Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Technology

What's Accidental Tech Podcast about?

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

4.5

1,272 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

502: Going Retina Again

09.29.2022

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Pre-show: Marco has glasses Too big according to John Too big according to anyone “Big Steve Jobs energy” The Steve Jobs frames (we think) …and iPhone cases Pitaka MagEZ Case ...

Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

09.29.2022 502: Going Retina Again Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Pre-show: Marco has glasses Too big according to John Too big according to anyone “Big Steve Jobs energy” The Steve Jobs frames (we think) …and iPhone cases Pitaka MagEZ Case ...
09.22.2022 501: Torsional Rigidity Check Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Pre-show: Relay FM Feuding Families ATP Movie Club: Episode 2: The Rundown Remember, only for members! Casey’s traumatic moment, captured Follow-up: Apple Pay and “valid” addresses iPhone 14 has revised, ...
09.15.2022 500: All the Nerds in the Room Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Extended Pre-show: Marco finally catches up to Casey & John Dilating drops
09.08.2022 499: Living Is Pretty Important to Me Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Pre-show: A bidding war for a good cause Apple Event, September 2022 Apple Watch Series 8 Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) Apple Watch Ultra Panerai Luminor Tourbillon GMT Photos from ...
09.01.2022 498: Not MagSafe, but MagSafe Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together. Pre-show: Marco has leveled-up as a nerd.
08.25.2022 497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere Pre-show Netural: In a shocking piece of news, Marco’s Defender hasn’t exploded (yet)! Marco’s “Thule” Casey’s WireLiss CarPlay Adapter
08.18.2022 496: One of My Lesser TiVos Follow-up: What’s up with
08.11.2022 495: Five Points for Smell Follow-up: Android totally copying Java was fair use (via Rob Sayre) Oracle’s S3 clone Branded tires (via TK & Sam Abuelsamid) Ford demands Goodyear remove Wrangler branding John’s TV updates Geoff C’s theory NTP Justin Winchester’s theory Bravia Core Cable ...
08.04.2022 494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench Pre-show: Geometry Dash Number Munchers Number Munchers on Classic Reload Number Munchers on the App Store Unity Unity CEO’s colorful opinions The Talk Show #353: Shop Different Playdate Pulp VVVVVV FromSoftware Follow-up: John on M1 MacBook Air vs. M2 MacBook ...
07.31.2022 493: Downstairs Downstairs Pre-show: Last two weeks updates The Talk Show #352: “I’ve Kissed that Mouse” Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way DFU Restore Billy Joel and his helicopter concert commute Jones Beach Night 1 Night 2 Follow-up: Custom
07.20.2022 492: Umbrella Hammer Toadstool Pre-show: Air conditioners, memories, and house veins Mini-split Follow-up: M2 MacBook Air [also] thermal throttles Jason’s review You should probably subscribe to 6C, too The Verge Gruber’s review Ars Technica’s review John’s Mac Studio safety straps M2 has Ultra-Wideband Chip? ...
07.14.2022 491: Salmon and SwiftUI Casey and Marco have 99 problems, and SwiftUI is every. damn. one. of. them. Casey’s problems PhotosPicker FB10491818 FB10566546 presentationDetents() FB10636765 ImageRenderer FB10393458 Under the Radar #246: Hard Forks UIStackView UIViewRepresentable UIHostingController Pointer Follow-up: Alternative pi-hole fix BLOCK_ICLOUD_PR=false in pihole-FTL.conf ...
07.07.2022 490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs Pre-show: Some thoughts on who should have agency over womens’ bodies Roe v. Wade In-vitro fertilization Ectopic pregnancy Evidence-based medicine Trigger law Follow-up: Using a M1 Mac mini as a Plex server Other video transcoding M2 MacBook Air available to ...
06.30.2022 489: Very Inappropriate Thoughts About This Computer Pre-show: Marco flirts with his past Follow-up: Bitcode has been deprecated Previously, on ATP #205 (Overcast timestamp link) (Transcript) New big HomePod rumor Ricky on Passkey syncing YubiKey Very important Caffè Macs follow-up BNPL Planet Money The 256GB 13” M2 ...
06.23.2022 488: Pebbles on the Scale Pre-show: Marco’s HomePod journey continues HomePod mini USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter Follow-up: iPad Pro (2018) has 4GB or 6GB RAM The offending party has been sacked Apple educational discounts & software bundles Pro Apps Bundle for Education Education Store ...
06.16.2022 487: Mid-Life Rally Pre-show:
06.07.2022 486: Field Day at Apple Park Pre-show: Marco is [always on vacation] in California!
06.02.2022 485: This Is Casey Actual Pre-show: Streaming changes Audio Hijack Our Twitch channel for live streams Follow-up: Fastmail The Price is Right is available for free on Pluto TV Regarding filming workout videos Amulet Hotkey DXZ4 X Windows Display Postscript WWDC in-person info/schedule (via Paul ...
05.26.2022 484: Hot-Spare Price is Right Pre-show: Sick-kid TV Channels Paramount+ AppleTV Channels Follow-up: Warnings about PoE splitters from Matias Korhonen Pro-fiber propaganda Adam Papamarcos’ OM4 fiber cable Assmann Group Ad-blockers on desktops (via Ryan) “Sign in with X” (via Brian Donovan) A concert-related Apple Music ...
05.19.2022 483: The Faceless Knob Pre-show: Two is one, one is none. Zoom F3 USBPre2 MixPre-3 Follow-up: Cleaning apps and “launch services” launchd Launch Control A hint more on Casey’s frivoLiss ethernet project Many recommendations for Monoprice slim 6A patch cables Jonathan Litt reminds us ...
05.12.2022 482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses Follow-up: A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers Mechanical Watch Explainer GPS Naval Architecture Patreon Apple’s New Developer Center More from Parker Ortolani John’s multi-factor authentication college account update An aside about password managers Protobuf John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse Casey’s ...
05.06.2022 481: Accidentally Made It Too Good Follow-up: Follow-out: Clockwise #449: It’s Still Working, I’m So Sad T-Shirt Results (THANK YOU!) Marco’s tech woes USBPre 2 Zoom F3 On Double-Clicking the lock button for Wallet Open the wallet app → double-click the side button (via Trevor Kay) ...
04.28.2022 480: Three Wise Admins The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams!
04.18.2022 479: Never Mind, I'm Out The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams!
04.12.2022 478: No Bum Cores The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8 PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams!
