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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

641: We're Saving That for the Egg May 29, 2025

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Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
- Five Whys
Follow-up:
- SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
- Vision Pro on The Price is Right
- What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
  - Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
  - Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
- Alexa Plus Update
- Neutral:
  - Slate Truck Top Gear review
  - TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
    - There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
    - DeMuro’s review
    - Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
  - Pickup beds over time
Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- DeWalt LED Work Light
- DeWalt Tire Inflator
- DeWalt 60V Blower
- Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
- 3M VHB Tape
- Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
- Knipex Wire Stripper
- Wago Connectors
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple OS rebranding & macOS name predictions

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640: Put It in a Potato May 22, 2025

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Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
  - How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
- SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
  - SpinRite (Intel-only)
- Fornite is back in the US App Store
- Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
  - Previously on ATP
- The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
  - Apple documentation
Apple to open AI models to developers?
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
- Sam and Jony
- Gurman’s coverage
Ask ATP:
- What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
  - FBLA
  - Disc camera
- What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
  - Show art
  - Wheel size explained
- Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meanwhile, in Europe…
- European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
  - Gruber did the math
- New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability

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639: Crimp the World May 15, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
  - Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
  - Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
- AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
- “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
  - A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals App Store rule changes
- Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
  - More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
- Meanwhile, in the App Store…
- Home networking corner
  - Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
  - Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
  - What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
  - Casey’s sitrep
    - 2× U6-LR installed
      - Ugly PoE injectors
    - 10GbE card installed in Synology
    - Switches just arrived
      - Lite 8 PoE
      - Flex Mini
    - Camera time?
Apple Turnover
Some fun Apple media
- Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
  - Gui Rambo’s investigation
- A conversation with Jony Ive
Backblaze drama
Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- Cable Matters
- Marco’s crimping toolkit
Members-only ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever
- Video
- M-DISC

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638: Hop, Hop, Hop May 06, 2025

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Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
  - Blue Man Group
- Epic vs. Apple
Ubiquiti
- Marco Recommendations
- Cloud Gateway Fiber
- changedetection.io
- Pushover
- magicplan
- Ubiquiti Designer
Hyperspace update
Casey’s Coding Corner
- Vibe coding journey
  - GIFWrapped
  - Casey on Bluesky
- SF Symbols journey
Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
- LaTeX
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro successor rumors
- “Vision Air”
- XREAL glasses

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637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls May 01, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
- ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
- A surprising Vision Pro corner:
- D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF
- iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen)
- Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power)
  - Server Part Deals
Judge tells Apple “yeah, no”
Marco returns to YouTube
Ask ATP:
- Is it even possible for Siri to get good? (via David MacQueen)
- Do we stll carry wallets? (via Stephen Klinck)
  - John’s ridiculous wallet
- How do we share photos outside of a family unit? (Dylan Copeland)
Post-show Neutral: Slate Truck
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
- Research paper
- LoRA not LoRa

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636: Nose-Biting Territory Apr 23, 2025

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🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
- Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
  - AliExpress
- AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
  - USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
- Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing user uprising
  (This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.)
- 🫏🕳️ leaders are not good
- John continues to try to spend Marco’s money
  - Rtings’ new glare testing
  - LG G5 brightness
- Apple’s self-service repair program (via Sky Velleity)
iPadOS 19 rumors
Footguns and Synology
- Enshittification
- Ars Technica’s Synology coverage
Post-show: Marco’s first batch of restaurant-tech MVPs
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s AI doctor

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635: An Effective Operator Apr 15, 2025

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Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
  - Message from US Customs & Border Protection
  - Connor Mason’s post about Tim Cook’s top two skills
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
  - John’s boosted post
- Cross-platform photo management
  - Immich (via bapt)
- Nintendo Switch 2
  - 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
    - Specifications
  - Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
  - Other open-world racing games
  - Console games price history
- Dropbox & File Provider
- John’s daughter’s college laptop
- Folding aspect ratios
  - iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
- Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
  - iBoff
  - Introductory video
How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
- MacRumors summary
- More on JG’s Siri leadership
- On Robby Walker
- Cross-towngroup tensions
- That fateful demo
- NIH syndrome
- New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
Post-show: AI mind-share
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces its 2025 TVs

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634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees Apr 10, 2025

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Pre-show:
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
- New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner:
  - Voices of VR #1557: Apple Immersive Video BTS
    - Adventure: Ice Dive
  - VIP: Yankee Stadium
- Feedback on Feedback
  - Some thoughts on scale (via Matthew Fenselau)
    - Fermi Paradox
  - Do indies really get that much email?
  - A response from Apple‽ 🤨 (via Vítor)
- Apple’s big OS redesign
Nintendo Switch 2 launch
- Launch video
- Hands-on:
  - The Verge
  - Ars Technica
- The Joy-Cons are now mice
  - Tweet
- microSD Express only
- Chunky hinges
- Pricing
iPhone 17 Pro 48MP zoom lens
Ask ATP:
- How do we source reviews of purchases? (via Robert Bateau)
- How do I back up my photos?
  - ATP Insider: Photo Workflows
- How do we document complicated setups (via yertle)
Post-show: How do we handle… everything?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s all-glass hardware ambitions
- All-glass Apple Watch?

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633: Moonshoot Apr 01, 2025

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Pre-show:
- 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
- Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
  - ATP #476
  - Hypercritical: Independence Day
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner: Volume control (via D. Griffin Jones & Victor Prieto)
-  & 🇪🇺
  - Prioritization (via Karan J)
  - A less complementary take from Thom Holwerda
  - More theories on behind-closed-doors talks (via illustro)
    - Case document
  - Will EU releases whither? (via David Shayer)
- An anecdote about John Giannandrea (via Wolf)
- Netflix in search on Apple TV (via Ryan Budish)
Sony’s new RGB backlight tech shines
Folding MacBook? Giant iPad? Folding iPhones? Oh, my!
Ask ATP:
- How do we approach feedback? Why are we held to different standards than Apple?
- Are smaller, incremental releases of software killing the joy of a new major version? (via Thom Bullock)
  - Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Post-show: Casey finally stops kicking another can
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vibe coding

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632: The Uncertainty Is Gone Mar 27, 2025

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