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:

December 24, 2015149: Everyone's on Vacation
Casey's reconciled differences
Three truths and a lie
Marco experiments with his website
Second Crack
CentOS
Under the Radar
Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop
Phil Schiller takes over the App Store
Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only)
Apache Mesos
Les Moonves
CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple
Riccio's quote
John Gruber and Phil Schiller on The Talk Show
Upthere
Bertrand Serlet
Cloud to Butt
Post-show:
Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla
The great bagel dispute
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1h 54min
December 18, 2015148: Your Feelings Are Real
Follow-up:
Green shifting (see also)
Continuous release schedules
Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version
iPhone 7 battery theories
4-inch iPhone 6S predictions
Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case
Marco's slim battery brick
Negativity about Apple
Apple TV App Store challenges
Ctrl-Walt-Delete: A Cycle of Despair
BMW X6M
Swift Open Sourcing
The Talk Show #139
Chris Lattner's tongue-in-cheek tweet
First non-Lattner commit
Lattner's reply
Apache 2 License patent grant
Package manager
Code owners
Homebrew
Max Howell's snarky tweet
swift-evolution
Erica Sadun's blog
Mailing list
Links to tweets in Swift source (via Danny Greg)
Post-show Neutral:
Casey drives a Tesla Model S
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1h 55min
December 11, 2015147: Here I Am, I'm a Battery
Follow-up:
The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
Benefits of Lightning headphones
USB Type C supports analog audio
Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
Swift/Foundation bridging
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Porsche Panamera
Joanna Stern's Review
Anker Ultra Slim
Apple "No" video
Marco's preferred battery brick
"Flower" iMac G4
Chin-less battery case
Casey's Lenmar battery case
Apple updated all of their OSes
State of our Watch usage
What the future may bring for Watch apps
Post-show:
Three nerds talk about fashion... again. We're sorry.
Timex Weekender
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1h 45min
December 05, 2015146: Control + Money + Smallness
Follow-up:
iMacs and IR ports
mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook
German video
Vint Cerf
DARPA
TCP/IP
IETF
Stuart Cheshire
iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack
Existing Lightning-equipped headphones
Slimmed-down headphone jack
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Casey's Bluetooth headphones
Marco's Bluetooth headphones
Swift goes open-source
Copland 2010
LLVM
Clang
Apple on Github
Traditional Apple open source
Swift commit graph
First Swift commit
Material #23 with Matías Duarte
The Talk Show Live at WWDC 2015 with Phil Schiller
Swift 3.0 plans
Removing NS prefix
Under the Radar #2 - Time for Swift
Ars Technica talks with Craig Federighi
The Next Web talks with Craig Federighi
Swift Issue Tracker
GPL trolls
Post-show:
John had a cloudy day.
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Toaster #1
Toaster #2
The Sweet Home's toaster oven review
Toaster review compendium
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1h 51min
November 24, 2015145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
John Siracusa Paper Doll
John riding on Merlin's back
John on top of Hypercritical Mountain
Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie
Top Four on Take-Out Food
Roanoke Colony
Extracurriculars:
Reconcilable Differences
Top Four
Robot or Not
The Incomparable
Casey's guest spot
Analog(ue)
Follow-up:
iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays
iMac insomnia
What 2015 tech are we thankful for?
John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving
mDNSResponder (not discoveryd)
Functional High Ground
Marco's follow-up post
Craig Hockenberry on discoveryd (strong language)
Live Photos & 4K Video
Canon 5D Mark II
Sony A7R II
If you get that, you want this lens, and probably this one too.
Apple Photos
Google Photos
Picturelife
Lightroom
Podcasting
Under the Radar
Overcast
Olympus O-MD E-M10
Casey's review
Big SSDs
Slack
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Destiny
Quake III Arena
Unreal Tournament 2004
Counter-Strike
Apple Watch
Post-show bonus items:
Apple Pencil
Tesla
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1h 28min
November 21, 2015144: Digital Schmear
Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
Mac App Store certificate problems
Apple's Apology
Sparkle
Michael Tsai: No One Minding The Store
Space Gremlin
Daisy Disk
Twitterrific
iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
Smart Cover
Pencil
Back to Work #247
Tiff's Signature
Adobe Sketch
Procreate
Tayasui Sketches
DisplayMate on iPad display quality
USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
Post-show:
Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K
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1h 41min
November 13, 2015143: Capital F, Capital C
Follow-up:
Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
John's children react to the remote
Marco and Apple TV gaming
Badland
Limbo
World of Goo
Provenance
f.lux
iPad Pro
Steve Streza's latency video
Matt Panzarino's no-latency video
Microsoft touch latency demo video
WWDC session
Andy Ihnatko's dream
Multitasking UI paradigms
OpenDoc
Post-show: Neutral
Casey's fender damage
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1h 55min
November 05, 2015142: Hateful Game of Frogger
Follow-out*:
Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar
Follow-up:
Facebook's ineptitude
Spotlight indexing for NAS drives
Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts?
CPM
Apple TV
S/PDIF
The Talk Show #134
Upgrade #61
Konami Code
John's Wii U Setup Woes
Gaming
Crossy Road
Alto's Adventure
Zaxxon
Steelseries Nimbus
Polygon on Apple TV games
Oceanhorn
Provenance
Plex
Post show:
Follow-up on TV audio and sound bars
Casey reads the manual for Marco's car
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This week's toaster
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1h 60min
October 29, 2015141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden
Apple TV and home theater
Apple's guide to choosing a capacity
Optical splitter from HDMI
Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is
Follow-up:
5400 RPM benchmarks, charts
Mac GPUs, heat, and noise
2015 5K iMac overheats?
Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV?
Monitor height and VESA-mounting
Facebook statement on app battery usage
John's Star Wars tickets
Apple's earnings call
Benedict Evans' chart: iPad vs. laptops
Large-storage needs at home: NAS, Drobo, or external hard drives?
Upgrade #60
DS1813+
DS1815+
ATTO iSCSI Initiator
OWC ThunderBay 4 mini
MailDrop
Limits
John on RAID in 2005
Google Play Music adds podcasts
Diff'rent Strokes
Libsyn interviews Google Play Music manager about podcast feature
Post-show: Apple TV reviews
Past guest Christina Warren at Mashable
Walt Mossberg
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1h 40min
October 22, 2015140: Harpooned a Turtle
John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
Follow-up:
Chipworks on the A9s (PDF)
Consumer Reports on battery life
Fusion Drives
Magic Trackpad to augment rather than replace
Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
Xbox One Elite
iMac revisited
Then and Now
Accessories without Bluetooth
Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
Elevation Stand
Leander Kahney's Ive book
20th Anniversary Mac
Facebook battery usage
Post-show: Perl 6
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1h 44min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.