John's account's still locked, Merlin knows just enough to be angry, and Casey has opinions about which way his snacks should face.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Late last month I got several emails from Spotify, all pretty much the same: Hello, Our automatic review tools determined that this podcast may contain content that infringes the rights of a third party. Due to this, we’ve removed: Title: 14: Ribsy Detected Content: “Ribsy” by Beverly Cleary Why did this happen? Spotify for Creators supports the distribution of audio and video podcasts. Our automated review process may remove any content that appears to be distributing third-party literary material. What’s next? If you think your episode does not infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party, or is subject to […]

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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John has Follow-Up on what he was mad about last time.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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John eventually tells us what it is he's so mad about.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

You’d be hard-pressed to find corners of the Apple nerd community where John Siracusa’s name isn’t known. He wrote those mammoth OS X reviews for Ars Technica for many years — some of which you may still be reading now. (They were long.) He cohosts Accidental…

British number one Katie Boulter complains that the smell of cannabis is putting her off her game at the US Open.

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.