Accidental Tech Podcast

2 hours 6 minutes
692: A Thinking Hitch
- 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
      
      tcsh
      
      John’s Terminal settings Window tab
      
      John’s Terminal settings Tab tab
      
      Escape sequence extended tooltip
      
      .cshrc
    - 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?
- Post-show: Marco gets geeky
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
  - Why does the Googlebook exist?
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21 May 2026, 9:51 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
691: A Menlo Phase
- 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
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps
  - Ben Dansby
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14 May 2026, 3:45 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
- 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
  - Foster Brereton
    - somebehemoth
    - Neywiny
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8 May 2026, 4:11 pm
1 hour 56 minutes
689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
- 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
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
  - MaxTech’s musing
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30 April 2026, 9:10 pm
2 hours 6 minutes
688: A Company Man
- 🗣️ 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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21 April 2026, 4:40 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
687: You Can Bend This Line
- 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
  - Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
  - What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
    - MK1 High Density Rack Mount
  - Bandwidth comparisons
    - Thunderbolt 5
      
      80 Gbit/s symmetric
      
      120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
    - SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
      
      109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
      
      142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
    - PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
      
      1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
      
      16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
      
      …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
      
      17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
  - Internal vs. external SSD
    - 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
    - OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
    - OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
    - PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
      
      Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
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16 April 2026, 6:26 pm
2 hours 2 minutes
686: Write Two Letters
- 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
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
  - Regex to detect user anger
  - “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
  - Future plans
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9 April 2026, 7:53 pm
2 hours 15 minutes
685: The Ability to Be Hotter
- 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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1 April 2026, 1:16 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
684: It’s Not What Young People Do
- Follow-up:
  - Overcast & Transcriptions
    - Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
    - What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
      
      Apple Podcasts transcript options
      
      <podcast:transcript> tag
      
      MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag
    - 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)
      
      System X
      
      RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2
      
      I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac
      
      Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard
      
      Apple Insider
    - 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
- Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS
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26 March 2026, 9:35 pm
2 hours 21 minutes
683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
- 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)
      
      Andrew Marc David’s review
      
      M1 MacBook Air benchmarks
      
      General Apple Silicon benchmarks
      
      AmorphousDiskMark
      
      MacBook SSD benchmarks
    - 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
  - Ars Technica
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
  - Gurman on 15 February
  - Gurman on 15 March
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19 March 2026, 5:34 pm
2 hours 16 minutes
682: Medium Core
- 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 Kevin Sliech)
      
      Superwide viewing angle
      
      Timing controller (TCON)
      
      Calibration
      
      Display optimization modes
- Formula 1 news
  - Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
  - Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
  - 2026 season preview
  - F1TV vs. Apple TV
    - Link accounts
  - Romain Grosjean’s
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
  - MKBHD
  - The Verge
- Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
  - Tahoe 26.4 warnings
  - Slightly more detail from Ars Technica
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12 March 2026, 11:15 pm
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