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

446: Dead From Fraud Sep 02, 2021

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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?
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
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

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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?
- Safari 15 Updates
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
1Password 8: The Story So Far
On cross-platform UI frameworks
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
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
#askatp
- What’s our current thoughts on accelerating the heat death of the universe cryptocurrency (via Lalo Vargas)
- 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)
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)
- Do we use a VNC app to remote into our Macs? (via Stephen Robles)
- 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
Follow-up:
- Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated!
- More Safari Updates
- 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
State of iPhone MagSafe
- Elevation Lab MagBase
Post-show: Casey needs the Diamond Dogs

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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
- 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
Follow-up:
- HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf
- 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)
Casey’s Apple One Epiphany
- Songwhip
#askatp:
- What’s the desk chair update? (via Carlos Luis Portillo)
- 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)
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
- 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)
- 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:
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)
- 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)
- What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway? (via Lewis O’Neil)
  - Apple’s FUD PDF
  - Daring Fireball
  - Gui Rambo tweets 1 and 2
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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
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:

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434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles Jun 08, 2021

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
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 🤮
WWDC 2021 Predictions

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432: I Shouldn't Need to Wiggle May 27, 2021

Pre-show: Compacted sugar
Follow-up:
- John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
- 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
- Calibration
Casey’s Apple TV Woes
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

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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
MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
- Casey’s battery/hub
MacBook Air Rumors
- John Prosser’s Video
- Dr. Drang on Battery Life
Gurman’s Report
Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
- Eero lights explanation
- Eero’s comparison page
  - Hint: use code ATP — it still works!

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430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food May 13, 2021

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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
- 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
#askatp
- Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
- 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

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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
- 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

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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
Post-show:

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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?
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
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
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
- Air gap
- eero
- pfSense
  - Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
#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
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    - 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?
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
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
- 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

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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
How’s Swift going for us?
#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
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)
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
- 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
- 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)
- Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
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
- 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)
- 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

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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‽

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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
- Brighter whites
  - OxiClean
  - /System/Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter
- Wiring Gigabit Ethernet
- 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]
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
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)
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
- 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
A brief #askatp interlude
- How does Marco sell his unwanted computers? (via Brian)
  - Mac Me an Offer
Marco’s other Christmas gift
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
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
Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
#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
Marco’s AirPods Max review
- Planar Magnetic / Orthodynamic Headphones
- ANC
- Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Audio Cable
- Competitors
- 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!
- 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
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.
- Tesla’s “Mission Accomplished”

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406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen Nov 25, 2020

Follow-up:
- Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
- 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!
- 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?
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
- Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L v1 clearance (current v2 model)
- 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
- 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
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
Casey had an oops
Apple Event
- M1 Name
- 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
- MacBook Air
  - Binning
  - Casey’s beloved MacBook Adorable
- Mac Mini
- MacBook Pro
  - Dithering
The future of the Mac
- Longhorn’s tweet
Post-show: What did we order?

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403: A VCR for the Internet Nov 05, 2020

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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!
Apple’s “One More Thing” Event
Post-show:

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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)
- 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
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
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
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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)
Post-show: More on the Sony α7C
- Sony RX1
- Leica Q

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398: The State of Your Baby Oct 01, 2020

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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

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- 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
Follow-up:
- PlayStation 5 pricing and availability
- PlayStation 5 sizes
Apple Event: Time Flies
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
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

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Follow-up:
- John’s Mac Pro
  - Reviving a data-only volume
  - bridgeOS updates
  - Other Mac Pro Woes
  - 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
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
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’
#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
New iMacs
- Jason Snell’s take
Epic declares war on Apple
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
- Sliders
  - Slider
  - System Preferences With Slider
- Battery
  - Battery before beta 3
  - Battery starting on beta 3
- Icons
- Toolbars
- Control Center
- Alert
- Menu Bar
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”
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
  - No ads, chapters, or audio quality
  - Show notes appear for each bootleg once the episode is published
Pre-show:
- Is FaceID working better with 😷?
- Beta stability
Follow-up:
- 🚨 ATP Mugs are not dishwasher safe! 🚨
  - Pencil holder
- USB4 vs. 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
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
- APFS, Time Machine, and booting changes
- Apple platform unification
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
  - App Clips
  - Emoji 🔍
  - Scribble
  - Color Picker
    - Pastel
  - StoreKit Testing! 🥳
    - Stripe
    - Brent Simmons’ take on IAP
  - Speed Round
    - iPadOS
    - watchOS
    - AirPods
- macOS Big Sur
  - New Look
- 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
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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
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
- On writing into web forms
  - SMART Board
  - Nero Burning ROM
  - Jaz Drive
  - XJACK
  - WASTE
    - Justin Frankel
      - Personal site
    - Icecast
    - SHOUTcast
    - Audio Hijack
    - Cockos
    - LICEcap
    - Gnutella
- On Casey’s SMB issues
- Home.app scenes rather than automations, via Hugo Jobling
- Daniel Jalkut corrects us about powerbox
- Android Live Captions 1 2 (via David D’Arcy)
  - Voice Control on iOS
Donate to Black causes
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- Forecast
ARM Macs are coming! For real this time!
Post-show: Membership Pricing Tiers that Never Were

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381: Uncomfortable Truths Jun 04, 2020

Black Lives Matter
Follow-up:
- Netscape Navigator, Lynx, and atp.fm (via Alex Chan)
- OpenDoc Parts
- Windows has a clipboard manager (via Max Nuding)
LAST CHANCE for the ATP STORE! Preorders end June 7!
Casey’s TV issues
- CEC - Consumer Electronics Control
Android vs. iOS Speech-to-Text Speed
- Initial demo (via Dave Mark)
- Follow-up
Catalina and SMB shares
- The operation can’t be completed because the original item for {RootFolder} can’t be found.
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
- Jeff Johnson’s follow-up about shell scripts
Gaming MacBook Pro
#askatp
- What view do we use in Finder? (via The Weakest Muscle)
- How do we clean our screens? (via Stefan)
  - Volvo Genuine Microfiber Polishing Cloth for Digital Displays
- How do we protect our kids from the internet? (via Peter)
  - YouTube SafeSearch
  - Cloudflare DNS for Families

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380: Wires Are Great May 28, 2020

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th.

Pre-show: Live-stream icecast saga
New old-style websites
How do we trust clipboard managers‽
- Little Snitch
Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i
Casey’s DNS Diversion
- Disabling Chrome’s async DNS resolver
HBO ditches Apple TV Channels
Follow-up: Joe Rogan himself
Let’s buy Casey a 13” MacBook Pro
Microsoft’s Fluid Office “document”
- OpenDoc
- Object Linking and Embedding
#askatp
- What’s the best Wi-Fi/networking setup? (via Benjamin Sharbaugh)
  - Eero
  - Ubiquiti UniFi
    - Dream Machine
    - nanoHD Access Point
- How do we move Xcode signing assets between Macs? (via Jeffrey Wilkinson)
  - Windows Registry
  - DLL Hell
- But, like, really: Overcast for Mac? (via Chris Niles)
Post-show: Face masks 😷

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379: The Everything’s OK Alarm May 21, 2020

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Pre-show: ATP has a new website. (Neutral too!)
- John talks about Flatland on Sophomore Lit
Follow-up:
- MiniDV import details
  - HandBrakeCLI
  - exiftool
- Causes for soliciting promo codes
  - Lime-a-Rita
- Destiny & Cursors
- iOS 13.4 adds Shared iPad for Business (via Sir Cathy)
- Are Casey’s Raspberry Pis hardened?
  - John’s smoke detector story from Hypercritical
Joe Rogan takes his show to Spotify
- NetNewsWire
#askatp
- What clipboard managers do we use? (via Play My Jam)
- Is iOS 13 ready yet? (via Luke Arthur)
- Would dropping Boot Camp bring backlash? (via someone)
Post-show: Life at home status updates

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378: Whale Quench May 14, 2020

Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live
- Totally unrelated: youtube-dl
Follow-up:
- Casey's Garage Project
  - Instagram Story
  - Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
- Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox
- RSI and voice control
  - Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
  - Hand free computing via Philip Brocoum
  - Phonetic Alphabet
Craig Federighi on AppStories #162
- Cursor control
- Closing apps
"Give me your app for free"
- Dun & Bradstreet
John digitizes Mini-DV tapes
- iDive
- Super 8
- RCA VHS Camcorder.jpg)
- CVC GR-C1
  - MKBHD's video
#askatp
- If Apple releases an ARM-based Mac, would we buy first-gen machines? (via Jamie Bender)
- What file system (🛎) should one use for external backups? (via Unai Herrán)
- Will iPadOS ever become multi-user? (via Pascal Lindelauf)
  - Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad
Post-show Neutral: 2022 Golf GTI
- Isn't Tesla cancelled now?
- Honda Urban EV Concept

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377: $10 Worth of Headaches May 07, 2020

Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple
- AppFigures
- Changing App Store company names
  - LLC
  - DBA
Follow-up:
- Casey's Garage Project
- Debugging memory problems in Xcode
- ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar)
- Installing an OS on a computer without a monitor
  - Etcher
WWDC date announced
Hats
New 13" MacBook Pro!
🎉 GOODBYE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD! 🎉
TGPro fan control app
#askatp
- After the obvious, what should one do to alleviate RSI? (via Thom Anthony)
- How do I make my videoconferences sound better? (via Jack Johnson)
  - ATR2100x
  - Microphone Mega-Review
    - Kerry
Post-show:

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376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle Apr 30, 2020

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

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375: Wobbly Goblin Apr 24, 2020

Pre-show: Homeowners associations
- Lien
- Law of large pull requests
Follow-up:
- Mac Pro wheel stability
- W5700X is a decent deal after all
iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions
#askatp
- Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
- What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J)
- PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz)
Post-show: Neutral

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374: Screwdriver Testing Harness Apr 16, 2020

Pre-show: Modern PHP
- PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design
- Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication
Follow-up:
- Retro Gaming
  - OpenEmu
  - Provenance
  - MiSTer (via James Thomson)
  - Light guns and CRTs
- 360° audio (via Ibrahim Al-Alali)
  - nugs.net
Completing the Mac Pro Rollout
- Mac Pro feet/wheels
- Radeon Pro W5700X
iPad Pro Magic Keyboard now available for ordering
- Screens
- Dr. Drang's keyboard-weight speculation
New iPhone SE
#askatp
- How do we make time for listening to our favorite shows? (via Aadi Bhure)
  - Overcast usage
- Do we automate our recording setups? (via Hunter Holland)
- What podcast episode are we most proud of having recorded, and why?
Post-show: Newfound home computer needs
- Ray-traced Minecraft RTX

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373: This Jerk, Right Here Apr 09, 2020

