Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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

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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

December 19, 2024618: Type System Says No
New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
Christian Kent’s correct/joke
More app name ideas…
Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
Pinstripes are back, baby!
Jeff Johnson
Reddit post
Is Siri… emotional… now?
Marco’s new e-ink toy
Integrations
API
Note that it’s backordered for a bit
New Wildlife immersive video episode
Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
_’s toot
Quicktime VR
Matterport
Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
PlayStation VR2
Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Post-show: John’s app progress
Casey’s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation
Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023)
Apple’s Backyard Birds sample app
map(_:)
Hacking with Swift
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
5K is 5120 × 2880
Marc Edwards’ chart
Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
At the time of recording, on sale for $720
Jason’s review
ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
Review by D. Griffin Jones
BenQ PD2730S
ASUS PorArt Display 6K PA32QCV
Apple’s plans
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2h 17min
December 13, 2024617: An Incredibly Dangerous App
Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
Channels
Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
CGPath
Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance
M1-M3:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController
M4:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller
M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled
Original post on The Information
Gruber’s take
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
John’s adventures in saving space
Symbolic links
Hard links
ditto
diskDedupe
SuperDuper!
visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display
Casey’s toots
At the library
Mac Virtual Display in action
“Study Room 1”
Casey is such a dork 🤓
Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Macintosh emulator is forbidden from third party app stores 👎🏻
Apple’s self-described notarization boundaries
Notarization Review Guidelines
Mini vMac
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1h 60min
December 06, 2024616: I Have No Grippers
Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
Yet more football (🏈) news
Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
TVEverywhere & Channels
AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
Anobit
Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
Polysoft
Kickstarter
Luke Miani tries it
Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
Ivory
Reeder
Tapestry
Zuck’s post
Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Ben Bajarin’s take
Larrabee
Fairchild Semiconductor
#askatp:
What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
The Mac is the Model
Festivitas
Post-show:
Members-only ATP Overtime: Photography Corner
Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)
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2h 10min
November 26, 2024615: A Mildly Brisk Walk
Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
Sunday Ticket updates
On sale!
It was free yesterday… kind of
TV Everywhere
An alternative approach
DAZN
NFL Replay
Tailscale and Exit Nodes
Concert for One: Raye
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
Using large external drives with macOS
Photos library
An anecdote from Marc Wickens
Booting from an external
Downloading large App Store apps
App Store → Settings
Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
Apple Intelligence notification summaries
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Hancock
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
Google’s spin response
Ben Thompson’s take
Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:
Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
iStat Menus
Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
Services on macOS
Making a system-wide service
ThisService (now defunct)
Github
In Automator
Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
To assign a keyboard shortcut:
System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
FastScripts
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2h 5min
November 23, 2024614: Don't Puke for the Show
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
The Weeknd: Open Hearts
Link to the video itself
Lensrentals: Vision Pro
M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
Apple storage pricing
Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
Apple vs. market SSD prices
Retailers are also hamstrung
M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
Graphs
Alternative drag cancellation options
iOS Inactivity Reboot
Wes Davis at The Verge
404 Media (Paywalled)
Demo video
Reverse engineering
#askatp:
How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via Ammar)
Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about bitrot? (via Yannic Boysen)
APFS in Detail: Data Integrity
Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
Channels
Beelink N95 Mini S
HDHomeRun Connect
DTV Reception Maps
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple’s prices useful? Do we have any effect?
Progressive vs. regressive taxation
(Apple is the former)
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1h 58min
November 14, 2024613: Dress for the Chip You Want
🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
Follow-up:
Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
“Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
Mac mini
“Modular” storage
Quinn’s teardown
dosdude1 demonstrates an upgrade
Apple 8TB SSD Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro
Differences between M4 and M4 Pro SSDs
Benchmarks
M4 512 GB
M4 Pro 512 GB
iFixit Teardown
Apple’s replacement guide
Other tidbits
Heatsink differences
256 GB = 2× 128 GB
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
#askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
Thunderbolt performance limits
Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
iPhone Pro Clock speeds
Ken Case’s observation
Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:
Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
Alfred
Rocket
SwitchGlass
Front and Center
Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
Patrick’s original question
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1h 60min
November 07, 2024612: Screen on Face
Pre-show: Politics later.
