Accidental Tech Podcast

686: Write Two Letters

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:53:21 +0000

Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
  - Stephen Robles
    - 1
    - 2
  - Casey’s snarky toot
  - Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
- John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
- How much hotter can a Mac get?
  - Mac Studio power consumption
  - Mac Pro power consumption
- Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
- Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
- RetinaDisplays.com
- CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
  - They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
  - The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
    - Mechanical Watch
  - CIE updates from 2015
  - On Apple’s CMF
- Long Island and “mainland”
  - United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
Marco’s letter to John Ternus
- A Tale of Two Letters
Ask ATP:
- How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
- Regex to detect user anger
- “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
- Future plans

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685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:16:23 +0000

Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
  - Pedometer++
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- More about the flag
Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
  - Missed Apex
- MacBook Neo
  - Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
  - New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
    - iBook “Snow”
  - Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
    - Framework
  - MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
    - “NFW”, says Henry
    - “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
  - Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac
    - Original article 🇩🇪
  - PCI Express
- Ubiquiti
  - What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
    - UniFi Travel Router
  - “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
    - YouTube announcement
    - Blog post
  - Some shadiness from January
🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa
- CUDA
Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
- Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”
Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
- 10 February: Delayed to 2027
- 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
  - The Information

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684: It’s Not What Young People Do

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:35:02 +0000

Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
  - Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
  - What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
  - What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
    - beanstalkd
    - Ansible
  - Monitoring & control interface
  - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
    - System X
    - RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2
    - I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac
    - Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard
    - Apple Insider
  - Mac fleet management advice
    - Apple Business
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
WWDC 2026 Announced
Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
  - XKCD
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
  - Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS

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683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:34:47 +0000

Follow-up:
- You’re welcome, world
- Formula 1
  - A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season
  - Cameras
    - Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)
    - Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)
      - Great camera overview video
  - The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
  - On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
  - A deep dive from Colin McKellar
  - Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)
- iPhone 17e teardown
- MacBook Neo
  - Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
    - Apple Platform Security Guide
    - On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
  - CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)
  - SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
  - John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions
  - Teardowns
    - Tech Re-Nu
    - iFixIt
      - Video
      - Blog post
AirPods Max 2
- Newsroom
- John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link)
- Apple’s compare page
Overcast beta now has transcripts!
Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
- The Verge
- Ars Technica
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
- Gurman on 15 February
- Gurman on 15 March

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682: Medium Core

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:15:48 +0000

Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Related episode of ATP
Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
  - John’s theory about color & clamshells
  - The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
    - Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
  - MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
  - SSD speeds (via The Verge)
  - The  logo
    - iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
    - Jason’s review
  - Dave2D’s review
  - Teardown
  - Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
  - New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
    - H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
  - Quinn’s review
    - M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
    - Baidu leakers
      - Super cores (“P-Core”)
        
        4.61 GHz
        
        10-wide decoding
      - Performance cores (“M-Core”)
        
        4.38 GHz
        
        7-wide decoding
        
        ~70% the performance of a Super Core
        
        Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
      - Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
        
        3.05 GHz
        
        6-wide decoding
  - Andrew Cunningham at Ars
    - L2 cache
      - Super: 16 MB
      - Performance: 8 MB
      - Efficiency: 6MB
    - Minimum clock speed:
      - Super: 1,308 MHz
      - Performance: 1,344 MHz
      - Efficiency: 972 MHz
  - Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
  - TOSTracker
  - Example individual comparison
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
  - UFO Test
  - MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
  - Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
    - Superwide viewing angle
    - Timing controller (TCON)
    - Calibration
    - Display optimization modes
Formula 1 news
- Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
- Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
- 2026 season preview
- F1TV vs. Apple TV
  - Link accounts
- Romain Grosjean’s
Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
- MKBHD
- The Verge
Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
- Tahoe 26.4 warnings
- Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:55:16 +0000

Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
M4 iPad Air
iPhone 17e
New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
  - A19 per MacRumors
  - Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn
- Studio Display XDR
  - Day-one software update
  - Mac support
    - 120Hz-worthy Macs
M5 MacBook Air
- No change in RAM upgrade pricing?
M5 Pro & M5 Max
- Efficiency cores still exist
M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
MacBook Neo
Post-show: John had a post break containment
- Context collapse
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

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680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:08:26 +0000

Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow ~~blows~~ woes
- TruFuel
Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
  - F-150 Lightning
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
  - defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
  - defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
- macOS document model
  - …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
  - …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
  - Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
    - Technical details (via Videoalex)
  - Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
  - Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
  - Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
    - System Settings
      - Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
      - Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
  - Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
- Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
  - GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
- MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
Ask ATP:
- What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
  - ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen
  - John: lock & home
  - Casey: lock & home
    - Indigo
    - Croissant
  - Marco: lock & home
- What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
  - Overtime on ATP #675
  - Casey
    - AirPods Pro 3
    - Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω
    - Desktop speakers
      - Sonos Era 100 × 2
      - Sonos Sub Mini
      - Sonos Combo Adapter
  - John:
  - Marco:
    - Podcasting
      - Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω
      - Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads
      - Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
    - Music
      - HifiMan HE6
    - Speakers
      - KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62
      - Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
- BMW i4 M50
- Audi e-tron GT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
- Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:04:18 +0000

Pre-show:
- Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
- We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
Follow-up:
- Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
- Marco’s ~~defection~~ move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
  - Helium Browser
  - unduck.link
- Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
  - “Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
  - Explanatory video
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
  - Fastmail’s donation
  - John’s referral link
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
  - Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
  - The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
  - More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
- ReplayTV

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678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:27:17 +0000

Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
- Units corner
  - Robert Tait’s video
- WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
  - ATP Movie Club: WarGames
  - WarGames
- AI
  - Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations
    - Three apps in one day
    - On usage limits
  - Dread & fatalism
    - We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson
    - The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
  - Productivity promise vs. reality
  - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas
  - AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison
  - Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar
  - Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
- Some related links from our AI conversation:
- Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases
Ferrari Luce
- Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge
- Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL
  - Associated post
- Dieter Rams
- Patek Philippe Nautilus
- Braun
- Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50
  - Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)
  - Other videos
- Leica
Post-show: Casey is car shopping
Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles
- Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins
- Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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677: I Accept the Battery Cost

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:02:10 +0000

Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
  - Cloudflare Access
    - Zero trust architecture
  - OpenID connect
    - tsidp
    - Pocket ID
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
  - Robert Tait of The Hook Up
- Claude Code & AI ethics
  - Alec’s video
  - Irish wind farm
Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
Marco’s experiment
- Cortex
- DuckDuckGo
- Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
- Apple buys Q.ai
- Ryan Christoffel

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676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:45:31 +0000

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
- atp.fm passkey update
- Google Private AI Compute
- Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
- Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
- Screen on RAM
- ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
- Modular headphones
  - AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)
  - Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
- Window management in macOS (via Ben)
  - FlashSpace
  - AltTab
New AirTags
- The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
- Invite image
- Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
- TCL Super Quantum Dot
- TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
- Sebastiaan de With → Apple
- Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
- We stand with Minnesotans.
- John’s new bff
  - XKCD #974: Pass the salt
Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

