430 episodes
Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.
Pre-show:
⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Colonial Pipeline
How long does gas last?
Follow-up:
Overpriced AirTag mounts
AirTag Leather Key Ring
AirTag Leather Loop
Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag
Marco’s recommended solution
Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
AppleTV and spatial audio
AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
Apple’s bad hire
Sommer Panage’s response
🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on iMessage for Android in 2013
Common carrier
Steve Jobs 1997 Q&A
Schiller wondering about the 30% cut… in 2011
#askatp
Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
Synology Drive
Synology Cloud Sync
Bartender
Rocket
Vanilla
Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
Sarbanes-Oxley
How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
Nifty MiniDrive
The Case for RAID
Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
Github Pages
Jekyll
Hosting SQLite Databases on Github Pages
xkcd: The General Problem
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429: Digital Speedo
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!)
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Follow-up:
Some notes about the ATP store
support@cottonbureau.com
Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
Bond Bridge
Purchases last week
AirTag quick impressions
Spree
Whistle
FileVault performance
About encrypted storage on your new Mac
FileVault and remote management
John’s macOS 11.3 woes
FB9095615
Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
The Basecamp fiasco
Casey Newton’s summary posts
#1: Breaking Camp
#2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
Basecamp’s posts
Changes at Basecamp
Basecamp’s new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Let it all out
Mosaics of positions
On making decisions
An Update
Ruby on Rails
Woke
Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
#askatp
What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
Due
AnyList
Day One
Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
ColdFusion
Berkshire Hathaway shares
Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
diskDedupe (App Store link)
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428: A Series of Rectangles
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.
Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple TV
Calibration
Remote Design & Pricing
No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
Apple TV pricing
Apple TV / iTV
High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
AppleCare+ for Apple TV
Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
iMac
Power brick/cable
Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
143 watts
VESA mount
Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
iPad
12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
Center Stage will have an API
iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
AirTags: for tracking your luggage
Apple Premium Podcasts
John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
DoE Map Search
Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
Mat Honan’s tale of woe
What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire
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427: The Apology Remote
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple Card Family
Apple Podcasts App Updates & Subscriptions
RSS Feed Access
Podcast Index
Robot or Not #141: Podcasting
User-Agent string
ALAC
AirTag
Hermès Luggage Tag
Gui Rambo’s discovered battery replacement video
Press release
What to do if you find an AirTag or get an alert that an AirTag is with you
AppleTV
Ted Lasso Season 2 Trailer
Siri Remote Image
Thread radio
24” iMac
iMac ad featuring the rainbow Apple logo
iPad Pro
Pro Display XDR
Magic Keybaord
Post-show:
Ted Lasso’s Secret Shortbread
House of Prime Rib
The beer-and-sausage place
The vegan Indian place
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426: Loaded Baked Potato
Pre-show:
[Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
Smart outlet update
Reconcilable Differences
For eero:
Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
Electrical resistive heating
Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
Charging the i3
Go buy SuperDuper!
Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Armv9
AnandTech’s Write-Up
Explore the Armv9 Architecture
iOS Device Compatibility Reference
Post-show Neutral
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425: Hey Billionaire
Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Fork Hands
FU: Why two doses?
Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
How is John replacing a router with a switch?
Ubiquiti Flex Mini
Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
Yep, Apple uses Webex
Microsoft Teams
Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
Heating your house via cryptomining?
Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
Cryptocurrency 000 101
Proof of work
Proof of stake
Ethereum
But how does Bitcoin actually work?
Github repo
Fiat currency
Pyramid scheme
Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
Ars Technica write-up
MJ Tsai’s write-up
Clean room
GNUstep
ApplicationKit
Kotlin
Arial
New York
Geneva
San Francisco
Swing
POSIX
Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
Overcast link
Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
Outside Online Interview
Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
Apple Leadership
oh no
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
BMW i3
Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It
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Customer Reviews
Mostly good!
