Accidental Tech Podcast – Podcastlijstje

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

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713: I Have Medium Hopes

15 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 15 min
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Apple’s New Home-Related Products Lees meer

HomeView

Newsroom

iMac G4

Intro video

TV commercial

Schneider press release

Wired’s review

WWDC 2026: Rev Up Your CarPlay App

Developer agreement

“HomeView” & “homeOS”

Apple TV 4K gen 4

Nvidia Shield TV

Newsroom

Intro video

MacRumors Buyer’s Guide

New Siri Remote

Precision finding requirements

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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Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy

Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last

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712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized

8 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 17 min
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Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo Lees meer

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

Previously on ATP Overtime

A positive anecdote

A negative anecdote

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

Timestamp link to M6 layout discussion @ 8m9s

Timestamp link to core images @ 12m40s

Timestamp link to A20 vs. M6 core comparison @ 9m37s

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

John’s review of Delicious Library from 2004

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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711: Hot Dog on an Actuator

1 oktober 2026 · 2 uur
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Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers Lees meer

🗣️ 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

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

Casey’s blog post

Casey’s mea culpa

Wait, just kidding

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)

Saturn SL2

Nissan 300ZX

Nissan Maxima

Volvo 200 series

Honda Civic fifth-gen

Porsche IMS bearings

BMW VANOS

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

Home Assistant

Wireshark

Charles Proxy

MQTT

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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Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.

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710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling

24 september 2026 · 2 uur 13 min
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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Lees meer

Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern

The Marco Offset™

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.

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709: Steel-Cable Insurance

17 september 2026 · 2 uur 8 min
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🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A Lees meer

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

The Marco Offset™

Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video

Comparison video

Previously, in 2018

Making of (via Techzha)

Preliminary Geekbench scores

A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)

CPU

GPU

M6

CPU

GPU

M5 Ultra

CPU

iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2

Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)

Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space

Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera

MKBHD’s review

PetaPixel’s Review

Explaining starbursts

Straight vs. rounded examples

Debate on DPReview forums

iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)

iPhone Duo

How will iPhone Mirroring work?

No Action Button 💔

The Duo does have a split keyboard

An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo

Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2

Thomas Ricker at The Verge

Stephen Robles insights

iPhone side-dock example

MagSafe accessories will be… tough

A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)

Apple Pencil support

USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro

Gruber

Steve Troughton-Smith

Fake bezel

Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac

Demo video (Twitter link)

iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing

Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)

Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)

John’s cheap S3 setup

Configuration

CLI invocation:

aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
--bucket my-cool-bucket-name \
--lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \
--transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class

_DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales

Gruber’s breakdown

iPhone 17: 36.5%

iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%

iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%

iPhone 17e: 2.5%

iPhone Air: 1.5%

Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer

Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay

Modesty panel

Command Strips

Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?

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708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin

10 september 2026 · 3 uur 4 min
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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Lees meer

The Marco Offset™

September 2026 event

MacRumors on the cellular chips

SynthID Standard

Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview

Surface Duo

PowerBook Duo

Rafa’s toot about layouts

Apple Developer Videos

Post-show: Jetty update

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU

Ben Thompson’s breakdown

Gruber’s take

Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent

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Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy

Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last

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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost

3 september 2026 · 2 uur 6 min
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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Lees meer

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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706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight

27 augustus 2026 · 2 uur 38 min
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Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows Lees meer

Screen clips

Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)

TPU for AMS

🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Follow-up:

macOS 27 UI tweaks

Redesigned stoplights in β6

Video

Stoplights

Stretchy buttons

Video

Porsche 911, 996 generation

In defense of the fried egg Porsches

Turning off the Siri logo

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)

Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!

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

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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

Front and Center

SwitchGlass

Hyperspace

DragThing

Icon

Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?

Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault

Benchmark 1

Benchmark 2

Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

20 augustus 2026 · 2 uur 30 min
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Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil Lees meer

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! 🎉

E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

Skybridge

Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App

Kanban

Quitter

Forecast

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

CarMax

Previously on ATP…

BMW i4

San Remo Green

A Better Route Planner

EV Stupidity Checklist

Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)

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704: Past the Ternus Horizon

14 augustus 2026 · 2 uur 8 min
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Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn Lees meer

Lutron Caséta Fan Control

Fanimation

Technology Connections video

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

Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen

iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging

All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)

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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