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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

392: Corporate Relationship Counselor Aug 20, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce
Follow-up:
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- ARM Mac dev kits
  - Xbox 360 “Dev Kit”
  - Apple T2
- Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro
- Tim Cook announces Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
- …oh, P.S., Apple’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion left
Casey’s new MacBook Pro
- Casey on Homebrew bundle
- BetterTouchTool
A New Breed of Macs
- Rosetta
Hey.com’s App Store Rejection
Post-show: Brief WWDC predictions
- Connected #299: The Rickies (Summer 2020)

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