04.06.2022 477: In the Metal Pre-show: Marco played himself Would there be a “Studio Display Max” within two years? 22” Cinema Display 23” Cinema Display 27” Cinema Display 27” Thunderbolt Display Marco’s Studio Display impressions NuShelf Dual Mount for Mac mini New Peripherals Black Keyboard ...
03.31.2022 476: Plausibly Viable Follow-up: Resolution independence 10.4 Tiger 10.5 Leopard 10.7 Lion Steve Jobs’s Retina Diagram Retina Display announcement Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round Video Explanation Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI Regarding Mac Studio fan noise The fans cool ...
03.24.2022 475: Shove It Out the Back Pre-show: We’ve got 99 problems and Apple Music is… most of them. On the Mac Studio’s extra SSD slot 512 Pixels Ars Technica Hector Martin Asahi Linux John’s heart shatters into a million pieces (Mac Studio cooling and
03.17.2022 474: That's Where the Magic Happens Follow-up: iPad Air does have stereo speakers Mac Studio HDMI is still 2.0 HDMI 2.1 27” Studio Display Pro coming soon? “Five-head” Origins The Flop House #94: Conan the Barbarian @ 29:46 Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language 20 Fenchurch Street The ...
03.10.2022 473: Fanboats and Coattails Apple’s “Peek Performance” Event New Apple Watch band collection Beanie Babies
03.03.2022 472: File a Casey Radar Pre-show:
02.24.2022 471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day Celiac Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ...
02.17.2022 470: Computers Can Do Things Follow-up: Jump-starting an ICE using a Tesla (via Jesper Weltz) Another video (via Jameson) James May’s Model S’s catastrohpic failure Porsche Taycan Mercedes-Benz EQS AirTags anti-tracking update The Downeaster “Alexa” Amsterdam’s transformation from car-centric to people-centric Paris’s car-free zone announced ...
02.10.2022 469: Tiny Toastie Pre-show: The newest member of Marco’s family The originating member Siracusa’s history Siracusa’s thoughts The new member Prior experiences with the new member of the family Follow-up: Casey replaces his FiOS set-top box Casey’s new UPS TechSee AlDente Casey’s Email ...
02.03.2022 468: You Got Your Non-Money's Worth Pre-show: Marco enters winter luxury Marco’s “Slippers” John’s Slippers Marco’s Rug Marco’s Rug Heater Reminder: Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperatures Robot or Not: Sundays Follow-up: Google ships tapback parsing Regarding “Screeners” Xbox Game Pass PC Game Pass Game ...
01.28.2022 467: The Strain Provider Pre-show: Marco’s Baking Hangover Follow-up: Casey’s Desk Update Casey’s Thunderbolt 4 Hub / “Breakout Box” Simon Webster on QD-OLED and Blue LEDs Jon Mason on how big Sony is Xbox Gamepass and Series S Neil Young & Spotify Horse Armor ...
01.20.2022 466: There's Probably a Wizard for It Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks TPM yt-dlp DeCSS SGX FairPlay Pirated movie release types Follow-up: Printer Murder Rooms John Tsombakos Richard Smith LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida) Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard ...
01.13.2022 465: Lasers Are Great Follow-up: Fi dog-collar pronunciation Discount code ATP100 for $100 off (not a sponsor) New Ford Mustangs will be available in 2023–2024 Sony did show PSVR2 controllers Mirrorless advantages and the longevity of Canon DSLRs (from Justin Krohn) TV technology WRGB ...
01.06.2022 464: Monks at Drafting Tables Follow-up: Stuart Hay on chroma sub-sampling, 4:2:2, 4:1:1, 4:2:0 Hyper Thunderbolt 4 Dock Hyper USB-C Media Hub A not-too-short aside about iPad connectivity and expandability Loopback David Smith’s tweet Audio Hijack Audiobus Drafting table Xcode and setting up for Apple ...
12.30.2021 463: No Indication of Progress Pre-show: Marco’s desk situation Casey’s desk situation VESA stand …an uglier one …yet uglier still …stand and arm Follow-up: Jonathan Dietz Comes Through Glenwing’s page and calculator and forum post Chroma Subsampling USB4/TB4 bandwidth (via Dimitri Bouniol) Marco’s Christmas-movie Adventure ...
12.22.2021 462: Xcode X Pre-show: “Web3” Follow-up: Thank you, ATP members Casey has changed up his setup yet again Ian Fuchs at Cult of Mac Alogic Thunderbolt 4 Blaze Hub OWC Thunderbolt Hub CalDigit Element Hub CalDigit TS3+ Team Arment on Twitch Elgato HD60 ...
12.16.2021 461: Re-tend That Garden Pre-show: Why would one deliberately launch TextEdit‽ The flood
12.09.2021 460: Desktop Laptop Pre-show: Christmas Conundrums Charlie Brown Tree Follow-up: Ubiquiti’s breach was from the inside Casey’s UltraFine 5K seems to be UltraDead Idan Warsawski’s explanation & more Casey’s borrowed monitor Casey’s blog post about Apple’s monitor situation John’s snarky quote-tweet Some wish-casting ...
12.02.2021 459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth Shocking revelations: Marco’s wrist Casey’s desk The myth of digital audio producing stair-step sound waves Casey’s Double Density appearance Xiph explainer video DAC Nyquist level Apple’s monitor-pricing conundrum Luna Display updates Follow-up: Junior vs. Senior Developers (via Nick Matsakis) Peter ...
11.22.2021 458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash Pre-show: Energizer lithium AA batteries and 9V for smoke alarms Marco’s utterly bananas password-managers setup The ATP on-demand store is back! Follow-up: Meta/Facebook In the Enterprise workplace.com An aside about scrolljacking Parallax Scrolling Hardware prowess Gaming Wearing VR headsets Apple ...
11.16.2021 457: The World's Greatest Conference Call Pre-show: Watching shows on Apple Some ATP membership bookkeeping Follow-up: Xcode build times (via Abel Demoz) defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES Monterey’s Mouse Pointer Memory Leak Bug Marco has [Original] HomePod Problems Belkin Soundform Connect Marco replaces Weather Line with ...
11.11.2021 456: The Monitor Situation The ATP Store IS BACK! Grab your fancy new M1 Pro or Max shirts, winter hats, or classic merch until the end of the day THIS FRIDAY! Remember, ATP Members get 15% off on time-limited sales like this one! Follow-up: ...
11.04.2021 455: Your Yanking Force The ATP Store IS BACK! Grab your fancy new M1 Pro or Max shirts, winter hats, or classic merch until the end of the day on 12 November! Remember, ATP Members get 15% off on time-limited sales like this one! ...
10.28.2021 454: The Notch is Young The ATP Store IS BACK! Grab your fancy new M1 Pro or Max shirts, winter hats, or classic merch until the end of the day on 12 November! Remember, ATP Members get 15% off on time-limited sales like this one! ...
10.21.2021 453: As the Prophecy Foretold Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event Start Up John’s Tweet Apple ✔️s (scroll way down) Monterey quick hits Monday, 25 October Tabs that look like tabs!! Snell’s coverage M1 Pro & M1 Max John’s “City of Chips” tweet John’s Self-FU John’s “City of ...

