Accidental Tech Podcast

705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

Aug 20 2026 | 02:30:22

Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
- Daikin
  - Home Assistant integration
- Home Assistant Green
Follow-up:
- The OpenAI doughnut
  - What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
  - Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)
    - Biconcave disc
- Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
- Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
- RAMageddon
  - Apple gets lower display prices
  - Apple raises trade-in values
🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉
AI watermarking
- Steganography
- How Claude’s text watermark works
- Pseudorandom number generator
- A wonderful visual guide
- Some 3Blue1Brown homework
  - LLMs explained briefly
    - Next-word prediction probabilities
  - Transformers, the tech behind LLMs
    - Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
    - Image
- Gruber’s take
- Some responses to Gruber
  - Dan Moren
  - Daniel Jalkut
- Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
- Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”
  - I Made This
Post-show: Casey has news
- CarMax

704: Past the Ternus Horizon

Aug 13 2026 | 02:08:25

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
Follow-up:
- Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
  - SQLite bug write-up
  - Blackbird
- Post-show Neutral
  - Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing
    - CarEdge (via John Siracusa)
    - Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)
      - Wall Street Journal (News+ link)
    - The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)
      - The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men
    - Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)
    - Two options from Colin Macdonald
      - Automatch Consulting
      - Insight Auto Consulting
  - Casey makes some discoveries over the last week
    - Justification from the midwest dealer
    - Ventilated seats
    - Laser headlights
  - Marco takes a spin as well
- John’s passwords pro-tip
- Codex Micro (via St. Chris)
  - Icon keys
- John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭
- Backups
  - Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)
  - …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)
    - Transcend JetDrive
    - BaseQi Adapter
  - Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
- Apple Upgrade
  - Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
  - Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)
- RAMpocalypse
New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons
- Siri
- Chess…

703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast

Aug 06 2026 | 02:32:25

Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”
- Adam Wunn’s blog post
- Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
Follow-up:
- Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]
  - Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode
- Be wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)
- Ubiquiti High Availability
  - Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS
  - SmartPower Cable USP-Cable
- “Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion)
- Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)
- Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs
SuperDuper 4
- Previously in the SuperDuper blog…
Apple Upgrade Program
macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit
Ask ATP:
- What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri)
  - Backblaze (former sponsor)
  - Tailscale (former & future sponsor)
- What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri)
  - Wizard zine
Post-show: Casey is car shopping again
Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress
- Codex Micro
  - Gruber

702: Isolate the Evil

Jul 27 2026 | 02:30:45

Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
Follow-up:
- Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
- Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
- Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)
- Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis
  - Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”
- An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”
  - macOS
  - iOS
- More clipboard changes in macOS 27
  - Video in question
- Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies
  - P. A. Semi
- Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom
  - Hartley Charlton at MacRumors
- Slate Truck price & availability announced
  - Previously on ATP
Apple 🤝 Ford
- CarPlay is Additive
Safari on 𝑥OS 27
Ask ATP:
- How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)
- How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)
- How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)
  - With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work
Post-show: How does John pack?
- InstaCrate
- Shibumi

701: I Improved My Town

Jul 23 2026 | 02:10:55

Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Follow-up:
- Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
  - LosslessCut
- Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience
- Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
- Sony 💔 💿
  - A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
  - CD sales are going up
- Price increase corner: Apple Music edition
  - Chart by BasicAppleGuy
  - AppleCare+ too
- FileMaker
  - In defense…
    - CVE
    - Monday.com
  - Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years
    - Scratch
  - And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻
Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods
- Six additional categories
- The Monkey’s Paw
OLED iMacs?
Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)
Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast
- WSOLA
- F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities

700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies

Jul 16 2026 | 01:56:18

Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
- catatp (see also Statistics)
- Bootleg visualization
Follow-up:
- Public beta check-in
- Casey’s iMessage notification issue
- Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
- Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
- Mac-assed Mac Apps
- Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)
  - LaunchAgent
    - ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  - Casey’s former keyboard
    - Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A
- Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
- Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
- Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers
Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker
- Agentic development
Goodbye, Maestral 🫡
- Gruber
Apple Sues OpenAI
Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
- Unifi Travel Router
- Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
- GL Comet Q
Members-only ATP Overtime:

699: Not the Correct Squircle

Jul 07 2026 | 02:20:29

Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Follow-up:
- Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
- Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
- RAMAgeddon
  - Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
  - Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
  - Steam Machine difficulties
    - Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)
  - Collusion! Well, maybe.
  - Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
- We’re Fable is so back, baby
  - More at Ars Technica
- Siri AI
  - No web browsing for you!
  - Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
  - Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
Revamped icons by Parakeet

698: And Do What?

