Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 26, 2014 β’ 1h 27min
97: You Have to Know When to Stop
Follow-Up:
Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey)
Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs
Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately
Marco expands his horizons
POODLE attack
cURL
SSL/TLS
Node.js
supervisord
beanstalkd
curl-multi
camo
Heroku
memcached
nginx
JavaScript prototypes
Pentium Pro
V8 Engine
setTimeout()
Go
NSURLSession
MacMiniColo
Linode
Zend Framework
Hack
HHVM
CloudKit
Holidays as the family tech support expert
Fill Your TV
DiskWarrior
Communication Pyramid
Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci
Casey's Review (posted after this show was recorded)
Analog(ue)
Synology NAS Devices
Post-show:
Holiday equipment physical inspections
Hopscotch
Turing completeness
Be sure to turn on relatives' iCloud Backups
John's etiquitte guide to real-time tweeting to podcast hosts while listening
Yes, John knows you can copy to the clipboard from Google Authenticator
IRLTalk
Hopscotch achieves Turing completeness
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Dec 19, 2014 β’ 2h 24min
96: The Windows of Siracusa County
Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience
Follow-up:
App Store Woes
Panic's Transmit woes reversed
DragonDrop
Timebar
Launcher
Crossy Road financials
PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_)
Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast)
However, rollout will be staggered
Sleazy Twitter app scans
Nick Arnott corrects Marco
Christmas comes early for John, perhaps because of Romain Moisescot
Pastebot (RIP)
Microsoft Acquires Hockey App
Azure Mobile Services
Should HTTP or HTTPS be the default browser state?
HTTPS Everywhere
Eric Schmidt is confused, as usual
Finally, a very special after-show, starting with John missing WindowShade (image).
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Dec 11, 2014 β’ 1h 52min
95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You
Follow-Up:
Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.)
Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response
Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps
This week's App Store drama
The phone call to Launcher's developer
Apple's questionable decisions recently
Friction within Apple?
Stratechery: App Store Anguish, Old Apple's Last Stand, Time for a Change? (membership required)
Obligations to maintain your apps
Why Casey discontinued Fast Text
Open-source time commitments
Casey's Accidentalbot and Camel
John's CPAN modules
Marco's FCModel and BugshotKit
Post-show:
John has some opinions on his PS4 so far.
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Dec 5, 2014 β’ 1h 41min
94: Spirited Defense of Pong
Follow-Up:
Casey clears up his car intentions
Golf R Wagon/Estate
Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
App Store Rule 5.6
Paul Haddad's Idea
Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
One, two, three, four
PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha
Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating?
Well, maybe...
Final Draft
John August's Scripnotes Podcast
Quark XPress
Logic Pro X
Hindenburg (Why the name "Hindenburg"?)
Fog Creek Copilot
Core Intuition on App Windfalls
Game monetization and Crossy Road
Frogger
Team Fortress 2
Clash of Clans
The danger of Touch ID for sleeping parents
Post-show:
Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
(John's son dominates Jason Snell)
More on profitability (AppFigures)
Desert Golfing
Up Up Down Down Interview
Frog Fractions
Scorched Earth
Super Gravitron
Super Hexagon
VVVVVV
Threes!
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Nov 26, 2014 β’ 1h 38min
93: Iβm Not Running a Boarding House Here
Follow-up:
Correction on battery increases year over year
Hypercritical #74
Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
Palm V
IIS on !Windows
Kestrel
libuv
nginx
Scott Hanselman's summary
Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does
Homescreens
Some people like them empty
Group homescreen shaming
#Homescreen and the top apps
John
Marco
Casey
Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
Tumblr Backup
Chameleon
Overcast iPad
Core Intuition
Pod Wrangler Mac
Post-show Neutral:
VW Golf R
Autoblog photos
Interior photo
Flat-bottomed steering wheels
Possible upgrades for Erin's car
Oxymoronic Cars
X5
SRT-8
Tesla Model X
Other options:
3-series GT
Outback
CTS-V Wagon
Lexus ES
Honda Accord
Volvo V60
Honda Odyssey
F-150
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Nov 19, 2014 β’ 1h 32min
92: You Donβt Know My Pants
Follow-up:
Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up
More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest
1
2
3
4
Discourse (source)
Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German)
Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector
WatchKit
_DavidSmith's Predictions
_DavidSmith's Initial Impressions
GEOS
Craig Hockenberry on UI consistency
Pete Burtis expands on the idea
Post-show:
John's iPhone activation woes
SIM removal tool
John critiques cutting-edge apps:
Instagram
Vine
YouTube
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Nov 14, 2014 β’ 1h 41min
91: Press Agree to Drive
Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement
Demotivational Poster
Should we use a carousel?
Follow-up:
More on app bundles
Does iWork help Apple sell hardware?
