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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

651: Your Judgement About Pockets Aug 07, 2025

Show notes

Pre-Show:
- Brief vacation results
- Tim Cook kisses the… ring
  - Video
Follow-up:
- HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
- TV shootout results
  - Nilay’s comments
- AppleCare One
  - iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
  - iCare Calculator web app
  - John’s experience
- B&H
  - Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
- Retro computing corner
  - Revisiting eWorld
- More on Tahoe
  - Gus Mueller
    - …on checkboxes
    - …on sliders
  - Beta 5 improves selection legibility
- Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
  - Bleeping computer
- Art & science of UI design
  - Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
- Majin Bu
- iPhone 16
Apple’s “Answers” team
Ask ATP:
- How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
  - Jettison
- Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
  - Time Machine local snapshots
    - Deleting snapshots with Disk Utility
  - DevCleaner (App Store link)
  - Github
  - GrandPerspective
  - Disk Inventory X
  - DaisyDisk
- How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
- Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

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650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded Jul 28, 2025

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Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with iperf3
  - Tutorial
  - iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
- Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
  - Research paper
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
  - Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
  - Apple support app → Chat
  - Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
  - Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
  - Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
  - Thoughts from Anonymous
    - JA3/JA4 fingerprint
- The 𝓍26 public betas are out
  - Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
- Tahoe beta 4
  - Contrast will decrease until morale improves
    - Startup disk selection (cropped)
    - Startup disk selection (full)
  - News summaries are back, baby! 😬
Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project

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649: Prove It With Cameras Jul 22, 2025

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Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
- CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
- CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
- iperf3
Follow-up:
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
  - Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
    - F1 TV
    - Vroom
  - John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
    - To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
- John’s toaster update
- AirPods & AppleCare+
- Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
  - defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
- Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
  - mandonam
Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
- Press release
- ChangeDetection.io
- Stratechery (paywalled)
Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
- John’s hat that he likes
- John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
- 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
- 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
- Australian sunscreen video
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?

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648: Part of the Movement Jul 17, 2025

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Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
- Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
- SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
  - Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
  - Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
  - Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
  - FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
- Toolbars
  - Safari
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
    - The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
  - Terminal
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
  - iOS 26 Beta 3
- YouTube’s new player UI
- “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
- HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
  - Demo project
✌️ out, Jeff Williams
- Gruber
- Gurman
Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
- Casey in Dongletown
Post-show: John & Casey review F1
- Plumber Problem
- Guenther Steiner
- Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
- Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
- Casey’s pinball machine
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
- John Giannandrea

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647: You Get One Exclamation Point Jul 07, 2025

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Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
- Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
- FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
- Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
  - Developer downloads
  - ↳ Direct link
- Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
- UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
- Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
  - Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
  - Rebuttal
  - Rebuttal of the rebuttal
  - More from Gary Marcus
  - The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
- HDR in 𝑥26
- iPadOS 26 window limits
- “Glass iPhone” demo
  - ↳ Direct video link
- That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
Ask ATP:
- Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
  - CalDigit TS5+
- What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
  - Atto Xtend SAN
- How does a new grad land a job?
Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
- YouTube Premium Lite
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU

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646: On the Shelf With the Pickles Jul 01, 2025

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Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
- 11 June 2011
- Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
- John’s beloved
- Ninja
- Anova
- After Dark
Follow-up:
- We’re doing good work here, folks
  - YoLink leak sensors
  - Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
  - Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton)
    - Allianz concierge
- Window widget size in Tahoe
- Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2
- Floating tab bars in iOS 26
- Apple “Ducks”
  - The Architect’s Lions
- Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester)
- It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition
  - “We Messed Up”
  - Bullstrap open-bottom case
- Ads in YouTube
  - Why not use uBlock Origin? (via Igor Kulman)
  - …or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown)
RIP FireWire
Apple marketing continues to misfire
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
- OpenAI/Meta leadership talent rivalry
Ask ATP:
- Is it worth buying a laptop where Tahoe is preinstalled? (via François-Olivier Leblanc)
- How much faster will an M4 be than an M1 for Xcode Simulator launches? (via Alistair Logie)
- How do we choose a new UPS? (via David Levine)
Post-show: Marco restaurant-tech MVPs… from his co-hosts!
- Tailscale (Tailscale is a prior sponsor)
  - Casey’s introductory post
  - Tailscale 4via6
- YoLink temperature sensors (even cheaper with a smaller temp. range)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we pay developers like athletes?
- Sam Altman claims Meta has made $100M offers
  - Jack Altman’s podcast
  - Reuters coverage