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675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:21:59 +0000

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️
Follow-up:
- We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week!
  - Gruber’s post
- Top Dogs is coming
- “Cloud technology”?
  - Google’s blog post
  - Gurman’s post
- Clipboard hijacking
  - It’s an Apple thing
  - No, really
- Indonesia is not small
- MainStage is not new (via Mike Taffet et al)
  - Interview
- Apple’s Pro Apps Bundle still exists for education users (via Pekka Salonen)
- Pro apps free trials
  - Prior art (via Karoline)
  - The trials are full versions (via Ian Robinson)
- Monitors at CES
  - DisplayPort alternate mode for USB-C
  - What about color accuracy?
    - Extended Display Identification Data
- ProMotion in Safari
  - iOS: Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Feature Flags
  - Test
- Vision Pro does have Keynote
Icons in Tahoe menus
- Nikita Prokopov
- Jim Nielsen
- Colin M. Ford (and an explanation)
- Apple’s guidelines
You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe
How to prevent Tahoe update nags
Ask ATP:
- Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design than Jony Ive? (via Austin)
- Will Alan Dye’s departure affect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong)
- What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)
  - macOS Screenshot Library
Post-show: John’s migration continues
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674: A Reliable, Boring Partner

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:32:36 +0000

Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed
- Ubiquiti Travel Router
- Verizon Jetpack
- Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)
- Solis Edge
Follow-up:
- The ~~Grim Reaper~~ FiOS CableCARD email came for John
  - TiVo Roamio Pro
  - Casey on Downstream
- Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)
- Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high
  - MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)
  - MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)
- Wi-Fi channel selection & size
- Wi-Fi 7 8
A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES
- As a reminder…
  - Apple Studio Display
  - Pro Display HDR
- MSI MPG 271KRAW16
- DisplayHDR 1400 certification
- MSI MAG 271KPD7
  - Monitors Unboxed
- ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)
  - HDTVTest
- Subpixel arrangements
Apple Creator Studio
- Icons over time
- Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)
  - MacRumors
- Apple’s defense of the icons
- Jason on iWork freemium
Apple 🤝🏻 Google
- More from The Information
Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card
- FAQ
- Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)
Post-show: NBA Immersive
- Stratechery
- Dithering
Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter
- Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
- Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
- Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
- Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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673: Six Impossible Things

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:51:16 +0000

Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco
Thank you, ATP Patrons!
Follow-up:
- Cord-cutting
  - Casey on Downstream
  - suppose.tv
- Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)
- The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)
  - Quinn’s video on making a 5K display
- Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)
  - This started in late 2020 with Big Sur
  - Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)
  - Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS
  - BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering
    - Docs
- PlayStation Portal
  - …works with PlayStation Plus
  - …but really needs solid Wi-Fi
  - …and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6
  - …and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones
- Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)
  - Knowedge base
  - System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill
- Wi-Fi 7
  - Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)
    - WPA3
  - WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)
  - Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)
  - Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in
  - …as does pro Saul Sutherland
  - John’s Eero Max 7 setup
- Thread vs. Matter
  - Thread
  - Matter
  - Derek Seaman’s series
  - To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container
- Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day
  - Bodi
ASML & TSMC
Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026
- Gartner hype cycle
- The Trow of Disillusionment
Post-show: Casey bought something silly
Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones
- The Information
- MacRumors
- Mockup image & video
- Jason’s & Stepen’s posts
- iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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672: Wi Hyphen Fi

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:47:39 +0000

Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3
- Pepperidge Farm Remembers
Follow-up:
- Contacts
  - Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)
  - Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)
- Face ID & Touch ID
  - Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind)
  - Strictness (via Rob Sayre)
- John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo)
  - Gui’s PR
- Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)
  - FB17228659
  - Developer Technical Support
- RAM shortage
- Data portability
  - Git
    - Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)
    - Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)
  - Android ↔ iOS
- Display flicker in Tahoe
  - What does this even mean? (via Daniel)
  - One theory (via Sean Santry)
  - Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)
Wi-Fi 7 is a bust
- -protonsandneutrons-
- Playstation Portal
Ask ATP:
- What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)
Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter
- Home Assistant
- Nanoleaf Smart String Lights
- Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)
- YoLink
Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?
- Previous code name discussion
- Jason on Apple’s display strategy

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671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:22:29 +0000

Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
Follow-up:
- Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID
  - 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
  - 🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?
- Chat math
- Metadata thread splitting & merging
- Colin spells it out for us
  - TV Everywhere
  - XMLTV
  - m3u8
  - IPTV Github Repo
  - 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
  - 506 Sports
- Custom pronunciations in iOS
  - Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations
    - See Apple support
  - Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations
    - See Apple support
  - Apple video guide
- Tahoe Studio Display flickering
- Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts
  - Previously 1
  - Previously 2
iPhone roadmap
- Article on The Information
iPhone XX rumor roundup
- Under-screen FaceID?
- Haptic buttons?
Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases
- Patent
Ask ATP:
- How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
- How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
Post-show: John’s bug
- FB21375029
- Sample project
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670: Institutionally Inescapable

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:37:32 +0000

Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires
- i3: 155/70R19
- XC90: 275/40R21
- Molex
- F-150 Lightning’s demise
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: ATP Movie Club: WarGames
- WarGames
Follow-up:
- Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special
- John’s Cloudflare update
  - Hypercritical
- Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan)
- Apple executive departures
  - Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board
    - Press release
    - The Verge
  - Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?
- Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach)
- Split iMessage groups (via sirshannon)
- AI-generated voice-matched dubbing
  - Fran Besora tried the Spanish version
  - Stefanus Secundus tried the German version
  - Ben Mattison had an odd YouTube experience
- Siri and pronunciations (via Paul Zadunajsky)
- Intel ~~stealing~~ learning from chips it fabs
  - Thread by Joe Lion
    - VHDL
  - Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography
    - Galois blog post
- Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)
Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card
- Casey’s tangentially-related rant
Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers
Post-show: Casey asks for programming help
Members-only ATP Overtime: The State of TV

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669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:59:56 +0000

Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow
Follow-up:
- Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro
  - Workout Buddy
  - Previously with Jay Blahnik
- More adventures with Cloudflare
  - jramskov’s observation
  - TLS Certificate lifetimes
  - Alternatively, GitHub Pages
  - Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee
    - Workers
    - Pages
    - R2
    - KV
    - Durable Objects
  - Oops… we broke it
    - Landon’s observation
    - 5 December Outage
      - React.js vulnerability
- Say my name, Siri!
  - Siri response preferences (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
    - Screenshot
  - AirPods and Contacts (via Oren Idan)
  - We’re… uh… sorry. Our bad.
    - Sean Santry
    - Reid Sorenson
- iOS 26 rollout 📈
  - Underscore on 20 November
  - Underscore on 8 December
- Intel 🤝 Apple Commentary
- Gruber is… not a fan… of Alan Dye
  - Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
Apple’s revolving door keeps spinning
- An anonymous observation
- Gurman, 6 December
- Gurman, 8 December
- Gurman’s departing executive tracker image
Post-show:
- Messages conversation merging
- A feature request
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668: So Happy for All Parties Involved

