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Publisher |: Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Apple,; Technology,; Web Development

Categories Via RSS |: Technology

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

People |: Marco Arment (@marcoarment),; Casey Liss (@caseyliss),; John Siracusa (@siracusa)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: CA /; NY /; Richmond, VA
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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531 Available Episodes (531 Total) / Average duration: 01:59:28

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Apr 20, 2023

01:49:45

The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May.

Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough.
Follow-up:
- macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱
  - John’s demo GIF
  - Demo Video
- CarPlay does avoid some problems
  - Newer version of Casey’s adapter
- GM’s piss-poor decision is only for future EV models (via Nathaniel Irons)
- Apple doesn’t offer lossless Atmos / DTS:X (via Sam Tierney)
  - Infuse post
- Interchangeable lens dust avoidance (via Gilbert Tang)
- Casey doesn’t have to regret his Studio Display yet
- HOAs really do suck
Solid-state buttons dropped from iPhones 15?
A diversion about Apple Watch Family Setup
#askatp:
- Do we run third party anti-malware apps? (via Xerxes)
- Does macOS allow for apps to keep keys and data private from each other? (via Jesse Wilson)
- If John/Tina hadn’t already gotten a Mac Studio, would they get an M2 mini? (via Trieu)
Post-show: Hops is getting nervous. 😬

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Apr 13, 2023

02:03:45

Pre-show:
Follow-up:
- The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native.
- We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s fault
  - Original acknowledgement
- Future update to IceCubes will note verified URLs (via Henrik Nyh)
- Apple Photos De-Duplication 😬
  - Aaron Gabbert’s experience
  - Mathew Schaffer’s experience
    - Example
- Amazon will keep an archive of DPReview…?
- Manual sensor shake on Sony cameras
  - MENU → Setup → Cleaning Mode→ Enter
- Sony cameras & dual-base ISO
General Motors hates your iPhone
Post-show: 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️: The UltraMeh is still ultra meh.
- Dell & Samsung 5K displays

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Apr 07, 2023

02:18:11

Pre-show:
- Mugs & some pint glasses are in stock!
- Fixes:
  - Member’s episodes and iPod & iTunes/Music users (yes, really)
  - Prospective members from 🇮🇳
- Thank you, new and existing members! 💙💙💙
Follow-up:
- Quick correction about the CalDigit TS4
- Apple Photos de-duplication in shared libraries
- Regarding NSTrackingArea’s “quiet” behavior change
- The Radar grass ain’t really greener ☹️
- Camera-related follow-up
  - Ritchie’s Ricoh Recipes
  - Fuji
    - PC AUTO SAVE feature
    - Lightning ↔ SD Card Reader
    - x.com/en-us/products/cameras/X100V">X100V focus tip
    - Gen Z realizes real cameras exist
  - Making EDR photos:
    - Pixelmator Photo (iOS) (App Store link)
      - Adjustment sliders → ... menu → Turn on EDR
    - Pixelmator Pro (Mac) (App Store link)
      - Color adjustments section → Customize → add EDR toggle
      - Only for RAW files?
    - Radiance+ (App Store link)
Superzoom rentals
- Marco’s [mostly rental] haul
- Marco’s sample images
- Sony RX100 VII
- Nikon Coolpix P1000
- Sony RX10 IV
- Fujifilm X-T5
- Fuji 150-600mm lens
- Sony A7R III
- 600mm.htm">Sony 200-600mm lens
- 2× teleconverter
Post-show: Casey’s forthcoming app 🫣
- Analogue #212: Hope Coursing Through My Veins (available sometime Sunday, 9 April)
- The Movie DB
- Obscura
- Sony dual-gain/dual-base ISO and its still-image cameras

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Mar 30, 2023

02:20:28

Pre-show: Samoas vs. Caramel DeLites
Casey found 🎉 More Occasions! 🎉
- John’s anniversary & ATP #476
- Jonathan’s anniversary
ATP Movie Club returns! We watched My Neighbor Totoro
Follow-up:
- HDMI Quick Media Switching (QMS) in action
- Threaded rod suggestions
  - McMaster-Carr
  - Tool lending libraries are a thing (via Sean Cameron & Chris Chelberg)
  - The 🔩 trick
- Camrote for geotagging & control (via Josh Calvetti)
- Baby needs a new set of 🦷
  - Original tweet
- Nairobi’s true Siri experience
  - Benjamin Mayo’s theory
  - Result
- ChatGPT + iOS Shortcut = Smart Siri‽
- Microsoft vs. Bloomberg News
WWDC 2023 Announced
- Special Event
- Under the Radar #265: Old App, New Subscription
- p1000.html">Nikon Coolpix P1000
Let’s attempt another intervention about Radar
- Marco’s recent radar (FB12026558)
- Developer Technical Support
- John’s recent radars (FB11772168 & FB12057505)
  - Toots: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Casey’s thoughts from June 2022
- Jeff Johnson’s thoughts
#askatp:
- What does “federation” even mean, anyway? (via Stephen Gozza)
  - Decoder with Eugen Rochko (Overcast link)
- Is software getting worse? (via Eric Smith)
  - DARPA challenge
- Why does John need lots of GPU in an ARM Mac? (via Thomas Alvarez)
Post-show:
- Please give us members special ideas!
  - ATP on Mastodon
  - ATP Feedback
- …particularly in the spirit of Top Four!
- And, if you’re near Boston, buy John’s camera

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Mar 23, 2023

02:07:22

Pre-show: Marco has solved his Apple Watch Ultra band problem?
Follow-up:
alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html">Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant lost the AI race
- A video of Siri in action
RIP, DPReview 😢
- Chris Niccolls & Jordan Drake to PetaPixel
Marco’s “real” but “small” cameras
- Ricoh GR IIIx
- Fuji X100V (warning: probably above list price)
- Fuji XT-5
Post-show: John is a mad 👨🏻‍🔬

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Mar 16, 2023

01:57:14

Pre-show:
- Marco’s load-bearing pinky
- We stand in support of trans people, including trans youth. 🏳️‍⚧️
- Happy 10th anniversary, ATP!
Follow-up:
- Press ↑ to see the Apple TV screensaver location. (via Ted)
- Recording Screen Time password isn’t possible in iOS 16.4 beta (via Gui Rambo)
- melle points out you can guess the Screen Time passcode ∞ times in some cases. Not good, Bob.
  - Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone
  - Erase All Content and Settings
  - Continue
  - Enter the iPhone passcode
  - Take ∞ guesses at the Screen Time passcode
  - Feedback: FB12006474
- No-passcode iPhone ain’t so smart after all, says Eric deRuiter
- Another approach to prevent iCloud passcode changes, provided by Jenny Oskarsen
  - Change your iPhone passcode
  - After you enter it twice, the phone will ask for your iCloud passcode
  - Hit Cancel; your passcode has been changed, but you will need to enter your current iCloud password to change it
Tim Cook Orders Headset Forward Despite Warnings?
Samsung’s “Space Zoom” is “enhanced” by “AI”
Post-show: Casey’s Watch band problems
- Wirecutter picks

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Mar 09, 2023

02:16:43

Pre-show:
- Declan made an interesting observation
- Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
  - unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
- John has…returned.
Follow-up:
- Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
  - Screen Time passcodes, turns out™, do not protect against takeovers
  - Protecting iCloud Photos (via Erik Smets)
  - Could you previously protect Settings?
  - You can actually set a many-digit numeric-only passcode
- Scam Authenticator App Steals QR Codes 😱
  - Mysk’s comment
- Some absolute maniacs YOLO enthusiasts use no passcodes 😱 × ∞ (via Bob Von Scio)
- However, the kids are alright
- Mikael’s good point on ISP bandwidth
- Apple TV remote with touch disabled has an Achilles heel
- Yellow Things
  - 👎🏻 Best and worst car colors for resale
  - 👍🏻 iPhones 14 in Yellow
    - Dakar Yellow II E36
    - 1991 Toyota MR2
Apple Spring Event… Maybe?
- “Compute Card”
- Upgrade #448: I’m Choosing Optimism
More on John’s COVID project (Affiliate links abound!)
- John’s old 5.1 system: Energy 5.1 Take Classic
- Pioneer VSX-LX305
- SVS Prime Center & map
- Micca MB42X-C & map
- ELAC UC52 & map
- Polk R100
- Polk XT15
- Sonos Sub (Gen 3)
- KEF KC62
- SVS SB-1000
- Sealed vs. Ported subs
  - Kanto
  - Audioholics
- Audio Science Review speaker forum & reviews index
- The problem with most center channel speakers
- KEF Q150
- KEF Q350
Post-show: Some more home theatre talk
- RIAA curve
- John reviews his old receiver

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Mar 02, 2023

02:15:31

Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
Follow-up:
- John’s COVID project
- mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
- Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
- “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
- Adam Wunn on iMazing
- Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
- Bad Apple TV news
- Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
  - Diabeetus
- Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
- Mitigation ideas:
  - Alphanumeric passcodes Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
  - Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
  - Screen Time
    - Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
    - Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
  - Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
  - Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
#askatp:
- Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
- Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging levels? (via MaxLaves)
  - flavour.com/coconutbattery/">Coconut Battery
  - Battery GitHub issue
- Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam

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Feb 24, 2023

02:07:46

Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️
Follow-up:
- Getting a copy of your data from Apple
- On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard)
- A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson)
- More on the Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5 from John Coke and Ian White
  - Linus Tech Tips
- Alternative thoughts on why Xcode downloads are huge (via Michael McGuire)
- Marco should buy a Ford F150 Lightning? Maybe? (via William Vabrinskas)
- Some further thoughts on COVID from Keith, medicinal chemist
iPhone 15 CAD drawings
- …and colors
- MaxTech video
Post-show: Marco has many bits of car news

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Feb 16, 2023

02:08:12

Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
- TFL Offroad
- Your Daily Lex
Follow-up:
- The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
- Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
  - Video review
  - Bundle on Amazon
- What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
  - An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec
  - Streaming App Sentiments
- Current vs. Previous-Gen Apple TV 4K
  - YouTube video
  - Identify your Apple TV model
- imessage-exporter (via Christopher Sardegna)
  - Google Takeout
Apple dropping Product Design Chief role
Mac Studio is one-and-done?
- Jason’s post
#askatp:
- Does subscribing to a dead show cause burden on Overcast? (via Scott Wright)
- Would a 8 × 64 GB MacBook read data 8× faster than a single 512 GB MacBook? (via John Susek)
- How do we handle unknown callers? (via b4rt0s1k)
  - NoMoRobo
Post-show: The Liss family has finally fallen (but are okay though)

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Feb 09, 2023

02:06:04

Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
Follow-up:
- HomePod 2
  - Siri speed test video
    - And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
    - Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
  - HomePod 2 power connector
    - IEC 60320
  - A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
- Foo Fighters performed at iPhone 5 launch (via Sverrir Björgvinsson)
- Twitter shenanigans continue
  - Twitter Dev’s tweet
    - Coverage on The Verge
  - Elon’s completely ambiguous tweet
    - Coverage on The Verge
  - Movetodon killed for reasons
  - flock.vercel.app/">Mastodon Flock still works
  - Paul Haddad reports the new rules
Marco’s HomePod 2 Review
#askatp:
- Will large enterprises set up Mastodon instances? (via Gavin Whitaker)
  - Masto.host
- Why are Xcode downloads so darn huge? (via Nathan Roberts)
- How the heck do you search for code-related help for iOS/macOS stuff? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
- Queryable: iPhone photo search app
Post-show: Audio is difficult
- 🍌 🔌

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Feb 02, 2023

02:09:45

Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry.
- macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists
- iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs
Follow-up:
- Overview of US healthcare terminology
  - Ars Technica on the US healthcare situation
- HomePod updates
  - MKBHD video
  - 9to5Mac’s photo
- Marco’s charging woes (via Jonathan Dietz)
  - A kludgey fix suggested by Conrad Poohs
- M2 Pro/Max
  - MaxTech video
  - Vadim Yuryev
- Backing up iCloud Photo Library
- Khan Academy Kids & ABCMouse
Foldable iPad with carbon fiber kickstand?
Apple’s “Reality Pro” AR/VR goggles: 🎵 what is it good for? 🎵
Post-show: Marco is confused by his iPad
- M539 Restorations

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Jan 26, 2023

01:54:05

Pre-show:
- Frame Game
- ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
- Belated observation of an anniversary
  - Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
- The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
- But the base-model SSD is speeds-m2-macbook-pro-mac-mini.html">far slower… again.
  - Max Tech
- new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html">Twitter officially bans third-party clients
  - Diff (via Andy Baio)
  - Twitter Dev’s tweet
    - Jason’s thoughts, which are 😗👌🏻
    - Jason’s follow-up
  - Twitterrific Goodbye
    - app.com/">Linea
    - Tot
    - xScope
  - Tweetbot Goodbye
    - Ivory
- Twitter does, indeed, seem to be crumbling
- Valentines Day at White Castle
- Unusual ways to listen to ATP
- Some Movie Club follow-up:
  - Regarding Hunt’s language change (via David Watson)
  - Some thoughts from Patrick Warn
    - The Whistle Blower
  - Smarter Every Day gets on the USS Toledo
Marco’s USB-charging question
Apple is exploring touchscreen Macs 😱
#askatp:
- Any app suggestions for young kids? (via Lee Jarvis)
- How in the 🤬 can you move or rename an open document on macOS? (via Brian Coffey)
- How do we handle health insurance [since 🇺🇸 sucks]? (via Nevin)
Post-show: Window-washing follow-up

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Jan 19, 2023

02:22:40

Pre-show:
- Marco’s window-washing woes
- Chicken hat scare-open.gif?v1" alt='"'>dregsscare-close.gif?v1" alt='"'>
- ❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
Follow-up:
- Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
  - Stable Diffusion Litigation
- One more from CES: solid-state cooling
  - PC World video
  - Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Twitter kills (some) third-party clients
  - Craig Hockenberry
  - The Verge
  - Twitter’s sole “statement”, five days later 🙄 × ∞
  - The Verge on “🫡”
- Upgrade+ 442: Filing bug reports with Apple
- An entry from the we-have-the-best-listeners file
Apple’s Week of Announcements
- New Macs
  - Dan Moren
  - Color-matched MagSafe cables‼️
  - iStat Menus
- New HomePods 😱
Post-show: Casey got the Belkin Continuity Camera doodad
- External Display Mount
- Laptop Display Mount

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Jan 09, 2023

02:13:25

Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car
Follow-up:
- Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas)
- Dell 5K monitor
- Dell 6K monitor
  - Teaser video
  - Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456
  - XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384
CES TV News
Qi2 is MagSafe?
Rewind.ai internals (via Kevin Chen)
#askatp:
- What would be important in a “3rd alternative” desktop operating system? (via Stephan Jacobs)
- Do we use RSS? Which apps, if so? (via Andy Clarke)
  - Reeder
  - NetNewsWire
  - Feedbin
  - Unread (App Store link)
  - ReadKit
  - TIN
Post-show:
- 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️ Tesla Steering Wheel Retrofit
- Mercedes EQS SUV brake pedal (via James Russell)
  - Quinn Nelson’s thoughts: 1 & 2 & 3
  - Technology Connections enters the chat: 1 & 2

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Jan 03, 2023

02:10:12

Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake
Follow-up:
- AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee)
- chkbit
  - True Life
  - Diary
Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast
- Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy Outlook
Samsung ViewFinity S9
#askatp:
- How do we backup & store Xcode project folders? (via Eshu Marneedi)
  - Tim Bray on Mastodon search
- How does John feel about lossy streaming on his fancypants new TV? (via Sean Cameron)
  - HDTVtest
- What’s the best way to backup a Photos library to a Synology? (via Justin Fisher)
Post-show: John’s Earthworks Ethos adventure

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Dec 28, 2022

02:13:18

Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
- Project Highrise
- Don’t Starve Together
Follow-up:
- Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
- Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
  - Have I Been Trained?
  - Have I Been Pwned?
- flock.vercel.app/">A fun Twitter → Mastodon web app (via Ted Tschopp)
  - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
  - macos9.app
- Rewind.ai is available
  - Lensa AI (App Store link)
John’s iPad Mystery
- iPad Pro (4th generation)
- iPad Pro (6th generation)
Casey’s AirPods Pro Mystery
Always-On Display Tweaks in iOS 16.2 (via Brandon Butch)
Apple car project hits [yet more] road bumps
#askatp:
- Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway? (via Petar Petrović)
  - Fastmail
  - Squarespace
  - Hover
  - Linode
- What should I do about bit rot? 😱 (via Jeremy Nash)
  - Synology
  - ZFS
  - TrueNAS
  - Unraid
  - Btrfs
- Do we use native mouse acceleration?
  - SteerMouse
Post-show: Christmas Movies

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Dec 22, 2022

01:45:25

Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex
- Superbad
- DIVX
Follow-up:
- Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima?
- Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement?
  - Blink
  - Gecko
- Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris)
- Moisturizers are, indeed, real.
  - Cetaphil: Casey was right, according to everyone
  - O’Keeffe’s Working Hands Cream: Marco’s waxy-barrier pick
  - CeraVe Moisturizing Cream: Marco’s daytime-softness favorite
  - Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream: Another highly-recommended option
Mac Pro, but less so
#askatp:
- Do any of us journal? (via Arthur Dickerson)
  - Day One
- What are the top-level folders on our home directory? (via Matt Toohey)
- How does Casey even use Spaces, anyway? (via Cai)
Post-show: So, uh, what the heck are we gonna do about our theme song?
- Jonathan Mann
- Descript

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Dec 15, 2022

02:09:32

Pre-show: Is moisturizer real?
- Orange Goop
The 🐔🧢 is back!!
Follow-up:
- Recovery keys & backup contacts
  - Apple’s information
  - Oliver Ames’ thoughts
- More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds
  - Tech Talk
  - Request a Refund
- The Sharrow is real, John.
  - WWDC 2017
  - Relevant clip
- Enabling Advanced Data Protection for “enthusiasts”
  - Apple’s support article
- Quitting the Finder
  - defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
- Apple Music Sing, Atmos, and ML
  - Example Goose album
- Tesla adds Apple Music support
Freeform
- app.com">Linea
- Definitely not John’s fridge
Advanced Data Protection and Convergent Encryption
- Stratechery post (requires login)
- Perceptual hashing
Apple will allow Third-Party App Stores in the EU
- The Digital Markets Act
- MacRumors
- Stratechery (requires login)
- Gruber’s take
- Jason’s take
- Apple considers dropping WebKit requirement? 🤨
Post-show: Casey’s [mis]adventures with Docker
- Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Update

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Dec 08, 2022

01:56:33

Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price
Follow-up:
- Mastodon instances and federation
- Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually
- Sharrow
  - 👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing
  - 👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arrow”. But it is. Kinda. Sorta. 🤪
- ButtDB Blackbird has been open-sourced
  - Publisher!
  - Custom string interpolation
  - function-back-deployment.md">Function Back Deployment
Apple announces 3 new “advanced safety features”
- How to generate a recovery key
- Encryption comparison chart
- Joanna Stern’s article (Apple News) & video
- Platform Security Guide
- Wired article
- Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
Apple adds 700 new price points to the App Store
- John and Jason discussed on Upgrade #436: I Bend So Many Spoons
Apple introduces Apple Music Sing
- Federico’s tweet
#askatp:
- How does the Mac Studio compare to John’s ideal computer? (via Daryl Thornton)
- How are we backing up our shared photo libraries? (via Mark Roemermann)
- Why can’t we quit Finder? (via Guilherme Alles)

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Dec 01, 2022

01:50:29

Pre-show: Sharrows
- EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed.
The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs!
Follow-up:
- concurrency-objc.md#defining-asynchronous-objc-methods-in-swift">Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham)
  - Marco’s 🍑💨
- Some updates on Mastodon
- There’s a WWDC video about instrumenting/tracing async issues
- Xfinity Wi-Fi does not use customer’s bandwidth (via Clayton O’Neill)
- Casey’s 🍑💨 about iPad at the park bench picnic table
ffmpeg has been ported to web assembly
Reactions to App Store ads
- Gambling ads
- iCloud Storage Over the Years
- The Talk Show #361: A Fit of Pique with Federico Viticci
- Apple Keynote Search Engine
- Apple Pauses Gambling Ads
- Gruber’s Take
- Michael Tsai
- Employees aren’t happy either
  - More from The Information
- Xcode Ads?
  - defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
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Nov 22, 2022

02:09:12

Pre-show: Marco makes Casey’s day
Follow-up:
- Using network locations in macOS Ventura
- John’s iPhone Cases
  - Bullstrap $85 → $68
  - Ryan London $54
Mastodon
- The Real Slim Shady
- ActivityPub
  - Micro.blog support
- Scalability
- Moderation
- Burnout
- On evaluating new platforms
- twitter-adam-davidson.html">Running an instance is… not easy
- Founder in Time
- Client app reviews by Anna Nicholson
- Client app feature comparison Google Sheet
- Client Apps
  - Official client
  - Metatext
  - Mammoth (TestFlight)
  - Tusker (TestFlight)
  - Toot!
  - Tootle
  - Mast
  - Mercury
  - tooot
  - Fedi
  - Mac Apps
    - Mastonaut
    - Hyperspace Desktop
- FedFinder to find the right instance for you
Hive
Twitter Updates
- The Fradulent King by Ed Z
- Twitter is Going Great
  - Previously
- Twitter is hiring! (🦗)
- App Store rules
- Elon Musk’s sexual misconduct
#askatp:
- Why bother with an Apple TV when modern TVs can do all the same stuff? (via Dominic Lemire)
- Is using an Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot ethical? (via nougatmachine)
- Will data storage ever become scarce? (via Chris Wright)
Post-show: Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
- John’s “Good Products” List

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Nov 17, 2022

02:14:11

Pre-show: John is a Swiftie
Follow-up:
- John’s 2FA transfer options, and a suggestion from particles!
- Automating Watch faces (via Alex Serriere)
- Newer Apple TV 4K models support HDR in YouTube (via Matt Freedman)
- Photos, Smart Albums, and boolean logic (via Jakob)
- Hiding purchases in Music (via Arem)
- Twitter Tribulations
  - musk-twitter-fired-criticism.html">Elon Musk has the world’s thinnest skin
    - Employee corrects Elon
  - He’s also a big jerk
  - H-1B visa
  - Intel 8088
- HomeKit is amazing for some people (via Todd)
  - X10
- Mac enters the third year of “two-year transition”
- Will John and Marco ever be satisfied? (via Jonathan Claydon)
iPhones 14 Satellite Emergency SOS is live
Mastodon
#askatp:
- What’s the best way to download Xcode? (via Eshu Marneedi)
  - Xcodes
  - Reflections on Trusting Tust
- What is the best-designed Mac app that Apple currently makes? (via Claude Zeins)
  - Claris Em@iler
  - Microsoft Entourage
- What advice do we have for leading people at work? (via Andrew Larson)
Post-show: Marco kicks the MySQL-shaped can down the road.
- FCModel
- FMDB

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Nov 10, 2022

02:16:36

THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay! Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!

Pre-show: lol twttr
- Hotline
Follow-up:
- Rewind has stopped using cloud transcription, so, you’re welcome.
- Speaking of screen recording, let’s talk about scare-open.gif?v1" alt='"'>corporate espionage protectionscare-close.gif?v1" alt='"'>
  - DTEX
- Jason has found the answer to John’s confusion about using ML-generated keywords in smart albums
- More on Casey’s wonky iPad volume buttons (via Andre Aguilar and others)
  - Support article
- ECC RAM support is coming to macOS
  - XNU
- Ventura System Settings & third-party preference panes
- Mark U teaches us how to read Apple
- Steve Troughton-Smith also teaches us how to read Apple
John’s “new” 📱 & 🖱️
- John’s mouse
- img-2228.jpeg?v1">John’s 🍄
New Apple TV upgrade experience
Bono apologizes for Songs of Innocence
- How do you remove this darn thing anyway?
- Removal URL
iPhone 15 buttons may go solid-state?
#askatp:
- Is “smart home” tech really worth it? (via James Egg)
- Which host is the fastest typist? (via Mark Richard)
- Why don’t we have interactive home screen widgets yet? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: Marco made a pilgrimage
- John’s of Bleecker Street
- Branchinelli’s

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Nov 03, 2022

02:03:26

Pre-show: Marco’s RTD
- BBEdit doesn’t suck
- Land Rover Defender pressures
Follow-up:
- Casey apologizes to Marco… again
- A small update on Casey’s park bench picnic table and his Verizon-connected iPad Pro
- More on Ventura’s System Settings
  - Apple HIG
  - Removal of scheduled sleep/wake GUI (via Aaron Gillies)
    - Apple support guide
- Casey’s flummoxed by his iPad Pro’s volume buttons
- QMS VRR support is coming to Apple TV 4K
  - HDMI 2.1
- Shared Photo Library
  - Camera toggle
  - “Unsaved” photos
  - De-duplication
  - Face detection
  - Automatic sharing
“Lifestreams” and Rewind
- Previously in the John Podcasting Universe:
  - ATP #66 @ 1h52s
  - RecDiffs #169 @ 53m22s
- Lifestream on Wikipedia
- Academic site
- law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING-CONVERSATIONS-CHART.pdf">Recording laws in all 50 states
- CEO Dan Siroker
- a16z Announcement
- The Entire History of You
  - San Junipero
Elon Musk owns Twitter
- Elon’s poll 🙄 × ∞
- “Welcome to hell, Elon”
- The Talk Show #361
Post-show: Marco somehow makes a leap from the Ultra to unloading a car. 🤨

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Oct 27, 2022

02:14:28

THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY! #🐔👒 The store will be open until Sunday, 13 November! Don’t delay! Our thanks to the teams at Studio Neat, and, as always, Cotton Bureau. Don’t forget, members get 15% off!

