Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Feb 20, 2020 • 2h 14min
366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day
Pre-show: Catalina. 🙄 × ∞
Machine-gun trackpad
Marco on OS upgrades
Casey's Radar
Follow-up:
Grasshopper
Logo
Butterfly keyboards and ergonomics
Finder toolbar bug... defeated?
Mac malware getting worse?
What does Apple need to make most?
iOS 13.4
Mail toolbar fixes
Cabel's take
#askatp
What one trivial bug would you fix if you could? (via Louie Mantia)
Casey's answer
How should one partition an onboard SSD? (via James Irwin)
Would you narrate your favorite author's audiobook? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: John's [continued] adventures in programming
Wallpaper creation tool
Post-post show: Cold medicines
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Feb 14, 2020 • 2h 11min
365: Day-One Cowboy
Follow-up:
SwiftUI previews of UIKit
Gualtiero Frigerio
NSHipster
Folder aliases in the Dock
Snow Leopard Review
Radar #59289423
Shell scripts
Jan Vitturi
Richard Kanson
John's new app (‼️)
Keyboard Maestro
Pastebot
Taika Waititi on Apple Keyboards
IBM Model M
Marco's Best Laptop Ever Made
Swift Playgrounds on macOS
#askatp
What's the situation with macOS security? (via Anthony Scardapane)
Gatekeeper
What does Marco do to avoid recursive Voice Boost? (via Chris Wright)
How do we use show notes as a listener? (via Simo Isto)
Post-show: John's adventures in programming
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Feb 6, 2020 • 2h 11min
364: A Casey Settings Screen
Pre-show: Docks
Follow-up:
Pro Display XDR reference modes
Mac Pro internal disk options
iPad Multitasking and recent apps
Casey's new app (‼️)
Detecting Guided Access
SwiftUI
Knife Switch
Google Photos Privacy Breach
#askatp
What do we think about homebrew? (via Stephan Jacobs)
MacPorts
What's the difference between ⇧/⌘/⌥ keys?
Origin of the ⌘ key
tin
Save for Web Claws
What do we name our Wi-Fi networks? (via Jesse in South Dakota)
Silence Of The LANS
Post-show: Auto-joining Wi-Fi networks
"Free Public WiFi"
iOS auto-joins AT&T Wi-Fi networks without user permission
The mechanism by which Apple does this: carrier bundles
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Jan 30, 2020 • 2h 30min
363: The Floor is Lava
Casey's Complaints about his Co-Hosts Corner
Marco's replaced BMW link
The actual link
Reconcilable Differences #121: Impotent Hydra
Wegmans
Update on Marco's iMac Pro fan issues
SMC reset
Pro Display XDR reference modes
Rack-mount Mac Pro videos from Neil Parfitt
Unboxing
Fan noise
A pro's thoughts on TrueTone
ISO 12646
Xcode layout advice
Video demo
Localization warnings
Marco's Overcast Bug-Finding Mission
Technical Q&A QA1606
kAudioUnitProperty_MaximumFramesPerSlice
AVAudioSession
setPreferredIOBufferDuration
Apple's API documentation
No Overview Available
iOS 14 Shakeup
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
Working Copy
WIMP
Surface/iPad Lineup in 2020
Post-show: John's Bug-Finding Mission
NSWindow
isReleasedWhenClosed
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Jan 24, 2020 • 2h 12min
362: Xcode in Anger
Follow-up:
That's the Microsoft logo, you fools
Redesigning the Windows Logo
Removing the Dropbox Finder extension
System Preferences → Extensions → Dropbox → Finder Extension
Pro Display XDR display profiles
Aerial screensaver
Logitech G305 mouse review
Pacifist
Jonathan Mann on his post-WWDC song
Front and Center update
Marco's iMac Pro update
Apple acquiesces to the FBI regarding encrypted iCloud backups?
Gruber's initial reaction
Gruber on Tim Cook on Der Spiegel
Apple on end-to-end encryption in 2016
Android does encrypt backups
Ben Thompson's take
Xcode layout hell
Post-show Neutral: What cars would we each take on a cross-country trip?
🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨
Casey's answer
Marco's answer (and backup answer)
John's answer
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