Accidental Tech Podcast

Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-08-12 18:54 CDT

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:54:01 -0500

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
Follow-up:
- Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
  - SQLite bug write-up
  - Blackbird
- Post-show Neutral
  - Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing
    - CarEdge (via John Siracusa)
    - Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)
      - Wall Street Journal (News+ link)
    - The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)
      - The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men
    - Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)
    - Two options from Colin Macdonald
      - Automatch Consulting
      - Insight Auto Consulting
  - Casey makes some discoveries over the last week
    - Justification from the midwest dealer
    - Ventilated seats
    - Laser headlights
  - Marco takes a spin as well
- John’s passwords pro-tip
- Codex Micro (via St. Chris)
  - Icon keys
- John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭
- Backups
  - Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)
  - …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)
    - Transcend JetDrive
    - BaseQi Adapter
  - Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
- Apple Upgrade
  - Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
  - Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)
- RAMpocalypse
New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons
- Siri
- Chess
- John pours one out for his homie
- Keir’s observation about icon composition
- Safari
- Preview
- Settings
Apple Watch overhaul rumors
- The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)
John’s Passwords pro tip
Post-show: John’s macOS update woes
Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors
- Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
- Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-08-19 18:53 CDT

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:53:01 -0500

Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
- Daikin
  - Home Assistant integration
- Home Assistant Green
Follow-up:
- The OpenAI doughnut
  - What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
  - Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)
    - Biconcave disc
- Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
- Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
- RAMageddon
  - Apple gets lower display prices
  - Apple raises trade-in values
🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉
AI watermarking
- Steganography
- How Claude’s text watermark works
- Pseudorandom number generator
- A wonderful visual guide
- Some 3Blue1Brown homework
  - LLMs explained briefly
    - Next-word prediction probabilities
  - Transformers, the tech behind LLMs
    - Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
    - Image
- Gruber’s take
- Some responses to Gruber
  - Dan Moren
  - Daniel Jalkut
- Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
- Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”
  - I Made This
Post-show: Casey has news
Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-08-26 18:50 CDT

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:50:02 -0500

Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows
- Screen clips
- Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
- TPU for AMS
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind
Follow-up:
- macOS 27 UI tweaks
  - Redesigned stoplights in β6
  - macOS 27 got the new Preview icon
- LLM determinism when temperature = 0
  - Write-up by Horace He
  - IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
- 𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas
  - See also
- Other people’s phones
  - Not sped up! All 1×!
  - i vs. I
Apple iPhone event announced
New Mac mini and Mac Studio
- Core size comparison
- SME replaces AMX in the M6
  - Exploratory Github Repo
  - AMX instruction set
  - SME Introduction
  - Hello SME
  - Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2
- Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)
- High Yield diagram
- M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
- Mac mini
  - Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
  - Mac mini pricing history
    - …inflation-adjusted
  - Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability
  - Gruber on pricing
  - Advertisement
    - Behind the scenes
- Mac Studio
  - Gruber on pricing
  - Advertisement
John’s purchasing journey
- The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
- The accessory that’s also a spoiler
New […ish] keyboards!
- MacRumors coverage
- Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A
- Previously: MXK83LL/A
- John’s keyboard (previously)
  - MMMR3LL/A
  - A2520
New polishing cloth!
- MacRumors coverage
- Copland Supply
Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux due to filesystems? ()
- Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Aactually Slow, It’s ~~macOS~~ APFS’s Fault
- Benchmark 1
- Benchmark 2
- Linux Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-09-02 18:50 CDT

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:50:01 -0500

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
- Luz fooled me, Jerry!
  - Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
  - Mea culpa
- Apple fooled us all
- Siri blobs fix
  - System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)
- John is happy with new Macs timetable
- Are photo libraries on external disks supported?
  - Knowledge base
  - Iris
- Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro
  - Dithering
- Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)
✅ Tim Cook exit interview
- AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)
Phil takes another step toward the door
- Emma Roth at The Verge
- Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too
iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
iPhone event preview
Post-show: John’s storage update
- Backblaze B2
- Amazon S3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro
- 10 May: Mark Gurman
- 3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
- 21 August: Gurman
- 30 August: Gurman

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-09-09 18:42 CDT

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:42:01 -0500

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset™
September 2026 event
Post-show: Jetty update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-09-16 18:49 CDT

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:49:01 -0500

Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-09-23 18:46 CDT

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:46:01 -0500

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- New treats
  - John
    - iPhone 18 Pro
      - John’s case
    - AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case
      - IP57
        
        Dust protected
        
        Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes
      - Oddities
      - Volume control
  - Marco
    - Apple Watch S12 Ceramic
      - Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?
    - Mac mini
  - Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum
- How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
- Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
- Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores
  - Chart
- Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)
iPhone Duo dev tools released
- Aaron Vegh’s video
Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update
- Ubiquiti WAN Switch
- GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti’s new home Wi-Fi that does “full-duplex MLO
- Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
- The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
- Introductory video

