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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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701: I Improved My Town Jul 23, 2026

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Follow-up:
- Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
  - LosslessCut
- Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience
- Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
- Sony 💔 💿
  - A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
  - CD sales are going up
- Price increase corner: Apple Music edition
  - Chart by BasicAppleGuy
  - AppleCare+ too
- FileMaker
  - In defense…
    - CVE
    - Monday.com
  - Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years
    - Scratch
  - And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻
Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods
- Six additional categories
- The Monkey’s Paw
OLED iMacs?
Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)
Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast
- WSOLA
- F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities

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700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies Jul 16, 2026

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Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
- catatp (see also Statistics)
- Bootleg visualization
Follow-up:
- Public beta check-in
- Casey’s iMessage notification issue
- Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
- Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
- Mac-assed Mac Apps
- Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)
  - LaunchAgent
    - ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  - Casey’s former keyboard
    - Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A
- Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
- Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
- Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers
Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker
- Agentic development
Goodbye, Maestral 🫡
- Gruber
Apple Sues OpenAI
Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
- Unifi Travel Router
- Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
- GL Comet Q
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs

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699: Not the Correct Squircle Jul 07, 2026

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Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Follow-up:
- Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
- Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
- RAMAgeddon
  - Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
  - Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
  - Steam Machine difficulties
    - Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)
  - Collusion! Well, maybe.
  - Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
- We’re Fable is so back, baby
  - More at Ars Technica
- Siri AI
  - No web browsing for you!
  - Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
  - Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
Revamped icons by Parakeet
Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
- Apple support document
- Opera joins the party
Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
- DevCleaner (App Store link)
Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
- Goose
- Big Modern!
  - Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
- Nugs
- Micro Tyvek Wallet
- Micro Soft Shell Wallet
- Studio Neat
- Casey’s fan
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
- Quinn Nelson’s pitch
- Game Porting Toolkit 4

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698: And Do What? Jun 30, 2026

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Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
- Nugs and Sonos
- As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
- Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
- Rumors about Siri AI indexing
- Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
- Price increases abound! ☹️
  - On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
  - Steam Machine (More)
  - Xbox
  - Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
    - Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
      - Previously, in Palm Pilots
- Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
  - Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
- Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
- GFHK?
- More reporting
New Siri
- Iconography
  - Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
  - Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
- Joanna Stern’s review
- Gui Rambo’s experiment
- Dan Moren
- John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
  - Question 1
  - Question 2
Ask ATP:
- Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
- If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
  - 3Blue1Brown
  - Avoiding Copland 2010
- Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
  - Casey:
    - ThinkPad 701C
    - ThinkPad T30
  - John:
Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS

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697: The Chart Is Terrifying Jun 26, 2026

Show notes

Pre-show:
- Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
- Marco’s trip report
  - Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
- John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
- Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
- Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
  - Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
  - Alex concurs
- Apple’s AI Tech Talk
  - What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
  - Bootleg video (via sayrer)
- Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
- Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
  - New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
    - WWDC session on YouTube
- The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
  - Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
- Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
  - TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
  - Direct product comparisons
    - Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
- Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
  - General overview (via Gui Rambo)
  - cloudOS job listing
  - How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
- Stephen’s tables
- Gruber’s tables
- Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
- Good timing:
Ask ATP:
- Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
  - Joe Lion
  - Blake Patterson
- Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable

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696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It Jun 15, 2026

Show notes

Pre-show:
- We are not dangerously capable
- We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
- Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
  - FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
Follow-up:
- It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
- Indexing for the new Spotlight
- Passwords app does the hard thing
- macOS 27
  - “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
    - Microsoft Bob
  - You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
  - There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    - sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
  - ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
  - The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
  - Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
  - Mickey hands are back
  - They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
  - General Golden Gate icon changes
  - Touch Macs are coming
    - Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
    - ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
  - You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
  - HIG updates for menu icons
- iOS 27
  - Siri AI pull down animation
- iPadOS 27
  - ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
- tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
  - Hardware compatibility
- watchOS
  - Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
- Images
- Quotes
- Dan Moren vanity searches
  - An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
- Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
- 3Blue1Brown transformers video
- Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
- Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
- LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
  - Filippone Stefano’s review
- Ars Technica’s write-up
Post-show: Casey’s trip results
Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
- OpenDoc
- iPhone mirroring resizing

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695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua Jun 09, 2026

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WWDC 2026
- Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
- Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
- Word wall
- Rob Rhyne’s toot
- Weird holes
- Change Detection
- .well-known
- Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
- Music Video
  - Craig’s toot
- Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
- TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince)
- Sam Henri Gold
Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
- White foldable phone
- More details
  - Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
- Case leaks

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694: Potential and Homework Jun 04, 2026

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Pre-show:
- 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
- John and dynamic DNS
  - Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
    - Tailscale Funnel
  - DynDns.org
  - no-ip.org
Follow-up:
- Ferrari Luce
  - John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG)
  - John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
    - Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy
- Bambu’s battle with its users
  - They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins)
  - Jose agrees
- Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith)
- Moving files between volumes
  - Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
- Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
  - Previously on ATP
WWDC 2026
- All systems glow
- Wallpaper
- Gurman prediction
  - More at MacRumors
- macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!]
- Hardware that has been delayed by Siri
- macOS 27 name
- What are we dreading?
- What we’re most excited for?
- What will we miss?
Post-show: Casey wants some advice
- Callsheet
- Channels
- OAuth
- VLAN
- Jellyfin
- Infuse
- SenPlayer (App Store link)
- Tailscale Service
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
- Previously, the DGX Spark
- This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
  - They’re the same… but not
- Surface Laptop Ultra
- Ars Technica

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693: Negative Bonus Points May 29, 2026

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Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
Follow-up:
- Formula 1 on Apple TV
- The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
- SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
  - SVG can do THAT‽
- Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?
- SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
- How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)
- If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?
- Defrag lives on …in APFS
  - diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
    - [disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
  - MJ Tsai
- AI Sentiment
  - AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
  - Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
    - Large Energy User Action Plan
  - Perspectives on art
    - Original Monet
The Ferrari Luce
- Previously on ATP
- Purosangue
- Jaguar I-Pace
- BMW i3
- BMW i8
- GMA T.33
- Porsche Taycan
- Galleries
  - The Verge
  - Car and Driver
    - Exterior
    - Interior
- Coverage
- John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
  - Saturday Night Live
  - Affordance
Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
- How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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692: A Thinking Hitch May 21, 2026

Show notes

Pre-show:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
- Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
Follow-up:
- Cut/copy/paste in Finder
- Terminal
  - John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
  - Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files
  - Fancy shell prompts like Starship
    - KornShell
  - Some other terminal resources
    - The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)
      - The terminal, the TTY, and the shell
    - The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
      - Wizard Zines
- Ignoring node_modules and the like
  - In Dropbox
    - Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas)
    - …or use xattrs
      - Dropbox documentation on ignoring files
      - Automator example from Boz Bundalo
  - In Time Machine
    - pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)
      - Technical explanation
      - Supply chain protection
- 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨
- Reminders
  - Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?
  - Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)
  - Updates in 26.5
  - Flexibits
Why does everyone hate AI?
Post-show: Marco gets geeky
Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
- Why does the Googlebook exist?

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