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:09:03 +0000

Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded
  - Vision Pro Size Help tool
- JPEG XL lives… in PDF
  - Chromium ticket
  - jxl-rs: JPEG XL in Rust
- Chapter links in Apple Podcasts
- Malicious content delivery on Podcasts.app?
  - 404 Media article
Everybody is leaving Apple
- John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
  - Amar Subramanya’s first-week experience at Microsoft
- Alan Dye poached by Meta
  - Jason’s take
Cloudflare’s 18 November Outage
Ask ATP:
- Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via Tony West)
  - serra queue sah
  - Siri, what’s my full name
Post-show:
- What now, bagel snobs?
- Bullstrap Minimalist Case
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- Intel 18A vs. TSMC N2
- MTr/mm²

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667: Wisdom and Treachery

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:23:59 +0000

Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- Bryan’s toot
Follow-up:
- macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electron slowdown (per shamelectron)
- Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
- Gaming in ARM
  - Anti-cheat complications (via Tyler)
  - Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw)
- OpenAI Egg update
  - Interview video
  - Fred T
- Apple N1 > Broadcom
- An iPhone camera cluster theory
- The UK is still trying to ~~make fetch happen~~ get themselves a back door
  - Financial Times
Apple Fitness+ is “Under Review”
Fast charging & battery health
- Juli Clover summary @ MacRumors
Ask ATP:
- Now that Marco owns a restaurant, does he tip differently? (via Max Velasco Knott)
- What do we think about third-party packages? (via Eric Jacobsen)
- Is organizing /Applications a poor choice? (via Nathan)
- Are our kids better than we are at video games yet? (via Omri Arbiv)
Post-show: The saga of Overcast episode images
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we ever be forced to put away our phones? (via Philip McDermott)

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666: We Have Nothing That Hot

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:49:05 +0000

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
- The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
  - Wikipedia
- Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
  - Paperlike
  - Rock Paper Pencil
- Steam Machine
  - EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidSchaub)
- PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
  - Wikipedia
  - PS Dev Wiki
- Steam Frame
  - Lenses (via Michael)
  - Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
  - Top strap image
  - Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
    - Guide on Reddit
- SteamOS
  - Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
  - Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
    - Bazzite
    - CachyOS
  - Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
  - Screw it, I’m installing Linux
- Steam strategy
  - Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
    - Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
      - Additional thoughts from Ava
  - Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
- Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
- “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
John mourns the recent news
- GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
- GeekBench Metal scores
  - Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
  - Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
- Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
  - As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
- Financial Times, 14 November 2025
- Gruber’s take
- Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
  - Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
- Rage-baiting
Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
- Dan Moren @ Six Colors
- MJ Tsai
- Apple shipped its source maps
  - Svelte
- See also: Apple Maps on the web
  - Announcement
- See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
  - Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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665: My Basement Is Beautiful

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:32:27 +0000

Follow-up:
- John has some new Vision Pro treats
  - Flight Ready
- In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
  - ATP Tier List: Storage Media
- Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
  - We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
  - Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
    - Subscriber audio chapters are a mess
- New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
  - Mark Gurman’s coverage
  - MD101
- Tahoe & Electron app fixes
  - Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
  - Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
- macOS Emoji Picker
  - ⌃ ⌘ Space
  - Rocket
- Pogo-stick robot
  - Boston Dynamics
- A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
iPhone Pocket
- Paul’s analogy
- Gruber’s post
iPod Socks
- On eBay
New Steam Hardware
- Initial coverage
- Steam Controller
  - TMR not Hall Effect
  - Understanding the difference
- Steam Machine
  - Images on The Verge
- Steam Frame
  - More photos
Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
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- Press release

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664: Humanity Gets in the Way

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:39:30 +0000

Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
- Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
  - Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
  - Variants
    - P = A_
    - G = A_X / A_Z / M_
    - S = M_ Pro
    - C = M_ Max
    - D = M_ Ultra
    - X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
  - Examples
    - A11 = H10P
    - A12X = H11G
    - A14 = H13P
    - M1 = H13G
    - M2 Pro = H14S
  - GPUs use G instead of H
  - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.h
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h
    - Apple codenames
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
  - MaxTech
Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
An aside about nanotexture displays
- Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
Casey upgraded to Tahoe
- Funky sidebar icon
/r/overcast
- Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
- Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
- Tinkercad
- Bambu
- Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
- Toybox
Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
- WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
- QWOP

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663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:01:22 +0000

Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors
- Flighty
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro
  - Mac Virtual Display
    - On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng)
    - Apple Support
  - Tapping-and-holding × allows for hiding other windows (via Nick Anthony)
  - Vision Pro vs. ski goggles
- Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers
  - Would it come to the MacBook Air (via Andy Lang)
  - Coming to the iPad Pro?
- Apple’s MLS deal
  - …is worldwide; not US-only
  - Apple advertises in Korea (via Jake Lee)
- John’s Shortcuts bug
  - Calum’s example
  - Fleedar’s example
  - lukens77 on Reddit (via eurozerozero)
  - Is it all Shortcuts-related files?
    - Possible fix from gleeful
      - Overwrite If File Exists
- Fixing the “iconic plateau” (via Gordon Mcdowell)
- The Cheesecake Factory does, apparently, make everything fresh
  - ATP Inside: The Restaurant, Season One
  - Cube Rule
Mac Rumors
- M6/OLED MacBook Pro?
  - Previously from Mark Gurman
- Brendan Shanks’ discovery
𝓍OS 26 β4 includes Liquid Glass toggle
- iOS/iPadOS: Settings → Display and Brightness
- macOS: System Settings → Appearance
- Example image
- Lock Screen swipe for camera can now be disabled, too
  - Settings → Camera → Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera
Is Tahoe safe yet?
Post-show: More of John’s impressions of the Vision Pro
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662: Just Break the Law

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:08:05 +0000

Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
- An aside about outerwear
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
- Recognition corner
- Casey begs for help
  - Callsheet List bug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉
  - However, Menu(::primaryAction:) is broken (FB20755661)
- Some M5 Vision Pro clarifications
  - The M5 does have Memory Integrity Enforcement
- The M5 MacBook pro without a charger is actually cheaper in most regions
  - EU is €100 cheaper without / €35 with (via Nick Heer)
  - UK is the same though
- The non-determinism of LLMs (via Heiko Hotz)
  - New chat
  - Mira Murati’s company piece discussing non-determinism
The M5 Vision Pro
- Dual Knit Band
- HDCP
- Television
- Theater
- New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
  - MacRumors coverage
Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
- AVIF
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661: Intimate and Regimented