Pre-show: Marco’s long local nightmare is now over.
Follow-up:
- Costco has some Sonos stuff on sale starting 20 November
  - arc-sl-shadow-edition-soundbar.product.100696167.html">Arc (on Sonos’ site)
  - 2-pack.product.100527942.html">One SL (on Sonos’ site)
- Fire prevention on airplanes (via Andrew Chase)
- Apple mouse shape history
John’s Ventura app updates
iPad Pro Impressions
Ventura / iOS 16.1 / iPadOS 16.1 Impressions
- Jason’s Review
- ventura-system-settings-preferences-problems.html">Jason on System Settings
Post-show: Joanna Stern’s Interview of Federighi & Joswiak

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Oct 20, 2022

02:27:34

Pre-show: Marco rediscovers his love for programming, by procrastiworking.
Follow-up:
- Apple TV, Match Content, and HDMI QMS
  - QMS Explainer
  - Audio-dejudder
- Casey’s iPhone upgrade, eSIM, and Verizon fees
- Follow-out for Upgrade #429: Freedom Doors
- John’s mouse
  - ATP #449: An Unclean Mouse
  - ATP #361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf
- John’s speaker adventure
- Apple Watch Ultra screen size
  - Nomad Orange Sport Band
New iPads!
- Alex Guyot’s tweet
- ipad-digital-pencil.914-000051.html">Logitech Crayon
- Zac Hall on covers
- Dan Moren’s take
New iPad Pros!
New Apple TV!
Post-show: Casey got scammed on Amazon

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Oct 13, 2022

02:23:42

Pre-show: In a move that surprises nobody, Marco lost a bet
- Coriolis force
Follow-up:
- On portraits and AI image generation
- Glove boxes open via touchscreens‽
  - Model Y review
- Match content setting on the AppleTV (via David Comay)
  - John says “👍🏻”, with reservations
- Mac window management and Stage Manager
- John’s new iPhone case
- Repairing original HomePods (via Timo Bruck)
  - Common issues list
  - Tutorial video
- AI image generation and photography
Apple is turning into Google/Facebook?
- Upgrade+ #427: He Renouned Lederhosen The segment in question was the Upgrade+ segment of the week, which requires membership.
- Ninety-Five Theses
- Dithering, 30 September episode, ~8:40 in
- Paul Haddad
- Sebastiaan de With
- MJ Tsai
- TV ads?
#askatp:
- When will we get a bezel-less Apple Watch? (via Bryan)
  - _’s discovery
- Why would one want a M1 Max Mac Studio over an equivalent M1 Max MacBook Pro? (via John Enger)
- Why does router range matter? (via Andy Hyde)
Post-show: Casey has some thoughts about Sonos
- Casey’s shopping list
  - Arc
  - Sub Gen 3
  - One SL
  - Port
  - Roam
- Belkin Soundform Connect
- Arc Unboxing
- Lutron Caséta Pico Remote
- Eric Welander’s Caséta Pico Remote video
- Funk it Up

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Oct 06, 2022

02:10:13

Follow-up:
- Marco has settled on the Peak Design case
- What even is in Shared Photo Libraries, anyway?
The 🇪🇺 USB-C mandate passes a vote
AI Art
- Cortex #133: The Ethics of AI Art
- Projects
  - DALL-E
  - Stable Diffusion
    - DiffusionBee to run it on an Apple Silicon Mac
  - Midjourney
  - Google Imagen
- Artist found private medical record photos in AI training image set
- Everything is a Remix
- Ornithopter
- GitHub Copilot
- Light & Magic
#askatp:
- Can we give a primer on macOS window management? (via Philipp)
  - Philipp, I’m so sorry for my beloved co-hosts muddying the waters even worse, despite my best efforts -CML
- How do we plan & track app development work? (via Dan Leehr)
- How does John manage color on his TV? (via David Comay & Jeff Nachbar)
Post-show: Casey tries to recover from our earlier debacle
- SwitchGlass
- Front and Center

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Sep 29, 2022

02:26:12

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together.

Pre-show:
- Marco has glasses
  - glasses1.jpg">Too big according to John
  - glasses2.jpg">Too big according to anyone
  - glasses3.jpg">“Big Steve Jobs energy”
  - glasses4.jpg">The Steve Jobs frames (we think)
- …and iPhone cases
  - Pitaka MagEZ Case 3
  - Peak Design Everyday Case for iPhone
- ATP Movie Club: Episode 3: Edge of Tomorrow
  - Remember, only for members!
Follow-up:
- iCloud Shared Photo Library limitations
- There are lots of creaky clear cases out there
- Stage Manager ipad-os-16-stage-manager-for-older-i-pads-171218520.html">will support older iPads
  - UIScreen.main
  - NSScreen.main
- When the always-on iPhone display goes dark
- Black-and-white always-on Lock Screen
  - Settings → Focus → {focus mode} → Options → Enable Dim Lock Screen
- Casey has some Apple Store experiences
  - Apple Watch Ultra
    - Alpine Loop
    - _’s Video
  - Returning a Solo Loop
    - TechCrunch coverage from 2020
Marco masquerades as a wedding photographer again
#askatp:
- Does the always-on display increase burn-in risk? (via Steve Holroyd)
- What is our version control strategy? (via Thomas Ferraro)
  - GitHub Flow
  - Oh 💩, Git!?!
- Do we use the production or beta versions of our own apps? (via Nick Clinch)
Post-show:
- Casey moves from Heroku → Linode
- John encourages Marco to walk through a forest and fight dragons

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Sep 22, 2022

02:13:17

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together.

Pre-show:
- Relay FM Feuding Families
- ATP Movie Club: Episode 2: The Rundown
  - Remember, only for members!
  - Casey’s traumatic moment, captured
Follow-up:
- Apple Pay and “valid” addresses
- iPhone 14 has revised, easily-repairable internals
  - Repair costs
  - SIM tray spacer
- John’s second iPhone case
  - Bullstrap case
  - Ryan London case
- Marco’s case updates
  - Pitaka Case
- Casey’s on the HDHomeRun Prime with Channels Train
  - PCMCIA
- Glasses updates
  - Blue-blocking lenses were universally panned
  - Zenni Optical
- Apple’s upgrade guide (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
iPhones 14 Pro Experience
- John on the Podcastathon
- Apple’s guidance on transferring watches
- bar.jpg">John’s status bar
- Halide
- Ryan Jones’s chart about camera bumps
- Paste warning is a bug
- Gruber’s chart
Post-show:
- Marco’s car wears a watch (image)

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Sep 15, 2022

02:03:14

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together.

Extended Pre-show:
- Marco finally catches up to Casey & John
  - Dilating drops
- 🎉 ATP EPISODE 500!!! 🎉
  - catatp
  - ATP Episode #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
  - Mac OS iguana easter egg (video)
  - Mac OS iguana easter egg explanation
  - Some discussions about a 🆕 special members-only perk
Follow-up:
- John’s Polarizer & lens protector
  - Special relativity
  - Variable Neutral Density Filter
  - Bell’s Theorem (via Stepan Dolezal)
  - Polarizing Filter (via Rob Sayre)
  - UV Filters are useless? (also via Rob Sayre)
- iPhone focal lengths spreadsheet (by Colin Robertson)
  - 2× crop goes from 9.8 × 7.3mm → 4.9 × 3.65mm
  - Prior 2× cameras were 4 × 3mm
- Satellite location sharing
  - Collect calls
- Apple Watch S8 is basically the same CPU as S6 & S7
- Apple Delays iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Dynamic Island name recommendation from Dan Engler
  - API
  - The Verge’s iPhone 14 Pro review
    - Subpixel rendering
    - Pentile display
- Krebs unequivocally walks back the Ubiquiti reporting
What did the hosts order last week?
- John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
- John’s forthcoming black-leather iPhone 14 Pro case
Marco races the clock
Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
Post-show: Marco asks for tips about 👓

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Sep 08, 2022

02:34:35

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together.

Pre-show: A bidding war for a good cause
Apple Event, September 2022
Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
Post-show: Leaks abound

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Sep 01, 2022

02:24:25

Please donate to St. Jude! Let’s cure childhood cancer together.

Pre-show: Marco has leveled-up as a nerd. 🤓
- HP M182nw
Follow-up:
- John’s polarizer and lens protector
- Calibration of Rock Band instruments (via Johannes Zander)
- Casey got buzzed by Apple Maps cars
  - “Image Collection” Locations (via Holgr in the chat)
Apple Watch Series 7 exit interview
iPhone 13 Pro exit interview
- John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
iPhone 14 & 14 Pro expectations
- Single pill/lozenge?
  - Gurman confirmation
- Garmin InReach
Apple Watch Series 8 expectations
- G-Shock
- Garmin adventure watches
AirPods Pro 2?
Don’t miss our special ending theme (thanks, Jonathan Mann!)
Post-show: 👃🏻❓

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Aug 25, 2022

02:16:06

Pre-show Netural: In a shocking piece of news, Marco’s Defender hasn’t exploded (yet)!
- Marco’s “Thule”
- Casey’s WireLiss CarPlay Adapter
- 🇸🇪 Study on Touchscreens vs. Physical Controls
- 2.fit_lim.size_1536x.jpg">Example XC90 touchscreen
Follow-up:
- On people copying S3 API
- CarPlay navigation voice volume
  - Former setting, prior to iOS 15 (via Daniel Finley)
  - Use the driver’s side volume control on the wheel to adjust volume (via Josh Biggs)
- Postpartum doulas are a thing (via Matt Rigby)
- 4K TV
  - 4k-banner.png">FiOS channel stand-by banner recording
  - A godawful map of 4K over the air
    - A rough crack at a vastly improved map via chatroom user SageOlson
  - RVA has 4K
- Audio/video sync
  - Catchin’ Sync (also via Matt Rigby)
  - Catchin’ Sync on the App Store
  - delay-source-h265.png">John’s first attempt at sync (H265)
  - delay-source-webm.png">John’s second attempt at sync (WebM 1)
  - delay-source-webm-2.png">John’s third attempt at sync (WebM 2)
- TiVo ad skipping
- Casey’s feedbacks
  - FB10566546 is fixed! 🎉
  - FB11080380 is fixed, but includes a new regression. ☯️
  - Five other bugs have had no responses yet, though. 💔
- Marco’s bug (FB10758252) is fixed! 🎉
- Running to the press never helps
  - Martin Pilkington
  - Björn Skoglund
Apple Event is Wednesday, September 7
iPadOS is delayed
The recent Plex Hack
#askatp:
- How in the world are some app updates multiple hundreds of megabytes‽ (via Bart Kowalski)
  - Paws
  - Swagger
- What do we think of Svalt? (via Robert Campbell)
  - Thermal Pads
Post-show: Casey’s modified his car
- 19” Englishtowns
- 18” Pretorias

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Aug 18, 2022

02:34:57

Follow-up:
- What’s up with 🚩 on the 🏖️ in 🇦🇺? (via Ross Poulton)
- John’s TV
  - Channels vs. TiVo vs. FiOS TV
  - TVEverwhere
  - HDHomeRun Prime
  - Christina’s Tweet
- John’s tips for alleviating audio delays
  - Calibration Video
  - delay.png">Screenshot
- Niki Tonsky’s System Settings wonkiness thread
  - Jason on Network Locations
  - Invisible confirm button
Casey has some thoughts and feelings about Feedback/Radar
- For Apple people, these are Casey’s bugs. He has received no response on any of them.
  - FB11080380 (filed 5 August)
  - FB10684032 (filed 14 July)
  - FB10491818 (filed 14 July)
  - FB10636765 (filed 12 July)
  - FB10566546 (filed 7 July)
  - FB10394633 (filed 21 June)
  - FB10391991 (filed 21 June)
- Marco’s bug: FB10758252 (response, paraphrased: you’re holding it wrong/it’s broken as designed)
- Serenity’s tip about documentation Feedback
#askatp:
- How does one manage DNS and certificates for home servers? (via Christopher Anderson)
  - hole.net/t/howto-using-pi-hole-as-lan-dns-server/533">Pi-Hole local DNS
  - Tailscale
  - hosts
  - Synology QuickConnect
- What should a first-time parent know? (via Carlos Quinela)
  - Baby Connect
- How do we protect our focus time and balance versus family time? (via Nick Serrano)
Post-show: John rents a Toyota Camry and 🗣 HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT CARPLAY 🗣

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Aug 11, 2022

02:12:26

Follow-up:
- Android totally copying Java was fair use (via Rob Sayre)
  - Oracle’s S3 clone
- Branded tires (via TK & Sam Abuelsamid)
  - Ford demands Goodyear remove Wrangler branding
- John’s TV updates
Vacation Tech Retrospective
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s Car Charcuterie
- FJ Cruiser
- Toyota 4Runner
- 4xe.html">Jeep Wrangler 4xe
- Land Rover Defender
- Ford Bronco
- Rivian R1S

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Aug 04, 2022

02:01:33

Pre-show: Geometry Dash
- Number Munchers
  - munchers.html">Number Munchers on Classic Reload
  - Number Munchers on the App Store
- Unity
- Unity CEO’s colorful opinions
- The Talk Show #353: Shop Different
- Playdate Pulp
- VVVVVV
- FromSoftware
Follow-up:
- John on M1 MacBook Air vs. M2 MacBook Air speakers
- You can set up Fastmail to have a catch-all
  - Casey’s referral code
- Find My on vacation
  - Steps via Steve J. Stutz
    1. Open Find My
    2. Tap Devices
    3. Tap on the device you want to silence
    4. Scroll down and under Notifications toggle off Notify When Left Behind
  - Paul Squires understood the assignment
- HomeKit automation & locations
  - Derek Martin has tips regarding how to transfer to a new home address
  - Jim Bruhn provides instructions for how to disable hub features:
    1. Settings
    2. Airplay and HomeKit
    3. Home Hub → My Home
    4. Switch to Disconnected
- Are there any decent AppleTV photo-viewer apps? (via Torb Lunde Mirada)
- Contact address ordering
  - Reorder It! from @takaaki024app (via philuop)
- Robb Woodring saves the day with changing default messaging address/number
  1. Go to an existing thread
  2. Tap the name of the person at the top
  3. Tap Info
  4. Tap and hold the Message/bubble icon
  5. Select the appropriate number
- Unlocking automotive features
  - Blaine Toups’ Jaguar F-Type’s two extra cylinders
    - Car & Driver write-up
  - Tesla’s Acceleration Boost (via Josh Rapoport)
  - Sean Harding makes a good point about API deprecation
John’s New TV
Post-show: Is it okay to copy a competitor’s API?
- S3
- Cloudflare R2
- Linode Object Storage Service
- storage.html">Backblaze B2
- Ceph
- Transmit

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Jul 31, 2022

02:09:48

Pre-show: Last two weeks updates
Follow-up:
- Custom 🇦🇺 emails (via Mark Vos & Brendan Ragan)
  - .id.au Rules
  - Casey’s Fastmail Referral Code
- BMW subscriptions (via Chris Church)
  - BBC Coverage
  - Amazon Remote-Deletes 1984 from Kindles
  - ebook.com">Calibre
- Steve Stutz tells us you can get the mophie 3-in-1’s from Zagg at a discount
- 🇪🇺 & USB-C regulations (via Vern Johnson)
- Address & contacts (via Soluble Apps and Sherif Hassabo)
  - vCard
#askatp:
- Can an indie app enter a crowded field? (via Abel Demoz)
- Why don’t we use cross-platform frameworks? (via Russel Bernau)
- Is Time Machine still the best feature ever implemented on the Mac? (via Guilherme Alles)
- Would John potentially void his TV’s warranty to prevent auto-dimming? (via Mark Vos)
  - HDTVTest’s Video
  - RTings’ Burn-In Test
- Has John decided on a backup strategy for his son’s MacBook Air? (via Brian Lazarz)
Post-show: Casey’s HomeKit Adventures

