Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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Aug 6, 2015 • 2h 18min

129: Tap-to-Click Wizard

Skylake desktop CPUs launch Casey joins 2012 "Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal." TrackPoint TrackPoint Mouse Leap Motion 2015 iPhone predictions Naked robotic core It's Ramifications! Carrier subsidies and pricing games AT&T Next Post-show: Repairing iPads Hot water heaters Marco's new camera Sony A7R II Sony FE 35mm f/2.8 Sony FE 55mm f/1.8 Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 macro Canon 5D Mark II Nikon D750 Casey's camera setup Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. This week's toaster Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code INFINITETIMESCALE for 10% off.
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Jul 29, 2015 • 2h 2min

128: Blue Ring Stud

Pre-show: Invisible formatting Chapter markers and Germany Follow-up: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac Samsung SSDs and TRIM MacNN SSD testing Marco's cellular-option dilemma Reddit Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast John slacked off for 46 days What makes Twitter marginally less crummy? Q&A about policies El Capitan's Rootless Mode WWDC Session 706 – Security and Your Apps Audio Hijack Paths in the Grass Mac App Store... still stinks. Coda Craig Hockenberry on the Mac App Store Post-show: All three hosts learn something new about life as adults. Neven Mrgan's CocoaConf talk Sponsored by: Need, a curated retailer and publication for men; and Foremost, small-batch, American-made clothing for men and women. Use code PREFOLLOWUP for 25% off. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Try Igloo for free.
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Jul 22, 2015 • 1h 52min

127: Not a Cactus in Sight

Pre-follow-up: Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0 Follow-up: Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian) On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter) Marco tries to deny he likes playing games Desert Golfing Alto's Adventure Prison Architect Theme Hospital OpenTTD, the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon Intel's tick-tock seems to be over Reddit kerfuffle CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit? Hello Internet #43 Rocket #26 and #27 Laurie Voss's two tweets (sorry for the wrong gender pronoun) Post-show: More on Reddit Something Awful Forums Marco's old coffee shop closed Sponsored by: lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code PASSINGLANE for 10% off your first order. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account.
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Jul 16, 2015 • 1h 32min

126: The Web Kind of Happens to You

Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations Follow-up: Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government Browser choice on iOS Font safety TRIM versus over-provisioning Half Life is available for the Mac Counterstrike Team Fortress 2 Markov generator New iPod Touch Steve Troughton-Smith notes it's iPod7,1 Matthew Panzarino's speed tests Metal App thinning & slicing iPod Nano Gruber's take iPod Shuffle Post-show: FCModel Optimistic locking SQLite PRAGMAs Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code “ATP” for 10% off your first order. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Try Igloo for free.
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Jul 10, 2015 • 1h 58min

125: A Better Future for Everybody

Follow-up: Do SSDs understand the data that they write? Honda Fit cameras BMW Top View camera Classical music on Apple Music Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith Discussion from last episode First usage from #83 Concept's introduction Copland 2010 American radio sucks Safari is the new IE Nolan's Follow-Up W3C canvas Code Hard or Go Home CSS4 Selector Test Current results CSS Spinner Test Current results Microsoft eviscerates their phone business The frustrating comedy of business speak A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8 WebOS Microsoft Build Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code TRIMFORCE for 10% off your first order. Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code ATP for 15% off.
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Jul 3, 2015 • 1h 39min

124: The Tyranny of Radio

Follow-up: Bitcode and portability Dan Gohman's mailing list post Google PNaCL Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2 10.10.4 and TRIM support Overview Ars comment thread Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities Apple's use of Samsung SSDs The comedy of updating hard drive firmware Apple Music Beats 1 Serenity Caldwell on Apple Music vs. iTunes Match Paul Haddad on how to turn off auto-renewal MUTEMATH article Casey found Fury Road Post-show: The Apple TV ad that mentions CONFIG.SYS Safari is the new IE will be covered next week Florida is hot TSA Pre-Check Global Entry Your Daily Lex Turning This Car Around Traveling with infants on airplanes Labyrinth Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. This week's toaster Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Casper: A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code ATP for $50 off.
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Jun 24, 2015 • 1h 27min

