Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card Jan 14, 2016

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Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next.
Plex vs. Infuse
- Mac Power Users on Plex
- Casey's blog post
Follow-up:
- Swift and default final
  - Mocks
  - C#'s treatment (via @neilcronin)
  - Objective-C's equivalent hack
- Rust vs. Swift vs. Go
- MagSafe vs. USB-C
- UpThere
Apple TV Tech Talk
iOS 9.3
- WiFi Assist Update
- f.lux Night Shift
  - PNAS study (PDF)
- iPads in the classroom
  - Connected with Fraser Speirs
Post-show: Wheel of iMacs

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151: The Opposite of Final Jan 08, 2016

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Follow-up:
- UpThere
- iPhone 7 Headphone Jack
New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One
- Griffin "MagSafe"
- Hyper USB-C Hub
CES
- E3
Swift Code of Conduct
- linux-kernel mailing list
- Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post
Swift proposal for default final
- Method swizzling
- Jordan Rose
What does Swift mean for Go and Rust?
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150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot Dec 31, 2015

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Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
Casey gets a new Apple TV
- Plex
- Harmy's Despecialized Editions
Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
- Marco — Apple TV: get better
- Casey — App Store: get better
- John — Mac Pro: get newer
  - ...and a new 5K Cinema Display
- Marco — Finish the Retina transition
- Casey — Swift on the server
  - Taylor
  - Perfect
- John — New filesystem (🔔)
- Marco — Apple Watch: get better
  - Casey's recent re-review
  - The Upgradies
- Casey — Unification of the package management
- John — Apple Pencil for non-Pro iPads
- Marco — iPad Pro: get better
  - ...and an Instagram app for iPad
  - Bonus: iPhone 7 wishes
    - More milliamp hours in the battery
    - More secure feeling in the hand
- Casey — iPhone battery: get better
- John — OLED screens in iPhones
  - Bonus: non-curved OLED TVs with best-in-class picture quality
  - Bonus: TV stations: stop with the logo bugs
- Marco — Apple: show more focus
- John — squash more bugs
Post-show:
- Fantasy Macs
- John G4 review

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149: Everyone’s on Vacation Dec 24, 2015

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Casey's reconciled differences
Three truths and a lie
Marco experiments with his website
Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop
Phil Schiller takes over the App Store
- Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only)
- Apache Mesos
- Les Moonves
CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple
- Riccio's quote
- John Gruber and Phil Schiller on The Talk Show
Upthere
- Bertrand Serlet
- Cloud to Butt
Post-show:
- Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla
- The great bagel dispute

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148: Your Feelings Are Real Dec 18, 2015

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Follow-up:
- Green shifting (see also)
- Continuous release schedules
  - Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version
- iPhone 7 battery theories
4-inch iPhone 6S predictions
Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case
- Marco's slim battery brick
Negativity about Apple
Apple TV App Store challenges
- Ctrl-Walt-Delete: A Cycle of Despair
- BMW X6M
Swift Open Sourcing
Post-show Neutral:
- Casey drives a Tesla Model S

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147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery Dec 11, 2015

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Follow-up:
- The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
- Benefits of Lightning headphones
- USB Type C supports analog audio
- Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
- Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
- Swift/Foundation bridging
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Apple updated all of their OSes
- State of our Watch usage
- What the future may bring for Watch apps
Post-show:
- Three nerds talk about fashion... again. We're sorry.
- Timex Weekender

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146: Control + Money + Smallness Dec 05, 2015

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Follow-up:
- iMacs and IR ports
- mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook
  - German video
    - Vint Cerf
    - DARPA
    - TCP/IP
    - IETF
    - Stuart Cheshire
iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack
Swift goes open-source
Post-show:
- John had a cloudy day.
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145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens Nov 24, 2015

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Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
Follow-up:
- iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays
- iMac insomnia
What 2015 tech are we thankful for?
- John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving
- mDNSResponder (not discoveryd)
  - Functional High Ground
  - Marco's follow-up post
  - Craig Hockenberry on discoveryd (strong language)
- Live Photos & 4K Video
  - Canon 5D Mark II
  - Sony A7R II
    - If you get that, you want this lens, and probably this one too.
- Apple Photos
- Podcasting
  - Under the Radar
  - Overcast
- Olympus O-MD E-M10
  - Casey's review
- Big SSDs
- Slack
- Lightning Digital AV Adapter
- Destiny
- Apple Watch
Post-show bonus items:
- Apple Pencil
- Tesla

‡: Still not Siracusa-approved

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144: Digital Schmear Nov 21, 2015

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Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
Mac App Store certificate problems
iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
Post-show:
- Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K

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143: Capital F, Capital C Nov 13, 2015

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Follow-up:
- Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
- John's children react to the remote
Marco and Apple TV gaming
- Badland
  - Limbo
  - World of Goo
- Provenance
  - f.lux
iPad Pro
Multitasking UI paradigms
- OpenDoc
Post-show: Neutral
- Casey's fender damage

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