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Accidental Tech Podcast

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Apr 30, 2020 • 2h 13min

376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle

Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself Dropping Dropbox Synology Drive Transmit Follow-up: John's new video card It's big Mac Pro Wheels & Feet Measurement iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Dangerous keyboard use Car alternators do generate AC Really really use an unpainted post when jump-starting a car COVID-19 Contact Tracing Exposure Notification NSHipster's Overview iOS 13.5 Improvements Google Making its own Chips ARM chips in Macs Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package.
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Apr 24, 2020 • 2h 22min

375: Wobbly Goblin

Pre-show: Homeowners associations Lien Law of large pull requests Follow-up: Mac Pro wheel stability W5700X is a decent deal after all iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions #askatp Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden) What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J) SOAP WSDL The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing (Joel on Software) Fizz Buzz Apple's IS&T PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz) Post-show: Neutral Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast.
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Apr 16, 2020 • 2h 2min

374: Screwdriver Testing Harness

Pre-show: Modern PHP PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication ECDSA JWT Marco's resulting APNS-JWT PHP function Follow-up: Retro Gaming OpenEmu Provenance MiSTer (via James Thomson) Light guns and CRTs 360° audio (via Ibrahim Al-Alali) nugs.net Completing the Mac Pro Rollout Mac Pro feet/wheels Radeon Pro W5700X iPad Pro Magic Keyboard now available for ordering Screens Dr. Drang's keyboard-weight speculation New iPhone SE #askatp How do we make time for listening to our favorite shows? (via Aadi Bhure) Overcast usage Do we automate our recording setups? (via Hunter Holland) BetterTouchTool BetterSnapTool ATP #96: Windows of Siracusa County The state of Mac web browsing What podcast episode are we most proud of having recorded, and why? ATP #205: Chris Lattner Interview ATP #317: We're Customers Too ATP #371: Four-Letter Technologies Analog(ue) #5: The Only Way Out is Through Hypercritical #37: A Story of Triumph Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way Post-show: Newfound home computer needs Ray-traced Minecraft RTX Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Fully: Workplace furniture designed for health, flow, and balance. Get $50 off the Jarvis standing desk. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Apr 9, 2020 • 2h 29min

373: This Jerk, Right Here

Pre-show: Search Engines before Google WebTV BNC connector Follow-up: Synology RAID rebuild time Getting progresscat /proc/mdstat lvm Dark Sky acquisition & location data Weather data consolidation Dark Sky's data sources Trump continues to fill the swamp Casey's Computer Corner BBEdit Arq Backup New PS5 controller Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica xScope Force Touch Raspberry Pi Pi-Hole Installation instructions that Casey used CanaKit — the kit Casey bought Raspbian Retro gaming Special guest Tiff Arment joins us Emulation: RetroPie 8bitdo SN30 Pro Wave Race 64 32X Neo Geo 3DO Sega Saturn Rotary phone Kontra/Konami Code Famicom vs. NES controllers Improving the original experience Nintendo Switch Online NES Classic Edition Analogue Console FPGA 8bitdo M30 2.4G for SEGA Genesis Everdrive flash cartridges Connecting to the TV Technology Connections: How Did Old TVs Work? Racing the Beam CRT skeletons RF modulator Composite video S-Video Component video RGB over SCART Scaling console video output to modern TVs RetroTINK OSSC XRGB Framemeister gscartsw Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping with this link. Hover: Start your business with a domain name. Get 10% off your first purchase.
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Apr 2, 2020 • 2h 20min

372: Things Are Degraded

Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad Follow-up: A12Z is the A12X with all GPU cores working properly Chip binning All 2020 iPad Pros have 6 GB RAM Part-name theories Casey's Synology Catastrophe DS1813+ S.M.A.R.T. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019 Apple Acquires Dark Sky CARROT Weather Weather Line You can buy/rent video from the Amazon iOS app without using in-app purchase Breakpoints Post-show follow-up: The Road to PS5 Xbox Series X Hands On, Gameplay & Controller! Head Related Transfer Function Binaural recording Sponsored by: Postmates: Anything you need, anytime you need it. Postmate it. Use code ATP for $100 in free delivery credit for your first 7 days. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping with this link. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Mar 26, 2020 • 2h 35min

