Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 7, 2016 • 1h 33min
177: Paying for Someone to Blame
Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC
Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV:
MakeMKV
Subler
Plex
Infuse
DS Video
Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts
The TV Database
The Movie Database
Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes
Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients
Edy's vs. Dreyer's vs. Breyer's
iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing
Scrivener Sync
macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files
Dropbox Infinite
Hackintoshes still exist, apparently
Marco's joke RT
Old World ROM
Isopoint Trackbar (more here)
The poor Mac Mini
Motorola Rokr
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE
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Jun 30, 2016 • 1h 23min
176: Yellow Sock Time
Follow-up:
Linus Torvalds on HFS+
See also
IntegrityChecker
chkbit
PAR2 and Parchive
Protecting against bit rot
Mac Toolbox
More on APFS
Space sharing
Time Machine and file/directory clones
FSEvents
Hard links
Atomic clones
TeachText
Snapshots
BackupLoupe
Surprise HDMI CEC follow-up
Logitech Harmony
xkcd on standards
"Screen time" for kids
Transport Tycoon
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Parent involvement with TV for preschoolers
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
Girl Scout Cookies
Talenti Gelato
Ben & Jerry's
Häagen-Dazs
Breyer's
Dreyer's
Blue Bell
Jeni's
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Jun 27, 2016 • 1h 52min
175: Dance Palace
Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder
macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro
/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
The Talk Show Live
Marco's Pictures
Deleting system apps on iOS 10
Search ads using names of other apps
Apple Photos and controller search
Example success
List of strings for Photos search
Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued
Apple File System
WWDC Video
Btrfs
Andrew File System
Unicode
Joel Spolsky on Unicode
ASCII
UTF-16
UTF-8
Latin small letter "e" with acute
Unicode Normalization Forms
Apple Tech Note 1150
HFS+ Unicode Subtleties
Linus Torvalds on HFS+
Shift JIS
Data integrity
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Email and parenting
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Jun 14, 2016 • 1h 45min
174: A Ding in the Room
Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC
Apple WWDC reactions
Keynote video
watchOS Preview
tvOS Preview
The Talk Show #146
macOS Preview
John's tweet about storage optimization
🛎 New filesystem! 🛎
Platforms State of the Union session video (ding around at 1:00:00)
Introducing Apple File System session video
Intel AES
iOS Preview
Home button change in behavior
SiriKit app category support
Mail error message
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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Jun 10, 2016 • 2h 13min
173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections
Follow-up:
No 5K Monitor at WWDC
iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm
macOS in official documentation?
Photo evidence
App Store changes announced this week
Apple's official pages:
Subscription changes
Search ads
Example image
Press interviews with Phil Schiller:
Daring Fireball
The Verge
The Loop
The Telegraph
Under the Radar #31: Today's App Store Announcements
Brent Simmons' request for clarification
People can't see ads
Casey's take on DuckDuckGo
Covariance & contravariance
WWDC Predictions
Upgrade #92: WWDC 2016 Draft
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco changes an opinion
World of Goo
Human Resource Machine
Leuchtturm1917 Pen Loop from Myke's Pencil Hacks
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Jun 2, 2016 • 1h 40min
172: iPhone X
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John's attic
K56Flex vs. X2
Hayes command set
Modem sounds
More on the rumored new MBPs
USB Power Delivery
External Retina Display
Thunderbolt Display
Apple opening Siri
iPhone 7 "tick"?
Apple considered buying Time Warner
Eddy Cue at the Warriors game
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: New Top Gear
Chris Evans
Sabine Schmitz
Simon Pegg
Grand Tour
Extra Gear
Chris Harris
Fifth Gear
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May 26, 2016 • 1h 59min
171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus
Pre-show: ATP Shirts!
BMW M
Marco's illustration
Follow-up:
App Store review times
The Talk Show #154 - Facebook on Your Face
Force quitting apps on Android & iOS
Rumored new MacBook Pro
MacRumors Buying Guide
Optimus Keyboard
Clockwise #138 – You Know What You're Signing Up For
Windows SideShow
Cortex #29 - Dvorak
Magic Keyboard
IBM Model M
PowerBook G4
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Apple Extended Aluminum Keyboard
Apple Extended II
Apple Opening Siri & Developing Echo Rival
Marco's post
Functional High Ground
Phish Meatstick video
Pixel Envy - Meet VocalIQ
Craig Hockenberry on logins
Getting the best from both Apple and Google
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Casey's identity crisis
Google Photos
Connected #92 - My Relationship with the Status Bar
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May 20, 2016 • 1h 53min
170: Casey Beats John, 29–29
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Follow-up:
Foodgate 2016
Yale/Harvard
Bing bans "tech support" ads
Debunking an Apple/podcasting conspiracy theory
App Store approval times
Under the Radar #27
Cabel's tweet
Drinking bird
Google I/O
Keynote
Google Home
Weebles
Google Allo
Ello
Font size interaction demo
Google Duo & Knock Knock
Android N
Vulkan
OpenGL ES
Apple Metal
AMD Mantle
JIT compilation
Multitasking
Instant Apps
OpenDoc
Android Wear 2.0
Graffiti
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Compulsive app quitters
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May 13, 2016 • 2h 20min
169: My Fingers Are Still Moving
Casey's iPhone battery woes
John's drug days in Reconcilable Differences #25: Zarro Droogs
Tesla's In-Car Purchase
BMW N55 AccessPort
BMW Performance Power Kit
Follow-up: Mere-exposure effect
New York Times article on Apple meeting with podcasters
Marco's response
Federico's response
Upgrade #88: Happy Apple Watch Users
Overcast link to relevant segment
Viv & Hound
The difference between Siri and Viv
Knowledge Navigator
Apple ATG
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
New Instagram Icon
A tour of bad food
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May 6, 2016 • 2h 2min
168: Coffee Stops Working
Pre-show:
Our lack of T-shirts
Casey's "Doppelgänger"
Casey's "Doppelgänger's" Twin Brother
Follow-up:
No more WWDC failed-charge issues
Volvo trashes Tesla
SAE Automated Driving Levels
Ejecting volumes in Windows
Overcast quicksync
Unit testing is a Good Thing™
CloudKit JS
CloudKit pros and cons
Quitter
Automatic Social Discipline
RescueTime
Apple is doomed
Apple's Organizational Crossroads
Jason Snell on Apple financing original content
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
John's mom got hacked
Windows XP ad bumper sounds
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