Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show:
  • Marco’s window-washing woes
  • Chicken hat dregs
  • ❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
• Follow-up:
  • Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
    • Stable Diffusion Litigation
  • One more from CES: solid-state cooling
    • PC World video
    • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Twitter kills (some) third-party clients
    • Craig Hockenberry
    • The Verge
    • Twitter’s sole “statement”, five days later 🙄 × ∞
    • The Verge on “🫡”
  • Upgrade+ 442: Filing bug reports with Apple
  • An entry from the we-have-the-best-listeners file
• Apple’s Week of Announcements
  • New Macs
    • Dan Moren
    • Color-matched MagSafe cables!!️
    • iStat Menus
  • New HomePods 😱
• Post-show: Casey got the Belkin Continuity Camera doodad
  • External Display Mount
  • Laptop Display Mount

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• Follow-up:
  • Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
    • Apple engineer weighs in
    • Demo video
    • What about external monitors?
  • Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly
  • M1 Mac 8K render test
  • Running iOS apps with IPAs
    • iOS App Store Package
  • CrossOver runs Windows apps/games on M1 Macs — including 32-bit games!
    • Cult of Mac coverage
    • WINE
    • VMWare Fusion
    • Parallels
    • Boot Camp
    • Jeremy White’s explainer
    • Brendan Shanks’s thoughts
  • iOS 14.3 no longer opens the shortcuts app when launching apps from custom icons
    • Widgetsmith (App Store link)
    • HealthView
    • Apple Configurator
  • GitHub’s ICE relationship is indirect
  • De-duplicating Contacts
    • Card → Look for Duplicates...
• It’s been ≈10 years since Build & Analyze #1. What’s changed?
  • Marco at XOXO 2013
  • The Incomparable
  • Hypercritical
  • Ars Technica
  • I Should be Writing
• Scaling the M1 architecture to higher-end machines
  • Marco’s tweet
• #askatp
  • Robot or Not: Cache edition (via Chris Cioffi)
  • Are we concerned about the longevity of M1 chips? (via Colin Devroe)
  • Do we believe in cable management? (via Nick)
• Post-show: Marco’s ruined backpack
  • Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L v1 clearance (current v2 model)
  • Zojirushi SM-SD36 travel mug

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• Pre-Show:
  • Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
• Follow-up:
  • Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
  • A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
  • Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD
• Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
  • Zoomed Photos UI screenshot
  • Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility."
  • We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques
• Wonky design choices
  • Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation
  • OXO Good Grips
  • iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme
  • A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can
  • Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time
• After show:
  • More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
    • John complains about Safari
    • John complains about the Showbot
    • Casey self-censors
    • XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks
  • Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast
    • The ghost of Jury
    • Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013
    • Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks
    • Whether to wait for iOS 8
  • John's Yosemite review status

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• Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
  • RFC 2119
  • FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory?
• Follow-up:
  • John's cheese grater broke
    • Casey's shaming
    • OXO current model
    • John's model
    • Casey's pitched option
    • 99% Invisible: Built on Sand
• Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
• Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
• Apple's new (and "new") laptops
  • MacStories summary
  • Cheaper SSDs
  • Sparse image
  • man tmutil
• #askatp:
  • Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
  • Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
    • fish shell
  • Caring for our 📷 at the 🏖️ (via Tyler Menard)

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• Pre-show: 1⁄3 of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
• Follow-up:
  • Some notes about the ATP store
    • [email protected]
  • Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
    • Bond Bridge
  • Purchases last week
    • AirTag quick impressions
    • Spree
    • Whistle
  • FileVault performance
    • About encrypted storage on your new Mac
  • FileVault and remote management
  • John’s macOS 11.3 woes
    • FB9095615
  • Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
  • Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
  • Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
    • Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
• The Basecamp fiasco
  • Casey Newton’s summary posts
    • #1: Breaking Camp
    • #2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
  • Basecamp’s posts
    • Changes at Basecamp
    • Basecamp’s new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
    • Let it all out
    • Mosaics of positions
    • On making decisions
    • An Update
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Woke
  • Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
• #askatp
  • What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
    • Due
    • AnyList
    • Day One
  • Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
    • ColdFusion
    • Berkshire Hathaway shares
    • Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
  • Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
    • diskDedupe (App Store link)

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