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:31:11 +0000

Follow-up:
- Languages in Scotland
- ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler)
- Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz)
- Marco’s iPhone case survey: Ryan London bare bottom (via Oliver Thomas)
- /u/LaughingMan11 is Benson Leung (via Deta & Daniel Luz)
- ZFS and the Drobo dream (via Joe)
  - AnyRAID for ZFS Explained for Dummies
  - Hexos announcement
An aside for an argument
Apple M5
M5 Pro, M5 Max, TSMC’s SoIC
M5 MacBook Pro
- MacRumors on the [lack of] power adapter
  - Numerama
M5 iPad Pro
M5 Vision Pro
Apple TV+ is now Apple TV
Post-show: iPhone setup, take two
- Skip all the Siri/FaceID/etc things until setup is complete
- Don’t try to memorize the flashing 6-digit code; choose another way
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- Jennifer Patterson Tuohy
  - “Temperature” on LLMs
- Nilay’s take

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660: It’s All Chicken Salad

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:37:18 +0000

Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results
- Goose
  - Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025
- Allianz Ampitheater
- Chicken Salad Chick
- Nugs.net
- ZZQ
- Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order:
Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild
  - Original report form Richard Earney
    - Follow-up by Matt Smith
  - Follow-up on Mark Christian’s report by Santiago Hervella
- AirPods 3
  - Ear Lottery
    - Michael corroborates Marco’s experience
    - …but Franklin Delano Stallone offers hope
    - …and sometimes AirPods 3 are a marked improvement, reports Matthew Schaffer
  - Tony Dehnke does an ANC comparison
  - Live translation results
- David Schaub’s horror story about filling up your phone
- Mike Taffet does science on iPhone ↔ iPhone transfers
- Marco’s USB odyssey
  - Jack Wellborn had a similar experience
  - Syd Polk wonders if it’s a Sequoia thing
  - (Among others) Fabien theorizes its’ an alignment thing
    - Keith Heaton brought receipts
    - Tailgate Tub
  - Active vs. passive Thunderbolt cables
    - OWC
    - Informative Reddit comment by LaughingMan11
- Synology alternatives
  - Colin McKellar suggests QNAP
  - See also:
    - UGREEN
    - Unraid
    - FreeNAS/TrueNAS
    - …
  - 🎉 …may not be necessary anymore! 🎉
More more first impressions
- Quick AirPods Pro 3 update
- iPhone case updates
  - Omar Shahine performs surgery on the Nomad back
  - Torras clear case
  - Bullstrap open-bottom leather case
  - Peak Design Everyday Case (Charcoal color has the good fabric)
  - Still to test: Süti PhoneBack in black leather, if it ever ships
- iOS 16
- iPadOS 26: Now with slide-over!
Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store
Post-show: Pour one a Sprite out for a real one TiVo
- Channels
- AOL dialup service ends
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- The Verge
- Gurman: Apple pivots

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659: Lose the Ear Lottery

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:04:15 +0000

Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
- M5 iPad Pro
- FCC leaks
🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney)
- iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues
  - CarlinKit wireless CarPlay dongle
- What does iCloud back up? (via Dayton Lovell)
- iCloud for Messages
  - A ringing endorsement from Nick
  - A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan)
- iPhone Transfers
  - Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)
  - TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)
  - Some thoughts from Nick
- Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz)
- Thought to text & AlterEgo
  - Firefox (1982)
  - Prior MIT project (via Hannes)
  - CJ’s thoughts
    - Preview video
    - EMG
    - EEG
More first impressions
Ask ATP:
- How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)
- What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole)
  - SIMD
  - Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency
  - AMX Units
  - Neural Engine
- Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding)
Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey
- CalDigit Thunderbolt Element 4
- BLE caberQu
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- Synology [sorta] says third-party drives will be supported in the future
  - Synology Solution Day 2025 teaser video
- Ubiquiti’s new NAS units
  - UNAS 2
  - UNAS 4

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658: Your First Mistake Phone

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:01 +0000

Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
- Podcastathon 2025
Follow-up:
- Auburn’s colors are UVA’s colors (via Tony Scida)
- You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed
- iPhone Air
  - Why people are buying the iPhone Air / 15” MacBook Air
  - Bending the iPhone Air
    - Apple (via Tom’s Guide)
      - Direct video link
    - JerryRigEverything (timestamp link to 6m35s)
      - Same video, different timestamp (7m37s)
  - Battery life
  - Speaker (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Thermals
    - MaxTech
  - iFixIt Teardown
  - Thickness
    - Visual comparison of thickness (via Ludwig Schubert)
    - Thin iPhone future? (via Ian)
- iPhone 17 Pro
  - Teardowns
  - Scratches on the back?
- iPhone sales
  - The Information (MacRumors summary)
iPhone setup advice
- Casey’s tale of woe (see also Upgrade #582: First Chance to Make One Impression)
First impressions: iPhone 17 Pro
- Scratchability
- Telephoto camera
  - iPhone 16 Pro 5× vs. iPhone 17 Pro 8×
Post-show:
- HP M553
- HP M554
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- The Verge: Settlement announced, 5 September
- Previously, on ATP #656: Anthropic asked for $1.5B/yr from Apple
- The Verge: Settlement paused, 9 September
- Ars Technica, 9 September

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657: Ears Are Weird

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:10:22 +0000

Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
μm is a “micron”
The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed
- Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter
- Anker Nano 45W charger
A19 vs. A19 Pro
A19 Pro benchmarks
The N1 is in every new iPhone
The whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau
- Large image
Casey’s memory problems corner
- ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)
The mmWave antenna window is back
- Background
Logo placement on Apple’s cases
- Clear Case with MagSafe
- TechWoven Case with MagSafe
Some funny renders from iPhone case makers
Theories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors
- Every masterpiece has its cheap copy
- Luke Skywalker
- University of Virginia
- Denver Broncos
- Auburn University
  - 2021 impactful boosters
iPhone Air
- Will it bend?
  - Joz (& Ternus) with an incredible [lack of] flex
- 17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)
- Max Tech’s discoveries
  - The Air does not have stereo speakers
  - The Dynamic Island is lower than on other phones
  - The USB-C port is not vertically centered
    - Image
  - No Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie camera
  - The new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensor
- No LiDAR scanner
- Air & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2
  - USB 2.0
Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution
- Apple iPhone comparison page
iPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off
- Pulse-width modulation
- 9to5Mac’s coverage
- PWM sensitive subreddit
Apple Watch
- Satellite data requires a cellular plan
- Jason & Greg Pierce agree
- Is “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?
- Underscore’s observations about the Ultra
  - Apple Watch battery
AirPods
- Ear shapes (via Tirial)
- About that “2×” noise reduction
  - AirPods product page
- The new AirPods Pro case is not smaller
- “New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chip
- Live translation is on-device (not in ☁️)
- Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts
  - Apple feature availability
Safari on iOS 26’s compact toolbar
Tahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test page
Post-show: John’s red dot
Members-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation
- How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
  - A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control
- Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind
  - Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus
- Scientists develop interface that “reads” thoughts from speech-impaired patients
- Alterego

