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Jul 9, 2020 • 2h

386: No More Holes in My House

ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Pre-show: Phisherman Relieph Phund Fishman Donut Marco’s masks Hamilton is good. Turns out™. Follow-up: No Target Disk Mode on ARM Macs But Mac Sharing Mode will replace it WidgetKit and Third-Party Watch Faces _clockHandRotationEffect Unified Memory Architecture & the Mac Pro Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators Heterogeneous System Architecture We’re getting Thunderbolt on ARM Macs Apple Platform Unification Part II: ARM Mac Hardware Upgrade #304: Somebody’s Gotta Do It and It’s Gonna Be Us What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware Touch Bar: Mend It Or End It? App Store changes Phil Schiller digs his heels in Apple, HEY, and the Path Forward #askatp How do we handle migration between Macs? (via Jacob Rosin) Casey on Homebrew bundle Casey’s checklist What do our in-home wired networks look like? (via Franck Hertz) MoCA Bridge What’s the best unsung feature from WWDC? (via Shihab) Design for the iPadOS pointer Post-show: The future of Vignette Sponsored by: Hover: Find a domain name for your passion. Get 10% off your first purchase. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Bombas: Bombas makes the most comfortable socks in the history of feet.
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Jul 2, 2020 • 2h 29min

385: Temporal Smear

Pre-show: hey_z_ree Bootleg-feed update ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Audio Hijack Fraunhofer MP3 Licensing NetNewsWire Overcast, Swift, and SwiftUI Follow-up: DTK update Benchmarks Steve Troughton-Smith’s Take Pentium 4 DTK John ports to ARM Windows on ARM Macs Rosetta WWDC 2020 Big Sur and APFS Daniel Jalkut’s tweet Big Sur release notes Messages in Big Sur Starting screen sharing via ⌘K /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app “Play sound on startup” (Sound pane in System Preferences) Big Sur version number Gui Rambo’s finding Homebrew team’s discoveries Fraser Hess’s take APFS, Time Machine, and booting changes Catalina error message Signed system volume Explore the New System Architecture of Apple Silicon Macs Time Machine and APFS APFS FIle System Reference Apple platform unification ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event Apple Development Technologies chart Design for the iPadOS pointer The Talk Show Remote from WWDC 2020 Post-show: Fitness and calorie counting FoodNoms Club Crackers Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020.
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Jun 23, 2020 • 3h 15min

384: Equal Emphasis

WWDC 2020 iOS 14 Widgets James Thomson Vidgets (App Store link) App Library Compact Siri/Call UIs/Picture-in-Picture Translation Google Translate Messages Maps Home Pushover CarPlay & CarKey U1 Safari 1Password Have I Been Pwned? Ghostery App Clips Emoji 🔍 Scribble Color Picker Pastel StoreKit Testing! 🥳 Stripe Brent Simmons’ take on IAP Speed Round iPadOS watchOS Watchsmith CARROT Weather Under the Radar AirPods macOS Big Sur New Look Dialog box Squircle SwitchGlass Puzzle pieces ARM Macs Developer Transition Kit “Compliment of Mac I/O Ports” 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet Universal 2 App thinning Rosetta 2 Contributions promised Virtualization Hypervisor Parallels Unified memory iOS & iPadOS apps Post-show: Overcast on Catalyst 11.0 Challenging App Store rules Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Basecamp: The all-in-one toolkit for working remotely. Get 10% off your first six months.
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Jun 18, 2020 • 2h 26min

383: Demand-Paged Outrage

Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce Follow-up: ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 ARM Mac dev kits Xbox 360 “Dev Kit” Apple T2 Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro Tim Cook announces Racial Equity and Justice Initiative …oh, P.S., Apple’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion left Casey’s new MacBook Pro Casey on Homebrew bundle BetterTouchTool A New Breed of Macs Rosetta Hey.com’s App Store Rejection DHH on Twitter Other, not-banned email apps Apple Puff Piece Post-show: Brief WWDC predictions Connected #299: The Rickies (Summer 2020) Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Fully: Workplace furniture designed for health, flow, and balance. Get $30 off your order of $300 or more. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Jun 12, 2020 • 2h 2min

382: Static Ad Removal

Reactions to last week’s show Follow-up: Race/racism book list Original listicle So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates On writing into web forms SMART Board Nero Burning ROM Jaz Drive XJACK WASTE Justin Frankel Personal site Icecast SHOUTcast Audio Hijack Cockos LICEcap Gnutella On Casey’s SMB issues Home.app scenes rather than automations, via Hugo Jobling Daniel Jalkut corrects us about powerbox Android Live Captions 1 2 (via David D’Arcy) Voice Control on iOS Donate to Black causes Equal Justice Initiative Black Lives Matter Black Girls Code ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Forecast ARM Macs are coming! For real this time! OpenGL Apple @ Brooklyn Academy of Music iMacs Getting Redesigned as Well? Developer Transition Kit John Gruber on ARM Transition Post-show: Membership Pricing Tiers that Never Were Sponsored by: Notion: Stay on task, find what you need, and collaborate efficiently, all in one place. Get 10% off a team plan.
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Jun 4, 2020 • 1h 50min

