Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 23, 2018 • 2h 10min
266: Text Adventure Mode
Follow-up:
Compound commands in cylinders
You shut down your computer because of a problem...
GDPR
Personal data
PCI
HIPAA
This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn...
Apple is developing its own display tech
MicroLED
Marco's image retention test
Hide in this closet!
Microdrive
#askatp
What's the deal with gaming consoles and "bits"? (via Simon Ejsing)
SIMD
FLOPS
Cell processor
The Last of Us
nVidia Tegra X1
Nintendo survey
What's the deal with sports? (via Johnny O)
What's the deal with Instagram? (via TT On Air)
Reconcilable Differences
Post-show Neutral
Jaguar iPace
Cars of Ronin
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Mar 15, 2018 • 2h 8min
265: Simon Says Volume Five
Follow-up:
Onboarding and GDPR
GDPR for web developers
Slack 💔 IRC
Alexa can solicit follow-up
Siri drama at The Information
Daring Fireball writeup
Crumb-proof keyboards
MacBook Air refresh?
The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia
MacBook fantasies
Casey's USB-C → SD Card Reader
Anker USB-C charger
WWDC 2018 announced
ATP Live
Relay FM Live
AltConf
Layers
John's tweet
Apple acquires Texture
Zinio
#askatp
Migrations between Macs (via Matt Wallin)
Polite language in user interfaces (via Bill Balinor)
Apple dialog
Video game completionists (via Chad Toporski)
Post-show: Do working developers need to know the "fundamentals"?
Mike Ash
Big O notation
Crash Course Computer Science
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Mar 7, 2018 • 1h 52min
264: Every Building Has Bugs
Follow-up:
Laptop arrow keys
Dell's abomination
Erin and Alexa
Onboard all the things
What's New in Clock
Cambrian explosion
Telestrator
Apple Park is hazardous
#askatp
Automotive windowing strategies (via Vamsi)
Slack on Mac vs. IRC (via Peter Gosling)
Connecting to Slack via IRC
Colloquy
Textual
The Halting Problem (via Juan Pablo Rodríguez)
John's original tweet
Fork bomb
Post-show Neutral: What car would we pick for our other hosts?
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Mar 1, 2018 • 1h 34min
263: Old Potato
Follow-up:
John is on NoMAD
Active Directory
Jamf's blog post
Casey adopts a new child
Timber
Fireball
AnyList
Nexia
AOL Instant Messenger handles
ICQ
Vulkan is coming to macOS
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Metal
Apple's dual-display patent
ATP #193: The Escape Zone
#asktiff
Nintendo Switch
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Alto's Odyssey
iMac Pro
Shadow Complex
Pusheen Box
#askatp
Max out ❤️ or 🍩? (via Jimmy Bosse)
👾 nostalgia (via Brian Middleton)
Skee-Ball
Street Fighter II
Cruis'n USA
Hyrdo Thunder
Space Invaders
Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Galaga
Centipede
Missile Command
Gauntlet
The Rundown
📷 for beginners (via Simon Tännler)
Jamie Beck
Erin Brooks
Benoit Paille
Post-show: Playing for Fun
The Long Dark
Celeste
Sam and Ross Like Things
Guest-starring Tiffany Arment!
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Feb 24, 2018 • 1h 53min
262: A Clear Path to Okayness
Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions
Analog(ue) #126: I Love You So Much; This is Infuriating
GIFwrapped
Slopes
Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business
Sonos and wood
Who has a HomePod?
