Accidental Tech Podcast
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
July 28, 2025 • 87 mins
- 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)
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple l...
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July 22, 2025 • 116 mins
- 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
- 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
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
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July 17, 2025 • 115 mins
- 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 ...
- Standard SFSymbol:
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July 7, 2025 • 118 mins
- Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
- Follow-up:
- FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
- Tahoe without Xcode beta:
Device Support for macOS 26 Beta - 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)
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July 1, 2025 • 117 mins
- Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
- 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)
- Window widget size in Tahoe
- Apple In...
- We’re doing good work here, folks
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June 26, 2025 • 102 mins
- Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
- Some Administrivia:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
- ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
- Follow-up:
- Persistent icon replacement helper apps
- Tahoe beta ...
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June 19, 2025 • 142 mins
- Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- What betas are we running?
- 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get
19.0; new ones get26.0(via Gui Rambo)ProcessInfo/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns
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- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get
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June 9, 2025 • 173 mins
- Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- WWDC
- Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
Spo...
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June 5, 2025 • 138 mins
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
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May 29, 2025 • 129 mins
- Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
- 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?
- Alexa Plus Update
- Neutral:
- Slate Truck Top Gear review
- TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
- There’...
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May 22, 2025 • 135 mins
- Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
- 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
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May 15, 2025 • 118 mins
- Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- 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)
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals Ap...
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
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May 6, 2025 • 134 mins
- Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
- Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
- Epic vs. Apple
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May 1, 2025 • 127 mins
- Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
- 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
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April 23, 2025 • 122 mins
- 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
- Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
- 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 s...
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April 15, 2025 • 139 mins
- 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
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
- Cross-platform photo management ...
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April 10, 2025 • 139 mins
- Pre-show:
- 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
- New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner:
- Feedback on Feedb...
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April 1, 2025 • 129 mins
- Pre-show:
- 🏳️⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
- Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
- 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)
- Will EU r...
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March 27, 2025 • 106 mins
- 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 arrangeme...
- Vision Pro corner
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March 20, 2025 • 132 mins
- Pre-show: Casey received a present
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
- Colorful Macs
- “Hidra”
- M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
- M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
- …nor does the M4 Max
- Reticle limits
- Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
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