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:

January 09, 2023517: A Tesla Full of Kindles
Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car
Follow-up:
Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas)
Dell 5K monitor
Dell 6K monitor
Teaser video
Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456
XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384
CES TV News
Samsung 77-inch QD-OLED
LG Signature OLED “wireless” TV
LG Micro Lens Array
Samgung microLED TVs
Roku is making TVs 🤨
Sony is not showing TVs
Qi2 is MagSafe?
Rewind.ai internals (via Kevin Chen)
ScreenCaptureKit
Vision Framework
Video Toolbox
#askatp:
What would be important in a “3rd alternative” desktop operating system? (via Stephan Jacobs)
System76
macOS achieves UNIX (not Linux) certification
Getting macOS UNIX-certified
Do we use RSS? Which apps, if so? (via Andy Clarke)
Reeder
NetNewsWire
Feedbin
Unread (App Store link)
ReadKit
TIN
Post-show:
🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️ Tesla Steering Wheel Retrofit
Mercedes EQS SUV brake pedal (via James Russell)
Quinn Nelson’s thoughts: 1 & 2 & 3
Technology Connections enters the chat: 1 & 2
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2h 14min
January 03, 2023516: One of My Fits of Rage
Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake
Follow-up:
AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee)
Github Terms of Service
Github Corporate Terms of Service
CRUD
chkbit
True Life
Diary
Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast
Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy Outlook
Samsung ViewFinity S9
The Verge
Samsung Announcement
HDR600
#askatp:
How do we backup & store Xcode project folders? (via Eshu Marneedi)
Tim Bray on Mastodon search
How does John feel about lossy streaming on his fancypants new TV? (via Sean Cameron)
HDTVtest
What’s the best way to backup a Photos library to a Synology? (via Justin Fisher)
Post-show: John’s Earthworks Ethos adventure
Marco’s Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review
Elgato Wave XLR
Blue Yeti
Shure PG42 USB
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2h 11min
December 28, 2022515: The Elder Programmer Look
Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
Project Highrise
Don’t Starve Together
Follow-up:
Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
Have I Been Trained?
Have I Been Pwned?
A fun Twitter → Mastodon web app (via Ted Tschopp)
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
macos9.app
Rewind.ai is available
Lensa AI (App Store link)
John’s iPad Mystery
iPad Pro (4th generation)
iPad Pro (6th generation)
Casey’s AirPods Pro Mystery
Always-On Display Tweaks in iOS 16.2 (via Brandon Butch)
Apple car project hits [yet more] road bumps
Bloomberg article
John & Jason talk about this on Upgrade #436
Gruber’s summary
Care by Volvo
#askatp:
Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway? (via Petar Petrović)
Fastmail
Squarespace
Hover
Linode
What should I do about bit rot? 😱 (via Jeremy Nash)
Synology
ZFS
TrueNAS
Unraid
Btrfs
Do we use native mouse acceleration?
SteerMouse
Post-show: Christmas Movies
Elf
Christmas Vacation
Claymation Christmas
A Christmas Story
Die Hard
Garfield Christmas
Muppets & John Denver
album.link
Songwhip
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2h 14min
December 22, 2022514: My Immense Softness
Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex
Superbad
DIVX
Follow-up:
Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima?
Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement?
Blink
Gecko
Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris)
Trident II D5
Inertial Navigation System
Schuler tuning
Astroinertial Navigation System in the SR-71
Podcast story about the missing hemisphere of star data in the SR-71 (at 43:31)
John McElhone’s Detective Work
Moisturizers are, indeed, real.
Cetaphil: Casey was right, according to everyone
O’Keeffe’s Working Hands Cream: Marco’s waxy-barrier pick
CeraVe Moisturizing Cream: Marco’s daytime-softness favorite
Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream: Another highly-recommended option
Mac Pro, but less so
#askatp:
Do any of us journal? (via Arthur Dickerson)
Day One
What are the top-level folders on our home directory? (via Matt Toohey)
How does Casey even use Spaces, anyway? (via Cai)
Post-show: So, uh, what the heck are we gonna do about our theme song?
Jonathan Mann
Descript
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1h 46min
December 15, 2022513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat
Pre-show: Is moisturizer real?
Orange Goop
The 🐔🧢 is back!!
Follow-up:
Recovery keys & backup contacts
Apple’s information
Oliver Ames’ thoughts
More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds
Tech Talk
Request a Refund
The Sharrow is real, John.
WWDC 2017
Relevant clip
Enabling Advanced Data Protection for “enthusiasts”
Apple’s support article
Quitting the Finder
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
Apple Music Sing, Atmos, and ML
Example Goose album
Tesla adds Apple Music support
Freeform
Linea
Definitely not John’s fridge
Advanced Data Protection and Convergent Encryption
Stratechery post (requires login)
Perceptual hashing
Apple will allow Third-Party App Stores in the EU
The Digital Markets Act
MacRumors
Stratechery (requires login)
Gruber’s take
Jason’s take
Apple considers dropping WebKit requirement? 🤨
Post-show: Casey’s [mis]adventures with Docker
Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Update
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2h 10min
December 08, 2022512: Owned With a P
Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price
Follow-up:
Mastodon instances and federation
Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually
Sharrow
👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing
👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arrow”. But it is. Kinda. Sorta. 🤪
ButtDB Blackbird has been open-sourced
Publisher!
