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Accidental Tech Podcast

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

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

  • 2 hours 30 minutes
    705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
    • 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! 🎉
      • E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
      • Skybridge
      • Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App
        • Kanban
      • Quitter
      • Forecast
    • 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
      • Previously on ATP…
      • BMW i4
      • San Remo Green
      • A Better Route Planner
      • EV Stupidity Checklist
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)

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    20 August 2026, 8:45 pm
  • 2 hours 8 minutes
    704: Past the Ternus Horizon
    • Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
      • Lutron Caséta Fan Control
      • Fanimation
      • Technology Connections video
    • 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
        • Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen
        • iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging
        • All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)
    • New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons
      • Siri
      • Chess
      • John pours one out for his homie
      • Keir’s observation about icon composition
      • Safari
      • Preview
      • Settings
    • Apple Watch overhaul rumors
      • The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)
    • John’s Passwords pro tip
    • Post-show: John’s macOS update woes
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors
      • Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
      • Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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    13 August 2026, 10:03 pm
  • 2 hours 32 minutes
    703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast
    • 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
      • John Voorhees at MacStories
      • The Verge with example numbers
      • Apple Upgrade vs. iPhone Upgrade
      • “Restricted Mode” isn’t about this
      • Is it worth it? Joe Rossignol answers
    • 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
      • Visor
      • AutoTempest
      • Bimmer.work
      • Driveway
      • Safari extension screenshot
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress
      • Codex Micro
        • Gruber
          • Quinn’s take
        • Stack Overflow keyboard
      • Rumored speaker

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    6 August 2026, 10:02 pm
  • 2 hours 30 minutes
    702: Isolate the Evil
    • 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
      • WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27
      • Pie chart
      • A contrary take
      • Safari MCP server
        • Federico’s take
    • Ask ATP:
      • How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)
      • How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)
        • John’s theory
        • ATP #689
        • ATP #641
        • John on replaceable batteries
        • iPhone SE
        • TSR
      • 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
        • Wind Assist
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family
      • RAM
      • “Side RAM” on the Pros
        • Supposed leaked drawings
      • Battery capacities
      • Bodies
        • Colors
          • Original mockups
        • Thicker?

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    27 July 2026, 7:28 pm
  • 2 hours 10 minutes
    701: I Improved My Town
    • Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
      • CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
      • The dead ATS
      • The proposed replacement
    • 🗣️ 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
        • Previously on ATP
        • Version 85.01 announcement post
        • FAQ post
      • 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)
      • Bambu X2D
      • TinkerCAD
      • Onshape
    • 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
      • Research paper
      • Extended write-up
      • Mechanistic interpretability
      • Bobby Tables

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    23 July 2026, 9:43 pm
  • 1 hour 56 minutes
    700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
    • 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
        • Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT
          • Gruber #1
          • Gruber #2
        • Gus Mueller
        • Gruber
      • 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
      • Apple Inc. vs. Liu
      • Chance Miller’s summary
      • The Verge
      • Gruber
      • Dithering
      • OpenAI’s response and part 2
    • Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
      • Unifi Travel Router
      • Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
      • GL Comet Q
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs
      • Ars Technica
      • The funeral has begun
      • Ars Technica on library erasure
      • The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld

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    16 July 2026, 6:18 pm
  • 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
      • Announcement video
      • 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
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