Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Aug 23, 2018 • 1h 57min
288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi
Follow-up:
Photo books → PDF (File → Export → Export Book as PDF → ☑️ Production PDF)
Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
This American Life
Low-end Mac rumors
Intel NUC
Mac Mini ports
Plex
Infuse
Gruber's take on the MacBook Air
#askatp:
Long-distance Wi-Fi
OLED TVs
Marco's TV
Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
Top Gear's overview
Porsche Taycan
Small electric cars:
Chevy Bolt
Volkswagen e-Golf
Kia Soul EV
Prius Prime
Nissan Leaf
Post-show: John's 🐝
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Aug 16, 2018 • 2h 8min
287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich
Follow-up:
Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
Finding the settings
Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
Backblaze
Data retention
Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
Dock auto-hide delay
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
Marco reviews his 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Disabling Turbo Boost
Cortex #72: Adulting Complete
Playing for Fun
Startech DKT30CSDHPDStarTech.com USB-C Multiport Adapter 2xUSB 3.0/HDMI/SD/Gigabit Ethernet with Power Delivery (USB PD) USB-C Docking Station
Smoothed edge
Fall laptop predictions
#askatp:
Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
Squarespace
Libsyn
Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
Which macOS feature gets 🌆 first? (via Marc Edwards)
Konfabulator
Graphing calculator story
Post-show: 🐝
Yellow stripey things
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Aug 9, 2018 • 1h 56min
286: I Respect a Good Crust
Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
CrashPlan, John, and Java
java mx
java mx {newNumber}m
SpiderOak
BackBlaze
BackBlaze B2
Arq
John's Photo books
DiskInventoryX
DaisyDisk
Photo printer's extension
AMD and TSMC and 7nm
DigitalFoundry on the Intel Core i9 9900K
Some Neutral FU about the Golf R
Apple removes Infowars propoganda from its podcast directory
Marco started it
Gruber investigates
@jack's tweetstorm
Compulsory xkcd comic
#askatp:
Dock strategies (via Fabian Diehm)
Sleep strategies (via Cecil Scheib)
Transmission strategies (via Thomas Brock)
Post-show Neutral: Tesla screws up a good thing
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Jul 30, 2018 • 2h 2min
285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House
Follow-up:
The law is complicated
Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
RISC-V
Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
Michael Tsai's summary
Marco's comment
#askatp:
Overflowing portable drives (via Bronwyn Erb)
Casey's Synology primer
When do we replace our computers? (via Chris Tucker Mear)
MacRumors Buyer's Guide
Swift and Copland 2010 (via Rob Mathers)
Copland 2010 revisited
How is the new Dave Matthews Band album? (via Ted Hardy)
Post-show: Neutral
Casey on Cars: Volkswagen Golf R
Blog post
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Jul 26, 2018 • 2h 6min
284: Hotel California Keyboard
Follow-up:
Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
Membranes are for ingress prevention
More from MacRumors
"Subsequent remedial measures"
iFixit particle experiment
Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
The mythical USB-C hub
Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Corrections on the throttling discussion from last week
AltiVec
TDP
RIP hyper-threading
VRM-throttling theory
Apple's official throttling fix
Macworld's tests
Intel Power Gadget
Removed, and then reappears
Intel and the Danger of Integration
Process-Architecture-Optimization model
Itanium
Power Mac G5
#askatp:
Retina screen settings (via Greg Kolodziejczk)
Eye Friendly
What tech opinions do we regret? (via James)
Casey's journey to the Mac
The iPhone: I'll care later
John's pasta-sauce recipe (via James Evans)
Rao's Vodka Sauce
Post-show: The Spanish Italian food inquisition
Lidia's lasagna recipe
The basis for John's "carbonara"
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Jul 19, 2018 • 1h 50min
283: Just Lower Your Standards
Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
iJustine & MKBHD unbox a sealed, 18-year-old iBook G3
Casey Neistat and MKBHD review a Lamborghini
DeMuro's botched video
Follow-up:
Patenting the perpetual motion machine
Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware the Core i9"
Reddit thread
Marco's tweet
Thermal design power
Notebook Check tests the 13"
CPU data sheets:
13": 2017, 2018
15": 2017, 2018
Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:
Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
NPM
CPAN
Semantic Versioning
Camel
What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
Marco's listing
DeMuro's MR2 video
John's listing
Post-show Neutral
Smart Roadster
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Jul 15, 2018 • 2h 12min
282: Not Unreliable Enough
Follow-up:
Distributing Marzipan Apps
Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
The Verge's review
iFixIt reveals key-protecting membranes
Apple's Patent
Keyboard Service Program
Apple T2
Apple A10
Geekbench
Marco's tweet
Leather sleeve
High-end versus luxury
#askatp:
Capturing out-of-warranty hardware (via Ali Shah)
How do I use a 34" monitor? (via Andrew Troup)
Lost picture troubleshooting for Brian Sturm
Post-show: Let's talk about Europe.
Yes, United Kingdom residents, we've seen the video about your ridiculous plugs.
Eurostar
St. Pancras
Gare du Nord
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Jul 2, 2018 • 1h 48min
281: My Private Siri
Home repairs: Window air conditioners
Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
Local snapshots maybe?
Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
A A A A Very Good Song lives on?
Duplicate-file managers:
Gemini 2, also on the App Store (via Gualtiero Frigerio)
Photo Sweeper
Mojave LaunchServices can launch flat-style app bundles
Google Home impresses John
Apple Maps is getting a whole lotta love
Google Maps Moat
Welcome to Joytown
AirPod (and headphone!) rumors
Apple In-Ear Headphones
Sony WH-1000XM2
#askatp
Mojave and autiomatic dark mode (via Ishan Sharma)
tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
Back to the... iOS? (via Scott Nourse)
Citrix Mouse
If the Millennium Falcon was a car, what would it be? (via Brent Billings)
Buick Grand National
Chevrolet El Camino
DeLorean time machine
Post-show: Neutral
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Jun 28, 2018 • 2h 5min
280: Extinction-Level Event
Follow-up:
Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
Adobe is rethinking things
Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
One example of many
The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
A a a a a Very Good Song
Apple launches butterfly-keyboard repair program
Casey's repair strategy
Marco's new 🏖️💻
Looking good, buddy.
Marzipan
Carbon vs. Cocoa
Gus Mueller's take
Becky Hansmeyer asks and then answers what makes a Mac app a Mac app?
#askatp
James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
Robert Barat wants to know about 4K monitor sizes
Bjango's explainer
Will Law is [justifiably] upset
Social Policy
Original Gravity Public House
Good Karma
Post-show: Casey had a falling out with (not of) the Jeep
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Jun 21, 2018 • 1h 49min
279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing
Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
AT&T International Day Pass
Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
cp -c
Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
Carrying case
John's reload extension lives thanks to Isaac Halvorson
ATP appears in WWDC Session 501: Introducing Podcast Analytics! (~11 minutes)
Forecast
MP3 ID3v2 Chapters spec
More on WWDC
Memoji are gender neutral
Password improvements and 1Password
Default Folder X
Xcode 10 no longer compiles 32-bit apps
Office 365 is now in the app store, as with some Adobe stuff.
Panic
Bare Bones
Adobe XD
Metal and eGPUs
#askatp
Slow iOS 12 adoption among teens because of big brother parent? (via Somename)
Are Kindles worth it over iPads for reading? (via Ashely A)
What does the alternate Apple-bought-Bungie universe look like? (via joshhunt)
Marathon
Pathways out of darkness
Post-show: "Casey's" Jeep
IIHS rating
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