When to Use Ansible or Custom Scripts

• Follow-up:
  • Overcast & Transcriptions
    • Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
    • What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
      • Apple Podcasts transcript options
      • <podcast:transcript> tag
      • MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag
    • What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
      • beanstalkd
      • Ansible
    • Monitoring & control interface
    • Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
      • System X
      • RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2
      • I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac
      • Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard
      • Apple Insider
    • Mac fleet management advice
      • Apple Business
  • AirPods Max popularity in New York
• WWDC 2026 Announced
• Ask ATP
  • What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
    • XKCD
  • Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
  • Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
    • Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
• Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
  • DS1621+
  • Ubiquiti UNAS Pro
  • Casey’s NUC
  • Channels
  • Proxmox
  • Tailscale on YouTube
  • Derek Seaman’s Tech Blog (the extremely helpful listener 🥰)
  • ESPHome
  • Syncthing & rclone
  • Proxmox Backup Server
  • Transmit
  • Forklift
• Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS

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