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645: More Frosting Jun 26, 2025

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Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
- Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
- Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
  - Sneakers (1992)
- ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
- Persistent icon replacement helper apps
  - Pictogram
  - Replacicon
- Tahoe beta 2
  - Finder icon updated!
    - Louie Mantia tries again
  - New menu bar background setting!
    - Beta 2, with background
  - Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor)
  - Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo)
    - Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar
    - <meta name="theme-color">
    - theme_color
    - Yosemite Safari tabs
      - From John’s review
  - Installing betas and DFU mode
    - macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry)
    - DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb)
    - InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
- iOS 26 Beta 2
  - Frost all the things!
  - The case of Marco’s missing download/check buttons
    - Roman’s observation
- iPadOS 26 window limits (via Jon Edwards)
- “Apple Vision Pro 4K” (via Greg Kaplan)
All your data are belong to AI companies
- Apple training models on Feedback attachments ಠ_ಠ
  - Original report from Joachim
- Meta AI staffers take an interesting approach
- New York Times 🤝🏻 Amazon AI
- You can train AI models without copyrighted material… it’s just a pain in the 🍑
- Anthropic gets a W… maybe?
Ask ATP:
- Does Marco use Apple CarKey? His car should support it. (via Samuel Polay)
  - CarPlay Ultra partners list is looking… sparse
  - Ferrari keyfob
- Why does macOS want USB mass storage ejected, but iPadOS doesn’t? (via David Campbell)
Post-show: TV Update for Marco
Members-only ATP Overtime: Overlap between appdev & gamedev
- Coyote time & jump buffering
- Secrets to a great platformer with Unity
- Destiny health
- Examples in our apps

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644: You Have to Invert Jun 19, 2025

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Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- Bespoke 3D-printed mount
- Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
- Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
  - ProcessInfo
  - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
  - SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
  - null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
Liquid Glass
- Adopting Liquid Glass
  - Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things
- Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
- Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
macOS Tahoe
- Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
- Squircle Jail
  - Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
  - Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
  - Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
- Speaking of rounded corners…
  - Build an AppKit App with the New Design
- Chonky stoplights
  - macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
  - -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
- Missing title bars
- Missing menu bar fixes
  - GlassBar
  - Boring Old Menu Bar
- Alignment
- Finder icon controversy
  - Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
  - Michael Flarup
  - D. Griffin Jones
- Icons next to menu items
  - Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
  - Today in the HIG
- Tabs contrast
  - Terminal tabs
- Safari contrast
  - Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari
- Arrow cursor has been updated
  - Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
  - Hand cursor as well
- Floating elements & compartmentalization
- Clipboard history
  - Stephen Robles
  - Overview video
- Future of Rosetta
  - Ars Technica
- New disk image format: ASIF
  - Howard Oakley write-up
iOS 26
- UI impressions
- New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
  - Video
iPadOS 26
- Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…
- Slideover is 💀
- UI impressions
Testing Liquid Glass
- UIDesignRequiresCompatibility
Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
Post-show: WWDC Favorites
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?

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643: You Go to Squircle Jail Jun 10, 2025

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Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- Mario Kart World
WWDC
- F1
- Sam Henri Gold
- Marcel
- Flighty
- Parcel
- Control Plane
- Acorn
Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
- Previously discussed on ATP #609
- GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
- Gary’s 1998 paper
- Gary’s 2001 book

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642: A Rebuilding Year Jun 05, 2025

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Follow-up:
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
- Bono: Stories of Surrender
- Open: An Autobiography
- Rattle and Hum
- Apple Immersive Screenshots:
  - Crowd
  - Stadium
  - TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
- Casey’s toot
- FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
- Retreating to Safety
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS

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