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656: A Long T-Shirt

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:52:26 +0000

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
iPhone event
- AirPods Pro 3
- Apple Watch Series 11
  - No new System-in-Package?
  - Whoop Band
- Apple Watch SE 3
- Apple Watch Ultra 3
  - LTPO
  - Satellite can-kicking continues
- iPhone 17
  - Memory Integrity Enforcement
- iPhone Air
  - iPhone Air MagSafe Battery 💔
- iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max
- Software ship dates
Post-show:
- Apple trade-in
- ✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
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655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:20:27 +0000

Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
Follow-up:
- Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
  - Settings → Apps → Safari
- Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
  - Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.)
  - Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.)
  - So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan)
  - How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time by D. Griffin Jones
  - Fun fact: you can add it to the Health app! (via Niv Ben-Porath)
    - …but it won’t affect your rings
  - A truly hilarious story from Anonymous
- Developing “product sense” (via Joseph Kibe)
  - Productive Tensions by Christopher B. Bingham & Rory M. McDonald
iPhone 16 exit interview
iPhone event preview
- Crossbody strap
- Apple Natural Titanium Milanese Loop (Marco’s summer watch band)
Post-show: Smaller e-ink note-taking tablets
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654: Athletically Engaged

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:07:37 +0000

Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
- Ben Rice McCarthy
- Under the Radar
Follow-up:
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
  - The Marco Offset
- Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
- Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
- 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
- Help with Trackpad dragging
  - System Settings → Accessibility → Pointer Control → Trackpad Options… → Dragging Style → Three Finger Drag
    - Screenshot
  - …or Drag Lock
- Masimo comes for [more] blood
- UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
- Studio Display with A19
  - Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
  - Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
- Apple’s Hide my Email feature
  - An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
  - Anecdote from David Beck
Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
- Interactive logo
  - Still image for posterity
- Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
“TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
- Maijin Bu on TechWoven
- …and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
Ask ATP:
- What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
  - Hyperspace
- Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
- How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
- Apple readies first upgrade to its struggling Vision Pro headset

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653: Warning Stories

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:37:34 +0000

Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
- AITAH
Follow-up:
- Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
  - John’s dancing controls
- ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
  - Merriam-Webster’s take
- Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
  - Auto Layout
- John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
  - Nic’s Fix
  - Watch John’s actual repair happen
- 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
  - John’s tantrum
  - AppleCare One Terms & Conditions
Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
- Gruber’s take
- Victoria Song at The Verge
😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
- Previously, in low-cost MacBook rumors: A18 Pro
Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
- CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()
- FB13375033
Ask ATP:
- Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
- How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs

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652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:37:12 +0000

Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
Follow-up:
- Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Short Pump
- John cycled his mouse again
- AppleCare One
  - Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
  - Tina’s iPhone
  - Tina’s Mac Studio
- Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves
- iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes
- Smart TV interfaces over time
  - “Shortcut”
  - New Magic Remote
- Running your own mail server
  - How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)
  - Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)
  - Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad
- Post-quantum cryptography
  - Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)
  - Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland)
    - Apple Security Research blog post
  - Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)
  - Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer)
    - 2024: State of post-quantum internet
    - 2025: Update
John wages war against icons
- Adopting Liquid Glass: App Icons
- WWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon Composer
- John’s Mastodon thread
  - Václav Slavík’s solution
  - FB19437407
  - FB19497128
  - FB17892659
- There’s likely to be a lot more of this
Ask ATP:
- Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)
- How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson)
  - Inspired by Marty Cagan
- How does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)
Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms
- Apple’s Upcoming AI Voice Control will Change how People Use iPhones

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651: Your Judgement About Pockets

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:41:25 +0000

Pre-Show:
- Brief vacation results
- Tim Cook kisses the… ring
  - Video
Follow-up:
- HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
- TV shootout results
  - Nilay’s comments
- AppleCare One
  - iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
  - iCare Calculator web app
  - John’s experience
- B&H
  - Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
- Retro computing corner
  - Revisiting eWorld
- More on Tahoe
  - Gus Mueller
    - …on checkboxes
    - …on sliders
  - Beta 5 improves selection legibility
- Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
  - Bleeping computer
- Art & science of UI design
  - Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
- Majin Bu
- iPhone 16
Apple’s “Answers” team
Ask ATP:
- How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
  - Jettison
- Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
  - Time Machine local snapshots
    - Deleting snapshots with Disk Utility
  - DevCleaner (App Store link)
  - Github
  - GrandPerspective
  - Disk Inventory X
  - DaisyDisk
- How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
- Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

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650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:06:25 +0000

Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with iperf3
  - Tutorial
  - iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
- Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
  - Research paper
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
  - Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
  - Apple support app → Chat
  - Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
  - Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
  - Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
  - Thoughts from Anonymous
    - JA3/JA4 fingerprint
- The 𝓍26 public betas are out
  - Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
- Tahoe beta 4
  - Contrast will decrease until morale improves
    - Startup disk selection (cropped)
    - Startup disk selection (full)
  - News summaries are back, baby! 😬
Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project

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649: Prove It With Cameras

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:10:43 +0000

Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
- CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
- CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
- iperf3
Follow-up:
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
  - Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
    - F1 TV
    - Vroom
  - John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
    - To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
- John’s toaster update
- AirPods & AppleCare+
- Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
  - defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
- Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
  - mandonam
Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
- Press release
- ChangeDetection.io
- Stratechery (paywalled)
Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
- John’s hat that he likes
- John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
- 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
- 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
- Australian sunscreen video
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?

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648: Part of the Movement

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:03:01 +0000

Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
- Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
- SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
  - Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
  - Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
  - Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
  - FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
- Toolbars
  - Safari
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
    - The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
  - Terminal
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
  - iOS 26 Beta 3
- YouTube’s new player UI
- “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
- HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
  - Demo project
✌️ out, Jeff Williams
- Gruber
- Gurman
Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
- Casey in Dongletown
Post-show: John & Casey review F1
- Plumber Problem
- Guenther Steiner
- Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
- Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
- Casey’s pinball machine
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
- John Giannandrea

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647: You Get One Exclamation Point

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:52:33 +0000

Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
- Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
- FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
- Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
  - Developer downloads
  - ↳ Direct link
- Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
- UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
- Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
  - Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
  - Rebuttal
  - Rebuttal of the rebuttal
  - More from Gary Marcus
  - The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
- HDR in 𝑥26
- iPadOS 26 window limits
- “Glass iPhone” demo
  - ↳ Direct video link
- That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
Ask ATP:
- Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
  - CalDigit TS5+
- What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
  - Atto Xtend SAN
- How does a new grad land a job?
Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
- YouTube Premium Lite
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU

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646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:12:49 +0000