#195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
Follow-up:
Mac mini
Headphone jack placement
Quinn’s observation
Cruical 32GB DIMM
Samsung SSD
iMac
Apple removes color-matched pointing devices option
M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
Power the machine off
Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
Only lasts until the next boot 😑
Apple buys Pixelmator
Apple buys stake in Globalstar
Press release
Globalstar
Vision Pro v2 changes?
Ming-Chi Quo
Mark Gurman
Post-show: Group therapy
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
Photo cleanup shoot-out by Joe Rosensteel
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2h 16min
October 31, 2024611: RAM Christmas
Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
Submerged
Sleep No More
Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
I Will Vote
vote.gov
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
October Macs
Monday: iMac
Announcement video
The RAM drought is over!
120Hz display‽
The turtle remains harpooned
Magic Keyboard with lock key‽ 🤨
Prior art
Relocated Fn key?
Quinn’s video
Tuesday: Mac mini
Announcement video
Thunderbolt 5 vs. Thunderbolt 4
Apple Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable
Wednesday: MacBook Pros
Announcement video
Post-show: Marco bought something. Because of course he did.
Members-only ATP Overtime: Security research on Private Cloud Compute
Odd licensing
License
Mike Hearn’s discoveries
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2h 23min
October 24, 2024610: More Values in the Darkness
Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
Follow-up:
New iPad Mini
“Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
David Pierce disagrees though
Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
Some follow-up from the most recent member’s special
Photo editing
Exposing to the right
DPReview
More via Sam Doran
Color spaces
…are only applicable on JPEGs (via Léo Natan)
Daniel Laan’s take
What do we do with our computer’s color tweaks while editing (via Josh Harris)
John’s thoughts on cropping
Parallelizing file compression/decompression
unxip (via Mihai Parparita)
More from unxip author Saagar Jha
Apple Archive (see also aa)
“No hats, no walkmen” (via Dan Pierce)
iPhone SE 4 rumors
Aside: iPhone product mix from ATP #609 Overtime
Case leak
October Macs? 🧐
Ask ATP:
How do we protect sensitive information like driver’s licenses? (via Jochen Marschall)
How do we assist parents with account management and legacy planning? (via Kaleb)
How do we clean our keyboards‽ (via Randall Miller)
KeyboardCleanTool
Post-show: John’s Quicksilver update
Alfred
LaunchBar
Raycast
Members-only ATP Overtime: What even is a photo, anyway?
The Verge’s post
Craig Federighi’s WSJ interview
The Verge’s recap
More from Allison Johnson
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2h 1min
October 17, 2024609: You're the Oreo Cookie
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
Follow-up:
Marco updates
AutoSleep
iPhone leather backs
Suti PhoneBack
Nomad Magnetic Leather Back
HDR photos from big cameras
Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
You can soon get Apple TV+ on Prime Video
Soccer corner
“Drive to Survive” knockoff is coming (via Devon Dundee)
On Messi/MLS popularity
Shipping Forecast (via Antony Johnson)
Enabling/disabling audio modes on AirPods 4 w/ ANC (via Scott Zero)
John’s AirPods update
GPX exports for geotagging photos (via Ryan Mikulovsky)
Pedometer++
More thoughts on global keyboard shortcuts in Sequoia (via Michael Berk)
NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents
Passkey benefits
Import/export is forthcoming
Press release
1Password blog post
Apple says “🤨” to OpenAI claims about reasoning
Research paper
Thread from Mehrdad Farajtabar
More from Gary Marcus
How LLMs might store facts
Google breakup is a possibility
Google’s response
New iPad Mini
Submerged
Making of Submerged
Vergence-accommodation conflict
Ask ATP:
How do you get started editing photos? (via Maxel Amador)
What’s the point in performance cores if they’re not used? (via Scott Schuchart)
Amdahl’s Law
Members-only ATP Overtime: What is the right product mix for iPhone
Max Tech’s iPhone 17 naming wishcasting
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