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Accidental Tech Podcast

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

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

  • 2 hours 20 minutes
    699: Not the Correct Squircle
    • Pre-show: Casey’s oops
      • Magic TrackPad
      • Magic Keyboard
      • Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
    • 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
      • Design services price list
      • SwitchGlass
        • SwitchGlass dark icon
        • SwitchGlass old icon
      • Front and Center
        • Front and Center old icon
      • Callsheet
        • Callsheet old icon
        • Jelly’s write-up
        • Ste Grainer
        • The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons
      • Overcast
      • Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App
        • Fire Island Lighthouse
      • Parakeet’s post about our icons
    • Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
      • Apple support document
      • Opera joins the party
    • Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
      • DevCleaner (App Store link)
    • Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
      • Goose
      • Big Modern!
        • Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
      • Nugs
      • Micro Tyvek Wallet
      • Micro Soft Shell Wallet
      • Studio Neat
      • Casey’s fan
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
      • Quinn Nelson’s pitch
      • Game Porting Toolkit 4

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    7 July 2026, 12:41 am
  • 2 hours 13 minutes
    698: And Do What?
    • 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
        • Avoiding Copland 2010
      • Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
        • Casey:
          • ThinkPad 701C
          • ThinkPad T30
        • John:
          • eMate
          • Newton 2000
          • Trashcan
    • Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS
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      • On the store
      • All Ubiquiti NAS offerings
      • Xserve RAID

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    30 June 2026, 11:23 pm
  • 2 hours 6 minutes
    697: The Chart Is Terrifying
    • 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)
      • Chart
      • South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures
      • Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭
        • We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!
    • 25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
      • Stephen’s tables
      • Gruber’s tables
      • Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
      • Good timing:
        • tmcgeary
        • Aaron
        • Greg Pierce
    • Ask ATP:
      • Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
        • Joe Lion
        • Blake Patterson
      • Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
    • Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable

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    26 June 2026, 10:04 pm
  • 1 hour 59 minutes
    696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
    • 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 Moren vanity searches
        • An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
      • Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
      • 3Blue1Brown transformers video
      • Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
      • Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
      • LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
        • Filippone Stefano’s review
      • Ars Technica’s write-up
    • Post-show: Casey’s trip results
      • UniFi Travel Router
      • GL-iNet
      • Flex Mini
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
      • OpenDoc
      • iPhone mirroring resizing

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    15 June 2026, 8:34 pm
  • 2 hours 51 minutes
    695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
    • 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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    9 June 2026, 3:34 am
  • 2 hours 19 minutes
    694: Potential and Homework
    • 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: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
      • Previously, the DGX Spark
      • This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
        • They’re the same… but not
      • Surface Laptop Ultra
      • Ars Technica

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    4 June 2026, 9:58 pm
  • 2 hours 2 minutes
    693: Negative Bonus Points
    • Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
      • Ubiquiti marketing video
      • Spanning Tree Protocol
      • Sonos & Networking Documentation
    • 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
          • Interior
      • Coverage
        • The Verge
        • Top Gear
        • Cleo Abram
        • MKBHD (stationary tour)
          • ba-dum tss
      • John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
        • Saturday Night Live
        • Affordance
    • Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
      • Associated layoffs, because, of course
      • Destiny 1 on Wikipedia
      • Penny Arcade
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
      • How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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    29 May 2026, 8:43 pm
  • 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?
      • Pew Research
        • Concern vs. excitement
        • Ability to think & form meaningful relationships
        • Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content
        • Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient
        • Risk vs. reward
        • Young adults are using it
      • The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
      • Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint
        • University of Central Florida
        • University of Arizona
        • Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad
          • On YouTube
      • Wearable AI friend
        • friend.com
        • omi.me
      • Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards
        • Stratechery
        • Phantom data centers
        • US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart)
          • Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
      • Angine de Poitrine on KEXP
    • Post-show: Marco gets geeky
      • Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling
      • Native all the way… until you need text
      • PaintCode
      • XKCD
    • 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:
      • Project Hail Mary
      • Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride
      • Setlist
      • Bandcamp
      • Luke Bloom — Bad
      • D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart
      • Apocalyptica
      • Vitamin String Quartet
      • Johnny Cash — Hurt
    • 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
      • Apple developer forum post
      • Symlink
      • .nosync, .noindex, .nobackup
      • Hopper
      • MJ Tsai
      • Apple open-source
      • Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library
      • Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think
    • 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
        • See also: MacBook Neo
        • More from Tim Culpan
        • Paul Haddad’s toot showing $25K-$35K Mac Studios for sale on eBay
      • An examination of Apple’s CapEx
        • Apple’s R&D spending hits new record
        • SG&A
        • MG Siegler’s take
          • Project Titan died in Febraury 2024
    • 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
      • Ashokan Rail Trail
      • Saunter Map App
      • Pedometer++
      • Suunto Race S Titanium
      • Barkley Marathons
        • Documentary trailer
    • 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
      • Underscore’s blog post
      • Stephen’s blog post
      • Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
      • MaxTech’s musing

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    30 April 2026, 9:10 pm
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