Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 55min
295: Outlets That Suck
Watch pontification
Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's story on Chinese spy chips
Upgrade #214: Nobody Seems to Know Anything
Joe Fitzpatrick on his interview with Bloomberg
#askatp
Storyboards for iOS development? (via Bastian Inuk)
CompactConstraint
Visual Format Lanuage
IBDesignable
What's the worse compromise: Fusion Drive or hybrid cars? (via Spencer Wohlers)
Do we enjoy racing games? (via Marc-André Weibezahn)
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Wipeout
Carmageddon
Wave Race 64
Wave Race: Blue Storm
F-Zero
Cruisin USA
Hydro Thunder
Super Sprint
Ddaytona USA
Post-show: RIP manual transmissions?
300whp MR2
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Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 53min
294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever
The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
Apple PR post
iOS 12.1 wrap-up
Lender's bagels
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
Apple Watch fall detection is only on by default for people at least 65 years old
Critiquing others' work
Ken Kocienda's original tweet
Linda Dong's reply thread (first post)
Mojave
ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event
Hazeover
Steve Troughton-Smith's take on Marzipan
#askatp
How do I protect from ⚡? (via David Brownman)
Trip Lite Isobar 2
Should I buy a 🎾 or a 📷? (via Matt Taylor)
Olympus O-MD E-M10
The botany of filesystems (via Benjamin Jex)
Post-show: Casey dabbles with a drone
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Sep 27, 2018 • 2h 10min
293: You Know My Pouches
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Lattner interview
iPhone 🎾 is fast
The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
Our Marco & John's new toys
John's pouch
John's toasters
Tiff in portrait mode
Casey's watch try-on
Upgrade #212: The Chocolate Phone is No Good
Carrot Weather
Marco's Utility watch face
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Relay B-Sides #36: Creative Selection
Becoming Steve Jobs
On the Firing Line by Gil Amelio
Debug
Post-show: Marco's ocean status
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Sep 20, 2018 • 1h 52min
292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
Dead man's switch
50% faster tessellation... maybe?
Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
Gruber's iPhone review
Gruber's Watch review
No landscape home screens on XR/XS Max
What did we order?
John is clairvoyant
Nomos Minimatik
Testing HomePod's multiple named timers
Overcast 5
Under the Radar #141: Implementing Search
Post-show Casey on Cars: 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Autobahn
Video
Blog post
Notes from suggestions:
180º rule
180º rule, visualized
30º rule
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Sep 13, 2018 • 2h 24min
291: John’s Special Day
Follow-up:
Nokia phone with five cameras
We're doing five blades
Phil: "muhmoji"
Apple's September Event
Leaked names
Tim's tweet
Apple Watch
Casey's wrist
Ben Bajarin's picture
Another side-by-side
Thinner... ish?
Side view
Apple's image
Dear Apple video
64-bit with 32-bit pointers?
iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
Todd's tweet
Steve Troughton-Smith's tweet
AirPower?
HomePod & tvOS
Post-show: John's special day
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Sep 6, 2018 • 2h 21min
290: A Weird Sandwich
Follow-up:
AirPrint on old printers
handyPrint
Printopia
Printer Pro
Eero competitors and privacy
iPhone preorder PSA
iPhone "XS" marketing image found
ATP #1: iPhone Plus
Naked Robotic Core
Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
#askatp:
Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
Programmer's switch
Post-show Neutral: Casey's walk of shame... but also pride.
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Aug 30, 2018 • 2h 11min
289: Everybody’s in the Alliance
Follow-up:
MoCA and MoCA Bridge
Hades Canyon NUCs
Engadget Video Review
Snell's NUC article
Anandtech
The AirPort Express lives!
Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
DD-WRT
Tomato
WRT54G
Phil Schiller flies
Panzer's tweet
iPhone mockups preview
iPhone SE 2?
Upgrade #208: The Villain of the Macintosh
#askatp:
Why run both Plex and Infuse? (via Adam Porter)
Why are Apple's ARM chips so much faster than their competitors? (via Will Faught)
What's your home printer setup? (via Mark Igloliorte)
Lexmark Optra S 1625
PC Magazine, 26 May, 1998
HP Laserjet Pro M281fdw All in One Wireless Color Laser Printer, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready (T6B82A)
Canon Pixma MX870 Wireless
Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500
Epson Workforce WF-7710
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M553dn
Apple's compatibility list
🐪🐪🐪
Post-show:
John's 🐝
Casey's Car Conundrum
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Aug 23, 2018 • 1h 57min
288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi
Follow-up:
Photo books → PDF (File → Export → Export Book as PDF → ☑️ Production PDF)
Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
This American Life
Low-end Mac rumors
Intel NUC
Mac Mini ports
Plex
Infuse
Gruber's take on the MacBook Air
#askatp:
Long-distance Wi-Fi
OLED TVs
Marco's TV
Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
Top Gear's overview
Porsche Taycan
Small electric cars:
Chevy Bolt
Volkswagen e-Golf
Kia Soul EV
Prius Prime
Nissan Leaf
Post-show: John's 🐝
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Aug 16, 2018 • 2h 8min
287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich
Follow-up:
Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
Finding the settings
Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
Backblaze
Data retention
Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
Dock auto-hide delay
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
Marco reviews his 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Disabling Turbo Boost
Cortex #72: Adulting Complete
Playing for Fun
Startech DKT30CSDHPDStarTech.com USB-C Multiport Adapter 2xUSB 3.0/HDMI/SD/Gigabit Ethernet with Power Delivery (USB PD) USB-C Docking Station
Smoothed edge
Fall laptop predictions
#askatp:
Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
Squarespace
Libsyn
Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
Which macOS feature gets 🌆 first? (via Marc Edwards)
Konfabulator
Graphing calculator story
Post-show: 🐝
Yellow stripey things
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Aug 9, 2018 • 1h 56min
286: I Respect a Good Crust
Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
CrashPlan, John, and Java
java mx
java mx {newNumber}m
SpiderOak
BackBlaze
BackBlaze B2
Arq
John's Photo books
DiskInventoryX
DaisyDisk
Photo printer's extension
AMD and TSMC and 7nm
DigitalFoundry on the Intel Core i9 9900K
Some Neutral FU about the Golf R
Apple removes Infowars propoganda from its podcast directory
Marco started it
Gruber investigates
@jack's tweetstorm
Compulsory xkcd comic
#askatp:
Dock strategies (via Fabian Diehm)
Sleep strategies (via Cecil Scheib)
Transmission strategies (via Thomas Brock)
Post-show Neutral: Tesla screws up a good thing
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