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Jul 20, 2022

01:56:52

Pre-show: Air conditioners, memories, and house veins
- Mini-split
Follow-up:
- M2 MacBook Air [also] thermal throttles
- John’s Mac Studio safety straps
- M2 has Ultra-Wideband Chip?
- Default destination for Messages
  - Apple
  - Jann Gobble
- IPSec is not mandatory for IPv6 (via Brian Petersen)
  - Wikipedia
  - Squozen
AirPlay & Touch Bar network problems
- Mnpn
- Writeup
Apple Patents Dual “Pro Stand”
- Casey’s stand
EU may mandate USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
#askatp
- How do we manage mail notifications on our devices? (via Michael Chan)
  - Mimestream
  - Swift Mail (for Fastmail/JMAP)
- How do we backup our photos/videos? (via Don Clark)
- Do we think macOS will bloat enough to make Apple Silicon seem slow? (Nitesh Singh)
- Why does John say “program” from time to time? (via William Reynish)
  - SwitchGlass
- How does a current-whippersnapper pick a decent custom domain for email? (via Fletcher O’Connor)
  - Casey’s Fastmail referral code
- How does John prepare the way for a Mac to enter cold storage? (via Dave Braasch)
Post-show: Updates on our SwiftUI journeys

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Jul 14, 2022

02:04:22

Casey and Marco have 99 problems, and SwiftUI is every. damn. one. of. them.
- Casey’s problems
  - PhotosPicker
    - FB10491818
    - FB10566546
  - presentationDetents()
    - FB10636765
  - ImageRenderer
    - FB10393458
- Under the Radar #246: Hard Forks
- UIStackView
- UIViewRepresentable
- UIHostingController
- Pointer
Follow-up:
- Alternative hole.net">pi-hole fix
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- Switching bbetween SwiftUI’s HStack & VStack
- Updating the .if() modifier
  - objc.io explainer
  - WWDC 2021: Demistify SwiftUI
- macOS Support Lifetime
- IPv6 Benefits (via Dan Chandler)
jony-ive-end-agreement.html">Apple & Ive Break Up
Sony’s new gaming monitor
- Hardware Unboxed review
#askatp
- How does one diagnose a Mac randomly waking from sleep? (via Radu Piroșca)
  - SleepAid
- What do we do when someone changes their phone number?
- What would get us to leave the hell site? (via Carl Rozas)
  - micro.blog
  - Mastodon
Post-show: BMW is charging subscriptions for… seat heaters‽

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Jul 07, 2022

02:05:03

Pre-show: Some thoughts on who should have agency over womens’ bodies
Follow-up:
- Using a M1 Mac mini as a Plex server
  - Other video transcoding
- M2 MacBook Air available to order Friday at 8 AM OTTZ
- Quick hole.net">Pi-hole tip from Tod Weitzel
- Advantages for Apple getting into Buy Now, Pay Later
- A possible motive for bitcode deprecation
  - LLVM
- Why passkeys will be simpler and more secure than passwords
- Janis Peukert asks some questions about passkeys
  - appleid.apple.com
  - App-specific Passwords
- On stateful hardware controls
  - Dancing faders (via Jordan McEwen)
  - Guitar amplifiers (via Samuel Cohen)
  - AirFrance Flight 447 (via Dave Rowenhorst)
  - Anton Yelchin’s odd death back in 2016
    - ZF 8HP transmission
Apple announces Lockdown Mode
M2 MacBook Pro thermal throttling issues
- MaxTech’s video (timestamp link)
- Gary from The Everyday Dad can’t reproduce the issue
- Hardware Unboxed: Apple M2 Review
Some notes on macOS Ventura Beta 3
- System Settings
- iCloud Shared Photo Library
Post-show: Marco is diving into SwiftUI
- Carbon
- .if()

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Jun 30, 2022

01:54:46

Pre-show: Marco flirts with his past
Follow-up:
- Bitcode has been deprecated
  - Previously, on ATP #205 (Overcast timestamp link) (Transcript)
- New big HomePod rumor
- Ricky on Passkey syncing
  - YubiKey
- Very important Caffè Macs follow-up
- BNPL
  - Planet Money
The 256GB 13” M2 MacBook Pro has crummy SSD performance
15” MacBook… something?
#askatp
- What makes WWDC ‘22 different than the before times? (via Elijah Yap)
- Are we living in the gilded age for Mac professionals? (via Wade Tregaskis)
- How close is APFS (🛎️) to ZFS? (via Dave Aton)
Post-show:
- Casey impulse-bought a computer
- Marco traded in iPads
- Casey got his Playdate

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Jun 23, 2022

01:55:14

Pre-show: Marco’s HomePod journey continues
- HomePod mini
- USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
Follow-up:
- iPad Pro (2018) has 4GB or 6GB RAM
  - The offending party has been sacked
- Apple educational discounts & software bundles
- Your beloved hosts have a violent reaction to the 13” MacBook Pro
- Bart Reardon’s System Preferences experiment
  - AMFI Launch Constraints
- Copy/Paste adjustments in Photos
  - macOS Ventura Preview
- Gaming on the Mac on The Talk Show Live
- macOS Ventura hardware support via Mr. Macintosh
  - Christina Warren’s take
- iOS and head-related transfer functions (via Josh Hunt)
- CarPlay and Android Automotive
WWDC Platforms State of the Union
- SwitchGlass
Post-show:
- John’s noises.mp3">mouse problems
- Casey’s AT&T → Verizon journey
  - Verizon coverage map

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Jun 16, 2022

02:24:04

Pre-show:
- 🎂 HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, Marco! 🎂
- Congratulations, Alex!
iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Jason on storage allocation
Copy/paste edits in Photos
Eric deRuiter on Safety Check
- Personal Safety User Guide
Passkeys
- Can be shared via AirDrop (See 6m14s into the video)
- How do you recover them?
- About the Security of Passkeys
- Set Up an Account Recovery Contact
Semi Analysis on the M2
The MacBook Air has color-matched MagSafe cables
- It is also 500 nits
Desk View clarifications
Messages
Stage Manager
- James Thomson
- The Talk Show (timestamp link to 46m58s)
- Purple window widget
- archive.org copy of “Shrinkydink” story
- Why is it only on M1 iPads?
  - Statement to Rene Ritchie
  - Federighi interview with Matthew Panzarino
- Swap hardware requirements
- Steve Troughton-Smith on Swap
System Settings
- Federighi on The Talk Show (timestamp link to 43m11s)
- Bento box
- Examples:
- Oh notifications still stink too
- Craig Hockenberry’s Tweet
Post-show: Casey went on a secret adventure.
- Spoiler
- Referenced Video

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Jun 07, 2022

02:56:20

Pre-show: Marco is [always on vacation] in California! 😎🌴
- Jason & Dan’s view of the stage
WWDC 2022 Keynote
Post-show: The food

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Jun 02, 2022

02:27:00

Pre-show: Streaming changes
- Audio Hijack
- Our Twitch channel for live streams
Follow-up:
- Fastmail
- The Price is Right is available for free on Pluto TV
- Regarding filming workout videos
- WWDC in-person info/schedule (via Paul Hudson)
John’s Mac Studio report
WWDC Hopes and Predictions
Post-show: Is John sleeping more?

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May 26, 2022

02:00:00

Pre-show: Sick-kid TV
Follow-up:
- Warnings about PoE splitters from Matias Korhonen
- Pro-fiber propaganda
  - Adam Papamarcos’ OM4 fiber cable
  - Assmann Group
- Ad-blockers on desktops (via Ryan)
- “Sign in with X” (via Brian Donovan)
- A concert-related Apple Music tip from Jonathan Dechko
- Amber gives us feedback on the Apple Fitness+ control room
Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support of FIDO standard
Apple’s Self-Repair Program
Post-show:
- The John Siracusa Podcasting Universe
- John’s headless Mac Studio 😢
  - Mac Studio Under-Desk Mount
- John is preparing the way for a new AV setup (‼️)
  - TV Stand
  - Receiver (Pioneer VSX-LX305)
  - Blu-Ray (Panasonic DP-UD820-K)
    - Surgery results
  - Eve Spectrum

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May 19, 2022

02:03:40

Pre-show: Two is one, one is none.
- Zoom F3
- USBPre2
- MixPre-3
Follow-up:
- Cleaning apps and “launch services”
  - launchd
  - zone.com/LaunchControl/">Launch Control
- A hint more on Casey’s frivoLiss ethernet project
  - Many recommendations for Monoprice slim 6A patch cables
  - Jonathan Litt reminds us about fire stops
  - PoE “medusa” cables exist, for USB-C and barrel plugs
- Why bother with ethernet at all? (via Andrew Larson)
  - Millimeter-wave
  - IPv6
  - hole.net/">Pi-Hole
  - NAT
- On USB-C KVMs and the Studio Display (via Alex)
  - Magic cable
  - Demonstration (YouTube timestamp link)
- GSuite is now free for “personal use”
  - Casey’s Fastmail referral link
Apple Fitness+ “Studio Tour”
Quinn Nelson’s Rivian and bad controls
- Quinn’s Instagram video (seek to 1h10m47s)
- 2001 Buick
Apple Pre-Announces Accessibility Enhancements
#askatp:
- Is there any bespoke music app for listening to concerts? (via Bill Steinbach)
  - Live Phish
  - Barrowclift’s iOS Music Player Showcase
- What Safari extensions are we running and recommend? (via Robert Bateau)
  - John
  - Marco
    - 1Password
    - 1Blocker
  - Casey
    - Noir (App Store link)
    - StopTheMadness
    - agent.com">Super Agent
    - Vinegar (App Store link)
- How does one remember how one enrolled in a service? (via Brian Hamilton)
  - Ashley Bischoff’s idea
Post-show: Casey’s Ethernet adventure continues

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May 12, 2022

02:09:53

Follow-up:
- A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
- Apple’s New Developer Center
  - More from Parker Ortolani
- John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
  - An aside about password managers
  - Protobuf
- John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
- Casey’s Ethernet Project
  - Cat 6A cable types
Playdate impressions
The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
…it meets the same fate as macOS Server
#askatp:
- Will an Apple Silicon Mac Pro have ECC RAM? (via Robert Boyle)
  - HBM4
- Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS? (via Jon Sulek)
  - Pacifist
- Does choice of programming language matter for server-side crawling? (via Abel Demoz)
  - Go
  - Rust
Post-show: Marco’s capture system

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May 06, 2022

02:11:28

Follow-up:
- Follow-out: Clockwise #449: It’s Still Working, I’m So Sad
- T-Shirt Results (THANK YOU!)
- Marco’s tech woes
  - USBPre 2
  - Zoom F3
- On Double-Clicking the lock button for Wallet
  - Open the wallet app → double-click the side button (via Trevor Kay)
    - Andrew notes this still works even if double-click is disabled globally
  - Control Center
  - Just hold the phone next to the terminal
- WWDC 2022 Apple Park Special Event
  - MacRumors on the Developer Center
- camera-studio-display-mac-interface-tools.html">Jason Snell on Apple Studio Display settings
- Mechanical Watch How-To
- On SEC violations and Elon Musk
Apple TV+ Quickies
- Sunday Ticket on Apple TV+?
  - JustWatch
- Trashers-movie-David-Harbour-17127603.php">Apple is making a movie about the Danbury Trashers‽
  - Untold: Crime and Penalties
  - Analog #193: Milestones are Being Hit
iPhone 14 Pro Rumored Designs
#askatp:
- Is Casey still using Combine? (via André Videla)
- What is Marco’s Overcast redesign process? (via Steven Garrity)
- Where is the Mac’s sound mixer? (via Carl Freyer)
  - Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource
Post-show: Casey needs a project
- Breakdown of Cat 6/6a differences
- Quinn Nelson’s Video

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Apr 28, 2022

02:41:18

The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻

Frame Game
- Explainer post
- Fastest solve: 12 seconds
Follow-up:
- Apple Studio Display camera update
- Sonos Roam power button (via Brilliant Things)
- What is up with iPhone lock buttons these days, anyway? (via Patrick Niemeyer)
- Apple’s Self-Service Repair site is now up
  - Stephen’s write-up
  - Repair manuals
- John Gruber ATP had wondered about “civilians” inside the Apple Park ring
  - Benedict Evans’ fence observation
- Thom Yorke hates Creep (via Spencer Wohlers)
- Update on Marco’s game-streaming setup
Casey has finally moved his email to Fastmail
- Referral link
John added a security camera
- Physical security hack
- view-security-camera.961-000489.html">Logitech Circle View
Twitter musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html">accepts Elon Musk’s buyout offer
Post-show: We can’t help but have more Twitter/Elon thoughts
- Thread about Bill Gross buying Twitter clients, and Twitter’s reaction
- Something Awful Forums
- swisher-on-elon-musk-you-cant-pin-him-down.html">Kara Swisher on Elon Musk

