Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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February 27, 2026680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes
TruFuel
Follow-up:
Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement
KLIPPBOK (leak sensor)
BILRESA (remote control)
MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor)
House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
F-150 Lightning
On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
macOS document model
…was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
…and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
Technical details (via Videoalex)
Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
System Settings
Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
Wall Street Journal video
Accompanying article
Apple News link
This predates this administration?
Ask ATP:
What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen
John: lock & home
Casey: lock & home
Indigo
Croissant
Marco: lock & home
What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
Overtime on ATP #675
Casey
AirPods Pro 3
Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω
Desktop speakers
Sonos Era 100 × 2
Sonos Sub Mini
Sonos Combo Adapter
John:
Sony MDR-7506
Kanto ORA4
ATP #630
Marco:
Podcasting
Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω
Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads
Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
Music
HifiMan HE6
Speakers
KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62
Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
BMW i4 M50
Audi e-tron GT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers
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2h 35min
February 16, 2026679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
Pre-show:
Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
Instagram reel that John found
Due
YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit
We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
Follow-up:
Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
Helium Browser
unduck.link
Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
“Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”
Objective Development
LaunchBar
Little Snitch
AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
Explanatory video
Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
Fastmail’s donation
John’s referral link
Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Juli Clover at MacRumors
Ben Lovejoy at 9to5 Mac
Ben in December 2024
Vadim Yuryev (of MaxTech)
Ask ATP:
What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
Casey’s “tailgate battery”
Casey’s “bequeathed” generator
Tesla Powerwall
Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
ReplayTV
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2h 1min
February 12, 2026678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers
Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
Daikin
Trane
YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range)
YoLink leak sensors
LoRa
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
Units corner
Robert Tait’s video
WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
ATP Movie Club: WarGames
WarGames
AI
Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️
Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations
Three apps in one day
On usage limits
Dread & fatalism
We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson
The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
Productivity promise vs. reality
Anthropic study
Experienced developers are slower?
Microsoft study
Atlassian study
Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains
Harvard: Slop hinders productivity
MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns (PDF)
Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas
AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison
Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar
Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
Some related links from our AI conversation:
n8n
Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans
Computer (occupation)
Memento mori
Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases
Ferrari Luce
Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge
Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL
Associated post
Dieter Rams
Patek Philippe Nautilus
Braun
Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50
Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)
Other videos
Leica
Post-show: Casey is car shopping
Porsche Taycan
Audi e-tron GT
BMW i4
Rivian R3
How the second-gen Porsche Taycan is better than the first-gen
Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles
Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins
Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin
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2h 35min
February 05, 2026677: I Accept the Battery Cost
Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
Cloudflare Access
Zero trust architecture
OpenID connect
tsidp
Pocket ID
Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
The state of MicroLED
Robert Tait of The Hook Up
Claude Code & AI ethics
Alec’s video
Irish wind farm
Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
Marco’s experiment
Cortex
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
John’s Tahoe icon battle continues
Rubber duck debugging
Kyle Hughes
Drop shipping
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Most recent earnings
Earnings call transcript
The Robotaxi is dangerous according to… Tesla
We really need to get to self-driving
Waymo’s safety record
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
Apple buys Q.ai
Ryan Christoffel
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2h 2min
January 29, 2026676: A Sternly Worded Instruction
Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
atp.fm passkey update
Google Private AI Compute
Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
Screen on RAM
ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
Modular headphones
AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)
Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
Window management in macOS (via Ben)
FlashSpace
AltTab
New AirTags
The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
Invite image
Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
TCL Super Quantum Dot
TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
Sebastiaan de With → Apple
Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
We stand with Minnesotans.
Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook
Tim’s internal memo
Tim’s letter after George Floyd
Gruber on Tim’s letter
Gruber on language
CRDT
John’s new bff
XKCD #974: Pass the salt
Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time
Congress is unsure if it complies with law
Are content moderation changes afoot?
More data slurping definitely is
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2h 21min
January 22, 2026675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load
Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️
Follow-up:
We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week!
Gruber’s post
Top Dogs is coming
“Cloud technology”?
Google’s blog post
Gurman’s post
Clipboard hijacking
It’s an Apple thing
No, really
Indonesia is not small
MainStage is not new (via Mike Taffet et al)
Interview
Apple’s Pro Apps Bundle still exists for education users (via Pekka Salonen)
Pro apps free trials
Prior art (via Karoline)
The trials are full versions (via Ian Robinson)
Monitors at CES
DisplayPort alternate mode for USB-C
What about color accuracy?
