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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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