Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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May 29, 2015 • 1h 40min
119: Promoretired
This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl). Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired.
As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode.
Pre-show:
Casey's new mug thanks to @_DavidSmith
Follow-Up:
Showbot woes
Heroku's pricing changes
Erin's MacBook Air
AppleCare+
Synology DS1813+
Apple Watch accuracy whilst running
Acquiring media
Sonarr
Plex
Popcorntime
Keeping up with the Kardashians
HBO Now versus HBO Go
Larry Sanders Show
Oz
The Wire
Sex and the City
The Sopranos
Big Love
Game of Thrones
Girls
Veep
Pebble Time versus the Apple Watch
Christina's Pebble Time review
Christina's Watch
Modern Buckle
Apple Watch native SDK
Marco's post on SDK questions
Casey's post on complications
Weather Line
Glances
Casey:
Settings
Battery
TripIt
Dark Sky
WWDC
Christina:
CityMapper
Battery
Heart Rate
Overcast
TripIt
Authy
Marco:
Settings
Now Playing
Overcast
Activity
Jony Ive's promotion
Stephen Fry
New Yorker profile of Jony Ive
Rene Ritchie's tweet
The Next Web on Alan Dye
9to5 Mac's take
Ben Thompson's take
Taylor Swift
InfoSec Taylor Swift
Fight Club 2
Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
B.J. Novak
Dark Horse
Post-show culinary discussion:
Chili
Cincinnati chili (e.g. Skyline)
Amy's canned chili
Turkey bacon
Ranch dressing
Mac and cheese
Velveeta
On Analog(ue)
Kraft
Barenaked Ladies
Annie's
Nostalgia:
Marco: Steak 'n Shake Frisco Melt
Christina:
Red Lobster
Sonic Drive-In
Chick Fil A
Arby's
Dairy Queen
Casey
John's of Bleecker Street
Postmates
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May 22, 2015 • 1h 56min
118: A Fistful of Apple Watches
Follow-up:
Running with Apple Watch – what if you hurt yourself?
Major Indian retailer Flipkart is going app-only (via @voldyman)
When do apps make sense? When does the web?
Apple Store EasyPay
Cosmodrome by Brianna Wu
RSS vs. blog Twitter accounts
Hypercritical
Marco.org
Liss is More
WatchOS 1.0.1
WWDC
App Camp for Girls Happy Hour – meet us there!
Release Notes #105
Layers
altConf
Hotels
Parc55
Pickwick
Mosser
New Retina MacBook Pro
Barefeats benchmark
Battery life specs
Details
Mistake One with the new MacBook
Joe Cieplinski's response
Marco's Matis Ergo Pro Review
Marco's Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Review
Post-show: Casey gets angry at himself. Very angry. Really angry. Mac Pro episode kind of angry.
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May 14, 2015 • 1h 59min
117: You Don’t Have the Antibodies
Follow-up:
Inclusivity
Twitter Accounts
Everyday Sexism
Brianna Wu
Leigh Alexander
Feminist Frequency
Christina Warren
Podcasts
Rocket
Vector
iMore Podcast
Clockwise
Plex and Network Attached Storage
iPhoto and Time Machine
Watches replacing phones
Mac App Store
Sam Soffes' blog post
App sandboxing
Tyranny of the handbag
Apple Watch accuracy during exercise without iPhone
Garmin GPS Watches
Pedometer++
Google Maps Pedometer
Casey gets an Apple Watch
Facebook Instant Articles
Ben Thompson
Speed comparison video
Marco on declining web relevance
Verizon buying AOL
Post-show:
Overcast streaming engine
AVPlayer
RSS Radio
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This week's toaster
John's main toaster
Black & Decker "Three-Knob"
Knob Feel on YouTube
May 8, 2015 • 2h 1min
116: Women Aren’t a Minority
Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons
Follow-up:
HFS+ and Network Attached Storage
The Synology we use is the DS1813+, but the DS1815+ is the modern version
DS214play
Photos.app
Saving and transferring edits between photo apps
Flickr gives 1 TB free (via @VJGoh)
Disabling iCloud Photo Library 1 & 2
LaunchControl for managing launchd jobs
Microsoft, iOS, Swift (via @esusatyo)
Swift is being worked on
Presentation video
Marco versus the raccoons, illustrated
How do we encourage more women to listen to ATP?
John's tweet
Rocket
App Camp for Girls
GamerGate
JWZ
Example 1 & 2
Overcast changes for Apple Watch
Are watches destined to replace smartphones?
What were the first iPhone apps we downloaded?