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
- 11 June 2011
- Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
- John’s beloved
- Ninja
- Anova
- After Dark
Follow-up:
- We’re doing good work here, folks
  - YoLink leak sensors
  - Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
  - Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton)
    - Allianz concierge
- Window widget size in Tahoe
- Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2
- Floating tab bars in iOS 26
- Apple “Ducks”
  - The Architect’s Lions
- Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester)
- It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition
  - “We Messed Up”
  - Bullstrap open-bottom case
- Ads in YouTube
  - Why not use uBlock Origin? (via Igor Kulman)
  - …or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown)
RIP FireWire
Apple marketing continues to misfire
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
- OpenAI/Meta leadership talent rivalry
Ask ATP:
- Is it worth buying a laptop where Tahoe is preinstalled? (via François-Olivier Leblanc)
- How much faster will an M4 be than an M1 for Xcode Simulator launches? (via Alistair Logie)
- How do we choose a new UPS? (via David Levine)
Post-show: Marco restaurant-tech MVPs… from his co-hosts!
- Tailscale (Tailscale is a prior sponsor)
  - Casey’s introductory post
  - Tailscale 4via6
- YoLink temperature sensors (even cheaper with a smaller temp. range)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we pay developers like athletes?
- Sam Altman claims Meta has made $100M offers
  - Jack Altman’s podcast
  - Reuters coverage

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645: More Frosting

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:18:36 +0000

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
- Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
- Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
  - Sneakers (1992)
- ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
- Persistent icon replacement helper apps
  - Pictogram
  - Replacicon
- Tahoe beta 2
  - Finder icon updated!
    - Louie Mantia tries again
  - New menu bar background setting!
    - Beta 2, with background
  - Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor)
  - Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo)
    - Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar
    - theme_color
    - Yosemite Safari tabs
      - From John’s review
  - Installing betas and DFU mode
    - macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry)
    - DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb)
    - InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
- iOS 26 Beta 2
  - Frost all the things!
  - The case of Marco’s missing download/check buttons
    - Roman’s observation
- iPadOS 26 window limits (via Jon Edwards)
- “Apple Vision Pro 4K” (via Greg Kaplan)
All your data are belong to AI companies
- Apple training models on Feedback attachments ಠ_ಠ
  - Original report from Joachim
- Meta AI staffers take an interesting approach
- New York Times 🤝🏻 Amazon AI
- You can train AI models without copyrighted material… it’s just a pain in the 🍑
- Anthropic gets a W… maybe?
Ask ATP:
- Does Marco use Apple CarKey? His car should support it. (via Samuel Polay)
  - CarPlay Ultra partners list is looking… sparse
  - Ferrari keyfob
- Why does macOS want USB mass storage ejected, but iPadOS doesn’t? (via David Campbell)
Post-show: TV Update for Marco
Members-only ATP Overtime: Overlap between appdev & gamedev
- Coyote time & jump buffering
- Secrets to a great platformer with Unity
- Destiny health
- Examples in our apps

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644: You Have to Invert

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:55:52 +0000

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- Bespoke 3D-printed mount
- Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
- Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
  - ProcessInfo
  - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
  - SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
  - null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
Liquid Glass
- Adopting Liquid Glass
  - Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things
- Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
- Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
macOS Tahoe
- Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
- Squircle Jail
  - Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
  - Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
  - Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
- Speaking of rounded corners…
  - Build an AppKit App with the New Design
- Chonky stoplights
  - macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
  - -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
- Missing title bars
- Missing menu bar fixes
  - GlassBar
  - Boring Old Menu Bar
- Alignment
- Finder icon controversy
  - Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
  - Michael Flarup
  - D. Griffin Jones
- Icons next to menu items
  - Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
  - Today in the HIG
- Tabs contrast
  - Terminal tabs
- Safari contrast
  - Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari
- Arrow cursor has been updated
  - Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
  - Hand cursor as well
- Floating elements & compartmentalization
- Clipboard history
  - Stephen Robles
  - Overview video
- Future of Rosetta
  - Ars Technica
- New disk image format: ASIF
  - Howard Oakley write-up
iOS 26
- UI impressions
- New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
  - Video
iPadOS 26
- Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…
- Slideover is 💀
- UI impressions
Testing Liquid Glass
- UIDesignRequiresCompatibility
Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
Post-show: WWDC Favorites
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643: You Go to Squircle Jail

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:28:33 +0000

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- Mario Kart World
WWDC
- F1
- Sam Henri Gold
- Marcel
- Flighty
- Parcel
- Control Plane
- Acorn
Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
- Previously discussed on ATP #609
- GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
- Gary’s 1998 paper
- Gary’s 2001 book

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642: A Rebuilding Year

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:34:13 +0000

Follow-up:
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
- Bono: Stories of Surrender
- Open: An Autobiography
- Rattle and Hum
- Apple Immersive Screenshots:
  - Crowd
  - Stadium
  - TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
- Casey’s toot
- FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
- Retreating to Safety
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
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641: We're Saving That for the Egg

Thu, 29 May 2025 20:41:21 +0000

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
- Five Whys
Follow-up:
- SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
- Vision Pro on The Price is Right
- What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
  - Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
  - Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
- Alexa Plus Update
- Neutral:
  - Slate Truck Top Gear review
  - TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
    - There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
    - DeMuro’s review
    - Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
  - Pickup beds over time
Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- DeWalt LED Work Light
- DeWalt Tire Inflator
- DeWalt 60V Blower
- Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
- 3M VHB Tape
- Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
- Knipex Wire Stripper
- Wago Connectors
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640: Put It in a Potato

Thu, 22 May 2025 20:30:14 +0000

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
  - How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
- SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
  - SpinRite (Intel-only)
- Fornite is back in the US App Store
- Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
  - Previously on ATP
- The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
  - Apple documentation
Apple to open AI models to developers?
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
- Sam and Jony
- Gurman’s coverage
Ask ATP:
- What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
  - FBLA
  - Disc camera
- What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
  - Show art
  - Wheel size explained
- Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
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- European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
  - Gruber did the math
- New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability

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639: Crimp the World

Thu, 15 May 2025 20:36:11 +0000

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
  - Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
  - Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
- AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
- “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
  - A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals App Store rule changes
- Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
  - More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
- Meanwhile, in the App Store…
- Home networking corner
  - Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
  - Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
  - What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
  - Casey’s sitrep
    - 2× U6-LR installed
      - Ugly PoE injectors
    - 10GbE card installed in Synology
    - Switches just arrived
      - Lite 8 PoE
      - Flex Mini
    - Camera time?
Apple Turnover
Some fun Apple media
- Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
  - Gui Rambo’s investigation
- A conversation with Jony Ive
Backblaze drama
Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- Cable Matters
- Marco’s crimping toolkit
Members-only ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever
- Video
- M-DISC

