692: A Thinking Hitch

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including terminal applications, AI's impact on society, and productivity tools.

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member ’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness Follow-up: Cut/copy/paste in Finder Terminal John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes tcsh John’s Terminal settings Window tab John’s Terminal settings Tab tab Escape sequence extended tooltip .cshrc Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files Fancy shell prompts like Starship KornShell Some other terminal resources The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek ) The terminal, the TTY, and the shell The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans Wizard Zines Ignoring node_modules and the like In Dropbox Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas ) …or use xattr s Dropbox documentation on ignoring files Automator example from Boz Bundalo In Time Machine pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow) Technical explanation Supply chain protection 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later ? 🤨 Reminders Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders ? Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard ) Updates in 26.5 Flexibits Why does everyone hate AI? Pew Research Concern vs. excitement Ability to think & form…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Topics covered

• Terminal applications
• AI and technology
• Reminders and productivity
• Software development
• Shell scripting
• User experience

Keywords

• Terminal
• AI
• Reminders
• Software development
• Shell prompts
• Productivity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Real Madrid, University of Central Florida, University of Arizona

Books & works: Her

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