Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
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
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Jun 18, 2020 • 2h 26min
383: Demand-Paged Outrage
Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce
Follow-up:
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Give a Mask Spreadsheet
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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