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Apr 18, 2022

02:04:50

The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻

Pre-show: Marco has HomePod problems
- Pop Hits: {year} (1955–2021)
- Rock Hits: {year} (1965–2021)
- Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
- Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
- Creep by Radiohead
- AirPlay 2-Enabled Speakers
Follow-up:
- Hilariously, a third consecutive week of news about Original Gravity, this time via Jared Kole
- Which ethernet controller does the CalDigit TS4 use?
  - Intel I225 PCIe
  - Ethernet fix
  - Sleep fix
- Ecobee & HomeKit cooperation (via Eric Powell)
- Ecobee AC adaptor instructions
  - Step 3 → Scenario A → Alternative solution: 24VAC plug-in transformer
- Some thoughts about 🇪🇺 thermostats via Cameron Wood
- USB-C KVM dev boards do exist, as found by Victor Leung
- Mac Studios have different power supply… suppliers (via Joshua Prismon)
Ioniq 5 & Kia EV6 & Lucid Air
- Do better, Lexus.
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What is Elon Musk, anyway?
- Unsafe at Any Speed
- Chevrolet Corvair
Elon Musk and Twitter
- NOTE: We recorded this episode right before his demand “offer” to buy the entire company.
- Elon buys 9.2% of Twitter
- Elon delays filing with the SEC and “made” $156 million
- Parag Agrawal announces Elon joins the board
- Twitter says Elon won’t get special treatment
  - Nilay Patel’s take
- Parag Agrawal announces Elon won’t join the board
- Elon is sued for delayed disclosure
- Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
#askatp
- As the M1 is based on the A14, might the M2 skip the A15 and instead be based on the A16? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
- How does Marco stream for Team Arment? (via Uncle Apple)
- Could/would Apple use OLED in laptops and iMacs? (via Simon Ejsing)
- If the Studio Display was released concurrently with the Pro Display XDR, would John & Marco still get the XDR? (via Jon Yergatian)
Post-show: John’s Sonos Roam

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Apr 12, 2022

02:06:34

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Pre-show: Marco has questionable media choices
Follow-up:
- Tragic Original Gravity news (via Ari Badgers)
  - Good Karma
- The etymology of “decibel” (via Matt Rigby)
- Don’t forget the iPhone 12/13 mini (via Carl Rozas)
- An aside about House of Prime Rib
  - Anthony Bourdain’s experience (RIP)
- Quinn Nelson’s observation about the Studio Display
  - His “review” video
  - iFixit teardown video
- USB-C “KVM” (via abcd)
- c-hub-madness.html">On the crummy Ethernet speeds in modern Macs
  - Hacker News post
  - CalDigit TS4
- On using Canon EF lenses with mirrorless cameras
Casey’s New Setup (yes, again. 🤫)
John’s new thermostat
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Apr 06, 2022

01:59:34

Pre-show: Marco played himself
Would there be a “Studio Display Max” within two years?
- 22” Cinema Display
- 23” Cinema Display
- led-cinema-display-27-inch-specs.html">27” Cinema Display
- thunderbolt-display-27-inch-specs.html">27” Thunderbolt Display
Marco’s Studio Display impressions
- NuShelf Dual Mount for Mac mini
New Peripherals
Follow-up:
- Marc Edwards from Bjango has a follow-up on Retina displays
- Some thoughts on acoustics from Sam Kusnetz
  - John Lee Supertaster
- Chris Gonyea points out errors with some USB-C ↔ Ethernet adapters with the Studio Display
- Issues with iCloud and custom domains
  - DKIM issues & SPF via Eli Lindsey
Expectations for WWDC, the event
- Original Gravity Public House
iPhone 14 Rumors
#askatp
- If going from Canon dSLR → mirrorless, is it worth jumping to Sony? (via Elijah)
- Are fusion drives even worth it in 2022?
  - diskutil
- Is there any sort of KVM-like thing for Thunderbolt? (via Matt Chinander)
- Given The Cook Doctrine, why is Apple bothering making their own cellular modems? (via Daniel Bergqvist)
  - Apple A4
  - Apple A6
Post-show:
- Marco files a complaint about RecDiffs
- Marco forgets an anniversary
- John’s sitrep

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Mar 31, 2022

02:20:16

Follow-up:
- Resolution independence
- Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round
  - Video Explanation
- Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI
- Regarding Mac Studio fan noise
  - The fans cool the power supply too notes Phil Stollery
  - Twitter thread from “OnlyMe”
    - Graph
  - Feedback from acoustician Andrew Wade
  - Apple’s official noise ratings (via Renfred)
    - Mac Pro: 11dB
    - Mac Studio: 15dB
    - Macbook Air: 3dB
    - MacBook Pro: 3dB
    - iMac Pro: 13dB
    - Mid-2015: 6dB
- Regarding Qualcomm patent shakedown racket licensing
  - Reuters article
  - See also
  - 16122.pdf">Court case
- Discourse and Open Source (via Jeff Atwood)
  - John on patents
  - Discourse free hosting programs
- How to Pay Professional Maintainers
- Software warfare in node-ipc
🎉 New Overcast Update 🎉
#askatp
- Do we have a preferred file naming scheme? Is it 20210329_Proj3_SitePlan? (via Unforgettable Luncheon)
- Why are Time Machine network backups so slow? (via Carson Brown)
- Will Apple ever make their own display panel? (via “C”)
John had something he wanted to discuss.

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Mar 24, 2022

02:00:55

Pre-show: We’ve got 99 problems and Apple Music is… most of them.
On the Mac Studio’s extra SSD slot
John’s heart shatters into a million pieces (Mac Studio cooling and 😱 fan noise 😱)
Why 5K?
- Casey’s 2021 Retina Monitor Sitrep
- Casey’s 2017 Retina Monitor Sitrep
Apple Studio Display default resolution oddity?
Studio Display foibles
- Very short Thunderbolt monitor cable? (~3ft/1m?)
- “Non-removable” monitor cords
- Panzer yanks out his cable
Snell’s Review
- On Studio Display rotation
Studio Display Recovery Mode
- Apple documentation
Gui Rambo’s Findings
Firmware Updates
- As seen previously
Studio Display… Ethernet?
- The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
Studio Display has 64GB onboard storage
- Only 2GB is in use
Running processes
The Verge on the camera bugs
- Joanna Stern’s sample photos
- Joanna Stern’s video review
Latest Mac Pro rumors/theories
Post-show: Revisiting Synology backup
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- Arq

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Mar 17, 2022

01:55:22

Follow-up:
- iPad Air does have stereo speakers
- Mac Studio HDMI is still 2.0
  - HDMI 2.1
- 27” Studio Display Pro coming soon?
- “Five-head” Origins
  - The Flop House #94: Conan the Barbarian @ flop-house.simplecast.com/episodes/the-flop-house-episode-94-conan-the-barbarian?t=29m46s">29:46
  - Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language
  - 20 Fenchurch Street
- The A7III does have animal eye detection (via Alec Pulianas)
- Base Mac Pro gets a spec bump
- MaskerAid Updates
  - Photo library access
  - Method Swizzling
ARM Mac Pro worst-case scenarios
Universal Control Impressions
- Synergy
#askatp:
- Did the DTK set reasonable expectations for M1 devices? (via Ryan Petriello)
- Does switching to higher-resolution displays put a strain on the CPU/GPU? (via Peter Wagoner)
- What are the three ugliest Macs of all time? (via Wade)
  - John
    - Molar Mac (Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One)
    - history.com/580">LC 580
  - Casey
  - Marco
    - 2006 17” MacBook Pro
      - John’s PowerBook G4 Review
    - air-core-2-duo-1.4-11-late-2010-specs.html">11” MacBook Air
    - 2004 17” iMac G5
    - pro-28-core-2.5-xeon-w-silver-tower-workstation-2019-specs.html">2019 Mac Pro
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Mar 10, 2022

02:44:46

Apple’s “Peek Performance” Event
- New Apple Watch band collection
  - Beanie Babies
- 🇺🇦 Tim Cook 🇺🇦
- Apple TV+
  - Luck (TV Series)
  - Luck (Film)
- Apple + Baseball
  - Jason’s recap
- An aside about transportation woes
- iPhone SE 3
- iPad Air
  - Clockwise #441: Talk Talk Music
- M1 Ultra
  - Gurman’s original article (18 May 2021)
  - of-chiplets.png">John’s diagram (21 May 2021)
  - John’s warning in ATP #453 @ 32:34 (Overcast timestamp link)
  - Hector Martin’s tweet
  - NUMA
- Mac Studio 🎩
  - Robot or Not #229: Friendship
  - An aside about Marco’s laptop-laptop woes
  - “Fivehead”
  - xMac
  - The Verge discovers the 2 pound ∆ from Max → Ultra
  - Camera Movement Guide (with apologies to friend of the show Todd Vaziri)
  - McDLT and a McDLT commercial
  - AGP
  - Dan Moren: Missing Mid-Range Desktop Mac
- A lot of bickering about the future of the 27” iMac
- Mac Studio Display
Post-show: There’s still an Intel Mac Mini
- MD101LL/A

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Mar 03, 2022

02:18:00

Pre-show: 🇺🇦 ATP Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
- Washington Post coverage
- russia-ukraine-china.html">Jason Snell on Apple vs. 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳
Follow-up:
- There definitely is not a “cure” for celiac disease
- Conquering shared contacts with a shared iCloud account
- Several fascinating pieces of accessibility-related feedback
Casey’s new app, MaskerAid
Apple’s Spring Event predictions
Post-show: Marco Christmas!
- Allston Christmas
- Paradigm Atom
- Sony A7 III
  - Sony 35mm f/2.8 Lens (SEL35F28Z) (Marco’s most-used lens)
  - Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA Lens (SEL55F18Z) (What John should buy)
  - Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Lens (SEL50F12GM) (What John wants instead, but will never buy, therefore preventing him from ever buying anything)
  - Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 Lens (SEL85F18/2)
  - LensRentals

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Feb 24, 2022

01:58:11

Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day
- Celiac
  - Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance
- Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, YMMV)
- Thera Cane
- Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience
- It’s All Too Much
- NIMBY
Follow-up:
- Getting an older car to always play Maps’ directions over Bluetooth (via Paul Violante)
  - Settings → Maps → Spoken Directions → Directions on Radio
- Some interesting feedback on brake-by-wire systems
- Marc Barrowclift’s Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase (via Aidan Trager)
- Casey attempts a victory lap around John
  - Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience Note the relevant section was in the members’ only after-show
- Feedback received on John’s Streaming App Spec
The NVIDIA/Arm deal has been scuttled
- Previously: Doubts about the NVIDIA/Arm deal
- Announced 20 September 2020 (!)
- Apparently .NET Core can trace its roots to Silverlight (!)
Developer deliberately corrupts popular open-source packages
#askatp:
- Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:
  - What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
  - Is John still subscribed to cable?
- Do we have a good system for maintaining family contacts? (via Paul Walker)
Post-show Robot or Not:
- Bonus #askatp: Do we say we’re “in front of” or “behind” the computer? (via Niek van de Pas)

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Feb 17, 2022

02:12:18

Follow-up:
- Jump-starting an ICE using a Tesla (via Jesper Weltz)
  - Another video (via Jameson)
  - James May’s Model S’s catastrohpic failure
  - Porsche Taycan
  - benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/concept-cars/vision-eqs/">Mercedes-Benz EQS
AirTags anti-tracking update
- The Downeaster “Alexa”
- and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amsterdam-historic-images-depicting-the-transition-from-cars-to-bikes/">Amsterdam’s transformation from car-centric to people-centric
- Paris’s car-free zone announced for 2024
John has thoughts on streaming apps
- Channels does a victory lap
  - TV Everywhere
- XBMC/Kodi
- Dilbert Strip (yes, Scott Adams sucks)
Akamai is buying Linode
- Stratechery (paid) post
#askatp:
- Why do cars always steal Bluetooth connections? (via Chris Gleim)
- Is using Reduced Security okay for the purpose of audio capture? (via Chritopher Ward)
  - Audio Hijack
  - The 🤬 nuts installation procedure Apple requires on M1 Macs
- What’s the best “dumb” TV? (via Ava)
  - UMC-43-4K-UHD-TV-product933category1category73.html">Casey’s dumb TV
  - hole.net/">Pi-Hole
  - Casey’s discovered Smart TV Block List
Post-show Neutral: Toyota’s Faux Manual Transmission Patent

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Feb 10, 2022

02:14:49

Pre-show: The newest member of Marco’s family
Follow-up:
- Casey replaces his FiOS set-top box
  - Casey’s new UPS
  - TechSee
- AlDente
- Casey’s Email Woes
  - Gmail “funnel solution”
  - Google Workspace Email Storage (via Ashish Gandhi)
  - Running your own mail server (via Daniel Nelson)
    - Recommended solution
  - Fastmail’s referral fees can be paid out! 💰
- Video evidence for Wi-Fi ↔ Cellular Universal Control (via Carlos Carpio García)
- Are phones being stolen to steal bank information? (via Gui Rambo)
- Siri attempts at music playback by year
  - Jonathan Coulton’s Some Guys
Apple’s attempt at “compliance” with the Netherlands dating app rules
Microsoft’s “A Principled Approach to App Stores”
#askatp:
- Why doesn’t anyone use Wi-Fi for audio playback? (via Steven J. Stutz)
- Do we use color calibration tools for our monitors? (via Chris Koerner)
  - Datacolor Spyder
- How do we prevent keyboards damaging screens on laptops? (via Priyansh Singh)
Post-show: Marco’s car problems
- Which Car Jump Starter is Best? (via Michael Panzer)

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Feb 03, 2022

02:13:13

Pre-show: Marco enters winter luxury
- bison-leather-driving-moccasins-12018.html">Marco’s “Slippers”
- John’s Slippers
- Marco’s Rug
- heat.html">Marco’s Rug Heater
- Reminder: handy-temperature-conversion-chart-262443.jpg">Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperatures
- Robot or Not: Sundays
Follow-up:
- messages-android-tapbacks-reaction-emoji.html">Google ships tapback parsing
- Regarding “Screeners”
- Xbox Game Pass
- Apple and the Netherlands
- New beta bits
  - Face ID unlock and glasses from Ryan Booker
  - Notes on Universal Control from Carlos Carpio Carcía
Sony buys Bungie for $3.6B
- FAQ
- Sony hints at More Acquisitions
Google tells legacy Gmail account holders to “pay up”
- Ars Technica’s coverage
- Google information
- Amazon Simple Email Service
- Using a custom domain with iCloud email
- Mimestream
- Fastmail (former sponsor)
- Hey (former sponsor)
- Zimbra
#askatp:
- How do we back up shared photo albums? (via Carlos Moffat)
- How do we manage power (and battery) for desktop laptops? (via Anirudh Coontoor)
  - Settings → Battery → Battery (in sidebar) → Optimized battery charging
- What security steps do we take for family devices? (via Lars Bekkema)
Post-show:
- Supercap jump-starter

