483 episodes
Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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The Faceless Knob
Pre-show: Two is one, one is none.
Zoom F3
USBPre2
MixPre-3
Follow-up:
Cleaning apps and “launch services”
launchd
Launch Control
A hint more on Casey’s frivoLiss ethernet project
Many recommendations for Monoprice slim 6A patch cables
Jonathan Litt reminds us about fire stops
PoE “medusa” cables exist, for USB-C and barrel plugs
Why bother with ethernet at all? (via Andrew Larson)
Millimeter-wave
IPv6
Pi-Hole
NAT
On USB-C KVMs and the Studio Display (via Alex)
Magic cable
Demonstration (YouTube timestamp link)
GSuite is now free for “personal use”
Casey’s Fastmail referral link
Apple Fitness+ “Studio Tour”
iJustine
Etalk
KCAU-TV
John on “filling your TV”
Quinn Nelson’s Rivian and bad controls
Quinn’s Instagram video (seek to 1h10m47s)
2001 Buick
Apple Pre-Announces Accessibility Enhancements
Shelly Brisbin’s take
TextSniper
ADB
#askatp:
Is there any bespoke music app for listening to concerts? (via Bill Steinbach)
Live Phish
Barrowclift’s iOS Music Player Showcase
What Safari extensions are we running and recommend? (via Robert Bateau)
John
Safari Reload Button
Safari Keyword Search
Instapaper
Downie
Hush
Fixarriffic
NetNewsWire
Marco
1Password
1Blocker
Casey
Noir (App Store link)
StopTheMadness
Super Agent
Vinegar (App Store link)
How does one remember how one enrolled in a service? (via Brian Hamilton)
Ashley Bischoff’s idea
Post-show: Casey’s Ethernet adventure continues
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I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses
Follow-up:
A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
Mechanical Watch Explainer
GPS
Naval Architecture
Patreon
Apple’s New Developer Center
More from Parker Ortolani
John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
An aside about password managers
Protobuf
John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
Casey’s Ethernet Project
Cat 6A cable types
Playdate impressions
Panic Podcast
Playdate Podcast
Altered Beast
Super Mario 64
Total Annihilation
Scorched Earth
Non-Season Playdate Games
The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
…it meets the same fate as macOS Server
#askatp:
Will an Apple Silicon Mac Pro have ECC RAM? (via Robert Boyle)
HBM4
Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS? (via Jon Sulek)
Pacifist
Does choice of programming language matter for server-side crawling? (via Abel Demoz)
Go
Rust
Post-show: Marco’s capture system
Sonnet Echo Express SEIIIe Enclosure
Magewell Pro HDMI Quad Capture Card
Sonnet Allegro 4-port USB-A card
Sonnet Allegro 4-port USB-C card
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Accidentally Made It Too Good
Follow-up:
Follow-out: Clockwise #449: It’s Still Working, I’m So Sad
T-Shirt Results (THANK YOU!)
Marco’s tech woes
USBPre 2
Zoom F3
On Double-Clicking the lock button for Wallet
Open the wallet app → double-click the side button (via Trevor Kay)
Andrew notes this still works even if double-click is disabled globally
Control Center
Just hold the phone next to the terminal
WWDC 2022 Apple Park Special Event
MacRumors on the Developer Center
Jason Snell on Apple Studio Display settings
Mechanical Watch How-To
On SEC violations and Elon Musk
Apple TV+ Quickies
Sunday Ticket on Apple TV+?
JustWatch
Apple is making a movie about the Danbury Trashers‽
Untold: Crime and Penalties
Analog #193: Milestones are Being Hit
iPhone 14 Pro Rumored Designs
#askatp:
Is Casey still using Combine? (via André Videla)
Functional reactive programming
Casey’s RxSwift & Combine Posts
AsyncAlgorithms
What is Marco’s Overcast redesign process? (via Steven Garrity)
Where is the Mac’s sound mixer? (via Carl Freyer)
Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource
Post-show: Casey needs a project
Breakdown of Cat 6/6a differences
Quinn Nelson’s Video
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Three Wise Admins
The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Frame Game
Explainer post
Fastest solve: 12 seconds
Follow-up:
Apple Studio Display camera update
Snell’s coverage
Snell’s video
Comparison with iMac Pro by James Thomson
Sonos Roam power button (via Brilliant Things)
What is up with iPhone lock buttons these days, anyway? (via Patrick Niemeyer)
Apple’s Self-Service Repair site is now up
Stephen’s write-up
Repair manuals
John Gruber ATP had wondered about “civilians” inside the Apple Park ring
Benedict Evans’ fence observation
Thom Yorke hates Creep (via Spencer Wohlers)
Update on Marco’s game-streaming setup
Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro
Blackmagic DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder
Sonnet Echo Express SEIIIe Thunderbolt-PCIe enclosure
Sonnet Allegro USB-C 4-port PCIe card
Sonnet Allegro USB-A 4-port PCIe card
Magewell Pro Quad HDMI Capture
Elgato Cam Link Pro
Casey has finally moved his email to Fastmail
Referral link
John added a security camera
Physical security hack
Logitech Circle View
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout offer
Stratechery: Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Musk’s Financing, The Status Quo and Future Variance
Stratechery: Back to the Future of Twitter
The Verge’s coverage
The Origin of “Tweet”
Post-show: We can’t help but have more Twitter/Elon thoughts
Thread about Bill Gross buying Twitter clients, and Twitter’s reaction
Something Awful Forums
Kara Swisher on Elon Musk
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Never Mind, I'm Out
The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Pre-show: Marco has HomePod problems
Pop Hits: {year} (1955–2021)
Rock Hits: {year} (1965–2021)
Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
Creep by Radiohead
AirPlay 2-Enabled Speakers
Follow-up:
Hilariously, a third consecutive week of news about Original Gravity, this time via Jared Kole
Which ethernet controller does the CalDigit TS4 use?