I love the show. I just feel like I’m a child getting scolded when I listen to Marco! LOL. Otherwise I’m still listening every week.
Extremely narrow minded
This is one of the more provincial podcasts I’ve listened to. They desperately need to add a host that can better inform them about the diversity of thought that exists outside their bubble.
This podcast underscores that without someone to challenge this insularity, inaccuracies and misstatements will go unchecked. The host never realizing how often they err, will only become even more sure of the conclusions they have adopted.
Incredibly High Quality Podcasting
I’ve been listening to ATP for a little over five years now. I stumbled across them randomly when someone referenced the show on one of the technology subreddits I follow (probably /r/Apple, but I don’t recall). I enjoy these guys a LOT. Let me talk about why.
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1) They’re Apple Fans, But Not Fanboys
This may seem self-evident, but I note it because it’s a major component of the show. Obviously, they live and breathe Apple products. With that in mind, they’re often critical of Apple, both of their products and the company as a whole. I appreciate this. Liking and enjoying something doesn’t mean you find it flawless and ATP properly reflects this stance.
2) Understanding and Articulation
A lot goes into the creation of a product or a service: design, intent, usability, scalability, pragmatism, demographics—you name it. There’s a lot of nuance in the world of technology and ATP goes beyond having cursory knowledge of it; they demonstrate a breadth of understand from both the user and business perspectives without sacrificing the depth of their understanding. I love hearing angles or perspectives that I hadn’t considered myself.
All of the understanding in the world is useless without the ability to convey it effectively, and that’s my point about articulation. My ability to appreciate discussions on ATP is fundamentally because the individuals are well-spoken and eloquent. Depth and detail are provided while always being easy to follow.
3) Tech Outside the Tech Circle
Something important to me is understanding the effects of technology beyond the confined space of the online tech “circles”. It’s fun to geek out about the latest devices or software implementations, but it’s important to recognize what technology does to the world. ATP will cover a variety of social, cultural, political, and economic topics (to name some), often linking back to tech in some way (whether this be the products and services themselves or how the companies offering them are operating).
Some of the reviews commented about this being a negative. I understand that this is subjective, but I personally disagree. I like that ATP doesn’t silo itself within the realm of technology and abstain from discussing what’s happening in the world. I’m not looking for an escape from reality.
I don’t agree with every perspective the hosts put forth, but I think they generally handle this well. I always appreciate hearing other opinions, especially when they differ from mine.
4) Fantastic Audio Quality
I’ve listened to a lot of other podcasts and interviews and most of them have acceptable or good audio quality. ATP spoils me by putting those to shame. Obviously, it’s all spoken audio and not music or ambient sounds, but it really stands out how crisp and clear each host sounds. This really became apparent when I heard some of the ATP hosts on other podcasts.
I’ll give an example. There was an episode of The Talk Show with John Gruber earlier this year that featured one of the ATP hosts, John Siracusa, as a guest. I noticed there was a decrease in the usual crispness and clarity I’m used to hearing John (Siracusa)’s voice in while listening to that episode. Not that the audio quality was bad—it was great, in all honesty. But there’s a difference between great and outstanding, and I definitely notice this when I listen to other shows.
Also, I’m not trying to criticize The Talk Show or John Gruber. It just happened to be a recent point of comparison.
5) Chapter Markers
It’s a smaller thing, but it makes a difference for me. Sometimes, there are topics I’m not interested in and decide to skip. For example, I’m not a car guy. I do not care in the slightest about cars, so I’m inclined to skip these segments when they come up.
More important, though, is being able to come back to a specific segment after listening. It’s nice to be able to reference something for my own sake or to share with a friend.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why more shows do not do this.
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And that’s it! I’m clearly biased when I say this, but I enjoy this show a lot and recommend it to tech enthusiasts all around (especially if they’re into Apple stuff). Hopefully, my long post here was helpful for someone out there! And, of course, subjectivity is implied.
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