Verbose

Episode 40 - Random Ramblings In which we talk politics, but in an extremely circuitous manner Shownotes: Captain America Ull 2017 Gitlab problems iPads? Linea Spreadsheets Swift Tellys Upgrading hardware Impending MacBook Pro Tesla cars in Ireland for test drives Politics again, ugh

Episode 38 - Darkest Timeline In which we pass comment on the unfolding events in the world today Shownotes: 00:02:20 Xcake shoutout: volunteers for talks, Christmas meetup 00:05:07 Oisin tells us all about Úll 2016 00:28:59 We discuss the US Presidential election, with a pinch of Brexit for good measure 00:43:15 What we think of the new Macbooks Pro 00:47:44 The Apple Data Center in Athenry 00:52:10 Graphic novels & other literature: - The Incal by Moebius & Jodorosky - The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage & Lovelace by Sydney Padua - Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier - Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau & Alexandre Franc - Jerusalem by Alan Moore - The Cobweb & Interface by Neal Stephenson - Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton 01:04:57 TV: Black Mirror, Gotham, Westworld

Episode 37 - Tangential In which we start off talking about one thing and then go off in a completely different direction altogether. Shownotes: - New Phones? Not yet, for us - Samsung phones keep on exploding - New Google hardware products! - Millenials. What are they? - iMessage metadata made available to police searches: what it means for you - We digress into talking about Karl's new fat stacks (of comics!) - We finish up by talking about the lack of new desktop Apple Macs

Episode 37 - Tangential In which we start off talking about one thing and then go off in a completely different direction altogether. Shownotes: - New Phones? Not yet, for us - Samsung phones keep on exploding - New Google hardware products! - Millenials. What are they? - iMessage metadata made available to police searches: what it means for you - We digress into talking about Karl's new fat stacks (of comics!) - We finish up by talking about the lack of new desktop Apple Macs

…pation. In which we await, with breath bated, sundry assorted updates of the hardware and software varieties. Shownotes: - New iPhone Incoming - All the old hardware that has yet to be updated [do not buy] EVERYWHERE - Swift 3 experiences so far (if any) everything is broken - Betas: everything is broken and then fixed and then broken. But the new automatic provisioning seems to work? If you're only on 1 team or you remember to set the correct team. - Our iOS 10 experiences so far - External GPU for MacBook Pro hardware Kickstarter campaign pitching external GPU for MacBook Pro, promising up to 10x performance increase, fully-funded on day one, offering a choice of two external GPUs for MacBook Pros that offer up to ten times the performance of the top-end built-in one. Connected via Thunderbolt 2 or 3, the Wolfe Pro gets you an NVIDIA GTX 970 GPU for $599, with estimated delivery in March 2017. The GTX 970 has 1664 cores operating at 1050MHz, for a peak computing power of 3.49 teraflops, with rendering speeds almost ten times higher than a maxed-out 15-inch MacBook https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/24/macbook-pro-external-gpu-kickstarter-wolfe/ - VR headsets? (Picked one up in Dunnes two days ago) - Castro 2 released & the Supertop guys now have their own podcast too! Also, they've removed the Verbose podcast from their screenshots, like, what's up with that, lads?

…pation. In which we await, with breath bated, sundry assorted updates of the hardware and software varieties. Shownotes: - New iPhone Incoming - All the old hardware that has yet to be updated [do not buy] EVERYWHERE - Swift 3 experiences so far (if any) everything is broken - Betas: everything is broken and then fixed and then broken. But the new automatic provisioning seems to work? If you're only on 1 team or you remember to set the correct team. - Our iOS 10 experiences so far - External GPU for MacBook Pro hardware Kickstarter campaign pitching external GPU for MacBook Pro, promising up to 10x performance increase, fully-funded on day one, offering a choice of two external GPUs for MacBook Pros that offer up to ten times the performance of the top-end built-in one. Connected via Thunderbolt 2 or 3, the Wolfe Pro gets you an NVIDIA GTX 970 GPU for $599, with estimated delivery in March 2017. The GTX 970 has 1664 cores operating at 1050MHz, for a peak computing power of 3.49 teraflops, with rendering speeds almost ten times higher than a maxed-out 15-inch MacBook https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/24/macbook-pro-external-gpu-kickstarter-wolfe/ - VR headsets? (Picked one up in Dunnes two days ago) - Castro 2 released & the Supertop guys now have their own podcast too! Also, they've removed the Verbose podcast from their screenshots, like, what's up with that, lads?

In which we lose a Karl, but gain an Oisin. We're joined by Oisin Prendiville from Supertop, developers of the excellent podcast app Castro, the RSS feed reader app Unread, & Tokens & Tophat for MacOSX, amongst others. Shownotes: - WWDC2016 - Enhanced push notifications, improved force touch, betas, enhanced iMessages, and more - We discuss Supertop's Castro 2, with great anticipation! - The new Apple Store on Union Square - Oisin tells us about coding on the road, traveling around the globe & juggling timezones - Headphones, and the potential lack thereof in future phone hardware releases - Spotify take issue with Apple's review process, and get an update blocked - Updates to the App Store, including app updates & subscriptions, and how that will impact indie developers

In which we lose a Karl, but gain an Oisin. We're joined by Oisin Prendiville from Supertop, developers of the excellent podcast app Castro, the RSS feed reader app Unread, & Tokens & Tophat for MacOSX, amongst others. Shownotes: - WWDC2016 - Enhanced push notifications, improved force touch, betas, enhanced iMessages, and more - We discuss Supertop's Castro 2, with great anticipation! - The new Apple Store on Union Square - Oisin tells us about coding on the road, traveling around the globe & juggling timezones - Headphones, and the potential lack thereof in future phone hardware releases - Spotify take issue with Apple's review process, and get an update blocked - Updates to the App Store, including app updates & subscriptions, and how that will impact indie developers

In which, after another extended break, we return to the microphones once more to discuss a range of topics, some dear to our hearts, some offensively repellant to everyone. Shownotes 0:03:47 - Google IO: The 10 biggest announcements http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11701030/google-io-2016-keynote-highlights-announcements-recap 0:16:16 - Monument Valley in numbers: Year 2 https://medium.com/@ustwogames/monument-valley-in-numbers-year-2-440cf5562fe#.11abngm2y 0:24:35 A brief digression into movies based on games. 0:28:15 - Billionaire Blackmail http://scripting.com/2016/05/25/1283.html http://fusion.net/story/306927/peter-thiel-gawker-dangerous-blueprint/ https://stratechery.com/2016/peter-thiel-comic-book-hero/ 0:44:18 VR: a non-comprehensive review of our hastily-cobbled together opinions on the matter. 0:46:01 3D Touch Are we still using it? 0:48:32 P-Calc Tshirts We're hoping to get our hands on some, James, if you're listening. Also, apparently WWDC will be happening soon. Revel in the anticipation of those of us who aren't actually going to San Francisco for the week.

In which, after another extended break, we return to the microphones once more to discuss a range of topics, some dear to our hearts, some offensively repellant to everyone. Shownotes 0:03:47 - Google IO: The 10 biggest announcements http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11701030/google-io-2016-keynote-highlights-announcements-recap 0:16:16 - Monument Valley in numbers: Year 2 https://medium.com/@ustwogames/monument-valley-in-numbers-year-2-440cf5562fe#.11abngm2y 0:24:35 A brief digression into movies based on games. 0:28:15 - Billionaire Blackmail http://scripting.com/2016/05/25/1283.html http://fusion.net/story/306927/peter-thiel-gawker-dangerous-blueprint/ https://stratechery.com/2016/peter-thiel-comic-book-hero/ 0:44:18 VR: a non-comprehensive review of our hastily-cobbled together opinions on the matter. 0:46:01 3D Touch Are we still using it? 0:48:32 P-Calc Tshirts We're hoping to get our hands on some, James, if you're listening. Also, apparently WWDC will be happening soon. Revel in the anticipation of those of us who aren't actually going to San Francisco for the week.

In which we return after missing out entirely on the whole month of March, due to prior commitments. As a result, it’s even longer and even more ill prepared than usual. Shownotes: 0:01:46 - I Am A Robot Well, at least one of us is: http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/ 0:03:16 - The new Apple hardware we really, really needed most of all Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. It’s a godsend for podcasters & musicians: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-usb-3-camera-adapter 0:08:32 We discuss our collection of assorted iOS devices, collected over the years. 0:13:47 - Apple is doomed, DOOMED Dip in iPhone sales, maybe the iPhone SE can help: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/iphone-sales-decline/ 0:22:36 Airplane USB sockets in the cockpit getting infected by charging Android devices 0:26:30 - Don’t switch off your ad-blockers just yet EC says it’s illegal for sites to check if you’re ad-blocking them: https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/724534139173609472 0:28:13 - Happy birthday Apple Watch! Have some diatribes: http://www.macworld.com/article/3061053/ios/over-the-top-making-your-apple-watch-diatribe-stand-out.html 0:34:39 - Stephen Troughton Smith’s WWDC Wishlist Some great ideas we’d all love to get from Apple this June: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/140141855080/wwdc-wish-list 0:44:49 - What happened when LeftPad was pulled from NPM Relying on third-party remote-hosted modules is bad, okay?: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ 1:09:46 - SoundCloud double-charging whammy Dave Wiskus on SoundCloud’s new paid offline feature, SoundCloud Go, and why it’s a crappy thing to do for artists: http://airplanemo.de/blog/to-soundcloud-love-dave 1:17:46 The trouble with the App Store Tribbles A detailed article from Pixite, developers of several amazing apps (Pigment & Assembly, but also Tangent, Matter, Union, Fragment, Lory Stripes & Shift): http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11140928/app-store-economy-apple-android-pixite-bankruptcy 1:22:36 Assembly for iOS by Pixite We talk about a fantastic vector drawing, in the style of Ed Emberly: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/assembly-design-graphics-icons/id1024210402?mt=8 1:27:15 - We’re not in Kansas anymore More on that GeoIP glitch problem for a farm located roughly in the exact geographic centre of the United States: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ 1:31:17 - Apple Vs FBI We make a concerted agreement not to engage in discussion with regards this subject in any way whatsoever shape or form. 1:32:01 - Postman for desktop! Supercharge your API workflow: http://www.getpostman.com

In which we return after missing out entirely on the whole month of March, due to prior commitments. As a result, it’s even longer and even more ill prepared than usual. Shownotes: 0:01:46 - I Am A Robot Well, at least one of us is: http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/ 0:03:16 - The new Apple hardware we really, really needed most of all Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. It’s a godsend for podcasters & musicians: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-usb-3-camera-adapter 0:08:32 We discuss our collection of assorted iOS devices, collected over the years. 0:13:47 - Apple is doomed, DOOMED Dip in iPhone sales, maybe the iPhone SE can help: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/iphone-sales-decline/ 0:22:36 Airplane USB sockets in the cockpit getting infected by charging Android devices 0:26:30 - Don’t switch off your ad-blockers just yet EC says it’s illegal for sites to check if you’re ad-blocking them: https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/724534139173609472 0:28:13 - Happy birthday Apple Watch! Have some diatribes: http://www.macworld.com/article/3061053/ios/over-the-top-making-your-apple-watch-diatribe-stand-out.html 0:34:39 - Stephen Troughton Smith’s WWDC Wishlist Some great ideas we’d all love to get from Apple this June: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/post/140141855080/wwdc-wish-list 0:44:49 - What happened when LeftPad was pulled from NPM Relying on third-party remote-hosted modules is bad, okay?: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ 1:09:46 - SoundCloud double-charging whammy Dave Wiskus on SoundCloud’s new paid offline feature, SoundCloud Go, and why it’s a crappy thing to do for artists: http://airplanemo.de/blog/to-soundcloud-love-dave 1:17:46 The trouble with the App Store Tribbles A detailed article from Pixite, developers of several amazing apps (Pigment & Assembly, but also Tangent, Matter, Union, Fragment, Lory Stripes & Shift): http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11140928/app-store-economy-apple-android-pixite-bankruptcy 1:22:36 Assembly for iOS by Pixite We talk about a fantastic vector drawing, in the style of Ed Emberly: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/assembly-design-graphics-icons/id1024210402?mt=8 1:27:15 - We’re not in Kansas anymore More on that GeoIP glitch problem for a farm located roughly in the exact geographic centre of the United States: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ 1:31:17 - Apple Vs FBI We make a concerted agreement not to engage in discussion with regards this subject in any way whatsoever shape or form. 1:32:01 - Postman for desktop! Supercharge your API workflow: http://www.getpostman.com

0:00:00 A Customer Letter. [apple.com](http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/) 0:01:05 That FBI request in question. [assets.documentcloud.org (pdf)](http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf) 0:03:56 China has already requested backdoors into all foreign companies’ products. [reuters.com](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY2H520150302) 0:04:59 Counterpoint: Apple have already unlocked iPhones in the past on request by the authorities [thedailybeast.com](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/apple-unlocked-iphones-for-the-feds-70-times-before.html) 0:09:08 Error 53: So it turns out that Error 53 may not be such a bad thing after all. [twitter.com/grahamvsworld](https://twitter.com/grahamvsworld/status/696026307948228608) 0:10:29 Cars do it. Phones do it. [twitter.com/jonny290](https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/696026823902146561) 0:13:28 Google (& others) have somewhat declared support, in a vaguely wishy-washy manner. [bloomberg.com](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/google-sides-with-apple-in-protesting-government-decryption) 0:13:29 EFF to support Apple. [eff.org](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle) 0:16:28 Not an Onion headline: The SKYNET program is already in operation. [arstechnica.co.uk](http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/) 0:22:39 Farewell to Timezones? We can only live in hope. [washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/12/the-radical-plan-to-destroy-time-zones-2/) 0:27:47 Benson Leung, USB-C detective extraordinaire, fried his Chromebook Pixel with a dodgy cable [geek.com](http://www.geek.com/news/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-so-bad-it-broke-his-chromebook-pixel-1646212/) 0:35:15 That dude that wrote that letter about homelessness in San Francisco... 0:40:05 Commandline Corner: The Keybase filesystem [keybase.io](https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs) 0:43:02 Karl has two phones. 0:43:33 Weather forecasts via finger (only in Norway, unfortunately) 0:47:02 Sublime Text: Back in development again (wuhoo!) [thenextweb.com](http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/02/09/sublime-text-is-being-developed-again-after-a-year-dormant/) 0:54:18 Lego talk 0:56:50 James Thomson's PCalc has hitherto unknown secret features! 0:58:20 Stolen becomes Famous (with help from Zoe Quinn)

0:00:00 A Customer Letter. [apple.com](http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/) 0:01:05 That FBI request in question. [assets.documentcloud.org (pdf)](http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf) 0:03:56 China has already requested backdoors into all foreign companies’ products. [reuters.com](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY2H520150302) 0:04:59 Counterpoint: Apple have already unlocked iPhones in the past on request by the authorities [thedailybeast.com](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/apple-unlocked-iphones-for-the-feds-70-times-before.html) 0:09:08 Error 53: So it turns out that Error 53 may not be such a bad thing after all. [twitter.com/grahamvsworld](https://twitter.com/grahamvsworld/status/696026307948228608) 0:10:29 Cars do it. Phones do it. [twitter.com/jonny290](https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/696026823902146561) 0:13:28 Google (& others) have somewhat declared support, in a vaguely wishy-washy manner. [bloomberg.com](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/google-sides-with-apple-in-protesting-government-decryption) 0:13:29 EFF to support Apple. [eff.org](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle) 0:16:28 Not an Onion headline: The SKYNET program is already in operation. [arstechnica.co.uk](http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/) 0:22:39 Farewell to Timezones? We can only live in hope. [washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/12/the-radical-plan-to-destroy-time-zones-2/) 0:27:47 Benson Leung, USB-C detective extraordinaire, fried his Chromebook Pixel with a dodgy cable [geek.com](http://www.geek.com/news/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-so-bad-it-broke-his-chromebook-pixel-1646212/) 0:35:15 That dude that wrote that letter about homelessness in San Francisco... 0:40:05 Commandline Corner: The Keybase filesystem [keybase.io](https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs) 0:43:02 Karl has two phones. 0:43:33 Weather forecasts via finger (only in Norway, unfortunately) 0:47:02 Sublime Text: Back in development again (wuhoo!) [thenextweb.com](http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/02/09/sublime-text-is-being-developed-again-after-a-year-dormant/) 0:54:18 Lego talk 0:56:50 James Thomson's PCalc has hitherto unknown secret features! 0:58:20 Stolen becomes Famous (with help from Zoe Quinn)

In which we start off the year with talk of takeovers, mergers, winners and losers. Shownotes: 0:00:03 Interview: Stolen, the problematic app that lets you buy and sell people on Twitter: [Gadgette] (http://www.gadgette.com/2016/01/13/stolen-app/) 0:00:10 Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse bgr.com 0:06:52 Spotify acquires Dublin music discovery startup Soundwave: tech.eu 0:09:16 A Discussion Regarding Netflix 0:15:58 Why Apple defends encryption: titbits “High profile, revenue lines that don’t rely on compromising privacy, and sells products that are squarely in the crosshairs of the encryption debate. Apple comes from a far more defensible position, especially now that it’s dropping iAd App Network.” 0:21:16 Apple Opening Europe’s First iOS App Development Center in Italy: Business Wire 0:25:20 Why you should be skeptical of Irish government claims that snooping on phone records is adequately overseen: Storify 0:29:09 Amazon’s customer service backdoor: Medium 0:37:41 Untappd: Merged with Next Glass blog.untappd.com 0:44:25 Chris Espinosa (Apple employee number 8) tweets the story on how he bought the world's first Mac Plus: storify.com 0:50:01 Lego jobs! Jobs with Lego! 0:53:14 We get into a brief Star Wars digression 0:55:36 When Will We See A New Apple Watch?: techcrunch 1:01:07 Apple Car? 1:06:18 The co-founder of Cards Against Humanity sent the Oregon militia 55 gallons of lube: Twitter 1:06:18 Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones? Fusion