123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

Follow-up: Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2 C data types Endianness Data structure alignment Steve Troughton-Smith S1 analysis by Chipworks The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs Intel Skylake Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting Mono's compiler history Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR" John, his watch, and his nose Myke was right again Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan WebKit Content Blockers Session video with John and Marco Safari View Controller to kill minibrowsers GlimmerBlocker YouTube ad settings Ad-banner blindness The ethics of running ad-blockers AdBlock Plus accepts money from some ad companies whitelisted as Acceptable Ads John's Reload Button extension for Safari TRIM) on non-Apple SSDs New trimforce command in El Capitan After-show: Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses. Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Use coupon code LOSTBACKPACK for 10% off your first purchase. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account.
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Jun 19, 2015 • 1h 42min

122: My Results Were Inconclusive

Follow-up: John loses leaves his wallet John on losing his wallet on ATP #121 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet Marco's Slimmy Wallet Notes.app runs on CloudKit The MacBook One and Photos iOS 9 and QuickType Casey on iOS 9 Picture-In-Picture Bitcode Platforms State of the Union Change in session description (at the bottom) John's Swift article John's tweet about ARM Macs LLVM Bitcode file format LLVM IR encoding LLVM assembly language Marco on app signing crashes in 2012 vDSP Autolayout Launch image storyboards Developing for future, especially new screen sizes ClockKit Complications session Swift 2 and Swift for Linux Node.js Pandemic PR release footers Python Java Go Rust PHP Pebble SDK WebObjects Protocol-Oriented Programming at WWDC Gang of Four Design Patterns Javascript ES6 C# extension methods Ruby Mixin The future of Swift, and when to dive in Build & Analyze Casey's Website Post-Show: Language wonks When do you adopt a new language? Signs that point to Swift ARC Sponsored by: Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase.
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Jun 9, 2015 • 2h 6min

121: Admitted No Wrongdoing

Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco: The keynote presentation Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan Natural-language search Window management iOS 9 iPad enhancements: Keyboard navigation gestures Side-by-side apps Will these revive iPad sales growth? New Notes app Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of Apple Instant Articles News app Publisher FAQ Swift going open-source watchOS 2.0 Third-party complications Initial thoughts on the native API Post-show: Apple Music announcement John's Costanza wallet Sponsored by: Cards Against Humanity: A free party game for horrible people. This week's toaster Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Use promo code ATP for 10% off your first purchase. Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link.
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Jun 5, 2015 • 2h 7min

120: One Magical Wire

Pre-show: Weebles Wobble Casey's temporary setup to mess with John John starts two new podcasts: Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann Robot or Not with Jason Snell Follow-up: Apple Watch distance & step count accuracy Apple Support Document Jony Ive's promotion Collateralized debt obligation John Gruber at Daring Fireball Chris Bangle Jeff Williams is Senior Vice President, Operations Google Photos Connected Russell Ivanovic's interesting search results Canon 5D Mark II Samsung Galaxy S6 camera iPhone 6 Camera Optical image stabilization Olympus OM-D E-M5 II's 40-megapixel multi-shot mode Picturelife Photos.app performance and using it with a keyboard Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C Intel product overview SCSI WWDC predictions New York Times claims no Apple TV Amazon Fire TV Stick Plex Ultraviolet Don Melton's scripts Sneakers WarGames WatchKit SDK semi-announced John on launchd Auto Layout Size Classes Today's Force Touch API Pedometer++ Apple M7 Cosmonaut Post-show: John has thoughts about Velveeta versus Kraft Olestra The relative advantages and disadvantages of fruit (Bosc pears are the best pears) Sponsored by: Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code ATP for $5 off your first purchase. Studio Neat: Simple products that solve problems. Great gifts for graduations and Father's Day! Use coupon ATP for 10% off. Marco's AeroPress Iced Coffee Recipe Casey's review of the Neat Ice Kit Simple Syrup Kit behind the scenes

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