Accidental Tech Podcast

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

Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.

Pre-show: Casey’s oops

Magic TrackPad

Magic Keyboard

Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard

Follow-up:

Casey may have fixed his notification problem!

Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)

RAMAgeddon

Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)

Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)

Steam Machine difficulties

Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)

Collusion! Well, maybe.

Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math

We’re Fable is so back, baby

More at Ars Technica

Siri AI

No web browsing for you!

Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2

Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)

Revamped icons by Parakeet

Design services price list

SwitchGlass

SwitchGlass dark icon

SwitchGlass old icon

Front and Center

Front and Center old icon

Callsheet

Callsheet old icon

Jelly’s write-up

Ste Grainer

The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons

Overcast

Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App

Fire Island Lighthouse

Parakeet’s post about our icons

Apple adds paste protection to Terminal

Apple support document

Opera joins the party

Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData

DevCleaner (App Store link)

Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco

Goose

Big Modern!

Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero

Nugs

Micro Tyvek Wallet

Micro Soft Shell Wallet

Studio Neat

Casey’s fan

Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?

Quinn Nelson’s pitch

Game Porting Toolkit 4

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Parakeet: The icon design studio.

zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now.

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Pre-show: Who’s bored?

🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps

Follow-up:

Nugs and Sonos

As the prophecy foretold… ☹️

Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t

Rumors about Siri AI indexing

Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)

Price increases abound! ☹️

On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)

Steam Machine (More)

Xbox

Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)

Steve Troughton-Smith’s take

Previously, in Palm Pilots

Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓

Financial Times

No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽

Touchscreen MacBook Pro

Intel to fabricate the M7‽

GFHK?

More reporting

New Siri

Iconography

Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition

Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)

Joanna Stern’s review

Gui Rambo’s experiment

Dan Moren

John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)

Question 1

Question 2

Ask ATP:

Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)

If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)

3Blue1Brown

Avoiding Copland 2010

Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)

Casey:

ThinkPad 701C

ThinkPad T30

John:

eMate

Newton 2000

Trashcan

Post-show: Casey asks for technical support

Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS

Announcement video

On the store

All Ubiquiti NAS offerings

Xserve RAID

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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last

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Pre-show:

Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco

Marco’s trip report

Gucci Osteria

Follow-up:

John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)

Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)

Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27

Steve Riggins notes it takes a while

Alex concurs

Apple’s AI Tech Talk

What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)

Bootleg video (via sayrer)

Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)

Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?

New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)

WWDC session on YouTube

The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!

Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel

Tracking Apple’s environmental progress

TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)

Direct product comparisons

Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air

Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)

General overview (via Gui Rambo)

cloudOS job listing

How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)

Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)

Chart

South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures

Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!

25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)

Stephen’s tables

Gruber’s tables

Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨

Good timing:

tmcgeary

Aaron

Greg Pierce

Ask ATP:

Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)

Joe Lion

Blake Patterson

Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)

Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI

Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable

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