Accidental Tech Podcast

ATP T-Shirts available until Wednesday, 6 May! Follow-up: Natural disasters, Thailand, and hard drives Synology hard drive redundancy strategies Synology Hybrid Raid Synology DS1814+ (our Synology) New MacBook battery life under load AnandTech Marco on "battery outliers" TDP Ridiculous Apple Watch case Journey soundtrack is now on vinyl and as predicted Marco is upset about it. WWDC Tickets @swill...

Donate to the EFF as a thanks for invalidating key claims of the "podcasting patent" Follow-up: There is no air gap in at least "most models" of the Apple Watch (via Jeremy Heberlein ) What watches did we order? Apple Store App (iTunes Link) Marco's Blog Post Casey's Blog Post Joel Housman's Blog Post Dr. Drang challenges Marco ATP is selling T-shirts again! Be sure to order before Wednesday, 6 Ma...

Follow-up: There are some nice people on Twitter MacBook Pros and external displays Specs page Grandma's Boy 's seat/display setup Scrubbing streaming video Koenigsegg "One to One" PowerPC Macs with x86 hardware compatibility, PC users, and the power button Meta-discussion about the show format In-N-Out Secret Menu Upgrade #30 Scroll hijacking and modern web design The Verge Apple Watch Review iMa...

Follow-up: Pork food safety F-16 and F/A-18 control sticks External displays and the current MacBook Pro "This never would have happened if Steve was alive" Comparing past actions versus intentions The Macalope's take Marco is sleepy and Casey is envious Siracusa's reference Fabrication of DRAM versus SRAM X-ray lithography Moore's Law AnandTech on 32mm and SRAM Process size chart (via @GordonMcGr...

Follow-up: Pronunciation of Marques Brownlee Has Intel Skylake been delayed ? Reasons for MacBook limitations 16 GB RAM 1 USB port RAM and silicon process sizes Apple apps updated to use Force Touch trackpad New MacBook missing 3-finger drag ? Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy Intel SkyLake and the wireless PC WiDi WiGig Nintendo and DeNA Partnership Kotaku Pokémon could be bad Post-show about th...

Follow-up: Tipster's compatriot Nintendo World Championships Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s." McLaren F1 resale Bluetooth headphones Casey's headphones Marco's Bluetooth headphones (discontinued) AptX codec VoiceOver (via @lioncourt ) Watch Edition pricing Gold video MacBook Faster flash John knows about the existing spacebars Mockup by @damnweather Ports MKBHD...

Pre-Show: Last Exile Follow-Up: More on Crossy Road Previously on ATP 94 , 95 , 96 Previous interview with Crossy Road creators Anonymous tips from last episode Casey's tweet recap USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter USB-C VGA Mulitport Adapter Monday's Apple Event New MacBook Performance is on par with a 2012 MacBook Air Handbrake Broadwell Robert Thomas' tweet USB-C to USB Adapter Jason Snell on...

Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things Analog(ue) Ferrari 488 GTB 488 Seat controls Follow-up: Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday ) Being enthusiastic about your "team" Tesla vs. Top Gear Tesla vs. The New York Times Heathrow's self-driving pods (via Michael Luís Brown ) West Virginia University's PRT – more on Wikipedia One ship pollutes as much as 50M cars (a...

Follow-up: Tesla and "customer sat" Tweet from Elon Musk Apple's Minivan Apple Columbus iPhone prototypes BMW X7 testing BMW i3 Apple/Tesla poaching 9to5Mac staff details 9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D What is Apple building? Jason Snell at Six Colors Fortune Sugar water explained Triumph of the Nerds John Sculley recounts getting hired Steve Jobs on Microsoft Auto parts suppli...

Follow-up: Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync? Trailers App? Keyboard Shortcuts? React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak Apple making a car? Neutral CarPlay 9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D Wall Street Journal Tesla GM EV1 Nissan Leaf Mr. Fusion Flux Capacitor Neutral on car UIs BMW iDrive Saab Saturn Mitsubishi Volkswagen Service Bus Volkswagen R32 MyFord Touch Ford Syn...

Follow-up Email to the show's feedback form What's a toaster oven? The canonical " Breville " J'SON Photos.app does exist! Jason Snell's Preview Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links The Verge's FAQ Learning to Love Photo Management Casey's script Dr. Drang's script Aperture Lightroom Bridge UXKit Also in Xcode? Guy English New UI Frameworks & Paradigms Async Display Kit SMP Reac...

Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator Follow-up: Handwriting recognition @dansherson Will Hains' Video Jumanji Inkwell John's OS X 10.2 Review Marco hates everyone and their email FCC and Net Neutrality Title II Tom Wheeler Apple sensor cars Running Overcast Linode Rackspace Digital Ocean Kryptos Vips ImageMagick libgd Family Sharing woes Family Sharing in John's Yosemite review Post-sho...

Follow-up: Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson ) Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy Overcast earnings Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply Analog(ue) #16: I Don't Trust Systems Back to Work How do you learn a new language? Casey's blog post Tour of Go Stack Overf...

Follow-up: 12" MacBook Air Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port. RIP Thunderbolt? Sessile Thunderbolt Display Duo Dock Belkin Thunderbolt Dock How do you power it? WiTricity Demo video Artemis/pCell ATP #61 ATP #62 Back to the Future 2 Reliability Probability Dr. Drang Kieran Healy Network Effect iPad Pro with an optional stylus? Paper Pencil Cosmonaut CES...

Pre-show: 🎉 Episode 100 🎉 Hypercritical Build and Analyze Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels Showbot woes (again) Camel updates marked markdown-it Showbot issue screencap Follow-up: Anecdotal evidence of USB usage Context of the 12" Air discussion Keynote Thinness Jason Becker reminds us of Hypercritical John's post on thinness Hypercritical #91 Solving for x Powering a 12" Air Troy Gaul's...

Follow-Up: SSL In schools & corporations Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL SOCKS Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger ) Marco's Go feed poller update IDE Eclipse Rust Communicating sequential processes Apple's Software Quality Marco's post Marco's retrospective Mention on CNBC Hypercritical #55 Casey's response to Marco Glenn Fleishman's list How to write f...

Follow-up: More on John's windowing strategy Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down) DragThing Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites Marco (mostly) hates new things again Node Go Python Generics C Macros Operator overloading Rails John's thought on Twitter AnyEvent libev libevent Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts Core Intuition on Swift Garbage Collection in Objective-C Apple J...

Follow-Up: Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@ thesupermikey ) Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately Marco expands his horizons POODLE attack cURL SSL/TLS Node.js supervisord beanstalkd curl-multi camo Heroku memcached nginx JavaScript prototypes Pentium Pro V8 Engine setTimeout() Go NSURLSession MacMiniColo Linode Zen...

Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience Follow-up: App Store Woes Panic's Transmit woes reversed DragonDrop Timebar Launcher Crossy Road financials PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_ ) Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast ) However, rollout will be staggered Sleazy Twitter app scans Nick Arnott corrects Marco Christmas comes early for John, p...

Follow-Up: Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.) Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps This week's App Store drama The phone call to Launcher's developer Apple's questionable decisions recently Friction within Apple? Stratechery: App Store Anguish, Old Apple's Last Stand, Time for a Change? (membership re...

Follow-Up: Casey clears up his car intentions Golf R Wagon/Estate Apple using push notifications for an advertisement App Store Rule 5.6 Paul Haddad's Idea Drafts' Today Widget fiasco Tweets from Greg Pierce , author of Drafts One , two , three , four PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating? Well, maybe... Final Draft...

Follow-up: Correction on battery increases year over year Hypercritical #74 Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs The Prompt (succeeded by Connected ) Palm V IIS on !Windows Kestrel libuv nginx Scott Hanselman's summary Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does Homescreens Some people like them empty Group homescreen shaming #Homescreen and the top apps John Marco Casey Why there i...

Follow-up: Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest 1 2 3 4 Discourse ( source ) Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German) Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector WatchKit _DavidSmith's Predictions _DavidSmith's Initial Impressions GEOS Craig Hockenberry on UI consistency Pete...

Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement Demotivational Poster Should we use a carousel? Follow-up: More on app bundles Does iWork help Apple sell hardware? RiMac GPUs are throttled ? It's possible to get hot even in OS X Gaming benchmarks More from Ars iStat Menus Why TRIM isn't widely supported on OS X iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus sales (via @_ryanbrodie ) More from Localytics Overcast 1.1 CarPlay...

Follow-up: Declan night one It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island , not "Adam Sandberg". Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics. Saturday Night Live Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Lazy Sunday" "On a Boat" "[Cheney] in a Box" T-Pain Autotune "Semicolon" App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp ) TRIM support and John's SSD Trim Enabler and a related Yosemite FAQ AHC...