Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn

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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Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”

Adam Wunn’s blog post

Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine

Follow-up:

Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]

Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode

Be wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)

Ubiquiti High Availability

Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS

SmartPower Cable USP-Cable

“Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion)

Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)

Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs

SuperDuper 4

Previously in the SuperDuper blog…

Apple Upgrade Program

John Voorhees at MacStories

The Verge with example numbers

Apple Upgrade vs. iPhone Upgrade

“Restricted Mode” isn’t about this

Is it worth it? Joe Rossignol answers

macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit

Ask ATP:

What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri)

Backblaze (former sponsor)

Tailscale (former & future sponsor)

What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri)

Wizard zine

Post-show: Casey is car shopping again

Visor

AutoTempest

Bimmer.work

Driveway

Safari extension screenshot

Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress

Codex Micro

Gruber

Quinn’s take

Stack Overflow keyboard

Rumored speaker

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Zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now.

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Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks

Follow-up:

Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post

Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)

Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)

Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis

Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”

An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”

macOS

iOS

More clipboard changes in macOS 27

Video in question

Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies

P. A. Semi

Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors

Slate Truck price & availability announced

Previously on ATP

Apple 🤝 Ford

CarPlay is Additive

Safari on 𝑥OS 27

WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27

Pie chart

A contrary take

Safari MCP server

Federico’s take

Ask ATP:

How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)

How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)

John’s theory

ATP #689

ATP #641

John on replaceable batteries

iPhone SE

TSR

How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)

With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work

Post-show: How does John pack?

InstaCrate

Shibumi

Wind Assist

Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family

RAM

“Side RAM” on the Pros

Supposed leaked drawings

Battery capacities

Bodies

Colors

Original mockups

Thicker?

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Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe

CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault

The dead ATS

The proposed replacement

🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji

Follow-up:

Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App

LosslessCut

Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience

Previously on ATP

Version 85.01 announcement post

FAQ post

Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle

Sony 💔 💿

A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)

CD sales are going up

Price increase corner: Apple Music edition

Chart by BasicAppleGuy

AppleCare+ too

FileMaker

In defense…

CVE

Monday.com

Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years

Scratch

And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻

Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans

EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods

Six additional categories

The Monkey’s Paw

OLED iMacs?

Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)

Bambu X2D

TinkerCAD

Onshape

Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast

WSOLA

F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities

Research paper

Extended write-up

Mechanistic interpretability

Bobby Tables

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Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!

catatp (see also Statistics)

Bootleg visualization

Follow-up:

Public beta check-in

Casey’s iMessage notification issue

Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!

Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files

Mac-assed Mac Apps

Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT

Gruber #1

Gruber #2

Gus Mueller

Gruber

Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)

LaunchAgent

~/Library/LaunchAgents

Casey’s former keyboard

Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A

Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)

Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)

Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers

Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker

Agentic development

Goodbye, Maestral 🫡

Gruber

Apple Sues OpenAI

Apple Inc. vs. Liu

Chance Miller’s summary

The Verge

Gruber

Dithering

OpenAI’s response and part 2

Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition

Unifi Travel Router

Formerly, GL.iNet KVM

GL Comet Q

Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs

Ars Technica

The funeral has begun

Ars Technica on library erasure

The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld

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