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 06, 2015129: Tap-to-Click Wizard
Skylake desktop CPUs launch
Casey joins 2012
"Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal."
TrackPoint
TrackPoint Mouse
Leap Motion
2015 iPhone predictions
Naked robotic core
It's Ramifications!
Carrier subsidies and pricing games
AT&T Next
Post-show:
Repairing iPads
Hot water heaters
Marco's new camera
Sony A7R II
Sony FE 35mm f/2.8
Sony FE 55mm f/1.8
Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 5D Mark II
Nikon D750
Casey's camera setup
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2h 18min
July 29, 2015128: Blue Ring Stud
Pre-show:
Invisible formatting
Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
Samsung SSDs and TRIM
MacNN SSD testing
Marco's cellular-option dilemma
Reddit
Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
John slacked off for 46 days
What makes Twitter marginally less crummy?
Q&A about policies
El Capitan's Rootless Mode
WWDC Session 706 – Security and Your Apps
Audio Hijack
Paths in the Grass
Mac App Store... still stinks.
Coda
Craig Hockenberry on the Mac App Store
Post-show:
All three hosts learn something new about life as adults.
Neven Mrgan's CocoaConf talk
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2h 2min
July 22, 2015127: Not a Cactus in Sight
Pre-follow-up:
Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
Follow-up:
Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter)
Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
Desert Golfing
Alto's Adventure
Prison Architect
Theme Hospital
OpenTTD, the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon
Intel's tick-tock seems to be over
Reddit kerfuffle
CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit?
Hello Internet #43
Rocket #26 and #27
Laurie Voss's two tweets (sorry for the wrong gender pronoun)
Post-show:
More on Reddit
Something Awful Forums
Marco's old coffee shop closed
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1h 53min
July 16, 2015126: The Web Kind of Happens to You
Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations
Follow-up:
Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government
Browser choice on iOS
Font safety
TRIM versus over-provisioning
Half Life is available for the Mac
Counterstrike
Team Fortress 2
Markov generator
New iPod Touch
Steve Troughton-Smith notes it's iPod7,1
Matthew Panzarino's speed tests
Metal
App thinning & slicing
iPod Nano
Gruber's take
iPod Shuffle
Post-show:
FCModel
Optimistic locking
SQLite PRAGMAs
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1h 32min
July 10, 2015125: A Better Future for Everybody
Follow-up:
Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
Honda Fit cameras
BMW Top View camera
Classical music on Apple Music
Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
Discussion from last episode
First usage from #83
Concept's introduction
Copland 2010
American radio sucks
Safari is the new IE
Nolan's Follow-Up
W3C
canvas
Code Hard or Go Home
CSS4 Selector Test
Current results
CSS Spinner Test
Current results
Microsoft eviscerates their phone business
The frustrating comedy of business speak
A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft
Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8
WebOS
Microsoft Build
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1h 59min
July 03, 2015124: The Tyranny of Radio
Follow-up:
Bitcode and portability
Dan Gohman's mailing list post
Google PNaCL
Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2
10.10.4 and TRIM support
Overview
Ars comment thread
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
The comedy of updating hard drive firmware
Apple Music
Beats 1
Serenity Caldwell on Apple Music vs. iTunes Match
Paul Haddad on how to turn off auto-renewal
MUTEMATH article Casey found
Fury Road
Post-show:
The Apple TV ad that mentions CONFIG.SYS
Safari is the new IE will be covered next week
Florida is hot
TSA Pre-Check
Global Entry
Your Daily Lex
Turning This Car Around
Traveling with infants on airplanes
Labyrinth
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1h 39min
June 24, 2015123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism
Follow-up:
Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
C data types
Endianness
Data structure alignment
Steve Troughton-Smith
S1 analysis by Chipworks
The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs
Intel Skylake
Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting
Mono's compiler history
Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR"
John, his watch, and his nose
Myke was right again
Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus
Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan
WebKit Content Blockers
Session video with John and Marco
Safari View Controller to kill minibrowsers
GlimmerBlocker
YouTube ad settings
Ad-banner blindness
The ethics of running ad-blockers
AdBlock Plus accepts money from some ad companies whitelisted as Acceptable Ads
John's Reload Button extension for Safari
TRIM) on non-Apple SSDs
New trimforce command in El Capitan
After-show:
Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses.
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1h 27min
June 19, 2015122: My Results Were Inconclusive
Follow-up:
John loses leaves his wallet
John on losing his wallet on ATP #121
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet
Marco's Slimmy Wallet
Notes.app runs on CloudKit
The MacBook One and Photos
iOS 9 and QuickType
Casey on iOS 9 Picture-In-Picture
Bitcode
Platforms State of the Union
Change in session description (at the bottom)
John's Swift article
John's tweet about ARM Macs
LLVM Bitcode file format
LLVM IR encoding
LLVM assembly language
Marco on app signing crashes in 2012
vDSP
Autolayout
Launch image storyboards
Developing for future, especially new screen sizes
ClockKit Complications session
Swift 2 and Swift for Linux
Node.js
Pandemic
PR release footers
Python
Java
Go
Rust
PHP
Pebble SDK
WebObjects
Protocol-Oriented Programming at WWDC
Gang of Four Design Patterns
Javascript ES6
C# extension methods
Ruby
Mixin
The future of Swift, and when to dive in
Build & Analyze
Casey's Website
Post-Show:
Language wonks
When do you adopt a new language?
Signs that point to Swift
ARC
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1h 43min
June 09, 2015121: Admitted No Wrongdoing
Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:
The keynote presentation
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Natural-language search
Window management
iOS 9
iPad enhancements:
Keyboard navigation gestures
Side-by-side apps
Will these revive iPad sales growth?
New Notes app
Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of
Apple Instant Articles News app
Publisher FAQ
Swift going open-source
watchOS 2.0
Third-party complications
Initial thoughts on the native API
Post-show:
Apple Music announcement
John's Costanza wallet
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2h 6min
June 05, 2015120: One Magical Wire
Pre-show:
Weebles Wobble
Casey's temporary setup to mess with John
John starts two new podcasts:
Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann
Robot or Not with Jason Snell
Follow-up:
Apple Watch distance & step count accuracy
Apple Support Document
Jony Ive's promotion
Collateralized debt obligation
John Gruber at Daring Fireball
Chris Bangle
Jeff Williams is Senior Vice President, Operations
Google Photos
Connected
Russell Ivanovic's interesting search results
Canon 5D Mark II
Samsung Galaxy S6 camera
iPhone 6 Camera
Optical image stabilization
Olympus OM-D E-M5 II's 40-megapixel multi-shot mode
Picturelife
Photos.app performance and using it with a keyboard
Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C
Intel product overview
SCSI
WWDC predictions
New York Times claims no Apple TV
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Plex
Ultraviolet
Don Melton's scripts
Sneakers
WarGames
WatchKit SDK semi-announced
John on launchd
Auto Layout
Size Classes
Today's Force Touch API
Pedometer++
Apple M7
Cosmonaut
Post-show:
John has thoughts about Velveeta versus Kraft
Olestra
The relative advantages and disadvantages of fruit (Bosc pears are the best pears)
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Marco's AeroPress Iced Coffee Recipe
Casey's review of the Neat Ice Kit
Simple Syrup Kit behind the scenes
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2h 8min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.