692: A Thinking Hitch

Accidental Tech Podcast | May 21 2026 | 02:06:41

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
  - 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 terminal, the TTY, and the shell
    - The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
      - Wizard Zines
- Ignoring node_modules and the like
  - In Dropbox
    - Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas)
    - …or use xattrs
      - Dropbox documentation on ignoring files
      - Automator example from Boz Bundalo
  - In Time Machine
    - pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)
      - Technical explanation
      - Supply chain protection
- 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨
- Reminders
  - Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?
  - Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)
  - Updates in 26.5
  - Flexibits
Why does everyone hate AI?
- Pew Research
  - Concern vs. excitement