Jun 30 2026 | 02:13:35

Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
- Nugs and Sonos
- As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
- Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
- Rumors about Siri AI indexing
- Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
- Price increases abound! ☹️
  - On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
  - Steam Machine (More)
  - Xbox
  - Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
    - Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
      - Previously, in Palm Pilots
- Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
  - Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
- Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
- GFHK?
- More reporting
New Siri
- Iconography
  - Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
  - Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
- Joanna Stern’s review
- Gui Rambo’s experiment
- Dan Moren
- John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
  - Question 1
  - Question 2
Ask ATP:
- Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
- If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
  - 3Blue1Brown…

697: The Chart Is Terrifying

Jun 26 2026 | 02:06:20

Pre-show:
- Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
- Marco’s trip report
  - Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
- John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
- Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
- Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
  - Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
  - Alex concurs
- Apple’s AI Tech Talk
  - What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
  - Bootleg video (via sayrer)
- Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
- Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
  - New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
    - WWDC session on YouTube
- The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
  - Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
- Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
  - TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
  - Direct product comparisons
    - Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
- Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
  - General overview (via Gui Rambo)
  - cloudOS job listing
  - How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
25 June: Apple r…

696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Jun 15 2026 | 01:59:04

Pre-show:
- We are not dangerously capable
- We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
- Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
  - FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
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
    - Microsoft Bob
  - You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
  - There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    - sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
  - ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
  - The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
  - Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
  - Mickey hands are back
  - They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
  - General Golden Gate icon changes
  - Touch Macs are coming
    - Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
    - ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
  - You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
  - HIG updates for menu icons
- iOS 27
  - Siri AI pull down animation
- iPadOS 27
  - ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
- tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
  - Hardware compatibility
- watchOS
  - Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
- Images
- Quotes
- Dan Mor…

695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua

Jun 09 2026 | 02:51:11

WWDC 2026
- Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
- Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
- Word wall
- Rob Rhyne’s toot
- Weird holes
- Change Detection
- .well-known
- Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
- Music Video
  - Craig’s toot
- Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
- TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince)
- Sam Henri Gold
Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
- White foldable phone
- More details
  - Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
- Case leaks

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694: Potential and Homework

Jun 04 2026 | 02:19:58

Pre-show:
- 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
- John and dynamic DNS
  - Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
    - Tailscale Funnel
  - DynDns.org
  - no-ip.org
Follow-up:
- Ferrari Luce
  - John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG)
  - John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
    - Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy
- Bambu’s battle with its users
  - They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins)
  - Jose agrees
- Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith)
- Moving files between volumes
  - Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
- Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
  - Previously on ATP
WWDC 2026
- All systems glow
- Wallpaper
- Gurman prediction
  - More at MacRumors
- macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!]
- Hardware that has been delayed by Siri
- macOS 27 name
- What are we dreading?
- What we’re most excited for?
- What will we miss?
Post-show: Casey wants some advice
- Callsheet
- Channels
- OAuth
- VLAN
- Jellyfin
- Infuse
- SenPlayer (App Store link)
- Tailscale Service
Members-only ATP Overtime:

693: Negative Bonus Points

May 29 2026 | 02:02:19

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)
  - SVG can do THAT‽
- Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?
- SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
- How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)
- If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?
- Defrag lives on …in APFS
  - diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
    - [disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
  - MJ Tsai
- AI Sentiment
  - AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
  - Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
    - Large Energy User Action Plan
  - Perspectives on art
    - Original Monet
The Ferrari Luce
- Previously on ATP
- Purosangue
- Jaguar I-Pace
- BMW i3
- BMW i8
- GMA T.33
- Porsche Taycan
- Galleries
  - The Verge
  - Car and Driver
    - Exterior