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638: Hop, Hop, Hop

Tue, 06 May 2025 17:44:18 +0000

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
  - Blue Man Group
- Epic vs. Apple
Ubiquiti
- Marco Recommendations
- Cloud Gateway Fiber
- changedetection.io
- Pushover
- magicplan
- Ubiquiti Designer
Hyperspace update
Casey’s Coding Corner
- Vibe coding journey
  - GIFWrapped
  - Casey on Bluesky
- SF Symbols journey
Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
- LaTeX
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro successor rumors
- “Vision Air”
- XREAL glasses

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637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

Thu, 01 May 2025 18:12:26 +0000

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
- ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
- A surprising Vision Pro corner:
- D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF
- iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen)
- Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power)
  - Server Part Deals
Judge tells Apple “yeah, no”
Marco returns to YouTube
Ask ATP:
- Is it even possible for Siri to get good? (via David MacQueen)
- Do we stll carry wallets? (via Stephen Klinck)
  - John’s ridiculous wallet
- How do we share photos outside of a family unit? (Dylan Copeland)
Post-show Neutral: Slate Truck
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
- Research paper
- LoRA not LoRa

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636: Nose-Biting Territory

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:53:06 +0000

🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
- Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
  - AliExpress
- AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
  - USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
- Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing user uprising
  (This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.)
- 🫏🕳️ leaders are not good
- John continues to try to spend Marco’s money
  - Rtings’ new glare testing
  - LG G5 brightness
- Apple’s self-service repair program (via Sky Velleity)
iPadOS 19 rumors
Footguns and Synology
- Enshittification
- Ars Technica’s Synology coverage
Post-show: Marco’s first batch of restaurant-tech MVPs
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635: An Effective Operator

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:21:18 +0000

Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
  - Message from US Customs & Border Protection
  - Connor Mason’s post about Tim Cook’s top two skills
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
  - John’s boosted post
- Cross-platform photo management
  - Immich (via bapt)
- Nintendo Switch 2
  - 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
    - Specifications
  - Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
  - Other open-world racing games
  - Console games price history
- Dropbox & File Provider
- John’s daughter’s college laptop
- Folding aspect ratios
  - iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
- Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
  - iBoff
  - Introductory video
How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
- MacRumors summary
- More on JG’s Siri leadership
- On Robby Walker
- Cross-towngroup tensions
- That fateful demo
- NIH syndrome
- New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
Post-show: AI mind-share
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634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:43:49 +0000

Pre-show:
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
- New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner:
  - Voices of VR #1557: Apple Immersive Video BTS
    - Adventure: Ice Dive
  - VIP: Yankee Stadium
- Feedback on Feedback
  - Some thoughts on scale (via Matthew Fenselau)
    - Fermi Paradox
  - Do indies really get that much email?
  - A response from Apple‽ 🤨 (via Vítor)
- Apple’s big OS redesign
Nintendo Switch 2 launch
- Launch video
- Hands-on:
  - The Verge
  - Ars Technica
- The Joy-Cons are now mice
  - Tweet
- microSD Express only
- Chunky hinges
- Pricing
iPhone 17 Pro 48MP zoom lens
Ask ATP:
- How do we source reviews of purchases? (via Robert Bateau)
- How do I back up my photos?
  - ATP Insider: Photo Workflows
- How do we document complicated setups (via yertle)
Post-show: How do we handle… everything?
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- All-glass Apple Watch?

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633: Moonshoot

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:14:13 +0000

Pre-show:
- 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
- Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
  - ATP #476
  - Hypercritical: Independence Day
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner: Volume control (via D. Griffin Jones & Victor Prieto)
-  & 🇪🇺
  - Prioritization (via Karan J)
  - A less complementary take from Thom Holwerda
  - More theories on behind-closed-doors talks (via illustro)
    - Case document
  - Will EU releases whither? (via David Shayer)
- An anecdote about John Giannandrea (via Wolf)
- Netflix in search on Apple TV (via Ryan Budish)
Sony’s new RGB backlight tech shines
Folding MacBook? Giant iPad? Folding iPhones? Oh, my!
Ask ATP:
- How do we approach feedback? Why are we held to different standards than Apple?
- Are smaller, incremental releases of software killing the joy of a new major version? (via Thom Bullock)
  - Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Post-show: Casey finally stops kicking another can
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632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:18:19 +0000

Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner
  - Spatial Gallery has an update!
  - Volume control (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
- Siri delays (via Stephen Klinck)
- Gurman on the smart home hub
- Apple sued over false Apple Intelligence advertising
- Siri shake-up
- Threads lets you default to following… for real this time
- iPhone 16e
  - Camera arrangement justifications
  - MKBHD doesn’t care for it
    - Full review
  - Teardown from REWA
  - Teardown from iFixIt
    - Battery size comparison
- 17e already appearing in supply chain?
  - Weibo post
- iPhone 17 Pro: 12GB RAM?
WWDC 2025 Announced
EU requires major changes in iOS 19 & iOS 20
AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
Post-show: Casey has to pay to play
- The Movie Database
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631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:29:39 +0000

Pre-show: Casey received a present
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
- Colorful Macs
  - MacBook Adorable
- “Hidra”
  - List of Apple codenames
  - Hidra
- M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
  - M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
    - EE Times 🇯🇵
    - Tech Insights
  - …nor does the M4 Max
  - Reticle limits
  - Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
- Apple’s multi-OS redesign (via Jon Tatum)
  - Under the Radar #314: Optimism vs. Pessimism
Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Ask ATP:
- Do we set our phones on a surface face-up or face-down? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What’s up with version numbers these days? (via Joe O’Connor)
  - Semantic Versioning
Post-show: Restaurant soft opening results
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- Paprika

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630: Time to Spiral

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:26:02 +0000

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner
  - New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
  - Spatial Gallery
  - Metallica immersive special is coming
    - Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
- iPad Air corner
  - “2× bass” false alarm
    - 404
  - Appeal
    - Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
    - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
  - Example video from Fabian
- More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
- MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
- Regarding the “Hidra”
  - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
    - Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
  - Lernaean Hydra
- Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
- Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
  - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
    - 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
    - 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
  - CPU:
    - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
      - ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
      - ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
    - M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
      - ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
      - ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
  - More from Ars Technica
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
  - ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
- Threads timeline setting update
  - ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
  - The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
- Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
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- VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹

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629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:23:33 +0000

🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos
Tim Cook teaser
- History lesson
Mac Studio
- General announcement
- M3 Ultra announcement
- M3 Ultra
  - Ars Technica
  - It is 2× M3 Max
  - According to to 🇫🇷 website: no interposer in M4 Max
  - Gurman in April 2024
M4 MacBook Air
- Announcement
iPad
- 6GB RAM, as was foretold
- Gurman misssed on this one
iPad Air
- Announcement
- Audio regression?
Post-show:
- Casey does free labor for Apple
- John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️
  - Possible replacement #1: Kanto ORA
  - Possible replacement #2: Kanto ORA4
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- Next-gen Siri is delayed? (14 February)
- Apple Intelligence Reaches Make-or-Break Point? (3 March)
- Siri remains trash
- Amazon steps up to the AI plate
  - Interview with Panos Panay