371: Four-Letter Technologies

Special guest Chris Lattner! High Output Management TensorFlow Caffe TPU Python PyTorch Swift for TensorFlow Swift TensorFlow tutorials Fortran Swift for TensorFlow Clang Jupyter Python interop workbook Dynamic Callable Dynamic Member Lookup NumPy MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation SIL: Swift Intermediate Language SiFive ASIC: Application-specific integrated circuit RISC-V BSD PA-RISC Mach KHTML WWDC Status of Swift's world domination Brisk Self-hosting Swift's future Swift Ownership Manifesto Rust 2019 LLVM Dev Meeting: Ownership SSA C++20 Clang Is Swift a... jerk? SwiftUI Combine ABI stability Variadic generics Swift Concurrency Manifesto Recent woodworking projects Treasure box Post-show: Quarantined unproductivity Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Jamf Now: Set up and protect your Apple devices at work, from anywhere. First 3 devices are free. Indeed.com: A guide to help those whose jobs have been affected by coronavirus.
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Mar 19, 2020 • 2h 20min

370: Ghost Finger

WWDC 2020 will be online-only Press release Original Gravity ("the beer-and-sausage place") Follow-up: Rebinding Xcode commands via Incoherent Toots Apple Style Guide New Apple Hardware Mac mini (not really new) MacBook Air iPad Pro LiDAR Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Smart Keyboard Folio iPad Pro Cursor with Craig Federighi Post-show: Consoles The Test Drivers #3: Xbox Series X Exclusive, and the Z Flip Gang Xbox Series X Hands On, Gameplay & Controller! The Road to PS5 Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use this link and code ATP for free overnight shipping. ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package.
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Mar 13, 2020 • 2h 16min

369: Brown Big Bear

Pre-show: Marco's Problem Marco's image-retention test Apple Cinema Display HD Follow-up: The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places). Recommended info sources on COVID-19: Flatten the Curve CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated) Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics WWDC still not canceled Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+ John's internal storage situation Mac shortcuts Ellipsis is ⌥ ; Adjective order ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ ⌃ ⌥? Command key Xcode symbol popup: ⌃ 6 Drag and drop open/save dialog DefaultFolder X Screen shotting/screen capture Hot Corners and modifier keys System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners... Casey's Computer Corner Brian Ski's tweet Huge rumor dumps New homescreen Accessibility features, wallpapers, and #shotoniphone GIFWrapped OCR capabilities Video: Transcriber in Windows Mobile Graffiti Inkwell Black Ink Apple Watch flag faces General Apple Watch improvements Tachymeter #askatp Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati) Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino) How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri) Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground Penny Arcade Sponsored by: BlueVine: Get a $100 gift card when you take out a loan or open a line of credit. Mack Weldon: Better than whatever you’re wearing right now. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a $20 credit with code atp2020.
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Mar 5, 2020 • 2h 24min

368: A Jacket and Some Pins

Follow-up: Feedback & Radar Casey's Catalina Catastrophe Pegasus J2i Mountain Certificate revocation Ben Thompson and nvALT Just Enough Grammar How does one back up a Synology? Backblaze B2 Amazon Glacier Arq WWDC cancellation? Under the Radar #186: Replacing WWDC An Event Apart #askatp What are some of our favorite macOS keyboard shortcuts? ⌘ K for VNC/SMB ⇧ ⌘ A for Applications ⇧ ⌘ 4 for screenshot ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ V for Paste and Match Style Plain Text app for iOS ⎋ during drag Drag onto a Finder column heading ⌘ Click on the title of a Finder window ⌘ ↑ and ⌘ ↓ to go up/down the folder hierarchy Xcode ⌥ ⌘ / for creating documentation ⇧ ⌘ O for quick open ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ ⌃ C for Copy Qualified Symbol Name Is there a difference between an app's Open at login and System Preferences → User & Groups → Login Items? (via Jon Mitchell) If you had to use a co-hosts's machine, whose would it be? (via Nicholas Gaffney) Post-show Neutral: New BMW logo Concept i4 Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Away: Whoever you are, and whatever you need to pack, Away has luggage that will help make your next trip more seamless. Kolide: User-focused security for teams that Slack.
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Feb 27, 2020 • 1h 54min

367: Antitrust Relief Valve

Follow-up: SwitchGlass desktop-image update Apple Music high-quality streamingSettings → Music → Cellular Data → High Quality Streaming Swift and static analysis Overcast and UI state restoration Microsoft Defender ATP Coming for iOS Safari and long-lived HTTPS certificates Let's Encrypt Apple considering allowing users switch default apps Spotify's Time to Play Fair Things #askatp How do we handle the business side of the App Store? (via Stephen Gerstacker) Do we shop TVs based on primary usage? (via starsasumi) G-SYNC When do we use a notes app vs. a flat file? (via Future Ben) Post-show: Casey's Computer Woes Sponsored by: Indeed: Post a job today. Get a free sponsored job upgrade on your first posting. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a $20 credit with code atp2020. ProClip USA: High-quality, two-part phone mounts. Get 10% off with code atp10.

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