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

Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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    • 4.4 • 2K Ratings

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

    I Reboot With Reason

    I Reboot With Reason

    Follow-up:


    Alex Stevenson-Price’s thread on his initial experiences with the Dell 6K monitor


    Monitor Control
    Dell Display Manager (via Ben Smith)

    Hands on with Final Cut Pro & Logic for iPad


    Ferrite
    Dan Moren says Time-based rulers don’t work
    Keep Final Cut Pro open until the export is complete
    You can make FCP macOS ↔ iPadOS


    How it works

    Steve Troughton-Smith’s observations: 1 2
    Ben Scheirman points out that Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 for macOS has way better mixed SDR/HDR support

    9 + 10 = 21


    Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot

    Reddit on John’s of Bleecker


    Whoever smelt it dealt it


    Beatings will continue until morale improves


    Casey’s take
    Technical Support Incident

    Bungie’s New Extraction Shooter: Marathon


    Myst
    Official Website
    Trailer
    News Release
    Escape from Tarkov

    PlayStation Q


    SteamDeck

    #askatp:


    Which direction is scrolling “down”, asks Jesse Stiller
    Is there really any “re-engineering cost” for Apple Silicon Macs? (via strays_nod00)


    Northbridge

    How often do we reboot our Macs, wonders Saurabh
    How can we share a ton of pictures with not-savvy family? (via Brian Coffey)

    Post-show: More Callsheet pricing


    GIFWrapped



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    • 2 hr 21 min
    My Computer Supports Math

    My Computer Supports Math

    Pre-show:


    🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️
    A New Yorker’s View of the United States

    Follow-up:


    The Kobo FU continues


    The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini)
    Install NickelMenu
    Add the Dropbox menu item


    Libra 2
    Other Kobos


    Multiple Displays on M1/M2 Macs


    Matthaus Woolard points out there are only 2 display controllers
    Hector Marcan has now-deleted tweets covering this (via Richard Stephens)
    Edward Munn (among others) clues us into a DisplayLink-based workaround
    Wavlink USB 3.0 ↔ HDMI Adapter (via Steve McWee)
    Lior Shakedd summarizes the drawbacks

    The woes of the iBook G4 (via Ryan Maxwell)


    Screen Spanning Doctor
    Compatibility List

    Final Cut Pro on iPad


    Some M1 Pros had 16GB RAM and virtual memory (via Chris)
    Final Cut Pro handles project files in ∞ ways (via Brendan)

    Dell UltraSharp 32” 6K Monitor is $3,200


    Resolutions


    XDR = 6016 × 3384
    Dell = 6144 × 3456
    Dell has an 8K version available
    Dell offers a variety of sizes

    HDR600 only


    WWDC Vibe Check 🧘🏻‍♂️


    Avoiding Copland 2010
    You Ruined Everything

    Big watchOS upgrades coming?


    ClockKit
    SFSpeechRecognizer
    Whisper
    whisper.cpp

    Post-show: How should Casey price Callsheet?


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    • 2 hr 37 min
    On the Cheerleader Bus

    On the Cheerleader Bus

    Follow-up:


    Marco’s new Kobo


    Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol)

    Games breaking the fourth wall


    Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick
    Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark)
    Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung)

    Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (via Michael Lechter)
    Fully == Uplift? (via Matthew Kraft)
    Downside to camera shutters as sensor guards during cleaning (via Wade Tregaskis)

    Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad


    Final Cut Pro
    Logic Pro


    Audio Hijack

    Jason’s overview

    Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, etc.
    Post-show: SwiftUI trials & tribulations


    .matchedGeometryEffect()
    Under the Radar #268: Fancy Work



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    • 2 hr 15 min
    The Beach Is the Beach

    The Beach Is the Beach

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    Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up


    kobo sage
    PMN Caecilia
    Calibre
    what if?
    Pragmatic Programmer
    Tao Te Ching
    1984

    Follow-up:


    Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
    Quick Callsheet Recap


    Someone help Casey with focusing a .searchable() text field, please!
    Introspect for SwiftUI
    Marco’s SwiftUI error message

    Emil Jensen’s 2FA iOS shortcut for iCloud keychain


    prefs:root=PASSWORD&search=2fa

    CarPlay


    Rental cars (via Milad Cerkic)
    At what cost? (via Dave Nicholls)