Older episodes

Accidental Tech Podcast

What's Accidental Tech Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

502: Going Retina Again

501: Torsional Rigidity Check

500: All the Nerds in the Room

499: Living Is Pretty Important to Me

498: Not MagSafe, but MagSafe

497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere

496: One of My Lesser TiVos

495: Five Points for Smell

494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench

493: Downstairs Downstairs

492: Umbrella Hammer Toadstool

491: Salmon and SwiftUI

490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs

489: Very Inappropriate Thoughts About This Computer

488: Pebbles on the Scale

487: Mid-Life Rally

486: Field Day at Apple Park

485: This Is Casey Actual

484: Hot-Spare Price is Right

483: The Faceless Knob

482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses

481: Accidentally Made It Too Good

480: Three Wise Admins

479: Never Mind, I'm Out

478: No Bum Cores

477: In the Metal

476: Plausibly Viable

475: Shove It Out the Back

474: That's Where the Magic Happens

473: Fanboats and Coattails

472: File a Casey Radar

471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

470: Computers Can Do Things

469: Tiny Toastie

468: You Got Your Non-Money's Worth

467: The Strain Provider

466: There's Probably a Wizard for It

465: Lasers Are Great

464: Monks at Drafting Tables

463: No Indication of Progress

462: Xcode X

461: Re-tend That Garden

460: Desktop Laptop

459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth

458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash

457: The World's Greatest Conference Call

456: The Monitor Situation

455: Your Yanking Force

454: The Notch is Young

453: As the Prophecy Foretold

Other shows like Accidental Tech Podcast: