Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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

· Technology

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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

May 02, 201463: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week!
Follow-up:
Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
Apps and games Mentioned:
Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Flight Control (iTunes)
The Incident
Letterpress
Tiny Wings
Ramp Champ
Threes
Total Annihilation
Supreme Commander
Facebook App Links
MacStories
Rene Ritchie
ComiXology removes in-app purchase
Back to Work
Office for iPad/iPhone
After-show:
Burstly acquired by Apple, which brings TestFlight with it.
Casey's new website
Sponsored by:
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1h 52min
May 02, 2014 63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
ATP T-shirts (hurry!), average gamer age and game genres falling out of favor, Facebook App Links, and Apple's 30% commission vs. Amazon and customers.
...more
1h 52min
April 24, 201462: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology.
When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything?
Second Crack
Fast Text
John's blog
OS X Beta Program for End Users
What's coming on June 2nd?
Casey and Marco make John proud (spoiler)
New third-generation Thunderbolt details
MagSafe vs. MagSafe 2
Overcast update
Are iPad sales leveling off? Why?
How we use our iPads today
Limitations in modern iOS
Are iPad apps stagnating?
Jean-Louis Gassée's take
Gruber's response
Casey on T-Mobile's Free Internet (relevant T-Mobile info)
Apps mentioned:
Tweetbot
Twitterrific
1Password
Fantastical 2
Threes
Monument Valley
Year Walk
The Room
Will tablets be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops?
After-show:
Sega CD, 32X, CDX (which Marco thought was codenamed Jupiter, but that was something else), Saturn, and Dreamcast.
Casey and Marco's video game history and why they don't bother anymore. What do the three hosts do during our free time, anyway?
Apps mentioned:
Ridiculous Fishing
Letterpress
Dots
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2h 14min
April 24, 2014 62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Developers learning new things, using OS X betas, Thunderbolt 3, what's holding the iPad back, whether tablets will be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops, and the Sega CD.
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2h 14min
April 18, 201461: Perfectly Neutral
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites
Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Samsung trial
Creativity, Inc., the book about Pixar by Ed Catmull
Is Greg Christie's departure a contentious story or not?
This, too, relates to Pixar
Ken Ferry on getting ideas approved at Apple, as heard on Debug #33
Artemis pCell (demo video)
Scaling servers and how to use MySQL effectively
Marco's preferred book (but he prefers the second edition)
Perhaps not use MySQL?
A long list of MySQL gotchas
How FriendFeed did crazy schema-less MySQL
After show: why Casey hates his car, thanks to a trip to the movies.
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...more
1h 55min
April 18, 201461: Perfectly Neutral
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites
Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Samsung trial
Creativity, Inc., the book about Pixar by Ed Catmull
Is Greg Christie's departure a contentious story or not?
This, too, relates to Pixar
Ken Ferry on getting ideas approved at Apple, as heard on Debug #33
Artemis pCell (demo video)
Scaling servers and how to use MySQL effectively
Marco's preferred book (but he prefers the second edition)
Perhaps not use MySQL?
A long list of MySQL gotchas
How FriendFeed did crazy schema-less MySQL
After show: why Casey hates his car, thanks to a trip to the movies.
Sponsored by:
PDFpen for iPad: Powerful, mobile PDF editing.
Igloo: Igloo is an intranet you'll actually like.
New Relic: See your web app's performance and find bottlenecks anywhere in the stack. Start your 30-day free trial.
...more
1h 55min
April 11, 201460: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam
WWDC
How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does
How to write a live blogging system for keynotes
Our winnings and losses in the WWDC Don't-Call-it-a-Lottery
Levels of randomness and Apple's discretionary pool of tickets
What's the right way to distribute tickets?
Is today's WWDC really tenable? What could be done?
AltConf and "CDWW"
Heartbleed
Dropbox's Announcements
Condoleezza Rice joins their board
Carousel, a new photo sharing app.
Some potential trademark issues with some friends of Marco and Casey's
Does this leverage Everpix IP?
How the UI is similar to Oldsmobile speedometers from the 80s
Lightroom Mobile
In an unusually angsty after-show, John takes Marco and Casey on:
Where do crashes really come from?
John on Debug #32
Is Vinyl really better than CDs?
IRL Talk #19
Casey on IRL Talk #21
Christopher “Monty” Montgomery's excellent video explaining audio sampling
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2h 24min
April 04, 201459: The Little Puck That Could
Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus.
Amazon Fire TV — no fan!
USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector
The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and dozens of other companies (Facebook apparently refused)
Google checking with Steve Jobs first before making a hiring decision
After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)
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1h 41min
March 28, 201458: Always On Vacation In California
Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity.
Facebook buying Oculus:
Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates in "backers".
Why did Oculus sell? How far into the future did Oculus' "vision" extend, and what will happen to its vision now?
Why did Facebook buy? Does Mark Zuckerberg have a clear vision for Facebook's future?
Facebook's Hack language extension to PHP:
PHP is poorly designed but very practical.
The risks of using Hack (Marco's two posts).
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Igloo: Igloo is an intranet you'll actually like. (Nobody likes SharePoint.)
Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price.
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2h 1min
March 21, 201457: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45).
The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive book, the Jony Ive interview, access to Apple, and hiring hacks for tech stories.
Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset and initial impressions
The Oculus Rift
Michael Abrash's blog posts:
Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing Part 1
When it comes to resolution, it's all relative
Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR
Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets the Eye
Game Developers Conference and space-time diagrams
Why virtual isn't real to your brain
Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
John Carmack and his latency mitigation strategies
Casey's birthday party as a child
Why Oculus hopes Project Morpheus is good
The GitHub hubbub, sexism, and how to get better (such as App Camp for Girls).
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1h 35min

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How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

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