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    Accidental Tech Podcast

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

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    Latest Episodes:
    554: Is This Your Dog? Sep 27, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco is… somewhere unexpected
      • Modern 5G hotspots vs. tethering
      • Casey’s travel router
    • 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
      • The Marco Offset
      • Podcastathon Part 1
      • Podcastathon Part 2
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s PR
        • …and Docker explorations
        • fish
      • iPhone 15 data transfers over USB-C
        • Samuel Polay’s Apple Store experience
        • Chris Jones’ experience
      • USB-A ↔ USB-C adapters (via Eric Merrill)
      • EdgeGate
        • LeakGate
        • Sharp Tech
      • CaseGate
        • Casey’s planned case
        • Anker USB-C cable (the cable that didn’t fit)
        • Umefly USB-C cable (the cable that does fit)
        • Apple silicone case (via Ben Rabicoff)
        • Viticci’s staining
        • Apple Store examples
        • Straps are the answer? (via Gem)
      • Apple & chip binning
      • A17 Pro is powerful but not efficient?
        • Razer Phone Cooler Chroma
      • People, Pets, & Places
    • Initial iPhone reviews
      • Casey’s car in 3× & 5×
      • Goose in 3× & 5×
      • Lenses
      • John’s real bokeh
      • Post-processing an automatic portrait mode photo
      • Casey’s PopSocket
    • Post-show: Marco discovers America

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    553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland Sep 23, 2023
    • Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
    • 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
      • The Marco Offset
    • ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple-products-save-your-life video
      • Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
      • Titanium watches
        • Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
        • Warranty (via Doug Miller)
      • Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
      • Casey’s live adventure
        • Related The Verge article
        • Marco’s option
      • Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
      • Apple “blue” over time
      • iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
        • iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
        • iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
      • iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
        • 14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
        • PetaPixel was confused too
        • The arrangement changed
        • iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
        • 5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
        • 3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
        • iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
        • PetaPixel camera review
        • DPReview
      • USB-C begets external display support
        • Apple support document
        • Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
      • USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)
        • Example
      • iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
      • iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
        • Revegnus’ tweet
        • Kal’s tweet
        • Nuvia
          • Lawsuit dropped
      • iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
      • Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
        • Similar to Peak Design case?
      • Apple 2030
        • Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
        • Environment FAQ
      • Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
        • New York Times interview from 2020
    • Gruber’s post
      • Geekbench 6
        • Single-core
          • M2 Max: 2,803
          • Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
        • Multi-core
          • M2 Ultra: 21,299
          • Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
      • Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
        • Luke Miani
        • Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
    • #askatp:
      • How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
        • The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
      • How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
      • Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
    • Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks

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    552: Not a Saturated Year Sep 14, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
      • RealPlayer
    • 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
      • The Marco Offset
    • Apple Event on September 12
      • System in a Package (SiP)
      • System on a Chip (SoC)
      • Six Colors’ small discoveries
      • GE fuel injector AM article
      • Dr. Drang’s post on iPhone physics
      • Grade 5 titanium
      • iPhone 14 teardown
      • Action button settings UI video
      • Sony Xperia 1 IV
    • Not in the keynote:
      • iOS 17 on 18 September
      • Sonoma on 26 September
      • USB-C Lightning Adapter
      • Apple kills MagSafe Duo & MagSafe Battery pack
    • Post-show: What color is Marco’s car?

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    551: Tickle Rock You Sep 07, 2023
    • Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
    • Follow-up:
      • iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
      • iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
        • Flighty
        • Sports Alerts (App Store link)
      • You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
      • Apple Park & garbage cans
    • Apple Event on September 12
      • WiFi 6 vs. 6E
      • Google Pixel ad
      • Czinger 21C
      • Twill
    • Post-show Neutral:
      • Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option

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    550: A Wizard With No Choices Sep 01, 2023
    • Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
    • Follow-up:
      • Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
      • Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
      • Child Gmail Accounts
        • Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
        • Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
      • Trouble in HomePod paradise
      • iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
      • Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
      • Truck routing
        • Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
        • Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
        • Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
          • inRoute
          • TomTom/Garmin
    • Apple Event on September 12
    • Exit Interviews
      • iPhone 14
      • Watch Ultra
      • Watch Series 8
      • A special Exit Salute
    • Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
      • DS1621+
      • Western Digital Red 18 TB

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    549: Unauthorized Trash Can Aug 24, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Marco’s box truck
        • TruckMap
        • Trucker Path
    • 🗣️ New ATP Membership Survey 🗣️
      (This is for everyone, not just members)
    • 🗣️ New member special: ATP Tier List: Every iMac 🗣️
    • Follow-up:
      • iMac Tier List
        • Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
        • Marco claims vindication
          • Core Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,327
          • Core 2 Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,423 (4% faster), 64-bit: 2,739 (17% faster)
          • How much faster is “2 Duo” than “Duo”?
        • 21” was (eventually) Retina, writes Max Wilkie
      • More text editors
        • CotEditor (via Taher Rangwala)
        • Chime
      • Pronouncing “Niléane” (and more)
      • Apple can’t design for humans
      • Photo editing on the Mac (via Ezekiel Elin)
        • (•••)
        • ⌘ ⏎
      • Dumb TV workarounds (also via Ezekiel Elin)
      • Apple, TV+, Disney+, and Games (via Aaron Thomas)
    • Marco’s review of Ubiquiti Security Cameras
      • G5 Bullet
      • Switch Flex
      • Scrypted
      • SecuritySpy
    • #askatp:
      • How do we handle kid e-mail addresses? (via Greg)
      • What are our expectations for subscription apps? (via Michael)
      • How do we prevent losing access to our password managers? (via Denis Čapkovič)
    • Post-show:
      • Marco’s latest gift shipment to Casey
      • Marco’s latest gift shipment to John

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    548: Starting to Count Chickens Aug 17, 2023
    • Pre-show: LG stand woes & Casey pronunciation woes
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s fire hazard has been returned
      • Text editors
        • Yes, we forgot about Nova. Our bad.
        • Zed (in beta)
        • vi
          • ls -l `which vi`
        • mg
          • README
          • /usr/bin/mg
        • nano
        • pico
      • Neat Safari-in-Sonoma trick
      • LLCs may not be the panacea we thought
        • Single-member LLCs can still be “real businesses”, says Ryan Roy
        • Single-member LLCs don’t necessarily protect the member, says Patrick Yan
          • FAQ from Denha & Associates PLLC
          • Blog post from Wolters Kluwer
      • Callsheet week one & subscription dynamics
        • Installer from David Pierce & The Verge
    • Apple-buys-Disney Rumors
      • The Hollywood Reporter
      • Jason
      • Upgrade #472: Step Aside, Bob!
      • King’s Dominion Backlot Stunt Coaster
        (The poster in the hero image is not the one Casey was talking about)
      • Cabel Sasser: Fantasy Meets Reality
      • WWDC 2013 Intro Video
        • If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?
        • There are a thousand no’s for every yes.
      • Aaron Thomas’ #askatp
    • Post-show: Let’s have a fireside chat about the state of ATP. (Nobody’s in trouble.)

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    547: Own Your Pricing Aug 10, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • ⚠️ LAST CHANCE FOR HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ⚠️
    • Follow-up:
      • Mophie 3-in-1 travel charger
        • Reported issues
        • Firmware update kit
      • Casey’s fire hazard
      • John’s Photos issues
        • He knows about modifier keys, y’all.
          • MacPaint
          • MacDraw
        • Odd behavior with iPhone camera app
        • Jason Snell’s crop macro (.ZIP link)
        • Keyboard Maestro
        • Gui’s spelunking around face detection
          • defaults write com.apple.photoanalysisd PhotoAnalysisCoreDuetSchedulingDisabled -bool YES
          • Running XPC on-demand
          • XPC
        • In-app non-destructive photo editing (the below are App Store links)
          • Pixelmator Pro
          • Photomator
          • RAW Power
          • Darkroom
          • Lightroom
          • Lightroom Classic
        • #caseywasright
    • 🎉 Callsheet has launched! 🎉
      • Press
      • Infinite Mac
      • Mini vMac
      • Analog(ue) #216: The Fast and the Curious
      • App Store Search Ads
      • First screenshot
    • #askatp:
      • Is it wise for indie developers to make a LLC? (via Nate Silva)
        • Massachusetts Fees
        • Massachusetts Fee Schedule
      • Could Apple go nuts with overclocking in a Mac Pro? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
      • What text editor are we using these days? (via Edward Corcoran)
        • TextMate
          • Blog post about slowness
        • Visual Studio Code
        • BBEdit
        • Alpha
        • Atom
        • Sublime Text
        • Espresso
        • Chocolat
    • Post-show: Roku TVs are gross

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    546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age Jul 31, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Marco’s Overcast rewrite
      • 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
    • Follow-up:
      • Synology Dynamic DNS
        • Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
        • CNAME
      • Marco’s security camera update
        • Scrypted
        • Eufy
        • Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
        • John’s sailing channel
        • B&H is a Ubiquiti retailer
      • Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
        • Their Paper
        • Google system using “far memory”
        • Paper on possible application performance gains
    • App Store to require developers to describe API use
      • Apple’s announcement
      • UserDefaults
      • Apple’s Note
      • Submit a request for a new approved reason
      • The Halting Problem
      • Steve Troughton-Smith
      • @AppStorage
    • John’s annual post-vacation tradition
      • FB12744158
      • Face recognition
      • When does Photos scan faces?
    • #askatp:
      • What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
      • What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
      • Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
    • Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
      • GL.iNet GL-MT1300
      • Quinn’s video

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    545: My Butler Can’t Use It Jul 27, 2023
    • 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
    • Pre-show: Marco mended something!
      • How-to video
      • The good replacement part
    • Which one of us is which?
      • Meet Your Hosts
    • Apple Vision Pro labs, developer kits, and more
      • MacVoices #1070: Marco’s first podcast appearance?
      • James Thomson
      • Steve Troughton-Smith
    • Casey’s phone call with App Review
    • Rumor that the quad chip is canceled
      • Upgrade #468: Nonstop Bangers Involving Saxophone Solos
    • Follow-up:
      • Large SSDs & Apple Silicon (via Matt Rigby)
        • Asmedia
    • Threads is already tanking? (Apple News link)
    • The Ubiquiti Dream Router is slow
      • …but the Dream Machine Special Edition is sold out
      • …and the Dream Wall is pretty cool, albeit ridiculous
    • Long-term review of the Logitech Circle View & HomeKit Secure Video
      • Correction: there are more HomeKit cameras
    • Post-show: Casey’s troubleshooting adventures
      • WireGuard
        • (Try PiVPN if you’re using a Raspberry Pi)
      • Tailscale
      • Dyn
      • No-IP

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    544: Valid in a Marco Way Jul 16, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Blue Man Group
      • 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
    • Follow-up:
      • EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
        • ID.4 vs. Honda Accord
        • EVs make more particulate matter
        • DeMuro on the Kia EV6 GT
      • Tesla V4 Superchargers
      • iPadOS 17 window management
      • An extended aside about social networks, federation, and socialism
      • iCloud Keychain 🤝 third-party browsers
        • Ricky’s 🍑💨
        • Chrome Extension
    • Casey’s no-good, very bad day 😭😬
    • #askatp:
      • Is Time Machine really useful anymore, anyway? (via Dan Provost)
        • Synology Products Compatibility List
      • Could a third-party ARM chip end up in a Mac Pro? (via Torb)
      • Servers love large CPUs; could Apple use Apple Silicon in servers? (via David Loring)
        • Apple Network Server
        • Xserve
      • Could Apple make a hyper-fast “drive” to sorta-kinda expand RAM? (via Patrick Melody)
      • Why no dual-socket CPU in the Mac Pro? (via Aryan Aneja)
      • Does the Mac Pro really have an “super car” attributes anymore? (via Jan Lehnardt)
      • Is the Vision Pro now the “halo car”? (via David Saunders)
    • Post-show: Marco’s update

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    543: 100 Million Tire-Kickers Jul 11, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco’s butt-crack update
    • Follow-up:
      • Upgrade #467: The Least Important Mac Follow-out
        • The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor (2013)
      • Vision Pro eyes
        • The Talk Show #378 (YouTube link)
      • Listener Occupation Overview
      • Statistical analysis and standard error (via Chris Rose)
    • Instagram Threads Version One
    • #askatp:
      • If 1Password 8 still stinks when the carrot becomes a stick, where should one store software licenses? (via Wes Chamness)
        • Yojimbo
    • Ask Neutral:
      • How do we feel about darn near everyone adopting NACS over CCS? (via Steve J. Stutz)
        • SAE announces standard for NACS
        • USB 3.0 Standard-B plug
        • Alec from Technology Connections
        • Kentucky mandates NACS
        • Left- and right-hand traffic
        • H-Day (via Sage)
      • What are some good & bad parts of EV ownership? (via yottalogical)
        • Technology Connections’s Primer
    • Post-show: Casey & John app updates
      • .searchable()
      • isSearching
      • Marco’s iOS 16 patch for $isPresented

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    542: Penguin Camel Monkey Shark Jul 06, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • How did we celebrate the Fourth of July?
      • Member Episodes Survey
    • Follow-up:
      • As per anonymous, Ternus received our Mac Pro shirt. 🫣
      • Adam Eccles expands the ATP Listener Universe™
      • Yes, Full Photos Access gives apps carte blanche (via Peter Gertsen-Schibbye)
        • Frameo
        • EXIF data
      • Desktop widget chaos whimsy (via Danny Lin)
      • A contradictory perspective on the Reddit protests (via Lee Abraham)
    • Who is the Mac Pro for, anyway?
    • Top Four Vision Pro challenges
      • Steve Troughton-Smith discovers a cursor 1 & 2
    • Post-show: Threads
      • Initial response

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    541: Make a Little Maze Jun 29, 2023
    • Pre-show: 🗣️ New Member’s Special Just Dropped 🗣️
      • Tier List - Wikipedia
      • Tier Lists - Know Your Meme
    • Follow-up:
      • With regard to the “real-time OS” and the roles of the R1
        • Secure Enclave Processor
        • Real-time operating system
      • Vision Pro and vision
        • VAC
        • James O’Laughlin’s thread
        • Engaget on Oculus’s concept varifocal lenses
        • Creal
      • Vision Pro limits
        • Virtual experiences limited to 100ft²
          • 12 minutes of VR fails
        • Speed limits
      • Conflicting opinions about Safelite (via Allan Davis & anonymous)
        • OEM
      • On fixing a bug for one developer (via Gui Rambo)
        • AirBuddy
      • SwiftUI for the Mac (via Gui Rambo & Clarko)
      • Solid-state cooling (via Alex)
        • AirJet
    • Apollo’s shutdown approach
      • Reddit telling protesting mods their communities “will not” stay private
      • Quinn’s interview of Christian Selig
      • Gruber’s interview of Christian Selig
      • “Enshittification” of TikTok
        • History
      • Spyglass
      • Pixel Pals (App Store link)
    • #askatp:
      • What do we think about the Framework laptop? (via David Hadley)
        • Wirecutter
      • How do the photo permissions in iOS really work? (via Zach Frechette)
        • PhotoKit
        • Delivering an Enhanced Privacy Experience in Your Photos App
      • How do we carry our cameras? (via Stephen Collins)
        • Hex Ranger Clamshell DSLR Backpack
        • Digital Holster 10
        • Peak Design Everyday Backpack

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    540: The Points Don’t Matter Jun 22, 2023
    • Pre-show: Good SwiftUI days
    • Follow-up:
      • Vision Pro
        • Privacy considerations (via Brandon Jones)
          • WWDC 2023 #10096: Build Great Games for Spatial Computing
        • Designing for Spatial Input
          • 6m5s
          • 7m8s
        • Vergence & accommodation in eyesight (via Christopher Masto)
          • Vergence-accommodation conflict
          • 4m0s
        • visionOS SDK is out
          • Apple sample apps source code
          • Jonathan Wight’s
          • _ Finds Vision Pro labs start in July‽
        • John Ternus on external GPUs on The Talk Show
      • Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID & iCloud logins
      • macOS 14 Sonoma
      • iOS 17
        • Marco (& Casey) get a present
        • Crosswords in Apple News+
      • Apple [kinda] explains why third-party Watch faces aren’t supported
      • Apple’s new beta install system
      • DPReview has been purchased Gear Patrol
        • Ars Technica
    • Safari 17 Link Tracking Protection
      • MJ Tsai
      • WebKit blog
      • MacRumors
      • Jeff Johnson
      • privacytests.org
    • DockKit
    • #askatp:
      • Having seen Vision Pro, are we more enthusiastic about Apple’s automotive adventures? (via Nick)
      • Do we use any sort of app uninstaller? (via markblndr)
        • LaunchControl
      • The age-old debate about using separate vaults for 2FA gets rekindled by Dave Copeland
        • Sebastian Cohnen clarifies
        • The real threat, as per Drew
    • Post-show: Casey’s happy technology week, and Marco’s not-so-happy technology week.
      • T-Mobile Free Trial

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    539: The Strap Situation Jun 15, 2023
    • Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
      • Flighty
    • “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
      • “Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching)
      • iOS 17: Siri & Search → Listen For
    • Vision Pro
      • Promo video
      • xrOS at WWDC
        • Mastodon thread from former Apple engineer
      • Fit / Weight/ Top Strap
        • Myke on Cortex
        • Top Strap
        • HiFiMAN HE6
      • Power Estimate
      • Guest Mode
      • Pixel math
      • Refresh rate
      • Accidental hypocrisy? (via Niall O’Mara)
      • Plane use
      • Vision Pro?
      • Gaming
      • Developer kits
        • Work with Apple
    • New Macs
      • 15” MacBook Air
      • Mac Studio
        • Fan Noise Ratings
          • M1 / 2022: 15dB
          • M2 / 2023: 6dB
          • Difference is ~8×
        • Pricing ∆ between Mini & Studio
      • Mac Pro
        • John Ternus on discrete GPUs in Macs
        • Metal scores
          • M1 Max: 108,363
          • M1 Ultra: 150,644
            • 1.3× M1 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
          • M2 Max: 131,302
          • M2 Ultra: 267,399
            • 2× M2 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
            • #5 fastest Metal score overall
              • Top 3 are GPUs in a 2019 Mac Pro
        • M2 Ultra vs. NVIDIA
          • 4080: 16% higher fps
          • 4090: 37% higher fps
        • Non-game GPU performance
          • Blender GPU scores
            • M2 Ultra: 3,412
            • NVIDIA 4090: 13,158 (3.8× faster)
            • NVIDIA 3080: 6,205 (1.8× faster)
            • NVIDIA 3060: 3,256 (costs $330)
            • NVIDIA 3070: 3,396 (laptop GPU)
        • CPU benchmark
        • M2 Ultra vs. Intel & AMD
          • Intel Xeon W9-3495X (56-core)
            • Multi-core: 53,504 (2.8× faster)
          • Intel Core i9-13900KS
            • Single-core: 3,080 (39% faster)
            • Multi-core: 21,665 (15% faster)
        • Mac Pro PCIe lanes
        • Neil Parfitt on the new Mac Pro
        • Ternus & Joz acknowledge ATP shirt (❗)
    • Gaming
      • Apple’s Proton-like tool
        • Source code
        • The Verge’s Take
        • WINE
        • DXVK
        • Steam Deck
        • CrossOver
      • Gokhan Avkarogullari
      • Anonymous feedback
        • Mike Rockwell’s statement on The Talk Show
    • macOS 14 Sonoma
    • Post-show: John’s special treat
      • …as a treat
      • John’s SSDs:
        • Samsung 870 EVO 4 TB
        • Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB
      • Paul Haddad’s toot
      • Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

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    538: We Studied Thousands of Heads Jun 06, 2023
    • Pre-show: 🧘 Feelings check 🧘
    • WWDC
      • 15” MacBook Air
      • Mac Studio
      • 🎉 Mac Pro 🎉
        • 2023 Mac Pro Accessories
      • iOS 17
      • iPadOS 17
        • PCalc widget
        • Sherlock
      • macOS Sonoma
        • Aerial
      • Vision Pro
        • Chance Miller’s impressions
        • Matthew Panzarino’s impressions
        • Dongle (?) that Casey noticed
    • Post-show: WWDC food review

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    537: Worse Than All of Our Toilets Jun 01, 2023
    • Pre-show: Phish season
      • Live Phish
      • DMB Friday Night Concert Series
      • Goose on Bandcamp
    • Follow-up:
      • The Anonymous Corner
        • Some anonymous thoughts on mail delivery to Apple Park
        • BELIEVE shirts are at Apple Park
        • Rank-and-file engineers also hate Radar
      • Why does Apple bother with responses at all? (via Matthew Fenselau)
      • Not all subscriptions are created equal, notes Claude Zeins
        • One, Ten, One Hundred
      • More on “no subscription” hardliners
      • Myth and Oni were given to Take Two Interactive
        • Project Magma
    • Exit Interviews
      • iOS 16
      • iPadOS 16
      • watchOS 9
      • Ventura
    • WWDC Preview & Predictions
      • Apple invites Road to VR to WWDC
      • …and UploadVR
      • Steve Troughton-Smith notices there are references to xrOS in open-source code
        • 1
        • 2
        • 3
        • 4
        • 5
        • 6
      • Apple and Hideo Kojima
        • Max Tech’s take
        • Sean Murray’s tweet
        • Gorilla Tag
        • Steve Jobs & the Rokr
        • Xbox Accessibility
          • Xbox Adaptive Controller
    • Post-show: Casey destroyed Erin’s car & computer
      • If your Mac doesn’t start up all the way

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    536: I Reboot With Reason May 25, 2023
    • Follow-up:
      • Alex Stevenson-Price’s thread on his initial experiences with the Dell 6K monitor
        • Monitor Control
        • Dell Display Manager (via Ben Smith)
      • Hands on with Final Cut Pro & Logic for iPad
        • Ferrite
        • Dan Moren says Time-based rulers don’t work
        • Keep Final Cut Pro open until the export is complete
        • You can make FCP macOS ↔ iPadOS
          • How it works
        • Steve Troughton-Smith’s observations: 1 2
        • Ben Scheirman points out that Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 for macOS has way better mixed SDR/HDR support
      • 9 + 10 = 21
        • Pretty much everywhere, it’s gonna be hot
      • Reddit on John’s of Bleecker
        • Whoever smelt it dealt it
    • Beatings will continue until morale improves
      • Casey’s take
      • Technical Support Incident
    • Bungie’s New Extraction Shooter: Marathon
      • Myst
      • Official Website
      • Trailer
      • News Release
      • Escape from Tarkov
    • PlayStation Q
      • SteamDeck
    • #askatp:
      • Which direction is scrolling “down”, asks Jesse Stiller
      • Is there really any “re-engineering cost” for Apple Silicon Macs? (via strays_nod00)
        • Northbridge
      • How often do we reboot our Macs, wonders Saurabh
      • How can we share a ton of pictures with not-savvy family? (via Brian Coffey)
    • Post-show: More Callsheet pricing
      • GIFWrapped

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    535: My Computer Supports Math May 16, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • 🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️
      • A New Yorker’s View of the United States
    • Follow-up:
      • The Kobo FU continues
        • The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini)
        • Install NickelMenu
        • Add the Dropbox menu item
          • Libra 2
          • Other Kobos
      • Multiple Displays on M1/M2 Macs
        • Matthaus Woolard points out there are only 2 display controllers
        • Hector Marcan has now-deleted tweets covering this (via Richard Stephens)
        • Edward Munn (among others) clues us into a DisplayLink-based workaround
        • Wavlink USB 3.0 ↔ HDMI Adapter (via Steve McWee)
        • Lior Shakedd summarizes the drawbacks
      • The woes of the iBook G4 (via Ryan Maxwell)
        • Screen Spanning Doctor
        • Compatibility List
      • Final Cut Pro on iPad
        • Some M1 Pros had 16GB RAM and virtual memory (via Chris)
        • Final Cut Pro handles project files in ∞ ways (via Brendan)
      • Dell UltraSharp 32” 6K Monitor is $3,200
        • Resolutions
          • XDR = 6016 × 3384
          • Dell = 6144 × 3456
          • Dell has an 8K version available
          • Dell offers a variety of sizes
        • HDR600 only
    • WWDC Vibe Check 🧘🏻‍♂️
      • Avoiding Copland 2010
      • You Ruined Everything
    • Big watchOS upgrades coming?
      • ClockKit
      • SFSpeechRecognizer
      • Whisper
      • whisper.cpp
    • Post-show: How should Casey price Callsheet?

