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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August 15, 2019339: Ketchup Momentum
John's cheese-grater update
NiCad battery
NiCad battery example
Hunt's 100% Natural Tomato Ketchup
Heinz Ketchups
More on Apple Card
Opting out of arbitration for Apple Card
Apple Card has no web interface
Follow-up: JSON streaming
Length-prefixed JSON
Line-delimited JSON
Upgrade bets on Marco and John buying the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
Overcast timestamp link
Apple at Black Hat
Announcement summary
Apple laptops can turn on by any key or track pad press
New LG UltraFine 5K Display
#askatp:
What non-Apple tech makes us happy/excited? (via Colin Devroe)
BMW i3
BMW i8
Nissan Leaf
Zoom F6
Sound Devices
DJI Osmo Mobile 3
GoPro
Honda Accord
Sony Cameras
Do we use portrait orientation lock on our iPads & iPhones? (via Tom Tubbs)
Introducing children to video games, and the correct order of Zelda games (via [the other] David Sparks)
Andy Baio's approach
OpenEmu
Post-show: Automattic buying Tumblr
The Vergecast: Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what's next for Tumblr
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August 08, 2019338: Double Chunking
Overcast beta and sync changes
ETag
JSON
Protocol buffers
SAX parser
Chunking
Vignette duplicate-image-detection update
WWDC 2019 #222
Casey's current algorithm as suggested by Craig Hockenberry
XOR
A quick aside about SwiftUI
DSL
Casey on complexity
John Sundell's web DSL
Swift by Sundell #53: "The Swift Apple" with Brent Simmons
Inessential by Brent Simmons
Swift by Sundell #52: "Diving into Combine" with Casey Liss
Follow-up:
Mimeo Photos and watermarking
Sony cameras
α6400
α7R IV
α7 III
RX10 IV
Geographic location of Intel's modem business
Marco's iCloud Drive/Dropbox → ~/Dropbox idea
Excluding From iCloud Drive
Exclusion list
Getting bash tab completion to work with the trailing /
Apple suspends contractors listening to Siri voice recordings
Google ordered to halt human review due to GDPR
Apple Card
Opting out of arbitration
#askatp:
FaceApp and tin-foil hats (via Brad Siefert)
How does one play RTS games on a Mac without a gaming PC? (via Nathan)
How does one deal with impostor syndrome (via Ryan Monaghan)
Post-show:
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1h 40min
August 02, 2019337: Sea Conditions Are Calm
Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up
Chunnel
Auto Train
Follow-up:
John's Apple sticker on his Civic
Shallow water blackout
Thunder in Paradise
Dropbox alternatives
Synology Drive
Resilio
Growl
Port forwarding information
The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iCloud Drive wonkiness
The Talk Show #259 with Marco
How does the Overcast recommendation algorithm avoid promoting awful people, unlike YouTube's algorithm? (via Justin Cardinal)
This Video Will Make You Angry
Casey needs some advice about Vignette duplicate-photo detection
Hamming distance
Apple acquires most of Intel's smartphone modem business
Apple Employees/Contractors Listen to Siri Audio Samples
Update after recording: Apple temporarily suspending "Siri grading", and will provide an opt-out
#askatp:
Testing headphones & iOS 13's politeness (via Prone to Bits)
Audio Quality Tests playlist
Kashmir by Kevin Gilbert
Last Plane Out by Toy Matinee
Making suggestions as part of the Pro Workflow Team (via Aaron Bushnell)
Siracusa ranks Tennists (via Anthony Roberts)
Post-show: Endangered Camera Species
Sony A7R4
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2h 13min
July 24, 2019336: Your Face Is Not Your Face
Pre-show: Nutrition is hard when you're in high school.
Top Four #19: Cereals From a Van
WSJ Grape-Nuts article
Follow-up:
iOS 13 optimized-battery-charging specifics
Apple TV remote's influence on product box size
Time Machine reliability when hosted on a NAS
RAID
"Dropbox" on the Synology?
Big WWDC
Marco's AR glasses
John's suggested glasses for Marco
Overcast State of the Union
AR glasses cancelled?
Steve Troughton-Smith says "not so fast my friend"
FaceTime Attention Correction
Hypercritical #65: Look Right into the Eyes of Your Sweetie
#askatp:
What is our one true iMessage address? (via Matthew Loewen)
Does Siracusa use LFG sites? (via Hassan Al Amiri)
Most bang-for-your-buck $1000 Mac (via BJ Nemeth, among others)
Post-show Neutral: The C8 Corvette
American Original
Road & Track Interview
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1h 58min
July 18, 2019335: Withhold the Fun
Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show
iOS 13 charging optimization
Follow-up:
APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2
SuperDuper
Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel
shall/should/may/can
iPhone SE & headphones
Powerbeats Pro
Beats Studio
Apple Bankrolling Original Podcasts?