    The Verge in 2019

    Ford CEO doubles down on CarPlay

    More nostalgia via Michael Hannemann


    The Fool’s Errand


    Infinite Mac

    Metal Gear Solid
    Eternal Darkness


    Rapid Security Responses & Cryptexes


    Adam Engst at TidBITS

    #askatp:


    Will consumers actually buy a 15” MacBook Air? (via Ben)
    Is HDR and Dolby Vision worth it? (via Torstein)
    What are our thoughts about standing desks? (via Nick from Toronto)


    Fully Jarvis


    60” × 27”, Stone, Unpowered Grommets, silver legs, 3 stage, programmable handset, with cable management

    Fully Jax Dual Monitor Arm
    VariDesk
    Fog Creek’s desks (2008)
    Uplift


    Post-show:


    People love their cars, too
    Marco went to Dave & Busters
    MAME



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    • 2 hr 1 min
    The Meat Part of Multitasking

    The Meat Part of Multitasking

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    Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading


    Boox Nova Air C
    Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.)
    reMarkable
    Jason’s e-Reader Roundup
    iPad Mini (6th-gen.)
    Tobor Robot
    PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font)

    Follow-up:


    Mac Pro Believe Shirt


    Shirt ordered for John Ternus

    John continues to fight his window-dragging lag (FB12122106)


    New movie

    Belkin Releases USB-C Hub


    Belkin’s site
    Amazon
    CalDigit TS4

    Google Authenticator adds account syncing for 2FA codes


    Not end-to-end encrypted though

    Duncan Wilcock’s Photos.app duplicate management tale of woe


    Motif
    Mimeo

    John’s receiver isn’t the panacea he thought it was (via Stephen Brandon)


    Jonathan LaCour’s solution
    Zidoo Z9X


    Reddit starts charging for API access


    Christian’s thoughts
    Apollo (App Store link)
    app.net
    Officially unofficial ATP subreddit

    What was it like before multitasking? (via Torb)


    The Verge’s Lisa video
    John


    Pong
    VIC-20
    Mini vMac
    MacWrite
    MacDraw
    Macintosh Plus
    The stories of the original Macintosh team
    Netcom
    BASIC
    OS/2
    Egghead Software

    Casey


    config.sys & autoexec.bat & IRQs
    Null modem
    Hayes AT command set
    Kali
    CD Caddy


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    • 2 hr 28 min
    Rock It in the Right Direction

    Rock It in the Right Direction

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    Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough.
    Follow-up:


    macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱


    John’s demo GIF
    Demo Video

    CarPlay does avoid some problems


    Newer version of Casey’s adapter

    GM’s piss-poor decision is only for future EV models (via Nathaniel Irons)
    Apple doesn’t offer lossless Atmos / DTS:X (via Sam Tierney)


    Infuse post

    Interchangeable lens dust avoidance (via Gilbert Tang)
    Casey doesn’t have to regret his Studio Display yet
    HOAs really do suck

    Solid-state buttons dropped from iPhones 15?
    A diversion about Apple Watch Family Setup
    #askatp:


    Do we run third party anti-malware apps? (via Xerxes)
    Does macOS allow for apps to keep keys and data private from each other? (via Jesse Wilson)
    If John/Tina hadn’t already gotten a Mac Studio, would they get an M2 mini? (via Trieu)

    Post-show: Hops is getting nervous. 😬


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    • 1 hr 49 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
2K Ratings

2K Ratings

farfromrest ,

One of my favorites

Been listening for years. Only podcast that I give money to for extra content. Each week I can’t wait for the new episode!

zedlyfe ,

Really fun, ramblings on tech/tech adjacent things

I enjoy the podcast a lot. I was an occasional listener for years, maybe 3-4 episode a year since for 5yrs. For some reason I started listening weekly last September and it’s been super enjoyable.

I was surprised to see alot of reviews mentioning politics cause I barely even remember them saying anything politically related. They might occasionally say something that reveals their politics but mostly it’s just tech stuff.

samcat116 ,

This show has become just 90% complaining

I used to love this show, however it seems like most of the show topics end up in complaining about how things aren’t good enough for them. It had a good run.

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