Custom string interpolation
Function Back Deployment
Apple announces 3 new “advanced safety features”
How to generate a recovery key
Encryption comparison chart
Joanna Stern’s article (Apple News) & video
Platform Security Guide
Wired article
Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
Apple adds 700 new price points to the App Store
John and Jason discussed on Upgrade #436: I Bend So Many Spoons
Apple introduces Apple Music Sing
Federico’s tweet
#askatp:
How does the Mac Studio compare to John’s ideal computer? (via Daryl Thornton)
How are we backing up our shared photo libraries? (via Mark Roemermann)
Why can’t we quit Finder? (via Guilherme Alles)
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1h 57min
December 01, 2022511: Moving to Antarctica
Pre-show: Sharrows
EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed.
The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs!
Follow-up:
Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham)
Marco’s 🍑💨
Some updates on Mastodon
Ivory by Tapbots
Don’t Use Services that Hate the Internet
John’s 🍑💨: He’s outraged!
A Better Mastodon Friend Finder
Merlin & John’s excellent discussion about Twitter (starts @ 1h36m)
There’s a WWDC video about instrumenting/tracing async issues
Xfinity Wi-Fi does not use customer’s bandwidth (via Clayton O’Neill)
Casey’s 🍑💨 about iPad at the park bench picnic table
ffmpeg has been ported to web assembly
Reactions to App Store ads
Gambling ads
iCloud Storage Over the Years
The Talk Show #361: A Fit of Pique with Federico Viticci
Apple Keynote Search Engine
Apple Pauses Gambling Ads
Gruber’s Take
Michael Tsai
Employees aren’t happy either
More from The Information
Xcode Ads?
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
Post-show:
Namesake
The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird
Titanium - The Metal That Made The SR-71 Possible
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1h 51min
November 22, 2022510: It’s Occupied by Bears
Pre-show: Marco makes Casey’s day
B
FCModel
Hacking with Swift
Follow-up:
Using network locations in macOS Ventura
ControlPlane
Casey’s adventure with date formats
Bonus: man pages in Preview
John’s iPhone Cases
Bullstrap $85 → $68
Ryan London $54
Mastodon
The Real Slim Shady
ActivityPub
Micro.blog support
Scalability
Moderation
Burnout
On evaluating new platforms
Running an instance is… not easy
Founder in Time
Client app reviews by Anna Nicholson
Client app feature comparison Google Sheet
Client Apps
Official client
Metatext
Mammoth (TestFlight)
Tusker (TestFlight)
Toot!
Tootle
Mast
Mercury
tooot
Fedi
Mac Apps
Mastonaut
Hyperspace Desktop
FedFinder to find the right instance for you
Hive
Twitter Updates
The Fradulent King by Ed Z
Twitter is Going Great
Previously
Twitter is hiring! (🦗)
App Store rules
Elon Musk’s sexual misconduct
#askatp:
Why bother with an Apple TV when modern TVs can do all the same stuff? (via Dominic Lemire)
Is using an Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot ethical? (via nougatmachine)
Will data storage ever become scarce? (via Chris Wright)
Post-show: Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
John’s “Good Products” List
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2h 10min
November 17, 2022509: Tiny Tyrants
Pre-show: John is a Swiftie
Follow-up:
John’s 2FA transfer options, and a suggestion from particles!
Automating Watch faces (via Alex Serriere)
Newer Apple TV 4K models support HDR in YouTube (via Matt Freedman)
Photos, Smart Albums, and boolean logic (via Jakob)
Hiding purchases in Music (via Arem)
Twitter Tribulations
Elon Musk has the world’s thinnest skin
Employee corrects Elon
He’s also a big jerk
H-1B visa
Intel 8088
HomeKit is amazing for some people (via Todd)
X10
Mac enters the third year of “two-year transition”
Will John and Marco ever be satisfied? (via Jonathan Claydon)
iPhones 14 Satellite Emergency SOS is live
Newsroom
Casey’s screen recording
iJustine’s Discussion with Kaiann and Arun
Sending location via satellite
Mastodon
Wikipedia
Federation
ActivityPub
Bluesky
Micro.blog
#askatp:
What’s the best way to download Xcode? (via Eshu Marneedi)
Xcodes
Reflections on Trusting Tust
What is the best-designed Mac app that Apple currently makes? (via Claude Zeins)
Claris Em@iler
Microsoft Entourage
What advice do we have for leading people at work? (via Andrew Larson)
Post-show: Marco kicks the MySQL-shaped can down the road.
FCModel
FMDB
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2h 15min
November 10, 2022508: Later Is Getting Later and Later
THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay!
Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!
Pre-show: lol twttr
Hotline
Follow-up:
Rewind has stopped using cloud transcription, so, you’re welcome.
Speaking of screen recording, let’s talk about corporate espionage protection
DTEX
Jason has found the answer to John’s confusion about using ML-generated keywords in smart albums
More on Casey’s wonky iPad volume buttons (via Andre Aguilar and others)
Support article
ECC RAM support is coming to macOS
XNU
Ventura System Settings & third-party preference panes
Mark U teaches us how to read Apple
Steve Troughton-Smith also teaches us how to read Apple
John’s “new” 📱 & 🖱️
John’s mouse
John’s 🍄
New Apple TV upgrade experience
Bono apologizes for Songs of Innocence
How do you remove this darn thing anyway?
Removal URL
iPhone 15 buttons may go solid-state?
#askatp:
Is “smart home” tech really worth it? (via James Egg)
Which host is the fastest typist? (via Mark Richard)
Why don’t we have interactive home screen widgets yet? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: Marco made a pilgrimage
John’s of Bleecker Street
Branchinelli’s
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2h 17min

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