691: A Menlo Phasehttps://atp.fm/691

[atpfm@mastodon.social]

691: A Menlo Phase
https://atp.fm/691

Apple's chip-fab options, branding the 20th-anniversary iPhone, Terminal and Xcode preferences, and some very special filenames.

[mynameist@snailedit.social]

@atpfm @siracusa re covers, one which I think fits in your awkward middle of not especially faithful but not especially new and interesting, is U2’s All Along the Watchtower. I like it fine, because I like them, but it doesn’t really add anything.

[kmcmahon@mastodon.social]

@atpfm I think @siracusa is over-complicating the node_modules backup problem. You don't exclude individual node_modules folders; you exclude your entire ~/Developer directory. Everything in there is either clonable from a public repo, a scratch project you don't care if you lose, or an important project pushed to a remote.

[jimmyjamesuk@mastodon.social]

@atpfm the Time Machine discourse in the past couple of weeks has been bizarre. Stating it corrupts itself regularly is a very strange thing to conclude, even with anecdata. Even more so given the often praised cloning alternatives use the same mechanisms.

[marcoshuerta@vmst.io]

@atpfm I am late to the Time Machine discourse, but when I had a spinning disk as my Time Machine drive it was a hellscape of constant grinding. Somehow — even when no Time Machine activity was happening — the hard drive would constantly be grinding away doing God knows what.

It is awful how expensive SSDs are now, but they are so much better for Time Machine than a hard drive.