Dropbox pulls some forking bullshirt
More from Marco
Dropbox vs. Twitter
#askatp:
Do our cars or our iPads have more stickers? (via Josh Lewis)
Do we fill up our 256 GB phones? (via Erik Neu)
What is the most valuable language to learn for modern students? (via Sarah Anne)
Post-show:
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1h 36min
July 11, 2019334: Mechanical Disadvantage
Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
RFC 2119
FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory?
Follow-up:
John's cheese grater broke
Casey's shaming
OXO current model
John's model
Casey's pitched option
99% Invisible: Built on Sand
Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
Apple's new (and "new") laptops
MacStories summary
Cheaper SSDs
Sparse image
man tmutil
#askatp:
Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
fish shell
Caring for our
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1h 60min
July 04, 2019333: Pesky Human Issues
Follow-up:
Expansion Slot Utility
PCI Express
Jony Ive leaves Apple
Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind
Ben Thompson's piece
ATP #120: One Magical Wire
Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure
Jony Ive's Christmas Tree
The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Guest Ben Thompson
Dieter Rams
Gruber last week and this week
Evans Hankey & Alan Dye
May-Li Khoe's tweet
Love, Death, & Robots ("Zima Blue" is the episode mentioned)
#askatp:
How does the Overcast recommendation engine work? (via Markus Ernst)
What's the best way to enter "the zone" while programming? (via Paul Wood III)
What happens to Overcast/Vignette/ATP/etc when we pass? (via Leon Zandman)
Independence #55: The Single Point of Failure
Post-show: John's Rubbermaid #1971 spatula
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1h 50min
June 27, 2019332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt
Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy
Follow-up:
Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple
macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link)
Marco's spirit walk
AirPods
{Fit in The case} Airpods Earpods Covers Compatible with airpods 2&1 Anti-Slip Silicone Soft Sport Covers Accessories Apple AirPods Earbud 2 Pairs (White)
Powerbeats Pro
Tavern puzzle
Sony WH1000XM3
Rumored 16" MacBook Pro
#askatp:
Would Apple re-implement Target Display Mode on the 5K iMac? (via Jack Frydai)
Target Disk Mode
What software does Marco use to manage servers? (via Chris Hubbard)
What do we think about people listening at higher speeds than 1x? (via Jospeh Dijkstra)
Post-show:
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1h 50min
June 20, 2019331: The Technical Burden of Users
Follow-up:
Mac Pro vent design
New Yorker article
Apple Reverses Course on MDM & Parental Control Apps
Apple tightens up rules for enterprise app certificates
iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs
Marco's tweets 1 2 3
Benjamin Herrin's findings
application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
UIDevice
Mac Pro
FPGA
The Talk Show #254: Live from WWDC 2019
Mac Power Users #485: WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager
Pro Display XDR
Sign in With Apple
An aside about Overcast and user data
#askatp:
What do we think about mouse pads? (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
MUG
HardOCP (it was the Ratpadz GS)
CS Hyde C4-NGen
Buying an old-generation MacBook Air as new today? (via Jon Schwenn)
How were the WWDC box lunches this year? (via many, including Tim Schmitz)
SoFa Market
San Pedro Square
Mango Tango
Post-show: Marco's anticipated summer of fun
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1h 51min
June 13, 2019330: A Rotation You Can't Complete
Pre-show: root's wheel group (more)
Marco comes to terms with Swift
John's preposterous Safari Extension
Follow-up:
ASCII art apps
Mac: Monodraw
Web: ASCII Flow
Blending stump is a lasso tool
"Sim" game series
Transport Tycoon
100 WWDC features that may have gone unnoticed
WWDC favorites a week on
Combine Framework
SwiftUI
UICollectionView Compositional Layout
Mac Pro
APFS and Catalina
Casey's SSD
Mac Pro
Pegasus enclosures
Tim/Jony hole/lattice design conversation
G4 Cube
Userspace drivers
AppStories #114: Craig Federighi: The AppStories Interview
FUSE
#askatp:
How to choose a macro lens? (via Colton Belfils)
The Digital Picture
What should one do to protect old computers? (via James Andrews)
How does Marco treat Tesla's "Autopilot"? (via Krystian)
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2h 2min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.