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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Accidental Tech Podcast
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  • Accidental Tech Podcast

    680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

    27/02/2026 | 2h 34 mins.
    Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes

    TruFuel

    Follow-up:

    Casey got the CableCARD email 😭

    YoLink alternatives (via Joe)

    IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement

    KLIPPBOK (leak sensor)

    BILRESA (remote control)

    MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor)

    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

    Wall Street Journal video

    Accompanying article

    Apple News link

    This predates this administration?

    Ask ATP:

    What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)

    ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen

    John: lock & home

    Casey: lock & home

    Indigo

    Croissant

    Marco: lock & home

    What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)

    Overtime on ATP #675

    Casey

    AirPods Pro 3

    Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω

    Desktop speakers

    Sonos Era 100 × 2

    Sonos Sub Mini

    Sonos Combo Adapter

    John:

    Sony MDR-7506

    Kanto ORA4

    ATP #630

    Marco:

    Podcasting

    Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω

    Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads

    Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)

    Music

    HifiMan HE6

    Speakers

    KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62

    Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D

    Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars

    BMW i4 M50

    Audi e-tron GT

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI

    Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers

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    679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

    16/02/2026 | 2h
    Pre-show:

    Marco beach… and app… cleanup results

    Instagram reel that John found

    Due

    YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit

    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”

    Objective Development

    LaunchBar

    Little Snitch

    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?

    Juli Clover at MacRumors

    Ben Lovejoy at 9to5 Mac

    Ben in December 2024

    Vadim Yuryev (of MaxTech)

    Ask ATP:

    What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)

    Casey’s “tailgate battery”

    Casey’s “bequeathed” generator

    Tesla Powerwall

    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: Casey’s Status Board

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV

    ReplayTV

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    678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

    12/02/2026 | 2h 34 mins.
    Pre-show: Marco HVAC update

    Daikin

    Trane

    YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range)

    YoLink leak sensors

    LoRa

    🗣️ 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

    Anthropic study

    Experienced developers are slower?

    Microsoft study

    Atlassian study

    Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains

    Harvard: Slop hinders productivity

    MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns (PDF)

    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:

    n8n

    Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans

    Computer (occupation)

    Memento mori

    Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases

    Ferrari Luce

    Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge

    Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL

    Associated post

    Dieter Rams

    Patek Philippe Nautilus

    Braun

    Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50

    Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)

    Other videos

    Leica

    Post-show: Casey is car shopping

    Porsche Taycan

    Audi e-tron GT

    BMW i4

    Rivian R3

    How the second-gen Porsche Taycan is better than the first-gen

    Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles

    Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins

    Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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    677: I Accept the Battery Cost

    05/02/2026 | 2h 1 mins.
    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

    John’s Tahoe icon battle continues

    Rubber duck debugging

    Kyle Hughes

    Drop shipping

    Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X

    Most recent earnings

    Earnings call transcript

    The Robotaxi is dangerous according to… Tesla

    We really need to get to self-driving

    Waymo’s safety record

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin

    Apple buys Q.ai

    Ryan Christoffel

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    676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

    29/01/2026 | 2h 20 mins.
    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.

    Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook

    Tim’s internal memo

    Tim’s letter after George Floyd

    Gruber on Tim’s letter

    Gruber on language

    CRDT

    John’s new bff

    XKCD #974: Pass the salt

    Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

    Congress is unsure if it complies with law

    Are content moderation changes afoot?

    More data slurping definitely is

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