Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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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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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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