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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

282: Not Unreliable Enough Jul 15, 2018

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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