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Pre-show: We are not dangerously capable We convince ourselves not to pivot to video Accidental Neutral : The Rivian R2 FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈 Follow-up: It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul) Indexing for the new Spotlight Passwords app does the hard thing macOS 27 “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1 Microsoft Bob You can use Touch ID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith ) sudo defau...
The episode dissects Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, noting a significant shift from OS-specific announcements to broader category-based presentations aimed at fixing past mistakes and "sweating the details." Key discussions include a major redesign of Screen Time and parental controls, a deep dive into Apple Intelligence and Siri's new Google Gemini-powered capabilities, and AI-driven photo editing features. The hosts express cautious optimism, particularly regarding Apple's efforts to address a long-standing credibility problem with AI, and the ongoing clashes with EU regulations impacting feature rollout.
Pre-show: 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride ! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL) Tailscale Funnel DynDns.org no-ip.org Follow-up: Ferrari Luce John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG ) John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy Bambu ’s battle with its users They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins ) Jose agrees Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Sm...
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave ) SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor ) SVG can do THAT‽ Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg , but have you tried Lossless Cut ? SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko ) How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebView s? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are mv s th...
Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member ’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness Follow-up: Cut/copy/paste in Finder Terminal John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes tcsh John’s Terminal settings Window tab John’s Terminal settings Tab tab Escape sequence extended tooltip .cshrc Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files Fancy shell prompts like Starship KornShell Some other terminal resources The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek ) The t...
Pre-show: Project Hail Mary Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride Setlist Bandcamp Luke Bloom — Bad D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart Apocalyptica Vitamin String Quartet Johnny Cash — Hurt Follow-up: CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey ) Bloomberg “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones) Ultra/Neo/etc Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone ? (via Janne Ojaniemi ) Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J ) What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Displ...
Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧 Follow-up: Backblaze & cloud backups Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein) Support document Maestral Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz ) Neo-ing… other things Mythos What makes this different (via William Moran) GPT-5.5 is equivalent? cURL security/bug reports Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI AI is still ruining everything See also: MacBook Neo More from Tim Culpan Paul Haddad’s toot showing $25K-$35K Mac Studios f...
Pre-show: Mythos Anthropic’s blog post Follow-up: ATP Store Yes, it happened again. The ATP Neo Silver made it! UPenn is an Ivy Kieran Healy’s story Marina Epelman’s thought US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools Gurman’s transition coverage Tim Cook’s remarks to employees Comparison between Cook & Ternus The Ability to be Hotter New material proves to be more heat conductive Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878 B...
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ Follow-up: GL.iNet KVM security issues? Mark Wadham’s write-up Dan Godin at Ars Technica MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn ) Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon More component delays It’s Ternus time Fashion Cook’s shoes Ternus’s Shirt Cook’s Shirt Johny Srouji named Chief Hardware Officer Tim’s letter New York Times coverage Marco’s blog post Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue Infinite ...
Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco Roon Nugs 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom Follow-up: Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen) Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg ) Previously: Eric Portis on Color Spaces Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything Is Apple running out of A18 Pros ‽ 😱 Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor ) Others with this issue Apple said it’d be fixed… two ...
Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal UniFi Travel Router Cascades trail Shenandoah National Park 🗣️ 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 fin...
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...
Follow-up: Overcast & Transcriptions Marco had never seen inside a datacenter What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King ) Apple Podcasts transcript options <podcast:transcript> tag MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag 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...
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-sc...
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 Pulei...
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 ...
Pre-show: Marco beach… and app… cleanup results Instagram reel that John found Due YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit 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” Objective Development LaunchBar Little Snitch AirTag 2 & speaker tampering Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black) Explanatory vide...
Pre-show: Marco HVAC update Daikin Trane YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range ) YoLink leak sensors LoRa 🗣️ 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 N...
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 John’s Taho...
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...
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 tria...
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 J...
Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco LivePhish Goose on Bandcamp Nugs 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...
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 short...
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 suppor...
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...
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 Gulbra...
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 Stephen Robles on The Talk Show Apple documentation ATP on Threads 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 No...
Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II Bryan’s toot pen.tips Paperlike 3 Paperlike Pencil Tips 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 ...
