Instapaper's web redesign beta.
Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
Non-nerd backups.
After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.

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