Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 11, 2018 • 2h 1min
256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain
Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement
How it affects WebKit
Raspberry Pi's writeup
Measuring performance ∆
iMac Pro peripherals on eBay
Full set: $1080
Trackpad: $310+
Magic Mouse: $295+
Macintosh TV
Follow-up: Arctic Silver
Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving customer problems
Follow-up: iPhone X screen burn-in
Marco's iMac Pro, one week in
Sony α7R III review
DP Review on the α7R III
Canon 5D Mark IV
#askatp
Would apple delay the Mac Pro for a new CPU architecture? (via Clint)
What does root do that sudo doesn't? (via Bryson)
Sonos One w/ Alexa? (via Jim Andeway)
Post-show:
Baby baby baby
Tyco Typhoon Hovercraft
Typhoon over water
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Jan 4, 2018 • 2h 5min
255: The Thermal Paste Lottery
Apple's battery slowdown PR
Accelerated rollout
The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam
Phone throttling isn't always the issue
iMac Pro thermal throttling
Marco's iMac Pro
Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard
Intel CPU exploit
Speculative execution
Exploits seem to have marketing pages now
macOS fix
Google's simplified summary
Michael Tsai's summary
Wired summary
ARM's statement
Fortune's summary
Heartbleed
#askatp
What if we had to use iOS? (via Aaron Bushnell)
What if we had to use Windows? (via Brandon Butler)
Audacity
What if we didn't have advertisers? (via Mark W)
Post-show: Marco stages an intervention for Casey
Free Agents #34: I Think I Just Got Fired
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Dec 26, 2017 • 2h 25min
254: Hot Box With Knobs
Follow up:
Secure Boot KBase Article
Cabel's screenshot
Women car journalists
From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective
#askatp
Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed)
RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott)
Tiff's OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini
Noctua quiet fan
Soundproofing in our in-home studios (via Joshua Rogers)
Casey's acoustic panels
Marco's SoundTrax Pro acoustic foam and tape
Marco's Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review
Casey's [past] blanket
Microphone pickup patterns (more at Wikipedia)
Marco's microphone recommendation (87A, not 87C!)
Casey's microphone
John's microphone
Marcus dePaula
Sound Devices USBPre 2
iPhone Performance and Battery Age
Reddit post
Panzarino's write-up
Gruber's response
Apple's statement
Marco's tweet
Is Apple Ruining Your Mac's Performance?
Peltier plate for overclocking
iOS and macOS apps as one?
Under the Radar #111: Universal Mac Apps?
John's tweet
UWP
Functional reactive programming
ATP #223: Throw the Fork Away
Chameleon
Post-show: The Grand Tour season 2 review (so far)
Sabine Schmitz
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Dec 20, 2017 • 2h 6min
253: I Think I Ordered One
Follow up:
Jeep Wranglers
iMac Pro RAM upgrades
iMac Pro input devices
Mac Pro will be "upgradeable"
iMac Pro orders
#askatp
Entry-level open-backed headphones (via JD Lewin)
Schiit Fulla 2
Grado SR60e: $80, but uncomfortable
Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro: $225, for treble lovers (250-ohm recommended)
Sennheiser HD 650: $300, for treble haters
Car magazines for kids (via Jeremy Nachman)
Motor Trend on YouTube
Car and Driver
John's observational tweet
Cars from a Woman's Perspective
Do we really need ECC RAM? (via japhisu)
Google study
IBM study
NVIDIA vs. AMD GPUs in Macs
CUDA
More about the iMac Pro
Table of Skylake Xeon workstation processors
T2
Startup Security Utility
Recovery procedure
Post-show Analog(ue): Marco reflects on his interesting phone call
John's autobiography
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Dec 14, 2017 • 1h 56min
252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day
Pre-show Neutral: Casey has car problems
Follow up: Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is apparently bendy
#askatp
Holiday gift ideas
Mophie Qi charger
Casey's 2015 ideas
Casey's 2016 ideas
Fenix LD22 flashlight
Grovemade Qi charger
Briggs & Riley backpack
Zojirushi SM-YAE48 travel mug
ThermoWorks Thermapen Mk4
Casey's Go Pack
Code nostalgia
A not-so-brief interlude about Overcast and feed redirects
sudo
John's black screen of death
ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County
iMac Pro
MKBHD's review
Barefeats' tweet
Cheesegrater upgrade
Post-show: More iMac Pro
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
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Dec 7, 2017 • 2h 19min
251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!
Casey argues for day/month/year instead of year/month/day (ISO 8601)
Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperature
Follow up:
Root bug post was in the dev forums, not the support forums.