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Jan 28, 2022

02:07:25

Pre-show: Marco’s Baking Hangover
Follow-up:
- Casey’s Desk Update
  - 4-blaze-hub.html">Casey’s Thunderbolt 4 Hub / “Breakout Box”
- Simon Webster on QD-OLED and Blue LEDs
- Jon Mason on how big Sony is
- Xbox Gamepass and Series S
- iMessage and SMS (via Olivier Ruoy)
  - Adium
- Piracy, Warez, and The Scene (via Colin Weir)
  - Widevine
- Netherlands Tells Apple “lol nope”
  - Macrumors Coverage
  - ACM’s Statement
Dropbox and OneDrive kexts no longer supported in macOS 12.3 beta
- User space
Universal Control Mac → iPad in 12.3 & 15.4 betas
iOS 15.4 beta supports FaceID unlock with mask without an Apple Watch
USB Garbage from Amazon
- Do By Friday
- Wristies
Post-show:
- Web time capsules
- John’s automotive plans

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Jan 20, 2022

01:47:49

Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
- TPM
- yt-dlp
- DeCSS
- SGX
- FairPlay
- Pirated movie release types
Follow-up:
- Printer Murder Rooms
  - John Tsombakos
  - Richard Smith
- LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Wall Street Journal
- Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
- Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)
  - Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
  - LinkedIn: $26.2b
  - Nuance: $19.7b
  - Skype: $8.5b
  - ZeniMax: $7.5b
  - GitHub: $7.5b
  - Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
  - aQuantive: $6.3b
  - Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b
- Perfect Dark
Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
- RCS
- Dithering
- google-green-bubbles-sms-rcs.html">Snell on iMessage
- Google/Android interpreting tapbacks
#askatp:
- Will macOS last another 20 years? (via Daniel Begqvist)
- What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
- Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
Post-show: Marco’s Jerk-Store Moment
- L’esprit de l’escalier

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Jan 13, 2022

02:11:03

Follow-up:
- Fi dog-collar pronunciation
  - Discount code ATP100 for $100 off (not a sponsor)
- New Ford Mustangs will be available in 2023–2024
- Sony did show PSVR2 controllers
- Mirrorless advantages and the longevity of Canon DSLRs (from Justin Krohn)
- TV technology
  - WRGB OLEDs do have white backlights
  - QD-OLEDs have RGB “filters”/diffusers
    - Samsung’s 2019 $11 billion investment in QD-OLED
  - Micro-LED
- On “Weird & Complicated” Analog TV (via Moe Rubenzahl)
  - Technology Connections on Analog TV
- Apple will Allow Alternate Payment Systems in the App Store in 🇰🇷, with a catch
John’s gross printer
- Theranos
- John’s printer
- Casey’s printer
- Marco’s laser all-in-one with the buggy networking
- Marco’s beloved giant printer (price is currently inflated; it cost $449 in 2016)
- Marco’s 11x17 inkjet all-in-one (also currently overpriced; it cost $249 in 2018)
#askatp:
- What do we think about React/React Native? (via Asajz)
  - Divorce leads children to the worst places
  - Vue.js
  - Angular
    - Note: Not AngularJS
- How can there be a huge ∆ between data in Photos and the actual Photos Library on disk? (via Todd Vaziri)
  - SQLite VACUUM
Post-show: Some responses to our health/veganism/leather discussion last week
- Slow Boring: Is Healthy Food Actually More Expensive?
- BBC: Climate Change: Which vegan milk is best?
- iMore: Apple should ditch leather (not mentioned, but meant to)

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Jan 06, 2022

02:28:21

Follow-up:
- Stuart Hay on chroma sub-sampling, 4:2:2, 4:1:1, 4:2:0
- Hyper Thunderbolt 4 Dock
  - Hyper USB-C Media Hub
- A not-too-short aside about iPad connectivity and expandability
- Xcode and setting up for Apple Watch development (via Andy Norman)
- Slideshow App Recommendations
  - Fotomagico
  - rush.html">Adobe Premiere Rush
- Canon’s flagship DSLR line will end… eventually.
  - Single-lens reflex
CES: QD-OLED TVs from Sony
- OLED explained
- Quantum dots explained
Interview with Gary Geaves, VP of Acoustics at Apple
- MaxTech video
- Regarding latency
- About the UWB spectrum
- An aside about Apple TV interruptions
  - Settings → Remotes and Devices → Bluetooth → Suggest Nearby AirPods
#askatp:
- How much do we sleep? (via Nathaniel Gori)
  - An aside about dog tracking collars
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- Should Apple stop using leather?
- Thoughts on meat alternatives
- Late-episode follow-up:
  - Fun Fact #52: We’re off Track
  - Congratulations to David Sparks!

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Dec 30, 2021

02:08:04

Pre-show:
- Marco’s desk situation
- Casey’s desk situation
Follow-up:
- Jonathan Dietz Comes Through
  - Glenwing’s page and calculator and forum post
  - Chroma Subsampling
- USB4/TB4 bandwidth (via Dimitri Bouniol)
Marco’s Christmas-movie Adventure
Holiday tech we love
- Casey joins 2019 and gets AirPods Pro
  - HiFiMAN HE-6
  - Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (250-ohm)
- Marco’s new Switch
- Tina’s new iPhone car mount
#askatp:
- Would we rock a full-on iMac as an external monitor if Target Display Mode still existed? (via Jeff Fowler)
- Does Apple like the drama and rumors around it? (via Erik Neu)
- Do we close all our apps before rebooting our computers? (via AdamMHead)

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Dec 22, 2021

01:59:54

Pre-show: “Web3”
Follow-up:
- Thank you, ATP members
- Casey has changed up his setup yet again
  - Ian Fuchs at Cult of Mac
  - 4-blaze-hub.html">Alogic Thunderbolt 4 Blaze Hub
  - OWC Thunderbolt Hub
  - CalDigit Element Hub
  - CalDigit TS3+
  - Team Arment on Twitch
  - Elgato HD60 S+
  - C13 plug
- “☝️ Well, actually ☝️”s on Marco’s Synology
  - J-series Synology devices cannot use btrfs (via Squozen)
  - 64TB maximum limit (via Matt Sullivan)
- Marco’s jugs
  - Capillary action
- Apple Silicon in forthcoming LG displays
  - Chroma subsampling
  - thunderbolt-display-27-inch-specs.html">Thunderbolt Display
  - ADC
- Clarifications on attention-aware features (via Gui Rambo)
- Marco’s New iPhone Case (via Oliver Ames)
macOS 12.2 beta
- Improved scrolling in Safari with ProMotion
- Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a “full native app”
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- Swift Playgrounds 4
Post-show #askatp:
- When did Corvettes start looking so different? (via Rob Knight)
  - C8 Corvette
- What vaporware would we love to see Apple work on? (via Juno Orion)

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Dec 16, 2021

02:07:51

Pre-show:
- Why would one deliberately launch TextEdit‽
- The flood 😱
  - Cable Matters 2.5” drive enclosure
  - Synology DS1813+
  - Synology 620Slim
  - Synology DS420j
  - RAID 0
  - storage.html">Backblaze B2
Follow-up:
- Andrew shares a Consumer Reports link regarding lithium batteries in smoke detectors
- LG Screen Manager (App Store Link) now supports M1 Macs (via Dave Stachowiak)
- Casey’s LG UltraFine adventures continue
- LG non-UltraFine 4K and 60Hz HDMI
  - 24UD58-B 24” IPS Monitor with Freesync, Black
  - Menu → Picture → Picture Adjust → HDMI ULTRA HD Deep Color
- Casey’s new desk setup
- Potential Magic Mouse fixes
  - Monterey 12.1
  - Suggestion from Charity Majors
LG is working on three new monitors?
#askatp:
- Tips for Android → iPhone converts? (via Steve Wellington)
- Do any of us use Finder replacements like PathFinder? (via Sam)
- Do we use Swift for anything other than iOS/macOS apps? (via Jan de Geest)
Post-show: A Synology Adventure

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Dec 09, 2021

02:04:59

Pre-show: Christmas Conundrums
- Charlie Brown Tree
Follow-up:
- Ubiquiti’s breach was from the inside
- Casey’s UltraFine 5K seems to be UltraDead
Some wish-casting and predictions about the Mac lineup in 2022
Apple Announces Self-Service Repair
- Louis Rossmann’s video
#askatp:
- How come the TouchBar failed where the iPhone succeeded? (via Todd Kaprielian)
- Why is Chromium’s dominance bad for the open web? (via Aryan Aneja)
  - John’s blog post on open source
  - Kagi FAQ
- Why bother with a Mac Pro? (via Dave Saunders, who clearly wanted to torment Casey)
  - The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Post-show:
- The continuing saga of John’s beeps
- Marco’s shifts to Neutral
  - MaxTrax Recovery Boards

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Dec 02, 2021

02:01:15

Shocking revelations:
- Marco’s wrist
- Casey’s desk
The myth of digital audio producing stair-step sound waves
- Casey’s Double Density appearance
- Xiph explainer video
  - DAC
  - Nyquist level
Apple’s monitor-pricing conundrum
- Luna Display updates
Follow-up: Junior vs. Senior Developers (via Nick Matsakis)
- Peter principle
Mac Mini rumors and renderings
#askatp:
- Which company would we love to see Apple buy & integrate? (via Ryan)
  - The Talk Show #330: ‘Headline Goes Here’ with Jim Dalrymple
  - Sony Xperia PRO-I
    - Video review
- Why bother with backups anymore? (via Joe Athman)
  - Casey’s scripts
Post-show: John’s beeps
- Captured audio
- What Is That Beep
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- Forum Post
- Nitram’s Mea Culpa

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Nov 22, 2021

02:01:11

Pre-show:
- Energizer lithium AA batteries and 9V for smoke alarms
- Marco’s utterly bananas password-managers setup
- The ATP on-demand store is back!
Follow-up:
- Meta/Facebook
  - In the Enterprise
    - workplace.com
    - An aside about scrolljacking
      - Parallax Scrolling
  - Hardware prowess
  - Gaming
  - Wearing VR headsets
- Apple TV+ on the web
- HomePod problems abound (via Joe Mesterhazy)
  - YouTube video describing the problem
- Plex and two-zone playback
  - ebernet’s explanation
  - Infuse
- Bullstrap leather case review
- Marco’s pants update
  - Banana Republic Traveler
  - london.com/us/products/rinse-wash-travel-denim">Spoke London Travel Denim and london.com/us/products/navy-cord-fives-aw20">Cord Fives
Laying out the Apple Silicon roadmap
- Max Tech video
#askatp:
- How can one keep an older MacBook Pro running well? (via Stephan)
- How do we organize our pictures? (via Guilherme Alles)
  - Peek‑a‑View
- What’s the ∆ between a junior & senior developer? (via Roar Lochar)
  - Programmer Humor’s Tweet
  - Gene Hackman
Post-show: John’s mystery beeps

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Nov 16, 2021

02:08:56

Pre-show:
- Watching shows on Apple
- Some ATP membership bookkeeping
Follow-up:
- Xcode build times (via Abel Demoz) defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES
- Monterey’s Mouse Pointer Memory Leak Bug
- Marco has [Original] HomePod Problems
  - Belkin Soundform Connect
- Marco replaces Weather Line with Carrot Weather
- Seller risks on eBay
  - Swappa
Facebook and Meta
Post-show: Casey broke two car keys in the span of 10 minutes
- Volvo XC90
- Example replacement video

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Nov 11, 2021

01:53:25

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Follow-up:
- iMessage in iCloud Security Overview
- Apple’s T2 Macs and Monterey
- Avoiding the notch using RDM (via Roberto Jung Drebes)
Casey’s MacBook Pro Updates
Marco reviews iPhone 13 Pro cases
- Apple Silicone
- Nudient Thin v3
- Peel Clear White
- Totallee Pearl White
- Totallee Clear Soft
- Caudabe Sheath
- Pitaka MagEZ Case 2 (not tested)
- Bullstrap (not tested)
How Could One Improve the MacBook Pros?
A None-Too-Brief Aside About Apple External Monitors
- ASUS ProArt Display PA32UCG-K 32” 16:9 FreeSync2 4K 120 Hz HDR Mini-LED IPS Monitor
Post-show #askatp:
- Why don’t we talk about processor clock speed anymore? (via Yossi Kanner)
- Would we rather use a previous-gen MacBook Pro with an M1 Max, or the new MacBook Pro with an Intel CPU? (via Joel Short)

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Nov 04, 2021

02:17:33

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Pre-show: Setup Woes
- Audition
- Homebrew Bundle
  - Casey’s Post on Homebrew Bundle
  - Casey’s bundle file
Follow-up:
- What does Marco use for a Thunderbolt dock? (via César Cavazos)
- John’s AirPods 3 updates
- Monterey Status Report
  - pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html">SuperDuper
- The Verge’s MacBook Pro review
- MacBook Pro Charging via USB-C
  - thunderbolt4-announcement-press-deck.pdf">Thunderbolt PDF
  - PC Magazine
  - ADC
- MacBook Pro “Compatibility Mode”
  - Scale to fit below built-in camera
  - Tweet with video
- Notch codename was Daisy?
- 120 Hz scrolling on new MacBook Pros
  - Chrome shenanigans
- Marco’s Mystery Terabyte update
  - Disk Utility → View → Show APFS Snapshots
  - Purging files on iOS
Marco’s experience with Lutron Caséta
- Waveform Lighting
- Eve Motion
- Caséta Motion Sensor (scroll down)
- Quinn’s Smart Home Video
[More] MacBook Pro impressions
- Upgrade #379: They Feed on Memory
- 1.jpeg">MagSafe 1/2/3 side-by-side
- Luna Display
Post-show: How does Marco unload old computers?

