Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

132: Digital Hearth Aug 26, 2015

Show notes

Pre-show:
- Casey's Tom Bihn Cadet review
Follow-up:
- John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther)
- John's Wi-Fi Routers
  - AirPort Extreme Teardown
  - Noctua fan
What computer should Casey buy?
Mouse design
Overcast upgrades at Linode
John's adventures with Safari pinned tab icons
Challenges of an iPad "Pro"
- Cintiq
- Mark Gurman on iPad Pro
- iPad: A Consumption Device, After All? by Lukas Mathis

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131: Finding Your Way Back In Aug 21, 2015

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Pre-show:
- Microphones and Electronics
Follow-up:
- How Intel Skylake is faster
- ECC RAM
- Encrypted backups and password management strategies
  - Mat Honan's hacking story
- Jason Snell on Alphabet on Upgrade (Overcast link)
  - Overcast playlist modification from the web
iPhone rumor time!
- Pink iPhones?
  - Pink Razr
- New materials?
  - iPhone 6 crescent-moon flaw
  - FedEx logo arrow
- Force Touch?
Post-show:
- John, the FiOS Fairy, and wireless routers

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130: Technical Countermeasures Aug 14, 2015

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Follow-up:
- IBM's TrackPoint study
- More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards
- Apple SIM
  - Apple's documentation
  - Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4
- Carrier Performance
  - Feedback from Chris 1 2
- Carrier plans
  - Derek's theory
  - Ben's theory
  - Jeffrey's theory
  - Links from Aaron E
Notebook Xeons
G is for Google
Ad-Blocking Ethics
John's preemptive follow-up on his Star Wars reference.
Post-show:
- How's not-reviewing going for John this summer?
- Marco's new Sony A7R II
  - Phase-detect autofocus
  - Contrast-detect autofocus
  - Focus Pixels
  - The key factors to a high keeper rate:
    - Phase-detect autofocus with continuous subject tracking
    - In-body image stabilization
    - Programmable auto-ISO with high shutter speeds
    - A sensor with low noise at very high ISOs

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129: Tap-to-Click Wizard Aug 06, 2015

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Skylake desktop CPUs launch
Casey joins 2012
2015 iPhone predictions
- Naked robotic core
- It's Ramifications!
Carrier subsidies and pricing games
- AT&T Next
Post-show:
- Repairing iPads
- Hot water heaters
- Marco's new camera

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128: Blue Ring Stud Jul 29, 2015

Show notes

Pre-show:
- Invisible formatting
- Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
- Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
- Samsung SSDs and TRIM
  - MacNN SSD testing
- Marco's cellular-option dilemma
Reddit
- Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
- John slacked off for 46 days
- What makes Twitter marginally less crummy?
- Q&A about policies
El Capitan's Rootless Mode
Mac App Store... still stinks.
- Coda
- Craig Hockenberry on the Mac App Store
Post-show:
- All three hosts learn something new about life as adults.
- Neven Mrgan's CocoaConf talk

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127: Not a Cactus in Sight Jul 22, 2015

Show notes

Pre-follow-up:
- Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
Follow-up:
- Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
- On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter)
- Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
  - Desert Golfing
  - Alto's Adventure
  - Prison Architect
  - Theme Hospital
  - OpenTTD, the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon
Intel's tick-tock seems to be over
Reddit kerfuffle
- CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit?
- Hello Internet #43
- Rocket #26 and #27
- Laurie Voss's two tweets (sorry for the wrong gender pronoun)
Post-show:
- More on Reddit
  - Something Awful Forums
  - Marco's old coffee shop closed

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126: The Web Kind of Happens to You Jul 16, 2015

Show notes

Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations
Follow-up:
- Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government
- Browser choice on iOS
  - Font safety
- TRIM versus over-provisioning
- Half Life is available for the Mac
New iPod Touch
iPod Nano
- Gruber's take
iPod Shuffle
Post-show:

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125: A Better Future for Everybody Jul 10, 2015

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Follow-up:
- Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
- Honda Fit cameras
  - BMW Top View camera
- Classical music on Apple Music
- Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
- American radio sucks
Safari is the new IE
Microsoft eviscerates their phone business
- The frustrating comedy of business speak
- A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft
Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8
- WebOS
- Microsoft Build

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124: The Tyranny of Radio Jul 03, 2015

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Bitcode and portability
  - Dan Gohman's mailing list post
  - Google PNaCL
  - Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2
- 10.10.4 and TRIM support
  - Overview
  - Ars comment thread
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
- The comedy of updating hard drive firmware
Apple Music
Post-show:
- The Apple TV ad that mentions CONFIG.SYS
- Safari is the new IE will be covered next week
- Florida is hot
- TSA Pre-Check
- Global Entry
- Your Daily Lex
- Turning This Car Around
- Traveling with infants on airplanes
- Labyrinth

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123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism Jun 24, 2015

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
  - Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
  - C data types
  - Endianness
  - Data structure alignment
  - Steve Troughton-Smith
  - S1 analysis by Chipworks
- The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
  - Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs
  - Intel Skylake
- Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting
  - Mono's compiler history
- Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR"
John, his watch, and his nose
- Myke was right again
- Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus
Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan
- WebKit Content Blockers
  - Session video with John and Marco
- Safari View Controller to kill minibrowsers
- GlimmerBlocker
- YouTube ad settings
- Ad-banner blindness
- The ethics of running ad-blockers
- AdBlock Plus accepts money from some ad companies whitelisted as Acceptable Ads
- John's Reload Button extension for Safari
TRIM) on non-Apple SSDs
- New trimforce command in El Capitan
After-show:
- Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses.

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