
  • Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
  • It’s All Too Much
  • NIMBY
• Follow-up:
  • Getting an older car to always play Maps’ directions over Bluetooth (via Paul Violante)
    • Settings → Maps → Spoken Directions → Directions on Radio
  • Some interesting feedback on brake-by-wire systems
  • Marc Barrowclift’s Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase (via Aidan Trager)
  • Casey attempts a victory lap around John
    • Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
      Note the relevant section was in the members’ only after-show
  • Feedback received on John’s Streaming App Spec
• The NVIDIA/Arm deal has been scuttled
  • Previously: Doubts about the NVIDIA/Arm deal
  • Announced 20 September 2020 (!)
  • Apparently .NET Core can trace its roots to Silverlight (!)
• Developer deliberately corrupts popular open-source packages
  • Previous NPM disaster covered on ATP
  • Semantic Versioning
  • Log4j vulnerability
  • xkcd #2347: Dependency
  • Tech companies called to the principal’s office
  • Discourse tries to lead by an $82,500 example
• #askatp:
  • Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:
    • What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
      • James Hoffmann’s Aeropress technique
      • Ratio Eight
      • Baratza Virtuoso
      • YES PLZ
      • Trade Coffee
      • Intelligentsia
    • Is John still subscribed to cable?
  • Do we have a good system for maintaining family contacts? (via Paul Walker)
• Post-show Robot or Not:
  • Bonus #askatp: Do we say we’re “in front of” or “behind” the computer? (via Niek van de Pas)

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