Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 30, 2018 • 2h 2min
285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House
Follow-up:
The law is complicated
Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
RISC-V
Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
Michael Tsai's summary
Marco's comment
#askatp:
Overflowing portable drives (via Bronwyn Erb)
Casey's Synology primer
When do we replace our computers? (via Chris Tucker Mear)
MacRumors Buyer's Guide
Swift and Copland 2010 (via Rob Mathers)
Copland 2010 revisited
How is the new Dave Matthews Band album? (via Ted Hardy)
Post-show: Neutral
Casey on Cars: Volkswagen Golf R
Blog post
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Jul 26, 2018 • 2h 6min
284: Hotel California Keyboard
Follow-up:
Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
Membranes are for ingress prevention
More from MacRumors
"Subsequent remedial measures"
iFixit particle experiment
Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
The mythical USB-C hub
Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Corrections on the throttling discussion from last week
AltiVec
TDP
RIP hyper-threading
VRM-throttling theory
Apple's official throttling fix
Macworld's tests
Intel Power Gadget
Removed, and then reappears
Intel and the Danger of Integration
Process-Architecture-Optimization model
Itanium
Power Mac G5
#askatp:
Retina screen settings (via Greg Kolodziejczk)
Eye Friendly
What tech opinions do we regret? (via James)
Casey's journey to the Mac
The iPhone: I'll care later
John's pasta-sauce recipe (via James Evans)
Rao's Vodka Sauce
Post-show: The Spanish Italian food inquisition
Lidia's lasagna recipe
The basis for John's "carbonara"
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Jul 19, 2018 • 1h 50min
283: Just Lower Your Standards
Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
iJustine & MKBHD unbox a sealed, 18-year-old iBook G3
Casey Neistat and MKBHD review a Lamborghini
DeMuro's botched video
Follow-up:
Patenting the perpetual motion machine
Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware the Core i9"
Reddit thread
Marco's tweet
Thermal design power
Notebook Check tests the 13"
CPU data sheets:
13": 2017, 2018
15": 2017, 2018
Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:
Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
NPM
CPAN
Semantic Versioning
Camel
What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
Marco's listing
DeMuro's MR2 video
John's listing
Post-show Neutral
Smart Roadster
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Jul 15, 2018 • 2h 12min
282: Not Unreliable Enough
Follow-up:
Distributing Marzipan Apps
Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
The Verge's review
iFixIt reveals key-protecting membranes
Apple's Patent
Keyboard Service Program
Apple T2
Apple A10
Geekbench
Marco's tweet
Leather sleeve
High-end versus luxury
#askatp:
Capturing out-of-warranty hardware (via Ali Shah)
How do I use a 34" monitor? (via Andrew Troup)
Lost picture troubleshooting for Brian Sturm
Post-show: Let's talk about Europe.
Yes, United Kingdom residents, we've seen the video about your ridiculous plugs.
Eurostar
St. Pancras
Gare du Nord
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Jul 2, 2018 • 1h 48min
281: My Private Siri
Home repairs: Window air conditioners
Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
Local snapshots maybe?
Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
A A A A Very Good Song lives on?
Duplicate-file managers:
Gemini 2, also on the App Store (via Gualtiero Frigerio)
Photo Sweeper
Mojave LaunchServices can launch flat-style app bundles
Google Home impresses John
Apple Maps is getting a whole lotta love
Google Maps Moat
Welcome to Joytown
AirPod (and headphone!) rumors
Apple In-Ear Headphones
Sony WH-1000XM2
#askatp
Mojave and autiomatic dark mode (via Ishan Sharma)
tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
Back to the... iOS? (via Scott Nourse)
Citrix Mouse
If the Millennium Falcon was a car, what would it be? (via Brent Billings)
Buick Grand National
Chevrolet El Camino
DeLorean time machine
Post-show: Neutral
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Jun 28, 2018 • 2h 5min
280: Extinction-Level Event
Follow-up:
Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
Adobe is rethinking things
Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
One example of many
The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
A a a a a Very Good Song
Apple launches butterfly-keyboard repair program
Casey's repair strategy
Marco's new 🏖️💻
Looking good, buddy.
Marzipan
Carbon vs. Cocoa
Gus Mueller's take
Becky Hansmeyer asks and then answers what makes a Mac app a Mac app?
#askatp
James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
Robert Barat wants to know about 4K monitor sizes
Bjango's explainer
Will Law is [justifiably] upset
Social Policy
Original Gravity Public House
Good Karma
Post-show: Casey had a falling out with (not of) the Jeep
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Jun 21, 2018 • 1h 49min
279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing
Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
AT&T International Day Pass
Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
cp -c
Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
Carrying case
John's reload extension lives thanks to Isaac Halvorson
ATP appears in WWDC Session 501: Introducing Podcast Analytics! (~11 minutes)
Forecast
MP3 ID3v2 Chapters spec
More on WWDC
Memoji are gender neutral
Password improvements and 1Password
Default Folder X
Xcode 10 no longer compiles 32-bit apps
Office 365 is now in the app store, as with some Adobe stuff.
Panic
Bare Bones
Adobe XD
Metal and eGPUs
#askatp
Slow iOS 12 adoption among teens because of big brother parent? (via Somename)
Are Kindles worth it over iPads for reading? (via Ashely A)
What does the alternate Apple-bought-Bungie universe look like? (via joshhunt)
Marathon
Pathways out of darkness
Post-show: "Casey's" Jeep
IIHS rating
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Jun 14, 2018 • 2h 4min
278: Best Worst Influence
Follow-up:
WWDC Intro Video
It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
A perspective from Jen Simmons
Feminist Frequency
It's Road Trip!
RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross)
APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Leinhart)
How's the iOS 12 beta?
Stereo HomePod pair review
Jeff Foxworthy
Paradigm Atom
Zac Hall provides RTFU 1 2
More on iOS 12
MeasureKit
FaceID & "Alternative Appearance"
macOS 10.14 Mojave: Possibly The John Siracusa Review
Mojave's Dark Mode
Stephen Hackett's article
Notarized apps
Safari
Most favored nation
Using the Safari Extension Builder
#askatp
What are essential Mac apps for novices? (via Rodrigo Palau)
Casey's Mac install checklist
Could iMessage for Android exist? (via Jack Johnson)
Streamed gaming is the new hotness; are consoles going away? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
PlayStation Now
OnLive
GeForce Now
Post-show: Casey quit his job
Casey's blog post
Analog(ue) #134: Running Toward a Better Future
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Jun 5, 2018 • 1h 33min
277: You’re Not a Mac App Yet
We're live from WWDC 2018!
iOS 12
ARKit 2
Siri Shortcuts
Activity reports and App Limits
Notification management
Memoji
watchOS 5
macOS Mojave
John's "pile" metaphor
UIKit apps on Mac
Neutral: The electric-scooter invasion
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May 31, 2018 • 2h 15min
276: Observing a Black Hole
App Camp for Girls fundraiser: Live Near WWDC
iOS 11.4
Messages in the Cloud: Settings → {Your Name} → iCloud → Messages
WWDC
No OS filter
Upgrade #195: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2018
Marco's 🏖️💻 problem
Lavolta Carrying Case for iMac
#askatp
What is the best way to "accidentally" stalk find us at WWDC? (via CW Bennett)
Social Policy
Original Gravity Public House
Layers
How do we maintain multiple development environments? (via Pat Murphy)
Post-show Neutral: Casey is a sad panda
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