Pre-show: Search Engines before Google
- WebTV
- BNC connector
Follow-up:
- Synology RAID rebuild time
  - Getting progress
    cat /proc/mdstat
  - lvm
- Dark Sky acquisition & location data
- Weather data consolidation
  - Dark Sky's data sources
  - Trump continues to fill the swamp
Casey's Computer Corner
- BBEdit
- Arq Backup
New PS5 controller
Raspberry Pi
- Pi-Hole
  - Installation instructions that Casey used
- CanaKit — the kit Casey bought
- Raspbian
Retro gaming
- Special guest Tiff Arment joins us
- Emulation:
  - RetroPie
  - 8bitdo SN30 Pro
  - Wave Race 64
  - 32X
  - Neo Geo
  - 3DO
  - Sega Saturn
  - Rotary phone
  - Kontra/Konami Code
- Famicom vs. NES controllers
- Improving the original experience
- Connecting to the TV
  - Technology Connections: How Did Old TVs Work?
    - Racing the Beam
    - CRT skeletons
  - RF modulator
  - Composite video
  - S-Video
  - Component video
  - RGB over SCART
- Scaling console video output to modern TVs

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372: Things Are Degraded Apr 02, 2020

Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week
- Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad
Follow-up:
- A12Z is the A12X with all GPU cores working properly
  - Chip binning
- All 2020 iPad Pros have 6 GB RAM
  - Part-name theories
Casey's Synology Catastrophe
Apple Acquires Dark Sky
- CARROT Weather
- Weather Line
You can buy/rent video from the Amazon iOS app without using in-app purchase
- Breakpoints
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371: Four-Letter Technologies Mar 26, 2020

Special guest Chris Lattner!
- High Output Management
- TensorFlow
- Swift for TensorFlow
- MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation
  - SIL: Swift Intermediate Language
- SiFive
  - ASIC: Application-specific integrated circuit
  - RISC-V
    - BSD
    - PA-RISC
    - Mach
    - KHTML
- WWDC
- Status of Swift's world domination
  - Brisk
  - Self-hosting
- Swift's future
- Is Swift a... jerk?
- SwiftUI
- Combine
- ABI stability
  - Variadic generics
  - Swift Concurrency Manifesto
- Recent woodworking projects
  - Treasure box
Post-show: Quarantined unproductivity

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370: Ghost Finger Mar 19, 2020

WWDC 2020 will be online-only
- Press release
- Original Gravity ("the beer-and-sausage place")
Follow-up:
- Rebinding Xcode commands via Incoherent Toots
- Apple Style Guide
New Apple Hardware
- Mac mini (not really new)
- MacBook Air
- iPad Pro
Post-show: Consoles

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369: Brown Big Bear Mar 13, 2020

Pre-show: Marco's Problem
- Marco's image-retention test
- Apple Cinema Display HD
Follow-up:
- The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places).
- Recommended info sources on COVID-19:
  - Flatten the Curve
  - CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated)
  - Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics
- WWDC still not canceled
  - Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+
- John's internal storage situation
- Mac shortcuts
  - Ellipsis is ⌥ ;
  - Adjective order
    - ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧
    - ⌃ ⌥?
    - Command key
  - Xcode symbol popup: ⌃ 6
  - Drag and drop open/save dialog
    - DefaultFolder X
  - Screen shotting/screen capture
  - Hot Corners and modifier keys
    - System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners...
- Casey's Computer Corner
  - Brian Ski's tweet
Huge rumor dumps
#askatp
- Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati)
- Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino)
- How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri)
Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground
- Penny Arcade

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368: A Jacket and Some Pins Mar 05, 2020

Follow-up:
- Feedback & Radar
- Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
- Pegasus J2i
  - Mountain
- Certificate revocation
- Ben Thompson and nvALT
- Just Enough Grammar
How does one back up a Synology?
WWDC cancellation?
- Under the Radar #186: Replacing WWDC
- An Event Apart
#askatp
- What are some of our favorite macOS keyboard shortcuts?
  - ⌘ K for VNC/SMB
  - ⇧ ⌘ A for Applications
  - ⇧ ⌘ 4 for screenshot
  - ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ V for Paste and Match Style
    - Plain Text app for iOS
  - ⎋ during drag
  - Drag onto a Finder column heading
  - ⌘ Click on the title of a Finder window
  - ⌘ ↑ and ⌘ ↓ to go up/down the folder hierarchy
  - Xcode
    - ⌥ ⌘ / for creating documentation
    - ⇧ ⌘ O for quick open
    - ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ ⌃ C for Copy Qualified Symbol Name
- Is there a difference between an app's Open at login and System Preferences → User & Groups → Login Items? (via Jon Mitchell)
- If you had to use a co-hosts's machine, whose would it be? (via Nicholas Gaffney)
Post-show Neutral: New BMW logo
- Concept i4

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367: Antitrust Relief Valve Feb 27, 2020

Follow-up:
- SwitchGlass desktop-image update
- Apple Music high-quality streaming
  Settings → Music → Cellular Data → High Quality Streaming
- Swift and static analysis
- Overcast and UI state restoration
- Microsoft Defender ATP
  - Coming for iOS
Safari and long-lived HTTPS certificates
- Let's Encrypt
Apple considering allowing users switch default apps
- Spotify's Time to Play Fair
- Things
#askatp
- How do we handle the business side of the App Store? (via Stephen Gerstacker)
- Do we shop TVs based on primary usage? (via starsasumi)
  - G-SYNC
- When do we use a notes app vs. a flat file? (via Future Ben)
Post-show: Casey's Computer Woes

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366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day Feb 20, 2020

Pre-show: Catalina. 🙄 × ∞
- Machine-gun trackpad
- Marco on OS upgrades
- Casey's Radar
Follow-up:
- Grasshopper
  - Logo
- Butterfly keyboards and ergonomics
- Finder toolbar bug... defeated?
- Mac malware getting worse?
What does Apple need to make most?
iOS 13.4
- Mail toolbar fixes
- Cabel's take
#askatp
- What one trivial bug would you fix if you could? (via Louie Mantia)
  - Casey's answer
- How should one partition an onboard SSD? (via James Irwin)
- Would you narrate your favorite author's audiobook? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: John's [continued] adventures in programming
- Wallpaper creation tool
Post-post show: Cold medicines

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365: Day-One Cowboy Feb 14, 2020

Follow-up:
- SwiftUI previews of UIKit
  - Gualtiero Frigerio
  - NSHipster
- Folder aliases in the Dock
  - Snow Leopard Review
    - Radar #59289423
  - Shell scripts
    - Jan Vitturi
    - Richard Kanson
John's new app (‼️)
- Keyboard Maestro
- Pastebot
Taika Waititi on Apple Keyboards
- IBM Model M
- Marco's Best Laptop Ever Made
Swift Playgrounds on macOS
#askatp
- What's the situation with macOS security? (via Anthony Scardapane)
  - Gatekeeper
- What does Marco do to avoid recursive Voice Boost? (via Chris Wright)
- How do we use show notes as a listener? (via Simo Isto)
Post-show: John's adventures in programming

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364: A Casey Settings Screen Feb 06, 2020

Pre-show: Docks
Follow-up:
- Pro Display XDR reference modes
- Mac Pro internal disk options
- iPad Multitasking and recent apps
Casey's new app (‼️)
- Detecting Guided Access
SwiftUI
- Knife Switch
Google Photos Privacy Breach
#askatp
- What do we think about homebrew? (via Stephan Jacobs)
  - MacPorts
- What's the difference between ⇧/⌘/⌥ keys?
- What do we name our Wi-Fi networks? (via Jesse in South Dakota)
  - Silence Of The LANS
Post-show: Auto-joining Wi-Fi networks
- "Free Public WiFi"
- iOS auto-joins AT&T Wi-Fi networks without user permission
  - The mechanism by which Apple does this: carrier bundles

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363: The Floor is Lava Jan 30, 2020

Casey's Complaints about his Co-Hosts Corner
Update on Marco's iMac Pro fan issues
- SMC reset
Pro Display XDR reference modes
Rack-mount Mac Pro videos from Neil Parfitt
- Unboxing
- Fan noise
A pro's thoughts on TrueTone
- ISO 12646
Xcode layout advice
- Video demo
- Localization warnings
Marco's Overcast Bug-Finding Mission
Apple's API documentation
- No Overview Available
- iOS 14 Shakeup
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
Post-show: John's Bug-Finding Mission
- NSWindow
- isReleasedWhenClosed

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362: Xcode in Anger Jan 24, 2020

Follow-up:
- That's the Microsoft logo, you fools
  - Redesigning the Windows Logo
- Removing the Dropbox Finder extension
  - System Preferences → Extensions → Dropbox → Finder Extension
- Pro Display XDR display profiles
  - Aerial screensaver
- Logitech G305 mouse review
  - Pacifist
- Jonathan Mann on his post-WWDC song
- Front and Center update
- Marco's iMac Pro update
Apple acquiesces to the FBI regarding encrypted iCloud backups?
Xcode layout hell
Post-show Neutral: What cars would we each take on a cross-country trip?
- 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨
- Casey's answer
- Marco's answer (and backup answer)
- John's answer

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361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf Jan 16, 2020

AirPods vs. AirPlanes
- neverssl.com & alwayshttp.com
Follow-up:
- Camera ergonomics (via Henrik Helmers)
  - PopSockets
- Jumpy mice (via Scott Simpson)
  - USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices
- Photo sharing
- Using a PS4 controller wirelessly with a PC/Mac
  - DUALSHOCK 4 USB wireless adapter, Japanese version
  - MFi
The rack-mount Mac Pro is now available
Pro Display XDR TrueTone
Mac Pro Ethernet wonkiness
iMac Pro Ethernet wonkiness
John's sleep/wake battles
- The Eclectic Light Company
- Howard Oakley on pmset
John's Finder toolbar battles
Making the case for macOS Low Power Mode
John's mouse and keyboard reviews
Cat reference

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360: Big Hole in the Middle Jan 09, 2020

Intro: Casey was not consulted
- CGP Grey
Follow-up:
- Boot camp on external drives
  - WinToUSB
  - Rufus (via Alexei)
  - Was the boot restriction issue the one from the start? (via Brad)
- Dual-booting with Bluetooth (via Robert Watkins)
- 2019 Mac Pro speaker module cable
- Removing the Mac Pro case while it's running
- Asian ladybeetle
- Full-resolution iCloud photo sharing
  - KBase article (via Kyles the Gray)
  - Great summary photos
- Swift is a 🍆
John's new app, Front and Center
Salt remote for Apple TV (via David Roessli)
John's Pro Display XDR
- Comparison thread to "real" reference screens by Juan Salvo
Marco's vacation tech experiences
Post-show: Casey's Disney Trip

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359: I Could Live in There Jan 01, 2020

John's Computer Situation
State of Catalina
Audiophiles are bananas
- Monoprice equivalent
Follow-up: MagSafe connectors
John's Mac Pro setup experience
- Storage/RAM effects
- Cable-free internals
- Time Machine
- Boot Camp ideas—none of which work as described 1, 2, 3, 4
  - Don't forget about this, too!
- Peripherals
  - Microsoft Precision Mouse
  - Logitech Marathon Mouse M705
- Quinn Nelson's (Snazzy Labs) video and observation
#askatp
- Is iCloud photo sharing really this much of a mess? (via Dzmitry Tabakerau)
  - Todd's tweet
- Is Swift really a 🍆? (via JK Kross)
  - John's Swift review
  - Bondage and Discipline Language
- If the ATP hosts took a road trip together, who is sitting where? (via Tim Bornholdt)
Post-show: John visits a Microsoft Store

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358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro Dec 23, 2019