Reporting to product-security@apple.com
XProtect and Xplorer
Shell script
iOS keyboard woes and Gboard
John's Touch Bar switch
DragThing
Jony Ive hears your feedback
#askatp
Should we get rid of paper books? (via Josh Keegan)
Will Apple ever make backlit desktop keyboards? (via Craig)
How does dynamic podcast-ad targeting work? (via Prodan Statev)
iOS 11.2 emergency release for December 2 bug
"Month 13 is out of bounds" bug in High Sierra
John's phone is full
Google Photos ad
Sparse bundle
Post-show: Forecast
Quitter
LAME MP3 encoder
Logic Pro X
Cocoa Bindings
Under the Radar #108: Punch-List Mode
Forgotten Towel on Twitter
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Nov 30, 2017 • 2h 29min
250: We’re Doing a Show
Keyboard imprints on laptop screens
Butterfly keyboard
Video of Casey's old ThinkPad 701
Steganography
Marco is no longer case-liss
Jamie Clawson leather skins
Apple Leather Case
dbrand skins
Follow-up: Fingerprint gloves 1 2
Thanksgiving follow-up: What about the Nintendo Switch?
Casey has fun at work
#askatp
Thoughts on Super Mario Odyssey (via Starsasumi)
Robotic vacuum cleaners (via Maroš Žofčin)
Marco's editing approach (via Erik Neu)
High Sierra "root" security issue
Patrick Wardle's investigation
Follow-up
Temporary fix
Original reporting on dev forums
Apple automatic security updates
Actual fix
Fix for the fix
Apple's statement
Gruber's writeup
goto fail;
Silver linings
SMS on the Mac
Post-show:
Casey on Cars
Casey's blog post
Savagegeese
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Nov 21, 2017 • 2h 24min
249: Beehives Full of Bees
Follow up:
iPhone X multitasking gesture
Requesting refunds on AppleCare (via John Himm)
Fake fingerprint stickers
iCloud restores during iPhone X setup
HomePod gets delayed
Upgrade #168: Hail Hydrant
Welcome to Macintosh #14: Hey Siri
Regarding conspiracy theories (#caseywasright)
Jonathan's near-RTFU
Neutral #1: Big, Fat, and Bloated
#askatp
Qi chargers and battery health
Apple's tips
AppleTV remote for AirPower
Apple is both brilliant and... inept?
Jenkins
Tech Thanksgiving
Marco
Marco's Ancient Laptop
Anker stuff
10.5" iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard
Sound Devices (USBPre 2)
Casey
AirPods
CarPlay
MacBook Adorable
GoPro
Apple Watch with LTE
John
AirPods
Apple TV 4K
Sony α6300
Mac Pro
Casey's iPhone X Problems
Keratoconus
Marco's best laptop ever
Buy new or refurbished from Apple, or new from B&H
MacRumors link
Hacker News link
Image-retention test
Anti-reflective coating repairs
Marco on USB-C
Post-show Neutral: Tesla Roadster
Tesla Semi
Targa top
Elon clarifies
Porsche Mission E
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Nov 16, 2017 • 1h 54min
248: Chili Cookoff
Follow up:
Tradespeople and Face ID
Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen
"I got this phone for $50 and it's fine"
Pro-rated AppleCare+
MacBook key repairs
OLED and burn-in
Kbase article (👋🏻, Stephen)
iOS' commentary
iPhone X camera
Joe Rosensteel has thoughts
about portrait mode
Casey notices some failures too
Focos
#askatp
GeForce Now (via Kim Ahlberg)
OnLive
VPNs (via MarcMV)
Encrypt.me
AirPower for Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard
What does "close to the metal" mean? (via Jonathan Bowling, who clarifies his position)
Qi chargers
Mophie disc
RAVPower stand
Studio Neat Material Dock
Elevation Dock
Belkin vs. Mophie
IKEA Qi charger
Grovemade charger
The Verge's iPhone X Review (timestamp link)
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Nov 10, 2017 • 2h 35min
247: A Place to Stick Your Gum
Follow up:
Apple TV 11.2ß makes John happy
Time Machine local snapshots
App Camp for Girls fundraiser
#askatp
iPhone X cases (via Nathan Walls)
Apple Leather Case (Casey bought black)
Impact of Siri's ineptitude (via Kapila Wimalaratne)
Sony A7R III (via Ananda)
Canon 5D Mark IV
iPhone X: The ATP Review
iStockNow
FaceID Security Guide
Post-show: Casey's odd in-flight activities
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