Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Nov 16, 2021 • 2h 9min
457: The World’s Greatest Conference Call
Pre-show:
Watching shows on Apple
Some ATP membership bookkeeping
Follow-up:
Xcode build times (via Abel Demoz)
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES
Monterey’s Mouse Pointer Memory Leak Bug
Marco has [Original] HomePod Problems
Belkin Soundform Connect
Marco replaces Weather Line with Carrot Weather
Weather Line acquisition
App Store feature on Brian Mueller of Carrot Weather
Weather Strip
Seller risks on eBay
Swappa
Facebook and Meta
Stratechery Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
Oculus Quest 2
Ping
World of Warcraft
SecondLife
IRC
MUD
MUSH
HoloLens 2
Chatroulette
Knowledge Navigator
Idiocracy
Post-show: Casey broke two car keys in the span of 10 minutes
Volvo XC90
Example replacement video
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Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 53min
456: The Monitor Situation
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Follow-up:
iMessage in iCloud Security Overview
Apple’s T2 Macs and Monterey
Avoiding the notch using RDM (via Roberto Jung Drebes)
Casey’s MacBook Pro Updates
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English ($180)
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English ($150)
Magic Trackpad ($130)
LG UltraFine 5K
Starport 75 Podcast
Casey’s iMac Stand
Marco reviews iPhone 13 Pro cases
Apple Silicone
Nudient Thin v3
Peel Clear White
Totallee Pearl White
Totallee Clear Soft
Caudabe Sheath
Pitaka MagEZ Case 2 (not tested)
Bullstrap (not tested)
How Could One Improve the MacBook Pros?
SD Card
CFexpress
HDMI 2.1
A None-Too-Brief Aside About Apple External Monitors
ASUS ProArt Display PA32UCG-K 32” 16:9 FreeSync2 4K 120 Hz HDR Mini-LED IPS Monitor
Post-show #askatp:
Why don’t we talk about processor clock speed anymore? (via Yossi Kanner)
Would we rather use a previous-gen MacBook Pro with an M1 Max, or the new MacBook Pro with an Intel CPU? (via Joel Short)
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Nov 4, 2021 • 2h 18min
455: Your Yanking Force
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Pre-show: Setup Woes
Audition
Homebrew Bundle
Casey’s Post on Homebrew Bundle
Casey’s bundle file
Follow-up:
What does Marco use for a Thunderbolt dock? (via César Cavazos)
OWC Thunderbolt Dock
Caldigit TS3+ Hub
Caldigit Element Hub
John’s AirPods 3 updates
Monterey Status Report
SuperDuper
The Verge’s MacBook Pro review
MacBook Pro Charging via USB-C
Thunderbolt PDF
PC Magazine
ADC
MacBook Pro “Compatibility Mode”
Scale to fit below built-in camera
Tweet with video
Notch codename was Daisy?
120 Hz scrolling on new MacBook Pros
Chrome shenanigans
Marco’s Mystery Terabyte update
Disk Utility → View → Show APFS Snapshots
Purging files on iOS
Marco’s experience with Lutron Caséta
Waveform Lighting
Eve Motion
Caséta Motion Sensor (scroll down)
Quinn’s Smart Home Video
[More] MacBook Pro impressions
Upgrade #379: They Feed on Memory
MagSafe 1/2/3 side-by-side
Luna Display
Post-show: How does Marco unload old computers?
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Oct 28, 2021 • 2h 5min
454: The Notch is Young
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Pre-show: Marco’s acquisition adventure
IceMule Cooler Backpack (size Xlarge)
Veblen good
Follow-up:
APFS fast directory sizing
Chris’ answer on StackExchange
APFS File System Reference
INODE_MAINTAIN_DIR_STATS
Anandtech on the M1 Pro & Max performance
Dom’s question
SPECfp
Gruber’s summary of the Affinity team’s findings
The only benchmark that matters
Johnathan Dietz Jr on Pro Display XDR @ 120Hz
What about Memory Pressure?
Marco’s Kühl’s pants
John’s AirPods 3 impressions
MacBook Pro impressions
Casey’s very sad y’all
Under the Radar #229: Money, Time, and M1 Max Macs
In-Store configuration options
Space Gremlin
Grand Perspective
Quinn Nelson on notch inconsistencies
Apps
Bartender
Vanilla
Denotchifier
Top Notch
Post-show: Marco watches sports
XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand
FoxTrax
First down line
CTE
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Oct 21, 2021 • 2h 46min
453: As the Prophecy Foretold
Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
Start Up
John’s Tweet
Apple ✔️s (scroll way down)
Monterey quick hits
Monday, 25 October
Tabs that look like tabs!!
Snell’s coverage
M1 Pro & M1 Max
John’s “City of Chips” tweet
John’s Self-FU
John’s “City of Chips” diagram
Anandtech’s Coverage
M1 floorplan comparisons
M1 Pro Floorplan
M1 Max floorplan
WildCrack’s tweet
Mike Goldsmith’s tweet
Six Colors’ coverage of M1 Pro/Max variants
Scott Perry on DRAM
Josh Rogers on GPU comparisons
Review of MSI GE76 Raider
New MacBook Pros
PORTS (courtesy chatroom user rmorey)
Snell on charging quirks
Jeff Nadeau’s tweet
David Schaub’s Nostradamus Moment
Linda Dong’s Twitter thread
HIG documentation
Full-Screen Mode
Menu Bar Menus
Our orders
Marco
14”, M1 Pro, 16-core GPU
16GB RAM
1TB SSD
Casey
14”, M1 Max, 24-core GPU
64GB RAM
4TB SSD
John
…AirPods.