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May 1, 2015 • 1h 49min
115: Empathy for the Machine
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Pre-show:
Neko Atsume ("the cat game")
Follow-up:
Bad Seagate hard drives
How Hard Disks Work (page 7)
The MacBook Air survives... for now!
launchd
launchd plist generator
Lingon
cron
Photos
Background processes
iStat Menus
Hard links
John on symbolic and hard links in his Leopard review
Shared album photo limit (via Lance Hildebrand)
Performance
Mucho Spanish
Will Hains
Deleted photos
Restoring from backups
Deletion instructions
Apple Watch, one week in
Luca's wrist
Apple Watch bands
WSJ on Taptic Engine manufacturing issue
Serenity Caldwell's tweet
Complications
Jason Snell's take
Casey's take
Repairability
iFixIt's teardown
MacBook teardown
Microsoft Build
Visual Studio Code
Atom
IntelliSense
Eclipse
Visual Studio Code Node support
Mono
Homebrew
Chris Dias
Casey on node-inspector
PHP syntax highlighting
Gruber on Markdown support
Electron
Project Astoria & Project Islandwood
WINE
Dalvik
GNUStep
Microsoft Band
Session video (posted after this episode was recorded)
Post-show:
Connected follow-out
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Apr 24, 2015 • 1h 57min
114: So Far, So OK
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Follow-up:
Natural disasters, Thailand, and hard drives
Synology hard drive redundancy strategies
Synology Hybrid Raid
Synology DS1814+ (our Synology)
New MacBook battery life under load
AnandTech
Marco on "battery outliers"
TDP
Ridiculous Apple Watch case
Journey soundtrack is now on vinyl and as predicted Marco is upset about it.
WWDC Tickets
@swilliams' awful experience
New Photos app for Mac
Casey's workflow
Picturelife
Filing script
Geotagging script
Storage Pricing
iCloud
Dropbox
Amazon Cloud Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Picturelife
Hypercritical #9: No iLife is an Island
Post-show:
Casey makes a terrible mistake
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Apr 16, 2015 • 1h 47min
113: Get Your Ears Ready to Hear Me Complain
Donate to the EFF as a thanks for invalidating key claims of the "podcasting patent"
Follow-up:
There is no air gap in at least "most models" of the Apple Watch (via Jeremy Heberlein)
What watches did we order?
Apple Store App (iTunes Link)
Marco's Blog Post
Casey's Blog Post
Joel Housman's Blog Post
Dr. Drang challenges Marco
ATP is selling T-shirts again!
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Visit voiceover artist and clothier Matt Alexander's awesome company, Need.
WWDC
AltConf
New ticketing rules
Chargeback (please don't do this)
John ends his series of OS X reviews
Retrospective: 5 years of OS X
Retrospective: 10 years of OS X reviews
"My Body is Ready"
Post-show:
Photos
Casey tries to avoid doing HTTP Basic Auth on his site
John has thoughts about Casey's header
John tries to buy a lamp
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Apr 9, 2015 • 1h 60min
112: The Problem Is You
Follow-up:
There are some nice people on Twitter
MacBook Pros and external displays
Specs page
Grandma's Boy's seat/display setup
Scrubbing streaming video
Koenigsegg "One to One"
PowerPC Macs with x86 hardware compatibility, PC users, and the power button
Meta-discussion about the show format
In-N-Out Secret Menu
Upgrade #30
Scroll hijacking and modern web design
The Verge Apple Watch Review
iMac with Retina 5K display splash page
Myst
Apple Watch reviews
Nilay Patel at The Verge
Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal
Joshua Topolsky at Bloomberg
John Gruber at Daring Fireball
Ben Bajarin at Techpinions
Other links
Display PostScript
Apple Watch Guided Tours
Purchase intentions
Casey "definitely won't" be getting the 42mm Space Black Link Bracelet (Suuuure. —Ed.)
Marco is preordering the 42mm Stainless with Black Leather Loop
John won't be getting the 42mm Space Gray Sport, but everyone else in the geek world probably will
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Apr 4, 2015 • 2h 7min
111: That Big Ring Underground Somewhere in Europe
Follow-up:
Pork food safety
F-16 and F/A-18 control sticks
External displays and the current MacBook Pro
"This never would have happened if Steve was alive"
Comparing past actions versus intentions
The Macalope's take
Marco is sleepy and Casey is envious
Siracusa's reference
Fabrication of DRAM versus SRAM
X-ray lithography
Moore's Law
AnandTech on 32mm and SRAM
Process size chart (via @GordonMcGregor)
ARM Macs and roadmap rumors
Surface RT
Microsoft Build
MacBook Geekbench benchmark
Simon Whitty's tweet
Apple TV
MacBook VGA Dongle
Koenigsegg One:1
Roku
Amazon Fire TV
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Chromecast
Plex
PlexConnect
Naming conventions
MakeMKV
Don Melton's video transcoding scripts
discoveryd
HBO Now and Apple
FAQ
NFL Sunday Ticket
Post-show Accidental Analog(ue):
Twitter
Rescue Time
Private versus public communities
Casey's Apple Pay blog post
The Year of Outrage
Catcalls in NYC video
Communication vector overdose
Slack
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Mar 27, 2015 • 2h 2min
110: And on That Bombshell…
Follow-up:
Pronunciation of Marques Brownlee
Has Intel Skylake been delayed?
Reasons for MacBook limitations
16 GB RAM
1 USB port
RAM and silicon process sizes
Apple apps updated to use Force Touch trackpad
New MacBook missing 3-finger drag?
Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy
Intel SkyLake and the wireless PC
WiDi
WiGig
Nintendo and DeNA Partnership
Kotaku
Pokémon could be bad
Post-show about the presumed demise of Top Gear:
BBC statement on Jeremy Clarkson
Casey's blog post
The Incomparable on authors who are bad humans
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This week's toaster
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