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    534: On the Cheerleader Bus May 11, 2023
    • Follow-up:
      • Marco’s new Kobo
        • Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol)
      • Games breaking the fourth wall
        • Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick
        • Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark)
        • Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung)
      • Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (via Michael Lechter)
      • Fully == Uplift? (via Matthew Kraft)
      • Downside to camera shutters as sensor guards during cleaning (via Wade Tregaskis)
    • Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
      • Final Cut Pro
      • Logic Pro
        • Audio Hijack
      • Jason’s overview
    • Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, etc.
    • Post-show: SwiftUI trials & tribulations
      • .matchedGeometryEffect()
      • Under the Radar #268: Fancy Work

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    533: The Beach Is the Beach May 04, 2023

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    • Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up
      • kobo sage
      • PMN Caecilia
      • Calibre
      • what if?
      • Pragmatic Programmer
      • Tao Te Ching
      • 1984
    • Follow-up:
      • Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
      • Quick Callsheet Recap
        • Someone help Casey with focusing a .searchable() text field, please!
        • Introspect for SwiftUI
        • Marco’s SwiftUI error message
      • Emil Jensen’s 2FA iOS shortcut for iCloud keychain
        • prefs:root=PASSWORD&search=2fa
      • CarPlay
        • Rental cars (via Milad Cerkic)
        • At what cost? (via Dave Nicholls)
          • The Verge in 2019
        • Ford CEO doubles down on CarPlay
      • More nostalgia via Michael Hannemann
        • The Fool’s Errand
          • Infinite Mac
        • Metal Gear Solid
        • Eternal Darkness
    • Rapid Security Responses & Cryptexes
      • Adam Engst at TidBITS
    • #askatp:
      • Will consumers actually buy a 15” MacBook Air? (via Ben)
      • Is HDR and Dolby Vision worth it? (via Torstein)
      • What are our thoughts about standing desks? (via Nick from Toronto)
        • Fully Jarvis
          • 60” × 27”, Stone, Unpowered Grommets, silver legs, 3 stage, programmable handset, with cable management
        • Fully Jax Dual Monitor Arm
        • VariDesk
        • Fog Creek’s desks (2008)
        • Uplift
    • Post-show:
      • People love their cars, too
      • Marco went to Dave & Busters
      • MAME

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    532: The Meat Part of Multitasking Apr 27, 2023

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    • Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading
      • Boox Nova Air C
      • Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.)
      • reMarkable
      • Jason’s e-Reader Roundup
      • iPad Mini (6th-gen.)
      • Tobor Robot
      • PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font)
    • Follow-up:
      • Mac Pro Believe Shirt
        • Shirt ordered for John Ternus
      • John continues to fight his window-dragging lag (FB12122106)
        • New movie
      • Belkin Releases USB-C Hub
        • Belkin’s site
        • Amazon
        • CalDigit TS4
      • Google Authenticator adds account syncing for 2FA codes
        • Not end-to-end encrypted though
      • Duncan Wilcock’s Photos.app duplicate management tale of woe
        • Motif
        • Mimeo
      • John’s receiver isn’t the panacea he thought it was (via Stephen Brandon)
        • Jonathan LaCour’s solution
        • Zidoo Z9X
    • Reddit starts charging for API access
      • Christian’s thoughts
      • Apollo (App Store link)
      • app.net
      • Officially unofficial ATP subreddit
    • What was it like before multitasking? (via Torb)
      • The Verge’s Lisa video
      • John
        • Pong
        • VIC-20
        • Mini vMac
        • MacWrite
        • MacDraw
        • Macintosh Plus
        • The stories of the original Macintosh team
        • Netcom
        • BASIC
        • OS/2
        • Egghead Software
      • Casey
        • config.sys & autoexec.bat & IRQs
        • Null modem
        • Hayes AT command set
        • Kali
        • CD Caddy
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    531: Rock It in the Right Direction Apr 20, 2023

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    • Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough.
    • Follow-up:
      • macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱
        • John’s demo GIF
        • Demo Video
      • CarPlay does avoid some problems
        • Newer version of Casey’s adapter
      • GM’s piss-poor decision is only for future EV models (via Nathaniel Irons)
      • Apple doesn’t offer lossless Atmos / DTS:X (via Sam Tierney)
        • Infuse post
      • Interchangeable lens dust avoidance (via Gilbert Tang)
      • Casey doesn’t have to regret his Studio Display yet
      • HOAs really do suck
    • Solid-state buttons dropped from iPhones 15?
    • A diversion about Apple Watch Family Setup
    • #askatp:
      • Do we run third party anti-malware apps? (via Xerxes)
      • Does macOS allow for apps to keep keys and data private from each other? (via Jesse Wilson)
      • If John/Tina hadn’t already gotten a Mac Studio, would they get an M2 mini? (via Trieu)
    • Post-show: Hops is getting nervous. 😬

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    530: You Are Not Nintendo Apr 13, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Top Four: Hot Pockets
      • Hot Pockets
      • Pizza Rolls
      • Fun Dip
      • Pixy Stix
      • Nerds
      • The Food that Built America
      • Smarties
      • Sprees
      • SweetTarts
      • Jelly Belly
        • Weird and Gross
    • Follow-up:
      • The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native.
      • We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s fault
        • Original acknowledgement
      • Future update to IceCubes will note verified URLs (via Henrik Nyh)
      • Apple Photos De-Duplication 😬
        • Aaron Gabbert’s experience
        • Mathew Schaffer’s experience
          • Example
      • Amazon will keep an archive of DPReview…?
      • Manual sensor shake on Sony cameras
        • MENU → Setup → Cleaning Mode→ Enter
      • Sony cameras & dual-base ISO
        • ISO on Sony cameras is often misunderstood
        • Photos to Photons: PDR Shadow vs. ISO
        • Photos to Photons: PDR vs. ISO
        • Dan Fox
        • Dual Base ISO explained
    • General Motors hates your iPhone
      • Original Reuters report
      • Upgrade #453: At Large at Apple Park
      • Upgrade #454: The Home Home
      • Gruber’s post
      • MKBHD & RJ Scaringe
    • Post-show: 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️: The UltraMeh is still ultra meh.
      • Dell & Samsung 5K displays

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    529: The Cycles of Marco Apr 07, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Mugs & some pint glasses are in stock!
      • Fixes:
        • Member’s episodes and iPod & iTunes/Music users (yes, really)
        • Prospective members from 🇮🇳
      • Thank you, new and existing members! 💙💙💙
    • Follow-up:
      • Quick correction about the CalDigit TS4
      • Apple Photos de-duplication in shared libraries
      • Regarding NSTrackingArea’s “quiet” behavior change
      • The Radar grass ain’t really greener ☹️
      • Camera-related follow-up
        • Ritchie’s Ricoh Recipes
        • Fuji
          • PC AUTO SAVE feature
          • Lightning ↔ SD Card Reader
          • X100V focus tip
          • Gen Z realizes real cameras exist
        • Making EDR photos:
          • Pixelmator Photo (iOS) (App Store link)
            • Adjustment sliders → ... menu → Turn on EDR
          • Pixelmator Pro (Mac) (App Store link)
            • Color adjustments section → Customize → add EDR toggle
            • Only for RAW files?
          • Radiance+ (App Store link)
    • Superzoom rentals
      • Marco’s [mostly rental] haul
      • Marco’s sample images
      • Sony RX100 VII
      • Nikon Coolpix P1000
      • Sony RX10 IV
      • Fujifilm X-T5
      • Fuji 150-600mm lens
      • Sony A7R III
      • Sony 200-600mm lens
      • 2× teleconverter
    • Post-show: Casey’s forthcoming app 🫣
      • Analogue #212: Hope Coursing Through My Veins (available sometime Sunday, 9 April)
      • The Movie DB
      • Obscura
      • Sony dual-gain/dual-base ISO and its still-image cameras

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    528: My Favorite Slap in the Face Mar 30, 2023
    • Pre-show: Samoas vs. Caramel DeLites
    • Casey found 🎉 More Occasions! 🎉
      • John’s anniversary & ATP #476
      • Jonathan’s anniversary
    • ATP Movie Club returns! We watched My Neighbor Totoro
    • Follow-up:
      • HDMI Quick Media Switching (QMS) in action
      • Threaded rod suggestions
        • McMaster-Carr
        • Tool lending libraries are a thing (via Sean Cameron & Chris Chelberg)
        • The 🔩 trick
      • Camrote for geotagging & control (via Josh Calvetti)
      • Baby needs a new set of 🦷
        • Original tweet
      • Nairobi’s true Siri experience
        • Benjamin Mayo’s theory
        • Result
      • ChatGPT + iOS Shortcut = Smart Siri‽
      • Microsoft vs. Bloomberg News
    • WWDC 2023 Announced
      • Special Event
      • Under the Radar #265: Old App, New Subscription
      • Nikon Coolpix P1000
    • Let’s attempt another intervention about Radar
      • Marco’s recent radar (FB12026558)
      • Developer Technical Support
      • John’s recent radars (FB11772168 & FB12057505)
        • Toots: 1, 2, 3, 4
      • Casey’s thoughts from June 2022
      • Jeff Johnson’s thoughts
    • #askatp:
      • What does “federation” even mean, anyway? (via Stephen Gozza)
        • Decoder with Eugen Rochko (Overcast link)
      • Is software getting worse? (via Eric Smith)
        • DARPA challenge
      • Why does John need lots of GPU in an ARM Mac? (via Thomas Alvarez)
    • Post-show:
      • Please give us members special ideas!
        • ATP on Mastodon
        • ATP Feedback
      • …particularly in the spirit of Top Four!
      • And, if you’re near Boston, buy John’s camera

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    527: The True Siri Experience Mar 23, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco has solved his Apple Watch Ultra band problem?
      • Orange Alpine Loop
      • Trail Loop
      • Ocean Band
      • Solo Loop
    • Follow-up:
      • iOS 16.4 will detect duplicate photos in iCloud Shared Photo Library
        • Kurt’s screenshot
      • John chose… poorly
        • RTINGS OLED Burn-In testing update
      • Quinn Nelson on Apple’s headset
    • Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant lost the AI race
      • A video of Siri in action
    • RIP, DPReview 😢
      • Chris Niccolls & Jordan Drake to PetaPixel
    • Marco’s “real” but “small” cameras
      • Ricoh GR IIIx
      • Fuji X100V (warning: probably above list price)
      • Fuji XT-5
    • Post-show: John is a mad 👨🏻‍🔬
      • Kanto SP26PL speaker stands
      • Media component shelves
      • Threaded rod
      • Kanto SP6HD speaker stands

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    526: Food Comes From Cans Mar 16, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Marco’s load-bearing pinky
      • We stand in support of trans people, including trans youth. 🏳️‍⚧️
        • Alex Cox’s words
        • Alex Cox’s voice
        • 5calls.org
        • Moltz’s toot
      • Happy 10th anniversary, ATP!
    • Follow-up:
      • Press ↑ to see the Apple TV screensaver location. (via Ted)
      • Recording Screen Time password isn’t possible in iOS 16.4 beta (via Gui Rambo)
      • melle points out you can guess the Screen Time passcode ∞ times in some cases. Not good, Bob.
        • Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone
        • Erase All Content and Settings
        • Continue
        • Enter the iPhone passcode
        • Take ∞ guesses at the Screen Time passcode
        • Feedback: FB12006474
      • No-passcode iPhone ain’t so smart after all, says Eric deRuiter
      • Another approach to prevent iCloud passcode changes, provided by Jenny Oskarsen
        • Change your iPhone passcode
        • After you enter it twice, the phone will ask for your iCloud passcode
        • Hit Cancel; your passcode has been changed, but you will need to enter your current iCloud password to change it
    • Tim Cook Orders Headset Forward Despite Warnings?
      • To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition
      • Colleen Novielli
      • DJI Avata
      • Destiny & motion sickness
    • Samsung’s “Space Zoom” is “enhanced” by “AI”
      • MKBHD’s YouTube Short
        • Correction video
        • 2021 🙂 Moon Crater
      • The Verge’s coverage
      • Samsung’s Explanation
    • Post-show: Casey’s Watch band problems
      • Wirecutter picks

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    525: The Glory Speakers Mar 09, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Declan made an interesting observation
      • Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
        • unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
      • John has…returned.
    • Follow-up:
      • Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
        • Screen Time passcodes, turns out™, do not protect against takeovers
        • Protecting iCloud Photos (via Erik Smets)
        • Could you previously protect Settings?
        • You can actually set a many-digit numeric-only passcode
      • Scam Authenticator App Steals QR Codes 😱
        • Mysk’s comment
      • Some absolute maniacs YOLO enthusiasts use no passcodes 😱 × ∞ (via Bob Von Scio)
      • However, the kids are alright
      • Mikael’s good point on ISP bandwidth
      • Apple TV remote with touch disabled has an Achilles heel
      • Yellow Things
        • 👎🏻 Best and worst car colors for resale
        • 👍🏻 iPhones 14 in Yellow
          • Dakar Yellow II E36
          • 1991 Toyota MR2
    • Apple Spring Event… Maybe?
      • “Compute Card”
      • Upgrade #448: I’m Choosing Optimism
    • More on John’s COVID project (Affiliate links abound!)
      • John’s old 5.1 system: Energy 5.1 Take Classic
      • Pioneer VSX-LX305
      • SVS Prime Center & map
      • Micca MB42X-C & map
      • ELAC UC52 & map
      • Polk R100
      • Polk XT15
      • Sonos Sub (Gen 3)
      • KEF KC62
      • SVS SB-1000
      • Sealed vs. Ported subs
        • Kanto
        • Audioholics
      • Audio Science Review speaker forum & reviews index
      • The problem with most center channel speakers
      • KEF Q150
      • KEF Q350
    • Post-show: Some more home theatre talk
      • RIAA curve
      • John reviews his old receiver

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    524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby Mar 02, 2023
    • Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s COVID project
      • mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
      • Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
      • “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
      • Adam Wunn on iMazing
      • Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
      • Bad Apple TV news
      • Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
        • Diabeetus
      • Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
    • Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
      • Mitigation ideas:
        • Alphanumeric passcodes
          Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
        • Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
        • Screen Time
          • Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
          • Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
        • Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
        • Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
    • #askatp:
      • Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
        • Casey’s original flex
        • Casey’s park bench picnic table
        • Casey downloads a Xcode beta
        • WRT54G
      • Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging levels? (via MaxLaves)
        • Coconut Battery
        • Battery GitHub issue
      • Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
    • Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam

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    523: I Can't Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough Feb 24, 2023
    • Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️
    • Follow-up:
      • Getting a copy of your data from Apple
        • privacy.apple.com
        • Zack Whittaker’s experience in 2018
        • GDPR
        • iMazing
      • On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard)
      • A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson)
      • More on the Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5 from John Coke and Ian White
        • Linus Tech Tips
      • Alternative thoughts on why Xcode downloads are huge (via Michael McGuire)
      • Marco should buy a Ford F150 Lightning? Maybe? (via William Vabrinskas)
      • Some further thoughts on COVID from Keith, medicinal chemist
        • NYC study
        • More recent study
        • VA Study
          • Reuters
          • Scientific American
          • The Guardian
    • iPhone 15 CAD drawings
      • …and colors
      • MaxTech video
    • Post-show: Marco has many bits of car news
      • CarMax
      • Jackery
      • Rivian R1T
      • BMW i3
      • Yellow Stripey Things

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    522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years Feb 16, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
      • TFL Offroad
      • Your Daily Lex
    • Follow-up:
      • The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
      • Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
        • Video review
        • Bundle on Amazon
      • What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
        • An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec
        • Streaming App Sentiments
      • Current vs. Previous-Gen Apple TV 4K
        • YouTube video
        • Identify your Apple TV model
      • imessage-exporter (via Christopher Sardegna)
        • Google Takeout
    • Apple dropping Product Design Chief role
    • Mac Studio is one-and-done?
      • Jason’s post
    • #askatp:
      • Does subscribing to a dead show cause burden on Overcast? (via Scott Wright)
      • Would a 8 × 64 GB MacBook read data 8× faster than a single 512 GB MacBook? (via John Susek)
      • How do we handle unknown callers? (via b4rt0s1k)
        • NoMoRobo
    • Post-show: The Liss family has finally fallen (but are okay though)

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    521: Dance Compatible Feb 09, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
    • Follow-up:
      • HomePod 2
        • Siri speed test video
          • And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
          • Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
        • HomePod 2 power connector
          • IEC 60320
        • A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
      • Foo Fighters performed at iPhone 5 launch (via Sverrir Björgvinsson)
      • Twitter shenanigans continue
        • Twitter Dev’s tweet
          • Coverage on The Verge
        • Elon’s completely ambiguous tweet
          • Coverage on The Verge
        • Movetodon killed for reasons
        • Mastodon Flock still works
        • Paul Haddad reports the new rules
    • Marco’s HomePod 2 Review
      • KEF Q150
      • HiFiMAN HE-6
      • Harman Curve
      • Dave2D HomePod 2 Video
    • #askatp:
      • Will large enterprises set up Mastodon instances? (via Gavin Whitaker)
        • Masto.host
      • Why are Xcode downloads so darn huge? (via Nathan Roberts)
      • How the heck do you search for code-related help for iOS/macOS stuff? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
      • Queryable: iPhone photo search app
    • Post-show: Audio is difficult
      • 🍌 🔌

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    520: Bananas Ingestion System Feb 02, 2023
    • Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry.
      • macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists
      • iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs
    • Follow-up:
      • Overview of US healthcare terminology
        • Ars Technica on the US healthcare situation
      • HomePod updates
        • MKBHD video
        • 9to5Mac’s photo
      • Marco’s charging woes (via Jonathan Dietz)
        • A kludgey fix suggested by Conrad Poohs
      • M2 Pro/Max
        • MaxTech video
        • Vadim Yuryev
      • Backing up iCloud Photo Library
        • icloud-photos-sync
        • Also available as a Docker container!
        • Shared photo libraries support coming?
      • Khan Academy Kids & ABCMouse
    • Foldable iPad with carbon fiber kickstand?
    • Apple’s “Reality Pro” AR/VR goggles: 🎵 what is it good for? 🎵
      • The Information
      • 9to5Mac
      • Gruber
      • Gurman
      • CrunchPad
      • Apple Watch Leather Link band
      • Valve Index
      • Meta Quest
      • Hypercritical: Antacid Tablet
      • Hypercritical: Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
    • Post-show: Marco is confused by his iPad
      • M539 Restorations

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    519: Paint My Wings Jan 26, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Frame Game
      • ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
      • Belated observation of an anniversary
        • Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
    • Follow-up:
      • The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
      • But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
        • Max Tech
      • Twitter officially bans third-party clients
        • Diff (via Andy Baio)
        • Twitter Dev’s tweet
          • Jason’s thoughts, which are 😗👌🏻
          • Jason’s follow-up
        • Twitterrific Goodbye
          • Linea
          • Tot
          • xScope
        • Tweetbot Goodbye
          • Ivory
      • Twitter does, indeed, seem to be crumbling
      • Valentines Day at White Castle
      • Unusual ways to listen to ATP
      • Some Movie Club follow-up:
        • Regarding Hunt’s language change (via David Watson)
        • Some thoughts from Patrick Warn
          • The Whistle Blower
        • Smarter Every Day gets on the USS Toledo
    • Marco’s USB-charging question
      • The John Gruber gloves
      • Zippo HeatBank 6 hand warmers
      • C2C caberQU
    • Apple is exploring touchscreen Macs 😱
    • #askatp:
      • Any app suggestions for young kids? (via Lee Jarvis)
        • Toca Boca
          • Paint My Wings
        • Pok Pok
        • ABCMouse
        • Sago Mini
      • How in the 🤬 can you move or rename an open document on macOS? (via Brian Coffey)
      • How do we handle health insurance [since 🇺🇸 sucks]? (via Nevin)
    • Post-show: Window-washing follow-up
      • Unger HydroPower Pure Water system
      • GEKA QuickConnect
      • DeWalt’s awful cordless “power” “washer”
      • DeWalt’s awesome cordless blower
      • Solving the Biggest Problems with Windows

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    518: Deconstructed iMac Jan 19, 2023
    • Pre-show:
      • Marco’s window-washing woes
      • Chicken hat "dregs"
      • ❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
    • Follow-up:
      • Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
        • Stable Diffusion Litigation
      • One more from CES: solid-state cooling
        • PC World video
        • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
      • Twitter kills (some) third-party clients
        • Craig Hockenberry
        • The Verge
        • Twitter’s sole “statement”, five days later 🙄 × ∞
        • The Verge on “🫡”
      • Upgrade+ 442: Filing bug reports with Apple
      • An entry from the we-have-the-best-listeners file
    • Apple’s Week of Announcements
      • New Macs
        • Dan Moren
        • Color-matched MagSafe cables‼️
        • iStat Menus
      • New HomePods 😱
    • Post-show: Casey got the Belkin Continuity Camera doodad
      • External Display Mount
      • Laptop Display Mount

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    517: A Tesla Full of Kindles Jan 09, 2023
    • Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car
    • Follow-up:
      • Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas)
      • Dell 5K monitor
      • Dell 6K monitor
        • Teaser video
        • Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456
        • XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384
    • CES TV News
      • Samsung 77-inch QD-OLED
      • LG Signature OLED “wireless” TV
      • LG Micro Lens Array
      • Samgung microLED TVs
      • Roku is making TVs 🤨
      • Sony is not showing TVs
    • Qi2 is MagSafe?
    • Rewind.ai internals (via Kevin Chen)
      • ScreenCaptureKit
      • Vision Framework
      • Video Toolbox
    • #askatp:
      • What would be important in a “3rd alternative” desktop operating system? (via Stephan Jacobs)
        • System76
        • macOS achieves UNIX (not Linux) certification
        • Getting macOS UNIX-certified
      • Do we use RSS? Which apps, if so? (via Andy Clarke)
        • Reeder
        • NetNewsWire
        • Feedbin
        • Unread (App Store link)
        • ReadKit
        • TIN
    • Post-show:
      • 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️ Tesla Steering Wheel Retrofit
      • Mercedes EQS SUV brake pedal (via James Russell)
        • Quinn Nelson’s thoughts: 1 & 2 & 3
        • Technology Connections enters the chat: 1 & 2

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    516: One of My Fits of Rage Jan 03, 2023
    • Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake
    • Follow-up:
      • AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee)
        • Github Terms of Service
        • Github Corporate Terms of Service
        • CRUD
      • chkbit
        • True Life
        • Diary
    • Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast
      • Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy Outlook
    • Samsung ViewFinity S9
      • The Verge
      • Samsung Announcement
      • HDR600
    • #askatp:
      • How do we backup & store Xcode project folders? (via Eshu Marneedi)
        • Tim Bray on Mastodon search
      • How does John feel about lossy streaming on his fancypants new TV? (via Sean Cameron)
        • HDTVtest
      • What’s the best way to backup a Photos library to a Synology? (via Justin Fisher)
    • Post-show: John’s Earthworks Ethos adventure
      • Marco’s Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review
      • Elgato Wave XLR
      • Blue Yeti
      • Shure PG42 USB

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    515: The Elder Programmer Look Dec 28, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
      • Project Highrise
      • Don’t Starve Together
    • Follow-up:
      • Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
      • Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
        • Have I Been Trained?
        • Have I Been Pwned?
      • A fun Twitter → Mastodon web app (via Ted Tschopp)
        • Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
        • macos9.app
      • Rewind.ai is available
        • Lensa AI (App Store link)
    • John’s iPad Mystery
      • iPad Pro (4th generation)
      • iPad Pro (6th generation)
    • Casey’s AirPods Pro Mystery
    • Always-On Display Tweaks in iOS 16.2 (via Brandon Butch)
    • Apple car project hits [yet more] road bumps
      • Bloomberg article
      • John & Jason talk about this on Upgrade #436
      • Gruber’s summary
      • Care by Volvo
    • #askatp:
      • Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway? (via Petar Petrović)
        • Fastmail
        • Squarespace
        • Hover
        • Linode
      • What should I do about bit rot? 😱 (via Jeremy Nash)
        • Synology
        • ZFS
        • TrueNAS
        • Unraid
        • Btrfs
      • Do we use native mouse acceleration?
        • SteerMouse
    • Post-show: Christmas Movies
      • Elf
      • Christmas Vacation
      • Claymation Christmas
      • A Christmas Story
      • Die Hard
      • Garfield Christmas
      • Muppets & John Denver
        • album.link
        • Songwhip

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    514: My Immense Softness Dec 22, 2022
    • Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex
      • Superbad
      • DIVX
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima?
      • Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement?
        • Blink
        • Gecko
      • Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris)
        • Trident II D5
        • Inertial Navigation System
        • Schuler tuning
        • Astroinertial Navigation System in the SR-71
        • Podcast story about the missing hemisphere of star data in the SR-71 (at 43:31)
        • John McElhone’s Detective Work
      • Moisturizers are, indeed, real.
        • Cetaphil: Casey was right, according to everyone
        • O’Keeffe’s Working Hands Cream: Marco’s waxy-barrier pick
        • CeraVe Moisturizing Cream: Marco’s daytime-softness favorite
        • Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream: Another highly-recommended option
    • Mac Pro, but less so
    • #askatp:
      • Do any of us journal? (via Arthur Dickerson)
        • Day One
      • What are the top-level folders on our home directory? (via Matt Toohey)
      • How does Casey even use Spaces, anyway? (via Cai)
    • Post-show: So, uh, what the heck are we gonna do about our theme song?
      • Jonathan Mann
      • Descript

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    513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat Dec 15, 2022
    • Pre-show: Is moisturizer real?
      • Orange Goop
    • The 🐔🧢 is back!!
    • Follow-up:
      • Recovery keys & backup contacts
        • Apple’s information
        • Oliver Ames’ thoughts
      • More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds
        • Tech Talk
        • Request a Refund
      • The Sharrow is real, John.
        • WWDC 2017
        • Relevant clip
      • Enabling Advanced Data Protection for “enthusiasts”
        • Apple’s support article
      • Quitting the Finder
        • defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
      • Apple Music Sing, Atmos, and ML
        • Example Goose album
      • Tesla adds Apple Music support
    • Freeform
      • Linea
      • Definitely not John’s fridge
    • Advanced Data Protection and Convergent Encryption
      • Stratechery post (requires login)
      • Perceptual hashing
    • Apple will allow Third-Party App Stores in the EU
      • The Digital Markets Act
      • MacRumors
      • Stratechery (requires login)
      • Gruber’s take
      • Jason’s take
      • Apple considers dropping WebKit requirement? 🤨
    • Post-show: Casey’s [mis]adventures with Docker
      • Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Update

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    512: Owned With a P Dec 08, 2022
    • Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price
    • Follow-up:
      • Mastodon instances and federation
      • Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually
      • Sharrow
        • 👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing
        • 👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arrow”. But it is. Kinda. Sorta. 🤪
      • ButtDB Blackbird has been open-sourced
        • Publisher!
        • Custom string interpolation
        • Function Back Deployment
    • Apple announces 3 new “advanced safety features”
      • How to generate a recovery key
      • Encryption comparison chart
      • Joanna Stern’s article (Apple News) & video
      • Platform Security Guide
      • Wired article
      • Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
    • Apple adds 700 new price points to the App Store
      • John and Jason discussed on Upgrade #436: I Bend So Many Spoons
    • Apple introduces Apple Music Sing
      • Federico’s tweet
    • #askatp:
      • How does the Mac Studio compare to John’s ideal computer? (via Daryl Thornton)
      • How are we backing up our shared photo libraries? (via Mark Roemermann)
      • Why can’t we quit Finder? (via Guilherme Alles)

