Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Accidental Tech Podcast

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

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Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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Technology

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Latest episode

Oct 15, 2026

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Episodes

389: One Branch Leads to Yes 30.07.2020

Pre-show: Working on Stuff that Doesn’t Matter CMMI Waterfall Dithering Follow-up: Mac waking up for Reminders Intel is… not in a good place. Tech CEO Testimony to Congress Peter Steinberger on app entitlements Amazon Prime Video deal email Rumored Apple product-launch dates Big Sur’s New Look Active Window Dark Mode Active Window Active Window With Toolbar Active Window Active Window...

388: Riding the Autocomplete 23.07.2020

ATP Membership Update!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Pre-show: Seltzer : 1, Tiff: 0, Marco: 0 PV=nRT Channellock Follow-up: T2 and TouchBar from Gui Rambo Apple’s priorities for 🔋/🏋️‍♀️ for Apple Silicon TDP Apple News “Podcast” Marc Jacobs The Daily Techmeme Ride Home SoftBank is selling ARM to Nvidia? x86-64 Itanium RISC-V Dark Sky...

387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think 16.07.2020

ATP Membership Update! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Bootleg feed is live!! Some details: We may @$*&%ng swear No ads, chapters, or audio quality Show notes appear for each bootleg once the episode is published Pre-show: Is FaceID working better with 😷? Beta stability Follow-up: 🚨 ATP Mugs are not dishwasher safe! 🚨 Pencil holder USB4 vs. Thunder...

386: No More Holes in My House 09.07.2020

ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Pre-show: Phisherman Relieph Phund Fishman Donut Marco’s masks Hamilton is good. Turns out™. Follow-up: No Target Disk Mode on ARM Macs But Mac Sharing Mode will replace it WidgetKit and Third-Party Watch Faces _clockHandRotationEffect Unified Memory Architecture & the Mac Pro Cache Cohere...

385: Temporal Smear 02.07.2020

Pre-show: hey_z_ree Bootleg-feed update ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Audio Hijack Fraunhofer MP3 Licensing NetNewsWire Overcast, Swift, and SwiftUI Follow-up: DTK update Benchmarks Steve Troughton-Smith’s Take Pentium 4 DTK John ports to ARM Windows on ARM Macs Rosetta WWDC 2020 Big Sur and APFS Daniel Jalkut’s twee...

384: Equal Emphasis 23.06.2020

WWDC 2020 iOS 14 Widgets James Thomson Vidgets (App Store link) App Library Compact Siri/Call UIs/Picture-in-Picture Translation Google Translate Messages Maps Home Pushover CarPlay & CarKey U1 Safari 1Password Have I Been Pwned? Ghostery App Clips Emoji 🔍 Scribble Color Picker Pastel StoreKit Testing! 🥳 Stripe Brent Simmons’ take on IAP Speed Round iPadOS watchOS Watchsmith CARROT Wea...

383: Demand-Paged Outrage 18.06.2020

Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce Follow-up: ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 ARM Mac dev kits Xbox 360 “Dev Kit” Apple T2 Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro Tim Cook announces Racial Equity and Justice Initiative …oh, P.S., Apple’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion left Case...

382: Static Ad Removal 12.06.2020

Reactions to last week’s show Follow-up: Race/racism book list Original listicle So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates On writing into web forms SMART Board Nero Burning RO...

381: Uncomfortable Truths 04.06.2020

Black Lives Matter 11 Things You Can Do to Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct How to Be an Activist When You’re Unable to Attend Protests How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Books About Race & Racism Podcasts that Talk About Racism Research-Based Solutions to Stop Police Violence by Samuel Sinyangwe Trevor Noah’s Take Oba...

380: Wires Are Great 28.05.2020

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th. Pre-show: Live-stream icecast saga New old-style websites Flexbox Ebay port scanning Publish by John Sundell How do we trust clipboard managers‽ Little Snitch Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i Casey’s DNS Diversion Disabling Chrome’s async DNS resolver HBO ditches Apple TV Channels Follow-up: Joe Rogan himself Let’s buy Casey a 13&...

379: The Everything’s OK Alarm 21.05.2020

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th. Pre-show: ATP has a new website . ( Neutral too!) John talks about Flatland on Sophomore Lit Follow-up: MiniDV import details HandBrakeCLI exiftool Causes for soliciting promo codes Lime-a-Rita Destiny & Cursors iOS 13.4 adds Shared iPad for Business (via Sir Cathy ) Are Casey’s Raspberry Pis hardened? John’s smoke detecto...

378: Whale Quench 14.05.2020

Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live Totally unrelated : youtube-dl Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox RSI and voice control Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa ) Hand free computing via Philip Brocoum Phonetic Alphabet Craig Federighi on AppStories #162 Cursor control Coyote time ( code exam...

377: $10 Worth of Headaches 07.05.2020

Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple AppFigures Changing App Store company names LLC DBA Follow-up: Casey's Garage Project Instagram Story Raspberry Pi Zero W Raspberry Pi 4 Debugging memory problems in Xcode ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar) ATP #285 @ 3m48s ATP #306 @ 1h36m The Talk Show #227 Installing an OS on a computer without a monitor Etcher WWDC date announced Hats Fedora...

