Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 5, 2015 • 1h 32min
107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things
Analog(ue)
Ferrari 488 GTB
488 Seat controls
Follow-up:
Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday)
Being enthusiastic about your "team"
Tesla vs. Top Gear
Tesla vs. The New York Times
Heathrow's self-driving pods (via Michael Luís Brown)
West Virginia University's PRT – more on Wikipedia
One ship pollutes as much as 50M cars (also via Michael Luís Brown)
TED Talk – start at 8:00 (via Nick Thain)
The Guardian on ships' pollution
Tesla's supply chain (via Sam Abuelsamid)
CAN bus
America's Right to Repair Act
BMW ENET cable
Sample OBD2 to Wi-Fi bridge
Expensive BMW app Casey mentioned (iTunes link)
Tim Cook on Apple Watch replacing car keys
BMW Remote app (iTunes link)
Apple's "Spring Forward" Event
12" Retina MacBook Air
Jason Snell on receiving tips
Apple Watch technology page, including Force Touch
Post-show:
Apple Watch Pricing
ATP #82
ATP #83
ATP #84
Veblen Goods
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Feb 27, 2015 • 1h 51min
106: That’s Slightly Right
Follow-up:
Tesla and "customer sat"
Tweet from Elon Musk
Apple's Minivan
Apple Columbus
iPhone prototypes
BMW X7 testing
BMW i3
Apple/Tesla poaching
9to5Mac staff details
9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D
What is Apple building?
Jason Snell at Six Colors
Fortune
Sugar water explained
Triumph of the Nerds
John Sculley recounts getting hired
Steve Jobs on Microsoft
Auto parts suppliers
ZF
Bosch
Harman
Retina MacBook Pro image-retention test
Tesla Roadster & Lotus
Magna Steyr (Wikipedia)
Mazda MX-6 & Ford Probe
Scion FR-S & Subaru BRZ
Mitsubishi 3000GT & Dodge Stealth
Knight Rider 2000
Knight 4000
Super Pursuit Mode KITT
Greeble
Maybe it's not a car after all? Or perhaps they're self-driving?
Tesla Superchargers
Whole-plane parachute
People love their cars
Roderick on the Line
China and manufacturing capacity
Pebble Time
Connected
Post-show:
Marco did his homework
Tesla Model S
Tesla Model S P85D Review
Interior picture
Insane mode launches video
Rock 'n' Rollercoaster
Range calculator
Charge time calculator
Superchargers map
PlugShare
BMW Performance Driving School
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Feb 20, 2015 • 1h 46min
105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?
Follow-up:
Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync?
Trailers App?
Keyboard Shortcuts?
React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak
Apple making a car?
Neutral
CarPlay
9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D
Wall Street Journal
Tesla
GM EV1
Nissan Leaf
Mr. Fusion
Flux Capacitor
Neutral on car UIs
BMW iDrive
Saab
Saturn
Mitsubishi
Volkswagen Service Bus
Volkswagen R32
MyFord Touch
Ford Sync
Post-show:
What shape would an Apple car take?
Tesla Model X
Ford Crown Victoria
Smart car
Jony Ive Profile
Leander Kahney's book about Jony Ive
Arguments about what cars are pretty
Toyota Supra
Lexus SC
Lexus GS
BMW M3 (F80)
Acura MDX
Acura RL
2016 Nissan Maxima
Sappy (and thoroughly confused) Nissan Super Bowl commercial
C7 Corvette
2014 Accord
2015 Camry
BMW M5 (E39)
Casey's car
Toyota Avalon
Mazda 6
Picture
BMW i8 video
Tesla Roadster
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Prior toaster episode
This week's toaster
Feb 12, 2015 • 1h 42min
104: Minutiæ
Follow-up
Email to the show's feedback form
What's a toaster oven?
The canonical "Breville"
J'SON
Photos.app does exist!
Jason Snell's Preview
Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links
The Verge's FAQ
Learning to Love Photo Management
Casey's script
Dr. Drang's script
Aperture
Lightroom
Bridge
UXKit
Also in Xcode?