John's Computer Situation
- Reconcilable Differences #120: Where the Packages Sleep
Mac Pro tidbits and follow-up:
- Mac Pro feet are removable
- 580X has two HDMI ports on the back
  - 3dfx Voodoo
  - Sound Blaster
- Blackmagic eGPUs and Pro Display XDR
  - Teardown
  - Thunderbolt 3 Add-in Card
- Virtual Link
- Connecting a Cinema Display to the new Mac Pro
  - USB-C → Mini DisplayPort
- Rat tails and monitors
  - Apple Display Connector
Watchmen
Project CHIP
The "Pro Workflow Group" and getting Apple's attention
- CUDA
What would an ARM transition look like?
- CHRP
#askatp
- What's the deal with clamshell mode, anyway? (via Wes)
  - Casey's old work monitors
  - Varidesk
- What's the deal with external backup drive noise, anyway? (via Hans Scneider)
  - Dynamat
- What's the deal with the new [pro] Mac design language, anyway? (via Kiel)
Post-show: Teaching John's son to drive

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357: A Giant Green Field Dec 18, 2019

Pre-show: John continues preparing the way
Mice
- Logitech MX Revolution
Follow-up:
- Thank you, listeners!
- Casey iMac !Pro offers
- Casey's Catalina Conundrum
- Marco's lamp update (thanks, Dan Engler!)
First-generation Apple products
- Casey's iMac Pro tweet
Downgrades from the old Mac Pro
GPU options for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
- GPU in the Belkin image
  - Apple Display Connector
Mac Pro RAM options
Mac Pro Thermodynamics
LG UltraFine 5K is maybe not "fine"
Expandable Macs and the history of Mac towers
#askatp
- Is an AppleTV really necessary in the world of smart TVs? (via Zach Pruitt)
- How does background app refresh work? (via Adam Jaffrey)
- How does one archive a shedload of old email? (via ComboTwist)
  - POP
  - Google: Downloading your data
Post-show: The Leftovers
- Reconcilable Differences episodes that discuss The Leftovers: 16, 20, 38, 53, 59
- Do By Friday #157: (That's the Leftovers)

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356: With a Heavy Heart Dec 12, 2019

Follow-up:
- Casey's Computer Corner Footnote
- Bendy extended keyboards
- Destiny on Stadia
- iPad Remote Control & Apple Classroom
The Mac Pro Configurator

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355: The Way Corn Grows Dec 05, 2019

Pre-show: Marco's artificial ☀️
- Casey's garage light
- Dyson sphere
- Xledia bulbs (thanks, Marina Epelman)
- Seasonal affective disorder
Casey's Computer Corner Conclusion
- Casey's busted Mojave installer due to an expired certificate?
- Apple Trade-In Evaluator
Marco travels with the 16" MBP
Casey's other new toy
John tries Google Stadia
- GeForce Now
- Synergy
John doesn't need a Mac Pro
#askatp
- Should developers be fun in release notes? (via Joell, probably)
  - GIFwrapped
- How should one set up iPads for out-of-state grandparents? (via Mike Bollich-Ziegler)
- Any chance of Alexa support for Overcast? (via Greg)
Post-show: Marco goes appliance-shopping

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354: Casey's Computer Corner Nov 26, 2019

Pre-show: BBEdit to the rescue
Casey's Computer Corner
Marco's Office Lighting Follow-out
- IKEA !lamp
- John's lamp
MS Office and Catalina
Follow-up: Amazon's customer support "phone tree"
- Hopscotch
- GetHuman
#askatp
- Is AppleScript dead? (via @askdrtuna)
  - Scratch
- How do we keep our computers in sync? (via Chris Kast)
- Should we enable iMessage read receipts? (via Ryan Morey)
Post-show:
- Casey's Car Corner
  - Thumbs Down
- Cybertruck

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353: Modern-Day Dialup Nov 21, 2019

Neutral: The inevitable death of the stick
- Casey's Bumper
Paperlike 2 (note: order from Kickstarter to get Paperlike 2; their website is currently only selling the first-gen)
16-inch MacBook Pro follow-up:
- Pricing
- What did Marco buy?
- Phil Schiller on a 14" MacBook Pro
- Keyboard repairability
  - iFixIt Demo
Incremental improvement for Macs
- Low Power Mode on the Mac
- Lakefield SoC and cellular laptops
Motorola Razr Returns
- Original Razr
- StarTAC
Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
Casey's Computing Conundrum
#askatp
- When is a language ready for use on servers? (via Bastian Inuk)
- Can Marco track total listen time for an Overcast account? (via René Ferguson)
- Could Adobe's iOS apps be used as a basis for ARM-native apps? (via filteq)
Post-show:
- Reconcilable Differences #102: Preparing the Way
- John's UPS
- John's "pigtails" - one and two

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352: No One Else Had Calipers Nov 13, 2019

ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17
Follow-up:
- Mac Pro available "December"
  - Mac Pros appearing in the wild
- iOS 13.2.2
- Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
16-inch MacBook Pro: Initial Impressions

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351: The Floor Is High Nov 07, 2019

Pre-show: 🐛💇🏻‍♂️
ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17
Marco's AirPods Pro Review
Follow-up:
FDA clears way for over-the-counter hearing aids
- TI-84
- Hearing aids are actually pretty fancy
16" MacBook Pro speculation:
- Is there more space between 16" MacBook Pro keys?
- More inverted-T fire?
- An aside about MacBook Pro wishes and dreams
- An aside about migrating Mac Pros and televisions
Return to Follow-up:
- APFS for Time Machine theories
- Letterboxd Pro and import/export
AppleTV+ initial reviews
#askatp
- Is Geekbench a good metric when comparing across architectures? (via Josh Hattersley)
- What's the state of podcast marketshare? (via glinn07)
  - The Feed
- Should one get a Mac Mini now or wait? (via Paul Dunahoo)
Post-show Neutral: Marco's Wheel of Shame

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350: Wax Buddies Oct 31, 2019

Accidental Sports Podcast
- Robot or Not
ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17
16" Key Layout Leak?
iOS 13.2 issues
Samsung's new foldable flip-phone
Airpods Pro
- Press release
Mac Pros in stores?
- FCC approval
#askatp
- Should I wait to buy a new Mac until they're on ARM? (via James Shield)
- Why hasn't Time Machine been updated to use symbolic links? (via Adam Spelbring)
  - ATP's recap on the APFS WWDC session
- How does one get started with Letterbox D? (via Andrew Myers)
  - Welcome
  - FAQ
Post-show: 🚙⚡
- Tiff's new BMW i3s

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349: Formative Tech Dystopia Oct 22, 2019

Pre-show: Star Wars Episode X.10.1
Follow-up:
- Pi-hole
  - Workflow/Shortcut
  - SwiftUI app
- Microsoft progress-indicator graph
Swift's New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
No Overview Available
- Methodology
- Folklore.org
No October event?
Image of 16" MBP in 10.15.1 beta?
- Animated GIF comparing old to new
New Google Stuff
#askatp
- How can I tell if I would benefit most from higher single core or multicore performance? (via Tom Zosh)
- Is wired CarPlay crummy? (via Kenny Long)
  - BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo
- 🙉 Destiny stuff 🙉 (blame tobogranyte)
Post-show: 🚙⚡

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348: Panic Shutdown Oct 17, 2019

Pre-show: El Camino
- Jesse Pinkman's character bio
Follow-up:
Casey's Docker adventures
- Pi-Hole
  - Inspiration
  - Jeff Atwood's article
- Homebridge
Marco's networking adventures
- Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (previous router)
- Security Gateway Pro 4 (new router)
- UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 (runs management software)
- UniFi 250W PoE Switch
- UniFi nanoHD Wi-Fi APs
Folding phones
- Connected #265: What Are You, a Dictionary?
- Game Boy Advance SP
Apple and China
#askatp
- Will progress bars ever become more accurate? (via Chris Wright)
- What app(s) do we use to write prose? (via Charles Clements)
- Does a computer really need a UPS? (via Tom Hartnett)
  - Newer version of Casey's UPS
  - Marco's UPS
Post-show: John's Google problems

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347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick Oct 10, 2019

Pre-show: Casey's computer and 👽
Follow-up:
- Where is FaceTime attention correction?
- "Coming this Spring"
October expectations
- Noise-canceling AirPods
Disposable AirPods
- "Battery service"
- 99% Invisible: National Sword
Catalina
- Homebrew Bundle
- Go64
An aside about Apple's [lack of] API documentation of late
#askatp
- Why can't we family share contacts? (via Dan Stanton)
  - Hypercritical #9: No iLife is an Island
- Why don't Casey and John join the iPhone Upgrade Program? (via Cameron)
- What non-high-tech tech do we enjoy? (via Phillipp)
Post-show: 🛎️
- The Bell
- ATP #174: A Ding in the Room

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346: Go Back and Pop Myself Oct 03, 2019

Follow-up:
- Casey's broken iMac
- Casey's broken Apple Watch
  - Improved battery life
Apple software quality
iPhone X/XS → 11 Pro Transfer
XDR Display Tech in iPads and MacBook Pros?
Mac Pros + Avid + Chrome = 💀
TiVo shows commercials before DVR recordings
New Microsoft hardware
- Surface Neo
- Surface Duo
Post-show: Marco's UISearchController woes

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345: Unapologetically Digital Sep 27, 2019

Last chance for September donations to St. Jude
- Analog(ue) #166 (to be released Sunday, 29 September)
- Podcastathon video
Pre-show: The fine art of literature, and staying young.
- Recursion
Follow-up:
- AppleCare+ refunds/enrollment details
- iPhone 11 battery/RAM details
  - iFixIt iPhone 11 Pro Max
- A13 is 🍌 fast
Casey's iMac Update
Apple Watch Series 5 impressions
- Casey's battery life, more, more still
iPhone 11 Pro impressions
Post-show: 🐭

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344: Peace in the Battery Kingdom Sep 18, 2019

Donate to St. Jude
- Running campaign total
Follow-up:
- Bank of America and ShopSafe
- Gruber's theory on Apple presenter names
- Midnight Green: Not a China thing
SixColors on the U1 and UWB chips
More iPhone 11 details
- iPhone thickness over time
- Alleged specs
  - Note: 6GB has been mostly debunked after this tweet was posted
- TechCrunch review
- Two-way charging hardware is there but disabled?
Apple software-releases matrix
AppleCare+ goes subscription
iPhone 11 press reviews
Apple Arcade soft-launches
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
#askatp:
- Why do external drives eject after sleep? (via Stever)
- We revisit the "communities" question from Marco Silva
- What game controller should one buy for Apple Arcade? (via Matthias Lüdtke)
Post-show: Casey's tale of woe

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343: The Stand Is Your Hand Sep 12, 2019

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342: The Opposite of Con Sep 04, 2019

Casey, DMB, and Sirius XM
Follow-up:
- Drawbacks to Apple using opt-in privacy
- Apple card activation videos
  - ≤ iPhone X
  - ≥ iPhone XS/XR
- Credit cards advertising based on the weight of the cards
- Kerf bespoke Apple Card cases (via The Kavalier)
  - dbrand Skin
Apple September Event
Post-show: The Summer of Marco

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341: John Is My Default Aug 29, 2019

