Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
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Jul 8, 2021 • 2h 22min
438: Some Amount of Futzing
Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss
ZZQ
Q Barbeque
Casey’s Shattered Windshield
John’s iPhone case
Follow-up:
HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf
Lutron Caseta
Matter
Thread
Quinn’s Video
HSTS and Safari (via Jakob)
DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption
Thoughts on Safari from Scott Sutton
Safari Technology Preview (“Purple Safari”)
Eye-tracking Memoji? (via Daniel Yount)
Executive images
John mousepad update
Managing Digital Documents (via Jason Abreu)
1Password for Families
Fujitsu ScanSnap
Raven Scanners
You Need a Budget
Banktivity
Backblaze 3-2-1
Casey’s Apple One Epiphany
Songwhip
#askatp:
What’s the desk chair update? (via Carlos Luis Portillo)
Embody
Aeron
Steelcase Gesture
How do we import photos taken on a “big” camera? (via Stephen Kim)
GeoTag
Pipe Dream
Why wouldn’t Apple want to license the M1 to Nintendo? (via Zephyz Zhaar)
OLED Switch
Tegra X1
Breath of the Wild
Post-show: Marco is a monster who doesn’t like air conditioning
ERV
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Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 58min
437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad
Pre-show:
Nostalgia for compulsory technology
Toshiba e740
Microdrive
Volvo XC90
Being old in a college town
Top of the Stairs
Follow-up:
Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2
HTTP Strict Transport Security
hstspreload.org
Report for hypercritical.co
iOS 15 can adjust more than just text size
Settings → Accessibility → Per-App Settings
On the need for Apple to defend in-app purchase revenue (via Abel Demoz)
The Art of the Possible
John’s Mouse Pad Woes
SwitchGlass
Cool, Geeky Mac Apps
Boop
SwiftBar
BitBar (the OG)
Falling into disrepair
Reboot
TextBar (an alternative)
#askatp:
What’s the deal with Matter (née CHoIP)? (via Jon Strand)
Comic Book Guy
Ecobee
Lutron Caséta
Old-school timer
What’s the deal with Mighty? (via Peter Waller)
Would Apple ever release a M1 card for Intel Mac Pros? (via Brian Hamilton)
MacCharlie
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Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 55min
436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door
Pre-show:
FAA’s TRUST program
FAA Part 107
DJI Mini 2
Follow-up:
Safari page reloading
Pull-to-refresh
John’s extension
Finn Voorhees’ experiment
Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda
iCloud Private Relay
Rauli Rikama’s observations
What about embedded browsers? (via Maarten Hazewinkel)
Private Relay is always used for known trackers (via Renaud Lienhart)
FLoC
You monsters that use unnatural scrolling
Scroll Reverser
Mos
Avara source code is available (via Dan Watson)
Descent screenshot
Avara screenshot
Star Fox screenshot
COSI
Sega VR
Apple Podcasts & our show notes
SSD wear reporting in macOS
Mailo
StoreKit refund API (via Jake Mor)
Per-app text size slider
tvOS 15 will allow sign-in via iPhone/iPad
#askatp:
Have we cut the cord? (via Ian)
OTT
Channels
TV Everywhere
CableCard
JustWatch
What keyboard do we use? (via Kyle Matson)
Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
Cherry MX Sampler
Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard for Business 5KV-00001
Apple Extended Keyboard
Apple Wireless Keyboard]
What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway? (via Lewis O’Neil)
Apple’s FUD PDF
Daring Fireball
Gui Rambo tweets 1 and 2
Post-show:
Taz-Mania
Battletoads
Cool Spot
TrapAdventure 2 (iOS)
Celeste
Dark Souls
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Jun 17, 2021 • 2h 11min
435: A Strong Number Four
Pre-show:
Freaks and Geeks
Follow-up:
Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
More from Viticci
Center Stage
Object Capture quality
Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda
Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple
macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with captchas too!
App Library in the dock is optional
Safari 15 and Reload Button
Instructions to restore old-style Safari tab bar
Feature flag
Many macOS Monterey features are Apple Silicon-only
Apple’s fine print
Maps app globe after toggling a debug flag
A trip down DOS gaming memory lane
IPX
Kali
Null-modem cable
Descent
PhoneNet
Bolo
Stuart Cheshire
Zero-configuration networking
Avara
Disk Utility has been updated in Monterey! 🎉
Monterey lets you Erase all content & settings!
Apple’s explanation
How iCloud Private Relay Works
Pi-hole
#askatp:
How is being a developer on Apple Silicon? (via Abel Demoz)
What year will be the final year of macOS on Intel? (via Ralf Krakowski)
How do the low-power M1 cores use only 1/10th the power of the high-power M1 cores? (via Brian Pirie)
Icestorm cores
Firestorm cores
Post-show Neutral:
Bugatti Chiron
Bugatti Veyron
Roll-out
Video
Tesla’s Test Strategies
NHTSA
M539 Restorations
BMW E46
M539 Restorations - YouTube
2014 Honda Accord Sport 6MT
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Jun 8, 2021 • 3h 4min
434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
TextSniper
iPad Multitasking Video
iPad Menu Screenshots
iPad Menu Video
Mosaic
NSUserActivity
DUNS Number
Synergy
Fitt’s Law
USDZ
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Post-show:
Original Prince video
What happened?