RiMac GPUs are throttled?
It's possible to get hot even in OS X
Gaming benchmarks
More from Ars
iStat Menus
Why TRIM isn't widely supported on OS X
iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus sales (via @_ryanbrodie)
More from Localytics
Overcast 1.1
CarPlay
Marco's testing setup
Pioneer SPH-DA120
MPPlayableContentManager
We covered in-car user interfaces before
Microsoft open-sources more of .NET
More from Ars
More from Miguel de Icaza
Xamarin
RyuJIT
Hadouken
Clang
LLVM
.NET on Github
Darwin
KHTML
WebKit
CLR
TCL
GNUstep
Examples of software established in Linux
Wireshark
Audacity
Adium (or, really, Pidgin)
git
Selenium
phpBB
Titanium
The good, the bad, and the ugly of source control
DVD-RAM and DVD+RW
Turns out Marco's "DVD-RAM" emoji (π½) is really a Minidisc, which was moderately popular in Japan.
Perforce
SVN
CVS
Mercurial
Betamax
Post-show
Baby Update
The Analog(ue)-ATP Baby Treaty (@31:00)
Casey's fancy camera
Scammy in-hospital newborn photography
EXIF
Tiffany Arment Photography
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Nov 7, 2014 β’ 1h 45min
90: Speculative Abandonware
Follow-up:
Declan night one
It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg".
Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics.
Saturday Night Live
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
"Lazy Sunday"
"On a Boat"
"[Cheney] in a Box"
T-Pain
Autotune
"Semicolon"
App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp)
TRIM support and John's SSD
Trim Enabler and a related Yosemite FAQ
AHCI
Ars on the rise of SSDs
SandForce
Source list opacity in Yosemite (1 2)
This was also covered on John's recent appearance on The Talk Show
Ancient GameCube controllers in modern times
Microsoft Band
_David Smith's thoughts on his blog and podcast
Exploded diagram
Ars Review
Nice summary by Manton Reece
WebOS
Courier
Kin
Surface product placement goes wrong
House, M.D.
Parks and Recreation
iWork file-format support
InfoWorld article
iWeb
Tower of Babel
iLife
ADA
Post-show:
Wii U Pro Controller versus GameCube Controller
John has a surprise
iPhone 6/6 Plus sales ratio
Tweetie
UIRefreshControl
RiMac First Impressions
Monaco
Inconsolata
Menlo
Handbrake
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Nov 2, 2014 β’ 1h 41min
89: DeLorean + McLaren
Casey's new arrival
Some background
The Jackal
Follow-Up:
Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat
The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated
FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan
ECC RAM is actually worth it
Marco's intentions for his Mac Pro
iFixIt's Teardown of the iMac with Retina 5K Display
_David Smith's screenshot of Xcode and iOS Simulator
Fan noise thoughts and recording
Casey has used Apple Pay
More on App Store bundles as upgrade pricing
Unread's move to Supertop
Continuity hardware-requirements Knowledge Base entries (via @MCRascasse)
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Restricting apps from A5 and A6 devices by requiring Metal (via @lmarburger)
GamerGate
FILM CRIT HULK
The DeHulkifier
WHY HULK WRITES LIKE THIS
Tim Cook announces he is gay
Post-show:
Microsoft Band, extremely briefly
John's new arrival
Disk Inventory X
John's selection
Casey's newfound picture-taking modus operandi, and tips from Marco
Casey's camera
Shawn Blanc's Review
Casey's quick thoughts
Casey's wedding pictures vs. baby pictures
Bokeh
John makes a shocking confession
Neven and Christa Mrgan
Baby Sandwich
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Oct 24, 2014 β’ 2h 18min
88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym
Follow-up:
SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury)
Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping?
Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive
Dropbox document picker
Bluetooth mesh networking
Twitter's developer conference
Twitter Digits
Marco on developers trusting Twitter
Dave Winer's response
Verge article
Yosemite Review recap, one week on.
Does anyone really care about the Mac anymore?
iMore's iOS 8 Review
Yosemite first thoughts
Casey uses GitHub's Atom text editor
Aero Glass
Chromatic aberration
Super close-up of close button
Early OS X transparency
Apple Pay
Target Cartwheel
Target reveals daughter's pregnancy
iMac with Retina 5K display
Post-show:
John is iPhoneless again, but for how long?
More on GamerGate
New York Magazine article by Jesse Singal
Felicia Day posts on GamerGate
Doxing
No true Scotsman
Deadspin summary
Brands and GamerGate
Twitter statistics
Designing social systems to reduce abuse vectors and incentives
Marco and The Wirecutter
Isla Vista Shooting (more)
Perks of verified Twitter accounts
Kirby Ferguson
This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
Everything is a Remix
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