Pre-show: Marco ran out of dog food at the beach
- He is well-aware that his temporary food is not perfect and has not been reviewed by a vet or dog nutritionist, and will resume using "real" dog food when he gets home in 3 days
- Marco's breakfast story-highlight on Instagram
Follow-up:
- Disabling auto-boot on keypress: sudo nvram AutoBoot=%00
  - Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
  - Melamine foam
- John's Apple Card
Apple Card care & feeding instructions
- Global entry card & sleeve (The card is sitting under the sleeve in this shot)
New Sony APS-C cameras
Tesla's Supercharger advantage vs. other chargers
Apple's Siri Statement
#askatp:
- When would we hire a professional photographer? (via James Gates)
- What do we think about message apps/services for communities? (via Marco Silva)
- What color scheme do we use for Terminal? (via Mike Taffet)

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340: You Are a Computer Athlete Aug 19, 2019

Follow-up:
- Store-brand Velveeta
  - WalMart store brand
  - Kroger store brand
- KeyboardCleanTool
PlayStation 5 hardware
Apple Rainbow Apple Logo Returning?
- Think different
#askatp:
- What are some techniques to avoid RSI? (via Mark Bramhill)
- What year will USB-C ports be mainstreamed in cars? (via Nicholas Gaffney)
Post-show: What does Marco look for in a watch? (via James)
- Marco's blog post
- Under $200:
  - Timex
- $200–700:
- $700–1,500:
  - Dressy:
    - Seiko Presage
    - Longines
  - Cool:
    - Nomos
    - Junghans Max Bill
  - Utilitarian:
    - Sinn
    - Damasko
  - Micro-brands:
- $4,000-5,000:
  - Grand Seiko
    - Snowflake
  - Omega
    - Master Chronometer
    - Seamaster Aqua Terra 150m
- "Fashion watches"
  - MVMT
  - Fossil
  - Shinola
- Unattainable grail: Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711
  - Has Bezos Decided?

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339: Ketchup Momentum Aug 15, 2019

John's cheese-grater update
More on Apple Card
- Opting out of arbitration for Apple Card
- Apple Card has no web interface
Follow-up: JSON streaming
- Length-prefixed JSON
- Line-delimited JSON
Upgrade bets on Marco and John buying the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
- Overcast timestamp link
Apple at Black Hat
- Announcement summary
Apple laptops can turn on by any key or track pad press
New LG UltraFine 5K Display
#askatp:
- What non-Apple tech makes us happy/excited? (via Colin Devroe)
  - BMW i3
  - BMW i8
  - Nissan Leaf
  - Zoom F6
  - Sound Devices
  - DJI Osmo Mobile 3
  - GoPro
  - Honda Accord
  - Sony Cameras
- Do we use portrait orientation lock on our iPads & iPhones? (via Tom Tubbs)
- Introducing children to video games, and the correct order of Zelda games (via [the other] David Sparks)
  - Andy Baio's approach
  - OpenEmu
Post-show: Automattic buying Tumblr
- The Vergecast: Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what's next for Tumblr

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338: Double Chunking Aug 08, 2019

Overcast beta and sync changes
- ETag
- JSON
- Protocol buffers
- SAX parser
- Chunking
Vignette duplicate-image-detection update
- WWDC 2019 #222
- Casey's current algorithm as suggested by Craig Hockenberry
- XOR
A quick aside about SwiftUI
Follow-up:
- Mimeo Photos and watermarking
- Sony cameras
  - α6400
  - α7R IV
  - α7 III
  - RX10 IV
- Geographic location of Intel's modem business
- Marco's iCloud Drive/Dropbox → ~/Dropbox idea
- Apple suspends contractors listening to Siri voice recordings
- Google ordered to halt human review due to GDPR
Apple Card
- Opting out of arbitration
#askatp:
- FaceApp and tin-foil hats (via Brad Siefert)
- How does one play RTS games on a Mac without a gaming PC? (via Nathan)
- How does one deal with impostor syndrome (via Ryan Monaghan)
Post-show: 🧀-grater updates
- ROMMELSBACHER MR 6 elektrische Käsereibe

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337: Sea Conditions Are Calm Aug 02, 2019

Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up
- Chunnel
- Auto Train
Follow-up:
- John's Apple sticker on his Civic
- Shallow water blackout
  - Thunder in Paradise
Dropbox alternatives
- Synology Drive
- Resilio
- Growl
- Port forwarding information
- The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iCloud Drive wonkiness
- The Talk Show #259 with Marco
How does the Overcast recommendation algorithm avoid promoting awful people, unlike YouTube's algorithm? (via Justin Cardinal)
- This Video Will Make You Angry
Casey needs some advice about Vignette duplicate-photo detection
- Hamming distance
Apple acquires most of Intel's smartphone modem business
Apple Employees/Contractors Listen to Siri Audio Samples
- Update after recording: Apple temporarily suspending "Siri grading", and will provide an opt-out
#askatp:
- Testing headphones & iOS 13's politeness (via Prone to Bits)
- Making suggestions as part of the Pro Workflow Team (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Siracusa ranks Tennists (via Anthony Roberts)
Post-show: Endangered Camera Species
- Sony A7R4

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336: Your Face Is Not Your Face Jul 24, 2019

Pre-show: Nutrition is hard when you're in high school.
- Top Four #19: Cereals From a Van
- WSJ Grape-Nuts article
Follow-up:
- iOS 13 optimized-battery-charging specifics
- Apple TV remote's influence on product box size
- Time Machine reliability when hosted on a NAS
  - RAID
- "Dropbox" on the Synology?
- Big WWDC
Marco's AR glasses
- John's suggested glasses for Marco
Overcast State of the Union
AR glasses cancelled?
- Steve Troughton-Smith says "not so fast my friend"
FaceTime Attention Correction
- Hypercritical #65: Look Right into the Eyes of Your Sweetie
#askatp:
- What is our one true iMessage address? (via Matthew Loewen)
- Does Siracusa use LFG sites? (via Hassan Al Amiri)
- Most bang-for-your-buck $1000 Mac (via BJ Nemeth, among others)
Post-show Neutral: The C8 Corvette
- American Original
- Road & Track Interview

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335: Withhold the Fun Jul 18, 2019

Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show
iOS 13 charging optimization
Follow-up:
- APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
  - Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2
  - SuperDuper
- Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel
- shall/should/may/can
- iPhone SE & headphones
  - Powerbeats Pro
  - Beats Studio
Apple Bankrolling Original Podcasts?
Dropbox pulls some forking bullshirt
- More from Marco
- Dropbox vs. Twitter
#askatp:
- Do our cars or our iPads have more stickers? (via Josh Lewis)
- Do we fill up our 256 GB phones? (via Erik Neu)
- What is the most valuable language to learn for modern students? (via Sarah Anne)
Post-show: 🌊🏊‍♂️🏖

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334: Mechanical Disadvantage Jul 11, 2019

Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
- RFC 2119
- FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory?
Follow-up:
- John's cheese grater broke
Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
Apple's new (and "new") laptops
#askatp:
- Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
- Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
  - fish shell
- Caring for our 📷 at the 🏖️ (via Tyler Menard)

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333: Pesky Human Issues Jul 04, 2019

Follow-up:
- Expansion Slot Utility
  - PCI Express
Jony Ive leaves Apple
- Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind
- Ben Thompson's piece
- ATP #120: One Magical Wire
- Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure
- Jony Ive's Christmas Tree
- The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Guest Ben Thompson
- Dieter Rams
- Gruber last week and this week
- Evans Hankey & Alan Dye
- May-Li Khoe's tweet
- Love, Death, & Robots ("Zima Blue" is the episode mentioned)
#askatp:
- How does the Overcast recommendation engine work? (via Markus Ernst)
- What's the best way to enter "the zone" while programming? (via Paul Wood III)
- What happens to Overcast/Vignette/ATP/etc when we pass? (via Leon Zandman)
  - Independence #55: The Single Point of Failure
Post-show: John's Rubbermaid #1971 spatula

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332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt Jun 27, 2019

Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy
Follow-up:
- Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple
- macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link)
Marco's spirit walk
Rumored 16" MacBook Pro
#askatp:
- Would Apple re-implement Target Display Mode on the 5K iMac? (via Jack Frydai)
  - Target Disk Mode
- What software does Marco use to manage servers? (via Chris Hubbard)
- What do we think about people listening at higher speeds than 1x? (via Jospeh Dijkstra)
Post-show: 🚨 Do not install the betas! 🚨

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331: The Technical Burden of Users Jun 20, 2019

Follow-up:
iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs
- Marco's tweets 1 2 3
- Benjamin Herrin's findings
- application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
- UIDevice
Mac Pro
Pro Display XDR
Sign in With Apple
- An aside about Overcast and user data
#askatp:
- What do we think about mouse pads? (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
  - MUG
  - HardOCP (it was the Ratpadz GS)
  - CS Hyde C4-NGen
- Buying an old-generation MacBook Air as new today? (via Jon Schwenn)
- How were the WWDC box lunches this year? (via many, including Tim Schmitz)
Post-show: Marco's anticipated summer of fun

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330: A Rotation You Can't Complete Jun 13, 2019

Pre-show: root's wheel group (more)
Marco comes to terms with Swift
John's preposterous Safari Extension
Follow-up:
- ASCII art apps
  - Mac: Monodraw
  - Web: ASCII Flow
- Blending stump is a lasso tool
  - "Sim" game series
  - Transport Tycoon
- 100 WWDC features that may have gone unnoticed
- WWDC favorites a week on
APFS and Catalina
- Casey's SSD
Mac Pro
- Pegasus enclosures
- Tim/Jony hole/lattice design conversation
  - G4 Cube
Userspace drivers
- AppStories #114: Craig Federighi: The AppStories Interview
- FUSE
#askatp:
- How to choose a macro lens? (via Colton Belfils)
  - The Digital Picture
- What should one do to protect old computers? (via James Andrews)
- How does Marco treat Tesla's "Autopilot"? (via Krystian)

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329: Mac Pro Day Jun 04, 2019

Our live show from WWDC 2019!

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328: The Pixel Stump May 30, 2019

Follow-up:
macOS 10.15's System Partition
- System Integrity Protection
New iPod touch
Guilherme Rambo's Screenshot Leaks
- iOS 13
  - Blending Stump
- macOS 10.15
Apple Pro Display
Pontificating about the Mac Pro
...oh yeah and some other WWDC stuff.
Post-show: What's owning a 10-year computer really like?