Guy English
New UI Frameworks & Paradigms
Async Display Kit
SMP
React Native
Josh Abernathy's Reaction
Deep dive video
Reveal, the Sherlocked exploded-views app
John's joke retweet
Flipboard's crazy canvas
Copland 2010
Andy Matuschak's thoughts
Ember
Angular
Post show:
Marco GOes on another adventure
Hivelocity
GitHub Camo SSL proxy
Go vs. Nginx benchmark
Titles
LAME
MP3Rage
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Feb 6, 2015 • 2h 17min
103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan
Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition
@dansherson
Will Hains' Video
Jumanji
Inkwell
John's OS X 10.2 Review
Marco hates everyone and their email
FCC and Net Neutrality
Title II
Tom Wheeler
Apple sensor cars
Running Overcast
Linode
Rackspace
Digital Ocean
Kryptos
Vips
ImageMagick
libgd
Family Sharing woes
Family Sharing in John's Yosemite review
Post-show:
More Destiny woes
John's Destiny TV
UI issues
John teases Marco
John's retweet
Toaster judging criteria
Neutral:
Casey drove an M4
Casey not driving an M5 well
The referenced Car and Driver article is on page 24 of the March 2015 issue
Elon Musk's tweet
P85D launch reactions (NSFW)
Cayman GT4
Rear spoiler
New versus old
Maintaining old supercars
Car and Driver Ferrari 355 ownership article appears on page 112 of the March 2015 issue
Ferrari 488
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This week's toaster and John's usual toaster
Hypercritical on toasters and acquiring John's
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Jan 30, 2015 • 1h 37min
102: Marco Is Not a Platform
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson)
Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy
Overcast earnings
Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply
Analog(ue) #16: I Don't Trust Systems
Back to Work
How do you learn a new language?
Casey's blog post
Tour of Go
Stack Overflow
NSHipster
Apple's earnings
Brewster's Millions
Debug #60: Shipping Software
The Talk Show #108: 'Malapros'
Andy Matuschak interview
What's going on with Photos.app?
Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles:
NSConference
Úll
CGP Grey explains the United Kingdom
How to pronounce UK place names
Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt)
Bad Assumptions
Horace Dediu (Asymco) quote
Macalope
Sega VR
Post-show:
Microsoft today
HoloLens
Kinect
Maya
Rocket
Oculus
John's sad TV news
John's TV
Destiny
HUD
HUD Issues
Full House
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Jan 23, 2015 • 1h 39min
101: Big Plastic Finger
Follow-up:
12" MacBook Air
Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
RIP Thunderbolt?
Sessile
Thunderbolt Display
Duo Dock
Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
How do you power it?
WiTricity
Demo video
Artemis/pCell
ATP #61
ATP #62
Back to the Future 2
Reliability Probability
Dr. Drang
Kieran Healy
Network Effect
iPad Pro with an optional stylus?
Paper Pencil
Cosmonaut
CES
Wirecutter highlights
UHD Alliance
CES: Worse Products Through Software
Audio Hijack 3
Screenshot
Workflow
Post-show:
How much is Marco saving by using Go?
WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps
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Jan 16, 2015 • 1h 44min
100: MacBook Shuffle
Pre-show:
🎉 Episode 100 🎉
Hypercritical
Build and Analyze
Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels
Showbot woes (again)
Camel updates
marked
markdown-it
Showbot issue screencap
Follow-up:
Anecdotal evidence of USB usage
Context of the 12" Air discussion
Keynote
Thinness
Jason Becker reminds us of Hypercritical
John's post on thinness
Hypercritical #91
Solving for x
Powering a 12" Air
Troy Gaul's first theory
Troy Gaul's second theory
Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebooks?
Molar
Stampede for iBooks
Are Thunderbolt and Lightning dead? (via Oliver Agar)
What can Apple do to fix reliability issues?
Interview with Andy Matuschak
Marco on The Talk Show
Post-Show Neutral
New NSX
Intro video
New Ford GT
CTS-V
RC F
BMW at CES recap video
C7 Corvette
Ferrari FF
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Jan 9, 2015 • 2h
99: Pop-Up Headlights
Follow-Up:
SSL
In schools & corporations
Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL
SOCKS
Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger)
Marco's Go feed poller update
IDE
Eclipse
Rust
Communicating sequential processes
Apple's Software Quality
Marco's post
Marco's retrospective
Mention on CNBC
Hypercritical #55
Casey's response to Marco
Glenn Fleishman's list
How to write for understanding
Marco laments about software quality in the past
Rumored 12" MacBook Air
PlugBug
Chockenberry on a potential ARM transition
Fat binary
Special thanks to _DavidSmith for finding "bezels" in Hypercritical #22
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Jan 3, 2015 • 2h 8min
98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits
Follow-up:
More on John's windowing strategy
Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
DragThing
Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
Marco (mostly) hates new things again
Node
Go
Python
Generics
C Macros
Operator overloading
Rails
John's thought on Twitter
AnyEvent
libev
libevent
Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts
Core Intuition on Swift
Garbage Collection in Objective-C
Apple Java Bridge
CodeWarrior
Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
App Store Review Guidelines, specifically 5.6
Apple's humorous announcement
Pointy-haired boss
Panic
Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
Tweetbot
The Incident
Space Age
objc.io
phpBB
Post-show
Textshotting
Example from MG Siegler
Example from Farhad Manjoo
WAP
Boar's Head Pancetta
Oxford comma
Examples
When to give up on a language
Node Timers module
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