Isolate the Evil

**John Siracusa** (0:00)
Well, the show is so short, we really can't fit it in.

**Marco Arment** (0:02)
We're known for being a really, really tight schedule and very aggressively edited.

**John Siracusa** (0:07)
No time for flab, just quick hits.

**Marco Arment** (0:09)
The TikTokers love us. Can you imagine us, any of the three of us, or the three of us together, trying to do that quick hit short form video, like what works on TikTok and YouTube shorts? We'd be so terrible at that.

**Casey Liss** (0:24)
I mean, I know you're slightly tongue in cheek, but also serious.

**Marco Arment** (0:27)
No, no, I'm serious. I think we would be horrendous at it.

**Casey Liss** (0:29)
I think we would be horrendous if we set out to do that. But I think there are clips from the show that could be turned in, like leaving aside the fact that there is no video.

**John Siracusa** (0:40)
With heavy editing.

**Casey Liss** (0:41)
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree. But you could take like a two to three minute, you know, one of you two making fun of me or vice versa and turn that into a TikTok friendly, Reels friendly clip, leaving aside the fact that we have no video for the show.

**Marco Arment** (0:54)
Well, but even that, like, I feel like people wouldn't get it. It wouldn't be funny when you, if you're just breezing through your feed and you don't know any of us, you've never heard our show and you've never heard our banter, you don't know any of our personalities. I feel like there isn't any, like, brief little quick hit that you could put in a clip, even if it was heavily edited, that would be as like funny or interesting to even come close to representing what our audience feels like when, you know, if we make a back reference to a joke that we made 10 years ago or we're, you know, playing off of something that we think is funny about each other or whatever, like no one's like, if you just breeze through and you see five seconds of, you know, me and John making fun of you, Casey, or like, we're just going to be dicks. Like that's not, we're not going to be like endearing and fun friends. We're just going to be jerks.

**John Siracusa** (1:40)
Not everything is bite-sized.

**Marco Arment** (1:42)
Yeah, right.

**Casey Liss** (1:43)
And that's true. I bet you that somebody listening with talent in a way that none of the three of us have talent could put together at least a passable, again, leaving aside the lack of video, could put together a passable, like 30 to 90 second clip. That would be amusing and fun and funny, but no.

**Marco Arment** (1:59)
Well, it's a good thing that we are also known for constantly bringing in external talent and hiring jobs out. We're really good at that too.

**Casey Liss** (2:10)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We have no time to waste. Let's do some follow up.

**Marco Arment** (2:13)
And yet, we are wasting it.

**Casey Liss** (2:15)
Yes, exactly.
We spoke last week slash two days ago in our time about a truly incredible, I think John had counted or had computed 2,500 plus word email that deserved to be a blog post about FileMaker. And this was by Adam Wunn. And Adam has posted that email to his brand, shiny brand spanking new blog. So you can go to the link in the show notes at adamwunn.com and you can check it out. And so Adam wrote again after the last episode and said, thank you for your kind words in ATP 701 about my FileMaker email. I sent that to you with the intention of helping by giving some background information on FileMaker for the podcast, but I didn't consider making it a blog post. I have a website with a blog set up, but while I've never used it, it has always been my desire to do so. John was right. I was once a professional writer of sorts. I have been a, having been a journalist in another era, more recently my writing skills were seriously reinforced and polished when I went back to college. That was so much work for an old guy. Since the three of you were so encouraging, I decided to turn on the blog and create the post, as I mentioned. Thanks again. It was fun to help contribute to ATP's discussion on FileMaker. It brought back so many memories. I love geeking out with you guys.
Moving right along, with regard to Mac asked Mac apps, Ingmar Wittkau writes, regarding Mac asked Mac apps, today I was blown away by how you share files between two Macs when using the screen sharing app. You just drag them out of or into the screen sharing window to the other Mac, which is something I've known for a long time, but didn't consider as a good example of Mac asked Mac app, and it is a great example of that. So yeah, so let's say I have a headless Mac mini here in the office, and if I wanted to move a file to or from it, I could drag from my MacBook Pro onto that window, so the desktop from my MacBook Pro, onto that window, and drop it, and it will transfer the file. Or I can drag from the Mac mini's desktop, onto my desktop, and it will transfer the file. And it's very slick, and it's a great example of, there's no way this will work. Well, let me try it. Oh my God, it did work.