Accidental Tech Podcas‪t‬ Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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VPNs and Supervised devices
Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
More on Clubhouse


Chat room
Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
“Ephemeral” Clubhouse


Steve Jobs Stories
Clubhouse is recording you



John “tried” Twitter Spaces


Super Follows
Twitter “Communities”

Overcast 2021.1


Watch Connectivity
WatchKit
UIApplicationDelegate & UISceneDelegate
AUGraph & AVAudioEngine
AVAssetExportSession

How’s Swift going for us?


Swift enums
🤬 Block Syntax
B

#askatp


Do we use non-ISP-provided DNS? (via Alex Guthman)


Pi-hole

What’s our 🤬 problem with Electron, anyway? (via Nathan Roberts)
Would we enjoy an Uber clone powered by Apple autonomous EVs? (via Matt Steiner)

Post-show: Why would one buy an Audi?


Audi RS6
Lexus vs. Mercedes



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Pre-show diversions:


Posting the bootleg
Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries
Marco’s ball situation


Sonos Move

Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker


Requisite link


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Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools
Contacts API updates


Better Trust Through Better Privacy
Autofill Everywhere

Google’s astrophotography mode
Magnets and MagSafe (via Ante Söderholm)
More on Supervised iPhones (via Marc Wickens)


Support document

More on Clubhouse


Upgrade #340: Secret Sauce
Hacking with Swift
Steve Jobs Stories
Burner


Memory safe iBoot implementation


Rust

MacBook Pro models with HDMI and SD card readers?


Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
XJACK

#askatp


Is it safe to use a High Sierra machine after security updates cease? (via John Hovland)
How do we store our parents’ names in our phone’s contacts? (via Colin Meney)
How do I clean up my Dock? (via Harjas Monga)


Desk accessories
Sudden Termination
Automatic Termination


Post-show: Some more kvetching about app-quitting strategies


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Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)


Chatroulette
Party line
Newton’s cradle
Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?

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Living outside the east coast… or America.


The UK explained

The Concert for Charlottesville was posted
Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris)
What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper)


Support article
Helpful PDF

An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jonathan Dietz)


Example M1 smartctl results


dd
fs_usage


Ada and MISRA C for car-computer safety
T568A vs. T568B myths revisited (via Jon B.)


Stack overflow theories


iPhone 13 rumors


Live Tiles
Marco’s microsuction mounting tape

Post-show: Casey’s new toy


Several-year-old Mavic footage
Marco’s old toy



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Pre-show:


RIP, Call Recorder
On re-installing or transferring macOS


Launch Control
launchd
Pixelmator Pro

If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?

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DTKs are worth more now!
iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosseller)
SSD traffic


Two month old SSD
smartmontools
smartctl --all /dev/disk0
Casey’s computations


Casey’s data
John’s data


Marco accidentally invents Docker


Docker on M1 Macs
VMWare Fusion on M1 Macs

Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures


737 MAX
ATP #165: Time Was… (Overcast timestamp link)
Ada Programming Language

Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)

iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service


INPlayMediaIntent
INMediaItemType

Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
Dan Riccio’s new project


microLED
Intel’s USB commercial

#askatp


Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)


A Concert for Charlottesville
Vertical Horizon
Crash Test Dummies
Family Force 5’s Christmas Pageant
Achtung Baby

Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?


Under the Radar #210: Thinking Like a Business
SwitchGlass
Front and Center


Post-show: Pupdate


Kikopup



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Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities


Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience

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Tesla


Model S/X round steering wheel
Touch controlls are force-touch?
Elon says “no more stalks”
NHTSA

Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements
Telling Siri to 🤫
Developer Transition Kit returns
iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask


Gruber’s take

Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars


TN1150


Sony ɑ1


Canon EOS-1D X

#askatp


Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau)


DaisyDisk
Space Gremlin
Grand Perspective

Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell)
How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp)
Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager)


Backblaze


Post-show: Marco is snowed in


Point O’ Woods
Lonelyville
Rize Blade
Sondors



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Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed)
T568A vs. T568B myths busted
Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz)
The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes)
Audio accommodations (via Christpher Klein)


Mimi (App Store link)


Dan Riccio goes into a bunker


Creative Selection

More Mac laptop rumors


Bloomberg
Patently Apple

#askatp


How much do macOS and iOS cost? (via Brenden Becherer)
Do we care about the Sent with Siri footnotes in Messages? (via Rohit Sharma)

Post-show: What is Tesla doing‽


John’s door handle
New Tesla Front
New Tesla Rear
Knight Industries Two Thousand


“Steering Wheel”

F1 Steering Wheels
Tesla Steering Yoke Close-Up


…with icons illuminated




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