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327: Better Late Than Wrong May 23, 2019

Follow-up:
- "Interactive version control" comic
- "Preview for video"
  - Videoloupe (via Matthew Schaffer)
  - LumaFX
  - Perfect Horizon (via Jan Östlund)
  - Telestream Switch+
Vignette (App Store Link)
Marco's AirPlay 2 "Greycation"
- AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer
- Castro
Playdate
Apple's Refreshed MacBook Pros
- Gruber's take
Post-show:
- Marco's editing suite

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326: Blow Your Redo Stack May 16, 2019

Pre-show: Bug-out bags and disaster planning
Follow-up:
- THANK YOU for buying T-Shirts!
- John's "Frame Game"
Apple's fix for the new ZombieLoad Intel CPU exploit
- HeartBleed
Steve T-S on macOS 10.15 house-cleaning
#askatp:
- Are comments in code a "code smell"? (via Alex White)
  - SE-0004: Remove ++ and -- operators
- How does John rate movies? (via Dan Provost)
  - John's Letterboxd
- What's our WWDC EDC? (via M Roselius)
  - Chase Reeves' BagWorks and YouTube channel
  - Peak Design Everyday Backpack
  - Tom Bihn Synapse 25 and 19
  - Nomatic Travel Pack
  - Arktype Dashpack
  - Casey's Go Pack
  - Swift Cup Coffee
  - Tom Bihn Organizer Pouch
  - RAVPower 45W GaN USB-C charger (Marco's favorite)
  - Anker 30W GaN USB-C charger or 2-port 60W
  - Aukey 18W USB-C charger (the 30W GaN version disappeared recently for some reason; if it comes back, get it instead)
  - Apple USB-C to USB-C charge cable
  - Apple USB-C to Lightning cable
Post-show:
- John's Letterboxd statistics
- Casey's forthcoming app
- Independence

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325: Relive Your Calculator-Watch Dreams May 09, 2019

The ATP store is back with brand new designs! Only available until May 12! Order now! Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year.

Follow-up:
- MDM parental-control conspiracy theory
- Jury-duty technology
  - iPod Nano 5th-gen had a video camera
  - Nintendo Play-Yan
Bloomberg's WWDC round-up
- AvantGo
- Gboard (App Store link)
- Due
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- BestPhotos
- California dial
  - Nomos Club Campus
  - Panerai Radiomir California
#askatp:
- What do we listen to when we code? (via Thom Bullock)
- How do we configure Macs used by other family members? (via Nick)
- What resources help us be... slightly less ignorant white dudes? (via Brie Macnish)
Post-show: Marco at the Movies: Ronin

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324: Automatic Kicking Machine May 03, 2019

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Follow-up:
- Australia Post's website link guidelines (via Robb McAlavey)
- How could one leverage copyright to block podcasts in clients?
Clip sharing with Overcast
- AVAssetExportSession
- animationTool
Overcast for macOS
New York Times on Apple "cracking down" on MDM apps
- Apple response
- Secondary Schiller response
#askatp:
- What naming convention do we use for stuff on our Macs? (via Keegan Sands)
- Why does Apple bother with AWS? (via Patrick)
- What are our favorite sports cars? (via Paul Wood III)
Post-show: Marco gets summoned to jury duty

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323: A Slightly Smaller Thumb Apr 25, 2019

The ATP store is back with new designs! Only available through May 12! Order now!

Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year.

Pre-show: Amazing refrigerator episode of Reconcilable Differences
ATP Store
- Iconfactory Patreon
- Iconfactory apps
Follow-up on Intel exiting the cellular-modem business:
- Thoughts from anonymous Intel tipsters
- Thoughts from an IP lawyer
Luminary's missteps
- The Pen Addict
More from Gui Rambo
Post-show: Quarterbacking WWDC
- 2013 Mac Pro announcement
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

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322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires Apr 18, 2019

Pre-show: Casey and John file Overcast bugs
Follow-up:
- More AirPower follow-up. (Really!)
- Netflix, AirPlay, and screen rights
- AirPlay quality loss
- AirPod fidget spinner
Of course Katie Bouman should get the credit
- How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
Apple and Qualcomm settle and then Intel exits 5G business
- Apple press release
- John on patents 1, 2, 3
iOS 13: Dark Mode, Volume HUD, multi-windows/"cards" on iPad
- PanelKit
- Kai's Power Tools
Unified Find My iPhone & Find My Friends
- Tile
macOS 10.15 rumors
- Luna Display
  - Astropad
- Sidecar
- Moom
Post-show: Top Four ATP Hosts with Bad Taste

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321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out Apr 12, 2019

Pre-show:
- Casey's #snelltalk submission
- John's appearance on Upgrade
Follow-up:
- Last week's PowerByProxy-AirPower story is disputed
- Game of Thrones and modern television
- Apple News on John's Mac is still broken
  - Apple Cinema Display LED
Netflix No Longer Supports AirPlay
- Clarification from Netflix
- Demotivators: Meetings
The Great iTunes Break-Up
#askatp:
- Is it bad to use high-wattage chargers even though the devices get warm? (via Sean Kelker)
- How do version numbers work? (via Aadi)
  - Semantic Versioning
- How do we keep code snippets for reference? (via Vincent Steinmann)
Post-show: Casey's Live Instagram Experiment
- Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio
- Adobe Premiere Rush

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320: Here Comes the Big But Apr 04, 2019

Follow-up:
- AirPods 2 hinge is different
  - iFixIt Teardown
- People use GSuite! Dozens of us!
  - Workaround that uses Charles Proxy
  - Probably a Google issue?
AirPower cancelled
- Studio Neat Material Dock
Google Stadia
#askatp:
- Have any tips on booking a Disney World vacation? (via Stephen Kim)
- What do we use to post/share photos? (via Andrew Wade)
- Do we still check drive health? (via Jack Mordoj)
  - Windows Disk Defragmenter
Post-show:
- 100% plant-based follow-up
- Casey's app's business model

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319: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event Mar 28, 2019

ATP Live at WWDC 2019
- Tickets are $29 and go on sale Friday, March 29
- Hammer Theatre, Monday June 3, 6:00 PM
Follow-up:
- "Pro" iPad Mini
  - Studio Neat Canopy
- AMD vs. NVIDIA
- iMacs with spinning disks
- Marco and HDMI-CEC
  - Joe and Scott's tip
  - Ivan's tip
Joanna Stern on the butterfly keyboards
Casey's Mail.app gets broken in 10.14.4
- MacRumors thread
Review of the new AirPods
Apple March 25 Event
Post-show: Incorrectly slicing a bagel
- Panera Bread
- Bruegger's

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318: Not a Casino I Want to Play In Mar 21, 2019

Follow-up:
- Hierarchy of Needs is satisfied... by a ThinkPad?
- Searching for things in Settings.app
- Nvidia and Apple
  - CUDA
Apple's wild and crazy week
- Monday: New iPads!
- Tuesday: New iMacs!
- Wednesday: New AirPods
March 25th Apple event
#askatp:
- Why doesn't Marco lease iPhones? (via Jacob Ford)
- Would Marco still recommend the 2015 MacBook Pro? (via David Mikucki)
- How is Overcast adoption of CarPlay vs. Apple Watch? (via Chris Adamson)
Post-show: Marco's HDMI CEC update
- Reddit post

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317: We’re Customers Too Mar 16, 2019

A special extended WWDC segment
Live ATP "Save the Date": evening of June 3
Apple and Spotify
#askatp:
- Is Perl dead? (via Gustavo Poscidonio)
- Can using AirPods in loud environments cause hearing damage?
Post-show: Casey's rejiggered priorities
- Analog(ue) #151: Super Simple? Thank You Very Much
- YouTube channels:
  - Casey
  - John
  - Marco

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316: MacBook Hierarchy of Needs Mar 06, 2019

Follow-up:
- Two-hand Springboard rearrangement
  - Ask Tog
  - Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- Finding 32-bit apps
Corning is working on flexible glass
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Thunderbolt 3 → USB4
- Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass
Apple vs. NVIDIA
- System Integrity Protection
- CUDA (not Cuda)
End of configurable Macs?
- Gruber's $0.02
MacBook Hierarchy of Needs
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
#askatp:
- How much will John spend on a new Mac Pro? (via Matt Corkum)
- Are we really professional podcasters? (via Asajz)
Post-show Neutral: Polestar 2 (via Vincent Skerved)
- Top Gear first look
- Configurator

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315: 1.0 Was Just Speed Feb 28, 2019

Follow-up:
- 16" laptops
- Bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 hubs
  - Elgato
  - CalDigit
  - Monoprice
  - StarTech (2 USB ports! But $183.)
USB 3.2 standard names
Foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei
- Upgrade #234: The Ideological Folding Wars
- Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core
A giant battery with a phone in it
- Panasonic Toughbook
Apple's Rumored March Event and gaming subscription service
- Lisa Jackson
#askatp:
- How do you purge many old apps at once? (via Mark Heeler)
- Does John still want a spatial finder? (via Platy Hsu)
  - Browser-based Classic Mac emulator
  - About the Finder...
- Why bother with a Synology when you can roll your own NAS? (via Dan Zaccaro)
This post-show was evaluated as Meets expectations.

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314: Kernel Panic in the Night Feb 21, 2019

Follow-up:
- Hosting a podcast for free on Anchor or SoundCloud
- Contacts syncing limits
Mojave stability
- Possible T2 Mac audio glitching bug
Rumor explosion from Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman
#askatp:
- Could the next Apple TV be wireless? (via Ed Cormany)
- Is wireless CarPlay a deal-breaker? (via Eddie Lee)
- How is season 3 of The Grand Tour? (via Paul Walker (not that one))
Post-show: Apple ID Management
- Two factor requirements

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313: The Residue of Seven People Feb 12, 2019

Pre-show:
- Casey is surfing the 'net at lightning speeds
- Marco's 👂🏻💦
  - Eustachian tube
  - Scott O'Reilly
    - Spider Strategies
    - The Dash
Apple's security bug bounties
- Apple compensates FaceTime bug kid
Some information on Deirdre O'Brien
- Ryan's tweet
- Business Insider profile
Apple Joint Venture
The changing role and training of an Apple Genius
Spotify also bought Anchor
Amazon buying Eero
#askatp:
- How do we feel about buying refurbished tech products? (via David Hadley)
  - Nintendo refurb store
  - Apple refurb store
- How does one move from being a beginner to intermediate programmer, especially with code structure? (via Ryan Bible)
- What size wheels should one get on a new car? (via Nathan Miller)
Post-show: j.o.h.n.s.i.r.a.c.u.s.a+somespamservice@gmail.com

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312: Fashion Phase Feb 07, 2019

Pre-show: Marco's hideous audio code
- Accelerate vDSP framework
Follow-up:
- Google's enterprise certificate was revoked
- Facebook's was reinstated
- Apple apologizes for FaceTime bug and takes a field trip
- John's "MagSafe" MacBook Air
- Marco's USB-C light-up cable
- Marco's iPad screen protector
Angela Ahrendts leaving Apple
#askatp
- What external drives do we recommend? (via Steve Lowe)
- How does Reopen windows when logging back in work? (via Michael Haren)
  - The state of Mac web browsing
- What does Marco think about Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet? (via Alex Kadis)
  - Marco on Lex's show
  - Hello Internet #117: Bandersnatch
Post-show: John's gas station was updated
- Speedpass

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311: Mutually Assured Destruction Jan 31, 2019

Follow-up:
- 👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻 screwed up "finsta"
- Debate over the prevalence of the stage lighting problem
- Silence of Siri and other IoT info
- Wireless Accessory Config
Does anyone doubt that Facebook is straight garbage?
Apple's FaceTime bug
Bloomberg/Gurman iPhone Scoop
#askatp
- Is it worth cleaning dust out of MacBooks? (via Oliver Dejon)
- Is it worth upgrading the CPU on a family iMac? (via Jeremy Kenison)
  - Geekbench Browser
- Is tweeting a good idea? (via Andrew)
Post-show:
- John is very angry at WeRateDogs
- Overcast Instant Search
- Casey's CR-V Review

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310: Apple Playstore Jan 24, 2019

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Follow-up:
- The Terminator saga continues
- "Apple One" feedback
Instagram, friendstagrams, and spam accounts
- Google+ Circles
John's Internet of Things
Casey's [Broader] Internet of Things
MacBook Pro "stage light" fault and iterative development
- American Original
#askatp
- What happens to projects like homebrew if the ARM transition happens? (via Andrew Jaffe)
- How do we avoid crapping on future tech that we don't inherently understand? (via John Wilander)
- How do we handle snark? Why is it so prevalent in tech? (via Mike McPhaden)
  - Analog(ue)
Post-show: What would you say it is you do here, Casey?