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-09-25 18:54 CDT

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:54:01 -0500

Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
- The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
- John’s mouse pad (via Andy)
  - Rounded corners are, bad, maybe?
  - AirPower… desk? 🤨
- John’s weird AirPods 5 issues (via BaumSquad)
- Finding Intel apps in macOS
  - System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps
  - Learn more…
- M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores
- New Mac mini storage caveats
- 𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s)
- iOS 27 vs. Pi-hole
  - dazfuller
  - Aaron Vegh
- GM vs. CarPlay
Apple Watch is listening…
- Steve Riggins
- What about “Hey, Siri”?
- Nick Heer
- MKBHD
Ask ATP:
- What’s the highest mileage we’ve ever gotten to in a car? (via Elliot)
- What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)
- Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)
Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus’s “Intelligent Personal Hub” and Apple’s home AI hub
- Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)
- Intelligent personal hub
- Gurman

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-10-07 18:47 CDT

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:47:01 -0500

Pre-show: Marco tires a Waymo
Follow-up:
- Casey’s MyBMW foibles
  - iMazing
  - Approov
    - BMW case study
  - Screen sharing
  - OBD-II
  - Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian)
  - GL.iNet Comet Q
  - PiKVM
  - Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
- AirPower desk video was by HTX Studio
  - …who previously interviewed Tim Cook! (via Elijah Yap)
  - Original video (via Adeiko)
- Ubiquiti home Wi-Fi vs. Eero
- FiOS CableCARD discontinuation
  - RecDiffs #295: If I Adjust for Europe
- TiVo’s desperation
- One-AirPod vs. two-AirPod audio settings
  - Settings → Accessibility → AirPods → your AirPods
- M6/A20 Pro details
  - High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on A20 Pro
    - Timestamp link to cores discussion @ 9m37s
  - High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on the M6 vs. M5
Rumored October event
- See also, new home trinkets?
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
- Jason Aten on Muse reading his iMessages
- Meta calls foul
Post-show: Casey and Marco go Phishing
- Q Barbecue
- Capital Ale House
- Allianz Ampitheater
- Setlist
- Recording
- Cupertino’s
- iPhone Duo 3D-printing model (you want the variant labeled “Fixed the large black areas showing through.”)
Members-only ATP Overtime: AppZapper 3000 and The Delicious Generation
- Disco Demo video
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-10-14 18:40 CDT

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:40:01 -0500

Apple’s New Home-Related Products
- HomeView
- Apple TV 4K gen 4
- HomePod mini 2
  - Newsroom
  - Intro video
- Home collection
  - Newsroom
  - MacRumors
  - (See also the Schneider press release above)
Post-show: Casey got a UTR-LR
- UTR
- Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: Regarding Passkeys are a Trap…
- Ricky Mondello’s response
- Scott Helme’s response

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-10-22 18:51 CDT

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:51:02 -0500

Pre-show:
- John’s of Bleecker
- Marco and Casey at John’s
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- HomeView
  - When was the HomeView hardware created?
  - Is it expensive? (via Paul Heering)
    - Amazon Echo Show 5: $99
    - Amazon Echo Show 8: $199
    - Amazon Echo Show 11: $249
    - Amazon Echo Show 15: $349
  - Wall-mount & regular HomeView pricing
    - Is it to prevent cheapskates? (via mvk)
    - Is it to prevent add-on dinguses (via Ben O’Matic)
  - Knock-offs coming soon?
  - Turns out, Jimmy is that guy. 😏
  - Phone screen vs. Duo screen
  - Will Marco be adding CarPlay support? (via Rick Allen)
- Apple TV
  - Price history
    - March, 2015: Apple lowers the price from $99 → $69 (timestamp link to 10m14s)
    - Glenn Fleishman’s chart
  - Microphones and HomePods
  - AV1 (via Michael Barnes et al)
    - Reddit feature comparison
  - What is “audio passthrough” (via Andrew Haglund)
    - Explainer from Caleb Denison
- The iPhone Duo has a replaceable cover layer
  - Interview with Kate Bergeron
iPhone Duo Creator Showcase
iPhone Duo preorder experience
iPhone Duo reviews
- MKBHD
- HTX Studio
- Tim Pan
- Joanna Stern
- Nilay Patel & Allison Johnson
- Gruber
- John also brought up Computer Chronicles
Apple “Pro and Tell” event next week
Post-show: Marco has something to share
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- The thing Marco shared
  - 🚨 You will want to click this after Marco introduces it, but before John talks about his experience! 🚨
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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-10-28 18:57 CDT

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:57:01 -0500

Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
- Stock checker
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Time Management is here! 🗣️
iPhone Duo first impressions
- Stephen Robles’s shortcut
New Apple announcements
- Monday: iPad Mini
- Tuesday: M6 iMac
- Tuesday: M6 MacBook Pro
- Wednesday: OLED MacBook Pro
  - Launch video
  - Advertisement
  - 🚨 THE LID LIGHT IS BACK! 🚨
  - Stephen Levy at Wired
  - Design for Touch on Mac
- Mac Studio with 512 GB RAM
Post-show: Marco’s new app, Fineliner
- Parakeet
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is Apple re-entering the server market??

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Accidental Tech Podcast — 2026-10-31 06:15 CDT

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:15:01 -0500