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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusaatp.fm
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Episodes

124: The Tyranny of Radio

Follow-up: Bitcode and portability Dan Gohman's mailing list post Google PNaCL Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2 10.10.4 and TRIM support Overview Ars comment thread Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities Apple's use of Samsung SSDs The comedy of updating hard drive firmware Apple Music Beats 1 Serenity Caldwell on Apple Music vs. iTunes Match Paul Haddad on how to turn off auto-renewal MUTEMATH article Casey found Fury Road Post-show: The Apple TV ad that mentions CONFIG.SYS...

Jul 03, 20151 hr 39 minEp. 124

123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

Follow-up: Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture Bruce Hoult tweet 1 , tweet 2 C data types Endianness Data structure alignment Steve Troughton-Smith S1 analysis by Chipworks The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs Intel Skylake Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting Mono's compiler history Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR" John, his watch, and his nose Myke was right again Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus Safari Content B...

Jun 24, 20151 hr 27 minEp. 123

122: My Results Were Inconclusive

Follow-up: John loses leaves his wallet John on losing his wallet on ATP #121 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet Marco's Slimmy Wallet Notes.app runs on CloudKit The MacBook One and Photos iOS 9 and QuickType Casey on iOS 9 Picture-In-Picture Bitcode Platforms State of the Union Change in session description (at the bottom) John's Swift article John's tweet about ARM Macs LLVM Bitcode file format LLVM IR encoding LLVM assembly language Marco on app signing crashes ...

Jun 19, 20151 hr 42 minEp. 122

121: Admitted No Wrongdoing

Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco: The keynote presentation Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan Natural-language search Window management iOS 9 iPad enhancements: Keyboard navigation gestures Side-by-side apps Will these revive iPad sales growth? New Notes app Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of Apple Instant Articles News app Publisher FAQ Swift going open-source watchOS 2.0 Third-party complications Initial thoughts on the native API Post-sh...

Jun 09, 20152 hr 6 minEp. 121

120: One Magical Wire

Pre-show: Weebles Wobble Casey's temporary setup to mess with John John starts two new podcasts: Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann Robot or Not with Jason Snell Follow-up: Apple Watch distance & step count accuracy Apple Support Document Jony Ive's promotion Collateralized debt obligation John Gruber at Daring Fireball Chris Bangle Jeff Williams is Senior Vice President, Operations Google Photos Connected Russell Ivanovic's interesting search results Canon 5D Mark II Samsung Galaxy S...

Jun 05, 20152 hr 7 minEp. 120

119: Promoretired

This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl) . Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired . As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode . Pre-show: Casey's new mug thanks to @_DavidSmith Follow-Up: Showbot woes Heroku's pricing changes Erin's MacBook Air AppleCare+ Synology DS1813+ Apple Watch accuracy whilst running Acquiring media Sonarr Plex Popcorntime Keeping up with the Kardashians HBO Now versus HBO...

May 29, 20151 hr 40 minEp. 119

118: A Fistful of Apple Watches

Follow-up: Running with Apple Watch – what if you hurt yourself? Major Indian retailer Flipkart is going app-only (via @voldyman ) When do apps make sense? When does the web? Apple Store EasyPay Cosmodrome by Brianna Wu RSS vs. blog Twitter accounts Hypercritical Marco.org Liss is More WatchOS 1.0.1 WWDC App Camp for Girls Happy Hour – meet us there! Release Notes #105 Layers altConf Hotels Parc55 Pickwick Mosser New Retina MacBook Pro Barefeats benchmark Battery life specs Details Mistake One w...

May 22, 20151 hr 56 minEp. 118

117: You Don’t Have the Antibodies

Follow-up: Inclusivity Twitter Accounts Everyday Sexism Brianna Wu Leigh Alexander Feminist Frequency Christina Warren Podcasts Rocket Vector iMore Podcast Clockwise Plex and Network Attached Storage iPhoto and Time Machine Watches replacing phones Mac App Store Sam Soffes' blog post App sandboxing Tyranny of the handbag Apple Watch accuracy during exercise without iPhone Garmin GPS Watches Pedometer++ Google Maps Pedometer Casey gets an Apple Watch Facebook Instant Articles Ben Thompson Speed c...