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Oct 28, 2021

02:04:36

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Pre-show: Marco’s acquisition adventure
- IceMule Cooler Backpack (size Xlarge)
- Veblen good
Follow-up:
- APFS fast directory sizing
  - Chris’ answer on StackExchange
  - File-System-Reference.pdf">APFS File System Reference
  - INODE_MAINTAIN_DIR_STATS
- Anandtech on the M1 Pro & Max performance
  - Dom’s question
  - SPECfp
- Gruber’s summary of the Affinity team’s findings
- The only benchmark that matters
- Johnathan Dietz Jr on Pro Display XDR @ 120Hz
- What about Memory Pressure?
- Marco’s Kühl’s pants
John’s AirPods 3 impressions
MacBook Pro impressions
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Oct 21, 2021

02:45:43

Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
- Start Up
- John’s Tweet
- Apple ✔️s (scroll way down)
- Monterey quick hits
  - Monday, 25 October
  - Tabs that look like tabs!!
    - Snell’s coverage
- M1 Pro & M1 Max
  - John’s “City of Chips” tweet
    - John’s Self-FU
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  - Anandtech’s Coverage
    - Sizes.jpg">M1 floorplan comparisons
    - M1 Pro Floorplan
    - M1 Max floorplan
  - WildCrack’s tweet
  - Mike Goldsmith’s tweet
  - Six Colors’ coverage of M1 Pro/Max variants
  - Scott Perry on DRAM
  - Josh Rogers on GPU comparisons
    - lint.com/laptops/reviews/msi/158000-msi-ge76-raider-review-2021-gaming">Review of MSI GE76 Raider
- New MacBook Pros
- Our orders
  - Marco
    - 14”, M1 Pro, 16-core GPU
    - 16GB RAM
    - 1TB SSD
  - Casey
    - 14”, M1 Max, 24-core GPU
    - 64GB RAM
    - 4TB SSD
  - John
    - …AirPods.
Post-show: Rumor round-up
- 9to5Mac on the ransomware leak
- Bloomberg/Gurman’s Roundup
- Which Intel Macs remain?
  - Mac mini
  - 27” iMac
  - 21.5” iMac
  - Mac Pro

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Oct 14, 2021

01:46:32

Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders
Follow-up:
- Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
- Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores
  - Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv
  - Yo dawg
  - MTV’s Pimp My Ride
- Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 Pro
  - Man + River
  - IP Code
- Regarding bugs in your pasta (It’s not about the pasta!) (via Sharon Linne Faulk)
  - What bugs/larvae/eggs can you eat?
Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
- Joz’s tweet
Marco’s new Dropbox setup
#askatp:
- Why are progress bars so hard? (via Derek Aldridge)
- What’s a good automotive blog? (via Tom Jacob)
  - NetNewsWire
  - Jalopnik
  - YouTube Channels:
- Does John maintain his old hardware? (via Sean Cohen)
Post-show:
- The search for John’s backup winter hat

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Oct 07, 2021

02:13:23

Pre-show:
- Facebook’s outage
  - BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.)
  - Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
  - Explanation from Facebook
- Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents!
- We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store!
  - Quinn Nelson’s YouTube channel
Follow-up:
- Anandtech on the A15
  - MacRumors’ summary
- On RAW data rates (via Brian Petersen)
  - Understanding ProRAW
- John’s motion sickness and gaming
- Marco’s updates
  - Kühl pants
  - Apple Silicone Case
  - Peel Cases
  - Nudient Cases
  - ProClipUSA Magafe Car Mount
  - 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 Marco’s deposit
  - Tesla ends leases as well as they build cars
Possible 14” and 16” MacBook Pro rumors
- Display resolutions
- What do we expect? What would we be surprised by?
#askatp:
- Would/should Apple make ergonomic accessories? (via Johnny Oliver)
  - Surface Arc Mouse
- Can the This website is using significant energy notices be stopped? (via Michael Hagan)
- When will we get CarPlay from watchOS? (via Yoni)
Post-show: Apple Watch Series 7 buying plans
- Apple Developer: Supporting Multiple Watch Sizes

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Sep 30, 2021

02:07:16

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Pre-show: Some navel-gazing (much like Episode 400)
- Sporkful’s Cascatelli
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
Follow-up:
- Returns
  - John Halter returns Surface Pros
  - Bernd Kilga returns an Elite Series 2 controller
  - Damian Shaw returns Surface Headphones
  - Christopher Dillon returns a Logitech MX Master
  - Ricky Wilson returns a Google Home Mini
  - Brian Donovan returns an iPad Smart Keyboard
  - Shiro Wilde returns an Apple TV 4K remote
- Mike Bollich-Ziegler makes an interesting observation about the iPad Mini
- Michał Goc does some digging about tennis serve speed
  - SwingVision
- Regarding fast pre-ordering from TJ Luoma
- Harrison Krebs has updates on eSIMs
  - KBase article
- Bastian Inuk points out there are many raw formats for video
- Marco’s security camera update
- On Dock auto-hide delay (via Danny Tsang)
  - Intel: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
  - Apple: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4 && killall Dock
iPhones 13 Pro Impressions
- Setup experiences
- Apple Watch unlock bug
- Colors & Size
  - MackWeldon Ace Sweatshort
  - Apple Silicone Case
  - Casey/Marco’s Cases: Nudient Thin V3
  - MKBHD on the MagSafe Duo
- Camera System
Post-show #askatp: On an ∞ timescale, when do we get neat under-screen tricks? (via Alex Murrell)

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Sep 23, 2021

02:08:52

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Pre-show: A little bit more about Electron and 1Password 8
- Tauri
Garmin InReach
- Iridium satellites
iPhone
- “Thick iPhone is thicc” 🤣
- Ryan Jones’ camera bump chart
An aside about how optics works
iPhone [Reprise]
- Adrian Weckler’s 13 Pro vs. 12 Pro
- Halide on the evolution of iPhone cameras
- Geoff Hackworth notes safe areas are the same size
- On using iPhones for filming movies
- The Verge on battery sizes
- Gruber’s review (with streaming battery life information)
- LPTO screens
- Dual eSIMs
- 1× ↔ 3× macro transition
- On A15 performance
  - More from SemiAnalysis
  - More from Ben Bajarin
  - Gokhan Avkarogullari notes there is a A15 GPU Tech Talk
  - processor-iphone-13-ipad-mini-performance-benchmarks.html">Snell’s thoughts
  - MacRumors’ story
  - DHH on the iPad mini
- Photographic styles
  - Fonzie
Marco’s iPhones
- Casey’s forthcoming case
- John’s case
Snell has new info on the iPhone Leather Wallet
iPad
- Power cables
- iPad Mini doesn’t support mmWave 5G
- iPad Mini is downclocked?
Apple Watch Series 7
- Golf swing & tennis serve speed
- On faster charging & satellite navigation
- Steve Troughton-Smith on the SoC
iOS 15 will not be a compulsory upgrade
Post-show: John’s bad mouse pad [Reprise]

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Sep 15, 2021

02:29:54

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Apple Event
- Apple TV+
- iPad
- iPad Mini
- Apple Watch Series 7
- iPhone 13
  - Thinner but taller notch?
  - Rack focus
- iPhone 13 Pro
  - Unsane
  - Red Cameras
Post-show: iPhone 12 exit interview

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Sep 09, 2021

02:12:55

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Pre-show:
- Casey’s very big day
  - 591e-5f84-b1fa-8b5d99c49522.html#tracking-source=home-breaking">Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue
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- Teaching Marco geography
  - Fire Island
Follow-up:
- Australians: Get your shot!
- More arguing about geography
  - Long Island
  - Boroughs of New York City
- Apple delays CSAM protection features
- HomeKit camera TV PiP can be enabled/disabled per camera
  - HomePods announce faces too!
- App Store lawsuit is only for iOS apps?
- John’s “bad mouse pad” update
  - Simpsons Chili Cook-Off
- John’s favorite percentage: 9.6%
- Google Drive for Desktop
- Forcing Photos.app to download all your photos
  - Photos → Library → All Photos
  - ⌘A
  - File → Play Slideshow
Apple Event
- MacBook Pros? :(
- Apple Watch Series 7 (renders based on rumors)
- Airstream
- Apple Pippin
- Half-Life: Alyx
- HoloLens
- Oculus Quest
Post-show #askatp: Will the iPhone ever drop the number? (via Doug McArthur)

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Sep 02, 2021

02:04:56

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Follow-up:
- Wirecutter moves behind a paywall
  - Neven’s tweet
- Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes.
- Cryptographic hashes vs. Apple’s CSAM Neural Hash
- What happens if governments get involved with CSAM detection?
  - Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF link)
- More Apple PR own-goals: Apple bans a pay equity Slack channel
- Music metadata
  - MusicBrainz’s schema
Marco has a request: how do you get a 9-year-old coding?
Apple’s class-action settlement with “app developers”
- Bloomberg
- Under the Radar #225: The Fragmented Future
📣 BREAKING 📣 Apple will allow “reader” apps with their own purchase systems to link out (details to be determined later)
- Apple’s definition of “reader” apps
Korea: Apple & Google must allow developers to use other payment systems
Home security cameras and HomeKit Secure Video
Post-show: Casey’s Dock experiments
- Connected #358: Roast My Dock
- SwitchGlass

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Aug 26, 2021

02:03:17

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Follow-up:
- Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding)
  - Overcast timestamp link
- Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell
  - Brent Simmons’ blog post
- Regarding 1Password and Electron
  - What about the dependencies? (via KingOlegOne)
  - is-odd
  - Roustem Karimov’s response
  - Craft
- CSAM Neural Hash algorithm extracted?
- Safari 15 Updates
A quick aside about battery health
Apple’s PR war against itself
- Thursday, 15 July: Apple cracks down on remote work
- Wednesday, 4 August: Apple places female EPM on leave after tweeting about sexism in the office
  - Ashley M. Gjøvik’s tweets 1 2
- Thursday, 5 August: Apple’s CSAM roll-out
- Monday, 9 August: Apple shuts down employee-run surveys on pay
  - Cher Scarlett’s Survey
- Monday, 16 August: Apple forces FlickType for Watch out of the App Store
  - FlickType’s statement
  - Miguel de Icaza’s take
- Monday, 23 August: #AppleToo
  - The Verge’s coverage
#askatp
- How does one manage a large library of photos? (via Colin)
- How does one search for specific tech problems? (via Sam)
  - Rubber duck debugging
- Is there any point in updating Java anymore? (via Mark Slutsky)
Post-show: Marco went to a Phish concert!
- Phish at Atlantic City Beach, 2021-08-15
  - Official video of a song that night
  - Aerial video of the beach venue
- Dave Matthews Band also played somewhere on 2021-08-07 (But you can’t listen to it, apparently. Probably for the best. –ed.)

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Aug 17, 2021

02:22:26

Follow-up:
- Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D)
- Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler)
- Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems
- CSAM
1Password 8: The Story So Far
On cross-platform UI frameworks
- lang.org/">Rust
- Snell’s take
- Rhapsody
- Carbon
- ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event
Post-show: Marco’s stolen bike

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Aug 12, 2021

02:52:08

Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music
Follow-up:
- Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
- AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards
- Why Apple can’t pay bananas bug bounties (via Adrian)
Apple’s New Child Safety Features
#askatp
- What’s our current thoughts on accelerating the heat death of the universe cryptocurrency (via Lalo Vargas)
- Is there any way to limit Messages’ size on disk? (via Richie Aharonian)
- What camera/lens should I rent for a Disney World trip? (via Andrew Nelson)
Post-show: Some more camera banter

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Aug 05, 2021

01:56:19

Pre-show:
- Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.)
- Days of the New’s new album
  - Travis Meeks
  - Days of the New II
Follow-up:
- Apple Music
  - Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link)
  - There are lots of third-party music players, which Marc Barrowclift reviewed
- Photos
  - Regarding concert pairing
    - WWDC 2018 keynote, 29m25s (via Benjamin)
    - See also KBase
  - Deleting all your photos from Google Photos is… the worst.
  - Photo editing tips from Henrik
    - See also PHAdjustmentData
AMD Radeon PRO W6000X-series GPUs now available AMD-Radeon-PRO-W6000X-Series-GPUs-Bring-Groundbreaking-High-Performance-AMD-RDNA-2-Architecture-to-Mac-Pro.html">for Mac Pro
- Brewster’s Millions
Apple, NSO, and bug bounties
#askatp
- Do we still use e-readers? (via Aryan Aneja)
  - Jason Snell on the Kobo Libra H2O
  - ebook.com/">Calibre
  - Michael B. Johnson
- Do we use a VNC app to remote into our Macs? (via Stephen Robles)
- Why hasn’t Apple built their own chip foundry? (via Philip Wilkinson)
  - TSMC
  - PA Semi
Post-show: App Store keyword squatters
- Weather • (App Store link)
- Review of iPadOS 15’s Weather App

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Jul 30, 2021

01:49:09

Pre-show:
- LivePhish.com
- Playdate
Follow-up:
- Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated!
- More Safari Updates
- Live Text will be available on Intel Macs too!
  - TextSniper
- “Scorch marks” on Lightning connectors
  - Electrical contact cleaner
- MagSafe “Soap Dish”
- Elective repairs for cosmetic damage at Apple stores
- RFSolution: How do I empty my Google Drive trash‽
Casey’s Apple Music impressions
Casey’s iCloud Photo Library impressions
Casey’s MagSafe Battery Pack review
- Quinn presses a button
Post-show:
- GM’s new battery tech
- Marco is going to a Phish show!

