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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June 30, 2026698: And Do What?
Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
Nugs and Sonos
As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
Rumors about Siri AI indexing
Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
Price increases abound! ☹️
On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
Steam Machine (More)
Xbox
Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
Previously, in Palm Pilots
Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
GFHK?
More reporting
New Siri
Iconography
Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
Joanna Stern’s review
Gui Rambo’s experiment
Dan Moren
John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
Question 1
Question 2
Ask ATP:
Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
3Blue1Brown
Avoiding Copland 2010
Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
Casey:
ThinkPad 701C
ThinkPad T30
John:
eMate
Newton 2000
Trashcan
Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS
Announcement video
On the store
All Ubiquiti NAS offerings
Xserve RAID
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2h 14min
June 26, 2026697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Pre-show:
Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
Marco’s trip report
Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
Alex concurs
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
Bootleg video (via sayrer)
Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
WWDC session on YouTube
The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
Direct product comparisons
Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
General overview (via Gui Rambo)
cloudOS job listing
How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
Chart
South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures
Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!
25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
Stephen’s tables
Gruber’s tables
Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
Good timing:
tmcgeary
Aaron
Greg Pierce
Ask ATP:
Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
Joe Lion
Blake Patterson
Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable
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2h 7min
June 15, 2026696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Pre-show:
We are not dangerously capable
We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
Follow-up:
It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
Indexing for the new Spotlight
Passwords app does the hard thing
macOS 27
“Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
Microsoft Bob
You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
Mickey hands are back
They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
General Golden Gate icon changes
Touch Macs are coming
Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
HIG updates for menu icons
iOS 27
Siri AI pull down animation
iPadOS 27
ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
Hardware compatibility
watchOS
Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
Images
Quotes
Dan Moren vanity searches
An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
3Blue1Brown transformers video
Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
Filippone Stefano’s review
Ars Technica’s write-up
Post-show: Casey’s trip results
UniFi Travel Router
GL-iNet
Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
OpenDoc
iPhone mirroring resizing
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1h 60min
June 09, 2026695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
WWDC 2026
Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
Word wall
Rob Rhyne’s toot
Weird holes
Change Detection
.well-known
Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
Music Video
Craig’s toot
Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince)
Sam Henri Gold
Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
White foldable phone
More details
Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
Case leaks
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2h 52min
June 04, 2026694: Potential and Homework
Pre-show:
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
John and dynamic DNS
Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
Tailscale Funnel
DynDns.org
no-ip.org
Follow-up:
Ferrari Luce
John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG)
John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy
Bambu’s battle with its users
They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins)
Jose agrees
Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith)
Moving files between volumes
Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
Previously on ATP
WWDC 2026
All systems glow
Wallpaper
Gurman prediction
More at MacRumors
macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!]
Hardware that has been delayed by Siri
macOS 27 name
What are we dreading?
What we’re most excited for?
What will we miss?
Post-show: Casey wants some advice
Callsheet
Channels
OAuth
VLAN
Jellyfin
Infuse
SenPlayer (App Store link)
Tailscale Service
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
Previously, the DGX Spark
This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
They’re the same… but not
Surface Laptop Ultra
Ars Technica
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2h 20min
May 29, 2026693: Negative Bonus Points
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
Ubiquiti marketing video
Spanning Tree Protocol
Sonos & Networking Documentation
Follow-up:
Formula 1 on Apple TV
The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
SVG can do THAT‽
Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?
SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)
If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?
