Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
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 (π) 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
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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!π GOODBYE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD! π
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 β₯ ;
Adjective order
β β₯ β β§
β β₯?
Command key
Xcode symbol popup: β 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
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