376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle 30.04.2020

Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself Dropping Dropbox Synology Drive Transmit Follow-up: John's new video card It's big Mac Pro Wheels & Feet Measurement iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Dangerous keyboard use Car alternators do generate AC Really really use an unpainted post when jump-starting a car COVID-19 Contact Tracing Exposure Notification NSHipster's Overview iOS 13.5 Imp...

375: Wobbly Goblin 24.04.2020

Pre-show: Homeowners associations Lien Law of large pull requests Follow-up: Mac Pro wheel stability W5700X is a decent deal after all iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions #askatp Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden) What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J) SOAP WSDL The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing (Joel on Software) Fizz...

374: Screwdriver Testing Harness 16.04.2020

Pre-show: Modern PHP PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication ECDSA JWT Marco's resulting APNS-JWT PHP function Follow-up: Retro Gaming OpenEmu Provenance MiSTer (via James Thomson ) Light guns and CRTs 360° audio (via Ibrahim Al-Alali ) nugs.net Completing the Mac Pro Rollout Mac Pro feet/wheels Radeon Pro W5700X iPad Pro Magic Keyboard now available for...

373: This Jerk, Right Here 09.04.2020

Pre-show: Search Engines before Google WebTV BNC connector Follow-up: Synology RAID rebuild time Getting progress cat /proc/mdstat lvm Dark Sky acquisition & location data Weather data consolidation Dark Sky's data sources Trump continues to fill the swamp Casey's Computer Corner BBEdit Arq Backup New PS5 controller Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica xScope Force Touch Raspberry Pi Pi-H...

372: Things Are Degraded 02.04.2020

Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad Follow-up: A12Z is the A12X with all GPU cores working properly Chip binning All 2020 iPad Pros have 6 GB RAM Part-name theories Casey's Synology Catastrophe DS1813+ S.M.A.R.T. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019 Apple Acquires Dark Sky CARROT Weather Weather Line You can buy/rent video from the Amazon...

371: Four-Letter Technologies 26.03.2020

Special guest Chris Lattner ! High Output Management TensorFlow Caffe TPU Python PyTorch Swift for TensorFlow Swift TensorFlow tutorials Fortran Swift for TensorFlow Clang Jupyter Python interop workbook Dynamic Callable Dynamic Member Lookup NumPy MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation SIL: Swift Intermediate Language SiFive ASIC: Application-specific integrated circuit RISC-V BSD PA-RISC...

370: Ghost Finger 19.03.2020

WWDC 2020 will be online-only Press release Original Gravity ("the beer-and-sausage place") Follow-up: Rebinding Xcode commands via Incoherent Toots Apple Style Guide New Apple Hardware Mac mini (not really new) MacBook Air iPad Pro LiDAR Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Smart Keyboard Folio iPad Pro Cursor with Craig Federighi Post-show: Consoles The Test Drivers #3: Xbox Series X Exclusive, and the Z...

369: Brown Big Bear 13.03.2020

Pre-show: Marco's Problem Marco's image-retention test Apple Cinema Display HD Follow-up: The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places). Recommended info sources on COVID-19: Flatten the Curve CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated) Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics WWDC still not ca...

368: A Jacket and Some Pins 05.03.2020

Follow-up: Feedback & Radar Casey's Catalina Catastrophe Pegasus J2i Mountain Certificate revocation Ben Thompson and nvALT Just Enough Grammar How does one back up a Synology ? Backblaze B2 Amazon Glacier Arq WWDC cancellation? Under the Radar #186: Replacing WWDC An Event Apart #askatp What are some of our favorite macOS keyboard shortcuts? ⌘ K for VNC/SMB ⇧ ⌘ A for Applications ⇧ ⌘ 4 for sc...

367: Antitrust Relief Valve 27.02.2020

Follow-up: SwitchGlass desktop-image update Apple Music high-quality streaming Settings → Music → Cellular Data → High Quality Streaming Swift and static analysis Overcast and UI state restoration Microsoft Defender ATP Coming for iOS Safari and long-lived HTTPS certificates Let's Encrypt Apple considering allowing users switch default apps Spotify 's Time to Play Fair Things #askatp How do we han...

366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day 20.02.2020

Pre-show: Catalina. 🙄 × ∞ Machine-gun trackpad Marco on OS upgrades Casey's Radar Follow-up: Grasshopper Logo Butterfly keyboards and ergonomics Finder toolbar bug... defeated? Mac malware getting worse? What does Apple need to make most? iOS 13.4 Mail toolbar fixes Cabel's take #askatp What one trivial bug would you fix if you could? (via Louie Mantia ) Casey's answer How should one partition an...

365: Day-One Cowboy 14.02.2020

Follow-up: SwiftUI previews of UIKit Gualtiero Frigerio NSHipster Folder aliases in the Dock Snow Leopard Review Radar #59289423 Shell scripts Jan Vitturi Richard Kanson John's new app (‼️) Keyboard Maestro Pastebot Taika Waititi on Apple Keyboards IBM Model M Marco's Best Laptop Ever Made Swift Playgrounds on macOS #askatp What's the situation with macOS security? (via Anthony Scardapane) Gatekee...

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