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Jul 20, 2021

02:26:47

Pre-show: Marco’s accident
- DJI Mavic 2
Follow-up:
- There are dozens of people who like compact Safari (via Anthony Lee)
- Perhaps wonky Safari is a nod to an AR future? (via Dan Blondell)
  - Round Rects Are Everywhere!
- Mac Safari’s tab-close UI (via Guy English)
- Other multi-UI apps (via Daniel Jalkut)
  - NetNewsWire
- Photos Extensions
  - Darkroom flag & reject workflow (via Ben Gollmer)
    - Write-up (on Medium 🙄)
  - Raw Power (via Kyle McMahon)
    - Introductory video
    - Caveats
  - OpenDoc
- The best news about Monterey yet (via Aaron Brager)
Apple MagSafe Battery Case Pack Thing
State of iPhone MagSafe
- Elevation Lab MagBase
Post-show: Casey needs the Diamond Dogs

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Jul 15, 2021

01:52:58

Pre-show:
- Casey’s macOS Bug Report
- Math Emporium
  - Power Mac G4 Cube
  - Crystal Garden
Follow-up:
- New Safari tab interface in Monterey beta 3
- Elective AppleCare+ Repairs
- Photo Ingest
  - Photo Mechanic
  - Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
  - “Made for Apple Photos”?
- The Aeron was revised in 2017 (via Alexander)
  - Differences
- Casey’s Shocking News
Post-show bonus #askatp: Does Adam still wear his Apple Watch? (via Andrew Blomquist)
- Apple Watch SE
- Family Setup

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Jul 08, 2021

02:22:09

Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss
Follow-up:
- HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf
- HSTS and Safari (via Jakob)
  - DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption
- Thoughts on Safari from Scott Sutton
  - Safari Technology Preview (“Purple Safari”)
- Eye-tracking Memoji? (via Daniel Yount)
  - Executive images
- John mousepad update
Managing Digital Documents (via Jason Abreu)
Casey’s Apple One Epiphany
- Songwhip
#askatp:
- What’s the desk chair update? (via Carlos Luis Portillo)
- How do we import photos taken on a “big” camera? (via Stephen Kim)
  - GeoTag
  - Pipe Dream
- Why wouldn’t Apple want to license the M1 to Nintendo? (via Zephyz Zhaar)
Post-show: Marco is a monster who doesn’t like air conditioning
- ERV

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Jul 01, 2021

01:58:01

Pre-show:
- Nostalgia for compulsory technology
- Being old in a college town
  - Top of the Stairs
Follow-up:
- Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2
- HTTP Strict Transport Security
  - hstspreload.org
  - Report for hypercritical.co
- iOS 15 can adjust more than just text size
  - Settings → Accessibility → Per-App Settings
- On the need for Apple to defend in-app purchase revenue (via Abel Demoz)
  - The Art of the Possible
John’s Mouse Pad Woes
- SwitchGlass
Cool, Geeky Mac Apps
- Boop
- SwiftBar
  - BitBar (the OG)
    - Falling into disrepair
    - Reboot
  - TextBar (an alternative)
#askatp:
- What’s the deal with Matter (née CHoIP)? (via Jon Strand)
- What’s the deal with Mighty? (via Peter Waller)
- Would Apple ever release a M1 card for Intel Mac Pros? (via Brian Hamilton)
  - MacCharlie
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Jun 24, 2021

01:54:47

Pre-show:
Follow-up:
- Safari page reloading
  - Pull-to-refresh
  - John’s extension
  - Finn Voorhees’ experiment
- Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda
- iCloud Private Relay
  - Rauli Rikama’s observations
  - What about embedded browsers? (via Maarten Hazewinkel)
  - Private Relay is always used for known trackers (via Renaud Lienhart)
  - FLoC
- You monsters that use unnatural scrolling
  - Scroll Reverser
  - Mos
- Avara source code is available (via Dan Watson)
  - Descent screenshot
  - Avara-screenshot.png">Avara screenshot
  - Star Fox screenshot
  - COSI
  - 16.com/feature_page.php?id=5&title=Sega%20VR%3A%20Great%20Idea%20or%20Wishful%20Thinking%3F">Sega VR
- Apple Podcasts & our show notes
- SSD wear reporting in macOS
- Mailo
StoreKit refund API (via Jake Mor)
Per-app text size slider
tvOS 15 will allow sign-in via iPhone/iPad
#askatp:
- Have we cut the cord? (via Ian)
  - OTT
  - Channels
    - TV Everywhere
  - CableCard
  - JustWatch
- What keyboard do we use? (via Kyle Matson)
- What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway? (via Lewis O’Neil)
  - Apple’s FUD PDF
  - Daring Fireball
  - Gui Rambo tweets 1 and 2
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Jun 17, 2021

02:11:10

Pre-show:
- Freaks and Geeks
Follow-up:
- Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
  - More from Viticci
- Center Stage
- Object Capture quality
  - Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda
  - Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple
- macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with captchas too!
- App Library in the dock is optional
- Safari 15 and Reload Button
  - Instructions to restore old-style Safari tab bar
  - Feature flag
Many macOS Monterey features are Apple Silicon-only
- Apple’s fine print
- Maps app globe after toggling a debug flag
A trip down DOS gaming memory lane
Disk Utility has been updated in Monterey! 🎉
Monterey lets you Erase all content & settings!
- Apple’s explanation
How iCloud Private Relay Works
- hole.net/">Pi-hole
#askatp:
- How is being a developer on Apple Silicon? (via Abel Demoz)
- What year will be the final year of macOS on Intel? (via Ralf Krakowski)
- How do the low-power M1 cores use only 1/10th the power of the high-power M1 cores? (via Brian Pirie)
  - Icestorm cores
  - Firestorm cores
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Jun 08, 2021

03:04:02

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
Post-show:
- Original Prince video
  - What happened?
  - Remastered version in which the outcome is more visible
- Todd Vaziri

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Jun 03, 2021

02:07:47

Follow-up:
- Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update
- HDMI cable types
- Wi-Fi 6
  - Back to Work
  - Thread
- Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio)
- iMac Fans
Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet
Apple Podcasts issues:
- Broken show notes?
- Apple Podcasts subscriptions delayed
🤮 Apple’s Self-Serving Puff Piece 🤮
WWDC 2021 Predictions

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May 27, 2021

02:21:58

Pre-show: Compacted sugar
Follow-up:
- John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
  - of-chiplets.png">High resolution image
  - Chiplet
  - AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking
  - Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets
  - Chiplet vs. Monolithic
- Some speculation about the next Mac Pro
- Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan
- MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet”
  - Lord Matthew’s theory
- Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details
  - John Voorhees’ take
- Bluetooth data transfer speeds
- Lossless vs. Lossy Encoding
  - MP3 & AAC & Opus
  - FLAC & ALAC
- HomePod & HomePod mini will support lossless
- HDMI eARC
- Spatial Audio and AirPods from David Steer
Apple TV 4K (2021 edition)
- Matt Craig’s tweet
- Installation/Migration Process
  - One Home Screen
    - Settings → Users and Accounts → [you] → One Home Screen
  - Accessibility → Increase Contrast → Focus Style
  - Home-button function
- Remote
- Calibration
Casey’s Apple TV Woes
Post-show: Casey’s Fan Resolution
- Casey’s fans
- Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control

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Apr 20 | 01:49:45

531: Rock It in the Right Direction

Apr 13 | 02:03:45

530: You Are Not Nintendo

Apr 07 | 02:18:11

529: The Cycles of Marco

Mar 30 | 02:20:28

528: My Favorite Slap in the Face

Mar 23 | 02:07:22

527: The True Siri Experience

Mar 16 | 01:57:14

526: Food Comes From Cans

Mar 09 | 02:16:43

525: The Glory Speakers

Mar 02 | 02:15:31

524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby

Feb 24 | 02:07:46

523: I Can't Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough

Feb 16 | 02:08:12

522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years

Feb 09 | 02:06:04

521: Dance Compatible

Feb 02 | 02:09:45

520: Bananas Ingestion System

Jan 26 | 01:54:05

519: Paint My Wings

Jan 19 | 02:22:40

518: Deconstructed iMac

Jan 09 | 02:13:25

517: A Tesla Full of Kindles

Jan 03 | 02:10:12

516: One of My Fits of Rage

Dec 28 | 02:13:18

515: The Elder Programmer Look

Dec 22 | 01:45:25

514: My Immense Softness

Dec 15 | 02:09:32

513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat

Dec 08 | 01:56:33

512: Owned With a P

Dec 01 | 01:50:29

511: Moving to Antarctica

Nov 22 | 02:09:12

510: It's Occupied by Bears

Nov 17 | 02:14:11

509: Tiny Tyrants

Nov 10 | 02:16:36

508: Later Is Getting Later and Later

Nov 03 | 02:03:26

507: It Sucks, Doesn't It?

Oct 27 | 02:14:28

506: Our Only SEO Is You

Oct 20 | 02:27:34

505: A Mental Laxative

Oct 13 | 02:23:42

504: Too Much Apple in My Apple

Oct 06 | 02:10:13

503: Draw Your Own Slice of Pizza

Sep 29 | 02:26:12

502: Going Retina Again

Sep 22 | 02:13:17

501: Torsional Rigidity Check

Sep 15 | 02:03:14

500: All the Nerds in the Room

Sep 08 | 02:34:35

499: Living Is Pretty Important to Me

Sep 01 | 02:24:25

498: Not MagSafe, but MagSafe

Aug 25 | 02:16:06

497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere

Aug 18 | 02:34:57

496: One of My Lesser TiVos

Aug 11 | 02:12:26

495: Five Points for Smell

Aug 04 | 02:01:33

494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench

Jul 31 | 02:09:48

493: Downstairs Downstairs

Jul 20 | 01:56:52

492: Umbrella Hammer Toadstool

Jul 14 | 02:04:22

491: Salmon and SwiftUI

Jul 07 | 02:05:03

490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs

Jun 30 | 01:54:46

489: Very Inappropriate Thoughts About This Computer

Jun 23 | 01:55:14

488: Pebbles on the Scale

Jun 16 | 02:24:04

487: Mid-Life Rally

Jun 07 | 02:56:20

486: Field Day at Apple Park

Jun 02 | 02:27:00

485: This Is Casey Actual

May 26 | 02:00:00

484: Hot-Spare Price is Right

May 19 | 02:03:40

483: The Faceless Knob

May 12 | 02:09:53

482: I Should Probably Get Reading Glasses

May 06 | 02:11:28

481: Accidentally Made It Too Good

Apr 28 | 02:41:18

480: Three Wise Admins

Apr 18 | 02:04:50

479: Never Mind, I'm Out

Apr 12 | 02:06:34

478: No Bum Cores

Apr 06 | 01:59:34

477: In the Metal

Mar 31 | 02:20:16

476: Plausibly Viable

Mar 24 | 02:00:55

475: Shove It Out the Back

Mar 17 | 01:55:22

474: That's Where the Magic Happens

Mar 10 | 02:44:46

473: Fanboats and Coattails

Mar 03 | 02:18:00

472: File a Casey Radar

Feb 24 | 01:58:11

471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

Feb 17 | 02:12:18

470: Computers Can Do Things

Feb 10 | 02:14:49

469: Tiny Toastie

Feb 03 | 02:13:13

468: You Got Your Non-Money's Worth

Jan 28 | 02:07:25

467: The Strain Provider

Jan 20 | 01:47:49

466: There's Probably a Wizard for It

Jan 13 | 02:11:03

465: Lasers Are Great

Jan 06 | 02:28:21

464: Monks at Drafting Tables

Dec 30 | 02:08:04

463: No Indication of Progress

Dec 22 | 01:59:54

462: Xcode X

Dec 16 | 02:07:51

461: Re-tend That Garden

Dec 09 | 02:04:59

460: Desktop Laptop

Dec 02 | 02:01:15

459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth

Nov 22 | 02:01:11

458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash

Nov 16 | 02:08:56

457: The World's Greatest Conference Call

Nov 11 | 01:53:25

456: The Monitor Situation

Nov 04 | 02:17:33

455: Your Yanking Force

Oct 28 | 02:04:36

454: The Notch is Young

Oct 21 | 02:45:43

453: As the Prophecy Foretold

Oct 14 | 01:46:32

452: It's Totally Leashed

Oct 07 | 02:13:23

451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks

Sep 30 | 02:07:16

450: Distending My Wardrobe

Sep 23 | 02:08:52

449: An Unclean Mouse

Sep 15 | 02:29:54

448: Next Year, Which Is Now

Sep 09 | 02:12:55

447: Lunchbox on Your Face

Sep 02 | 02:04:56

446: Dead From Fraud

Aug 26 | 02:03:17

445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland

Aug 17 | 02:22:26

444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple

Aug 12 | 02:52:08

443: A Storm of Asterisks

Aug 05 | 01:56:19

442: Bob’s Barbecue

Jul 30 | 01:49:09

441: Meals at Home

Jul 20 | 02:26:47

440: The Reality of Magnets

Jul 15 | 01:52:58

439: Eventually Converge on Correctness

Jul 08 | 02:22:09

438: Some Amount of Futzing

Jul 01 | 01:58:01

437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad

Jun 24 | 01:54:47

436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door

Jun 17 | 02:11:10

435: A Strong Number Four

Jun 08 | 03:04:02

434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles

Jun 03 | 02:07:47

433: Before We Leave the Dump

May 27 | 02:21:58

432: I Shouldn't Need to Wiggle

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