Extended Display Identification Data
ProMotion in Safari
iOS: Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Feature Flags
Test
Vision Pro does have Keynote
Icons in Tahoe menus
Nikita Prokopov
Jim Nielsen
Colin M. Ford (and an explanation)
Apple’s guidelines
You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe
How to prevent Tahoe update nags
Many Tricks
Device management profiles
Actually it’s a bug 🤭
Ask ATP:
Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design than Jony Ive? (via Austin)
Will Alan Dye’s departure affect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong)
What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)
macOS Screenshot Library
Post-show: John’s migration continues
John’s Fastmail referral link
Cron
Namecheap
Cloudflare
Claude Code
MiniDV
StatusBoard
Grafana
Prometheus
CandyBar
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fender’s first wireless headphones
The Verge coverage
Demo video
Sony WH-1000XM6
Auracast
Wikipedia
Sony MDR-7506
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2h 7min
January 16, 2026674: A Reliable, Boring Partner
Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed
Ubiquiti Travel Router
Verizon Jetpack
Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)
Solis Edge
Follow-up:
The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John
TiVo Roamio Pro
Casey on Downstream
Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)
Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high
MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)
MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)
Wi-Fi channel selection & size
Wi-Fi 7 8
A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES
As a reminder…
Apple Studio Display
Pro Display HDR
MSI MPG 271KRAW16
DisplayHDR 1400 certification
MSI MAG 271KPD7
Monitors Unboxed
ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)
HDTVTest
Subpixel arrangements
Apple Creator Studio
Icons over time
Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)
MacRumors
Apple’s defense of the icons
Jason on iWork freemium
Apple 🤝🏻 Google
More from The Information
Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card
FAQ
Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)
Post-show: NBA Immersive
Stratechery
Dithering
Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter
Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
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2h 2min
January 08, 2026673: Six Impossible Things
Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco
LivePhish
Goose on Bandcamp
Nugs
Thank you, ATP Patrons!
Follow-up:
Cord-cutting
Casey on Downstream
suppose.tv
Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)
The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)
Quinn’s video on making a 5K display
Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)
This started in late 2020 with Big Sur
Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)
Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS
BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering
Docs
PlayStation Portal
…works with PlayStation Plus
…but really needs solid Wi-Fi
…and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6
…and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones
Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)
Knowedge base
System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill
Wi-Fi 7
Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)
WPA3
WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)
Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)
Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in
…as does pro Saul Sutherland
John’s Eero Max 7 setup
Thread vs. Matter
Thread
Matter
Derek Seaman’s series
To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container
Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day
Bodi
ASML & TSMC
Extreme ultraviolet lithography
Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine
Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained
TSMC Analysis playlist
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026
Gartner hype cycle
The Trow of Disillusionment
Post-show: Casey bought something silly
Quinn’s video
GL i.Net
/r/ubiquiti
Teleport
Extremely dodgy firmware upgrade approach
Portainer
Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones
The Information
MacRumors
Mockup image & video
Jason’s & Stepen’s posts
iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?
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2h 24min
January 01, 2026672: Wi Hyphen Fi
Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
Follow-up:
Contacts
Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)
Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)
Face ID & Touch ID
Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind)
Strictness (via Rob Sayre)
John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo)
Gui’s PR
Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)
FB17228659
Developer Technical Support
RAM shortage
Verge article
Micron’s forthcoming fabs
Hynix’s approach
…and forthcoming fabs
Samsung’s approach
Thru-Silicon
The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular
Data portability
Git
Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)
Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)
Android ↔ iOS
Display flicker in Tahoe
What does this even mean? (via Daniel)
One theory (via Sean Santry)
Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)
Wi-Fi 7 is a bust
-protonsandneutrons-
Playstation Portal
Ask ATP:
What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)
Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter
Home Assistant
Nanoleaf Smart String Lights
Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)
YoLink
Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?
Previous code name discussion
Jason on Apple’s display strategy
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1h 60min
December 23, 2025671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun
Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
Follow-up:
Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID
🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?
Chat math
Metadata thread splitting & merging
Colin spells it out for us
TV Everywhere
XMLTV
m3u8
IPTV Github Repo
🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
506 Sports
Custom pronunciations in iOS
Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations
See Apple support
Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations
See Apple support
Apple video guide
Tahoe Studio Display flickering
Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts
Previously 1
Previously 2
iPhone roadmap
Article on The Information
iPhone XX rumor roundup
Under-screen FaceID?
Haptic buttons?
Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases
Patent
Ask ATP:
How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
Post-show: John’s bug
FB21375029
Sample project
Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend
Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal
RAM is ruining everything
It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne
The RAM shortage is here to stay
Chipwrecked
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