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, 201599: Pop-Up Headlights
Follow-Up:
SSL
In schools & corporations
Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL
SOCKS
Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger)
Marco's Go feed poller update
IDE
Eclipse
Rust
Communicating sequential processes
Apple's Software Quality
Marco's post
Marco's retrospective
Mention on CNBC
Hypercritical #55
Casey's response to Marco
Glenn Fleishman's list
How to write for understanding
Marco laments about software quality in the past
Rumored 12" MacBook Air
PlugBug
Chockenberry on a potential ARM transition
Fat binary
Special thanks to _DavidSmith for finding "bezels" in Hypercritical #22
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2h 0min
January 03, 201598: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits
Follow-up:
More on John's windowing strategy
Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
DragThing
Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
Marco (mostly) hates new things again
Node
Go
Python
Generics
C Macros
Operator overloading
Rails
John's thought on Twitter
AnyEvent
libev
libevent
Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts
Core Intuition on Swift
Garbage Collection in Objective-C
Apple Java Bridge
CodeWarrior
Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
App Store Review Guidelines, specifically 5.6
Apple's humorous announcement
Pointy-haired boss
Panic
Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
Tweetbot
The Incident
Space Age
objc.io
phpBB
Post-show
Textshotting
Example from MG Siegler
Example from Farhad Manjoo
WAP
Boar's Head Pancetta
Oxford comma
Examples
When to give up on a language
Node Timers module
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2h 8min
December 26, 201497: You Have to Know When to Stop
Follow-Up:
Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey)
Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs
Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately
Marco expands his horizons
POODLE attack
cURL
SSL/TLS
Node.js
supervisord
beanstalkd
curl-multi
camo
Heroku
memcached
nginx
JavaScript prototypes
Pentium Pro
V8 Engine
setTimeout()
Go
NSURLSession
MacMiniColo
Linode
Zend Framework
Hack
HHVM
CloudKit
Holidays as the family tech support expert
Fill Your TV
DiskWarrior
Communication Pyramid
Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci
Casey's Review (posted after this show was recorded)
Analog(ue)
Synology NAS Devices
Post-show:
Holiday equipment physical inspections
Hopscotch
Turing completeness
Be sure to turn on relatives' iCloud Backups
John's etiquitte guide to real-time tweeting to podcast hosts while listening
Yes, John knows you can copy to the clipboard from Google Authenticator
IRLTalk
Hopscotch achieves Turing completeness
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1h 28min
December 19, 201496: The Windows of Siracusa County
Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience
Follow-up:
App Store Woes
Panic's Transmit woes reversed
DragonDrop
Timebar
Launcher
Crossy Road financials
PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_)
Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast)
However, rollout will be staggered
Sleazy Twitter app scans
Nick Arnott corrects Marco
Christmas comes early for John, perhaps because of Romain Moisescot
Pastebot (RIP)
Microsoft Acquires Hockey App
Azure Mobile Services
Should HTTP or HTTPS be the default browser state?
HTTPS Everywhere
Eric Schmidt is confused, as usual
Finally, a very special after-show, starting with John missing WindowShade (image).
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2h 25min
December 11, 201495: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You
Follow-Up:
Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.)
Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response
Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps
This week's App Store drama
The phone call to Launcher's developer
Apple's questionable decisions recently
Friction within Apple?
Stratechery: App Store Anguish, Old Apple's Last Stand, Time for a Change? (membership required)
Obligations to maintain your apps
Why Casey discontinued Fast Text
Open-source time commitments
Casey's Accidentalbot and Camel
John's CPAN modules
Marco's FCModel and BugshotKit
Post-show:
John has some opinions on his PS4 so far.
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1h 53min
December 05, 201494: Spirited Defense of Pong
Follow-Up:
Casey clears up his car intentions
Golf R Wagon/Estate
Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
App Store Rule 5.6
Paul Haddad's Idea
Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
One, two, three, four
PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha
Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating?
Well, maybe...
Final Draft
John August's Scripnotes Podcast
Quark XPress
Logic Pro X
Hindenburg (Why the name "Hindenburg"?)