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    511: Moving to Antarctica Dec 01, 2022
    • Pre-show: Sharrows
      • EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed.
    • The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs!
    • Follow-up:
      • Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham)
        • Marco’s 🍑💨
      • Some updates on Mastodon
        • Ivory by Tapbots
        • Don’t Use Services that Hate the Internet
        • John’s 🍑💨: He’s outraged!
        • A Better Mastodon Friend Finder
        • Merlin & John’s excellent discussion about Twitter (starts @ 1h36m)
      • There’s a WWDC video about instrumenting/tracing async issues
      • Xfinity Wi-Fi does not use customer’s bandwidth (via Clayton O’Neill)
      • Casey’s 🍑💨 about iPad at the park bench picnic table
    • ffmpeg has been ported to web assembly
    • Reactions to App Store ads
      • Gambling ads
      • iCloud Storage Over the Years
      • The Talk Show #361: A Fit of Pique with Federico Viticci
      • Apple Keynote Search Engine
      • Apple Pauses Gambling Ads
      • Gruber’s Take
      • Michael Tsai
      • Employees aren’t happy either
        • More from The Information
      • Xcode Ads?
        • defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
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      • Namesake
      • The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird
      • Titanium - The Metal That Made The SR-71 Possible

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    510: It's Occupied by Bears Nov 22, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco makes Casey’s day
      • B
      • FCModel
      • Hacking with Swift
    • Follow-up:
      • Using network locations in macOS Ventura
        • ControlPlane
        • Casey’s adventure with date formats
        • Bonus: man pages in Preview
      • John’s iPhone Cases
        • Bullstrap $85 → $68
        • Ryan London $54
    • Mastodon
      • The Real Slim Shady
      • ActivityPub
        • Micro.blog support
      • Scalability
      • Moderation
      • Burnout
      • On evaluating new platforms
      • Running an instance is… not easy
      • Founder in Time
      • Client app reviews by Anna Nicholson
      • Client app feature comparison Google Sheet
      • Client Apps
        • Official client
        • Metatext
        • Mammoth (TestFlight)
        • Tusker (TestFlight)
        • Toot!
        • Tootle
        • Mast
        • Mercury
        • tooot
        • Fedi
        • Mac Apps
          • Mastonaut
          • Hyperspace Desktop
      • FedFinder to find the right instance for you
    • Hive
    • Twitter Updates
      • The Fradulent King by Ed Z
      • Twitter is Going Great
        • Previously
      • Twitter is hiring! (🦗)
      • App Store rules
      • Elon Musk’s sexual misconduct
    • #askatp:
      • Why bother with an Apple TV when modern TVs can do all the same stuff? (via Dominic Lemire)
      • Is using an Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot ethical? (via nougatmachine)
      • Will data storage ever become scarce? (via Chris Wright)
    • Post-show: Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
      • John’s “Good Products” List

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    509: Tiny Tyrants Nov 17, 2022
    • Pre-show: John is a Swiftie
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s 2FA transfer options, and a suggestion from particles!
      • Automating Watch faces (via Alex Serriere)
      • Newer Apple TV 4K models support HDR in YouTube (via Matt Freedman)
      • Photos, Smart Albums, and boolean logic (via Jakob)
      • Hiding purchases in Music (via Arem)
      • Twitter Tribulations
        • Elon Musk has the world’s thinnest skin
          • Employee corrects Elon
        • He’s also a big jerk
        • H-1B visa
        • Intel 8088
      • HomeKit is amazing for some people (via Todd)
        • X10
      • Mac enters the third year of “two-year transition”
      • Will John and Marco ever be satisfied? (via Jonathan Claydon)
    • iPhones 14 Satellite Emergency SOS is live
      • Newsroom
      • Casey’s screen recording
      • iJustine’s Discussion with Kaiann and Arun
      • Sending location via satellite
    • Mastodon
      • Wikipedia
      • Federation
      • ActivityPub
      • Bluesky
      • Micro.blog
    • #askatp:
      • What’s the best way to download Xcode? (via Eshu Marneedi)
        • Xcodes
        • Reflections on Trusting Tust
      • What is the best-designed Mac app that Apple currently makes? (via Claude Zeins)
        • Claris Em@iler
        • Microsoft Entourage
      • What advice do we have for leading people at work? (via Andrew Larson)
    • Post-show: Marco kicks the MySQL-shaped can down the road.
      • FCModel
      • FMDB

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    508: Later Is Getting Later and Later Nov 10, 2022

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay! Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!

    • Pre-show: lol twttr
      • Hotline
    • Follow-up:
      • Rewind has stopped using cloud transcription, so, you’re welcome.
      • Speaking of screen recording, let’s talk about "corporate espionage protection"
        • DTEX
      • Jason has found the answer to John’s confusion about using ML-generated keywords in smart albums
      • More on Casey’s wonky iPad volume buttons (via Andre Aguilar and others)
        • Support article
      • ECC RAM support is coming to macOS
        • XNU
      • Ventura System Settings & third-party preference panes
      • Mark U teaches us how to read Apple
      • Steve Troughton-Smith also teaches us how to read Apple
    • John’s “new” 📱 & 🖱️
      • John’s mouse
      • John’s 🍄
    • New Apple TV upgrade experience
    • Bono apologizes for Songs of Innocence
      • How do you remove this darn thing anyway?
      • Removal URL
    • iPhone 15 buttons may go solid-state?
    • #askatp:
      • Is “smart home” tech really worth it? (via James Egg)
      • Which host is the fastest typist? (via Mark Richard)
      • Why don’t we have interactive home screen widgets yet? (via Brian Hamilton)
    • Post-show: Marco made a pilgrimage
      • John’s of Bleecker Street
      • Branchinelli’s

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    507: It Sucks, Doesn't It? Nov 03, 2022

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay! Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!

    • Pre-show: Marco’s RTD
      • BBEdit doesn’t suck
      • Land Rover Defender pressures
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey apologizes to Marco… again
      • A small update on Casey’s park bench picnic table and his Verizon-connected iPad Pro
      • More on Ventura’s System Settings
        • Apple HIG
        • Removal of scheduled sleep/wake GUI (via Aaron Gillies)
          • Apple support guide
      • Casey’s flummoxed by his iPad Pro’s volume buttons
      • QMS VRR support is coming to Apple TV 4K
        • HDMI 2.1
      • Shared Photo Library
        • Camera toggle
        • “Unsaved” photos
        • De-duplication
        • Face detection
        • Automatic sharing
    • “Lifestreams” and Rewind
      • Previously in the John Podcasting Universe:
        • ATP #66 @ 1h52s
        • RecDiffs #169 @ 53m22s
      • Lifestream on Wikipedia
      • Academic site
      • Recording laws in all 50 states
      • CEO Dan Siroker
      • a16z Announcement
      • The Entire History of You
        • San Junipero
    • Elon Musk owns Twitter
      • Elon’s poll 🙄 × ∞
      • “Welcome to hell, Elon”
      • The Talk Show #361
    • Post-show: Marco somehow makes a leap from the Ultra to unloading a car. 🤨

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    506: Our Only SEO Is You Oct 27, 2022

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! #🐔👒 The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay! Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!

    • Pre-show: Marco’s long local nightmare is now over.
    • Follow-up:
      • Costco has some Sonos stuff on sale starting 20 November
        • Arc (on Sonos’ site)
        • One SL (on Sonos’ site)
      • Fire prevention on airplanes (via Andrew Chase)
      • Apple mouse shape history
    • John’s Ventura app updates
    • iPad Pro Impressions
    • Ventura / iOS 16.1 / iPadOS 16.1 Impressions
      • Jason’s Review
      • Jason on System Settings
    • Post-show: Joanna Stern’s Interview of Federighi & Joswiak

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    505: A Mental Laxative Oct 20, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco rediscovers his love for programming, by procrastiworking.
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple TV, Match Content, and HDMI QMS
        • QMS Explainer
        • Audio-dejudder
      • Casey’s iPhone upgrade, eSIM, and Verizon fees
      • Follow-out for Upgrade #429: Freedom Doors
      • John’s mouse
        • ATP #449: An Unclean Mouse
        • ATP #361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf
      • John’s speaker adventure
      • Apple Watch Ultra screen size
        • Nomad Orange Sport Band
    • New iPads!
      • Alex Guyot’s tweet
      • Logitech Crayon
      • Zac Hall on covers
      • Dan Moren’s take
    • New iPad Pros!
      • Bluetooth 5.3
      • Hover video demo
      • Federico Viticci’s tweet
      • Alex Guyot’s take
      • Clockwise #473: Solar Eclipse Potato
    • New Apple TV!
    • Post-show: Casey got scammed on Amazon
      • Lenovo ThinkVision M14
      • Parcel
      • Informed Delivery
      • Sold by “Alex Mart LLC”

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    504: Too Much Apple in My Apple Oct 13, 2022
    • Pre-show: In a move that surprises nobody, Marco lost a bet
      • Coriolis force
    • Follow-up:
      • On portraits and AI image generation
        • Unofficial ATP subreddit
        • Marco’s bad icon
        • Marco’s good icon
      • Glove boxes open via touchscreens‽
        • Model Y review
      • Match content setting on the AppleTV (via David Comay)
        • John says “👍🏻”, with reservations
      • Mac window management and Stage Manager
      • John’s new iPhone case
      • Repairing original HomePods (via Timo Bruck)
        • Common issues list
        • Tutorial video
      • AI image generation and photography
    • Apple is turning into Google/Facebook?
      • Upgrade+ #427: He Renouned Lederhosen
        The segment in question was the Upgrade+ segment of the week, which requires membership.
      • Ninety-Five Theses
      • Dithering, 30 September episode, ~8:40 in
      • Paul Haddad
      • Sebastiaan de With
      • MJ Tsai
      • TV ads?
    • #askatp:
      • When will we get a bezel-less Apple Watch? (via Bryan)
        • _’s discovery
      • Why would one want a M1 Max Mac Studio over an equivalent M1 Max MacBook Pro? (via John Enger)
      • Why does router range matter? (via Andy Hyde)
    • Post-show: Casey has some thoughts about Sonos
      • Casey’s shopping list
        • Arc
        • Sub Gen 3
        • One SL
        • Port
        • Roam
      • Belkin Soundform Connect
      • Arc Unboxing
      • Lutron Caséta Pico Remote
      • Eric Welander’s Caséta Pico Remote video
      • Funk it Up

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    503: Draw Your Own Slice of Pizza Oct 06, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Marco has settled on the Peak Design case
      • What even is in Shared Photo Libraries, anyway?
    • The 🇪🇺 USB-C mandate passes a vote
      • Christina Warren’s tweet
      • MFI
      • mophie 3-in-1 travel charger with MagSafe
    • AI Art
      • Cortex #133: The Ethics of AI Art
      • Projects
        • DALL-E
        • Stable Diffusion
          • DiffusionBee to run it on an Apple Silicon Mac
        • Midjourney
        • Google Imagen
      • Artist found private medical record photos in AI training image set
      • Everything is a Remix
      • Ornithopter
      • GitHub Copilot
      • Light & Magic
    • #askatp:
      • Can we give a primer on macOS window management? (via Philipp)
        • Philipp, I’m so sorry for my beloved co-hosts muddying the waters even worse, despite my best efforts -CML
      • How do we plan & track app development work? (via Dan Leehr)
      • How does John manage color on his TV? (via David Comay & Jeff Nachbar)
        • THX Tune-Up
        • FILMMAKER MODE
        • Calman Color Calibration Software
    • Post-show: Casey tries to recover from our earlier debacle
      • SwitchGlass
      • Front and Center

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    502: Going Retina Again Sep 29, 2022

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    • Pre-show:
      • Marco has glasses
        • Too big according to John
        • Too big according to anyone
        • “Big Steve Jobs energy”
        • The Steve Jobs frames (we think)
      • …and iPhone cases
        • Pitaka MagEZ Case 3
        • Peak Design Everyday Case for iPhone
      • ATP Movie Club: Episode 3: Edge of Tomorrow
        • Remember, only for members!
    • Follow-up:
      • iCloud Shared Photo Library limitations
      • There are lots of creaky clear cases out there
      • Stage Manager will support older iPads
        • UIScreen.main
        • NSScreen.main
      • When the always-on iPhone display goes dark
      • Black-and-white always-on Lock Screen
        • Settings → Focus → {focus mode} → Options → Enable Dim Lock Screen
      • Casey has some Apple Store experiences
        • Apple Watch Ultra
          • Alpine Loop
          • _’s Video
        • Returning a Solo Loop
          • TechCrunch coverage from 2020
    • Marco masquerades as a wedding photographer again
      • Sony ɑ7R III
      • Sony 90mm Prime Macro Lens
      • Photo Mechanic
      • Retrobatch
    • #askatp:
      • Does the always-on display increase burn-in risk? (via Steve Holroyd)
      • What is our version control strategy? (via Thomas Ferraro)
        • GitHub Flow
        • Oh 💩, Git!?!
      • Do we use the production or beta versions of our own apps? (via Nick Clinch)
    • Post-show:
      • Casey moves from Heroku → Linode
        • Visual Studio Code
        • Visual Studio Code Server
        • VS Code Remote Development
        • X Windows
        • DynamoDB
      • John encourages Marco to walk through a forest and fight dragons

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    501: Torsional Rigidity Check Sep 22, 2022

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    • Pre-show:
      • Relay FM Feuding Families
      • ATP Movie Club: Episode 2: The Rundown
        • Remember, only for members!
        • Casey’s traumatic moment, captured
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple Pay and “valid” addresses
      • iPhone 14 has revised, easily-repairable internals
        • Repair costs
        • SIM tray spacer
      • John’s second iPhone case
        • Bullstrap case
        • Ryan London case
      • Marco’s case updates
        • Pitaka Case
      • Casey’s on the HDHomeRun Prime with Channels Train
        • PCMCIA
      • Glasses updates
        • Blue-blocking lenses were universally panned
        • Zenni Optical
      • Apple’s upgrade guide (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
    • iPhones 14 Pro Experience
      • John on the Podcastathon
      • Apple’s guidance on transferring watches
      • John’s status bar
      • Halide
      • Ryan Jones’s chart about camera bumps
      • Paste warning is a bug
      • Gruber’s chart
    • Post-show:
      • Marco’s car wears a watch (image)

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    500: All the Nerds in the Room Sep 15, 2022

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    • Extended Pre-show:
      • Marco finally catches up to Casey & John
        • Dilating drops
      • 🎉 ATP EPISODE 500!!! 🎉
        • catatp
        • ATP Episode #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
        • Mac OS iguana easter egg (video)
        • Mac OS iguana easter egg explanation
        • Some discussions about a 🆕 special members-only perk
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s Polarizer & lens protector
        • Special relativity
        • Variable Neutral Density Filter
        • Bell’s Theorem (via Stepan Dolezal)
        • Polarizing Filter (via Rob Sayre)
        • UV Filters are useless? (also via Rob Sayre)
      • iPhone focal lengths spreadsheet (by Colin Robertson)
        • 2× crop goes from 9.8 × 7.3mm → 4.9 × 3.65mm
        • Prior 2× cameras were 4 × 3mm
      • Satellite location sharing
        • Collect calls
      • Apple Watch S8 is basically the same CPU as S6 & S7
      • Apple Delays iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Dynamic Island name recommendation from Dan Engler
        • API
        • The Verge’s iPhone 14 Pro review
          • Subpixel rendering
          • Pentile display
      • Krebs unequivocally walks back the Ubiquiti reporting
    • What did the hosts order last week?
      • John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
      • John’s forthcoming black-leather iPhone 14 Pro case
    • Marco races the clock
    • Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
    • Post-show: Marco asks for tips about 👓

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    499: Living Is Pretty Important to Me Sep 08, 2022

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    • Pre-show: A bidding war for a good cause
    • Apple Event, September 2022
      • Apple Watch Series 8
      • Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)
      • Apple Watch Ultra
        • Panerai
          • Luminor Tourbillon GMT
        • Photos from Matt Panzarino
        • Size comparison by Neil Cybart
        • GPS L5
      • AirPods Pro (2nd generation)
        • Helly R!
      • iPhone 14 & 14 Plus
        • Emergency SOS via satellite
        • Iridium
        • Garmin Inreach Mini 2
      • iPhone 14 Pro & Pro Max
        • John’s Tweet about 🤢 “Dynamic Island” 🤢
        • Anti-aliasing
    • Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
    • Post-show: Leaks abound

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    498: Not MagSafe, but MagSafe Sep 01, 2022

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    • Pre-show: Marco has leveled-up as a nerd. 🤓
      • HP M182nw
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s polarizer and lens protector
      • Calibration of Rock Band instruments (via Johannes Zander)
      • Casey got buzzed by Apple Maps cars
        • “Image Collection” Locations (via Holgr in the chat)
    • Apple Watch Series 7 exit interview
    • iPhone 13 Pro exit interview
      • John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
    • iPhone 14 & 14 Pro expectations
      • Single pill/lozenge?
        • Gurman confirmation
      • Garmin InReach
    • Apple Watch Series 8 expectations
      • G-Shock
      • Garmin adventure watches
    • AirPods Pro 2?
    • Don’t miss our special ending theme (thanks, Jonathan Mann!)
    • Post-show: 👃🏻❓
      • Levoit HEPA Air Purifier with Toxin Absorber Filter
      • Fresh Wave Odor-“Removing” Gel
      • Zero Odor Pro

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    497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere Aug 25, 2022
    • Pre-show Netural: In a shocking piece of news, Marco’s Defender hasn’t exploded (yet)!
      • Marco’s “Thule”
      • Casey’s WireLiss CarPlay Adapter
      • 🇸🇪 Study on Touchscreens vs. Physical Controls
      • Example XC90 touchscreen
    • Follow-up:
      • On people copying S3 API
      • CarPlay navigation voice volume
        • Former setting, prior to iOS 15 (via Daniel Finley)
        • Use the driver’s side volume control on the wheel to adjust volume (via Josh Biggs)
      • Postpartum doulas are a thing (via Matt Rigby)
      • 4K TV
        • FiOS channel stand-by banner recording
        • A godawful map of 4K over the air
          • A rough crack at a vastly improved map via chatroom user SageOlson
        • RVA has 4K
      • Audio/video sync
        • Catchin’ Sync (also via Matt Rigby)
        • Catchin’ Sync on the App Store
        • John’s first attempt at sync (H265)
        • John’s second attempt at sync (WebM 1)
        • John’s third attempt at sync (WebM 2)
      • TiVo ad skipping
      • Casey’s feedbacks
        • FB10566546 is fixed! 🎉
        • FB11080380 is fixed, but includes a new regression. ☯️
        • Five other bugs have had no responses yet, though. 💔
      • Marco’s bug (FB10758252) is fixed! 🎉
      • Running to the press never helps
        • Martin Pilkington
        • Björn Skoglund
    • Apple Event is Wednesday, September 7
    • iPadOS is delayed
    • The recent Plex Hack
    • #askatp:
      • How in the world are some app updates multiple hundreds of megabytes‽ (via Bart Kowalski)
        • Paws
        • Swagger
      • What do we think of Svalt? (via Robert Campbell)
        • Thermal Pads
    • Post-show: Casey’s modified his car
      • 19” Englishtowns
      • 18” Pretorias

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    496: One of My Lesser TiVos Aug 18, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • What’s up with 🚩 on the 🏖️ in 🇦🇺? (via Ross Poulton)
      • John’s TV
        • Channels vs. TiVo vs. FiOS TV
        • TVEverwhere
        • HDHomeRun Prime
        • Christina’s Tweet
      • John’s tips for alleviating audio delays
        • Calibration Video
        • Screenshot
      • Niki Tonsky’s System Settings wonkiness thread
        • Jason on Network Locations
        • Invisible confirm button
    • Casey has some thoughts and feelings about Feedback/Radar
      • For Apple people, these are Casey’s bugs. He has received no response on any of them.
        • FB11080380 (filed 5 August)
        • FB10684032 (filed 14 July)
        • FB10491818 (filed 14 July)
        • FB10636765 (filed 12 July)
        • FB10566546 (filed 7 July)
        • FB10394633 (filed 21 June)
        • FB10391991 (filed 21 June)
      • Marco’s bug: FB10758252 (response, paraphrased: you’re holding it wrong/it’s broken as designed)
      • Serenity’s tip about documentation Feedback
    • #askatp:
      • How does one manage DNS and certificates for home servers? (via Christopher Anderson)
        • Pi-Hole local DNS
        • Tailscale
        • hosts
        • Synology QuickConnect
      • What should a first-time parent know? (via Carlos Quinela)
        • Baby Connect
      • How do we protect our focus time and balance versus family time? (via Nick Serrano)
    • Post-show: John rents a Toyota Camry and 🗣 HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT CARPLAY 🗣
      • Casey’s discovered but useLiss video
      • John’s oversized light
      • Toyota GR86
      • Toyota Supra

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    495: Five Points for Smell Aug 11, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Android totally copying Java was fair use (via Rob Sayre)
        • Oracle’s S3 clone
      • Branded tires (via TK & Sam Abuelsamid)
        • Ford demands Goodyear remove Wrangler branding
      • John’s TV updates
        • Geoff C’s theory
          • NTP
        • Justin Winchester’s theory
        • Bravia Core
        • Cable Matters Plug & Play USB Ethernet Adapter (USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet to USB, Ethernet Adapter for Laptop) Supporting 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Network in Black
          • Reddit tip
        • RTFU: TiVo code search codes
        • Channels
          • Support Document about HDHomeRun
        • SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME Cable HDTV 3-Tuner
        • The solution to the box mystery
    • Vacation Tech Retrospective
      • Casey’s Travel Setup
      • Casey’s new inverter
      • John’s camera lenses
        • SEL70350G Sony E 70–350 mm F4.5–6.3 G OSS
        • SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
        • SEL85F18/2 Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 Lens
      • John documents aggressive birds
      • John’s deer friend
      • Marco’s monogamous backpack: Peak Design Everyday v1
        • Chase Reeves on YouTube
    • Post-show Neutral: Marco’s Car Charcuterie
      • FJ Cruiser
      • Toyota 4Runner
      • Jeep Wrangler 4xe
      • Land Rover Defender
      • Ford Bronco
      • Rivian R1S

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    494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench Aug 04, 2022
    • Pre-show: Geometry Dash
      • Number Munchers
        • Number Munchers on Classic Reload
        • Number Munchers on the App Store
      • Unity
      • Unity CEO’s colorful opinions
      • The Talk Show #353: Shop Different
      • Playdate Pulp
      • VVVVVV
      • FromSoftware
    • Follow-up:
      • John on M1 MacBook Air vs. M2 MacBook Air speakers
      • You can set up Fastmail to have a catch-all
        • Casey’s referral code
      • Find My on vacation
        • Steps via Steve J. Stutz
          1. Open Find My
          2. Tap Devices
          3. Tap on the device you want to silence
          4. Scroll down and under Notifications toggle off Notify When Left Behind
        • Paul Squires understood the assignment
      • HomeKit automation & locations
        • Derek Martin has tips regarding how to transfer to a new home address
        • Jim Bruhn provides instructions for how to disable hub features:
          1. Settings
          2. Airplay and HomeKit
          3. Home Hub → My Home
          4. Switch to Disconnected
      • Are there any decent AppleTV photo-viewer apps? (via Torb Lunde Mirada)
      • Contact address ordering
        • Reorder It! from @takaaki024app (via philuop)
      • Robb Woodring saves the day with changing default messaging address/number
        1. Go to an existing thread
        2. Tap the name of the person at the top
        3. Tap Info
        4. Tap and hold the Message/bubble icon
        5. Select the appropriate number
      • Unlocking automotive features
        • Blaine Toups’ Jaguar F-Type’s two extra cylinders
          • Car & Driver write-up
        • Tesla’s Acceleration Boost (via Josh Rapoport)
        • Sean Harding makes a good point about API deprecation
    • John’s New TV
      • Amazon link
      • Previously on ATP…
      • Dirac Live
      • FILMMAKER MODE
      • 4K HDR Demo Video
      • Mac OS X Unix-style crash
    • Post-show: Is it okay to copy a competitor’s API?
      • S3
      • Cloudflare R2
      • Linode Object Storage Service
      • Backblaze B2
      • Ceph
      • Transmit

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    493: Downstairs Downstairs Jul 31, 2022
    • Pre-show: Last two weeks updates
      • The Talk Show #352: “I’ve Kissed that Mouse”
      • Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way
      • DFU Restore
      • Billy Joel and his helicopter concert commute
      • Jones Beach
        • Night 1
        • Night 2
    • Follow-up:
      • Custom 🇦🇺 emails (via Mark Vos & Brendan Ragan)
        • .id.au Rules
        • Casey’s Fastmail Referral Code
      • BMW subscriptions (via Chris Church)
        • BBC Coverage
        • Amazon Remote-Deletes 1984 from Kindles
        • Calibre
      • Steve Stutz tells us you can get the mophie 3-in-1’s from Zagg at a discount
      • 🇪🇺 & USB-C regulations (via Vern Johnson)
      • Address & contacts (via Soluble Apps and Sherif Hassabo)
        • vCard
    • #askatp:
      • Can an indie app enter a crowded field? (via Abel Demoz)
        • Aviary 2
        • Mac Power Users #648: Software Club: Apollo for Reddit
        • PaintCode
        • Monodraw
      • Why don’t we use cross-platform frameworks? (via Russel Bernau)
        • Unity
        • Unreal Engine
        • Game Developers Conference
        • Putting wood behind the arrow
      • Is Time Machine still the best feature ever implemented on the Mac? (via Guilherme Alles)
      • Would John potentially void his TV’s warranty to prevent auto-dimming? (via Mark Vos)
        • HDTVTest’s Video
        • RTings’ Burn-In Test
      • Has John decided on a backup strategy for his son’s MacBook Air? (via Brian Lazarz)
    • Post-show: Casey’s HomeKit Adventures

