Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Nov 1, 2018 • 2h 27min
298: Protective Sandwich
ATP T-shirts and pins are back!
Apple October 2018 event
MacRumors on the MacBook Air's low-power CPU
AnandTech confirms with more info
Intel's ARK product sheet
Relay FM Membership
USB-C to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter
USB-C to SD Card Reader
USB-C 1m charge cable
USB-C to Apple Watch cable
USB-C to Lightning cable
Post-show: Hobnobbing with the Apple executives
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Oct 25, 2018 • 2h 22min
297: It Also Deserves to Die
Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets
Independence #37: Evolution of an App
Follow-up:
Marco's lookahead limiter
iOS and memory swapping
Wear leveling
John's last Apple Photos book
The iPhone XR
The Stalman Podcast #36: "Just" Creators and Hands-On with the XR
Gruber's review
Example of OLED "smearing"
The forthcoming iPad event
#askatp
Apple chip naming (via Cameron Deardorff)
BMW M1
What's the last Apple product in each category that had no regressions? (via Michael)
What do we use Shortcuts.app for? (via Fabian Diehm)
A Shortcut to check contact photo sizes
Post-show: Casey's Waffle Woes
Casey's fallen friend: Waring WMK300
Casey's new waffle maker: Hamilton Beach Belgian Waffle Maker
Marco's Cuisinart WAF-F20 Double Belgian Waffle Maker
John's Breville Smart 4-Slice Waffle Maker
John's offering to Casey: Breville BWM520XL No Mess Waffle Maker
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Oct 18, 2018 • 2h 13min
296: Giant Buffers of Floats
Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter
Accelerate framework
objc_msgSend()
Let's build objc_msgSend
Apple fixes bagel emoji
Follow-up:
Screen Time issues abound
Emergency bypass
Casey's blog post
Apple iCloud contacts sync limits
Apple printer compatibility list
Palm Phone
Photoshop CC on iPad
Virtual memory
Paging
The Verge's review
#askatp
How do we stay informed about non-tech news? (via Jake)
Overton window
Did we have a senior project in school? (via Stephen Kim)
FLAC
Which Destiny videos do John watch? (via tobogranyte)
True Vanguard
Datto
PlanetDestiny
Post-show: Dark patterns in Destiny
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Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 55min
295: Outlets That Suck
Watch pontification
Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's story on Chinese spy chips
Upgrade #214: Nobody Seems to Know Anything
Joe Fitzpatrick on his interview with Bloomberg
#askatp
Storyboards for iOS development? (via Bastian Inuk)
CompactConstraint
Visual Format Lanuage
IBDesignable
What's the worse compromise: Fusion Drive or hybrid cars? (via Spencer Wohlers)
Do we enjoy racing games? (via Marc-André Weibezahn)
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Wipeout
Carmageddon
Wave Race 64
Wave Race: Blue Storm
F-Zero
Cruisin USA
Hydro Thunder
Super Sprint
Ddaytona USA
Post-show: RIP manual transmissions?
300whp MR2
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Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 53min
294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever
The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
Apple PR post
iOS 12.1 wrap-up
Lender's bagels
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
Apple Watch fall detection is only on by default for people at least 65 years old
Critiquing others' work
Ken Kocienda's original tweet
Linda Dong's reply thread (first post)
Mojave
ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event
Hazeover
Steve Troughton-Smith's take on Marzipan
#askatp
How do I protect from ⚡? (via David Brownman)
Trip Lite Isobar 2
Should I buy a 🎾 or a 📷? (via Matt Taylor)
Olympus O-MD E-M10
The botany of filesystems (via Benjamin Jex)
Post-show: Casey dabbles with a drone
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Sep 27, 2018 • 2h 10min
293: You Know My Pouches
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Lattner interview
iPhone 🎾 is fast
The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
Our Marco & John's new toys
John's pouch
John's toasters
Tiff in portrait mode
Casey's watch try-on
Upgrade #212: The Chocolate Phone is No Good
Carrot Weather
Marco's Utility watch face
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Relay B-Sides #36: Creative Selection
Becoming Steve Jobs
On the Firing Line by Gil Amelio
Debug
Post-show: Marco's ocean status
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Sep 20, 2018 • 1h 52min
292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer
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Follow-up:
Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
Dead man's switch
50% faster tessellation... maybe?
Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
Gruber's iPhone review
Gruber's Watch review
No landscape home screens on XR/XS Max
What did we order?
John is clairvoyant
Nomos Minimatik
Testing HomePod's multiple named timers
Overcast 5
Under the Radar #141: Implementing Search
Post-show Casey on Cars: 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Autobahn
Video
Blog post
Notes from suggestions:
180º rule
180º rule, visualized
30º rule
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Sep 13, 2018 • 2h 24min
291: John’s Special Day
Follow-up:
Nokia phone with five cameras
We're doing five blades
Phil: "muhmoji"
Apple's September Event
Leaked names
Tim's tweet
Apple Watch
Casey's wrist
Ben Bajarin's picture
Another side-by-side
Thinner... ish?
Side view
Apple's image
Dear Apple video
64-bit with 32-bit pointers?
iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
Todd's tweet
Steve Troughton-Smith's tweet
AirPower?
HomePod & tvOS
Post-show: John's special day
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Sep 6, 2018 • 2h 21min
290: A Weird Sandwich
Follow-up:
AirPrint on old printers
handyPrint
Printopia
Printer Pro
Eero competitors and privacy
iPhone preorder PSA
iPhone "XS" marketing image found
ATP #1: iPhone Plus
Naked Robotic Core
Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
#askatp:
Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
Programmer's switch
Post-show Neutral: Casey's walk of shame... but also pride.
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Aug 30, 2018 • 2h 11min
289: Everybody’s in the Alliance
Follow-up:
MoCA and MoCA Bridge
Hades Canyon NUCs
Engadget Video Review
Snell's NUC article
Anandtech
The AirPort Express lives!
Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
DD-WRT
Tomato
WRT54G
Phil Schiller flies
Panzer's tweet
iPhone mockups preview
iPhone SE 2?
Upgrade #208: The Villain of the Macintosh
#askatp:
Why run both Plex and Infuse? (via Adam Porter)
Why are Apple's ARM chips so much faster than their competitors? (via Will Faught)
What's your home printer setup? (via Mark Igloliorte)
Lexmark Optra S 1625
PC Magazine, 26 May, 1998
HP Laserjet Pro M281fdw All in One Wireless Color Laser Printer, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready (T6B82A)
Canon Pixma MX870 Wireless
Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500
Epson Workforce WF-7710
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M553dn
Apple's compatibility list
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Post-show:
John's 🐝
Casey's Car Conundrum
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