Defrag lives on …in APFS
diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
[disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
MJ Tsai
AI Sentiment
AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
Large Energy User Action Plan
Perspectives on art
Original Monet
The Ferrari Luce
Previously on ATP
Purosangue
Jaguar I-Pace
BMW i3
BMW i8
GMA T.33
Porsche Taycan
Galleries
The Verge
Car and Driver
Exterior
Interior
Coverage
The Verge
Top Gear
Cleo Abram
MKBHD (stationary tour)
ba-dum tss
John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
Saturday Night Live
Affordance
Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
Associated layoffs, because, of course
Destiny 1 on Wikipedia
Penny Arcade
Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
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2h 3min
May 21, 2026692: A Thinking Hitch
Pre-show:
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
Follow-up:
Cut/copy/paste in Finder
Terminal
John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
tcsh
John’s Terminal settings Window tab
John’s Terminal settings Tab tab
Escape sequence extended tooltip
.cshrc
Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files
Fancy shell prompts like Starship
KornShell
Some other terminal resources
The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)
The terminal, the TTY, and the shell
The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
Wizard Zines
Ignoring node_modules and the like
In Dropbox
Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas)
…or use xattrs
Dropbox documentation on ignoring files
Automator example from Boz Bundalo
In Time Machine
pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)
Technical explanation
Supply chain protection
20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨
Reminders
Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?
Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)
Updates in 26.5
Flexibits
Why does everyone hate AI?
Pew Research
Concern vs. excitement
Ability to think & form meaningful relationships
Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content
Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient
Risk vs. reward
Young adults are using it
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint
University of Central Florida
University of Arizona
Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad
On YouTube
Wearable AI friend
friend.com
omi.me
Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards
Stratechery
Phantom data centers
US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Angine de Poitrine on KEXP
Post-show: Marco gets geeky
Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling
Native all the way… until you need text
PaintCode
XKCD
Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
Why does the Googlebook exist?
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2h 7min
May 14, 2026691: A Menlo Phase
Pre-show:
Project Hail Mary
Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride
Setlist
Bandcamp
Luke Bloom — Bad
D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart
Apocalyptica
Vitamin String Quartet
Johnny Cash — Hurt
Follow-up:
CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
Bloomberg
“Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)
Ultra/Neo/etc
Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
Time Machine
…with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)
Asimov
…with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)
…period (via David Fokkema)
lsof
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)
Ask ATP:
How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)
Yoink
MD5
Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)
Prompt 3
Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)
LSP
Intelephense
Post-show: .nofollow
Apple developer forum post
Symlink
.nosync, .noindex, .nobackup
Hopper
MJ Tsai
Apple open-source
Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library
Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think
Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps
Ben Dansby
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1h 56min
May 08, 2026690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
Follow-up:
Backblaze & cloud backups
Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
Support document
Maestral
Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz)
Neo-ing… other things
Mythos
What makes this different (via William Moran)
GPT-5.5 is equivalent?
cURL security/bug reports
Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI
AI is still ruining everything
See also: MacBook Neo
More from Tim Culpan
Paul Haddad’s toot showing $25K-$35K Mac Studios for sale on eBay
An examination of Apple’s CapEx
Apple’s R&D spending hits new record
SG&A
MG Siegler’s take
Project Titan died in Febraury 2024
Ultra all the things
iPhone Ultra
MacBook Ultra
AirPods Ultra
iPad Ultra
Apple Watch Ultra 4
Mac Ultra
iMac Ultra
Ask ATP:
What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)
Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter
Ashokan Rail Trail
Saunter Map App
Pedometer++
Suunto Race S Titanium
Barkley Marathons
Documentary trailer
Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software
Jason’s take
Foster Brereton
somebehemoth
Neywiny
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1h 56min
April 30, 2026689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
Pre-show: Mythos
Anthropic’s blog post
Follow-up:
ATP Store
Yes, it happened again.
The ATP Neo Silver made it!
UPenn is an Ivy
Kieran Healy’s story
Marina Epelman’s thought
US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools
Gurman’s transition coverage
Tim Cook’s remarks to employees
Comparison between Cook & Ternus
The Ability to be Hotter
New material proves to be more heat conductive
Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878
Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877
Response on Reddit
Reparse point
Additional response on Reddit
Backblaze blog post
MJ Tsai roundup
Alternatives:
Arq
Parachute for iCloud
Ask ATP:
What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)
ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
2014 Honda Accord
Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)
How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)
Bug report
Gruber’s take
Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0
Underscore’s blog post
Stephen’s blog post
Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
MaxTech’s musing
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1h 57min

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