Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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May 14, 2020 β€’ 2h 5min

378: Whale Quench

Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live Totally unrelated: youtube-dl Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox RSI and voice control Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) Hand free computing via Philip Brocoum Phonetic Alphabet Craig Federighi on AppStories #162 Cursor control Coyote time (code example) and other game developer tricks Celeste platforming mechanics design Playing for Fun #2: Celeste Closing apps "Give me your app for free" Dun & Bradstreet John digitizes Mini-DV tapes iDive Super 8 RCA VHS Camcorder.jpg) CVC GR-C1 MKBHD's video #askatp If Apple releases an ARM-based Mac, would we buy first-gen machines? (via Jamie Bender) What file system (πŸ›Ž) should one use for external backups? (via Unai HerrΓ‘n) Will iPadOS ever become multi-user? (via Pascal Lindelauf) Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad Post-show Neutral: 2022 Golf GTI Isn't Tesla cancelled now? Honda Urban EV Concept Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Notion: Stay on task, find what you need, and collaborate efficiently, all in one place. Get 10% off a team plan.
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May 7, 2020 β€’ 1h 59min

377: $10 Worth of Headaches

Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple AppFigures Changing App Store company names LLC DBA Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi Zero W Raspberry Pi 4 Debugging memory problems in Xcode ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar) ATP #285 @ 3m48s ATP #306 @ 1h36m The Talk Show #227 Installing an OS on a computer without a monitor Etcher WWDC date announced Hats Fedora Cowboy hat Flat cap New 13" MacBook Pro!πŸŽ‰ GOODBYE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD! πŸŽ‰ Six Colors review Rene Ritchie's video review Rene Ritchie's comparison vs. MacBook Air Turbo button TGPro fan control app #askatp After the obvious, what should one do to alleviate RSI? (via Thom Anthony) How do I make my videoconferences sound better? (via Jack Johnson) ATR2100x Microphone Mega-Review Kerry Post-show: Unbox Therapy Porsche Classic Communication Management BMW stops European Delivery for American customers Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Apr 30, 2020 β€’ 2h 13min

376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle

Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself Dropping Dropbox Synology Drive Transmit Follow-up: John's new video card It's big Mac Pro Wheels & Feet Measurement iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Dangerous keyboard use Car alternators do generate AC Really really use an unpainted post when jump-starting a car COVID-19 Contact Tracing Exposure Notification NSHipster's Overview iOS 13.5 Improvements Google Making its own Chips ARM chips in Macs Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package.
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Apr 24, 2020 β€’ 2h 22min

375: Wobbly Goblin

Pre-show: Homeowners associations Lien Law of large pull requests Follow-up: Mac Pro wheel stability W5700X is a decent deal after all iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions #askatp Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden) What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J) SOAP WSDL The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing (Joel on Software) Fizz Buzz Apple's IS&T PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz) Post-show: Neutral Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast.
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Apr 16, 2020 β€’ 2h 2min

374: Screwdriver Testing Harness

Pre-show: Modern PHP PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication ECDSA JWT Marco's resulting APNS-JWT PHP function Follow-up: Retro Gaming OpenEmu Provenance MiSTer (via James Thomson) Light guns and CRTs 360Β° audio (via Ibrahim Al-Alali) nugs.net Completing the Mac Pro Rollout Mac Pro feet/wheels Radeon Pro W5700X iPad Pro Magic Keyboard now available for ordering Screens Dr. Drang's keyboard-weight speculation New iPhone SE #askatp How do we make time for listening to our favorite shows? (via Aadi Bhure) Overcast usage Do we automate our recording setups? (via Hunter Holland) BetterTouchTool BetterSnapTool ATP #96: Windows of Siracusa County The state of Mac web browsing What podcast episode are we most proud of having recorded, and why? ATP #205: Chris Lattner Interview ATP #317: We're Customers Too ATP #371: Four-Letter Technologies Analog(ue) #5: The Only Way Out is Through Hypercritical #37: A Story of Triumph Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way Post-show: Newfound home computer needs Ray-traced Minecraft RTX Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Fully: Workplace furniture designed for health, flow, and balance. Get $50 off the Jarvis standing desk. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Apr 9, 2020 β€’ 2h 29min