Echo Spot
Google Home Mini
Doubting Apple
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
Creative Nomad
Siri
The Talk Show #215: The "Press Real Hard" Era
Apple pumps the brakes
Six Colors 2017 report card
Steven Sinofsky tweets: 28, 31, 32, End
#askatp
Modular Mac Pro saves the Mac Mini? (via Barton Meeks)
Why should one avoid monkeying with framerates? (via Alastair Campbell)
MakeMKV
How do you preserve ebooks? (via Benjamin Esham)
Calibre
Post-show: Post-show Neutral: Car buying challenge
BMW M5
Audi A7
BMW M2
Porsche Cayman
BMW M235i
Porsche Panamera
Porsche Mission E
Tesla Supercharger
Mazda6
Ferrari 488
Ferrari 458
Ferrari F430
AMG E 63
ATP #231: I Am Not a Salad Power User
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Feb 16, 2018 • 1h 48min
261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage
Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout
Follow-up:
Battery feedback: 1, 2, 3
Casey's boneheaded mistake
Marco's grocery-list apps
Clear
HomePods put a ring on it
Apple: Cleaning and taking care of HomePod
Welcome to Macintosh #18: If It's Broke, Don't Fix It
Reddit audiophile review
David Pogue's blind test
Waze
CarPlay
Valentine 1
#askatp
Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
What's the deal with Leica cameras?
Marco's M9 review
Post-show: Parenting
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Feb 9, 2018 • 1h 56min
260: The Todoyist Problem
Follow-up:
Is throttling old phones really better?
Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers?
Raspberri Pi music player update
Plastic Player
Mini NES Console
Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it.
Connected #179: The Tiny Head Pandemic
Sam Eckert gets a phone call from App Review
Bittracker later gets approved with emoji
Marco's to-do app spirit walk
Taskpaper
Due
AnyList
Clear
Todoist
Omnifocus
Things
Fantastical
Calculator Construction Set
#askatp
Does Casey miss C#/.NET?
Single vs. multithreading
Embarrassingly parallel
Meditation
Post-show:
Baby update
Tito's Homemade Vodka
This is Us
Funny tweet about This Is Us
Casey's Car Corner
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Feb 1, 2018 • 2h 12min
259: I Hired Myself
Who ordered a HomePod?
Query #23: Hands-on with the HomePod
iPod Hi-Fi
iMore HomePod FAQ
Casey orders an Ethernet adapter
USB-C Ethernet Adapter
USB-C HDMI Dongle
Amazon Locker
Forthcoming replacement
Casey's Mac "app"
Casey's photo management workflow
Dr. Drang's photo scripts
Casey's scripts
OperationQueue
Marco's secret project
ATP #231: I Am Not a Salad Power User
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Raspbian
MPD
HiFiBerry
Turn Touch
netcat
#askatp
Long-term file storage
M-Disc
AAA games for iOS/tvOS (via Lewis Thompson)
Post-show: Casey on Cars Episode 2: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti
Blog post
Video
Analog #125
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Jan 25, 2018 • 1h 36min
258: Non-Beta Data
Follow up: Battery replacement reticence
iOS 11.3 battery health messaging
macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan
HomePod preorders and ship date announced
Some interaction tidbits
iOS 11.3 preview
Bohemian Rhapsody Animoji Karaoke
Jason Snell's wishful thinking
tvOS 11.3
macOS 10.13.4 and the end of 32-bit
#askatp
Unifying 3D Touch and long presses (via Todd Vaziri)
What is AirPlay 2? (via Alex)
WWDC 2017 Session
John's spines (via Andrew Lymn-Penning)
Post-show: BMW are money-grubbing jerks
Gruber's clarification
CarPlay availability
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Jan 18, 2018 • 1h 36min
257: Smell the Wind
Casey and Erin had a baby!
John's first and second dad comics
Casey's photo management workflow
Follow-up: Europe's black Mac
PCalc About screen, revver of fans
ARM Windows PCs
Windows RT
MacBook "Adorable"
Upgrade #168: Hail Hydrant
Marco's observational tweet about iPads
TripMode
MessagePad
Windows 10 Sets
MDI
Copland 2010
Apple Bionic
Google Fushcia
Old school error numbers
#askatp
Non-Pro iMac upgrade cadence (via Erik Berlin)
John's 🧀 grater (via Andy Hume)
Messages in iCloud (via Kurt)
Post-show: A gift for Casey
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