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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

372: Things Are Degraded Apr 02, 2020

Show notes

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
Post-show follow-up:

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371: Four-Letter Technologies Mar 26, 2020

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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

Show notes

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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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