May 14, 20151 hr 59 minEp. 117

116: Women Aren’t a Minority

Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons Follow-up: HFS+ and Network Attached Storage The Synology we use is the DS1813+, but the DS1815+ is the modern version DS214play Photos.app Saving and transferring edits between photo apps Flickr gives 1 TB free (via @VJGoh ) Disabling iCloud Photo Library 1 & 2 LaunchControl for managing launchd jobs Microsoft, iOS, Swift (via @esusatyo ) Swift is being worked on Presentation video Marco versus the raccoons, illustrated How do we encou...

May 08, 20152 hr 1 minEp. 116

115: Empathy for the Machine

ATP Shirt : Last chance, buy now! Available until Wednesday, 6 May. Pre-show: Neko Atsume ( "the cat game" ) Follow-up: Bad Seagate hard drives How Hard Disks Work ( page 7 ) The MacBook Air survives... for now! launchd launchd plist generator Lingon cron Photos Background processes iStat Menus Hard links John on symbolic and hard links in his Leopard review Shared album photo limit (via Lance Hildebrand ) Performance Mucho Spanish Will Hains Deleted photos Restoring from backups Deletion instru...

May 01, 20151 hr 49 minEp. 115

114: So Far, So OK

ATP T-Shirts available until Wednesday, 6 May! Follow-up: Natural disasters, Thailand, and hard drives Synology hard drive redundancy strategies Synology Hybrid Raid Synology DS1814+ (our Synology) New MacBook battery life under load AnandTech Marco on "battery outliers" TDP Ridiculous Apple Watch case Journey soundtrack is now on vinyl and as predicted Marco is upset about it. WWDC Tickets @swilliams' awful experience New Photos app for Mac Casey's workflow Picturelife Filing script Geotagging ...

Apr 24, 20151 hr 57 minEp. 114

113: Get Your Ears Ready to Hear Me Complain

Donate to the EFF as a thanks for invalidating key claims of the "podcasting patent" Follow-up: There is no air gap in at least "most models" of the Apple Watch (via Jeremy Heberlein ) What watches did we order? Apple Store App (iTunes Link) Marco's Blog Post Casey's Blog Post Joel Housman's Blog Post Dr. Drang challenges Marco ATP is selling T-shirts again! Be sure to order before Wednesday, 6 May! Visit voiceover artist and clothier Matt Alexander 's awesome company, Need . WWDC AltConf New ti...

Apr 16, 20151 hr 47 minEp. 113

112: The Problem Is You

Follow-up: There are some nice people on Twitter MacBook Pros and external displays Specs page Grandma's Boy 's seat/display setup Scrubbing streaming video Koenigsegg "One to One" PowerPC Macs with x86 hardware compatibility, PC users, and the power button Meta-discussion about the show format In-N-Out Secret Menu Upgrade #30 Scroll hijacking and modern web design The Verge Apple Watch Review iMac with Retina 5K display splash page Myst Apple Watch reviews Nilay Patel at The Verge Joanna Stern ...

Apr 09, 20152 hrEp. 112

111: That Big Ring Underground Somewhere in Europe

Follow-up: Pork food safety F-16 and F/A-18 control sticks External displays and the current MacBook Pro "This never would have happened if Steve was alive" Comparing past actions versus intentions The Macalope's take Marco is sleepy and Casey is envious Siracusa's reference Fabrication of DRAM versus SRAM X-ray lithography Moore's Law AnandTech on 32mm and SRAM Process size chart (via @GordonMcGregor ) ARM Macs and roadmap rumors Surface RT Microsoft Build MacBook Geekbench benchmark Simon Whit...

Apr 04, 20152 hr 7 minEp. 111

110: And on That Bombshell…

Follow-up: Pronunciation of Marques Brownlee Has Intel Skylake been delayed ? Reasons for MacBook limitations 16 GB RAM 1 USB port RAM and silicon process sizes Apple apps updated to use Force Touch trackpad New MacBook missing 3-finger drag ? Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy Intel SkyLake and the wireless PC WiDi WiGig Nintendo and DeNA Partnership Kotaku Pokémon could be bad Post-show about the presumed demise of Top Gear: BBC statement on Jeremy Clarkson Casey's blog post The Incomparable o...