Remastered version in which the outcome is more visible
Todd Vaziri
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Jun 3, 2021 • 2h 8min
433: Before We Leave the Dump
Follow-up:
Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update
HDMI cable types
Wi-Fi 6
Back to Work
Thread
Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio)
iMac Fans
Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet
Apple Podcasts issues:
Broken show notes?
Apple Podcasts subscriptions delayed
🤮 Apple’s Self-Serving Puff Piece 🤮
Thoughts on Flash
On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
vDSP Functions
WWDC 2021 Predictions
Tick-tock
WIMP
Image map
Casey’s WWDC 2021 Wishes
Functional Reactive Programming
Casey’s explanation of Disposable/AnyCancellable
async/await
Actors
Hacking with Swift
Swift by Sundell
Carrot Weather
objc_msgSend branch prediction
Matter (formerly CHoIP)
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May 27, 2021 • 2h 22min
432: I Shouldn’t Need to Wiggle
Pre-show: Compacted sugar
Fun Dip
SweetTarts
Candy Cigarette
Big League Chew
Follow-up:
John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
High resolution image
Chiplet
AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking
Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets
Chiplet vs. Monolithic
Some speculation about the next Mac Pro
Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan
MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet”
Lord Matthew’s theory
Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details
John Voorhees’ take
Bluetooth data transfer speeds
Lossless vs. Lossy Encoding
MP3 & AAC & Opus
FLAC & ALAC
HomePod & HomePod mini will support lossless
HDMI eARC
Spatial Audio and AirPods from David Steer
Apple TV 4K (2021 edition)
Matt Craig’s tweet
Installation/Migration Process
One Home Screen
Settings → Users and Accounts → [you] → One Home Screen
Accessibility → Increase Contrast → Focus Style
Home-button function
Remote
Dave Mark’s jog wheel demo video
Paul Hudson’s remote retrospective
Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
HDMI CEC
Calibration
HDTVTest
THX Tune-Up
rtings.com
DolbyVision raised blacks fixed?
Casey’s Apple TV Woes
Wiring Diagram
Forthcoming HDMI Cable
Sonos Amp
Belkin SoundForm Connect
Post-show: Casey’s Fan Resolution
Casey’s fans
Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control
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May 20, 2021 • 2h 8min
431: City of Chips
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Follow-up:
Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
CMHeadphoneMotionManager
24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
Gasoline stabilizers
Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
Listening to Spatial Audio with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
Super Audio CD
LaserDisc
Laserdisc: An Introduction
Laserdisc’s Failure: What Went Wrong
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
Laserdisc: Features, Follies & Evolution
XM Radio
Xiph.org: wave/”stair-step” sample-rate explainer
DAC
Loudness war
Tidal
Pono
A2DP
aptX
AAC
AirPods Max and lossless over the cable (via Micah Singleton)
Mastered for iTunes
LivePhish
FLAC
MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
Casey’s battery/hub
MacBook Air Rumors
John Prosser’s Video
Dr. Drang on Battery Life
Gurman’s Report
GeForce RTX 3090
macOS 11.4 beta supports new AMD graphics cards
AMD 6900 XT
The Connection Machine
Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
Eero lights explanation
Eero’s comparison page
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May 13, 2021 • 1h 55min
430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food
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Pre-show:
⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Colonial Pipeline
How long does gas last?
Follow-up:
Overpriced AirTag mounts
AirTag Leather Key Ring
AirTag Leather Loop
Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag
Marco’s recommended solution
Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
AppleTV and spatial audio
AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
Apple’s bad hire
Sommer Panage’s response
🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on iMessage for Android in 2013
Common carrier
Steve Jobs 1997 Q&A
Schiller wondering about the 30% cut… in 2011
#askatp
Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
Synology Drive
Synology Cloud Sync
Bartender
Rocket
Vanilla
Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
Sarbanes-Oxley
How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
Nifty MiniDrive
The Case for RAID
Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
Github Pages
Jekyll
Hosting SQLite Databases on Github Pages
xkcd: The General Problem
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May 6, 2021 • 2h 3min
429: Digital Speedo
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!)
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Follow-up:
Some notes about the ATP store
support@cottonbureau.com
Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
Bond Bridge
Purchases last week
AirTag quick impressions
Spree
Whistle
FileVault performance
About encrypted storage on your new Mac
FileVault and remote management
John’s macOS 11.3 woes
FB9095615
Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
The Basecamp fiasco
Casey Newton’s summary posts
#1: Breaking Camp
#2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
Basecamp’s posts
Changes at Basecamp
Basecamp’s new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Let it all out
Mosaics of positions
On making decisions
An Update
Ruby on Rails
Woke
Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
#askatp
What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
Due
AnyList
Day One
Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
ColdFusion
Berkshire Hathaway shares
Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
diskDedupe (App Store link)
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