Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Accidental Tech Podcast

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Do Less Math in Computers

    🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Follow-up: Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby) Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment Lenovo Legion Go S Ryan London is trolling John Black Brown John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has Hyperspace scrolling updates AppKit vs. WebKit NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell Every UUID Writing down every UUID Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon) Casey’s notification/LED project Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration ratgdo ESP32 ESPHome Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen) WS2812B Candy buttons Historical commission application process Switch replacement options: HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens) Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens) DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber Ben Thompson’s FAQ DeepSeek-V3 paper DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o? R1 is more open than OpenAI OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng R1 censorship Example 1 Example 2 (via Greg Pierce) Example 3 (via Gruber) Prompt engineering The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development x86 images on Apple Silicon Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits ✌️ …and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin ✌️ …and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay Wall Street Journal coverage The Last King of Scotland Sponsored by: Members like you! Become a member for ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    1h 53m

  2. 23 JAN

    It’s About Human Connection

    Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️ Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America Follow-up: Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K Thom Bullock’s tweet As per Dave Hamilton (of Mag Geek Gab), $800! Fast directory sizing lives! /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util man apfs.util Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist) Backyard Birds Food Truck Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato) Also on YouTube Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware Overcast link Hyperspace updates Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms John’s Hyperspace Instructions Ask ATP: What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher) MoCA Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified? ATP #376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle Raspberry Pi Zero WH UDP Homebridge Home Assistant MQTT Mosquitto Eric Welander Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced The Verge coverage Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Use code ATP. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ATP. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    2h 8m

  3. 14 JAN

    Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

    Follow-up: AirPod noises Gui Rambo & AirBuddy One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach) Also, more on status lights (via Tom French) Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson) Knowledge base How to turn off charging sounds Look, ma! We’re famous! AirPod Noises (via Patch) TVs at CES 2025 Hisense’s 116UX with RGB mini-backlight Digital Trends coverage HDTVTest coverage DLSS History (via Hampus Jensen) Explanation (via flunkedflank) Digital Foundry explanation video Mac monitors Some foreign options (via Henry Chen) MacRumors thread Kuycon G27-X Another option (via Tim Ngwena) Asus ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV Quick look video DisplayHDR 600 spec Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler) 🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮 The Verge Google and Microsoft join in Citizens United Nvidia bends a knee Charles Erwin Wilson’s nomination for Secretary of Defense TestFlight subscriptions on macOS TestFlight for ATP members Name reveal Manage subscriptions API Marco and Casey price John’s app Post-show Neutral: Winter report card for Tina’s Civic Casey has connected Erin’s car to Home Assistant Marco’s new[-ish] car update Members-only ATP Overtime: Honda EVs at CES Afeela (Honda 🤝🏻 Sony) 1 Honda Zero Ars Technica Acura NSX F-4 Phantom II F-16 Fighting Falcon Sponsored by: Members like you! Become a member for ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    2h 24m

  4. 9 JAN

    I'll Meet You Any Time You Want

    Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them 20k Hz The Sound of Apple 1.0 The Sound of Apple 2.0 Auto-Tone (Rivian) statuslight.com Follow-up: That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of Former example Actual link we couldn’t [previously] find (via K) Another example And another The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles) Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft) The Magic Mouse The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons The Mighty Mouse did MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook Editorialized reel What will the new one be? Ridiculous mouse rumor Gurman’s take Hello, Computer Death to buttons? Death to ports? (In the name of handedness) Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J) Perhaps a common charging approach? Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson) Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews) CES 2025 TVs What’s John got his eyes on? Sony 💔 Samsung’s new QD-OLED HDTVTest Digital Trends LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED Microlens Tandem OLED Panasonic talks about the new LG panel “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel” HDTVTest on the Z95B More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️ Big TVs are big LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5 Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618 Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB” Dell no longer makes XPS computers Mocked at their own launch is not a great look Engadget’s take Nvidia’s announcements Nvidia announces RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs DLSS 4 Explainer video from Nvidia Deep learning super sampling John’s post featuring a video about the responsiveness of touch interfaces Nvidia AI supercomputer “Digits” ~~Concepts of~~ a plan for desktop CPU TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only Post-show: Thanks, Patrons 💙 Marco bought something. HDCP Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels BBC report 1 and report 2 Apple’s response Allen Pike’s Apple Intelligence evaluation Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Wildgrain: Free croissants in every box and $30 off your first box. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    2h 12m