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309: Do Not Expect Five Nines From My Plex Jan 18, 2019

Pre-show: Affluent bezelles (Overcast: bezelle, correction)
Follow-up: Casey's WAF-F20 waffle maker 🤤
John's Terminator woes
- Apple's universal subscription-management URL
- Movies Anywhere
iPhone Smart Battery Cases
Apple's 2019: what do we want, and what will affect Apple the most?
- iPad Mini and/or iPod Touch?
- iPhone Upgrade Program
#askatp
- Why didn't John buy a 2013 Mac Pro? (via Wojtek Pietrusiewicz)
- Do we all play Super Smash Brothers? (via Marco Silva)
Post-show: Three middle-aged men explain Instagram to each other
- Casey on Instagram

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308: Left-Handed Streaming Service Jan 10, 2019

Pre-show: What is a jam band, mannnnn?
Follow-up:
- Unshaky
- China is an equal-opportunity financial disappointment for everyone
Firefox is still a thing
Apple is putting iTunes and/or AirPlay 2 in various TVs
MicroLED
#askatp
- What Siri Shortcuts do we use? (via FoTS Todd Vaziri)
  - Casey's old "on my way home" workflow
- How does one preserve podcasts? (via Fred McCann)
  - Cool URIs don't change
- Apparently something Destiny-related. Your show notes author tuned out. Thanks a lot, Graham Wetzler.
Post-show: Is today Mac Pro day?

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307: Casey Apple Pencil Jan 04, 2019

Happy new year!
John reviews the Tesla Model 3
John reviews Casey's Volvo XC90
John reviews Casey's iPad Pro
- Casey's sticker situation
Casey reviews his Apple Pencil
- SketchParty TV
Marco reviews Linea
- Linea blog post
Screen protector update
Apple's financial news
- Gruber's take
- Ben Thompson's warning in 2017
Is falling stock price going to cause a retention problem?
- Gruber on retention in 2013
- RSU
#askatp
- What does John think about the Nintendo Switch controller? (via Josh A.)
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
- How will the new AirPods charge? (via Ankur Oberoi)
- What's up with Apple putting Beats stereos in Volkswagens? (via NEN)
Post show
- More on Beats
  - Beats partnerships
  - VW Jetta
- HomeKit
  - Wemo plug

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305: An Uneasy Peace Dec 18, 2018

Follow-up:
Apple Music sunsets Connect
Microsoft Edge is coming to macOS
- ATP #8: Hold Me!
- Hacker News post
NPR's Remote Audio Data (RAD) spec
#askatp
- What's important for a new TV? (via Kapila Wimalaratne)
- How does one compress a ripped Blu-ray? (via Iván)
- How do I learn the command line? (via Brian Edwards)
  - man page
  - Unix Power Tools

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304: Island of Shortcuts Dec 13, 2018

Marco's lost video
Casey reviews a product that Marco loves
- Patagonia Micro-Puff Hoody
Accidental Trunk Podcast
- An update on Marco's Tesla problems
  - What is the mystery box in the trunk?
- i3 frunk is not weather-sealed
- Casey's superior cars
- Porsche Panamera
- Audi A7
- BMW 3-series GT
- Porsche Taycan
The power of macOS
- Virtual output device for simultaneous multi-Bluetooth-headphone listening via Audio MIDI Setup
- Descent and Thrustmaster Joysticks
  - QWOP
  - Colony
    - Walkthrough video 1 & video 2
Fixing a tricky Overcast crashing bug
- How does Marco manage bugs?
  - TaskPaper
  - Things
Shortcuts vs. the command line
- Script Debugger
#askatp
- Why not use Dropbox or equivalent for everything? (via Drew Shannon)
- What kind of hardware should one get to run a Plex server? (via Justin Winchester)
  - NVIDIA Shield
  - Limitations when running Plex Media Server on NVIDIA SHIELD
- How do we balance work and play? (via Eric Wagner)
Post show Neutral: Electric cars
- Audi e-tron GT concept
- Honda Insight

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303: Your Mahogany World Dec 06, 2018

Follow-up:
- Another iSH and youtube-dl update
  - Unknown encoder 'copy'
  - Github issue
Maybe 8K is all about @3x?
- PenTile
More theories on Apple price increases
- Comparing modern devices against their premiere versions
- What about tariffs? (via Andy Hansen)
Is Apple's prioritization of profit over marketshare the right approach?
- Upgrade #222: That's Not a Plan
Marco flies next to a Microsoft commercial
- Apple's other operating system
#askatp
- Do we have opinions about endianness? (via Matt Christensen)
  - Two's complement
- Are "real" cameras really better than the really good iPhone cameras? (via David Beck)
  - Casey's camera
  - Marco's camera
- What's the highest value food item, quality vs. effort? (via Brent Traut)
  - Marco's cashews
  - Briermere Farms
Post show: Marco's Tesla robbery
- Early lease rumors

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302: Paint This Square Nov 28, 2018

Follow-up:
- Another iSH and youtube-dl update
- Google Photos
- Disk images and filesystems — oh my!
- Tips for transitioning careers for employees and hiring managers
  - Fizz Buzz Test
What happened to 5K displays?
Apple Entrepreneur Camp
- David Smith's tweet
- Jessie Char on Layers
How much does it cost to get a Mac that performs as well as an iPad Pro?
Apple's ever-increasing prices
- Ben Thompson's post
#askatp
- How do we power manage our Macs? (via Angelo Fiorentino)
  - Hear Casey on Angelo's show, Double Density!
- What is our photo management workflow? (via Paul Walker)
  - Casey's now-outdated workflow
  - GeoTag
- How does Marco do power testing? (via Dustin Goldman)
  - Plugable USB-C Voltage/Amperage Meter
  - IOKit
Post show: Thanksgiving Desserts of Siracusa County

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301: I Cut Them Up in the Air Nov 20, 2018

Essential's "audiophile" headphone-bump dongle
Follow-up: Total ATP length so far
The Surface Go is more interesting than we thought
An update on youtube-dl and iSH
Google Photos has let Casey down
#askatp
- How would we quarterback a x86 → ARM transition? (via Cameron Kerr)
  - Rosetta
- Can one switch careers into development in one's late-30s?
- How do we slice bagels? (via Dave Altizer)
  - Bagel guillotine
  - Bread knife
Post show: ATP Thanksgiving

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300: First of All, It's Easy Nov 15, 2018

🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉
Follow-up:
- Retina MacBook Air battery replacements are easier
- Mac Pro Pontification
iPad Pro impressions
MacBook Air impressions
#askatp
Post-show: Marco's adventures on YouTube
- MacBook Pro Review (from a year ago)
- Mac Mini Review
- iPad Pro Review
- DJI Osmo Mobile (newer version than what Marco has)
- FiLMiC Pro
- iZotope
- Neewer
- Curtis Judd
- Chase Reeves
- John's channel
- Casey's channel

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299: Headphone Bump Nov 08, 2018

The ATP Store is back!! Place your orders until 15 November!
Follow-up:
- The Good News Podcast #201 with Jeremy Burge
- iPad Pro and Apple Pencil compatibility
- Some Macs' microphones are disconnected by hardware
- Our website is now dark-mode enabled! Thanks, Spencer Wohlers!
iPad Pro impressions
#askatp
- How has being a programmer changed our world view? (via Jonathan Bowling)
  - VIC-20
- Why do high-end iOS devices need so much less RAM than Macs? (via Benedikt Beckmann)
Post-show: More iPad thoughts & John's homework laptop

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298: Protective Sandwich Nov 01, 2018

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297: It Also Deserves to Die Oct 25, 2018

Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets
- Independence #37: Evolution of an App
Follow-up:
- Marco's lookahead limiter
- iOS and memory swapping
  - Wear leveling
- John's last Apple Photos book
The iPhone XR
The forthcoming iPad event
#askatp
- Apple chip naming (via Cameron Deardorff)
  - BMW M1
- What's the last Apple product in each category that had no regressions? (via Michael)
- What do we use Shortcuts.app for? (via Fabian Diehm)
  - A Shortcut to check contact photo sizes
Post-show: Casey's Waffle Woes

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296: Giant Buffers of Floats Oct 18, 2018

Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter
- Accelerate framework
- objc_msgSend()
  - Let's build objc_msgSend
Apple fixes bagel emoji
Follow-up:
- Screen Time issues abound
- Emergency bypass
  - Casey's blog post
- Apple iCloud contacts sync limits
- Apple printer compatibility list
Palm Phone
Photoshop CC on iPad
- Virtual memory
  - Paging
- The Verge's review
#askatp
- How do we stay informed about non-tech news? (via Jake)
  - Overton window
- Did we have a senior project in school? (via Stephen Kim)
  - FLAC
- Which Destiny videos do John watch? (via tobogranyte)
Post-show: Dark patterns in Destiny

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295: Outlets That Suck Oct 11, 2018

Watch pontification
- Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
- ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
- Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
- Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
- Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's story on Chinese spy chips
- Upgrade #214: Nobody Seems to Know Anything
- Joe Fitzpatrick on his interview with Bloomberg
#askatp
- Storyboards for iOS development? (via Bastian Inuk)
- What's the worse compromise: Fusion Drive or hybrid cars? (via Spencer Wohlers)
- Do we enjoy racing games? (via Marc-André Weibezahn)
Post-show: RIP manual transmissions?
- 300whp MR2

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294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever Oct 04, 2018

The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
- The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
- Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
- Apple Watch fall detection is only on by default for people at least 65 years old
Critiquing others' work
- Ken Kocienda's original tweet
- Linda Dong's reply thread (first post)
Mojave
#askatp
- How do I protect from ⚡? (via David Brownman)
  - Trip Lite Isobar 2
- Should I buy a 🎾 or a 📷? (via Matt Taylor)
  - Olympus O-MD E-M10
- The botany of filesystems (via Benjamin Jex)
Post-show: Casey dabbles with a drone

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293: You Know My Pouches Sep 27, 2018

Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
- Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
- Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
  - Steve Troughton-Smith
  - Chris Lattner interview
- iPhone 🎾 is fast
- The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
~~Our~~ Marco & John's new toys
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Post-show: Marco's ocean status

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292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer Sep 20, 2018

Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
- Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
  - Dead man's switch
- 50% faster tessellation... maybe?
  - Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
- Gruber's iPhone review
- Gruber's Watch review
No landscape home screens on XR/XS Max
What did we order?
- John is clairvoyant
- Nomos Minimatik
Testing HomePod's multiple named timers
Overcast 5
- Under the Radar #141: Implementing Search
Post-show Casey on Cars: 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Autobahn
- Video
- Blog post
- Notes from suggestions:

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291: John's Special Day Sep 13, 2018

Follow-up:
- Nokia phone with five cameras
  - We're doing five blades
- Phil: "muhmoji"
Apple's September Event
- Leaked names
- Tim's tweet
- Apple Watch
  - Casey's wrist
  - Ben Bajarin's picture
    - Another side-by-side
  - Thinner... ish?
    - Side view
    - Apple's image
  - Dear Apple video
  - 64-bit with 32-bit pointers?
- iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
  - Todd's tweet
  - Steve Troughton-Smith's tweet
- AirPower?
- HomePod & tvOS
Post-show: John's special day

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290: A Weird Sandwich Sep 06, 2018

Follow-up:
- AirPrint on old printers
- Eero competitors and privacy
- iPhone preorder PSA
iPhone "XS" marketing image found
- ATP #1: iPhone Plus
- Naked Robotic Core
Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
#askatp:
- Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
- Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
- What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
  - Programmer's switch
Post-show Neutral: Casey's walk of shame... but also pride.