Intel I225 PCIe
Ethernet fix
Sleep fix
Ecobee & HomeKit cooperation (via Eric Powell)
Ecobee AC adaptor instructions
Step 3 → Scenario A → Alternative solution: 24VAC plug-in transformer
Some thoughts about 🇪🇺 thermostats via Cameron Wood
USB-C KVM dev boards do exist, as found by Victor Leung
Mac Studios have different power supply… suppliers (via Joshua Prismon)
Ioniq 5 & Kia EV6 & Lucid Air
Do better, Lexus.
RIP, Rob-ART Morgan
What is Elon Musk, anyway?
Unsafe at Any Speed
Chevrolet Corvair
Elon Musk and Twitter
NOTE: We recorded this episode right before his demand “offer” to buy the entire company.
Elon buys 9.2% of Twitter
Elon delays filing with the SEC and “made” $156 million
Parag Agrawal announces Elon joins the board
Twitter says Elon won’t get special treatment
Nilay Patel’s take
Parag Agrawal announces Elon won’t join the board
Elon is sued for delayed disclosure
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
#askatp
As the M1 is based on the A14, might the M2 skip the A15 and instead be based on the A16? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
How does Marco stream for Team Arment? (via Uncle Apple)
Elgato HD60 S+
Logitech whatever $50ish webcam
CalDigit TS3+
OBS
Lenovo ThinkVision M14 USB-C bus-powered monitor
NDI
Could/would Apple use OLED in laptops and iMacs? (via Simon Ejsing)
If the Studio Display was released concurrently with the Pro Display XDR, would John & Marco still get the XDR? (via Jon Yergatian)
Post-show: John’s Sonos Roam
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No Bum Cores
The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8 PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Pre-show: Marco has questionable media choices
Severance
The Dropout
WeCrashed
Silicon Valley
Antitrust
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Follow-up:
Tragic Original Gravity news (via Ari Badgers)
Good Karma
The etymology of “decibel” (via Matt Rigby)
Don’t forget the iPhone 12/13 mini (via Carl Rozas)
An aside about House of Prime Rib
Anthony Bourdain’s experience (RIP)
Quinn Nelson’s observation about the Studio Display
His “review” video
iFixit teardown video
USB-C “KVM” (via abcd)
On the crummy Ethernet speeds in modern Macs
Hacker News post
CalDigit TS4
On using Canon EF lenses with mirrorless cameras
Casey’s New Setup (yes, again. 🤫)
John’s new thermostat
Taco box
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One of my favorite tech podcasts with a few annoyances
These three are genuinely great people with a few blindspots. Which is ok because that covers all of us. They dismissed Roe Jogan as a "bad man" which indicates that they've never listened.
I want to reiterate that these guys are great. I’m with them on 85% of the topics that they cover. I just wish they could learn and grow in a few areas, in the same way that they've embraced growth in others.
Long term trend is not good.
I’ve been listening since day zero, and this used to be my favorite tech podcast, hands down. I expect it will remain in my feed, but I find myself skipping more episodes, and more over the last year especially.
The dynamic of the hosts and the topics they think we’ll find interesting just feels increasingly irrelevant, insular, self-interested and overly in-group.
Topics digress into everything from their food likes/dislikes, to the width of sidewalks in their beach house community, to I don’t know …what feels like hours about the truly mundane process of procuring a basic desktop monitor or charging a car battery.
Then there is this cheeky, well-worn bit about what new Apple products they are buying…and how they can’t stop themselves buying, or did they buy something, and ohhh let’s all guess. Offset by inane discussions about home ceiling fan automation or personal trainers…with a lot of giggling in-between, building into bromance vibes that I’m just not sure belong in the final cut.
It’s sort of ironic, or interesting, that they are slowly doing to their podcast what they so righteously (and rightly) eviscerated Apple for doing with their notebook line during the darkest butterfly kb days. That is, getting high on their own supply, and maybe forgetting the fundamentals?
OK, maybe I’m stretching here, but I’m sure their listenership has continued to climb, and they would probably handwave this critique away. Well. Apple also sold a lot of garage laptops and called them the best ever before eventually correcting course. I would like ATP to correct course. Sort of, bring back the ports.
Not saying they shouldn’t have fun, just 30% less fun and a little more serious preparation on more relevant (less personal) topics would make it a much better show.
Note that none of the above criticism applies to Siracusa. He stays above the fray and still offers thoughtful deep dives that are always interesting. Even when it seems like he is on a tangent, he eventually connects to a broader point that is relatable and useful.