692: A Thinking Hitch

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

691: A Menlo Phase

May 14 2026 | 01:55:14

Pre-show:
Follow-up:
- CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
  - Bloomberg
- “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)
- Ultra/Neo/etc
  - Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
  - Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
  - What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
- Time Machine
  - …with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)
    - Asimov
  - …with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)
  - …period (via David Fokkema)
    - lsof
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
- Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
- Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)
Ask ATP:
- How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)
  - Yoink
  - MD5
- Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)
  - Prompt 3
- Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)
  - LSP
  - Intelephense
Post-show: .nofollow

690: Turn Left at the Next Tree

May 08 2026 | 01:55:14

Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
Follow-up:
- Backblaze & cloud backups
  - Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
    - Support document
  - 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
- AI is still ruining everything
- An examination of Apple’s CapEx
Ultra all the things
- iPhone Ultra
- MacBook Ultra
- AirPods Ultra
- iPad Ultra
- Apple Watch Ultra 4
- Mac Ultra
- iMac Ultra
Ask ATP:
- What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)
Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter
Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software
- Jason’s take…

689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

Apr 30 2026 | 01:56:28

Pre-show: Mythos
- Anthropic’s blog post
Follow-up:
- ATP Store
  - Yes, it happened again.
  - The ATP Neo Silver made it!
- UPenn is an Ivy
  - Kieran Healy’s story
  - Marina Epelman’s thought
    - US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools
- Gurman’s transition coverage
  - Tim Cook’s remarks to employees
  - Comparison between Cook & Ternus
- The Ability to be Hotter
  - New material proves to be more heat conductive
Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
- Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878
- Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877
- Response on Reddit
  - Reparse point
  - Additional response on Reddit
- Backblaze blog post
- MJ Tsai roundup
- Alternatives:
  - Arq
  - Parachute for iCloud
Ask ATP:
- What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)
  - ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
  - 2014 Honda Accord
- Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)
- How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)
  - Bug report
  - Gruber’s take
Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0

688: A Company Man

Apr 21 2026 | 02:06:13

🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- GL.iNet KVM security issues?
  - Mark Wadham’s write-up
  - Dan Godin at Ars Technica
- 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
Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception

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687: You Can Bend This Line

Apr 16 2026 | 01:55:34

Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- Roon
- Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
  - Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
  - Previously:
    - Eric Portis on Color Spaces
    - Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
  - Others with this issue
  - Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
  - See also:
    - Krebs on Security
    - Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- Newsroom
AI-generated code & copyright
Ask ATP:
- When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
- Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance

686: Write Two Letters

Apr 09 2026 | 02:02:09

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
    - 1
    - 2
  - 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?
  - Mac Studio power consumption
  - Mac Pro power consumption
- Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
- Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
- RetinaDisplays.com
- CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
  - They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
  - The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
    - Mechanical Watch
  - CIE updates from 2015
  - On Apple’s CMF
- Long Island and “mainland”
  - United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
Marco’s letter to John Ternus
- A Tale of Two Letters
Ask ATP:
- How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update

685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Apr 01 2026 | 02:15:38

Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
  - Pedometer++
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- More about the flag
Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
  - Missed Apex
- MacBook Neo
  - Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
  - New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
    - iBook “Snow”
  - Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
    - Framework
  - MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
    - “NFW”, says Henry
    - “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
  - Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac
    - Original article 🇩🇪
  - PCI Express
- Ubiquiti
  - What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
    - UniFi Travel Router
  - “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
    - YouTube announcement
    - Blog post
  - Some shadiness from January
🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa
- CUDA
Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
- Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”
Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
- 10 February: Delayed to 2027
- 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
  - The Information

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684: It’s Not What Young People Do

Mar 26 2026 | 01:55:14

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)
    - beanstalkd
    - Ansible
  - Monitoring & control interface
  - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
  - Mac fleet management advice
    - Apple Business
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
WWDC 2026 Announced
Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
  - XKCD
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
  - Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