In which we discuss the many and varied things that the year of 2015 has presented us with. Shownotes: Year in review: - AppleWatch - New AppleTV (Oisin finally got one!) - iPad Pro - Gold MacBook - iPhone 6S Thanks to Drop for supplying the Xcake prize for the lightning talks! And thanks to Marian O'Shea for giving the winning talk! Paolo's RTE Player app (repo) Swift: we talk the benefits of opensourcing iOS pushtoken issues that we have experienced Fastlane is amazing (as we discussed in the past, and no doubt will continue to be discussed in the future) Martin Shkreli's continuing adventures (to be curtailed shortly, we imagine) AppleTV Tech Talks in January Lego & hoverboards! Well, it is Christmas after all. Movies in review! (no spoilers)

In which we start off the year with talk of takeovers, mergers, winners and losers. Shownotes: 0:00:03 Interview: Stolen, the problematic app that lets you buy and sell people on Twitter: [Gadgette] (http://www.gadgette.com/2016/01/13/stolen-app/) 0:00:10 Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse bgr.com 0:06:52 Spotify acquires Dublin music discovery startup Soundwave: tech.eu 0:09:16 A Discussion Regarding Netflix 0:15:58 Why Apple defends encryption: titbits “High profile, revenue lines that don’t rely on compromising privacy, and sells products that are squarely in the crosshairs of the encryption debate. Apple comes from a far more defensible position, especially now that it’s dropping iAd App Network.” 0:21:16 Apple Opening Europe’s First iOS App Development Center in Italy: Business Wire 0:25:20 Why you should be skeptical of Irish government claims that snooping on phone records is adequately overseen: Storify 0:29:09 Amazon’s customer service backdoor: Medium 0:37:41 Untappd: Merged with Next Glass blog.untappd.com 0:44:25 Chris Espinosa (Apple employee number 8) tweets the story on how he bought the world's first Mac Plus: storify.com 0:50:01 Lego jobs! Jobs with Lego! 0:53:14 We get into a brief Star Wars digression 0:55:36 When Will We See A New Apple Watch?: techcrunch 1:01:07 Apple Car? 1:06:18 The co-founder of Cards Against Humanity sent the Oregon militia 55 gallons of lube: Twitter 1:06:18 Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones? Fusion

In which we discuss the many and varied things that the year of 2015 has presented us with. Shownotes: Year in review: - AppleWatch - New AppleTV (Oisin finally got one!) - iPad Pro - Gold MacBook - iPhone 6S Thanks to Drop for supplying the Xcake prize for the lightning talks! And thanks to Marian O'Shea for giving the winning talk! Paolo's RTE Player app (repo) Swift: we talk the benefits of opensourcing iOS pushtoken issues that we have experienced Fastlane is amazing (as we discussed in the past, and no doubt will continue to be discussed in the future) Martin Shkreli's continuing adventures (to be curtailed shortly, we imagine) AppleTV Tech Talks in January Lego & hoverboards! Well, it is Christmas after all. Movies in review! (no spoilers)

In which we discuss the many and varied things that the year of 2015 has presented us with. Shownotes: Year in review: - AppleWatch - New AppleTV (Oisin finally got one!) - iPad Pro - Gold MacBook - iPhone 6S Thanks to Drop for supplying the Xcake prize for the lightning talks! And thanks to Marian O'Shea for giving the winning talk! Paolo's RTE Player app (repo) Swift: we talk the benefits of opensourcing iOS pushtoken issues that we have experienced Fastlane is amazing (as we discussed in the past, and no doubt will continue to be discussed in the future) Martin Shkreli's continuing adventures (to be curtailed shortly, we imagine) AppleTV Tech Talks in January Lego & hoverboards! Well, it is Christmas after all. Movies in review! (no spoilers)

In which the podcast takes a totally unprecedented turn when we start to complain about things. Which we never, ever do. Never. Shownotes: One of us has an iPad Pro. The rest of us are suitably jealous. Oisin regales us with tales of Indianapolis, the home of the Release Notes conference! We mourn our lack of tickets for the tvOS Tech Talks events. Apple apologise for the certificate issues on the Mac App Store last week. Confusion regarding jobs in Cork and Jobs in the cinema manages to digress into a discussion on the developer community and diversity in Dublin. Unicorn-based startups (it’s a thing, apparently) Paris, and its ramifications for increased security measures. How not to approach a genius developer for assistance with your project Call for lighting talk speakers at the December Xcake (taking place on December 8th, Science Gallery) Shout out to Axonista for being a totally awesome gang of really nice people Completely unrelated: our thoughts on the QVC AppleTV app