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Accidental Tech Podcast
Hosted by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa · EN
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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702: Isolate the Evil
2w ago02:30:45Tap to summarizePre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks Follow-up: Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau) Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey) Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability” An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing” macOS iOS More clipboard changes in macOS 27 Video in question Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies P. A. Semi Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom Hartley Charlton at MacRumors Slate Truck price & availability announced Previously on ATP Apple 🤝 Ford CarPlay is Additive Safari on 𝑥OS 27 WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27 Pie chart A contrary take Safari MCP server Federico’s take Ask ATP: How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery) How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah) John’s theory ATP #689 ATP #641 John on replaceable batteries iPhone SE TSR How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James) With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work Post-show: How does John pack? InstaCrate Shibumi Wind Assist Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family RAM “Side RAM” on the Pros Supposed leaked drawings Battery capacities Bodies Colors Original mockups Thicker? 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!
Transcribe →701: I Improved My Town
2w ago02:10:55Tap to summarizePre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault The dead ATS The proposed replacement 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji Follow-up: Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App LosslessCut Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience Previously on ATP Version 85.01 announcement post FAQ post Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle Sony 💔 💿 A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis) CD sales are going up Price increase corner: Apple Music edition Chart by BasicAppleGuy AppleCare+ too FileMaker In defense… CVE Monday.com Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years Scratch And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻 Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods Six additional categories The Monkey’s Paw OLED iMacs? Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson) Bambu X2D TinkerCAD Onshape Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast WSOLA F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities Research paper Extended write-up Mechanistic interpretability Bobby Tables Sponsored by: Leesa: A mattress for every body and budget Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
3w ago01:56:18Tap to summarizePre-show: Anniversary Corner! catatp (see also Statistics) Bootleg visualization Follow-up: Public beta check-in Casey’s iMessage notification issue Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers! Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files Mac-assed Mac Apps Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT Gruber #1 Gruber #2 Gus Mueller Gruber Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter) LaunchAgent ~/Library/LaunchAgents Casey’s former keyboard Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring) Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous) Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker Agentic development Goodbye, Maestral 🫡 Gruber Apple Sues OpenAI Apple Inc. vs. Liu Chance Miller’s summary The Verge Gruber Dithering OpenAI’s response and part 2 Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition Unifi Travel Router Formerly, GL.iNet KVM GL Comet Q Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs Ars Technica The funeral has begun Ars Technica on library erasure The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today. Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.
Transcribe →699: Not the Correct Squircle
Jul 702:20:29Tap to summarizePre-show: Casey’s oops Magic TrackPad Magic Keyboard Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Follow-up: Casey may have fixed his notification problem! Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon) RAMAgeddon Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan) Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture) Steam Machine difficulties Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s) Collusion! Well, maybe. Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math We’re Fable is so back, baby More at Ars Technica Siri AI No web browsing for you! Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2 Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo) Revamped icons by Parakeet Design services price list SwitchGlass SwitchGlass dark icon SwitchGlass old icon Front and Center Front and Center old icon Callsheet Callsheet old icon Jelly’s write-up Ste Grainer The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons Overcast Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App Fire Island Lighthouse Parakeet’s post about our icons Apple adds paste protection to Terminal Apple support document Opera joins the party Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData DevCleaner (App Store link) Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco Goose Big Modern! Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero Nugs Micro Tyvek Wallet Micro Soft Shell Wallet Studio Neat Casey’s fan Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform? Quinn Nelson’s pitch Game Porting Toolkit 4 Sponsored by: Parakeet: The icon design studio. zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →698: And Do What?