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    492: Umbrella Hammer Toadstool Jul 20, 2022
    • Pre-show: Air conditioners, memories, and house veins
      • Mini-split
    • Follow-up:
      • M2 MacBook Air [also] thermal throttles
        • Jason’s review
          • You should probably subscribe to 6C, too
        • The Verge
        • Gruber’s review
        • Ars Technica’s review
      • John’s Mac Studio safety straps
      • M2 has Ultra-Wideband Chip?
      • Default destination for Messages
        • Apple
        • Jann Gobble
      • IPSec is not mandatory for IPv6 (via Brian Petersen)
        • Wikipedia
        • Squozen
    • AirPlay & Touch Bar network problems
      • Mnpn
      • Writeup
    • Apple Patents Dual “Pro Stand”
      • Casey’s stand
    • EU may mandate USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
      • Go Pack
      • mophie 3-in-1 travel charger with MagSafe
      • Proposal Q&A
    • #askatp
      • How do we manage mail notifications on our devices? (via Michael Chan)
        • Mimestream
        • Swift Mail (for Fastmail/JMAP)
      • How do we backup our photos/videos? (via Don Clark)
      • Do we think macOS will bloat enough to make Apple Silicon seem slow? (Nitesh Singh)
      • Why does John say “program” from time to time? (via William Reynish)
        • SwitchGlass
      • How does a current-whippersnapper pick a decent custom domain for email? (via Fletcher O’Connor)
        • Casey’s Fastmail referral code
      • How does John prepare the way for a Mac to enter cold storage? (via Dave Braasch)
    • Post-show: Updates on our SwiftUI journeys

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    491: Salmon and SwiftUI Jul 14, 2022
    • Casey and Marco have 99 problems, and SwiftUI is every. damn. one. of. them.
      • Casey’s problems
        • PhotosPicker
          • FB10491818
          • FB10566546
        • presentationDetents()
          • FB10636765
        • ImageRenderer
          • FB10393458
      • Under the Radar #246: Hard Forks
      • UIStackView
      • UIViewRepresentable
      • UIHostingController
      • Pointer
    • Follow-up:
      • Alternative pi-hole fix
        • BLOCK_ICLOUD_PR=false in pihole-FTL.conf
      • Switching bbetween SwiftUI’s HStack & VStack
      • Updating the .if() modifier
        • objc.io explainer
        • WWDC 2021: Demistify SwiftUI
      • macOS Support Lifetime
      • IPv6 Benefits (via Dan Chandler)
    • Apple & Ive Break Up
    • Sony’s new gaming monitor
      • Hardware Unboxed review
    • #askatp
      • How does one diagnose a Mac randomly waking from sleep? (via Radu Piroșca)
        • SleepAid
      • What do we do when someone changes their phone number?
      • What would get us to leave the hell site? (via Carl Rozas)
        • micro.blog
        • Mastodon
    • Post-show: BMW is charging subscriptions for… seat heaters‽

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    490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs Jul 07, 2022
    • Pre-show: Some thoughts on who should have agency over womens’ bodies
      • Roe v. Wade
      • In-vitro fertilization
      • Ectopic pregnancy
      • Evidence-based medicine
      • Trigger law
    • Follow-up:
      • Using a M1 Mac mini as a Plex server
        • Other video transcoding
      • M2 MacBook Air available to order Friday at 8 AM OTTZ
      • Quick Pi-hole tip from Tod Weitzel
      • Advantages for Apple getting into Buy Now, Pay Later
      • A possible motive for bitcode deprecation
        • LLVM
      • Why passkeys will be simpler and more secure than passwords
      • Janis Peukert asks some questions about passkeys
        • appleid.apple.com
        • App-specific Passwords
      • On stateful hardware controls
        • Dancing faders (via Jordan McEwen)
        • Guitar amplifiers (via Samuel Cohen)
        • AirFrance Flight 447 (via Dave Rowenhorst)
        • Anton Yelchin’s odd death back in 2016
          • ZF 8HP transmission
    • Apple announces Lockdown Mode
    • M2 MacBook Pro thermal throttling issues
      • MaxTech’s video (timestamp link)
      • Gary from The Everyday Dad can’t reproduce the issue
      • Hardware Unboxed: Apple M2 Review
    • Some notes on macOS Ventura Beta 3
      • System Settings
      • iCloud Shared Photo Library
    • Post-show: Marco is diving into SwiftUI
      • Carbon
      • .if()

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    489: Very Inappropriate Thoughts About This Computer Jun 30, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco flirts with his past
    • Follow-up:
      • Bitcode has been deprecated
        • Previously, on ATP #205 (Overcast timestamp link) (Transcript)
      • New big HomePod rumor
      • Ricky on Passkey syncing
        • YubiKey
      • Very important Caffè Macs follow-up
      • BNPL
        • Planet Money
    • The 256GB 13” M2 MacBook Pro has crummy SSD performance
    • 15” MacBook… something?
    • #askatp
      • What makes WWDC ‘22 different than the before times? (via Elijah Yap)
      • Are we living in the gilded age for Mac professionals? (via Wade Tregaskis)
      • How close is APFS (🛎️) to ZFS? (via Dave Aton)
    • Post-show:
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      • Marco traded in iPads
      • Casey got his Playdate

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    488: Pebbles on the Scale Jun 23, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco’s HomePod journey continues
      • HomePod mini
      • USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
    • Follow-up:
      • iPad Pro (2018) has 4GB or 6GB RAM
        • The offending party has been sacked
      • Apple educational discounts & software bundles
        • Pro Apps Bundle for Education
        • Education Store
        • Macintosh SE/30
      • Your beloved hosts have a violent reaction to the 13” MacBook Pro
      • Bart Reardon’s System Preferences experiment
        • AMFI Launch Constraints
      • Copy/Paste adjustments in Photos
        • macOS Ventura Preview
      • Gaming on the Mac on The Talk Show Live
      • macOS Ventura hardware support via Mr. Macintosh
        • Christina Warren’s take
      • iOS and head-related transfer functions (via Josh Hunt)
      • CarPlay and Android Automotive
        • Real-time operating system
        • The Verge talks to car manufacturers
        • Decoder with Mercedes-Benz CEO
    • WWDC Platforms State of the Union
      • SwitchGlass
    • Post-show:
      • John’s mouse problems
      • Casey’s AT&T → Verizon journey
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    487: Mid-Life Rally Jun 16, 2022
    • Pre-show:
      • 🎂 HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, Marco! 🎂
      • Congratulations, Alex!
    • iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Jason on storage allocation
    • Copy/paste edits in Photos
    • Eric deRuiter on Safety Check
      • Personal Safety User Guide
    • Passkeys
      • Can be shared via AirDrop (See 6m14s into the video)
      • How do you recover them?
      • About the Security of Passkeys
      • Set Up an Account Recovery Contact
    • Semi Analysis on the M2
    • The MacBook Air has color-matched MagSafe cables
      • It is also 500 nits
    • Desk View clarifications
    • Messages
    • Stage Manager
      • James Thomson
      • The Talk Show (timestamp link to 46m58s)
      • Purple window widget
      • archive.org copy of “Shrinkydink” story
      • Why is it only on M1 iPads?
        • Statement to Rene Ritchie
        • Federighi interview with Matthew Panzarino
      • Swap hardware requirements
      • Steve Troughton-Smith on Swap
    • System Settings
      • Federighi on The Talk Show (timestamp link to 43m11s)
      • Bento box
      • Examples:
        • Dock
        • “Cross-Platform UI”
        • Trackpad
        • Print
      • Oh notifications still stink too
      • Craig Hockenberry’s Tweet
    • Post-show: Casey went on a secret adventure.
      • Spoiler
      • Referenced Video

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    486: Field Day at Apple Park Jun 07, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco is [always on vacation] in California! 😎🌴
      • Jason & Dan’s view of the stage
    • WWDC 2022 Keynote
      • iOS 16
        • MDM
        • Parcel
        • Hypercritical #9: No iLife is an Island
        • Jacqui Cheng’s tweet and article
        • Eric Welander’s YouTube channel
        • John’s CarPlay tweet
      • MacBook Air
      • macOS Ventura
        • Ace Ventura
        • Jesse “The Body” Ventura
        • Moom
        • WebKit updates
        • Camo
      • iPadOS
        • Running Up That Hill
        • _ on WeatherKit pricing
        • SubEthaEdit
        • Paging
    • Post-show: The food

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    485: This Is Casey Actual Jun 02, 2022
    • Pre-show: Streaming changes
      • Audio Hijack
      • Our Twitch channel for live streams
    • Follow-up:
      • Fastmail
      • The Price is Right is available for free on Pluto TV
      • Regarding filming workout videos
        • Amulet Hotkey DXZ4
        • X Windows
        • Display Postscript
      • WWDC in-person info/schedule (via Paul Hudson)
    • John’s Mac Studio report
    • WWDC Hopes and Predictions
      • CSS1 spec (1996)
      • Flexbox
      • Rediscovering the Mac by Federico Viticci
      • Casey’s review of the MacBook Adorable
      • The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2022
    • Post-show: Is John sleeping more?

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    484: Hot-Spare Price is Right May 26, 2022
    • Pre-show: Sick-kid TV
      • Channels
      • Paramount+
      • AppleTV Channels
    • Follow-up:
      • Warnings about PoE splitters from Matias Korhonen
      • Pro-fiber propaganda
        • Adam Papamarcos’ OM4 fiber cable
        • Assmann Group
      • Ad-blockers on desktops (via Ryan)
      • “Sign in with X” (via Brian Donovan)
      • A concert-related Apple Music tip from Jonathan Dechko
      • Amber gives us feedback on the Apple Fitness+ control room
    • Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support of FIDO standard
      • Apple press release
      • WWDC 2021 video
      • Ars Technica’s write-up
      • PGP
    • Apple’s Self-Repair Program
      • Quinn fixes a phone
      • Quinn opens up the tools
      • The Verge repairs a phone
      • Old CNet roundup of modular phones
        • Project Ara
        • The Verge reviews Project Ara
        • What Happened to Project Ara?
      • Dithering
      • John’s blog post on thin computers
    • Post-show:
      • The John Siracusa Podcasting Universe
        • Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
        • ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County
        • Reconcilable Differences: Preparing the Way
      • John’s headless Mac Studio 😢
        • Mac Studio Under-Desk Mount
      • John is preparing the way for a new AV setup (‼️)
        • TV Stand
        • Receiver (Pioneer VSX-LX305)
        • Blu-Ray (Panasonic DP-UD820-K)
          • Surgery results
        • Eve Spectrum

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    483: The Faceless Knob May 19, 2022
    • Pre-show: Two is one, one is none.
      • Zoom F3
      • USBPre2
      • MixPre-3
    • Follow-up:
      • Cleaning apps and “launch services”
        • launchd
        • Launch Control
      • A hint more on Casey’s frivoLiss ethernet project
        • Many recommendations for Monoprice slim 6A patch cables
        • Jonathan Litt reminds us about fire stops
        • PoE “medusa” cables exist, for USB-C and barrel plugs
      • Why bother with ethernet at all? (via Andrew Larson)
        • Millimeter-wave
        • IPv6
        • Pi-Hole
        • NAT
      • On USB-C KVMs and the Studio Display (via Alex)
        • Magic cable
        • Demonstration (YouTube timestamp link)
      • GSuite is now free for “personal use”
        • Casey’s Fastmail referral link
    • Apple Fitness+ “Studio Tour”
      • iJustine
      • Etalk
      • KCAU-TV
      • John on “filling your TV”
    • Quinn Nelson’s Rivian and bad controls
      • Quinn’s Instagram video (seek to 1h10m47s)
      • 2001 Buick
    • Apple Pre-Announces Accessibility Enhancements
      • Shelly Brisbin’s take
      • TextSniper
      • ADB
    • #askatp:
      • Is there any bespoke music app for listening to concerts? (via Bill Steinbach)
        • Live Phish
        • Barrowclift’s iOS Music Player Showcase
      • What Safari extensions are we running and recommend? (via Robert Bateau)
        • John
          • Safari Reload Button
          • Safari Keyword Search
          • Instapaper
          • Downie
          • Hush
          • Fixerrific is bundled with Twitterrific for macOS
          • NetNewsWire
        • Marco
          • 1Password
          • 1Blocker
        • Casey
          • Noir (App Store link)
          • StopTheMadness
          • Super Agent
          • Vinegar (App Store link)
      • How does one remember how one enrolled in a service? (via Brian Hamilton)
        • Ashley Bischoff’s idea
    • Post-show: Casey’s Ethernet adventure continues

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    482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses May 12, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
        • Mechanical Watch Explainer
        • GPS
        • Naval Architecture
        • Patreon
      • Apple’s New Developer Center
        • More from Parker Ortolani
      • John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
        • An aside about password managers
        • Protobuf
      • John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
      • Casey’s Ethernet Project
        • Cat 6A cable types
    • Playdate impressions
      • Panic Podcast
      • Playdate Podcast
      • Altered Beast
      • Super Mario 64
      • Total Annihilation
      • Scorched Earth
      • Non-Season Playdate Games
    • The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
    • …it meets the same fate as macOS Server
    • #askatp:
      • Will an Apple Silicon Mac Pro have ECC RAM? (via Robert Boyle)
        • HBM4
      • Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS? (via Jon Sulek)
        • Pacifist
      • Does choice of programming language matter for server-side crawling? (via Abel Demoz)
        • Go
        • Rust
    • Post-show: Marco’s capture system
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    481: Accidentally Made It Too Good May 06, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Follow-out: Clockwise #449: It’s Still Working, I’m So Sad
      • T-Shirt Results (THANK YOU!)
      • Marco’s tech woes
        • USBPre 2
        • Zoom F3
      • On Double-Clicking the lock button for Wallet
        • Open the wallet app → double-click the side button (via Trevor Kay)
          • Andrew notes this still works even if double-click is disabled globally
        • Control Center
        • Just hold the phone next to the terminal
      • WWDC 2022 Apple Park Special Event
        • MacRumors on the Developer Center
      • Jason Snell on Apple Studio Display settings
      • Mechanical Watch How-To
      • On SEC violations and Elon Musk
    • Apple TV+ Quickies
      • Sunday Ticket on Apple TV+?
        • JustWatch
      • Apple is making a movie about the Danbury Trashers‽
        • Untold: Crime and Penalties
        • Analog #193: Milestones are Being Hit
    • iPhone 14 Pro Rumored Designs
    • #askatp:
      • Is Casey still using Combine? (via André Videla)
        • Functional reactive programming
        • Casey’s RxSwift & Combine Posts
        • AsyncAlgorithms
      • What is Marco’s Overcast redesign process? (via Steven Garrity)
      • Where is the Mac’s sound mixer? (via Carl Freyer)
        • Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource
    • Post-show: Casey needs a project
      • Breakdown of Cat 6/6a differences
      • Quinn Nelson’s Video

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    480: Three Wise Admins Apr 28, 2022

    The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻

    • Frame Game
      • Explainer post
      • Fastest solve: 12 seconds
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple Studio Display camera update
        • Snell’s coverage
        • Snell’s video
        • Comparison with iMac Pro by James Thomson
      • Sonos Roam power button (via Brilliant Things)
      • What is up with iPhone lock buttons these days, anyway? (via Patrick Niemeyer)
      • Apple’s Self-Service Repair site is now up
        • Stephen’s write-up
        • Repair manuals
      • John Gruber ATP had wondered about “civilians” inside the Apple Park ring
        • Benedict Evans’ fence observation
      • Thom Yorke hates Creep (via Spencer Wohlers)
      • Update on Marco’s game-streaming setup
        • Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro
        • Blackmagic DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder
        • Sonnet Echo Express SEIIIe Thunderbolt-PCIe enclosure
        • Sonnet Allegro USB-C 4-port PCIe card
        • Sonnet Allegro USB-A 4-port PCIe card
        • Magewell Pro Quad HDMI Capture
        • Elgato Cam Link Pro
    • Casey has finally moved his email to Fastmail
      • Referral link
    • John added a security camera
      • Physical security hack
      • Logitech Circle View
    • Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout offer
      • Stratechery: Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Musk’s Financing, The Status Quo and Future Variance
      • Stratechery: Back to the Future of Twitter
      • The Verge’s coverage
      • The Origin of “Tweet”
    • Post-show: We can’t help but have more Twitter/Elon thoughts
      • Thread about Bill Gross buying Twitter clients, and Twitter’s reaction
      • Something Awful Forums
      • Kara Swisher on Elon Musk

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    479: Never Mind, I'm Out Apr 18, 2022

    The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻

    • Pre-show: Marco has HomePod problems
      • Pop Hits: {year} (1955–2021)
      • Rock Hits: {year} (1965–2021)
      • Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
      • Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
      • Creep by Radiohead
      • AirPlay 2-Enabled Speakers
    • Follow-up:
      • Hilariously, a third consecutive week of news about Original Gravity, this time via Jared Kole
      • Which ethernet controller does the CalDigit TS4 use?
        • Intel I225 PCIe
        • Ethernet fix
        • Sleep fix
      • Ecobee & HomeKit cooperation (via Eric Powell)
      • Ecobee AC adaptor instructions
        • Step 3 → Scenario A → Alternative solution: 24VAC plug-in transformer
      • Some thoughts about 🇪🇺 thermostats via Cameron Wood
      • USB-C KVM dev boards do exist, as found by Victor Leung
      • Mac Studios have different power supply… suppliers (via Joshua Prismon)
    • Ioniq 5 & Kia EV6 & Lucid Air
      • Do better, Lexus.
    • RIP, Rob-ART Morgan
    • What is Elon Musk, anyway?
      • Unsafe at Any Speed
      • Chevrolet Corvair
    • Elon Musk and Twitter
      • NOTE: We recorded this episode right before his demand “offer” to buy the entire company.
      • Elon buys 9.2% of Twitter
      • Elon delays filing with the SEC and “made” $156 million
      • Parag Agrawal announces Elon joins the board
      • Twitter says Elon won’t get special treatment
        • Nilay Patel’s take
      • Parag Agrawal announces Elon won’t join the board
      • Elon is sued for delayed disclosure
      • Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
    • #askatp
      • As the M1 is based on the A14, might the M2 skip the A15 and instead be based on the A16? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
      • How does Marco stream for Team Arment? (via Uncle Apple)
        • Elgato HD60 S+
        • Logitech whatever $50ish webcam
        • CalDigit TS3+
        • OBS
        • Lenovo ThinkVision M14 USB-C bus-powered monitor
        • NDI
      • Could/would Apple use OLED in laptops and iMacs? (via Simon Ejsing)
      • If the Studio Display was released concurrently with the Pro Display XDR, would John & Marco still get the XDR? (via Jon Yergatian)
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    478: No Bum Cores Apr 12, 2022
    • The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8 PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
    • Pre-show: Marco has questionable media choices
      • Severance
      • The Dropout
      • WeCrashed
      • Silicon Valley
      • Antitrust
      • Pirates of Silicon Valley
    • Follow-up:
      • Tragic Original Gravity news (via Ari Badgers)
        • Good Karma
      • The etymology of “decibel” (via Matt Rigby)
      • Don’t forget the iPhone 12/13 mini (via Carl Rozas)
      • An aside about House of Prime Rib
        • Anthony Bourdain’s experience (RIP)
      • Quinn Nelson’s observation about the Studio Display
        • His “review” video
        • iFixit teardown video
      • USB-C “KVM” (via abcd)
      • On the crummy Ethernet speeds in modern Macs
        • Hacker News post
        • CalDigit TS4
      • On using Canon EF lenses with mirrorless cameras
    • Casey’s New Setup (yes, again. 🤫)
    • John’s new thermostat
      • Taco box

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    477: In the Metal Apr 06, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco played himself
    • Would there be a “Studio Display Max” within two years?
      • 22” Cinema Display
      • 23” Cinema Display
      • 27” Cinema Display
      • 27” Thunderbolt Display
    • Marco’s Studio Display impressions
      • NuShelf Dual Mount for Mac mini
    • New Peripherals
      • Black Keyboard
      • Black Trackpad
      • Squat TouchID Keyboard
      • Lenovo Go Wireless Split Keyboard
      • Fingerprint security
      • Stephen Hackett on Apple color mark-up
    • Follow-up:
      • Marc Edwards from Bjango has a follow-up on Retina displays
      • Some thoughts on acoustics from Sam Kusnetz
        • John Lee Supertaster
      • Chris Gonyea points out errors with some USB-C ↔ Ethernet adapters with the Studio Display
      • Issues with iCloud and custom domains
        • DKIM issues & SPF via Eli Lindsey
    • Expectations for WWDC, the event
      • Original Gravity Public House
    • iPhone 14 Rumors
      • Pill & Hole Punch
        • Previously in pill & hole punch
      • iPhone 14 is in EVT, perhaps without periscope camera?
      • MaxTech on the iPhone 14 camera rumors
    • #askatp
      • If going from Canon dSLR → mirrorless, is it worth jumping to Sony? (via Elijah)
      • Are fusion drives even worth it in 2022?
        • diskutil
      • Is there any sort of KVM-like thing for Thunderbolt? (via Matt Chinander)
      • Given The Cook Doctrine, why is Apple bothering making their own cellular modems? (via Daniel Bergqvist)
        • Apple A4
        • Apple A6
    • Post-show:
      • Marco files a complaint about RecDiffs
      • Marco forgets an anniversary
      • John’s sitrep

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    476: Plausibly Viable Mar 31, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Resolution independence
        • 10.4 Tiger
        • 10.5 Leopard
        • 10.7 Lion
        • Steve Jobs’s Retina Diagram
        • Retina Display announcement
      • Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round
        • Video Explanation
      • Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI
      • Regarding Mac Studio fan noise
        • The fans cool the power supply too notes Phil Stollery
        • Twitter thread from “OnlyMe”
          • Graph
        • Feedback from acoustician Andrew Wade
        • Apple’s official noise ratings (via Renfred)
          • Mac Pro: 11dB
          • Mac Studio: 15dB
          • Macbook Air: 3dB
          • MacBook Pro: 3dB
          • iMac Pro: 13dB
          • Mid-2015: 6dB
      • Regarding Qualcomm patent shakedown racket licensing
        • Reuters article
        • See also
        • Court case
      • Discourse and Open Source (via Jeff Atwood)
        • John on patents
          • Hypercritical #67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
          • Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
          • Hypercritical #69: Sport of Kings
        • Discourse free hosting programs
      • How to Pay Professional Maintainers
      • Software warfare in node-ipc
        • Github issue
        • Description/Discussion
        • Summary from Michael Tsai
    • 🎉 New Overcast Update 🎉
    • #askatp
      • Do we have a preferred file naming scheme? Is it 20210329_Proj3_SitePlan? (via Unforgettable Luncheon)
      • Why are Time Machine network backups so slow? (via Carson Brown)
        • SMB
        • Does removing I/O throttling make backups faster?
        • Is backing up to networked storage improving?
      • Will Apple ever make their own display panel? (via “C”)
    • John had something he wanted to discuss.
      • John’s Blog Post
      • Reconcilable Differences #179
        • Timestamp link to the discussion at 50:47
      • Santa

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    475: Shove It Out the Back Mar 24, 2022
    • Pre-show: We’ve got 99 problems and Apple Music is… most of them.
    • On the Mac Studio’s extra SSD slot
      • 512 Pixels
      • Ars Technica
      • Hector Martin
        • Asahi Linux
    • John’s heart shatters into a million pieces
      (Mac Studio cooling and 😱 fan noise 😱)
      • Jason Snell’s review
      • Max Tech’s Teardown
      • Max Tech’s Thermal Throttling
      • TG Pro
      • Quinn Nelson’s thoughts
      • QuietMac
    • Why 5K?
      • Casey’s 2021 Retina Monitor Sitrep
      • Casey’s 2017 Retina Monitor Sitrep
    • Apple Studio Display default resolution oddity?
    • Studio Display foibles
      • Very short Thunderbolt monitor cable? (~3ft/1m?)
      • “Non-removable” monitor cords
      • Panzer yanks out his cable
    • Snell’s Review
      • On Studio Display rotation
    • Studio Display Recovery Mode
      • Apple documentation
    • Gui Rambo’s Findings
    • Firmware Updates
      • As seen previously
    • Studio Display… Ethernet?
      • The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
    • Studio Display has 64GB onboard storage
      • Only 2GB is in use
    • Running processes
    • The Verge on the camera bugs
      • Joanna Stern’s sample photos
      • Joanna Stern’s video review
    • Latest Mac Pro rumors/theories
      • Max Tech’s video
      • Majin Bu’s Diagram
      • Lifuka
    • Post-show: Revisiting Synology backup
      • Backblaze B2
      • Synology Cloud Sync
      • Synology Hyper Backup
      • Arq

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    474: That's Where the Magic Happens Mar 17, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • iPad Air does have stereo speakers
      • Mac Studio HDMI is still 2.0
        • HDMI 2.1
      • 27” Studio Display Pro coming soon?
      • “Five-head” Origins
        • The Flop House #94: Conan the Barbarian @ 29:46
        • Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language
        • 20 Fenchurch Street
      • The A7III does have animal eye detection (via Alec Pulianas)
      • Base Mac Pro gets a spec bump
      • MaskerAid Updates
        • Photo library access
        • Method Swizzling
    • ARM Mac Pro worst-case scenarios
      • Max Tech: Apple M2 Duo?
      • Patent: Systems and Methods for Interconnecting Dies
      • Patent: Fully Interconnected Heterogeneous Multi-layer Reconstructed Silicon Device
      • Majin Bu’s tweet
    • Universal Control Impressions
      • Synergy
    • #askatp:
      • Did the DTK set reasonable expectations for M1 devices? (via Ryan Petriello)
      • Does switching to higher-resolution displays put a strain on the CPU/GPU? (via Peter Wagoner)
      • What are the three ugliest Macs of all time? (via Wade)
        • John
          • Molar Mac (Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One)
          • LC 580
        • Casey
          • Polybook
          • Flower Power
            • All 13 Colors of iMac
          • 2004 17” iMac G5
          • Mac Pro
        • Marco
          • 2006 17” MacBook Pro
            • John’s PowerBook G4 Review
          • 11” MacBook Air
          • 2004 17” iMac G5
          • 2019 Mac Pro
            • Rack-mount Version
    • Post-show: A preview of Casey’s new setup (really) with a CalDigit TS4