Mar 27, 20152 hr 2 minEp. 110

109: Bigger in the Pocket

Follow-up: Tipster's compatriot Nintendo World Championships Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s." McLaren F1 resale Bluetooth headphones Casey's headphones Marco's Bluetooth headphones (discontinued) AptX codec VoiceOver (via @lioncourt ) Watch Edition pricing Gold video MacBook Faster flash John knows about the existing spacebars Mockup by @damnweather Ports MKBHD prediction Jony Ive on design Naysayer notions Thin PCs Asus Zenbook UX305 Official specs Lenovo ad...

Mar 21, 20151 hr 44 minEp. 109

108: Zero is Better Than One

Pre-Show: Last Exile Follow-Up: More on Crossy Road Previously on ATP 94 , 95 , 96 Previous interview with Crossy Road creators Anonymous tips from last episode Casey's tweet recap USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter USB-C VGA Mulitport Adapter Monday's Apple Event New MacBook Performance is on par with a 2012 MacBook Air Handbrake Broadwell Robert Thomas' tweet USB-C to USB Adapter Jason Snell on the keyboard Keyboard comparison GIF Internals 13-inch nearly-borderless Dell laptop Will Apple kill...

Mar 12, 20152 hr 19 minEp. 108

107: We Get the Most Boring Tips

Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things Analog(ue) Ferrari 488 GTB 488 Seat controls Follow-up: Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday ) Being enthusiastic about your "team" Tesla vs. Top Gear Tesla vs. The New York Times Heathrow's self-driving pods (via Michael Luís Brown ) West Virginia University's PRT – more on Wikipedia One ship pollutes as much as 50M cars (also via Michael Luís Brown) TED Talk – start at 8:00 (via Nick Thain ) The Guardian on ships' pollution T...

Mar 05, 20151 hr 32 minEp. 107

106: That’s Slightly Right

Follow-up: Tesla and "customer sat" Tweet from Elon Musk Apple's Minivan Apple Columbus iPhone prototypes BMW X7 testing BMW i3 Apple/Tesla poaching 9to5Mac staff details 9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D What is Apple building? Jason Snell at Six Colors Fortune Sugar water explained Triumph of the Nerds John Sculley recounts getting hired Steve Jobs on Microsoft Auto parts suppliers ZF Bosch Harman Retina MacBook Pro image-retention test Tesla Roadster & Lotus Magna Steyr (...

Feb 27, 20151 hr 51 minEp. 106

105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?

Follow-up: Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync? Trailers App? Keyboard Shortcuts? React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak Apple making a car? Neutral CarPlay 9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D Wall Street Journal Tesla GM EV1 Nissan Leaf Mr. Fusion Flux Capacitor Neutral on car UIs BMW iDrive Saab Saturn Mitsubishi Volkswagen Service Bus Volkswagen R32 MyFord Touch Ford Sync Post-show: What shape would an Apple car take? Tesla Model X Ford Crown Victoria Smart car Jony Iv...

Feb 20, 20151 hr 46 minEp. 105

104: Minutiæ

Follow-up Email to the show's feedback form What's a toaster oven? The canonical " Breville " J'SON Photos.app does exist! Jason Snell's Preview Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links The Verge's FAQ Learning to Love Photo Management Casey's script Dr. Drang's script Aperture Lightroom Bridge UXKit Also in Xcode? Guy English New UI Frameworks & Paradigms Async Display Kit SMP React Native Josh Abernathy's Reaction Deep dive video Reveal, the Sherlocked exploded-views app John's ...

Feb 12, 20151 hr 42 minEp. 104

103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan

Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator Follow-up: Handwriting recognition @dansherson Will Hains' Video Jumanji Inkwell John's OS X 10.2 Review Marco hates everyone and their email FCC and Net Neutrality Title II Tom Wheeler Apple sensor cars Running Overcast Linode Rackspace Digital Ocean Kryptos Vips ImageMagick libgd Family Sharing woes Family Sharing in John's Yosemite review Post-show: More Destiny woes John's Destiny TV UI issues John teases Marco John's retweet Toaster judging cr...

