Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Accidental Tech Podcast

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

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    Dragged Across the Line

    Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue VoIP ATA Ubiquiti Managed VoIP Follow-up: Apple Account transfers Updated restrictions & guidelines Stephen’s take The UK’s no-good, very-bad law WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos Matthew Green’s blog post macOS UNIX compliance Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything. Jay Peters at The Verge Humane press release Humane support document iPhone 16e announced Intro video Apple TV app is now on Android Netflix and foot-guns The Verge, 14 February, 9:25 AM: Hell hath frozen over Screenshot of linking Netflix account Apple TV app The Verge, 14 February, 2:17 PM: Netflix says “our bad” Joe Rosensteel Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board Installation photo HomeSeer HS-WD200+ Dongle ZWave ZWaveJS UI Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now. Meta Bloomberg coverage Tesla As usual, Elon is a blowhard Google Apple Kuo’s tweet Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. Use code factorpodcast to get 50% off and free shipping on your first box. 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 3m

  2. 13 FEB

    No Longer ery Good

    Follow-up: Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck) First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert) You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West) Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”? Tailgate Tub Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers) DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka) Technical report Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan) macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto) Thom at OSnews Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another The new JoyCons do act as a mouse An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti) /r/TVTooHigh Casey’s new arrivals WS2812B Addressable LED strip Home is Where the Smart Is WLED ESP32 TRMNL Hyperspace updates Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real! Slack An aside about bug reporting Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK Original Washington Post article BBC coverage ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot Ask ATP: What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam) Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield) QNAP Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle) Post-show: Restaurant-tech update Dante Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch) Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink) Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch) Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites Jon Prosser’s video Invites & Sports apps Sponsored by: HelloFresh: America’s #1 Meal Kit. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

    1h 58m

  3. 6 FEB

    Time and Smoke

    Pre-show: BBQ ZZQ Q Follow-up: New immersive video: Man vs. Beast “Historical Commission”? Sonos volume changes are local DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave) Docker Rosetta (via Brian Reiter) Hypervisor.framework Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter) Sending email Mailhog (via Matt Barlow) Mailpit (via John Caruso) Maildev (via Yves Serrano) ddev.com (via Bram Esposito) Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke) Marco’s TV audio sync issues Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment) Quick Media Switching Previously on ATP… QMS marketing page Demo video (via Nit) Apple Invites App Store Web Competitive (and very similar) app Partiful It’s not great on Android Demo video from Stephen Robles Flighty Sorry, iPad Pornography on the iPhone AltStore’s post Riley’s response AltStore’s second response Jason’s take Ask ATP: Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau) Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift) Localsend ↪️ Gruber ↪️ Underscore Luna Display Synergy Post-show: Marco had a good weekend. Dante Food Safety Talk Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff Sonos’ take on the Apple TV? Ventura OS? Sonos has another round of layoffs Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. 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!

    1h 57m

  4. 30 JAN

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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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
    627
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2013–2025 Accidental Tech Podcast
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