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    473: Fanboats and Coattails Mar 10, 2022
    • Apple’s “Peek Performance” Event
      • New Apple Watch band collection
        • Beanie Babies
      • 🇺🇦 Tim Cook 🇺🇦
      • Apple TV+
        • Luck (TV Series)
        • Luck (Film)
      • Apple + Baseball
        • Jason’s recap
      • An aside about transportation woes
        • Gibbs Aquada
        • Duck Boat
        • Fan/Air boat
      • iPhone SE 3
      • iPad Air
        • Clockwise #441: Talk Talk Music
      • M1 Ultra
        • Gurman’s original article (18 May 2021)
        • John’s diagram (21 May 2021)
        • John’s warning in ATP #453 @ 32:34 (Overcast timestamp link)
        • Hector Martin’s tweet
        • NUMA
      • Mac Studio 🎩
        • Robot or Not #229: Friendship
        • An aside about Marco’s laptop-laptop woes
        • “Fivehead”
        • xMac
        • The Verge discovers the 2 pound ∆ from Max → Ultra
        • Camera Movement Guide (with apologies to friend of the show Todd Vaziri)
        • McDLT and a McDLT commercial
        • AGP
        • Dan Moren: Missing Mid-Range Desktop Mac
      • A lot of bickering about the future of the 27” iMac
      • Mac Studio Display
        • Casey’s previous rant
        • Casey’s original rant
        • QD-OLED Display
        • Filipe Espósito’s tweet
    • Post-show: There’s still an Intel Mac Mini
      • MD101LL/A

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    472: File a Casey Radar Mar 03, 2022
    • Pre-show: 🇺🇦 ATP Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
      • Washington Post coverage
      • Jason Snell on Apple vs. 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳
    • Follow-up:
      • There definitely is not a “cure” for celiac disease
      • Conquering shared contacts with a shared iCloud account
      • Several fascinating pieces of accessibility-related feedback
    • Casey’s new app, MaskerAid
      • Announcement blog post
      • Analog(ue) #199: A Little Bit of Personal News
      • Example image
      • SF Symbols
    • Apple’s Spring Event predictions
    • Post-show: Marco Christmas!
      • Allston Christmas
      • Paradigm Atom
      • Sony A7 III
        • Sony 35mm f/2.8 Lens (SEL35F28Z) (Marco’s most-used lens)
        • Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA Lens (SEL55F18Z) (What John should buy)
        • Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Lens (SEL50F12GM) (What John wants instead, but will never buy, therefore preventing him from ever buying anything)
        • Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 Lens (SEL85F18/2)
        • LensRentals

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    471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine Feb 24, 2022
    • Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day
      • Celiac
        • Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance
      • Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, YMMV)
      • Thera Cane
      • Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
      • It’s All Too Much
      • NIMBY
    • Follow-up:
      • Getting an older car to always play Maps’ directions over Bluetooth (via Paul Violante)
        • Settings → Maps → Spoken Directions → Directions on Radio
      • Some interesting feedback on brake-by-wire systems
      • Marc Barrowclift’s Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase (via Aidan Trager)
      • Casey attempts a victory lap around John
        • Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
          Note the relevant section was in the members’ only after-show
      • Feedback received on John’s Streaming App Spec
    • The NVIDIA/Arm deal has been scuttled
      • Previously: Doubts about the NVIDIA/Arm deal
      • Announced 20 September 2020 (!)
      • Apparently .NET Core can trace its roots to Silverlight (!)
    • Developer deliberately corrupts popular open-source packages
      • Previous NPM disaster covered on ATP
      • Semantic Versioning
      • Log4j vulnerability
      • xkcd #2347: Dependency
      • Tech companies called to the principal’s office
      • Discourse tries to lead by an $82,500 example
    • #askatp:
      • Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:
        • What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
          • James Hoffmann’s Aeropress technique
          • Ratio Eight
          • Baratza Virtuoso
          • YES PLZ
          • Trade Coffee
          • Intelligentsia
        • Is John still subscribed to cable?
      • Do we have a good system for maintaining family contacts? (via Paul Walker)
    • Post-show Robot or Not:
      • Bonus #askatp: Do we say we’re “in front of” or “behind” the computer? (via Niek van de Pas)

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    470: Computers Can Do Things Feb 17, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Jump-starting an ICE using a Tesla (via Jesper Weltz)
        • Another video (via Jameson)
        • James May’s Model S’s catastrohpic failure
        • Porsche Taycan
        • Mercedes-Benz EQS
    • AirTags anti-tracking update
      • The Downeaster “Alexa”
      • Amsterdam’s transformation from car-centric to people-centric
      • Paris’s car-free zone announced for 2024
    • John has thoughts on streaming apps
      • Channels does a victory lap
        • TV Everywhere
      • XBMC/Kodi
      • Dilbert Strip (yes, Scott Adams sucks)
    • Akamai is buying Linode
      • Stratechery (paid) post
    • #askatp:
      • Why do cars always steal Bluetooth connections? (via Chris Gleim)
      • Is using Reduced Security okay for the purpose of audio capture? (via Chritopher Ward)
        • Audio Hijack
        • The 🤬 nuts installation procedure Apple requires on M1 Macs
      • What’s the best “dumb” TV? (via Ava)
        • Casey’s dumb TV
        • Pi-Hole
        • Casey’s discovered Smart TV Block List
    • Post-show Neutral: Toyota’s Faux Manual Transmission Patent

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    469: Tiny Toastie Feb 10, 2022
    • Pre-show: The newest member of Marco’s family
      • The originating member
      • Siracusa’s history
      • Siracusa’s thoughts
      • The new member
      • Prior experiences with the new member of the family
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey replaces his FiOS set-top box
        • Casey’s new UPS
        • TechSee
      • AlDente
      • Casey’s Email Woes
        • Gmail “funnel solution”
        • Google Workspace Email Storage (via Ashish Gandhi)
        • Running your own mail server (via Daniel Nelson)
          • Recommended solution
        • Fastmail’s referral fees can be paid out! 💰
      • Video evidence for Wi-Fi ↔ Cellular Universal Control (via Carlos Carpio García)
      • Are phones being stolen to steal bank information? (via Gui Rambo)
      • Siri attempts at music playback by year
        • Jonathan Coulton’s Some Guys
    • Apple’s attempt at “compliance” with the Netherlands dating app rules
      • Chargeback
      • Dutch response
      • Upgrade #393: Nothing Is So Perfect™
      • John in 2020: “The Art of the Possible”
    • Microsoft’s “A Principled Approach to App Stores”
    • #askatp:
      • Why doesn’t anyone use Wi-Fi for audio playback? (via Steven J. Stutz)
      • Do we use color calibration tools for our monitors? (via Chris Koerner)
        • Datacolor Spyder
      • How do we prevent keyboards damaging screens on laptops? (via Priyansh Singh)
    • Post-show: Marco’s car problems
      • Which Car Jump Starter is Best? (via Michael Panzer)

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    468: You Got Your Non-Money's Worth Feb 03, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco enters winter luxury
      • Marco’s “Slippers”
      • John’s Slippers
      • Marco’s Rug
      • Marco’s Rug Heater
      • Reminder: Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperatures
      • Robot or Not: Sundays
    • Follow-up:
      • Google ships tapback parsing
      • Regarding “Screeners”
      • Xbox Game Pass
        • PC Game Pass
        • Game Pass Ultimate
        • Xbox Cloud Gaming
        • Stratechery Interview with Phil Spencer
      • Apple and the Netherlands
      • New beta bits
        • Face ID unlock and glasses from Ryan Booker
        • Notes on Universal Control from Carlos Carpio Carcía
    • Sony buys Bungie for $3.6B
      • FAQ
      • Sony hints at More Acquisitions
    • Google tells legacy Gmail account holders to “pay up”
      • Ars Technica’s coverage
      • Google information
      • Amazon Simple Email Service
      • Using a custom domain with iCloud email
      • Mimestream
      • Fastmail (former sponsor)
      • Hey (former sponsor)
      • Zimbra
    • #askatp:
      • How do we back up shared photo albums? (via Carlos Moffat)
      • How do we manage power (and battery) for desktop laptops? (via Anirudh Coontoor)
        • Settings → Battery → Battery (in sidebar) → Optimized battery charging
      • What security steps do we take for family devices? (via Lars Bekkema)
    • Post-show:
      • Supercap jump-starter

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    467: The Strain Provider Jan 28, 2022
    • Pre-show: Marco’s Baking Hangover
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s Desk Update
        • Casey’s Thunderbolt 4 Hub / “Breakout Box”
      • Simon Webster on QD-OLED and Blue LEDs
      • Jon Mason on how big Sony is
      • Xbox Gamepass and Series S
        • Neil Young & Spotify
        • Horse Armor
        • Scorched Earth
      • iMessage and SMS (via Olivier Ruoy)
        • Adium
      • Piracy, Warez, and The Scene (via Colin Weir)
        • Widevine
      • Netherlands Tells Apple “lol nope”
        • Macrumors Coverage
        • ACM’s Statement
    • Dropbox and OneDrive kexts no longer supported in macOS 12.3 beta
      • User space
    • Universal Control Mac → iPad in 12.3 & 15.4 betas
      • Viticci’s tweet/video
      • OBS Studio
      • Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering
      • OB Studio Pull Request
    • iOS 15.4 beta supports FaceID unlock with mask without an Apple Watch
    • USB Garbage from Amazon
      • Do By Friday
      • Wristies
    • Post-show:
      • Web time capsules
      • John’s automotive plans

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    466: There's Probably a Wizard for It Jan 20, 2022
    • Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
      • TPM
      • yt-dlp
      • DeCSS
      • SGX
      • FairPlay
      • Pirated movie release types
    • Follow-up:
      • Printer Murder Rooms
        • John Tsombakos
        • Richard Smith
      • LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
    • Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
      • Wall Street Journal
      • Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
      • Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)
        • Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
        • LinkedIn: $26.2b
        • Nuance: $19.7b
        • Skype: $8.5b
        • ZeniMax: $7.5b
        • GitHub: $7.5b
        • Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
        • aQuantive: $6.3b
        • Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b
      • Perfect Dark
    • Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
      • RCS
      • Dithering
      • Snell on iMessage
      • Google/Android interpreting tapbacks
    • #askatp:
      • Will macOS last another 20 years? (via Daniel Begqvist)
        • Copland 2010 Revisited
        • POSIX
        • Mach
        • Real-Time Operating System
      • What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
      • Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
    • Post-show: Marco’s Jerk-Store Moment
      • L’esprit de l’escalier

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    465: Lasers Are Great Jan 13, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Fi dog-collar pronunciation
        • Discount code ATP100 for $100 off (not a sponsor)
      • New Ford Mustangs will be available in 2023–2024
      • Sony did show PSVR2 controllers
      • Mirrorless advantages and the longevity of Canon DSLRs (from Justin Krohn)
      • TV technology
        • WRGB OLEDs do have white backlights
        • QD-OLEDs have RGB “filters”/diffusers
          • Samsung’s 2019 $11 billion investment in QD-OLED
        • Micro-LED
      • On “Weird & Complicated” Analog TV (via Moe Rubenzahl)
        • Technology Connections on Analog TV
      • Apple will Allow Alternate Payment Systems in the App Store in 🇰🇷, with a catch
        • StoreKit 2
        • RevenueCat Getting Started
        • Apple wants 30% of Uber/Lyft’s membership revenue
        • American laws don’t reflect Americans’ desires
    • John’s gross printer
      • Theranos
      • John’s printer
      • Casey’s printer
      • Marco’s laser all-in-one with the buggy networking
      • Marco’s beloved giant printer (price is currently inflated; it cost $449 in 2016)
      • Marco’s 11x17 inkjet all-in-one (also currently overpriced; it cost $249 in 2018)
    • #askatp:
      • What do we think about React/React Native? (via Asajz)
        • Divorce leads children to the worst places
        • Vue.js
        • Angular
          • Note: Not AngularJS
      • How can there be a huge ∆ between data in Photos and the actual Photos Library on disk? (via Todd Vaziri)
        • SQLite VACUUM
    • Post-show: Some responses to our health/veganism/leather discussion last week
      • Slow Boring: Is Healthy Food Actually More Expensive?
      • BBC: Climate Change: Which vegan milk is best?
      • iMore: Apple should ditch leather (not mentioned, but meant to)

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    464: Monks at Drafting Tables Jan 06, 2022
    • Follow-up:
      • Stuart Hay on chroma sub-sampling, 4:2:2, 4:1:1, 4:2:0
      • Hyper Thunderbolt 4 Dock
        • Hyper USB-C Media Hub
      • A not-too-short aside about iPad connectivity and expandability
        • Loopback
        • David Smith’s tweet
        • Audio Hijack
        • Audiobus
        • Drafting table
      • Xcode and setting up for Apple Watch development (via Andy Norman)
      • Slideshow App Recommendations
        • Fotomagico
        • Adobe Premiere Rush
      • Canon’s flagship DSLR line will end… eventually.
        • Single-lens reflex
    • CES: QD-OLED TVs from Sony
      • OLED explained
      • Quantum dots explained
    • Interview with Gary Geaves, VP of Acoustics at Apple
      • MaxTech video
      • Regarding latency
      • About the UWB spectrum
      • An aside about Apple TV interruptions
        • Settings → Remotes and Devices → Bluetooth → Suggest Nearby AirPods
    • #askatp:
      • How much do we sleep? (via Nathaniel Gori)
        • An aside about dog tracking collars
          • Fi smart dog collar — Use the code NEWYEARS100 for $100 off. Not a sponsor. Promise.
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    • Post-show:
      • Should Apple stop using leather?
      • Thoughts on meat alternatives
      • Late-episode follow-up:
        • Fun Fact #52: We’re off Track
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    463: No Indication of Progress Dec 30, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Marco’s desk situation
      • Casey’s desk situation
        • VESA stand
        • …an uglier one
        • …yet uglier still
        • …stand and arm
    • Follow-up:
      • Jonathan Dietz Comes Through
        • Glenwing’s page and calculator and forum post
        • Chroma Subsampling
      • USB4/TB4 bandwidth (via Dimitri Bouniol)
    • Marco’s Christmas-movie Adventure
      • iLife
      • iDVD
      • Gang of Four
      • UXKit
      • discoveryd and mDNSResponder
    • Holiday tech we love
      • Casey joins 2019 and gets AirPods Pro
        • HiFiMAN HE-6
        • Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (250-ohm)
      • Marco’s new Switch
      • Tina’s new iPhone car mount
    • #askatp:
      • Would we rock a full-on iMac as an external monitor if Target Display Mode still existed? (via Jeff Fowler)
      • Does Apple like the drama and rumors around it? (via Erik Neu)
      • Do we close all our apps before rebooting our computers? (via AdamMHead)

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    462: Xcode X Dec 22, 2021
    • Pre-show: “Web3”
    • Follow-up:
      • Thank you, ATP members
      • Casey has changed up his setup yet again
        • Ian Fuchs at Cult of Mac
        • Alogic Thunderbolt 4 Blaze Hub
        • OWC Thunderbolt Hub
        • CalDigit Element Hub
        • CalDigit TS3+
        • Team Arment on Twitch
        • Elgato HD60 S+
        • C13 plug
      • “☝️ Well, actually ☝️”s on Marco’s Synology
        • J-series Synology devices cannot use btrfs (via Squozen)
        • 64TB maximum limit (via Matt Sullivan)
      • Marco’s jugs
        • Capillary action
      • Apple Silicon in forthcoming LG displays
        • Chroma subsampling
        • Thunderbolt Display
        • ADC
      • Clarifications on attention-aware features (via Gui Rambo)
      • Marco’s New iPhone Case (via Oliver Ames)
    • macOS 12.2 beta
      • Improved scrolling in Safari with ProMotion
      • Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a “full native app”
    • :::✊🏻::: Kids these days :::✊🏻:::
      • PICO-8
      • Swift Playgrounds 4
    • Post-show #askatp:
      • When did Corvettes start looking so different? (via Rob Knight)
        • C8 Corvette
      • What vaporware would we love to see Apple work on? (via Juno Orion)

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    461: Re-tend That Garden Dec 16, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Why would one deliberately launch TextEdit‽
      • The flood 😱
        • Cable Matters 2.5” drive enclosure
        • Synology DS1813+
        • Synology 620Slim
        • Synology DS420j
        • RAID 0
        • Backblaze B2
    • Follow-up:
      • Andrew shares a Consumer Reports link regarding lithium batteries in smoke detectors
      • LG Screen Manager (App Store Link) now supports M1 Macs (via Dave Stachowiak)
      • Casey’s LG UltraFine adventures continue
      • LG non-UltraFine 4K and 60Hz HDMI
        • 24UD58-B 24” IPS Monitor with Freesync, Black
        • Menu → Picture → Picture Adjust → HDMI ULTRA HD Deep Color
      • Casey’s new desk setup
      • Potential Magic Mouse fixes
        • Monterey 12.1
        • Suggestion from Charity Majors
    • LG is working on three new monitors?
      • Twitter thread
      • LG Displays
      • LG Electronics
    • #askatp:
      • Tips for Android → iPhone converts? (via Steve Wellington)
      • Do any of us use Finder replacements like PathFinder? (via Sam)
      • Do we use Swift for anything other than iOS/macOS apps? (via Jan de Geest)
    • Post-show: A Synology Adventure

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    460: Desktop Laptop Dec 09, 2021
    • Pre-show: Christmas Conundrums
      • Charlie Brown Tree
    • Follow-up:
      • Ubiquiti’s breach was from the inside
      • Casey’s UltraFine 5K seems to be UltraDead
        • Idan Warsawski’s explanation & more
        • Casey’s borrowed monitor
        • Casey’s blog post about Apple’s monitor situation
        • John’s snarky quote-tweet
    • Some wish-casting and predictions about the Mac lineup in 2022
    • Apple Announces Self-Service Repair
      • Louis Rossmann’s video
    • #askatp:
      • How come the TouchBar failed where the iPhone succeeded? (via Todd Kaprielian)
      • Why is Chromium’s dominance bad for the open web? (via Aryan Aneja)
        • John’s blog post on open source
        • Kagi FAQ
      • Why bother with a Mac Pro? (via Dave Saunders, who clearly wanted to torment Casey)
        • The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
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      • Marco’s shifts to Neutral
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    459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth Dec 02, 2021
    • Shocking revelations:
      • Marco’s wrist
      • Casey’s desk
    • The myth of digital audio producing stair-step sound waves
      • Casey’s Double Density appearance
      • Xiph explainer video
        • DAC
        • Nyquist level
    • Apple’s monitor-pricing conundrum
      • Luna Display updates
    • Follow-up: Junior vs. Senior Developers (via Nick Matsakis)
      • Peter principle
    • Mac Mini rumors and renderings
    • #askatp:
      • Which company would we love to see Apple buy & integrate? (via Ryan)
        • The Talk Show #330: ‘Headline Goes Here’ with Jim Dalrymple
        • Sony Xperia PRO-I
          • Video review
      • Why bother with backups anymore? (via Joe Athman)
        • Casey’s scripts
    • Post-show: John’s beeps
      • Captured audio
      • What Is That Beep
      • Appliance brands: Who owns what?
      • Forum Post
      • Nitram’s Mea Culpa

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    458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash Nov 22, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Energizer lithium AA batteries and 9V for smoke alarms
      • Marco’s utterly bananas password-managers setup
      • The ATP on-demand store is back!
    • Follow-up:
      • Meta/Facebook
        • In the Enterprise
          • workplace.com
          • An aside about scrolljacking
            • Parallax Scrolling
        • Hardware prowess
        • Gaming
        • Wearing VR headsets
      • Apple TV+ on the web
      • HomePod problems abound (via Joe Mesterhazy)
        • YouTube video describing the problem
      • Plex and two-zone playback
        • ebernet’s explanation
        • Infuse
      • Bullstrap leather case review
      • Marco’s pants update
        • Banana Republic Traveler
        • Spoke London Travel Denim and Cord Fives
    • Laying out the Apple Silicon roadmap
      • Max Tech video
    • #askatp:
      • How can one keep an older MacBook Pro running well? (via Stephan)
      • How do we organize our pictures? (via Guilherme Alles)
        • Peek‑a‑View
      • What’s the ∆ between a junior & senior developer? (via Roar Lochar)
        • Programmer Humor’s Tweet
        • Gene Hackman
    • Post-show: John’s mystery beeps

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    457: The World's Greatest Conference Call Nov 16, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Watching shows on Apple
      • Some ATP membership bookkeeping
    • Follow-up:
      • Xcode build times (via Abel Demoz)
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      • Monterey’s Mouse Pointer Memory Leak Bug
      • Marco has [Original] HomePod Problems
        • Belkin Soundform Connect
      • Marco replaces Weather Line with Carrot Weather
        • Weather Line acquisition
        • App Store feature on Brian Mueller of Carrot Weather
        • Weather Strip
      • Seller risks on eBay
        • Swappa
    • Facebook and Meta
      • Stratechery Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
      • Oculus Quest 2
      • Ping
      • World of Warcraft
      • SecondLife
      • IRC
      • MUD
      • MUSH
      • HoloLens 2
      • Chatroulette
      • Knowledge Navigator
      • Idiocracy
    • Post-show: Casey broke two car keys in the span of 10 minutes
      • Volvo XC90
      • Example replacement video

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    456: The Monitor Situation Nov 11, 2021

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    • Follow-up:
      • iMessage in iCloud Security Overview
      • Apple’s T2 Macs and Monterey
      • Avoiding the notch using RDM (via Roberto Jung Drebes)
    • Casey’s MacBook Pro Updates
      • Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English ($180)
      • Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English ($150)
      • Magic Trackpad ($130)
      • LG UltraFine 5K
        • Starport 75 Podcast
      • Casey’s iMac Stand
    • Marco reviews iPhone 13 Pro cases
      • Apple Silicone
      • Nudient Thin v3
      • Peel Clear White
      • Totallee Pearl White
      • Totallee Clear Soft
      • Caudabe Sheath
      • Pitaka MagEZ Case 2 (not tested)
      • Bullstrap (not tested)
    • How Could One Improve the MacBook Pros?
      • SD Card
      • CFexpress
      • HDMI 2.1
    • A None-Too-Brief Aside About Apple External Monitors
      • ASUS ProArt Display PA32UCG-K 32” 16:9 FreeSync2 4K 120 Hz HDR Mini-LED IPS Monitor
    • Post-show #askatp:
      • Why don’t we talk about processor clock speed anymore? (via Yossi Kanner)
      • Would we rather use a previous-gen MacBook Pro with an M1 Max, or the new MacBook Pro with an Intel CPU? (via Joel Short)

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    455: Your Yanking Force Nov 04, 2021

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    • Pre-show: Setup Woes
      • Audition
      • Homebrew Bundle
        • Casey’s Post on Homebrew Bundle
        • Casey’s bundle file
    • Follow-up:
      • What does Marco use for a Thunderbolt dock? (via César Cavazos)
        • OWC Thunderbolt Dock
        • Caldigit TS3+ Hub
        • Caldigit Element Hub
      • John’s AirPods 3 updates
      • Monterey Status Report
        • SuperDuper
      • The Verge’s MacBook Pro review
      • MacBook Pro Charging via USB-C
        • Thunderbolt PDF
        • PC Magazine
        • ADC
      • MacBook Pro “Compatibility Mode”
        • Scale to fit below built-in camera
        • Tweet with video
      • Notch codename was Daisy?
      • 120 Hz scrolling on new MacBook Pros
        • Chrome shenanigans
      • Marco’s Mystery Terabyte update
        • Disk Utility → View → Show APFS Snapshots
        • Purging files on iOS
    • Marco’s experience with Lutron Caséta
      • Waveform Lighting
      • Eve Motion
      • Caséta Motion Sensor (scroll down)
      • Quinn’s Smart Home Video
    • [More] MacBook Pro impressions
      • Upgrade #379: They Feed on Memory
      • MagSafe 1/2/3 side-by-side
      • Luna Display
    • Post-show: How does Marco unload old computers?

