Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Feb 17, 2016 • 1h 28min
157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible
Follow-up:
iPad signatures
My Briefcase
Microsoft Bob
Maniac Mansion
Bluetooth-headphone video latency
Casey's headphones
John's tweet
Possible explanation from Myles M.
Potential Apple Car ECU
Wind River
Wind River in space
Adobe bug deletes Backblaze folder
Creative Cloud
Sandboxing on the Mac
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on The Talk Show
Craig Federighi's prior appearance
Phil Schiller's appearance
Mossberg article on Apple's app quality
Figma's Vector Networks
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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Feb 12, 2016 • 1h 45min
156: A Mac on Fire
Follow-up:
Previous-episode feedback and constructive criticism
Einstein's quote
Photos.app crop/aspect behavior theories
Keyboard shortcuts
Bluetoot (©MerlinCo 2011) headphone dongle concept
TDK Boombox
AGPtek Bluetooth to headphone converter
Modern equivalent
Sennheiser MM 400-X, Marco's pick for portable Bluetooth podcast listening
Arctic P311, Casey's pick for inexpensive Bluetooth headphones
Casey's new job
The Life, by John Gruber
Memberwise Initialization in Swift
Casey briefly tries using an iPad full-time
PDFPen
Myke on the iPad Pro
Firewatch
Campo Santo
Panic
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Steam
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Feb 5, 2016 • 1h 47min
155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original
Follow-up:
Serial numbers on serviced Mac logic boards
Long-distance wireless charging
Artemis
Shared iPad developer guidelines
Walt Mossberg discovers the functional high ground
Jim Dalrymple weighs in
John Gruber weighs in
Apple app design
Marco's piece from last year
Photos.app UI design
Microsoft Word toolbars
Apple TV UI design
Hockey-puck mouse
Rene Ritchie on fixing the remote
Operation
Why are we so critical of Apple?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post show: The state of Apple hardware
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Jan 29, 2016 • 1h 34min
154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy
Follow-up:
Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking
Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility
Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable?
John's Destiny Heads-Up Display
HDR
Panasonic P55VT60
Pirate Eye Patches
Quirks & Quarks Podcast
Red lights & astronomy
VESA mount iMac serial numbers
Apple Earnings
More graphs from Kieran Healy
iPod graph
Trucks vs. Cars
El Camino
Subaru Baja
Subaru Brat
All-product-lines performance graph (Posted after the show by Kieran Healy)
Will the next iPhone be waterproof?
Craig Hockenberry on waterproofing in the Apple Watch
Post-show: Inductive iPhone charging
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Jan 22, 2016 • 1h 40min
153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures
Pre-Show: Winter weather
The Long Dark
Memory barrier
Pirate eye patches
Follow-up:
Protocol extensions
Testing NSURLSession with Swift
Studies on blue light and sleep quality
National Center for Biotechnology Information (via @technorav)
Harvard
The shade of blue
Casey's iMac
Where is the iMac Serial Number?
Casey's desk
DragThing
John on the Dock (redux)
iAd App Network Discontinued
Overview from Michael Tsai
Under the Radar
New Apple music apps
Garage Band update
Music Memos
Serenity Caldwell's review
Connected #74
iOS limitations vs. powerful Mac hacks
Loopback
Audio Hijack
Canvas
Fraser Spiers on how it's recorded & edited
Call Recorder for Skype
Jason's noise plugin, iZotope RX
Audiobus
Marco on the expandable MD101LL/A
Post-show:
Marco jailbrakes two phones
batteryLevel
Modern Cydia screenshot
SBSettings
Saltines vs. Wheat Thins
TrumpScript
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Jan 14, 2016 • 1h 54min
152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card
Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next.
Plex vs. Infuse
Mac Power Users on Plex
Casey's blog post
Follow-up:
Swift and default final
Mocks
C#'s treatment (via @neilcronin)
Objective-C's equivalent hack
Rust vs. Swift vs. Go
MagSafe vs. USB-C
UpThere
Little Snitch's tweet
Crashlytics adds a theory
UpThere's Confirmation
Apple TV Tech Talk
iOS 9.3
WiFi Assist Update
f.lux Night Shift
PNAS study (PDF)
iPads in the classroom
Connected with Fraser Speirs
Post-show: Wheel of iMacs
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Jan 8, 2016 • 1h 43min
151: The Opposite of Final
Follow-up:
UpThere
AWS
Little Snitch
Upthere's response
EC2
iPhone 7 Headphone Jack
New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One
Griffin "MagSafe"
Hyper USB-C Hub
CES
E3
Swift Code of Conduct
linux-kernel mailing list
Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post
Swift proposal for default final
Method swizzling
Jordan Rose
What does Swift mean for Go and Rust?
Post-show grab bag:
RIP WebObjects?
Chevy Bolt
Faraday FFZero1
Mechanical "Apple Watch"
Space Black Milanese
Tag Heuer Connected
Flip camera
FitBit Blaze
Withings Activité Steel
Internet of Things
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Armada
Ready Player One
Ready Player One on the Incomparable
Dec 31, 2015 • 1h 55min
150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot
Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
Casey gets a new Apple TV
Plex
Harmy's Despecialized Editions
Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
Apple SIM
Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS
Cintiq
What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
Marco — Apple TV: get better
Nilay Patel's piece at The Verge
O'Reilly Polar Bear Book
Guy English
Casey — App Store: get better
John — Mac Pro: get newer
...and a new 5K Cinema Display
Marco — Finish the Retina transition
Casey — Swift on the server
Taylor
Perfect
John — New filesystem (🔔)
Marco — Apple Watch: get better
Casey's recent re-review
The Upgradies
Casey — Unification of the package management
Swift package manager
CocoaPods
Carthage
John — Apple Pencil for non-Pro iPads
Marco — iPad Pro: get better
...and an Instagram app for iPad
Bonus: iPhone 7 wishes
More milliamp hours in the battery
More secure feeling in the hand
Casey — iPhone battery: get better
John — OLED screens in iPhones
Bonus: non-curved OLED TVs with best-in-class picture quality
Bonus: TV stations: stop with the logo bugs
Marco — Apple: show more focus
John — squash more bugs
Post-show:
Fantasy Macs
John G4 review
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Dec 24, 2015 • 1h 54min
149: Everyone’s on Vacation
Casey's reconciled differences
Three truths and a lie
Marco experiments with his website
Second Crack
CentOS
Under the Radar
Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop
Phil Schiller takes over the App Store
Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only)
Apache Mesos
Les Moonves
CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple
Riccio's quote
John Gruber and Phil Schiller on The Talk Show
Upthere
Bertrand Serlet
Cloud to Butt
Post-show:
Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla
The great bagel dispute
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Dec 18, 2015 • 1h 54min
148: Your Feelings Are Real
Follow-up:
Green shifting (see also)
Continuous release schedules
Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version
iPhone 7 battery theories
4-inch iPhone 6S predictions
Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case
Marco's slim battery brick
Negativity about Apple
Apple TV App Store challenges
Ctrl-Walt-Delete: A Cycle of Despair
BMW X6M
Swift Open Sourcing
The Talk Show #139
Chris Lattner's tongue-in-cheek tweet
First non-Lattner commit
Lattner's reply
Apache 2 License patent grant
Package manager
Code owners
Homebrew
Max Howell's snarky tweet
swift-evolution
Erica Sadun's blog
Mailing list
Links to tweets in Swift source (via Danny Greg)
Post-show Neutral:
Casey drives a Tesla Model S
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