Fog Creek Copilot
Core Intuition on App Windfalls
Game monetization and Crossy Road
Frogger
Team Fortress 2
Clash of Clans
The danger of Touch ID for sleeping parents
Post-show:
Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
(John's son dominates Jason Snell)
More on profitability (AppFigures)
Desert Golfing
Up Up Down Down Interview
Frog Fractions
Scorched Earth
Super Gravitron
Super Hexagon
VVVVVV
Threes!
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1h 41min
November 26, 201493: I'm Not Running a Boarding House Here
Follow-up:
Correction on battery increases year over year
Hypercritical #74
Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
Palm V
IIS on !Windows
Kestrel
libuv
nginx
Scott Hanselman's summary
Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does
Homescreens
Some people like them empty
Group homescreen shaming
#Homescreen and the top apps
John
Marco
Casey
Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
Tumblr Backup
Chameleon
Overcast iPad
Core Intuition
Pod Wrangler Mac
Post-show Neutral:
VW Golf R
Autoblog photos
Interior photo
Flat-bottomed steering wheels
Possible upgrades for Erin's car
Oxymoronic Cars
X5
SRT-8
Tesla Model X
Other options:
3-series GT
Outback
CTS-V Wagon
Lexus ES
Honda Accord
Volvo V60
Honda Odyssey
F-150
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1h 38min
November 19, 201492: You Don't Know My Pants
Follow-up:
Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up
More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest
1
2
3
4
Discourse (source)
Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German)
Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector
WatchKit
_DavidSmith's Predictions
_DavidSmith's Initial Impressions
GEOS
Craig Hockenberry on UI consistency
Pete Burtis expands on the idea
Post-show:
John's iPhone activation woes
SIM removal tool
John critiques cutting-edge apps:
Instagram
Vine
YouTube
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1h 32min
November 14, 201491: Press Agree to Drive
Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement
Demotivational Poster
Should we use a carousel?
Follow-up:
More on app bundles
Does iWork help Apple sell hardware?
RiMac GPUs are throttled?
It's possible to get hot even in OS X
Gaming benchmarks
More from Ars
iStat Menus
Why TRIM isn't widely supported on OS X
iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus sales (via @_ryanbrodie)
More from Localytics
Overcast 1.1
CarPlay
Marco's testing setup
Pioneer SPH-DA120
MPPlayableContentManager
We covered in-car user interfaces before
Microsoft open-sources more of .NET
More from Ars
More from Miguel de Icaza
Xamarin
RyuJIT
Hadouken
Clang
LLVM
.NET on Github
Darwin
KHTML
WebKit
CLR
TCL
GNUstep
Examples of software established in Linux
Wireshark
Audacity
Adium (or, really, Pidgin)
git
Selenium
phpBB
Titanium
The good, the bad, and the ugly of source control
DVD-RAM and DVD+RW
Turns out Marco's "DVD-RAM" emoji (
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1h 41min
November 07, 201490: Speculative Abandonware
Follow-up:
Declan night one
It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg".
Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics.
Saturday Night Live
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
"Lazy Sunday"
"On a Boat"
"[Cheney] in a Box"
T-Pain
Autotune
"Semicolon"
App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp)
TRIM support and John's SSD
Trim Enabler and a related Yosemite FAQ
AHCI
Ars on the rise of SSDs
SandForce
Source list opacity in Yosemite (1 2)
This was also covered on John's recent appearance on The Talk Show
Ancient GameCube controllers in modern times
Microsoft Band
_David Smith's thoughts on his blog and podcast
Exploded diagram
Ars Review
Nice summary by Manton Reece
WebOS
Courier
Kin
Surface product placement goes wrong
House, M.D.
Parks and Recreation
iWork file-format support
InfoWorld article
iWeb
Tower of Babel
iLife
ADA
Post-show:
Wii U Pro Controller versus GameCube Controller
John has a surprise
iPhone 6/6 Plus sales ratio
Tweetie
UIRefreshControl
RiMac First Impressions
Monaco
Inconsolata
Menlo
Handbrake
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1h 45min

FAQs about Accidental Tech Podcast:

How many episodes does Accidental Tech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 459 episodes available.