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    454: The Notch is Young Oct 28, 2021

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    • Pre-show: Marco’s acquisition adventure
      • IceMule Cooler Backpack (size Xlarge)
      • Veblen good
    • Follow-up:
      • APFS fast directory sizing
        • Chris’ answer on StackExchange
        • APFS File System Reference
        • INODE_MAINTAIN_DIR_STATS
      • Anandtech on the M1 Pro & Max performance
        • Dom’s question
        • SPECfp
      • Gruber’s summary of the Affinity team’s findings
      • The only benchmark that matters
      • Johnathan Dietz Jr on Pro Display XDR @ 120Hz
      • What about Memory Pressure?
      • Marco’s Kühl’s pants
    • John’s AirPods 3 impressions
    • MacBook Pro impressions
      • Casey’s very sad y’all
      • Under the Radar #229: Money, Time, and M1 Max Macs
      • In-Store configuration options
      • Space Gremlin
      • Grand Perspective
      • Quinn Nelson on notch inconsistencies
      • Apps
        • Bartender
        • Vanilla
        • Denotchifier
        • Top Notch
    • Post-show: Marco watches sports
      • XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand
      • FoxTrax
      • First down line
      • CTE

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    453: As the Prophecy Foretold Oct 21, 2021
    • Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
      • Start Up
      • John’s Tweet
      • Apple ✔️s (scroll way down)
      • Monterey quick hits
        • Monday, 25 October
        • Tabs that look like tabs!!
          • Snell’s coverage
      • M1 Pro & M1 Max
        • John’s “City of Chips” tweet
          • John’s Self-FU
        • John’s “City of Chips” diagram
        • Anandtech’s Coverage
          • M1 floorplan comparisons
          • M1 Pro Floorplan
          • M1 Max floorplan
        • WildCrack’s tweet
        • Mike Goldsmith’s tweet
        • Six Colors’ coverage of M1 Pro/Max variants
        • Scott Perry on DRAM
        • Josh Rogers on GPU comparisons
          • Review of MSI GE76 Raider
      • New MacBook Pros
        • PORTS (courtesy chatroom user rmorey)
        • Snell on charging quirks
        • Jeff Nadeau’s tweet
        • David Schaub’s Nostradamus Moment
        • Linda Dong’s Twitter thread
        • HIG documentation
          • Full-Screen Mode
          • Menu Bar Menus
      • Our orders
        • Marco
          • 14”, M1 Pro, 16-core GPU
          • 16GB RAM
          • 1TB SSD
        • Casey
          • 14”, M1 Max, 24-core GPU
          • 64GB RAM
          • 4TB SSD
        • John
          • …AirPods.
    • Post-show: Rumor round-up
      • 9to5Mac on the ransomware leak
      • Bloomberg/Gurman’s Roundup
      • Which Intel Macs remain?
        • Mac mini
        • 27” iMac
        • 21.5” iMac
        • Mac Pro

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    452: It's Totally Leashed Oct 14, 2021
    • Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders
    • Follow-up:
      • Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
      • Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores
        • Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv
        • Yo dawg
        • MTV’s Pimp My Ride
      • Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 Pro
        • Man + River
        • IP Code
      • Regarding bugs in your pasta (It’s not about the pasta!) (via Sharon Linne Faulk)
        • What bugs/larvae/eggs can you eat?
    • Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
      • Joz’s tweet
    • Marco’s new Dropbox setup
      • Maestral
      • inotify
      • FSEvents
      • kqueue
    • #askatp:
      • Why are progress bars so hard? (via Derek Aldridge)
      • What’s a good automotive blog? (via Tom Jacob)
        • NetNewsWire
        • Jalopnik
        • YouTube Channels:
          • Doug DeMuro
          • Straight Pipes
          • Savage Geese
          • Regular Car Reviews
          • Alex on Autos
          • MotorWeek
          • M539 Restorations
      • Does John maintain his old hardware? (via Sean Cohen)
    • Post-show:
      • The search for John’s backup winter hat
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    451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks Oct 07, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Facebook’s outage
        • BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.)
        • Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
        • Explanation from Facebook
      • Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents!
      • We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store!
        • Quinn Nelson’s YouTube channel
    • Follow-up:
      • Anandtech on the A15
        • MacRumors’ summary
      • On RAW data rates (via Brian Petersen)
        • Understanding ProRAW
      • John’s motion sickness and gaming
      • Marco’s updates
        • Kühl pants
        • Apple Silicone Case
        • Peel Cases
        • Nudient Cases
        • ProClipUSA Magafe Car Mount
        • 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 Marco’s deposit
        • Tesla ends leases as well as they build cars
    • Possible 14” and 16” MacBook Pro rumors
      • Display resolutions
      • What do we expect? What would we be surprised by?
    • #askatp:
      • Would/should Apple make ergonomic accessories? (via Johnny Oliver)
        • Surface Arc Mouse
      • Can the This website is using significant energy notices be stopped? (via Michael Hagan)
      • When will we get CarPlay from watchOS? (via Yoni)
    • Post-show: Apple Watch Series 7 buying plans
      • Apple Developer: Supporting Multiple Watch Sizes

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    450: Distending My Wardrobe Sep 30, 2021
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    • Pre-show: Some navel-gazing (much like Episode 400)
      • Sporkful’s Cascatelli
      • Flying Spaghetti Monster
    • Follow-up:
      • Returns
        • John Halter returns Surface Pros
        • Bernd Kilga returns an Elite Series 2 controller
        • Damian Shaw returns Surface Headphones
        • Christopher Dillon returns a Logitech MX Master
        • Ricky Wilson returns a Google Home Mini
        • Brian Donovan returns an iPad Smart Keyboard
        • Shiro Wilde returns an Apple TV 4K remote
      • Mike Bollich-Ziegler makes an interesting observation about the iPad Mini
      • Michał Goc does some digging about tennis serve speed
        • SwingVision
      • Regarding fast pre-ordering from TJ Luoma
      • Harrison Krebs has updates on eSIMs
        • KBase article
      • Bastian Inuk points out there are many raw formats for video
      • Marco’s security camera update
      • On Dock auto-hide delay (via Danny Tsang)
        • Intel: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
        • Apple: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4 && killall Dock
    • iPhones 13 Pro Impressions
      • Setup experiences
      • Apple Watch unlock bug
      • Colors & Size
        • MackWeldon Ace Sweatshort
        • Apple Silicone Case
        • Casey/Marco’s Cases: Nudient Thin V3
        • MKBHD on the MagSafe Duo
      • Camera System
    • Post-show #askatp: On an ∞ timescale, when do we get neat under-screen tricks? (via Alex Murrell)

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    449: An Unclean Mouse Sep 23, 2021
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    • Pre-show: A little bit more about Electron and 1Password 8
      • Tauri
    • Garmin InReach
      • Iridium satellites
    • iPhone
      • “Thick iPhone is thicc” 🤣
      • Ryan Jones’ camera bump chart
    • An aside about how optics works
      • John’s “Portrait Mode” Example
      • Cameras and Lenses
      • Internal Combustion Engines
    • iPhone [Reprise]
      • Adrian Weckler’s 13 Pro vs. 12 Pro
      • Halide on the evolution of iPhone cameras
      • Geoff Hackworth notes safe areas are the same size
      • On using iPhones for filming movies
      • The Verge on battery sizes
      • Gruber’s review (with streaming battery life information)
      • LPTO screens
      • Dual eSIMs
      • 1× ↔ 3× macro transition
      • On A15 performance
        • More from SemiAnalysis
        • More from Ben Bajarin
        • Gokhan Avkarogullari notes there is a A15 GPU Tech Talk
        • Snell’s thoughts
        • MacRumors’ story
        • DHH on the iPad mini
      • Photographic styles
        • Fonzie
    • Marco’s iPhones
      • Casey’s forthcoming case
      • John’s case
    • Snell has new info on the iPhone Leather Wallet
    • iPad
      • Power cables
      • iPad Mini doesn’t support mmWave 5G
      • iPad Mini is downclocked?
    • Apple Watch Series 7
      • Golf swing & tennis serve speed
      • On faster charging & satellite navigation
      • Steve Troughton-Smith on the SoC
    • iOS 15 will not be a compulsory upgrade
    • Post-show: John’s bad mouse pad [Reprise]

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    448: Next Year, Which Is Now Sep 15, 2021
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    • Apple Event
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      • iPad
      • iPad Mini
      • Apple Watch Series 7
        • Ressence Oil-Filled Watches
        • Marco’s Sinn
        • CSS error
      • iPhone 13
        • Thinner but taller notch?
        • Rack focus
      • iPhone 13 Pro
        • Unsane
        • Red Cameras
    • Post-show: iPhone 12 exit interview

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    447: Lunchbox on Your Face Sep 09, 2021
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    • Pre-show:
      • Casey’s very big day
        • Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue
        • What is a Hokie?
      • Teaching Marco geography
        • Fire Island
    • Follow-up:
      • Australians: Get your shot!
      • More arguing about geography
        • Long Island
        • Boroughs of New York City
      • Apple delays CSAM protection features
      • HomeKit camera TV PiP can be enabled/disabled per camera
        • HomePods announce faces too!
      • App Store lawsuit is only for iOS apps?
      • John’s “bad mouse pad” update
        • Simpsons Chili Cook-Off
      • John’s favorite percentage: 9.6%
      • Google Drive for Desktop
      • Forcing Photos.app to download all your photos
        • Photos → Library → All Photos
        • ⌘A
        • File → Play Slideshow
    • Apple Event
      • MacBook Pros? :(
      • Apple Watch Series 7 (renders based on rumors)
      • Airstream
      • Apple Pippin
      • Half-Life: Alyx
      • HoloLens
      • Oculus Quest
    • Post-show #askatp: Will the iPhone ever drop the number? (via Doug McArthur)

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    446: Dead From Fraud Sep 02, 2021
    • Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can.
    • Follow-up:
      • Wirecutter moves behind a paywall
        • Neven’s tweet
      • Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes.
      • Cryptographic hashes vs. Apple’s CSAM Neural Hash
      • What happens if governments get involved with CSAM detection?
        • Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF link)
      • More Apple PR own-goals: Apple bans a pay equity Slack channel
      • Music metadata
        • MusicBrainz’s schema
    • Marco has a request: how do you get a 9-year-old coding?
      • Swift Playgrounds
      • Hopscotch
      • Roblox
        • Video about how they rip off kids
      • QBasic
        • Web-based BASIC
      • DOSBox
      • Playdate
        • How the Playdate Pulp IDE works
      • Scratch
      • Processing.js
    • Apple’s class-action settlement with “app developers”
      • Bloomberg
      • Under the Radar #225: The Fragmented Future
    • 📣 BREAKING 📣 Apple will allow “reader” apps with their own purchase systems to link out (details to be determined later)
      • Apple’s definition of “reader” apps
    • Korea: Apple & Google must allow developers to use other payment systems
    • Home security cameras and HomeKit Secure Video
      • Logitech Circle View
      • Eufy Solo Indoor Cam C24
      • Eufy SoloCam L20
      • Synology Surveillance Station
    • Post-show: Casey’s Dock experiments
      • Connected #358: Roast My Dock
      • SwitchGlass

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    445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland Aug 26, 2021
    • Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can.
    • Follow-up:
      • Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding)
        • Overcast timestamp link
      • Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell
        • Brent Simmons’ blog post
      • Regarding 1Password and Electron
        • What about the dependencies? (via KingOlegOne)
        • is-odd
        • Roustem Karimov’s response
        • Craft
      • CSAM Neural Hash algorithm extracted?
        • Example collision 1
        • More examples
        • Apple’s Response
      • Safari 15 Updates
        • iOS 15β6
          • Federico’s coverage
        • Stephen Hackett’s take
        • Upgrade #367: My Experience with the Floating Lozenges
    • A quick aside about battery health
    • Apple’s PR war against itself
      • Thursday, 15 July: Apple cracks down on remote work
      • Wednesday, 4 August: Apple places female EPM on leave after tweeting about sexism in the office
        • Ashley M. Gjøvik’s tweets 1 2
      • Thursday, 5 August: Apple’s CSAM roll-out
      • Monday, 9 August: Apple shuts down employee-run surveys on pay
        • Cher Scarlett’s Survey
      • Monday, 16 August: Apple forces FlickType for Watch out of the App Store
        • FlickType’s statement
        • Miguel de Icaza’s take
      • Monday, 23 August: #AppleToo
        • The Verge’s coverage
    • #askatp
      • How does one manage a large library of photos? (via Colin)
      • How does one search for specific tech problems? (via Sam)
        • Rubber duck debugging
      • Is there any point in updating Java anymore? (via Mark Slutsky)
    • Post-show: Marco went to a Phish concert!
      • Phish at Atlantic City Beach, 2021-08-15
        • Official video of a song that night
        • Aerial video of the beach venue
      • Dave Matthews Band also played somewhere on 2021-08-07 (But you can’t listen to it, apparently. Probably for the best. –ed.)

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    444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple Aug 17, 2021
    • Follow-up:
      • Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D)
      • Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler)
      • Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems
      • CSAM
        • Security Threat Model Rview of Apple’s Child Safety Features
        • Joanna Stern’s interview with Craig Federighi
        • Patriot Act
        • Digital Millennium Copyright Act
    • 1Password 8: The Story So Far
      • Electron
      • iCloud for Windows
      • Dave Teare’s Medium Post
      • Casey’s Twitter rant
      • Mac-assed Mac Apps
      • 1Password’s funding
    • On cross-platform UI frameworks
      • Rust
      • Snell’s take
      • Rhapsody
      • Carbon
      • ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event
    • Post-show: Marco’s stolen bike

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    443: A Storm of Asterisks Aug 12, 2021
    • Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music
      • God Shuffled His Feet
      • A Worm’s Life
      • The Joshua Tree
      • Illusion is Now
    • Follow-up:
      • Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
      • AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards
      • Why Apple can’t pay bananas bug bounties (via Adrian)
    • Apple’s New Child Safety Features
      • Apple’s FAQ
      • Gruber’s explanation
      • Matt Panzarino’s interview with Apple’s Head of Privacy
      • Decoder with Nilay Patel on Apple’s Child Safety features
      • 2015 San Bernardino Attack
      • Fourth American Amendment
      • Law & Order: SVU
      • Pinboard’s Thread
    • #askatp
      • What’s our current thoughts on accelerating the heat death of the universe cryptocurrency (via Lalo Vargas)
        • Pyramid scheme
        • Ponzi scheme
        • Proof of work
        • Proof of stake
        • ATP #424: Ethernet Squid
        • But how does Bitcoin actually work?
      • Is there any way to limit Messages’ size on disk? (via Richie Aharonian)
      • What camera/lens should I rent for a Disney World trip? (via Andrew Nelson)
        • Moment Lenses
        • Fuji X100V
        • Leica Q2
        • Sony A6600 camera
          • Sony A6600 rental
        • Tamron 17-70mm lens
          • Tamron 17-70mm lens rental
        • Sony 16-55mm lens
          • Sony 16-55mm lens rental
        • Sony A7C camera
          • Sony A7C camera rental
    • Post-show: Some more camera banter

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    442: Bob’s Barbecue Aug 05, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.)
      • Days of the New’s new album
        • Travis Meeks
        • Days of the New II
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple Music
        • Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link)
        • There are lots of third-party music players, which Marc Barrowclift reviewed
      • Photos
        • Regarding concert pairing
          • WWDC 2018 keynote, 29m25s (via Benjamin)
          • See also KBase
        • Deleting all your photos from Google Photos is… the worst.
        • Photo editing tips from Henrik
          • See also PHAdjustmentData
    • AMD Radeon PRO W6000X-series GPUs now available for Mac Pro
      • Brewster’s Millions
    • Apple, NSO, and bug bounties
    • #askatp
      • Do we still use e-readers? (via Aryan Aneja)
        • Jason Snell on the Kobo Libra H2O
        • Calibre
        • Michael B. Johnson
      • Do we use a VNC app to remote into our Macs? (via Stephen Robles)
        • Wireguard
        • Screens
        • Back to My Mac
        • X Window System
        • Display PostScript
      • Why hasn’t Apple built their own chip foundry? (via Philip Wilkinson)
        • TSMC
        • PA Semi
    • Post-show: App Store keyword squatters
      • Weather • (App Store link)
      • Review of iPadOS 15’s Weather App

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    441: Meals at Home Jul 30, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • LivePhish.com
      • Playdate
        • Collin Donnell
        • Status Board
        • Tamagotchi
    • Follow-up:
      • Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated!
      • More Safari Updates
        • Stroke around window widgets on macOS
        • iPadOS Updates
        • iOS Updates
          • Sam Gross’ HIG observation
      • Live Text will be available on Intel Macs too!
        • TextSniper
      • “Scorch marks” on Lightning connectors
        • Electrical contact cleaner
      • MagSafe “Soap Dish”
      • Elective repairs for cosmetic damage at Apple stores
      • RFSolution: How do I empty my Google Drive trash‽
    • Casey’s Apple Music impressions
    • Casey’s iCloud Photo Library impressions
    • Casey’s MagSafe Battery Pack review
      • Quinn presses a button
    • Post-show:
      • GM’s new battery tech
      • Marco is going to a Phish show!

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    440: The Reality of Magnets Jul 20, 2021
    • Pre-show: Marco’s accident
      • DJI Mavic 2
    • Follow-up:
      • There are dozens of people who like compact Safari (via Anthony Lee)
      • Perhaps wonky Safari is a nod to an AR future? (via Dan Blondell)
        • Round Rects Are Everywhere!
      • Mac Safari’s tab-close UI (via Guy English)
      • Other multi-UI apps (via Daniel Jalkut)
        • NetNewsWire
      • Photos Extensions
        • Darkroom flag & reject workflow (via Ben Gollmer)
          • Write-up (on Medium 🙄)
        • Raw Power (via Kyle McMahon)
          • Introductory video
          • Caveats
        • OpenDoc
      • The best news about Monterey yet (via Aaron Brager)
    • Apple MagSafe Battery Case Pack Thing
      • KBase document
      • Six Colors Write-Up
      • Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5K
      • Panzarino’s video
      • Quinn’s estimates
    • State of iPhone MagSafe
      • Elevation Lab MagBase
    • Post-show: Casey needs the Diamond Dogs
      • Ducking
      • Tighten Up
      • Pushover

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    439: Eventually Converge on Correctness Jul 15, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Casey’s macOS Bug Report
      • Math Emporium
        • Power Mac G4 Cube
        • Crystal Garden
    • Follow-up:
      • New Safari tab interface in Monterey beta 3
        • Toppy Tabs
        • Ribbon
        • Word 6 Screenshot
      • Elective AppleCare+ Repairs
      • Photo Ingest
        • Photo Mechanic
        • Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
        • “Made for Apple Photos”?
      • The Aeron was revised in 2017 (via Alexander)
        • Differences
      • Casey’s Shocking News
    • Post-show bonus #askatp: Does Adam still wear his Apple Watch? (via Andrew Blomquist)
      • Apple Watch SE
      • Family Setup

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    438: Some Amount of Futzing Jul 08, 2021
    • Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss
      • ZZQ
      • Q Barbeque
      • Casey’s Shattered Windshield
      • John’s iPhone case
    • Follow-up:
      • HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf
        • Lutron Caseta
        • Matter
        • Thread
        • Quinn’s Video
      • HSTS and Safari (via Jakob)
        • DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption
      • Thoughts on Safari from Scott Sutton
        • Safari Technology Preview (“Purple Safari”)
      • Eye-tracking Memoji? (via Daniel Yount)
        • Executive images
      • John mousepad update
    • Managing Digital Documents (via Jason Abreu)
      • 1Password for Families
      • Fujitsu ScanSnap
      • Raven Scanners
      • You Need a Budget
      • Banktivity
      • Backblaze 3-2-1
    • Casey’s Apple One Epiphany
      • Songwhip
    • #askatp:
      • What’s the desk chair update? (via Carlos Luis Portillo)
        • Embody
        • Aeron
        • Steelcase Gesture
      • How do we import photos taken on a “big” camera? (via Stephen Kim)
        • GeoTag
        • Pipe Dream
      • Why wouldn’t Apple want to license the M1 to Nintendo? (via Zephyz Zhaar)
        • OLED Switch
        • Tegra X1
        • Breath of the Wild
    • Post-show: Marco is a monster who doesn’t like air conditioning
      • ERV

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    437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad Jul 01, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Nostalgia for compulsory technology
        • Toshiba e740
        • Microdrive
        • Volvo XC90
      • Being old in a college town
        • Top of the Stairs
    • Follow-up:
      • Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2
      • HTTP Strict Transport Security
        • hstspreload.org
        • Report for hypercritical.co
      • iOS 15 can adjust more than just text size
        • Settings → Accessibility → Per-App Settings
      • On the need for Apple to defend in-app purchase revenue (via Abel Demoz)
        • The Art of the Possible
    • John’s Mouse Pad Woes
      • SwitchGlass
    • Cool, Geeky Mac Apps
      • Boop
      • SwiftBar
        • BitBar (the OG)
          • Falling into disrepair
          • Reboot
        • TextBar (an alternative)
    • #askatp:
      • What’s the deal with Matter (née CHoIP)? (via Jon Strand)
        • Comic Book Guy
        • Ecobee
        • Lutron Caséta
        • Old-school timer
      • What’s the deal with Mighty? (via Peter Waller)
      • Would Apple ever release a M1 card for Intel Mac Pros? (via Brian Hamilton)
        • MacCharlie
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    • Post-show: Dog boarding

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    436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door Jun 24, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • FAA’s TRUST program
      • FAA Part 107
      • DJI Mini 2
    • Follow-up:
      • Safari page reloading
        • Pull-to-refresh
        • John’s extension
        • Finn Voorhees’ experiment
      • Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda
      • iCloud Private Relay
        • Rauli Rikama’s observations
        • What about embedded browsers? (via Maarten Hazewinkel)
        • Private Relay is always used for known trackers (via Renaud Lienhart)
        • FLoC
      • You monsters that use unnatural scrolling
        • Scroll Reverser
        • Mos
      • Avara source code is available (via Dan Watson)
        • Descent screenshot
        • Avara screenshot
        • Star Fox screenshot
        • COSI
        • Sega VR
      • Apple Podcasts & our show notes
      • SSD wear reporting in macOS
      • Mailo
    • StoreKit refund API (via Jake Mor)
    • Per-app text size slider
    • tvOS 15 will allow sign-in via iPhone/iPad
    • #askatp:
      • Have we cut the cord? (via Ian)
        • OTT
        • Channels
          • TV Everywhere
        • CableCard
        • JustWatch
      • What keyboard do we use? (via Kyle Matson)
        • Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
          • Cherry MX Sampler
        • Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard for Business 5KV-00001
        • Apple Extended Keyboard
        • Apple Wireless Keyboard]
      • What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway? (via Lewis O’Neil)
        • Apple’s FUD PDF
        • Daring Fireball
        • Gui Rambo tweets 1 and 2
    • Post-show:
      • Taz-Mania
      • Battletoads
      • Cool Spot
      • TrapAdventure 2 (iOS)
      • Celeste
      • Dark Souls

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    435: A Strong Number Four Jun 17, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Freaks and Geeks
    • Follow-up:
      • Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
        • More from Viticci
      • Center Stage
      • Object Capture quality
        • Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda
        • Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple
      • macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with captchas too!
      • App Library in the dock is optional
      • Safari 15 and Reload Button
        • Instructions to restore old-style Safari tab bar
        • Feature flag
    • Many macOS Monterey features are Apple Silicon-only
      • Apple’s fine print
      • Maps app globe after toggling a debug flag
    • A trip down DOS gaming memory lane
      • IPX
        • Kali
      • Null-modem cable
      • Descent
      • PhoneNet
      • Bolo
        • Stuart Cheshire
        • Zero-configuration networking
      • Avara
    • Disk Utility has been updated in Monterey! 🎉
    • Monterey lets you Erase all content & settings!
      • Apple’s explanation
    • How iCloud Private Relay Works
      • Pi-hole
    • #askatp:
      • How is being a developer on Apple Silicon? (via Abel Demoz)
      • What year will be the final year of macOS on Intel? (via Ralf Krakowski)
      • How do the low-power M1 cores use only 1/10th the power of the high-power M1 cores? (via Brian Pirie)
        • Icestorm cores
        • Firestorm cores
    • Post-show Neutral:
      • Bugatti Chiron
      • Bugatti Veyron
      • Roll-out
        • Video
        • Tesla’s Test Strategies
      • NHTSA
      • M539 Restorations
      • BMW E46
      • M539 Restorations - YouTube
      • 2014 Honda Accord Sport 6MT

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    434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles Jun 08, 2021
    • Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
      • TextSniper
      • iPad Multitasking Video
      • iPad Menu Screenshots
      • iPad Menu Video
      • Mosaic
      • NSUserActivity
      • DUNS Number
      • Synergy
      • Fitt’s Law
      • USDZ
      • Continuous Integration
      • Continuous Delivery
    • Post-show:
      • Original Prince video
        • What happened?
        • Remastered version in which the outcome is more visible
      • Todd Vaziri

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    433: Before We Leave the Dump Jun 03, 2021
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update
      • HDMI cable types
      • Wi-Fi 6
        • Back to Work
        • Thread
      • Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio)
      • iMac Fans
    • Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet
    • Apple Podcasts issues:
      • Broken show notes?
      • Apple Podcasts subscriptions delayed
    • 🤮 Apple’s Self-Serving Puff Piece 🤮
      • Thoughts on Flash
      • On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
      • vDSP Functions
    • WWDC 2021 Predictions
      • Tick-tock
      • WIMP
      • Image map
      • Casey’s WWDC 2021 Wishes
      • Functional Reactive Programming
        • Casey’s explanation of Disposable/AnyCancellable
      • async/await
      • Actors
      • Hacking with Swift
      • Swift by Sundell
      • Carrot Weather
      • objc_msgSend branch prediction
      • Matter (formerly CHoIP)

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    432: I Shouldn't Need to Wiggle May 27, 2021
    • Pre-show: Compacted sugar
      • Fun Dip
      • SweetTarts
      • Candy Cigarette
      • Big League Chew
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
        • High resolution image
        • Chiplet
        • AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking
        • Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets
        • Chiplet vs. Monolithic
      • Some speculation about the next Mac Pro
      • Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan
      • MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet”
        • Lord Matthew’s theory
      • Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details
        • John Voorhees’ take
      • Bluetooth data transfer speeds
      • Lossless vs. Lossy Encoding
        • MP3 & AAC & Opus
        • FLAC & ALAC
      • HomePod & HomePod mini will support lossless
      • HDMI eARC
      • Spatial Audio and AirPods from David Steer
    • Apple TV 4K (2021 edition)
      • Matt Craig’s tweet
      • Installation/Migration Process
        • One Home Screen
          • Settings → Users and Accounts → [you] → One Home Screen
        • Accessibility → Increase Contrast → Focus Style
        • Home-button function
      • Remote
        • Dave Mark’s jog wheel demo video
        • Paul Hudson’s remote retrospective
        • Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
        • HDMI CEC
      • Calibration
        • HDTVTest
        • THX Tune-Up
        • rtings.com
        • DolbyVision raised blacks fixed?
    • Casey’s Apple TV Woes
      • Wiring Diagram
      • Forthcoming HDMI Cable
      • Sonos Amp
      • Belkin SoundForm Connect
    • Post-show: Casey’s Fan Resolution
      • Casey’s fans
      • Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control

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    431: City of Chips May 20, 2021
    • ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
    • Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
    • Follow-up:
      • Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
        • NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
      • Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
        • CMHeadphoneMotionManager
      • 24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
        • Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
        • Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
      • Gasoline stabilizers
    • Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
      • Listening to Spatial Audio with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
      • Super Audio CD
      • LaserDisc
        • Laserdisc: An Introduction
        • Laserdisc’s Failure: What Went Wrong
        • DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
        • MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
        • Laserdisc: Features, Follies & Evolution
      • XM Radio
      • Xiph.org: wave/”stair-step” sample-rate explainer
      • DAC
      • Loudness war
      • Tidal
      • Pono
      • A2DP
      • aptX
      • AAC
      • AirPods Max and lossless over the cable (via Micah Singleton)
      • Mastered for iTunes
      • LivePhish
      • FLAC
    • MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
      • Casey’s battery/hub
    • MacBook Air Rumors
      • John Prosser’s Video
      • Dr. Drang on Battery Life
    • Gurman’s Report
      • GeForce RTX 3090
      • macOS 11.4 beta supports new AMD graphics cards
        • AMD 6900 XT
      • The Connection Machine
    • Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
      • Eero lights explanation
      • Eero’s comparison page
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    430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food May 13, 2021

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

    • Pre-show:
      • ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
      • Colonial Pipeline
        • How long does gas last?
    • Follow-up:
      • Overpriced AirTag mounts
        • AirTag Leather Key Ring
        • AirTag Leather Loop
        • Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag
        • Marco’s recommended solution
      • Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
        • sudo fdesetup authrestart
          • Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
        • softwareupdate -ia
      • AppleTV and spatial audio
      • AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
    • Apple’s bad hire
      • Sommer Panage’s response
      • 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
    • Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
      • Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on iMessage for Android in 2013
      • Common carrier
      • Steve Jobs 1997 Q&A
      • Schiller wondering about the 30% cut… in 2011
    • #askatp
      • Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
        • Synology Drive
        • Synology Cloud Sync
        • Bartender
        • Rocket
        • Vanilla
      • Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
        • Sarbanes-Oxley
      • How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
        • Nifty MiniDrive
        • The Case for RAID
    • Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
      • Github Pages
      • Jekyll
      • Hosting SQLite Databases on Github Pages
      • xkcd: The General Problem

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    429: Digital Speedo May 06, 2021

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!)

    • Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
    • Follow-up:
      • Some notes about the ATP store
        • support@cottonbureau.com
      • Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
        • Bond Bridge
      • Purchases last week
        • AirTag quick impressions
        • Spree
        • Whistle
      • FileVault performance
        • About encrypted storage on your new Mac
      • FileVault and remote management
      • John’s macOS 11.3 woes
        • FB9095615
      • Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
      • Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
      • Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
        • Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
    • The Basecamp fiasco
      • Casey Newton’s summary posts
        • #1: Breaking Camp
        • #2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
      • Basecamp’s posts
        • Changes at Basecamp
        • Basecamp’s new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
        • Let it all out
        • Mosaics of positions
        • On making decisions
        • An Update
      • Ruby on Rails
      • Woke
      • Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
    • #askatp
      • What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
        • Due
        • AnyList
        • Day One
      • Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
        • ColdFusion
        • Berkshire Hathaway shares
        • Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
      • Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
        • diskDedupe (App Store link)

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    428: A Series of Rectangles Apr 29, 2021

    THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

    • Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
    • “Fully vaccinated”
    • Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
      • CEO question timestamp link
    • Spring 2021 Apple Event
      • Apple TV
        • Calibration
        • Remote Design & Pricing
        • No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
        • Apple TV pricing
          • Apple TV / iTV
        • High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
        • AppleCare+ for Apple TV
      • Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
      • iMac
        • Power brick/cable
          • Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
          • 143 watts
        • VESA mount
        • Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
        • Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
      • iPad
        • 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
          • Center Stage will have an API
        • iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
        • 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
      • AirTags: for tracking your luggage
      • Apple Premium Podcasts
      • John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
      • EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
        • DoE Map Search
        • Mobil Speedpass
    • #askatp
      • What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
      • Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
        • System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
        • Mat Honan’s tale of woe
      • What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
    • Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

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    427: The Apology Remote Apr 22, 2021
    • Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
    • Spring 2021 Apple Event
      • Apple Card Family
      • Apple Podcasts App Updates & Subscriptions
        • RSS Feed Access
        • Podcast Index
        • Robot or Not #141: Podcasting
        • User-Agent string
        • ALAC
      • AirTag
        • Hermès Luggage Tag
        • Gui Rambo’s discovered battery replacement video
        • Press release
        • What to do if you find an AirTag or get an alert that an AirTag is with you
      • AppleTV
        • Ted Lasso Season 2 Trailer
        • Siri Remote Image
        • Thread radio
      • 24” iMac
        • iMac ad featuring the rainbow Apple logo
      • iPad Pro
        • Pro Display XDR
        • Magic Keybaord
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      • Ted Lasso’s Secret Shortbread
      • House of Prime Rib
      • The beer-and-sausage place
      • The vegan Indian place

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    426: Loaded Baked Potato Apr 15, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
      • All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
        • Thanks, Paul
    • Follow-up:
      • Smart outlet update
        • Reconcilable Differences
        • For eero:
          Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
      • Electrical resistive heating
        • Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
        • Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
      • Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
      • Charging the i3
        • Go buy SuperDuper!
        • Types of EVs
    • Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
    • Apple event on 20 April
    • #askatp
      • Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
      • What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
      • How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
        • Armv9
        • AnandTech’s Write-Up
        • Explore the Armv9 Architecture
        • iOS Device Compatibility Reference
    • Post-show Neutral

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    425: Hey Billionaire Apr 08, 2021
    • Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
      • Fork Hands
        • FU: Why two doses?
      • Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
    • Follow-up:
      • How is John replacing a router with a switch?
      • Ubiquiti Flex Mini
      • Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
      • Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
      • Yep, Apple uses Webex
      • Microsoft Teams
        • Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
      • Heating your house via cryptomining?
        • Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
        • Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
      • NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
      • FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
      • Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
      • Cryptocurrency 000 101
        • Proof of work
        • Proof of stake
        • Ethereum
        • But how does Bitcoin actually work?
          • Github repo
        • Fiat currency
        • Pyramid scheme
    • Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
      • Ars Technica write-up
      • MJ Tsai’s write-up
      • Clean room
      • GNUstep
      • ApplicationKit
      • Kotlin
      • Arial
      • New York
      • Geneva
      • San Francisco
      • Swing
      • POSIX
    • Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
      • Overcast link
      • Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
      • Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
      • Outside Online Interview
      • Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
      • Apple Leadership
      • oh no
    • Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
      • BMW i3
      • Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It

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    424: Ethernet Squid Apr 01, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • Read-only Tweetbot
      • WatchConnectivity
        • applicationContext
        • userInfo
        • messages
    • Follow-up:
      • [More] Tesla wheels of shame
        • Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
      • AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
    • WWDC 2021 Announced
      • NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers
        • 48190148
        • 25521354
        • 22088473
        • 18980463
        • 21253274
        • 18890642
    • New Siri Default Voices
      • Sample Recording
      • Another Sample Recording
    • Ubiquiti Breach
      • An aside about cryptocurrency
        • CDO
        • Bitcoin summary
        • But how does Bitcoin actually work?
      • Air gap
      • eero
      • pfSense
        • Their recent “whoopsies”
    • John’s Networking Situation
      • Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
      • AirPort Extreme
      • USW Flex Mini
      • Recurrent laryngeal nerve - Wikipedia
      • Recurrent laryngeal nerve - YouTube
      • Four Nines
    • #askatp
      • Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
      • How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
        • ffmpeg
        • Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
        • In short:
          • Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
          • Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
          • Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
      • How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
        • SOAP
    • Post-show:
      • Bell follow-up

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    423: Fort of HomePods Mar 25, 2021
    • What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
      • LivePhish
      • Do By Friday #232: Panatee
      • Reconcilable Differences #152: Warnings of Gales in Trafalgar
    • Follow-up:
      • Tesla Wheel of Shame
        • Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
        • DC (via TG Cid)
        • Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
      • App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
      • Games and Notarization
        • On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
      • HomePod follow-up
        • Google Home Max was also discontinued
        • Echo Studio
        • Nexus Q
    • Some Membership Housekeeping
      • Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
      • ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
      • ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
    • Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
      • John’s reviews & retrospectives
      • robots.txt
    • Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
      • Marginal tax rate
    • #askatp
      • When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
      • What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
        • Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
        • Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
      • How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
        • Cat6
        • Ubiquiti
          • Dream Machine
    • Post-show Neutral:
      • Casey’s new dongle

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    422: Sell a Third Box Mar 17, 2021
    • Neutral:
      • The Wheel(s) of Shame™
      • ProClip USA MagSafe holder
      • Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E
      • Tesla Model Y
      • Ford Mach-E
    • Follow-up:
      • Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access
      • Apple/ARM/TSMC
        • Long writeup (via Marc Kagan)
        • Fabricators
        • RISC vs. CISC
      • Family photo sharing clarifications
        • Shared Albums
        • Shared Album Limits
        • 1Password for Families
        • Grosse Point Blank
      • Moving your data around
        • privacy.apple.com (via Ezekiel Elin)
        • Data Transfer Project (via Igor Makarov)
          • Adapters
          • Verge write-up
        • Got Your Back (via Hung Nguyen)
          • GAM
          • The Horcrux
      • Why the iMac Pro was discontinued (via Sören)
        • Skylake-X and Skylake Xeon-W Discontinued
    • RIP HomePod
      • iPod Hi-Fi
      • AnyList
    • #askatp
      • Why aren’t there more background notifications from apps that aren’t running? (via Nathanael Mol)
      • Why does Overcast do processing server-side? (via Michael Hellwig)
      • How much of iOS is still macOS? (via Surabh Kulkarni)
    • Post-show: iMac Color Rumor
      • 20 Macs for 2020
      • 13 Colors of iMac
      • Blue Whale Montior

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    421: The First Miniboss Mar 11, 2021
    • Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️
    • The iMac Pro is retired
      • Gruber’s post
    • Follow-up:
      • One reason to choose Audi
      • Kiss Guy is real!
        • Interview
      • Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard)
        • ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart
      • Logging into vaccinate.virginia.gov
    • Families: how do they work?
      • No iLife is an Island
    • Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
      • Google Takeout
      • Twitter Archive
      • ATP #155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original for discussion of John’s workflow
    • Apple cracks down on apps with “irrationally high prices”
    • #askatp
      • Whose fault is it that Apple Silicon is 🔥? (via Nick)
        • M1 architecture research
        • Wintel
      • What would Apple need to do to make macOS gaming competitive? (via Matt Chapman Jones)
        • DirectX
        • Cell
      • Do we use battery backups for our desktops? What about other ancillary equipment? (via Ramanujan Srinath)
        • What John and Marco use

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    420: I Have No Urge to Speak Mar 04, 2021
    • Follow-up:
      • VPNs and Supervised devices
      • Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
      • Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
      • The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
      • More on Clubhouse
        • Chat room
        • Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
        • “Ephemeral” Clubhouse
          • Steve Jobs Stories
          • Clubhouse is recording you
    • John “tried” Twitter Spaces
      • Super Follows
      • Twitter “Communities”
    • Overcast 2021.1
      • Watch Connectivity
      • WatchKit
      • UIApplicationDelegate & UISceneDelegate
      • AUGraph & AVAudioEngine
      • AVAssetExportSession
    • How’s Swift going for us?
      • Swift enums
      • 🤬 Block Syntax
      • B
    • #askatp
      • Do we use non-ISP-provided DNS? (via Alex Guthman)
        • Pi-hole
      • What’s our 🤬 problem with Electron, anyway? (via Nathan Roberts)
      • Would we enjoy an Uber clone powered by Apple autonomous EVs? (via Matt Steiner)
    • Post-show: Why would one buy an Audi?
      • Audi RS6
      • Lexus vs. Mercedes

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    419: This Week’s Gasp Feb 25, 2021
    • Pre-show diversions:
      • Posting the bootleg
      • Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries
      • Marco’s ball situation
        • Sonos Move
      • Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker
        • Requisite link
    • Follow-up:
      • Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools
      • Contacts API updates
        • Better Trust Through Better Privacy
        • Autofill Everywhere
      • Google’s astrophotography mode
      • Magnets and MagSafe (via Ante Söderholm)
      • More on Supervised iPhones (via Marc Wickens)
        • Support document
      • More on Clubhouse
        • Upgrade #340: Secret Sauce
        • Hacking with Swift
        • Steve Jobs Stories
        • Burner
    • Memory safe iBoot implementation
      • Rust
    • MacBook Pro models with HDMI and SD card readers?
      • Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
      • XJACK
    • #askatp
      • Is it safe to use a High Sierra machine after security updates cease? (via John Hovland)
      • How do we store our parents’ names in our phone’s contacts? (via Colin Meney)
      • How do I clean up my Dock? (via Harjas Monga)
        • Desk accessories
        • Sudden Termination
        • Automatic Termination
    • Post-show: Some more kvetching about app-quitting strategies

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    418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call Feb 18, 2021
    • Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)
      • Chatroulette
      • Party line
      • Newton’s cradle
      • Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?
    • Follow-up:
      • Living outside the east coast… or America.
        • The UK explained
      • The Concert for Charlottesville was posted
      • Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris)
      • What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper)
        • Support article
        • Helpful PDF
      • An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jonathan Dietz)
        • Example M1 smartctl results
          • dd
          • fs_usage
      • Ada and MISRA C for car-computer safety
      • T568A vs. T568B myths revisited (via Jon B.)
        • Stack overflow theories
    • iPhone 13 rumors
      • Live Tiles
      • Marco’s microsuction mounting tape
    • Post-show: Casey’s new toy
      • Several-year-old Mavic footage
      • Marco’s old toy

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    417: Sand and Water Interface Feb 11, 2021
    • Pre-show:
      • RIP, Call Recorder
      • On re-installing or transferring macOS
        • Launch Control
        • launchd
        • Pixelmator Pro
      • If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
    • Follow-up:
      • DTKs are worth more now!
      • iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
      • Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosseller)
      • SSD traffic
        • Two month old SSD
        • smartmontools
        • smartctl --all /dev/disk0
        • Casey’s computations
          • Casey’s data
          • John’s data
      • Marco accidentally invents Docker
        • Docker on M1 Macs
        • VMWare Fusion on M1 Macs
      • Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
        • 737 MAX
        • ATP #165: Time Was… (Overcast timestamp link)
        • Ada Programming Language
      • Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)
    • iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service
      • INPlayMediaIntent
      • INMediaItemType
    • Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
    • Dan Riccio’s new project
      • microLED
      • Intel’s USB commercial
    • #askatp
      • Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
      • What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)
        • A Concert for Charlottesville
        • Vertical Horizon
        • Crash Test Dummies
        • Family Force 5’s Christmas Pageant
        • Achtung Baby
      • Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
        • Under the Radar #210: Thinking Like a Business
        • SwitchGlass
        • Front and Center
    • Post-show: Pupdate
      • Kikopup

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    416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos Feb 04, 2021
    • Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities
      • Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
      • Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience
    • Follow-up:
      • Tesla
        • Model S/X round steering wheel
        • Touch controlls are force-touch?
        • Elon says “no more stalks”
        • NHTSA
      • Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements
      • Telling Siri to 🤫
      • Developer Transition Kit returns
      • iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask
        • Gruber’s take
      • Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars
        • TN1150
    • Sony ɑ1
      • Canon EOS-1D X
    • #askatp
      • Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau)
        • DaisyDisk
        • Space Gremlin
        • Grand Perspective
      • Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell)
      • How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp)
      • Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager)
        • Backblaze
    • Post-show: Marco is snowed in
      • Point O’ Woods
      • Lonelyville
      • Rize Blade
      • Sondors

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    415: Sent Without Pants Jan 28, 2021
    • Follow-up:
      • Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed)
      • T568A vs. T568B myths busted
      • Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz)
      • The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes)
      • Audio accommodations (via Christpher Klein)
        • Mimi (App Store link)
    • Dan Riccio goes into a bunker
      • Creative Selection
    • More Mac laptop rumors
      • Bloomberg
      • Patently Apple
    • #askatp
      • How much do macOS and iOS cost? (via Brenden Becherer)
      • Do we care about the Sent with Siri footnotes in Messages? (via Rohit Sharma)
    • Post-show: What is Tesla doing‽
      • John’s door handle
      • New Tesla Front
      • New Tesla Rear
      • Knight Industries Two Thousand
        • “Steering Wheel”
      • F1 Steering Wheels
      • Tesla Steering Yoke Close-Up
        • …with icons illuminated

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    414: Promoted Onto the Roof Jan 21, 2021
    • Pre-show: John’s pecking order
    • Follow-up:
      • Curved screens to solve off-axis viewing (via Nathaniel Cohen)
      • AirPods Max headband removal
        • Quinn’s video
        • Blind men and an elephant
        • Waterfield Designs AirPods Max Case
      • Brighter whites
        • OxiClean
        • /System/Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter
      • Wiring Gigabit Ethernet
        • T-568A vs. T-568B
        • RJ11 vs. RJ45
        • PhoneNet
      • Feedbacks, Casey’s Bug, and Chris Hayes’ tweet
        • Attaching a sysdiagnose on iOS
          • applefeedback://
          • Open the feedback → … → Add More Information → Add Attachment → Device Diagnosis
        • FB8893003
        • FB8952395
    • Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg laptop rumors
      • Jonathan Mann’s “I’m Pressing The Spacebar” song
      • 20 Macs for 2020: Power Mac G5
    • Desktop Mac rumors
      • 20 Macs for 2020: Power Mac G4 Cube
    • Post-show: Casey has feelings about purchases

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    413: Suddenly I'm the Marco Jan 14, 2021
    • Follow-up: Casey makes John reminisce about Atlanta[’s food]
      • Waffle House
      • Taco Bell
      • CocoaLove
      • Steak ‘n Shake
      • Denny’s
      • Perkins
    • Follow-up:
      • “Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
      • The Feedback app will automatically run a sysdiagnose
        • John’s bug (as mentioned on Twitter): FB8711530
      • Casey’s bugs are still broken, even though Apple tried to 🤬 close them
        • FB8893003
        • FB8952395
      • The shocking conclusion to Marco’s Thunderbolt ethernet situation
        • OWC Thunderbolt Dock
        • CalDigit TS3 Plus
        • Netgear GS105
    • Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects launched
    • Marco’s Pro Display XDR review
      • John’s review (Overcast link) from Episode 360
      • Aerial Screensaver
      • Samsung Frame TV
    • John’s AirPod Anxiety
      • Ted Lasso Roundtable
    • #askatp
      • How is it going from shared-iTunes, separate-iCloud accounts to Family Sharing? (via Peter Yang)
        • Mac Power Users #522: iCloud Family Sharing
      • What are we using for computer speakers? (via Genaro Diaz)
        • Paradigm Atom
        • KEF LS50
        • KEF Q150 (Marco’s computer speakers)
        • KEF Q350 (Marco’s TV speakers)
        • Kanto SUB8 subwoofer (Marco’s computer subwoofer)
        • SMSL AD18 amp with subwoofer output
        • SMSL SA50 amp
        • GigaWorks T40
        • Logitech Z625
      • What do we use to keep track of finances? (via Gage Benne)
        • Banktivity
        • Quicken
        • You Need A Budget
    • Post-show: CES: Worse Products Through Software

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    412: Love Batteries Jan 07, 2021
    • Follow-up:
      • Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
        • Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram
        • Example app from Maciej
      • Big Sur Update
      • Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
        • How to do a SMC reset
        • Apple T2
        • BridgeOS
      • Nintendo Famicom had a microphone built into the second controller
        • Video of Pols Voice & the microphone
      • PS5 controller weight and “following” games
        • Tip from terence
      • The galaxy’s largest black hole
        • sysdiagnose
        • Profiles and Logs
        • Stack trace
        • Casey’s MMS bugs FB8893003, FB8952395
        • John’s bug FB8711530
    • Marco Equipment Update
      • OWC Thunderbolt Dock
      • CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock
      • Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
      • Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
    • A brief #askatp interlude
      • How does Marco sell his unwanted computers? (via Brian)
        • Mac Me an Offer
    • Marco’s other Christmas gift
      • SMB
      • Ray tracing
      • GOG
      • Total Annihilation
      • Worms
      • SimCity 3000
      • SimCity 4
      • Transport Tycoon
        • OpenTTD
      • Moonbase Commander
        • Best of 2002: The Game No One Played
    • Post-show: New Liss
      • Analog(ue) #185: One of the Worst Things You Have Ever Done to Me

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    411: Are My Instructions Not Clear? Dec 30, 2020
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
        • sysdiagnose
          • Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data
      • More on Fitness+
      • HDR photos
        • Settings → Photos → View Full HDR
      • Screen brightness
        • iPhone 12: 625 nits typically / 1200 nits max
        • iPhone 12 Pro: 800 / 1200
        • displaymate.com indicates 825 nits in full-white image
      • iCloud Photo Downloader (via Matthew Smith)
      • OWC Thunderbolt Hub requires Big Sur 11.1
      • Big Sur Update
        • SMC Reset
        • SuperDuper
      • AirPods Max audio settings (via Matthew Taylor)
        • Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accomodations
        • Tune Audio for Brightness, Strong
      • AirPods Max “fat lightning” connector
        • Teardown
      • AirPods Max Shield Case
      • John’s iPhone 12 Pro case
        • Previously
        • Now
      • The ghost of Marco’s computing past
    • The ghost of Marco’s computing future
    • Siracusa’s Playstation 5 review
      • Destiny
      • John’s Windows on Mac Pro adventure
      • Nintendo Land
      • Astro’s Playroom
      • iOS 14.3 adds PS5 and Amazon Luna controller support
    • Marco’s Christmas gift
      • Beat Saber
      • Eleven: Table Tennis
      • Pong
      • Walkabout Mini Golf
      • SUPERHOT VR
      • Half-Life: Alyx
      • Valve Index
    • Post-show: More on the PS5

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    410: The Comfort Is Killing Me Dec 22, 2020
    • Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
    • Follow-up:
      • AirPods Max
        • Battery situation (via Barney)
          • Snazzy Labs video
        • Smart Case ∆s
          • 9to5mac
          • Apple Support
      • Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
        • Also, it has been revised in the past.
        • Tinus’s tweet
      • Chrome bug report and comments
      • Jonathan Dietz continues to school us on chip packaging
      • …and Thunderbolt hubs/controllers
        • OWC Thunderbolt Hub
        • OWC Thunderbolt Dock
        • OWC interview about TB4
    • Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
      • BeachBody on Demand
      • Peloton
      • Wii Fit
      • Ring Fit Adventure
    • All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
      • Ars Technica on Time Machine backup times
      • BitBar and SwiftBar
      • SF Symbols
    • #askatp
      • Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not? (via Chris Lenart)
      • Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS? (via Wes Chamness)
      • What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
        • EXIF data
    • Post-show: Living the M1 lifestyle (reprise)
      • The best laptop ever made

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    409: Midrange Snob Dec 17, 2020
    • Follow-up:
      • Group MMS issues persist, and Casey is over. it. (FB8893003)
      • AirPods Max and its competitors
        • Beoplay H95
        • Marco’s Closed Headphones Mega-Review
        • AirPods Max button and varying modes
        • Passive (powerLiss operation)
      • Marco’s Computing Situation
        • LG UltraFine 5K
        • Marc Edwards on External Displays
        • CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock
        • Pro Display XDR
    • Marco’s AirPods Max review
      • Planar Magnetic / Orthodynamic Headphones
      • ANC
      • Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Audio Cable
      • Competitors
        • Sony WH-1000XM4
        • HiFiMAN HE-6
        • Dan Clark Audio AEON 2
        • Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro
        • Bose 700
      • Bluetooth codecs
        • aptX
        • AAC
    • Chrome is Bad?
      • Guilherme Rambo’s take

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    408: Feature Headphones Dec 10, 2020
    • Pre-show:
      • Casey’s great news!
        • Mix Pre3-ii
        • Call Recorder for Skype
        • Audio Hijack
        • IRC
      • Marco’s Slightly Unpopular Opinion
        • RealPlayer
      • Marco’s new “experience”
    • Follow-up:
      • Is Apple-Silicon-Ready?
      • brew and Rosetta
        • Duplicating Terminal.app
        • brew using arch
      • Chiplets & Multi-chip Modules (via Adrian Sampson)
        • Multi-Chip Module
        • High Bandwidth Memory
      • Extracting images from a Google Doc
      • In the defense of Apple News
    • AirPods Max
      • Press Release
      • Sony WH-1000XM4
      • Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
      • Sony MDR-7506
      • Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro
      • iPod Hi-Fi
      • Car Bra
      • Lightning ↔ 3.5mm Audio Cable
    • Post-show: Marco has scheduled his walk of shame

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    407: It Isn't a Big Grapefruit Dec 03, 2020
    • Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac.
    • Follow-up:
      • You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley)
      • Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU
        • Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via @hishnash)
      • Apple did make an ECC RAM controller in the past (via Max Lein)
      • Lots of info about scaling the M1 via Jonathan Dietz
        • Die size spreadsheet
      • Cerebras, the big-die ML accelerator (via Andrew Bunner)
      • Memory bus thoughts from Wade Tregaskis
        • Memory interface bandwidth
      • Dual M1 Macs
      • “Low-effort” Mac Pro
      • TMSC Achieves Breakthrough in 2nm Manufacturing
        • What is “risk production”?
      • Alexander Graf virtualizes ARM Windows on Apple Silicon
        • 9to5Mac
        • QEMU
    • Marco’s Mini Monologues
      • Smart Speaker Size Comparison (scroll down a bit)
      • Panzarino’s observation about Qi chargers
      • …and his FU
    • #askatp
      • Is it possible to disable the fan on the new M1 MacBook Pro? (via Matthew Taylor)
        • CoolBook
        • TG Pro
      • What’s our deal with Apple News+ anyway? (via Bryan Hoffman)
      • Component Motherboards : SoC :: ICE : Electric Cars? (via Kevin Doran)
        • VLSI
        • VHF / UHF
    • Post-show:
      • Yes, John is aware of breadboxes.
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    406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen Nov 25, 2020
    • Follow-up:
      • Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
        • Apple engineer weighs in
        • Demo video
        • What about external monitors?
      • Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly
      • M1 Mac 8K render test
      • Running iOS apps with IPAs
        • iOS App Store Package
      • CrossOver runs Windows apps/games on M1 Macs — including 32-bit games!
        • Cult of Mac coverage
        • WINE
        • VMWare Fusion
        • Parallels
        • Boot Camp
        • Jeremy White’s explainer
        • Brendan Shanks’s thoughts
      • iOS 14.3 no longer opens the shortcuts app when launching apps from custom icons
        • Widgetsmith (App Store link)
        • HealthView
        • Apple Configurator
      • GitHub’s ICE relationship is indirect
      • De-duplicating Contacts
        • Card → Look for Duplicates...
    • It’s been ≈10 years since Build & Analyze #1. What’s changed?
      • Marco at XOXO 2013
      • The Incomparable
      • Hypercritical
      • Ars Technica
      • I Should be Writing
    • Scaling the M1 architecture to higher-end machines
      • Marco’s tweet
    • #askatp
      • Robot or Not: Cache edition (via Chris Cioffi)
      • Are we concerned about the longevity of M1 chips? (via Colin Devroe)
      • Do we believe in cable management? (via Nick)
    • Post-show: Marco’s ruined backpack
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      • Zojirushi SM-SD36 travel mug