373: This Jerk, Right Here

Pre-show: Search Engines before Google WebTV BNC connector Follow-up: Synology RAID rebuild time Getting progresscat /proc/mdstat lvm Dark Sky acquisition & location data Weather data consolidation Dark Sky's data sources Trump continues to fill the swamp Casey's Computer Corner BBEdit Arq Backup New PS5 controller Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica xScope Force Touch Raspberry Pi Pi-Hole Installation instructions that Casey used CanaKit β€” the kit Casey bought Raspbian Retro gaming Special guest Tiff Arment joins us Emulation: RetroPie 8bitdo SN30 Pro Wave Race 64 32X Neo Geo 3DO Sega Saturn Rotary phone Kontra/Konami Code Famicom vs. NES controllers Improving the original experience Nintendo Switch Online NES Classic Edition Analogue Console FPGA 8bitdo M30 2.4G for SEGA Genesis Everdrive flash cartridges Connecting to the TV Technology Connections: How Did Old TVs Work? Racing the Beam CRT skeletons RF modulator Composite video S-Video Component video RGB over SCART Scaling console video output to modern TVs RetroTINK OSSC XRGB Framemeister gscartsw Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping with this link. Hover: Start your business with a domain name. Get 10% off your first purchase.
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Apr 2, 2020 β€’ 2h 20min

372: Things Are Degraded

Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad Follow-up: A12Z is the A12X with all GPU cores working properly Chip binning All 2020 iPad Pros have 6 GB RAM Part-name theories Casey's Synology Catastrophe DS1813+ S.M.A.R.T. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019 Apple Acquires Dark Sky CARROT Weather Weather Line You can buy/rent video from the Amazon iOS app without using in-app purchase Breakpoints Post-show follow-up: The Road to PS5 Xbox Series X Hands On, Gameplay & Controller! Head Related Transfer Function Binaural recording Sponsored by: Postmates: Anything you need, anytime you need it. Postmate it. Use code ATP for $100 in free delivery credit for your first 7 days. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use code ATP for free overnight shipping with this link. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.
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Mar 26, 2020 β€’ 2h 35min

371: Four-Letter Technologies

Special guest Chris Lattner! High Output Management TensorFlow Caffe TPU Python PyTorch Swift for TensorFlow Swift TensorFlow tutorials Fortran Swift for TensorFlow Clang Jupyter Python interop workbook Dynamic Callable Dynamic Member Lookup NumPy MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation SIL: Swift Intermediate Language SiFive ASIC: Application-specific integrated circuit RISC-V BSD PA-RISC Mach KHTML WWDC Status of Swift's world domination Brisk Self-hosting Swift's future Swift Ownership Manifesto Rust 2019 LLVM Dev Meeting: Ownership SSA C++20 Clang Is Swift a... jerk? SwiftUI Combine ABI stability Variadic generics Swift Concurrency Manifesto Recent woodworking projects Treasure box Post-show: Quarantined unproductivity Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Jamf Now: Set up and protect your Apple devices at work, from anywhere. First 3 devices are free. Indeed.com: A guide to help those whose jobs have been affected by coronavirus.
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Mar 19, 2020 β€’ 2h 20min

370: Ghost Finger

WWDC 2020 will be online-only Press release Original Gravity ("the beer-and-sausage place") Follow-up: Rebinding Xcode commands via Incoherent Toots Apple Style Guide New Apple Hardware Mac mini (not really new) MacBook Air iPad Pro LiDAR Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Smart Keyboard Folio iPad Pro Cursor with Craig Federighi Post-show: Consoles The Test Drivers #3: Xbox Series X Exclusive, and the Z Flip Gang Xbox Series X Hands On, Gameplay & Controller! The Road to PS5 Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Eero: The Wi-Fi your home deserves. Use this link and code ATP for free overnight shipping. ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package.
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Mar 13, 2020 β€’ 2h 16min

369: Brown Big Bear

Pre-show: Marco's Problem Marco's image-retention test Apple Cinema Display HD Follow-up: The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places). Recommended info sources on COVID-19: Flatten the Curve CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated) Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics WWDC still not canceled Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+ John's internal storage situation Mac shortcuts Ellipsis is βŒ₯ ; Adjective order ⌘ βŒ₯ βŒƒ ⇧ βŒƒ βŒ₯? Command key Xcode symbol popup: βŒƒ 6 Drag and drop open/save dialog DefaultFolder X Screen shotting/screen capture Hot Corners and modifier keys System Preferences β†’ Desktop & Screen Saver β†’ Hot Corners... Casey's Computer Corner Brian Ski's tweet Huge rumor dumps New homescreen Accessibility features, wallpapers, and #shotoniphone GIFWrapped OCR capabilities Video: Transcriber in Windows Mobile Graffiti Inkwell Black Ink Apple Watch flag faces General Apple Watch improvements Tachymeter #askatp Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati) Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino) How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri) Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground Penny Arcade Sponsored by: BlueVine: Get a $100 gift card when you take out a loan or open a line of credit. Mack Weldon: Better than whatever you’re wearing right now. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a $20 credit with code atp2020.

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