Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
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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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May 24, 2018 • 1h 53min
275: It’s Difficult When You’re a Billionaire
Follow-up:
People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco?
Your logical fallacy is...
How old are your ears?
Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out
Cortex #69: Minimum Viable
Tesla and Elon Musk
Grimes, Elon's girlfriend
Top Gear kerfuffle
Elon announces "Pravda"
United Automobile Workers
Who would buy Tesla?
Wheel Bearings #68: Quirky Subarus & Driver Monitors
Magna
Geely
Jaaaaaaaaag-you-are I-Pace
Marco is dabbling with Swift (‼️)
WWDC 2015 #408 – Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
#askatp
Is it important to learn vim or emacs? (via Aaron Robeson)
BBEdit
Is it paranoid to avoid Google? (via Luther Richardson)
DuckDuckGo
Upgrade #194: Game of Jenga with Drivers
What lenses should one get for a Sony α6500? (via Peter Johnson)
Casey's M4/3 Prime
Casey's M4/3 Zoom
LensRentals.com
Post-show Neutral: Marco drove something ridiculous
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May 17, 2018 • 1h 59min
274: Not the Teddy Bear’s Fault
Yanny vs. Laurel
New York Times article
Follow-up:
Raise to listen in 🇨🇳
Google Duplex
Bob Burrough's summary
Matt Drance 1 & 2
Duplex will identify as non-human
First-hand story from retail
Amazon and executive diversity
🤬 Twitter.
Sean Heber
Craig Hockenberry
Connected #193: They Belong to the World Now
Hell banning
Google I/O
Continued conversation
Linux on Chromebooks
Apple Keyboard class action lawsuit
Online petition
Microsoft Surface Hub 2
#askatp
What's Apple's focus? (via Ish Shabazz)
The Talk Show #221: Slathered in Incompetence
Will the new Mac Pro have only USB-C? (via Owl City)
What the future for manuals? (via Adam Roark)
Post-show: Casey's Car Corner
Maserati Levante
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May 10, 2018 • 1h 39min
273: Playing You Like a Video Game
Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X
You should go to Layers
Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Google Duplex
Keynote video
The Verge's 14-minute summary
Ihnatko's take
20 years of USB
iMac Retrospective
SCSI
IRQ
DMA
Sound Blaster
ADB
Jason Snell's Macworld article
#askatp
How do we have Finder configured? (via Kymer)
What do we think about Volvo adopting Google products for their infotainment? (via Andreas Ekegren)
Cartridges/discs or digital downloads for video games? (via Hutson Hayward)
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May 1, 2018 • 1h 55min
272: 60% Satisfied
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Follow-up:
More on 32-bit deprecation
Raise to Listen and phantom audio messages on iPhone X
What about Apple Pay and Siri? (via Andrew Milham)
More about Marzipan
What is left for WWDC?
Apple's rumored AR glasses
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
htmLawed
Content Security Policy
NSURLProtocol
More at NSHipster
#askatp
Apple IDs at work (via Alex Faber)
Camera paranoia (via Ryan Taylor)
Previous hack
CarPlay thoughts (via John)
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Apr 26, 2018 • 1h 35min
271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet
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Follow-up:
Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier?
ATP Interview with Chris Lattner
Marco's backpack woes
Tom Bihn Synapse 25
Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
Marco's Facebook Groups conclusion
NOT A TOUCH SCREEN
Turns out™, Siri sucks
iPhone X Mid-Cycle Performance Review
Safari dark mode?
#askatp
What does Apple gain by ending 32-bit support? (via Jacob Ford)
🙄 Destiny talk 🙄 (blame Juho Leinonen)
What used Wrangler or convertible would we buy with $15k for weekend fun? (via Mike)
Post-show Neutral: Casey's moving violations
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Apr 18, 2018 • 1h 37min
270: Three Major Zippers
Backpacks:
Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
Tom Bihn Synapse 25
Chase Reeves on YouTube and on the web
Tom Bihn Cache
Tom Bihn Cadet & Casey's review
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
The best laptop ever made
Top Four
Robot or Not #128: The Midwest
iPod Nano, 1st Generation
#askatp
What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither ARM nor x86? (via Colin McKellar)
Instruction set architecture (ISA)
IBM System/360
SIMD instructions
Cribbing cooling from the iMac Pro for future not-Pro iMacs (via Scott Nourse)
How would Apple have treated the Mac Pro and Mac Mini in years past? (via Nick Alexander)
Post-show: Topics we don't feel we need to cover
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Apr 13, 2018 • 1h 45min
269: Cooled by Jellyfish
Follow-up:
iPhone throttling notification
macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
Learn More...
ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think it is. Or so we're told. 🤷🏻♂️
The Mac Pro and Apple's Pro Workflow Team
The Homer
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Passively cooled PC tower
#askatp
Coffee gear (via Bosie Mon Crieff and Doggo Boii)
Hand grinders: the skinny one that sucks and the Skerton that sucks less
Marco's pricy Hottop Roaster, Basic
Midrange pick: Behmor 1600 Plus
Entry-level pick: Use an air popper
Fancy instant coffees:
Sudden Coffee (most convenient)
Swift Cup (best tasting)
Viola Coffee (smallest to pack)
Baratza Virtuoso grinder
Brewing methods:
AeroPress for small amounts
Hario V60 size 03 pour-over for larger amounts
Oxo cold-brew maker (not mentioned in the show, but good for cold-brew)
Which TiVo should one use? (via Bryce Mintie)
Which clipboard manager? (via KG)
Casey uses Alfred
Marco uses LaunchBar
John uses Pastebot
Previously: Jumpcut
Post-show
Around the Corner
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Apr 5, 2018 • 1h 58min
268: A Tarnished Brass Age
Follow-up:
HAM radio and GMRS licenses
New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
Education feedback
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Pulsating help prompts
iCloud's free storage
Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
Mophie base
Casey's car charger
ProClip (Marco's fancy mount)
Qi charging bad for batteries?
Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
ATPTipster: "bug multiplier"
Rocket app
#askatp
Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
Post-show Neutral:
BMW's subscription service
Volvo XC40 subscription
Porsche Passport
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Mar 31, 2018 • 1h 36min
267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals
Pre-show: Marco's road trip
Sudden Coffee
Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
Keyboard
Mouse
Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's education event
Joe Cieplinksi on Twitter
The new 9.7" iPad
Logitech Crayon
#askatp
Best bang-for-your-buck Apple products (via Chris Ovrebo)
Musical ATP hosts (via Anson Jablinski)
Backpacks for 15" MBP (via "The Italian Stallion" (not John))
Casey:
Tom Bihn Cadet
Tom Bihn Synapse
Marco:
Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
Waterfield Designs Staad
Briggs & Reilly Accelerate VP375-4
John:
L.L. Bean Quad Pack
Packing cubes
Eagle Creek Specter Tech compression cubes
Tom Bihn packing cubes
Casey's Go Pack
Post-show: Impossible feats of packing by "Underscore" David Smith
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