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    405: The Benevolence of the Powerful Nov 19, 2020
    • Pre-show: Why are we recording early?
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s watch band
      • youtube-dl is back on Github
        • Github works with ICE, which is gross and should stop
          • Feel free to tell Github this is gross
        • Github’s statement about youtube-dl
        • EFF’s counterargument to the RIAA’s claim
          • Donate to the EFF
      • M1 chip name predictions (Overcast link) (via Cameron Deardorff)
      • ARM Macs and Touch
      • macOS 11.1 is in Beta
      • McGurk effect
        • Explainer Video
        • Text-based TikTok (via Erik Berlin)
      • Casey’s weird discovery
    • Casey got new watches
      • Gruber’s sizing pictures
      • Studio Neat Material Dock
    • M1 Mac Performance
      • Initial Benchmarks
      • M1 emulating x86 is still silly fast
      • Panzarino’s unxip’ing Xcode
      • Nilay Patel’s tweet
      • AnandTech’s review
      • Snell’s Xcode benchmarks
    • M1 MacBook reviews
    • App Store Small Business Program
      • Six Colors Summary
      • US taxes over the years
    • Post-show:
      • Casey is begging for help on FB8893003. Please, Apple. Please.
      • John’s iPhone 12 Pro cases sitrep
        • SENA case

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    404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back Nov 12, 2020
    • Pre-show:
      • THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY. Until the 14th. Act now!
        • Remember that members get 15% off!
    • iPhone 12 Mini, Max press reviews are out
      • Gruber’s review
      • MKBHD’s review
      • Nilay’s tweet
      • Panzer on the OIS
      • Panzer on ISO range
      • Halide
    • Casey had an oops
    • Apple Event
      • M1 Name
        • Apple motion coprocessors
        • BMW M1
        • BMW 1 Series M Coupé
      • System on a Chip [Soc]
      • Unified Memory Architecture
        • RAM on-package
        • Anandtech die shot article
        • Sky Shadow
          • Die Schwott
        • “Buzz Off”
      • Custom Technologies
        • SIMD
      • M1 performance
        • David Smith’s tweet
        • Reference counting
        • Let’s Build objc_msgSend
      • MacBook Air
        • Binning
        • Casey’s beloved MacBook Adorable
      • Mac Mini
      • MacBook Pro
        • Dithering
    • The future of the Mac
      • Longhorn’s tweet
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    403: A VCR for the Internet Nov 05, 2020
    • The ATP Store is back until 14 November!
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey is aware of the National Radio Quiet Zone
        • Verizon map
        • AT&T map
      • Apple leather case covers the bottom, which chaps John’s bottom
      • Moving 2-Factor Authentication to new phones
        • Google Authenticator’s changes (via Michael Koziarski)
      • Reminders and Big Sur
      • “Alexa” and “Siri” and using new hail words (via David Kenny)
        • Saoirse Ronan
      • John’s 2x-camera usage
      • iPhones and USB-C speeds over Lightning → USB-C cables
      • Apple extending Apple TV+ free trial to February 2021
      • John’s too-long Apple Maps directions
      • What are Xcode xip files, anyway? (via Zev Eisenbergboo)
      • “Small percentage” of Xbox Elite 2 controller problems
      • “Small percentage” of AirPod Pro problems
        • Earwax type: The myth
        • Ear candling
    • youtube-dl, DMCA, and the RIAA, oh my!
      • GitHub warns about forks
      • Casey’s overview
      • 99 Percent Invisible: The Lost Cities of Geo
      • Concert for Charlottesville
      • Jack Valenti
      • youtube-dl History
      • DeCSS
    • Apple’s “One More Thing” Event
      • Bloomberg Coverage
      • hishnash’s tweet
      • DMA
    • Post-show:
      • Mario Kart Live Home Circuit
      • Trailer
      • Velan Studios
      • Anki Drive Demo
      • Lakitu
      • Nintendo Labo
      • Mario Kart 64: The Quest for World Record Perfection

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    402: Flat-Side Promoter Oct 29, 2020
    • Pre-show:
      • Please, please, please vote.
      • The ATP Store returns on 1 November until 14 November… in theory.
    • Follow-up:
      • Peter Pan: Arms akimbo
      • 5G upload speeds
      • Verizon’s 5G lead
      • Photos-related updates
        • Apple Photos file management options
        • Image Capture can import HEIC files if you change a setting on your phone:
          • Settings → Photos → Transfer to Mac or PC → Keep originals
        • Google Photos
      • Marco is aware of the Sonos Move
      • HomePod tip: disable “Hey Siri” on all other devices
      • Marco’s laptop repair covered by credit-card warranty
      • Peak Design combines MagSafe & mechanical fasteners (via Michael Luís Brown)
      • Studio Neat’s Material Dock
      • Thoughts on Apple’s battery specs from Justin Scholz
    • iPhone 12 Pro Reviews
      • Upgrade #323: The Edges are More Interesting
      • Marco’s chamfered MacBook Pro edge blog post
      • Potential Apple Watch unlock fix
      • John’s case request and prospects:
        • Decoded Back Cover
        • Sena Leatherskin
    • MagSafe at 15W speeds
      • …requires Apple’s 20W adapter
      • Alvin Lim’s video
      • USB Power Delivery specs
      • Apple’s Adapters
        • 20W: 5V@3A (15W), 9V@2.2A (20W)
        • 18W: 5V@3A (15W), 9V@2A (18W)
        • 87W: 5.2V@2.4A (12W), 9V@3A (27W), 20.2V@4.3A (87W)
        • 96W: 5.2V@3A (16W), 9V@3A (27W), 15V@3A (45W), 20.5V@4.3A (96W)
      • Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
      • iFixIt MagSafe Teardown
    • Post-show: Marco’s iPhone 12 Thoughts

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    401: Sandwich-Closing Force Oct 22, 2020
    • Pre-show:
      • Dreaming in code
      • Grand refactorings
      • HomePod, HomePod Mini, and Sonos One (oh my!)
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple’s Magnetic Connectors Patent
      • Accessory Design Guidelines for Apple Devices (PDF) (via Michael Bettiol)
      • Periscope lenses don’t have moving elements (via Timo Grün)
      • iPhone 12 Pricing
        • T-Mobile joins the $30 off club
        • Chargers & earphones & old phones
      • Official battery specs for Apple products (via Roland Månsson)
        • Start here
        • …which links here…
        • …which can get you here
      • Settling an old bet from episode 291 at 1:55:14 (via Tim Chaten)
      • Marco’s Time Machine woes
        • The 2.5” enclosure that supports large SSDs
      • Determining how many photos you’ve taken with each iPhone 11 Pro lens
        • Jason’s write-up on using Photos’ Smart Albums
        • Alex Chan’s post about using exiftool
        • Casey (summarized results) (raw results)
          • Ultra wide: 7%
          • Wide: 83%
          • Telephoto: 10%
        • Marco
          • Ultra wide: 9%
          • Wide: 75%
          • Telephoto: 16%
      • Buying decisions
        • Tracking your iPhone shipment
    • #askatp
      • Have we tried watchOS sleep tracking? (via Eduardo Berner)
        • Sleep Cycle (App Store link)
      • What is taking up so much space on our phones‽ (via Jayanth Visweswaran)
        • Casey’s storage
      • Is John going to get an OLED TV? (via Tobo Granyte)
    • Post-show:
      • Ridiculousness in AT&T’s coverage maps
        • Gruber’s review
        • “Please turn off your MiFis”
      • An attempted intervention regarding Casey’s 🍌 photo management setup
        • GeoTag
        • Day One

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    400: Reach Is the Next Frontier Oct 15, 2020
    • Apple Event overview
    • Have you heard the good word about Verizon’s 5G?
      • MVNO
    • HomePod Mini
      • Apple S5
      • Echo Dot ($50)
      • Echo ($100)
      • Echo Studio ($150)
    • No, but really. Have you heard the good word about Verizon’s 5G?
      • MMX
    • iPhone 12 and 12 Mini
      • Steve Troughton-Smith on resolutions
    • A14
    • iPhone 12 Pro
      • LiDAR
      • ProRAW
      • Size differences
    • Grab Bag
      • “Environmental” changes
      • USB-C cable ↔ Lightning
        • Power Adapter ($20)
      • $30 surcharge?
      • MagSafe
        • Leather Wallet
      • Ship Dates
      • Leather Cases
    • Purchasing Plans
    • #askatp
      • Is John going to get the new Apple sleeve? (via Lew Piper)
        • Tiff’s joke tweet
    • Post-show: Why is ATP worth it? A brief episode-400 introspection and retrospective.

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    399: Off the Pouch Lifestyle Oct 08, 2020
    • Pre-show: Marco’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
    • Follow-up:
      • Facebook vs. Apple
        • Apple is not taking the 30% cut after all
      • Merchants have been allowed to add surcharges for credit card transactions since January 2013 (via Jordan Ryan Moore)
      • Adam’s watch battery update
      • Cell tower “trees” (via Nathaniel)
        • Examples
        • “Monopalms”
      • eFUSE
      • Baby Monitors
        • Eufy SpaceView
          • Wirecutter
        • Previous recommnedation: Infant Optics DXR-8
    • iPhone 11 Exit Interview
    • Apple Event
      • Potential iPhone 12 Sizes
        • iPhone 11: 6.1”
        • iPhone 11 Pro: 5.8” or 6.5”
        • iPhone 12: 5.4” or 6.1”
        • iPhone 12 Pro: 6.1” or 6.7”
      • MacRumors 5.4-inch iPhone 12 Size Estimator
      • Thursday’s child has far to go…
      • John’s “code”
      • Apple stops selling rival earphones/speakers
    • House Judiciary Committee antitrust report
    • #askatp
      • What’s the deal with disk images, anyway? (via Andy)
        • WAD file
        • XIP file
      • What’s the reasonable lifespan of a phone? (via Ian Uymatiao)
      • What’s the point in a “real” camera? (via Luke Shulman)
        • Casey’s Olympus O-MD E-M10
          • Casey’s Zoom Lens
          • Casey’s Prime Lens
        • Sony α7C
        • Sony α6600
        • Lensrentals
    • Post-show: More on the Sony α7C
      • Sony RX1
      • Leica Q

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    398: The State of Your Baby Oct 01, 2020
    • Thank you for all your donations to St. Jude! 💙
    • Pre-show: Desk Reconstruction Day
      • Uplift Desk V2 C-frame with magnetic cable channel and mountable surge strip
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s Headphone Update
        • Correct pad replacements EDT 1770D
      • Sony’s digital vs. plastic-disc profits
      • Apple now allows returning only Watch bands
    • Google’s Carbon-Free Plans
    • Unity’s IPO filing shows the threat of app stores
      • Actual filing
      • Wall Street Journal calls for Apple’s cut to be halved
    • Apple blocks Facebook update that tells users about Apple’s 30% cut
    • Apple Watch Family Setup
      • Schooltime
    • #askatp
      • What’s the right way for someone who knows filesystems (🛎) to back up a Mac? (via Mike Lee Williams)
        • Carbon Copy Cloner
        • SuperDuper
      • What’s the best baby monitor experience? (via Migirdich Karnigyan)
        • Infant Optics DXR-8
          Note: Modern models do not use USB power input on the receiver, as was stated on the show
      • Is Marco watching Tesla competition? (via John Metcalf)
        • MKBHD’s Auto Focus on the Porsche Taycan
        • Rory Reid on the Polestar 2
    • Post-show: How does USB-C even work?

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    397: We Can't Wait To See What You Do To It Sep 24, 2020
    • Please join ATP in donating to St. Jude
      • Podcastathon 2020 Video
        • Casey’s appearance
        • Siracusa’s appearance
    • Pre-show:
      • Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro, 250Ω
      • Light color temperatures
        • LED corn bulb
        • The Stalman Podcast #95: Time Flies Apple Event
          • Video
      • Casey’s electric meter lamp
    • Follow-up:
      • PlayStation 5 Digital Edition pricing
        • John’s savior
      • Xbox One X sales up 747% at Amazon
      • Solo Loop inversion
        • Gruber’s mapping onto traditional sports bands
        • Apollo Robbins
      • Apple Watch power adapters
      • Boring Old Menu Bar
      • Deleting APFS snapshots using OnyX
      • Apple One and varying logins
      • Some confusion about Apple Watch Sport Band sizes? (via Ryan Fung)
        • Apple Watch band returns
      • Epic and Sign In with Apple
      • Car demonstration videos
        • Spinning Levers: How a Transmission Works (1936)
        • Around the Corner: How Differential Steering Works (1937)
    • Microsoft Acquires ZeniMax
      • January 2018: Xbox One has a serious exclusive games problem
        • Chris Plante’s observation
      • Future exclusives will be “case-by-case”
    • Widgetsmith and home screen customization
      • Example TikTok
      • Under the Radar #201 (if you see a 404, the episode has not been released yet)
      • CandyBar
      • Microsoft Plus!
      • BitBar
      • On Widget Shaming
    • Post-show: Hotdog Stand

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    396: The World of Moving Sep 17, 2020
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    • Pre-show:
      • Sleepy Shirts
      • Headphone cups
        • Sony MDR-7506
        • John’s new pads
        • Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro, 250-ohm
        • Beyerdynamic EDT 1770D pads
    • Follow-up:
      • PlayStation 5 pricing and availability
      • PlayStation 5 sizes
    • Apple Event: Time Flies
      • Apple Watch Series 6
        • U1 & Ultra-wideband
        • Measuring Your Blood Oxygen
          • Technology Connections: How pulse oximeters work
          • Casey’s pulse oximeter
      • Bands
        • Sport Band
        • Link Bracelet
        • Solo Loop
          • Sizing PDF
        • Braided Solo Loop
        • Leather Link
      • Apple Watch SE and Series 3
      • Apple Watch Family Setup
      • Apple Fitness+
        • Peloton
        • Beachbody On Demand
          • Multi-level marketing
      • iPad (8th generation)
      • iPad Air
        • Gurman on CPUs
    • Post-show: Surprise! iOS 14 shipped!
      • Will Hains’s Version History Chart

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    395: Receive Their Honking Sep 10, 2020
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    • Pre-show:
      • A heartfelt “thank you” from Casey
      • Sand running
      • Sorry, California
    • Follow-up:
      • GUI method for deleting APFS snapshots
        • Boot Camp Assistant
        • tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
        • Carbon Copy Cloner
      • Xbox Elite Series 2 trigger adjustment
        • PS4 back-button attachment
      • Deer apparently are “opportunistic omnivores” (via Matt Harmon)
      • Casey’s flashlight mini-review
        • Casey’s photos of his trip
        • Blue Ridge Tunnel
      • Mac Pros and waking from sleep
        • (1554.40.13.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.12370.5.1,0))
      • Marco’s least-favorite iOS Mail bug is fixed! 🎉
      • Apple implementing promised changes to App Reivew
        • Suggest changes to guidelines
      • Wait wait, John got a Finder bug fixed! 🎉
      • Surtainly Not: Big Sur menu bar hack
      • Apple/Epic update
        • Epic and Sign In with Apple
          • Epic’s Instructions
        • Apple Countersues Epic Games
        • Epic turned off IAP in Fortnite
        • Court document
    • Apple Event next week
      • Clockwise #363: No Guinea Pig Applications
      • Under the Radar #199: Spending Dan Riccio’s 2020 Battery Surplus
    • Game consoles and the future of Apple TV
      • PS5 hardware reveal
      • Xbox Series X and S
    • Post-show Neutral: John teaches his son to drive

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    394: The Price of an ATP Sticker Sep 03, 2020
    • Please join us in donating to St. Jude
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s Mac Pro
        • Reviving a data-only volume
        • bridgeOS updates
        • Other Mac Pro Woes
          • John Sandilands
          • Paul Colton
          • Job
        • Non-Mac-Pro Woes
          • Hagen Terschüren
          • Leeward
      • Roland Månsson on Mac hardware tests
        • ⌥D and then ⌘E
        • Apple support article
      • SilentKnight
      • /usr/libexec/remotectl dumpstate (via Paul Galow)
      • Recycling cables
        • Apple recycling programs
        • Best Buy recycling
      • Fortnite “Accidentally” Enables Cross-Play (via DJ Ghostmare)
      • US Bill for Unsubscribing to services (via Clarus the Dogcow)
      • Epic Games’s developer is terminated
    • Marco’s Synology
      • (Ours are DS1813+s)
      • RAID 1
      • 7.68 TB SSD and dual enclosure
      • Starport75
      • Ten internal SSDs for your 2019 Mac Pro
        • More Mac Pro internal drive brackets from the same company
    • #askatp
      • How much disk space is left on my APFS-based storage‽ (via Ron Olson)
        • tmutil listlocalsnapshots
      • Is the Mac menu bar going to become window chrome? (via Michael Grossmann)
      • Does Marco have a target loudness? (via Jake Bennett-Young)
    • Post-show:
      • Marco’s Running
      • Cooking with Casey (oh no)

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    393: We’re the Bit Company Aug 27, 2020
    • Black. Lives. Matter.
    • Follow-up:
      • Bump starts and heel/toe
      • Design resources for developers
        • /r/UI_Design
        • Refactoring UI
      • Fortnite/Epic
        • “Seasons”, and Chapter 2 Season 4
          • Tim Sweeney’s tweet
        • Cross-play won’t work anymore (via The Verge)
        • Corporate Relationship Management
          • Microsoft on Cross-Play
          • Sony on Cross-Play
        • Microsoft weighs in
        • Judge’s ruling
          • Sarah Jeong’s tweet thread
          • John Gruber’s take
          • The Verge’s coverage
    • Apple’s gross and greedy behavior
      • The Once and Future e-book
    • #askatp
      • How much of the macOS reviews of yore changed during the writing process? (via James Andrews)
      • What do we use to filter spam? (via Michael Boyle)
      • How should we store our older cables? (via Chris Anderson)
    • Post-show: John’s Mac Pro Tale of Woe

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    392: Corporate Relationship Counselor Aug 20, 2020
    • Pre-show: Marco spends Casey’s money
      • Marco’s headphones
      • Marco’s flashlight
      • Video review by “SensiblePrepper”
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s 🦗s
      • Apple’s fall-event-dates rumor is already wrong
      • Correction about Siracusa’s “Aristotle” quote (Twitter thread)
        • Apology 30b 2-4 interpretation
      • Big Sur touch screen gestures on Lenovo X250
      • Big Sur menu bar icon spacing
      • John’s mouse woes continue
    • Epic and Apple are still tusslin’
      • Motion for Temporary Restraining Order
      • Unreal Engine
      • Charlie Monroe
      • Dithering
      • Under the Radar #198: Store Wars
    • #askatp
      • Special thanks to Brendon Reyell for creating askatp.fm
      • Why doesn’t macOS let you place your windows just so? (via Nathaniel Cohen)
      • How does a developer with no design skills get better at design? (via Mike Milinazzo)
        • iOS Human Interface Guidelines
      • Where does one start in the switch Windows → Mac? (via A. Krishna Rao)
        • Casey and Marco argue about Mac vs. PC in a prior life
        • Mac keyboard shortcuts
    • Post-show Neutral: How does one drive a stick?
      • Gordon Murray Automotive T.50

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    391: Worse in Stupid Ways Aug 14, 2020
    • Follow-up:
      • Tim Cook does play both sides of the campaign-donation game
      • Big Sur Beta 4 tweaks
        • “Wallpaper Tinting in Windows”
        • Energy Saver Slider
      • Single-shot Disabling Live Photos (via James Cocker)
      • Preparing Your App to be the Default Browser or Email Client
    • Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow
      • ATP Appearance
      • Ode to the App Review team
      • Apple Fellows
    • New iMacs
      • Jason Snell’s take
    • Epic declares war on Apple
      • Apple boots Fortnite off the App Store
      • Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite
      • Google boots Fortnite off the Google Play Store
      • Epic’s Lawsuit
      • Dithering
      • The Art of the Possible
    • Apple nails the coffin shut on xCloud and Stadia
      • Previously on ATP
    • Post-show:
      • Neutral: What car would John buy next?
      • Casey’s doomed to get a dog

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    390: I Invented This Anti-Pattern Aug 03, 2020
    • Pre-show: Zip ties vs. Velcro cable ties
      • Monoprice 106463 cable ties
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple’s Public Policy Advocacy (via Kyles the Gray)
      • macOS Catalina 10.15.6 can read Big Sur APFS volumes (via Ole Begemann)
    • Would we distribute our iOS apps outside the App Store? (via Wade Tregaskis)
    • HEY
    • #askatp
      • How do we move data between computers? (Yes, again.) (via Jon Aumann)
        • Casey on Homebrew bundle
      • Will iPhone-only apps be rotated appropriately for usage on macOS/iPad OS? (via John Demco)
      • How does John “back up” the junk valuable artifacts in his attic? (via John Larson)
    • Post-show: John’s incorrect photo-taking preferences

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    389: One Branch Leads to Yes Jul 30, 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 Separated
        • System 6 Active Window
        • System 7 Active Window
        • Mac OS 9 Active Window
      • Sliders
        • Slider
        • System Preferences With Slider
      • Battery
        • Battery before beta 3
        • Battery starting on beta 3
      • Icons
        • App Icons 1
        • App Icons 2
        • Utility App Icons
        • Upgrade #308: The Adventures of Dr. Icon
      • Toolbars
        • SF Symbols
        • Toolbar 1
        • Toolbar 2
        • Toolbar 3
        • Toolbar Hover
        • Customize Toolbar
      • Control Center
      • Alert
      • Menu Bar
        • Menu Bar
        • Giant Menu Bar
        • Animated GIF
    • Post-show: Marco accidentally reincarnated Neutral for fifteen minutes

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    388: Riding the Autocomplete Jul 23, 2020
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    • 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
    • Apple To Be 100% Carbon Neutral for Supply Chain & Products by 2030
      • Lisa Jackson’s Blog Post
      • Lisa Jackson Vogue Interview
    • Apple says Apple’s 30% is Great [for Apple]
    • #askatp
      • If we can go iOS → macOS, can we go macOS → iOS? (via Eduard Rozenberg)
      • Will Apple offer CPU options on Apple Silicon powered Macs? (via James)
      • Do we really know a lot about Obj-C/PHP/Perl/Javascript/Swift/etc? (via Colby Todisco)
    • Post-show: Overcast’s iOS 14 “roadmap”

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    387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think Jul 16, 2020
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      • Bootleg feed is live!! Some details:
        • We may @$*&%ng swear
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    • Pre-show:
      • Is FaceID working better with 😷?
      • Beta stability
    • Follow-up:
      • 🚨 ATP Mugs are not dishwasher safe! 🚨
        • Pencil holder
      • USB4 vs. Thunderbolt 4
        • Summary on Wikipedia
      • ARM Mac rumors
      • An iPad Pro is an ARM Mac, right?
      • Casey’s nameLiss computers (ugh. –ed.)
    • Casey’s defense of Big Sur’s look-and-feel
      • Screenshot of TextEdit
    • #askatp
      • What is up with Intel, anyway? (via Steve Lederer)
        • Process shrink
        • TSMC
        • x86
        • ARM
        • P.A. Semi
      • Could one replace an actual computer with an iPad/iPhone, particularly for relatives?
      • What on earth is up with the grille on the new 4 series?! (via Gavan Shanley)
        • BMW 850i
    • Post-show: 2021 Ford Bronco
      • Lineup (PDF)
      • Tonka

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    386: No More Holes in My House Jul 09, 2020
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    • 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 Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators
        • Heterogeneous System Architecture
      • We’re getting Thunderbolt on ARM Macs
    • Apple Platform Unification Part II: ARM Mac Hardware
      • Upgrade #304: Somebody’s Gotta Do It and It’s Gonna Be Us
      • What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware
      • Touch Bar: Mend It Or End It?
    • App Store changes
      • Phil Schiller digs his heels in
      • Apple, HEY, and the Path Forward
    • #askatp
      • How do we handle migration between Macs? (via Jacob Rosin)
        • Casey on Homebrew bundle
        • Casey’s checklist
      • What do our in-home wired networks look like? (via Franck Hertz)
        • MoCA Bridge
      • What’s the best unsung feature from WWDC? (via Shihab)
        • Design for the iPadOS pointer
    • Post-show: The future of Vignette

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    385: Temporal Smear Jul 02, 2020
    • Pre-show: hey_z_ree
    • Bootleg-feed update
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      • 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 tweet
      • Big Sur release notes
      • Messages in Big Sur
        • Starting screen sharing via ⌘K
        • /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app
      • “Play sound on startup” (Sound pane in System Preferences)
      • Big Sur version number
        • Gui Rambo’s finding
        • Homebrew team’s discoveries
        • Fraser Hess’s take
      • APFS, Time Machine, and booting changes
        • Catalina error message
        • Signed system volume
        • Explore the New System Architecture of Apple Silicon Macs
        • Time Machine and APFS
        • APFS FIle System Reference
      • Apple platform unification
        • ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event
        • Apple Development Technologies chart
        • Design for the iPadOS pointer
        • The Talk Show Remote from WWDC 2020
    • Post-show: Fitness and calorie counting
      • FoodNoms
      • Club Crackers

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    384: Equal Emphasis Jun 23, 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 Weather
            • Under the Radar
          • AirPods
      • macOS Big Sur
        • New Look
          • Dialog box
          • Squircle
          • SwitchGlass
          • Puzzle pieces
      • ARM Macs
        • Developer Transition Kit
          • “Compliment of Mac I/O Ports”
            • 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet
        • Universal 2
          • App thinning
        • Rosetta 2
          • Contributions promised
        • Virtualization
          • Hypervisor
          • Parallels
        • Unified memory
        • iOS & iPadOS apps
    • Post-show:
      • Overcast on Catalyst
      • 11.0
      • Challenging App Store rules

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    383: Demand-Paged Outrage Jun 18, 2020
    • Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce
    • Follow-up:
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      • 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
    • Casey’s new MacBook Pro
      • Casey on Homebrew bundle
      • BetterTouchTool
    • A New Breed of Macs
      • Rosetta
    • Hey.com’s App Store Rejection
      • DHH on Twitter
      • Other, not-banned email apps
      • Apple Puff Piece
    • Post-show: Brief WWDC predictions
      • Connected #299: The Rickies (Summer 2020)

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    382: Static Ad Removal Jun 12, 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