Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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272: 60% Satisfied May 01, 2018

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Follow-up:
- More on 32-bit deprecation
- Raise to Listen and phantom audio messages on iPhone X
  - What about Apple Pay and Siri? (via Andrew Milham)
More about Marzipan
What is left for WWDC?
Apple's rumored AR glasses
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
- htmLawed
- Content Security Policy
- NSURLProtocol
  - More at NSHipster
#askatp
- Apple IDs at work (via Alex Faber)
- Camera paranoia (via Ryan Taylor)
  - Previous hack
- CarPlay thoughts (via John)

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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet Apr 26, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier?
  - ATP Interview with Chris Lattner
- Marco's backpack woes
  - Tom Bihn Synapse 25
  - Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
- Marco's Facebook Groups conclusion
NOT A TOUCH SCREEN
Turns out™, Siri sucks
iPhone X Mid-Cycle Performance Review
Safari dark mode?
#askatp
- What does Apple gain by ending 32-bit support? (via Jacob Ford)
- 🙄 Destiny talk 🙄 (blame Juho Leinonen)
- What used Wrangler or convertible would we buy with $15k for weekend fun? (via Mike)
Post-show Neutral: Casey's moving violations

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270: Three Major Zippers Apr 18, 2018

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Backpacks:
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
#askatp
- What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither ARM nor x86? (via Colin McKellar)
- Cribbing cooling from the iMac Pro for future not-Pro iMacs (via Scott Nourse)
- How would Apple have treated the Mac Pro and Mac Mini in years past? (via Nick Alexander)
Post-show: Topics we don't feel we need to cover

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269: Cooled by Jellyfish Apr 13, 2018

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Follow-up:
- iPhone throttling notification
- macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
  - Learn More...
- ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
- Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
- Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
- San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think it is. Or so we're told. 🤷🏻‍♂️
The Mac Pro and Apple's Pro Workflow Team
#askatp
- Coffee gear (via Bosie Mon Crieff and Doggo Boii)
  - Hand grinders: the skinny one that sucks and the Skerton that sucks less
  - Marco's pricy Hottop Roaster, Basic
    - Midrange pick: Behmor 1600 Plus
    - Entry-level pick: Use an air popper
  - Fancy instant coffees:
    - Sudden Coffee (most convenient)
    - Swift Cup (best tasting)
    - Viola Coffee (smallest to pack)
  - Baratza Virtuoso grinder
  - Brewing methods:
    - AeroPress for small amounts
    - Hario V60 size 03 pour-over for larger amounts
    - Oxo cold-brew maker (not mentioned in the show, but good for cold-brew)
- Which TiVo should one use? (via Bryce Mintie)
- Which clipboard manager? (via KG)
  - Casey uses Alfred
  - Marco uses LaunchBar
  - John uses Pastebot
  - Previously: Jumpcut
Post-show
- Around the Corner

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268: A Tarnished Brass Age Apr 05, 2018

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Follow-up:
- HAM radio and GMRS licenses
- New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
- Education feedback
  - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Pulsating help prompts
iCloud's free storage
Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
- ATPTipster: "bug multiplier"
- Rocket app
#askatp
- Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
- Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
- External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
Post-show Neutral:

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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals Mar 31, 2018

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Pre-show: Marco's road trip
- Sudden Coffee
- Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
- Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
- Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
  - Keyboard
  - Mouse
  - Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's education event
- Joe Cieplinksi on Twitter
The new 9.7" iPad
- Logitech Crayon
#askatp
- Best bang-for-your-buck Apple products (via Chris Ovrebo)
- Musical ATP hosts (via Anson Jablinski)
- Backpacks for 15" MBP (via "The Italian Stallion" (not John))
  - Casey:
    - Tom Bihn Cadet
    - Tom Bihn Synapse
  - Marco:
  - John:
    - L.L. Bean Quad Pack
- Packing cubes
Post-show: Impossible feats of packing by "Underscore" David Smith

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266: Text Adventure Mode Mar 23, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Compound commands in cylinders
- You shut down your computer because of a problem...
- GDPR
  - Personal data
  - PCI
  - HIPAA
This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn...
Apple is developing its own display tech
#askatp
- What's the deal with gaming consoles and "bits"? (via Simon Ejsing)
- What's the deal with sports? (via Johnny O)
- What's the deal with Instagram? (via TT On Air)
  - Reconcilable Differences
Post-show Neutral
- Jaguar iPace
- Cars of Ronin

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265: Simon Says Volume Five Mar 15, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Onboarding and GDPR
  - GDPR for web developers
- Slack 💔 IRC
Alexa can solicit follow-up
Siri drama at The Information
- Daring Fireball writeup
Crumb-proof keyboards
MacBook Air refresh?
- The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia
MacBook fantasies
- Casey's USB-C → SD Card Reader
- Anker USB-C charger
WWDC 2018 announced
Apple acquires Texture
- Zinio
#askatp
- Migrations between Macs (via Matt Wallin)
- Polite language in user interfaces (via Bill Balinor)
  - Apple dialog
- Video game completionists (via Chad Toporski)
Post-show: Do working developers need to know the "fundamentals"?

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264: Every Building Has Bugs Mar 07, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Laptop arrow keys
  - Dell's abomination
- Erin and Alexa
Onboard all the things
Apple Park is hazardous
#askatp
- Automotive windowing strategies (via Vamsi)
- Slack on Mac vs. IRC (via Peter Gosling)
- The Halting Problem (via Juan Pablo Rodríguez)
  - John's original tweet
  - Fork bomb
Post-show Neutral: What car would we pick for our other hosts?

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263: Old Potato Mar 01, 2018

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Follow-up:
- John is on NoMAD
  - Active Directory
  - Jamf's blog post
Casey adopts a new child
- Timber
- Fireball
- AnyList
- Nexia
AOL Instant Messenger handles
- ICQ
Vulkan is coming to macOS
- More from AnandTech
- Metal
Apple's dual-display patent
- ATP #193: The Escape Zone
#asktiff
#askatp
- Max out ❤️ or 🍩? (via Jimmy Bosse)
- 👾 nostalgia (via Brian Middleton)
- 📷 for beginners (via Simon Tännler)
Post-show: Playing for Fun

Guest-starring Tiffany Arment!

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