Post-show: Rumor round-up
9to5Mac on the ransomware leak
Bloomberg/Gurman’s Roundup
Which Intel Macs remain?
Mac mini
27” iMac
21.5” iMac
Mac Pro
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Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 47min
452: It’s Totally Leashed
Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders
Follow-up:
Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores
Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv
Yo dawg
MTV’s Pimp My Ride
Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 Pro
Man + River
IP Code
Regarding bugs in your pasta (It’s not about the pasta!) (via Sharon Linne Faulk)
What bugs/larvae/eggs can you eat?
Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
Joz’s tweet
Marco’s new Dropbox setup
Maestral
inotify
FSEvents
kqueue
#askatp:
Why are progress bars so hard? (via Derek Aldridge)
What’s a good automotive blog? (via Tom Jacob)
NetNewsWire
Jalopnik
YouTube Channels:
Doug DeMuro
Straight Pipes
Savage Geese
Regular Car Reviews
Alex on Autos
MotorWeek
M539 Restorations
Does John maintain his old hardware? (via Sean Cohen)
Post-show:
The search for John’s backup winter hat
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Oct 7, 2021 • 2h 13min
451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks
Pre-show:
Facebook’s outage
BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.)
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
Explanation from Facebook
Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents!
We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store!
Quinn Nelson’s YouTube channel
Follow-up:
Anandtech on the A15
MacRumors’ summary
On RAW data rates (via Brian Petersen)
Understanding ProRAW
John’s motion sickness and gaming
Marco’s updates
Kühl pants
Apple Silicone Case
Peel Cases
Nudient Cases
ProClipUSA Magafe Car Mount
🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 Marco’s deposit
Tesla ends leases as well as they build cars
Possible 14” and 16” MacBook Pro rumors
Display resolutions
What do we expect? What would we be surprised by?
#askatp:
Would/should Apple make ergonomic accessories? (via Johnny Oliver)
Surface Arc Mouse
Can the This website is using significant energy notices be stopped? (via Michael Hagan)
When will we get CarPlay from watchOS? (via Yoni)
Post-show: Apple Watch Series 7 buying plans
Apple Developer: Supporting Multiple Watch Sizes
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Sep 30, 2021 • 2h 7min
450: Distending My Wardrobe
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Pre-show: Some navel-gazing (much like Episode 400)
Sporkful’s Cascatelli
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Follow-up:
Returns
John Halter returns Surface Pros
Bernd Kilga returns an Elite Series 2 controller
Damian Shaw returns Surface Headphones
Christopher Dillon returns a Logitech MX Master
Ricky Wilson returns a Google Home Mini
Brian Donovan returns an iPad Smart Keyboard
Shiro Wilde returns an Apple TV 4K remote
Mike Bollich-Ziegler makes an interesting observation about the iPad Mini
Michał Goc does some digging about tennis serve speed
SwingVision
Regarding fast pre-ordering from TJ Luoma
Harrison Krebs has updates on eSIMs
KBase article
Bastian Inuk points out there are many raw formats for video
Marco’s security camera update
On Dock auto-hide delay (via Danny Tsang)
Intel: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
Apple: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4 && killall Dock
iPhones 13 Pro Impressions
Setup experiences
Apple Watch unlock bug
Colors & Size
MackWeldon Ace Sweatshort
Apple Silicone Case
Casey/Marco’s Cases: Nudient Thin V3
MKBHD on the MagSafe Duo
Camera System
Post-show #askatp: On an ∞ timescale, when do we get neat under-screen tricks? (via Alex Murrell)
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Sep 23, 2021 • 2h 9min
449: An Unclean Mouse
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Pre-show: A little bit more about Electron and 1Password 8
Tauri
Garmin InReach
Iridium satellites
iPhone
“Thick iPhone is thicc” 🤣
Ryan Jones’ camera bump chart
An aside about how optics works
John’s “Portrait Mode” Example
Cameras and Lenses
Internal Combustion Engines
iPhone [Reprise]
Adrian Weckler’s 13 Pro vs. 12 Pro
Halide on the evolution of iPhone cameras
Geoff Hackworth notes safe areas are the same size
On using iPhones for filming movies
The Verge on battery sizes
Gruber’s review (with streaming battery life information)
LPTO screens
Dual eSIMs
1× ↔ 3× macro transition
On A15 performance
More from SemiAnalysis
More from Ben Bajarin
Gokhan Avkarogullari notes there is a A15 GPU Tech Talk
Snell’s thoughts
MacRumors’ story
DHH on the iPad mini
Photographic styles
Fonzie
Marco’s iPhones
Casey’s forthcoming case
John’s case
Snell has new info on the iPhone Leather Wallet
iPad
Power cables
iPad Mini doesn’t support mmWave 5G
iPad Mini is downclocked?
Apple Watch Series 7
Golf swing & tennis serve speed
On faster charging & satellite navigation
Steve Troughton-Smith on the SoC
iOS 15 will not be a compulsory upgrade
Post-show: John’s bad mouse pad [Reprise]
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Sep 15, 2021 • 2h 30min
448: Next Year, Which Is Now
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Apple Event
Apple TV+
iPad
iPad Mini
Apple Watch Series 7
Ressence Oil-Filled Watches
Marco’s Sinn
CSS error
iPhone 13
Thinner but taller notch?
Rack focus
iPhone 13 Pro
Unsane
Red Cameras
Post-show: iPhone 12 exit interview
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