Accidental Tech Podcast
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Episodes
- Pre-show:
- 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
- “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
- Pre-show:
- 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- John and dynamic DNS
- Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
- DynDns.org
- no-ip.org
- Follow-up:
- Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
- Follow-up:
- Formula 1 on Apple TV
- The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
- SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
- Yes, you can use AI for
ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? - SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (...
- 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
- T...
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
- CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
- “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)
- Ultra/Neo/etc
- Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
- Follow-up:
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
- 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
- ...
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Pre-show: Mythos
- Follow-up:
- ATP Store
- Yes, it happened again.
- The ATP Neo Silver made it!
- UPenn is an Ivy
- Gurman’s transition coverage
- The A...
- ATP Store
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- GL.iNet KVM security issues?
- 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
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
- Follow-up:
- 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
- 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?...
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
- MacBook Neo
- Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
- New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
- Teardown...
- 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)
- Monitoring & control interface
- Im...
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- 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)
- The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
- On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
- Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- 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 Andr...
- 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
- Studio Display XDR
- M5 MacBook Air
- Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow
blowswoes - Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window re...
- 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
defectionmove to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) - Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
- Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
- Follow-up:
- Units corner
- WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
- AI
- Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦...
- Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
- Claude Code & AI eth...
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