Feb 06, 20152 hr 17 minEp. 103

102: Marco Is Not a Platform

Follow-up: Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson ) Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy Overcast earnings Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply Analog(ue) #16: I Don't Trust Systems Back to Work How do you learn a new language? Casey's blog post Tour of Go Stack Overflow NSHipster Apple's earnings Brewster's Millions Debug #60: Shipping Software The Talk Show #108: ...

Jan 30, 20151 hr 37 minEp. 102

101: Big Plastic Finger

Follow-up: 12" MacBook Air Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port. RIP Thunderbolt? Sessile Thunderbolt Display Duo Dock Belkin Thunderbolt Dock How do you power it? WiTricity Demo video Artemis/pCell ATP #61 ATP #62 Back to the Future 2 Reliability Probability Dr. Drang Kieran Healy Network Effect iPad Pro with an optional stylus? Paper Pencil Cosmonaut CES Wirecutter highlights UHD Alliance CES: Worse Products Through Software Audio Hijack 3 Screenshot W...

Jan 23, 20151 hr 39 minEp. 101

100: MacBook Shuffle

Pre-show: 🎉 Episode 100 🎉 Hypercritical Build and Analyze Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels Showbot woes (again) Camel updates marked markdown-it Showbot issue screencap Follow-up: Anecdotal evidence of USB usage Context of the 12" Air discussion Keynote Thinness Jason Becker reminds us of Hypercritical John's post on thinness Hypercritical #91 Solving for x Powering a 12" Air Troy Gaul's first theory Troy Gaul's second theory Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebook s? Molar Stampede fo...

Jan 16, 20151 hr 44 minEp. 100

99: Pop-Up Headlights

Follow-Up: SSL In schools & corporations Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL SOCKS Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger ) Marco's Go feed poller update IDE Eclipse Rust Communicating sequential processes Apple's Software Quality Marco's post Marco's retrospective Mention on CNBC Hypercritical #55 Casey's response to Marco Glenn Fleishman's list How to write for understanding Marco laments about software quality in the past Rumored 12" MacBook Air PlugBug Ch...

Jan 09, 20152 hrEp. 99

98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits

Follow-up: More on John's windowing strategy Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down) DragThing Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites Marco (mostly) hates new things again Node Go Python Generics C Macros Operator overloading Rails John's thought on Twitter AnyEvent libev libevent Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts Core Intuition on Swift Garbage Collection in Objective-C Apple Java Bridge CodeWarrior Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger) App Store Review Guidelines , speci...

Jan 03, 20152 hr 8 minEp. 98

97: You Have to Know When to Stop

Follow-Up: Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@ thesupermikey ) Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately Marco expands his horizons POODLE attack cURL SSL/TLS Node.js supervisord beanstalkd curl-multi camo Heroku memcached nginx JavaScript prototypes Pentium Pro V8 Engine setTimeout() Go NSURLSession MacMiniColo Linode Zend Framework Hack HHVM CloudKit Holidays as the family tech support expert Fill Your TV DiskWarrior C...

Dec 26, 20141 hr 27 minEp. 97

96: The Windows of Siracusa County

Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience Follow-up: App Store Woes Panic's Transmit woes reversed DragonDrop Timebar Launcher Crossy Road financials PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_ ) Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast ) However, rollout will be staggered Sleazy Twitter app scans Nick Arnott corrects Marco Christmas comes early for John, perhaps because of Romain Moisescot Pastebot (RIP) Microsoft Acquires Hockey App Azure Mobile Service...

Dec 19, 20142 hr 24 minEp. 96

95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You

Follow-Up: Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.) Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps This week's App Store drama The phone call to Launcher's developer Apple's questionable decisions recently Friction within Apple? Stratechery: App Store Anguish, Old Apple's Last Stand, Time for a Change? (membership required) Obligations to maintain your apps Why Casey discontinued Fast Text Open-source time commitme...

Dec 11, 20141 hr 52 minEp. 95
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