381: Uncomfortable Truths

Black Lives Matter 11 Things You Can Do to Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct How to Be an Activist When You’re Unable to Attend Protests How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Books About Race & Racism Podcasts that Talk About Racism Research-Based Solutions to Stop Police Violence by Samuel Sinyangwe Trevor Noah’s Take Obama’s list of resources and and ways to take action Tim Cook’s statement Equal Justice Initiative Talking to your kids about race and racism Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race Some developers: Ish Shabazz Ashley Nelson Kaya Thomas TJ Usiyan Layers 2016 Presentation Lyndsey Scott Tiffany White Some books: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Follow-up: Netscape Navigator, Lynx, and atp.fm (via Alex Chan) OpenDoc Parts Windows has a clipboard manager (via Max Nuding) LAST CHANCE for the ATP STORE! Preorders end June 7! Casey’s TV issues CEC - Consumer Electronics Control Android vs. iOS Speech-to-Text Speed Initial demo (via Dave Mark) Follow-up Catalina and SMB shares The operation can’t be completed because the original item for {RootFolder} can’t be found. macOS 10.15: Slow by Design Jeff Johnson’s follow-up about shell scripts Gaming MacBook Pro Quinn Nelson’s Video Game Sprockets QuickDraw 3D #askatp What view do we use in Finder? (via The Weakest Muscle) How do we clean our screens? (via Stefan) Volvo Genuine Microfiber Polishing Cloth for Digital Displays How do we protect our kids from the internet? (via Peter) YouTube SafeSearch Cloudflare DNS for Families Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Tom Bihn: Now offering buy-one give-one Reusable Cloth Face Masks. On Monday, June 8, pre-order the excellent Synik 22 or Synik 30 backpacks. Give a Mask Spreadsheet
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May 28, 2020 • 2h 15min

380: Wires Are Great

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th. Pre-show: Live-stream icecast saga New old-style websites Flexbox Ebay port scanning Publish by John Sundell How do we trust clipboard managers‽ Little Snitch Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i Casey’s DNS Diversion Disabling Chrome’s async DNS resolver HBO ditches Apple TV Channels Follow-up: Joe Rogan himself Let’s buy Casey a 13” MacBook Pro Microsoft’s Fluid Office “document” OpenDoc Object Linking and Embedding #askatp What’s the best Wi-Fi/networking setup? (via Benjamin Sharbaugh) Eero Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine nanoHD Access Point How do we move Xcode signing assets between Macs? (via Jeffrey Wilkinson) Windows Registry DLL Hell But, like, really: Overcast for Mac? (via Chris Niles) Post-show: Face masks 😷 Tom Bihn masks Marco’s awesome Phish-donut mask Procedure masks Sponsored by: Basecamp: The all-in-one toolkit for working remotely. Get 10% off your first six months.
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May 21, 2020 • 2h 9min

379: The Everything’s OK Alarm

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th. Pre-show: ATP has a new website. (Neutral too!) John talks about Flatland on Sophomore Lit Follow-up: MiniDV import details HandBrakeCLI exiftool Causes for soliciting promo codes Lime-a-Rita Destiny & Cursors iOS 13.4 adds Shared iPad for Business (via Sir Cathy) Are Casey’s Raspberry Pis hardened? John’s smoke detector story from Hypercritical Joe Rogan takes his show to Spotify NetNewsWire #askatp What clipboard managers do we use? (via Play My Jam) Alfred Pastebot LaunchBar Is iOS 13 ready yet? (via Luke Arthur) Would dropping Boot Camp bring backlash? (via someone) Post-show: Life at home status updates Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020.
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May 14, 2020 • 2h 5min

378: Whale Quench

Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live Totally unrelated: youtube-dl Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox RSI and voice control Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) Hand free computing via Philip Brocoum Phonetic Alphabet Craig Federighi on AppStories #162 Cursor control Coyote time (code example) and other game developer tricks Celeste platforming mechanics design Playing for Fun #2: Celeste Closing apps "Give me your app for free" Dun & Bradstreet John digitizes Mini-DV tapes iDive Super 8 RCA VHS Camcorder.jpg) CVC GR-C1 MKBHD's video #askatp If Apple releases an ARM-based Mac, would we buy first-gen machines? (via Jamie Bender) What file system (🛎) should one use for external backups? (via Unai Herrán) Will iPadOS ever become multi-user? (via Pascal Lindelauf) Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad Post-show Neutral: 2022 Golf GTI Isn't Tesla cancelled now? Honda Urban EV Concept Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Notion: Stay on task, find what you need, and collaborate efficiently, all in one place. Get 10% off a team plan.
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May 7, 2020 • 1h 59min

377: $10 Worth of Headaches

Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple AppFigures Changing App Store company names LLC DBA Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi Zero W Raspberry Pi 4 Debugging memory problems in Xcode ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar) ATP #285 @ 3m48s ATP #306 @ 1h36m The Talk Show #227 Installing an OS on a computer without a monitor Etcher WWDC date announced Hats Fedora Cowboy hat Flat cap New 13" MacBook Pro!🎉 GOODBYE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD! 🎉 Six Colors review Rene Ritchie's video review Rene Ritchie's comparison vs. MacBook Air Turbo button TGPro fan control app #askatp After the obvious, what should one do to alleviate RSI? (via Thom Anthony) How do I make my videoconferences sound better? (via Jack Johnson) ATR2100x Microphone Mega-Review Kerry Post-show: Unbox Therapy Porsche Classic Communication Management BMW stops European Delivery for American customers Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.

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