Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 22, 2015 • 1h 52min
127: Not a Cactus in Sight
Pre-follow-up:
Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
Follow-up:
Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter)
Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
Desert Golfing
Alto's Adventure
Prison Architect
Theme Hospital
OpenTTD, the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon
Intel's tick-tock seems to be over
Reddit kerfuffle
CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit?
Hello Internet #43
Rocket #26 and #27
Laurie Voss's two tweets (sorry for the wrong gender pronoun)
Post-show:
More on Reddit
Something Awful Forums
Marco's old coffee shop closed
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Jul 16, 2015 • 1h 32min
126: The Web Kind of Happens to You
Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations
Follow-up:
Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government
Browser choice on iOS
Font safety
TRIM versus over-provisioning
Half Life is available for the Mac
Counterstrike
Team Fortress 2
Markov generator
New iPod Touch
Steve Troughton-Smith notes it's iPod7,1
Matthew Panzarino's speed tests
Metal
App thinning & slicing
iPod Nano
Gruber's take
iPod Shuffle
Post-show:
FCModel
Optimistic locking
SQLite PRAGMAs
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Jul 10, 2015 • 1h 58min
125: A Better Future for Everybody
Follow-up:
Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
Honda Fit cameras
BMW Top View camera
Classical music on Apple Music
Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
Discussion from last episode
First usage from #83
Concept's introduction
Copland 2010
American radio sucks
Safari is the new IE
Nolan's Follow-Up
W3C
canvas
Code Hard or Go Home
CSS4 Selector Test
Current results
CSS Spinner Test
Current results
Microsoft eviscerates their phone business
The frustrating comedy of business speak
A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft
Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8
WebOS
Microsoft Build
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Jul 3, 2015 • 1h 39min
124: The Tyranny of Radio
Follow-up:
Bitcode and portability
Dan Gohman's mailing list post
Google PNaCL
Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2
10.10.4 and TRIM support
Overview
Ars comment thread
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
The comedy of updating hard drive firmware
Apple Music
Beats 1
Serenity Caldwell on Apple Music vs. iTunes Match
Paul Haddad on how to turn off auto-renewal
MUTEMATH article Casey found
Fury Road
Post-show:
The Apple TV ad that mentions CONFIG.SYS
Safari is the new IE will be covered next week
Florida is hot
TSA Pre-Check
Global Entry
Your Daily Lex
Turning This Car Around
Traveling with infants on airplanes
Labyrinth
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Jun 24, 2015 • 1h 27min
123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism
Follow-up:
Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
C data types
Endianness
Data structure alignment
Steve Troughton-Smith
S1 analysis by Chipworks
The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs
Intel Skylake
Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting
Mono's compiler history
Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR"
John, his watch, and his nose
Myke was right again
Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus
Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan
WebKit Content Blockers
Session video with John and Marco
Safari View Controller to kill minibrowsers
GlimmerBlocker
YouTube ad settings
Ad-banner blindness
The ethics of running ad-blockers
AdBlock Plus accepts money from some ad companies whitelisted as Acceptable Ads
John's Reload Button extension for Safari
TRIM) on non-Apple SSDs
New trimforce command in El Capitan
After-show:
Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses.
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Jun 19, 2015 • 1h 42min
122: My Results Were Inconclusive
Follow-up:
John loses leaves his wallet
John on losing his wallet on ATP #121
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet
Marco's Slimmy Wallet
Notes.app runs on CloudKit
The MacBook One and Photos
iOS 9 and QuickType
Casey on iOS 9 Picture-In-Picture
Bitcode
Platforms State of the Union
Change in session description (at the bottom)
John's Swift article
John's tweet about ARM Macs
LLVM Bitcode file format
LLVM IR encoding
LLVM assembly language
Marco on app signing crashes in 2012
vDSP
Autolayout
Launch image storyboards
Developing for future, especially new screen sizes
ClockKit Complications session
Swift 2 and Swift for Linux
Node.js
Pandemic
PR release footers
Python
Java
Go
Rust
PHP
Pebble SDK
WebObjects
Protocol-Oriented Programming at WWDC
Gang of Four Design Patterns
Javascript ES6
C# extension methods
Ruby
Mixin
The future of Swift, and when to dive in
Build & Analyze
Casey's Website
Post-Show:
Language wonks
When do you adopt a new language?
Signs that point to Swift
ARC
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Jun 9, 2015 • 2h 6min
121: Admitted No Wrongdoing
Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:
The keynote presentation
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Natural-language search
Window management
iOS 9
iPad enhancements:
Keyboard navigation gestures
Side-by-side apps
Will these revive iPad sales growth?
