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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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01:57:22

646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase11 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

01:42:53

645: More Frosting

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/06/26

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews SeasonAllianz 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

02:22:24

644: You Have to Invert

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/06/19

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell ProBespoke 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

02:53:57

643: You Go to Squircle Jail

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/06/10

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 ReactionsMario 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 Sponsored by: Clic for Sonos: Elevate Your Sonos Experience with Clic Sponsored by Betterhelp: Give online

02:18:59

642: A Rebuilding Year

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/06/05

Follow-up:Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial) macOS 26: Tahoe? macOS 26 supported hardware Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview MacRumors coverage Molly White’s newsletter Polycom “star”/”spider” phones Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner Bono: Stories of Surrender Open: An Autobiography Rattle and Hum Apple Immersive Screenshots: Crowd Stadium TV PSA: Plex privacy

02:09:33

641: We're Saving That for the Egg

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/05/29

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with AppleFive 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

02:15:21

640: Put It in a Potato

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/05/22

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 App Store link Judge YGR’s filing Apple 🤝🏻 Epic Epic courts Apple developers Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco Previously on ATP The EU App

01:58:47

639: Crimp the World

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/05/15

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook ProCalDigit 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:

02:14:02

638: Hop, Hop, Hop

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/05/06

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasionsFollow-up: At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁 Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay Blue Man Group Epic vs. Apple The Verge on Apple’s decision making Apple’s Response Apple Appeals App Store rules have been changed MJ Tsai’s Roundup Ryan Jones Gruber Upgrade #562: Let’s Break the Law Tim Sweeney continues grandstanding Fortnite may be coming back… via 🇸🇪? Epic Games announces plans for a shop for iOS developers Press

02:07:32

637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/05/01

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestoneThinOptics round clear New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now Follow-up: A surprising Vision Pro corner: Adventure: Hill Climb Laura’s Hot Lap Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now Laura Hayes Racing (archived) D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF Article Video John discusses the design of the Mac Pro iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen) Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin

02:02:23

636: Nose-Biting Territory

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2025/04/23

🗣️ 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

02:19:05

635: An Effective Operator

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/04/15

Pre-show: Casey’s lightly boken his AirPods Pro 2Porsche Taycan Ioniq 5 BMW i4 Chevy Bolt 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️ Follow-up: 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs Message from US Customs & Border Protection 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

02:19:42

634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/04/10

Pre-show: Technology Connections on dishwashers Maestral How to excise Dropbox Brave Firefox Kagi Orion Arc Palm Pre 🗣️ 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‽

02:09:56

633: Moonshoot

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/04/01

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

01:46:58

632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

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2025/03/27

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

02:12:27

631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Pre-show: Casey received a presentFollow-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

02:36:58

630: Time to Spiral

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/03/13

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrongFollow-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

02:21:01

629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/03/07

🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate LogosTim 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

01:57:28

628: There’s a Certain Smell

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/02/28

Pre-show: Marco messed with the systemZoom F1 USB Pre 2 Schiit Jotunheim Follow-up: New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing Bono Autobiography Prospects for humanoid robots macOS testing (via Anonymous) With apologies to Joe Rosensteel Exhibit A Exhibit B Exhibit C 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

02:03:04

627: Dragged Across the Line

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2025/02/20

Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continueVoIP ATA Ubiquiti Managed VoIP 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. Jay Peters at The Verge Humane press release Humane support document iPhone 16e announced Intro video Apple TV app is

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