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628: There’s a Certain Smell

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:13:56 +0000

Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Follow-up:
- New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
  - Bono Autobiography
- Prospects for humanoid robots
- macOS testing (via Anonymous)
- With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
- Netflix’s Apple TV integration
  - It’s more than just the app (via Serena)
  - What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz)
  - Implementation details (via Anonymous)
- iPhone 16e
  - Name implications
  - Possible role? (via Patch)
- Apple C1
  - MagSafe isn’t a problem
    - No, really
  - C1 is “just the start”
    - Wendover video link
  - It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
    - 0.0000000000000316 W
  - Andru Edwards’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour
  - Qualcomm licensure? (via Casey in episode 476 at around 40m)
  - Gurman on future Cx chips
- Apple investigates custom Wi-Fi chips as well
- Apple approves new wording for emails
  - Not just in the EU
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
  - Full statement
  - Screenshot
  - Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Leak
Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Upgrade #552: Table for Six
- Woes in North Carolina
Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
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627: Dragged Across the Line

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:36:30 +0000

Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
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.
iPhone 16e announced
- Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
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626: No Longer ery Good

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:42:34 +0000

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
  - 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)
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- Jon Prosser’s video
- Invites & Sports apps

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625: Time and Smoke

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:27:41 +0000

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
Pornography on the iPhone
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

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624: Do Less Math in Computers

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:33:00 +0000

🗣️ 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
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623: It’s About Human Connection

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:40:42 +0000

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?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced
- The Verge coverage

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622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:58:51 +0000

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)
- Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
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
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621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:26:13 +0000

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- 20k Hz
- statuslight.com
Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- 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
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

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620: Mostly Cookies

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 02:53:36 +0000

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)
- 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
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

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619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:02:45 +0000

Pre-show:
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
  - Become an ATP Member to listen
  - ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
  - Can Marco recognize waveforms?
  - Descript
- Emo Siri
  - It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
  - She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
- Immersive video
  - More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
    - Insta360 Titan
  - Software-based immersive video
    - Depth Anything
  - Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
    - Welcome to Light Fields
    - Deep View Video
  - Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
    - Demo for the Meta Quest
- John’s app
  - More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
  - Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
  - Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
New Vision Pro content — again!
Apple and bootable macOS backups
- Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
Ask ATP:
- Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
- What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
  - ~/bin
  - /usr/local/bin
- Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
- What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
  - Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
    - 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
    - 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
    - 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
  - Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
    - 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
  - Olympus OM-D E-M10
  - Sony a7 III
    - SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
- Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024

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618: Type System Says No

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:02:08 +0000

New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
  - A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
  - Christian Kent’s correction/joke
  - More app name ideas…
  - Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
  - Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
- Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
Pinstripes are back, baby!
- Jeff Johnson
  - Reddit post
Is Siri… emotional… now?
Marco’s new e-ink toy
- Integrations
- API
- Note that it’s backordered for a bit
New Wildlife immersive video episode
Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
- PlayStation VR2
- Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
  People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Post-show: John’s app progress
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
- 5K is 5120 × 2880
- Marc Edwards’ chart
- Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
  - At the time of recording, on sale for $720
  - Jason’s review
- ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
  - Review by D. Griffin Jones
- BenQ PD2730S
- ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
- Apple’s plans

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617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:43:55 +0000

Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
- Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
  - Channels
- Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
  - CGPath
- Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
- Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
- FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance
  - M1-M3:
    ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController
  - M4:
    ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller
M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled
John’s adventures in saving space
visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display
- Casey’s toots
- At the library
Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?
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616: I Have No Grippers

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:17:15 +0000

Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
- Yet more football (🏈) news
  - Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
  - TVEverywhere & Channels
- AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
- Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
  - We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
- Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
- More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
  - Anobit
- Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
- Ivory
- Reeder
- Tapestry
- Zuck’s post
Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
- Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
- Ben Bajarin’s take
- Larrabee
- Fairchild Semiconductor
#askatp:
- What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
  - The Mac is the Model
  - Festivitas
Post-show:
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- Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
- Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
- Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)

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615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:53:33 +0000

Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
- Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
  - Sunday Ticket updates
    - On sale!
    - It was free yesterday… kind of
  - TV Everywhere
  - An alternative approach
  - DAZN
  - NFL Replay
  - Tailscale and Exit Nodes
- Concert for One: Raye
  - NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
  - NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
- Using large external drives with macOS
  - Photos library
  - An anecdote from Marc Wickens
  - Booting from an external
  - Downloading large App Store apps
    - App Store → Settings
- Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
- Apple Intelligence notification summaries
  - Steve Troughton-Smith
  - Chris Hancock
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
- Google’s ~~spin~~ response
- Ben Thompson’s take
Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:
- Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
  - iStat Menus
- Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
- Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
- Services on macOS
- Making a system-wide service
- ThisService (now defunct)
  - Github
- In Automator
  - Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
  - To assign a keyboard shortcut:
    System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
- FastScripts

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614: Don’t Puke for the Show

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:30:31 +0000

Accidental Tech Podcast

686: Write Two Letters

685: The Ability to Be Hotter

684: It’s Not What Young People Do

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

682: Medium Core

681: The Price of Your Nightmares

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

677: I Accept the Battery Cost

676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

674: A Reliable, Boring Partner

673: Six Impossible Things

672: Wi Hyphen Fi

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

670: Institutionally Inescapable

669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

668: So Happy for All Parties Involved

667: Wisdom and Treachery

666: We Have Nothing That Hot

665: My Basement Is Beautiful

664: Humanity Gets in the Way

663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory

662: Just Break the Law

661: Intimate and Regimented

660: It’s All Chicken Salad

659: Lose the Ear Lottery

658: Your First Mistake Phone

657: Ears Are Weird

656: A Long T-Shirt

655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type

654: Athletically Engaged

653: Warning Stories

652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply

651: Your Judgement About Pockets

650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

649: Prove It With Cameras

648: Part of the Movement

647: You Get One Exclamation Point

646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

645: More Frosting

644: You Have to Invert

643: You Go to Squircle Jail

642: A Rebuilding Year

641: We're Saving That for the Egg

640: Put It in a Potato

639: Crimp the World

638: Hop, Hop, Hop

637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

636: Nose-Biting Territory

635: An Effective Operator

634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

633: Moonshoot

632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

630: Time to Spiral

629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

628: There’s a Certain Smell

627: Dragged Across the Line

626: No Longer ery Good

625: Time and Smoke

624: Do Less Math in Computers

623: It’s About Human Connection

622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want

620: Mostly Cookies

619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

618: Type System Says No

617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

616: I Have No Grippers

615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

614: Don’t Puke for the Show

613: Dress for the Chip You Want

612: Screen on Face

611: RAM Christmas

610: More Values in the Darkness

609: You’re the Oreo Cookie

608: Boot to Toot