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289: Everybody's in the Alliance Aug 30, 2018

Follow-up:
- MoCA and MoCA Bridge
- Hades Canyon NUCs
The AirPort Express lives!
- Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
- Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
iPhone mockups preview
- iPhone SE 2?
- Upgrade #208: The Villain of the Macintosh
#askatp:
- Why run both Plex and Infuse? (via Adam Porter)
- Why are Apple's ARM chips so much faster than their competitors? (via Will Faught)
- What's your home printer setup? (via Mark Igloliorte)
Post-show:
- John's 🐝
- Casey's Car Conundrum

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288: Rich Person's Raspberry Pi Aug 23, 2018

Follow-up:
- Photo books → PDF (File → Export → Export Book as PDF → ☑️ Production PDF)
- Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
- Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
  - This American Life
Low-end Mac rumors
#askatp:
- Long-distance Wi-Fi
- OLED TVs
  - Marco's TV
- Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
  - Top Gear's overview
  - Porsche Taycan
  - Small electric cars:
Post-show: John's 🐝

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287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich Aug 16, 2018

Follow-up:
- Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
  - Finding the settings
- Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
- Backblaze
  - Data retention
  - Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
- Dock auto-hide delay
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
Marco reviews his 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Fall laptop predictions
#askatp:
- Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
  - Squarespace
  - Libsyn
- Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
- Which macOS feature gets 🌆 first? (via Marc Edwards)
  - Konfabulator
  - Graphing calculator story
Post-show: 🐝
- Yellow stripey things

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286: I Respect a Good Crust Aug 09, 2018

Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
- John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
- CrashPlan, John, and Java
  - java mx
  - java mx {newNumber}m
  - SpiderOak
  - BackBlaze
  - BackBlaze B2
  - Arq
- John's Photo books
- AMD and TSMC and 7nm
- DigitalFoundry on the Intel Core i9 9900K
- Some Neutral FU about the Golf R
Apple removes Infowars propoganda from its podcast directory
#askatp:
- Dock strategies (via Fabian Diehm)
- Sleep strategies (via Cecil Scheib)
- Transmission strategies (via Thomas Brock)
Post-show Neutral: Tesla screws up a good thing

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285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House Jul 30, 2018

Follow-up:
- The law is complicated
- Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
- RISC-V
- Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
- Michael Tsai's summary
- Marco's comment
#askatp:
- Overflowing portable drives (via Bronwyn Erb)
  - Casey's Synology primer
- When do we replace our computers? (via Chris Tucker Mear)
  - MacRumors Buyer's Guide
- Swift and Copland 2010 (via Rob Mathers)
  - Copland 2010 revisited
- How is the new Dave Matthews Band album? (via Ted Hardy)
Post-show: Neutral
- Casey on Cars: Volkswagen Golf R
- Blog post

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284: Hotel California Keyboard Jul 26, 2018

Follow-up:
- Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
- Membranes are for ingress prevention
- Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
  - The mythical USB-C hub
  - Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Corrections on the throttling discussion from last week
VRM-throttling theory
Apple's official throttling fix
- Macworld's tests
Intel Power Gadget
- Removed, and then reappears
Intel and the Danger of Integration
#askatp:
- Retina screen settings (via Greg Kolodziejczk)
  - Eye Friendly
- What tech opinions do we regret? (via James)
  - Casey's journey to the Mac
  - The iPhone: I'll care later
- John's pasta-sauce recipe (via James Evans)
  - Rao's Vodka Sauce
Post-show: The ~~Spanish~~ Italian food inquisition
- Lidia's lasagna recipe
- The basis for John's "carbonara"

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283: Just Lower Your Standards Jul 19, 2018

Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
Follow-up:
- Patenting the perpetual motion machine
- Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware the Core i9"
- Reddit thread
- Marco's tweet
- Thermal design power
- Notebook Check tests the 13"
- CPU data sheets:
  - 13": 2017, 2018
  - 15": 2017, 2018
Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:
- Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
- Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
  - NPM
  - CPAN
  - Semantic Versioning
  - Camel
- What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
Post-show Neutral
- Smart Roadster

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282: Not Unreliable Enough Jul 15, 2018

Follow-up:
- Distributing Marzipan Apps
- Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
- Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
#askatp:
- Capturing out-of-warranty hardware (via Ali Shah)
- How do I use a 34" monitor? (via Andrew Troup)
- Lost picture troubleshooting for Brian Sturm
Post-show: Let's talk about Europe.

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281: My Private Siri Jul 02, 2018

Home repairs: Window air conditioners
- Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
- Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
  - Local snapshots maybe?
- Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
- Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
- A A A A Very Good Song lives on?
- Duplicate-file managers:
  - Gemini 2, also on the App Store (via Gualtiero Frigerio)
  - Photo Sweeper
Mojave LaunchServices can launch flat-style app bundles
Google Home impresses John
Apple Maps is getting a whole lotta love
- Google Maps Moat
- Welcome to Joytown
AirPod (and headphone!) rumors
- Apple In-Ear Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM2
#askatp
- Mojave and autiomatic dark mode (via Ishan Sharma)
  - tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
- Back to the... iOS? (via Scott Nourse)
  - Citrix Mouse
- If the Millennium Falcon was a car, what would it be? (via Brent Billings)
Post-show: Neutral

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280: Extinction-Level Event Jun 28, 2018

Follow-up:
- Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
- Adobe is rethinking things
- Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
  - One example of many
- The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
  - A a a a a Very Good Song
Apple launches butterfly-keyboard repair program
- Casey's repair strategy
Marco's new 🏖️💻
- Looking good, buddy.
Marzipan
- Carbon vs. Cocoa
- Gus Mueller's take
- Becky Hansmeyer asks and then answers what makes a Mac app a Mac app?
#askatp
- James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
- Robert Barat wants to know about 4K monitor sizes
  - Bjango's explainer
- Will Law is [justifiably] upset
Post-show: Casey had a falling out with (not of) the Jeep

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279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing Jun 21, 2018

Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
- AT&T International Day Pass
- Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
- Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
  - cp -c
- Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
- Carrying case
John's reload extension lives thanks to Isaac Halvorson
ATP appears in WWDC Session 501: Introducing Podcast Analytics! (~11 minutes)
- Forecast
- MP3 ID3v2 Chapters spec
More on WWDC
- Memoji are gender neutral
- Password improvements and 1Password
  - Default Folder X
- Xcode 10 no longer compiles 32-bit apps
- Office 365 is now in the app store, as with some Adobe stuff.
- Metal and eGPUs
#askatp
- Slow iOS 12 adoption among teens because of big ~~brother~~ parent? (via Somename)
- Are Kindles worth it over iPads for reading? (via Ashely A)
- What does the alternate Apple-bought-Bungie universe look like? (via joshhunt)
  - Marathon
  - Pathways out of darkness
Post-show: "Casey's" Jeep
- IIHS rating

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278: Best Worst Influence Jun 14, 2018

Follow-up:
- WWDC Intro Video
  - It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
  - A perspective from Jen Simmons
  - Feminist Frequency
- It's Road Trip!
RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross)
APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Leinhart)
How's the iOS 12 beta?
Stereo HomePod pair review
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Paradigm Atom
- Zac Hall provides RTFU 1 2
More on iOS 12
- MeasureKit
- FaceID & "Alternative Appearance"
macOS 10.14 Mojave: Possibly The John Siracusa Review
#askatp
- What are essential Mac apps for novices? (via Rodrigo Palau)
  - Casey's Mac install checklist
- Could iMessage for Android exist? (via Jack Johnson)
- Streamed gaming is the new hotness; are consoles going away? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
Post-show: Casey quit his job
- Casey's blog post
- Analog(ue) #134: Running Toward a Better Future

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277: You're Not a Mac App Yet Jun 05, 2018

We're live from WWDC 2018!

iOS 12
- ARKit 2
- Siri Shortcuts
- Activity reports and App Limits
- Notification management
- Memoji
watchOS 5
macOS Mojave
- John's "pile" metaphor
UIKit apps on Mac
Neutral: The electric-scooter invasion

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276: Observing a Black Hole May 31, 2018

App Camp for Girls fundraiser: Live Near WWDC
iOS 11.4
- Messages in the Cloud: Settings → {Your Name} → iCloud → Messages
WWDC
- No OS filter
- Upgrade #195: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2018
Marco's 🏖️💻 problem
- Lavolta Carrying Case for iMac
#askatp
- What is the best way to "accidentally" ~~stalk~~ find us at WWDC? (via CW Bennett)
- How do we maintain multiple development environments? (via Pat Murphy)
Post-show Neutral: Casey is a sad panda

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275: It's Difficult When You’re a Billionaire May 24, 2018

Follow-up:
- People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco?
  - Your logical fallacy is...
- How old are your ears?
  - Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out
  - Cortex #69: Minimum Viable
Tesla and Elon Musk
- Grimes, Elon's girlfriend
- Top Gear kerfuffle
- Elon announces "Pravda"
- United Automobile Workers
- Who would buy Tesla?
- Jaaaaaaaaag-you-are I-Pace
Marco is dabbling with Swift (‼️)
- WWDC 2015 #408 – Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
#askatp
- Is it important to learn vim or emacs? (via Aaron Robeson)
  - BBEdit
- Is it paranoid to avoid Google? (via Luther Richardson)
  - DuckDuckGo
  - Upgrade #194: Game of Jenga with Drivers
- What lenses should one get for a Sony α6500? (via Peter Johnson)
Post-show Neutral: Marco drove something ridiculous

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274: Not the Teddy Bear's Fault May 17, 2018

Yanny vs. Laurel
- New York Times article
Follow-up:
- Raise to listen in 🇨🇳
- Google Duplex
  - Bob Burrough's summary
  - Matt Drance 1 & 2
  - Duplex will identify as non-human
  - First-hand story from retail
Amazon and executive diversity
🤬 Twitter.
Google I/O
- Continued conversation
- Linux on Chromebooks
Apple Keyboard class action lawsuit
- Online petition
Microsoft Surface Hub 2
#askatp
- What's Apple's focus? (via Ish Shabazz)
  - The Talk Show #221: Slathered in Incompetence
- Will the new Mac Pro have only USB-C? (via Owl City)
- What the future for manuals? (via Adam Roark)
Post-show: Casey's Car Corner
- Maserati Levante

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273: Playing You Like a Video Game May 10, 2018

Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X
You should go to Layers
Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee
- Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Google Duplex
20 years of USB
#askatp
- How do we have Finder configured? (via Kymer)
- What do we think about Volvo adopting Google products for their infotainment? (via Andreas Ekegren)
- Cartridges/discs or digital downloads for video games? (via Hutson Hayward)

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272: 60% Satisfied May 01, 2018

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Follow-up:
- More on 32-bit deprecation
- Raise to Listen and phantom audio messages on iPhone X
  - What about Apple Pay and Siri? (via Andrew Milham)
More about Marzipan
What is left for WWDC?
Apple's rumored AR glasses
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
- htmLawed
- Content Security Policy
- NSURLProtocol
  - More at NSHipster
#askatp
- Apple IDs at work (via Alex Faber)
- Camera paranoia (via Ryan Taylor)
  - Previous hack
- CarPlay thoughts (via John)

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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet Apr 26, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier?
  - ATP Interview with Chris Lattner
- Marco's backpack woes
  - Tom Bihn Synapse 25
  - Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
- Marco's Facebook Groups conclusion
NOT A TOUCH SCREEN
Turns out™, Siri sucks
iPhone X Mid-Cycle Performance Review
Safari dark mode?
#askatp
- What does Apple gain by ending 32-bit support? (via Jacob Ford)
- 🙄 Destiny talk 🙄 (blame Juho Leinonen)
- What used Wrangler or convertible would we buy with $15k for weekend fun? (via Mike)
Post-show Neutral: Casey's moving violations

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270: Three Major Zippers Apr 18, 2018

Backpacks:
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
#askatp
- What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither ARM nor x86? (via Colin McKellar)
- Cribbing cooling from the iMac Pro for future not-Pro iMacs (via Scott Nourse)
- How would Apple have treated the Mac Pro and Mac Mini in years past? (via Nick Alexander)
Post-show: Topics we don't feel we need to cover

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269: Cooled by Jellyfish Apr 13, 2018

Follow-up:
- iPhone throttling notification
- macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
  - Learn More...
- ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
- Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
- Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
- San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think it is. Or so we're told. 🤷🏻‍♂️
The Mac Pro and Apple's Pro Workflow Team
#askatp
- Coffee gear (via Bosie Mon Crieff and Doggo Boii)
  - Hand grinders: the skinny one that sucks and the Skerton that sucks less
  - Marco's pricy Hottop Roaster, Basic
    - Midrange pick: Behmor 1600 Plus
    - Entry-level pick: Use an air popper
  - Fancy instant coffees:
    - Sudden Coffee (most convenient)
    - Swift Cup (best tasting)
    - Viola Coffee (smallest to pack)
  - Baratza Virtuoso grinder
  - Brewing methods:
    - AeroPress for small amounts
    - Hario V60 size 03 pour-over for larger amounts
    - Oxo cold-brew maker (not mentioned in the show, but good for cold-brew)
- Which TiVo should one use? (via Bryce Mintie)
- Which clipboard manager? (via KG)
  - Casey uses Alfred
  - Marco uses LaunchBar
  - John uses Pastebot
  - Previously: Jumpcut
Post-show
- Around the Corner

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268: A Tarnished Brass Age Apr 05, 2018

Follow-up:
- HAM radio and GMRS licenses
- New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
- Education feedback
  - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Pulsating help prompts
iCloud's free storage
Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
- ATPTipster: "bug multiplier"
- Rocket app
#askatp
- Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
- Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
- External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
Post-show Neutral:

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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals Mar 31, 2018

Pre-show: Marco's road trip
- Sudden Coffee
- Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
- Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
- Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
  - Keyboard
  - Mouse
  - Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's education event
- Joe Cieplinksi on Twitter
The new 9.7" iPad
- Logitech Crayon
#askatp
- Best bang-for-your-buck Apple products (via Chris Ovrebo)
- Musical ATP hosts (via Anson Jablinski)
- Backpacks for 15" MBP (via "The Italian Stallion" (not John))
  - Casey:
    - Tom Bihn Cadet
    - Tom Bihn Synapse
  - Marco:
  - John:
    - L.L. Bean Quad Pack
- Packing cubes
Post-show: Impossible feats of packing by "Underscore" David Smith

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266: Text Adventure Mode Mar 23, 2018

Follow-up:
- Compound commands in cylinders
- You shut down your computer because of a problem...
- GDPR
  - Personal data
  - PCI
  - HIPAA
This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn...
Apple is developing its own display tech
#askatp
- What's the deal with gaming consoles and "bits"? (via Simon Ejsing)
- What's the deal with sports? (via Johnny O)
- What's the deal with Instagram? (via TT On Air)
  - Reconcilable Differences
Post-show Neutral
- Jaguar iPace
- Cars of Ronin

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265: Simon Says Volume Five Mar 15, 2018

Follow-up:
- Onboarding and GDPR
  - GDPR for web developers
- Slack 💔 IRC
Alexa can solicit follow-up
Siri drama at The Information
- Daring Fireball writeup
Crumb-proof keyboards
MacBook Air refresh?
- The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia
MacBook fantasies
- Casey's USB-C → SD Card Reader
- Anker USB-C charger
WWDC 2018 announced
Apple acquires Texture
- Zinio
#askatp
- Migrations between Macs (via Matt Wallin)
- Polite language in user interfaces (via Bill Balinor)
  - Apple dialog
- Video game completionists (via Chad Toporski)
Post-show: Do working developers need to know the "fundamentals"?

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264: Every Building Has Bugs Mar 07, 2018

Follow-up:
- Laptop arrow keys
  - Dell's abomination
- Erin and Alexa
Onboard all the things
Apple Park is hazardous
#askatp
- Automotive windowing strategies (via Vamsi)
- Slack on Mac vs. IRC (via Peter Gosling)
- The Halting Problem (via Juan Pablo Rodríguez)
  - John's original tweet
  - Fork bomb
Post-show Neutral: What car would we pick for our other hosts?

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263: Old Potato Mar 01, 2018

Follow-up:
- John is on NoMAD
  - Active Directory
  - Jamf's blog post
Casey adopts a new child
- Timber
- Fireball
- AnyList
- Nexia
AOL Instant Messenger handles
- ICQ
Vulkan is coming to macOS
- More from AnandTech
- Metal
Apple's dual-display patent
- ATP #193: The Escape Zone
#asktiff
#askatp
- Max out ❤️ or 🍩? (via Jimmy Bosse)
- 👾 nostalgia (via Brian Middleton)
- 📷 for beginners (via Simon Tännler)
Post-show: Playing for Fun

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262: A Clear Path to Okayness Feb 24, 2018

Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions
Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business
Sonos and wood
Who has a HomePod?
- Echo Spot
- Google Home Mini
Doubting Apple
- "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
- Creative Nomad
Siri
- The Talk Show #215: The "Press Real Hard" Era
Apple pumps the brakes
- Six Colors 2017 report card
- Steven Sinofsky tweets: 28, 31, 32, End
#askatp
- Modular Mac Pro saves the Mac Mini? (via Barton Meeks)
- Why should one avoid monkeying with framerates? (via Alastair Campbell)
  - MakeMKV
- How do you preserve ebooks? (via Benjamin Esham)
  - Calibre
Post-show: Post-show Neutral: Car buying challenge

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261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage Feb 16, 2018

Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout
Follow-up:
- Battery feedback: 1, 2, 3
- Casey's boneheaded mistake
- Marco's grocery-list apps
  - Clear
HomePods put a ring on it
Waze
- CarPlay
- Valentine 1
#askatp
- Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
- What's the deal with Leica cameras?
  - Marco's M9 review
Post-show: Parenting

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260: The Todoyist Problem Feb 09, 2018

Follow-up:
- Is throttling old phones really better?
- Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers?
- Raspberri Pi music player update
  - Plastic Player
  - Mini NES Console
Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it.
Marco's to-do app spirit walk
- Taskpaper
- Due
- AnyList
- Clear
- Todoist
- Omnifocus
- Things
- Fantastical
- Calculator Construction Set
#askatp
- Does Casey miss C#/.NET?
- Single vs. multithreading
  - Embarrassingly parallel
- Meditation
Post-show:
- Baby update
- Casey's Car Corner

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259: I Hired Myself Feb 01, 2018

Who ordered a HomePod?
Casey orders an Ethernet adapter
Casey's Mac "app"
Marco's secret project
#askatp
- Long-term file storage
  - M-Disc
- AAA games for iOS/tvOS (via Lewis Thompson)
Post-show: Casey on Cars Episode 2: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti

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258: Non-Beta Data Jan 25, 2018

Follow up: Battery replacement reticence
iOS 11.3 battery health messaging
macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan
HomePod preorders and ship date announced
- Some interaction tidbits
iOS 11.3 preview
- Bohemian Rhapsody Animoji Karaoke
- Jason Snell's wishful thinking
tvOS 11.3
macOS 10.13.4 and the end of 32-bit
#askatp
- Unifying 3D Touch and long presses (via Todd Vaziri)
- What is AirPlay 2? (via Alex)
  - WWDC 2017 Session
- John's spines (via Andrew Lymn-Penning)
Post-show: BMW are money-grubbing jerks
- Gruber's clarification
- CarPlay availability

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257: Smell the Wind Jan 18, 2018

Casey and Erin had a baby!
- John's first and second dad comics
Casey's photo management workflow
Follow-up: Europe's black Mac
PCalc About screen, revver of fans
ARM Windows PCs
Windows 10 Sets
#askatp
- Non-Pro iMac upgrade cadence (via Erik Berlin)
- John's 🧀 grater (via Andy Hume)
- Messages in iCloud (via Kurt)
Post-show: A gift for Casey

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256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain Jan 11, 2018

Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement
iMac Pro peripherals on eBay
Follow-up: Arctic Silver
Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving customer problems
Follow-up: iPhone X screen burn-in
Marco's iMac Pro, one week in
Sony α7R III review
- DP Review on the α7R III
- Canon 5D Mark IV
#askatp
- Would apple delay the Mac Pro for a new CPU architecture? (via Clint)
- What does root do that sudo doesn't? (via Bryson)
- Sonos One w/ Alexa? (via Jim Andeway)
Post-show:
- Baby baby baby
- Tyco Typhoon Hovercraft
- Typhoon over water

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255: The Thermal Paste Lottery Jan 04, 2018

Apple's battery slowdown PR
- Accelerated rollout
- The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam
- Phone throttling isn't always the issue
iMac Pro thermal throttling
Marco's iMac Pro
- Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard
Intel CPU exploit
#askatp
- What if we had to use iOS? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What if we had to use Windows? (via Brandon Butler)
  - Audacity
- What if we didn't have advertisers? (via Mark W)
Post-show: Marco stages an intervention for Casey
- Free Agents #34: I Think I Just Got Fired

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254: Hot Box With Knobs Dec 26, 2017

Follow up:
- Secure Boot KBase Article
  - Cabel's screenshot
- Women car journalists
  - From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective
#askatp
- Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed)
- RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott)
  - Tiff's OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini
    - Noctua quiet fan
- Soundproofing in our in-home studios (via Joshua Rogers)
iPhone Performance and Battery Age
iOS and macOS apps as one?
Post-show: The Grand Tour season 2 review (so far)
- Sabine Schmitz

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