Mar 19 2026 | 02:21:48

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)
      - Great camera overview video
  - The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
  - On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
  - A deep dive from Colin McKellar
  - Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)
- iPhone 17e teardown
- MacBook Neo
  - Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
    - Apple Platform Security Guide
    - On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
  - CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)
  - SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
  - John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions
  - Teardowns
    - Tech Re-Nu
    - iFixIt
      - Video
      - Blog post
AirPods Max 2
- Newsroom
- John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link)
- Apple’s compare page
Overcast beta now has transcripts!
Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
- The Verge

682: Medium Core

Mar 12 2026 | 02:16:48

Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Related episode of ATP
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 Andrew Larson)
  - SSD speeds (via The Verge)
  - The  logo
    - iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
    - Jason’s review
  - Dave2D’s review
  - Teardown
  - Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
  - New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
    - H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
  - Quinn’s review
    - M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
    - Baidu leakers
      - Super cores (“P-Core”)
        
        4.61 GHz
        
        10-wide decoding
      - Performance cores (“M-Core”)
        
        4.38 GHz
        
        7-wide decoding
        
        ~70% the performance of a Super Core
        
        Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
      - Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
        
        3.05 GHz
        
        6-wide decoding
  - Andrew Cunningham at Ars
    - L2 cache
      - Super: 16 MB
      - Performance: 8 MB
      - Efficiency: 6MB
    - Minimum clock speed:
      - Super: 1,308 MHz
      - Performance: 1,344 MHz
      - Efficiency: 972 MHz
  - Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
  - TOSTracker
  - Example individual comparison
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
  - UFO Test
  - MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
  - Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via

681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Mar 05 2026 | 02:46:54

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
  - A19 per MacRumors
  - Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn
- Studio Display XDR
  - Day-one software update
  - Mac support
    - 120Hz-worthy Macs
M5 MacBook Air
- No change in RAM upgrade pricing?
M5 Pro & M5 Max
- Efficiency cores still exist
M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
MacBook Neo
Post-show: John had a post break containment
- Context collapse
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

Feb 27 2026 | 02:34:33

Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes
- TruFuel
Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
  - F-150 Lightning
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
  - defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
  - defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
- macOS document model
  - …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
  - …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
  - Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
    - Technical details (via Videoalex)
  - Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
  - Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
  - Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
    - System Settings
      - Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
      - Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
  - Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
- Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
  - GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
- MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US

679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

Feb 16 2026 | 02:00:49

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 defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
  - Helium Browser
  - unduck.link
- Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
  - “Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
  - Explanatory video
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
  - Fastmail’s donation
  - John’s referral link
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
  - Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
  - The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
  - More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
Post-show:

678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Feb 12 2026 | 02:34:02

Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
- Units corner
  - Robert Tait’s video
- WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
  - ATP Movie Club: WarGames
  - WarGames
- AI
  - Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations
    - Three apps in one day
    - On usage limits
  - Dread & fatalism
    - We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson
    - The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
  - Productivity promise vs. reality
  - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas
  - AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison
  - Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar
  - Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
- Some related links from our AI conversation:

677: I Accept the Battery Cost

Feb 05 2026 | 02:01:32

Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
  - Cloudflare Access
    - Zero trust architecture
  - OpenID connect
    - tsidp
    - Pocket ID
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
  - Robert Tait of The Hook Up
- Claude Code & AI ethics
  - Alec’s video
  - Irish wind farm
Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
Marco’s experiment
- Cortex
- DuckDuckGo
- Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
- Apple buys Q.ai
- Ryan Christoffel

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676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Jan 29 2026 | 02:20:12

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
- atp.fm passkey update
- Google Private AI Compute
- Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
- Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
- Screen on RAM
- ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
- Modular headphones
  - AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)
  - Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
- Window management in macOS (via Ben)
  - FlashSpace
  - AltTab
New AirTags
- The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
- Invite image
- Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
- TCL Super Quantum Dot
- TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
- Sebastiaan de With → Apple
- Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
- We stand with Minnesotans.
- John’s new bff