Jun 3002:13:35Tap to summarizePre-show: Who’s bored? 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps Follow-up: Nugs and Sonos As the prophecy foretold… ☹️ Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t Rumors about Siri AI indexing Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist) Price increases abound! ☹️ On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley) Steam Machine (More) Xbox Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link) Steve Troughton-Smith’s take Previously, in Palm Pilots Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓 Financial Times No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽ Touchscreen MacBook Pro Intel to fabricate the M7‽ GFHK? More reporting New Siri Iconography Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit) Joanna Stern’s review Gui Rambo’s experiment Dan Moren John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.) Question 1 Question 2 Ask ATP: Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar) If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth) 3Blue1Brown Avoiding Copland 2010 Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim) Casey: ThinkPad 701C ThinkPad T30 John: eMate Newton 2000 Trashcan Post-show: Casey asks for technical support Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS Announcement video On the store All Ubiquiti NAS offerings Xserve RAID Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Jun 2602:06:20Tap to summarizePre-show: Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco Marco’s trip report Gucci Osteria Follow-up: John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube) Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield) Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27 Steve Riggins notes it takes a while Alex concurs Apple’s AI Tech Talk What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall) Bootleg video (via sayrer) Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh) Tesla 🤝 CarPlay? New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle) WWDC session on YouTube The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient! Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel Tracking Apple’s environmental progress TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey) Direct product comparisons Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680) General overview (via Gui Rambo) cloudOS job listing How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox) Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June) Chart South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭 We’re all trying to find the guy who did this! 25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link) Stephen’s tables Gruber’s tables Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨 Good timing: tmcgeary Aaron Greg Pierce Ask ATP: Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster) Joe Lion Blake Patterson Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous) Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Jun 1501:59:04Tap to summarizePre-show: We are not dangerously capable We convince ourselves not to pivot to video Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2 FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈 Follow-up: It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul) Indexing for the new Spotlight Passwords app does the hard thing macOS 27 “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1 Microsoft Bob You can use Touch ID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith) sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding Corner radius ∆s, illustrated Mickey hands are back They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition General Golden Gate icon changes Touch Macs are coming Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS ST-S notices NSToolbar changes You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window HIG updates for menu icons iOS 27 Siri AI pull down animation iPadOS 27 ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.) Hardware compatibility watchOS Hardware compatibility Apple’s AI Tech Talk Images Quotes Dan Moren vanity searches An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri” Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s) 3Blue1Brown transformers video Apple’s announcement for third-gen models Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory Filippone Stefano’s review Ars Technica’s write-up Post-show: Casey’s trip results UniFi Travel Router GL-iNet Flex Mini Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union OpenDoc iPhone mirroring resizing Sponsored by: Leesa: A mattress for every body and budget Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
Jun 902:51:11Tap to summarizeWWDC 2026 Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube) Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight Word wall Rob Rhyne’s toot Weird holes Change Detection .well-known Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon Music Video Craig’s toot Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel] TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince) Sam Henri Gold Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape White foldable phone More details Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel] Case leaks Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →694: Potential and Homework
Jun 402:19:58Tap to summarizePre-show: 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL) Tailscale Funnel DynDns.org no-ip.org Follow-up: Ferrari Luce John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG) John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy Bambu’s battle with its users They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins) Jose agrees Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith) Moving files between volumes Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio) Previously on ATP WWDC 2026 All systems glow Wallpaper Gurman prediction More at MacRumors macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!] Hardware that has been delayed by Siri macOS 27 name What are we dreading? What we’re most excited for? What will we miss? Post-show: Casey wants some advice Callsheet Channels OAuth VLAN Jellyfin Infuse SenPlayer (App Store link) Tailscale Service Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark Previously, the DGX Spark This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s) They’re the same… but not Surface Laptop Ultra Ars Technica Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcribe →693: Negative Bonus Points
May 2902:02:19Tap to summarizePre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave) SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor) SVG can do THAT‽ Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko) How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same? Defrag lives on …in APFS diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable [disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list MJ Tsai AI Sentiment AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan) Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson) Large Energy User Action Plan Perspectives on art Original Monet The Ferrari Luce Previously on ATP Purosangue Jaguar I-Pace BMW i3 BMW i8 GMA T.33 Porsche Taycan Galleries The Verge Car and Driver Exterior Interior Coverage The Verge Top Gear Cleo Abram MKBHD (stationary tour) ba-dum tss John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Saturday Night Live Affordance Post-show: RIP Destiny 2 Associated layoffs, because, of course Destiny 1 on Wikipedia Penny Arcade Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community How one private message could change the face of 3D printing Sponsored by: zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now. 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!
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