New Notes app
Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of
Apple Instant Articles News app
Publisher FAQ
Swift going open-source
watchOS 2.0
Third-party complications
Initial thoughts on the native API
Post-show:
Apple Music announcement
John's Costanza wallet
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Jun 5, 2015 • 2h 7min
120: One Magical Wire
Pre-show:
Weebles Wobble
Casey's temporary setup to mess with John
John starts two new podcasts:
Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann
Robot or Not with Jason Snell
Follow-up:
Apple Watch distance & step count accuracy
Apple Support Document
Jony Ive's promotion
Collateralized debt obligation
John Gruber at Daring Fireball
Chris Bangle
Jeff Williams is Senior Vice President, Operations
Google Photos
Connected
Russell Ivanovic's interesting search results
Canon 5D Mark II
Samsung Galaxy S6 camera
iPhone 6 Camera
Optical image stabilization
Olympus OM-D E-M5 II's 40-megapixel multi-shot mode
Picturelife
Photos.app performance and using it with a keyboard
Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C
Intel product overview
SCSI
WWDC predictions
New York Times claims no Apple TV
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Plex
Ultraviolet
Don Melton's scripts
Sneakers
WarGames
WatchKit SDK semi-announced
John on launchd
Auto Layout
Size Classes
Today's Force Touch API
Pedometer++
Apple M7
Cosmonaut
Post-show:
John has thoughts about Velveeta versus Kraft
Olestra
The relative advantages and disadvantages of fruit (Bosc pears are the best pears)
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Marco's AeroPress Iced Coffee Recipe
Casey's review of the Neat Ice Kit
Simple Syrup Kit behind the scenes
May 29, 2015 • 1h 40min
119: Promoretired
This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl). Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired.
As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode.
Pre-show:
Casey's new mug thanks to @_DavidSmith
Follow-Up:
Showbot woes
Heroku's pricing changes
Erin's MacBook Air
AppleCare+
Synology DS1813+
Apple Watch accuracy whilst running
Acquiring media
Sonarr
Plex
Popcorntime
Keeping up with the Kardashians
HBO Now versus HBO Go
Larry Sanders Show
Oz
The Wire
Sex and the City
The Sopranos
Big Love
Game of Thrones
Girls
Veep
Pebble Time versus the Apple Watch
Christina's Pebble Time review
Christina's Watch
Modern Buckle
Apple Watch native SDK
Marco's post on SDK questions
Casey's post on complications
Weather Line
Glances
Casey:
Settings
Battery
TripIt
Dark Sky
WWDC
Christina:
CityMapper
Battery
Heart Rate
Overcast
TripIt
Authy
Marco:
Settings
Now Playing
Overcast
Activity
Jony Ive's promotion
Stephen Fry
New Yorker profile of Jony Ive
Rene Ritchie's tweet
The Next Web on Alan Dye
9to5 Mac's take
Ben Thompson's take
Taylor Swift
InfoSec Taylor Swift
Fight Club 2
Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
B.J. Novak
Dark Horse
Post-show culinary discussion:
Chili
Cincinnati chili (e.g. Skyline)
Amy's canned chili
Turkey bacon
Ranch dressing
Mac and cheese
Velveeta
On Analog(ue)
Kraft
Barenaked Ladies
Annie's
Nostalgia:
Marco: Steak 'n Shake Frisco Melt
Christina:
Red Lobster
Sonic Drive-In
Chick Fil A
Arby's
Dairy Queen
Casey
John's of Bleecker Street
Postmates
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May 22, 2015 • 1h 56min
118: A Fistful of Apple Watches
Follow-up:
Running with Apple Watch – what if you hurt yourself?
Major Indian retailer Flipkart is going app-only (via @voldyman)
When do apps make sense? When does the web?
Apple Store EasyPay
Cosmodrome by Brianna Wu
RSS vs. blog Twitter accounts
Hypercritical
Marco.org
Liss is More
WatchOS 1.0.1
WWDC
App Camp for Girls Happy Hour – meet us there!
Release Notes #105
Layers
altConf
Hotels
Parc55
Pickwick
Mosser
New Retina MacBook Pro
Barefeats benchmark
Battery life specs
Details
Mistake One with the new MacBook
Joe Cieplinski's response
Marco's Matis Ergo Pro Review
Marco's Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Review
Post-show: Casey gets angry at himself. Very angry. Really angry. Mac Pro episode kind of angry.
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