  5. 4 JAN

    Mostly Cookies

    Pre-show: Holiday results Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace Casey’s impending mess John needs technical support Follow-up: Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show) The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!) On Recents in the Finder sidebar Michael Starke points out it isn’t new Odin points out it’s a default Joe Lion has complaints Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens) Vison Pro teardown Samsung’s screen breakthrough Sony’s OLED microdisplay Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs Original blog post ~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn) Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update? MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon Casey’s super-shady installation LoRa Casey’s starter pack YoLink FAQ John’s starter pack Water Leak Detector YoLink store at Amazon Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System Direct video link Slides PDF About Apple File System Apple File System Reference dirstat.h dirstat.c Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ATP. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    1h 47m

  6. 26/12/2024

    Master Plan to Take Over the World

    Pre-show: New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show Become an ATP Member to listen ATP Gift Memberships Follow-up: “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim) Can Marco recognize waveforms? Descript Emo Siri It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz) She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin) Immersive video More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex) Insta360 Titan Software-based immersive video Depth Anything Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin) Welcome to Light Fields Deep View Video Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre) Demo for the Meta Quest John’s app More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks) Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon New Vision Pro content — again! Apple and bootable macOS backups Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts Original blog post from May 2021 Secure boot asr: Apple Software Restore Ask ATP: Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola) What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk) ~/bin /usr/local/bin Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland) What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein) Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.) 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one) 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.) Olympus OM-D E-M10 Sony a7 III SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024 Sponsored by: Members like you! Become a member for ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    2h 13m

  7. 19/12/2024

    Type System Says No

    New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show Follow-up: John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez Christian Kent’s correction/joke More app name ideas… Experts have weighed in on John’s idea Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨ Pinstripes are back, baby! Jeff Johnson Reddit post Is Siri… emotional… now? Marco’s new e-ink toy Integrations API Note that it’s backordered for a bit New Wildlife immersive video episode Blackmagic announces immersive video camera _’s toot Quicktime VR Matterport Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers PlayStation VR2 Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Post-show: John’s app progress Casey’s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023) Apple’s Backyard Birds sample app map(_:) Hacking with Swift Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation 5K is 5120 × 2880 Marc Edwards’ chart Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K At the time of recording, on sale for $720 Jason’s review ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor Review by D. Griffin Jones BenQ PD2730S ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV Apple’s plans Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ATP. MasterClass: Learn from the world’s best. Video lessons that inspire. Aura Frames: The best digital photo frame. Use code ATP for $35 off the best-selling Carver Mat frame. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    2h 17m

  8. 13/12/2024

    An Incredibly Dangerous App

    Pre-show: Laundry tactics Follow-up: Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news Channels Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights CGPath Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase) FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance M1-M3: ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController M4: ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled Original post on The Information Gruber’s take The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor John’s adventures in saving space Symbolic links Hard links ditto diskDedupe SuperDuper! visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display Casey’s toots At the library Mac Virtual Display in action “Study Room 1” Casey is such a dork 🤓 Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature? Members-only ATP Overtime: Macintosh emulator is forbidden from third party app stores 👎🏻 Apple’s self-described notarization boundaries Notarization Review Guidelines Mini vMac Sponsored by: Tailscale: A secure network that just works. DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Aura Frames: The best digital photo frame. Use code ATP for $35 off the best-selling Carver Mat frame. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    1h 59m
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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  • Creator
    Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2025
  • Episodes
    624
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2013–2025 Accidental Tech Podcast
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