Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 18, 2019 • 1h 35min
335: Withhold the Fun
Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show
iOS 13 charging optimization
Follow-up:
APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2
SuperDuper
Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel
shall/should/may/can
iPhone SE & headphones
Powerbeats Pro
Beats Studio
Apple Bankrolling Original Podcasts?
Dropbox pulls some forking bullshirt
More from Marco
Dropbox vs. Twitter
#askatp:
Do our cars or our iPads have more stickers? (via Josh Lewis)
Do we fill up our 256 GB phones? (via Erik Neu)
What is the most valuable language to learn for modern students? (via Sarah Anne)
Post-show: 🌊🏊♂️🏖
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Jul 11, 2019 • 1h 60min
334: Mechanical Disadvantage
Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
RFC 2119
FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory?
Follow-up:
John's cheese grater broke
Casey's shaming
OXO current model
John's model
Casey's pitched option
99% Invisible: Built on Sand
Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
Apple's new (and "new") laptops
MacStories summary
Cheaper SSDs
Sparse image
man tmutil
#askatp:
Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
fish shell
Caring for our 📷 at the 🏖️ (via Tyler Menard)
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Jul 4, 2019 • 1h 49min
333: Pesky Human Issues
Follow-up:
Expansion Slot Utility
PCI Express
Jony Ive leaves Apple
Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind
Ben Thompson's piece
ATP #120: One Magical Wire
Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure
Jony Ive's Christmas Tree
The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Guest Ben Thompson
Dieter Rams
Gruber last week and this week
Evans Hankey & Alan Dye
May-Li Khoe's tweet
Love, Death, & Robots ("Zima Blue" is the episode mentioned)
#askatp:
How does the Overcast recommendation engine work? (via Markus Ernst)
What's the best way to enter "the zone" while programming? (via Paul Wood III)
What happens to Overcast/Vignette/ATP/etc when we pass? (via Leon Zandman)
Independence #55: The Single Point of Failure
Post-show: John's Rubbermaid #1971 spatula
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Jun 27, 2019 • 1h 50min
332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt
Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy
Follow-up:
Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple
macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link)
Marco's spirit walk
AirPods
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Powerbeats Pro
Tavern puzzle
Sony WH1000XM3
Rumored 16" MacBook Pro
#askatp:
Would Apple re-implement Target Display Mode on the 5K iMac? (via Jack Frydai)
Target Disk Mode
What software does Marco use to manage servers? (via Chris Hubbard)
What do we think about people listening at higher speeds than 1x? (via Jospeh Dijkstra)
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Jun 20, 2019 • 1h 51min
331: The Technical Burden of Users
Follow-up:
Mac Pro vent design
New Yorker article
Apple Reverses Course on MDM & Parental Control Apps
Apple tightens up rules for enterprise app certificates
iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs
Marco's tweets 1 2 3
Benjamin Herrin's findings
application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
UIDevice
Mac Pro
FPGA
The Talk Show #254: Live from WWDC 2019
Mac Power Users #485: WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager
Pro Display XDR
Sign in With Apple
An aside about Overcast and user data
#askatp:
What do we think about mouse pads? (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
MUG
HardOCP (it was the Ratpadz GS)
CS Hyde C4-NGen
Buying an old-generation MacBook Air as new today? (via Jon Schwenn)
How were the WWDC box lunches this year? (via many, including Tim Schmitz)
SoFa Market
San Pedro Square
Mango Tango
Post-show: Marco's anticipated summer of fun
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Jun 13, 2019 • 2h 1min
330: A Rotation You Can’t Complete
Pre-show: root's wheel group (more)
Marco comes to terms with Swift
John's preposterous Safari Extension
Follow-up:
ASCII art apps
Mac: Monodraw
Web: ASCII Flow
Blending stump is a lasso tool
"Sim" game series
Transport Tycoon
100 WWDC features that may have gone unnoticed
WWDC favorites a week on
Combine Framework
SwiftUI
UICollectionView Compositional Layout
Mac Pro
APFS and Catalina
Casey's SSD
Mac Pro
Pegasus enclosures
Tim/Jony hole/lattice design conversation
G4 Cube
Userspace drivers
AppStories #114: Craig Federighi: The AppStories Interview
FUSE
#askatp:
How to choose a macro lens? (via Colton Belfils)
The Digital Picture
What should one do to protect old computers? (via James Andrews)
How does Marco treat Tesla's "Autopilot"? (via Krystian)
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Jun 4, 2019 • 1h 28min
329: Mac Pro Day
Our live show from WWDC 2019!
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Balmuda Toaster
May 30, 2019 • 2h 2min
328: The Pixel Stump
Follow-up:
Explaining Code using ASCII Art
iFixit's New MBP Teardown
Apple Watch Independence
_'s Watch Usage Chart
Apple Watch Designer Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Decrypted: Conversation with Phillip Shoemaker
Previously about Shoemaker: Apple's App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps
macOS 10.15's System Partition
System Integrity Protection
New iPod touch
Guilherme Rambo's Screenshot Leaks
iOS 13
Blending Stump
macOS 10.15
Apple Pro Display
Pontificating about the Mac Pro
...oh yeah and some other WWDC stuff.
Post-show: What's owning a 10-year computer really like?
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May 23, 2019 • 1h 57min
327: Better Late Than Wrong
Follow-up:
"Interactive version control" comic
"Preview for video"
Videoloupe (via Matthew Schaffer)
LumaFX
Perfect Horizon (via Jan Östlund)
Telestream Switch+
Vignette (App Store Link)
Analog(ue) #157: I Just Want People to Like My Stuff
MacStories
Cult of Mac
9to5Mac
TechCrunch
GIFWrapped
Independence
Marco's AirPlay 2 "Greycation"
AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer
Castro
Playdate
Firewatch
Untitled Goose Game
Cabel Sasser's XOXO 2013 talk
Teenage Engineering OP-1
Apple's Refreshed MacBook Pros
Gruber's take
Post-show:
Marco's editing suite
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May 16, 2019 • 2h 12min
326: Blow Your Redo Stack
Pre-show: Bug-out bags and disaster planning
Casey's Go Pack
Northeast blackout of 2003
Casey's fantasy generator
Follow-up:
THANK YOU for buying T-Shirts!
John's "Frame Game"
Apple's fix for the new ZombieLoad Intel CPU exploit
HeartBleed
Steve T-S on macOS 10.15 house-cleaning
Ink
IINA
Booting in 64-bit only mode
#askatp:
Are comments in code a "code smell"? (via Alex White)
SE-0004: Remove ++ and -- operators
How does John rate movies? (via Dan Provost)
John's Letterboxd
What's our WWDC EDC? (via M Roselius)
Chase Reeves' BagWorks and YouTube channel
Peak Design Everyday Backpack
Tom Bihn Synapse 25 and 19
Nomatic Travel Pack
Arktype Dashpack
Casey's Go Pack
Swift Cup Coffee
Tom Bihn Organizer Pouch
RAVPower 45W GaN USB-C charger (Marco's favorite)
Anker 30W GaN USB-C charger or 2-port 60W
Aukey 18W USB-C charger (the 30W GaN version disappeared recently for some reason; if it comes back, get it instead)
Apple USB-C to USB-C charge cable
Apple USB-C to Lightning cable
Post-show:
John's Letterboxd statistics
Casey's forthcoming app
Independence
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