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Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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Accidental Tech Podcast
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Latest Episodes
Negative Bonus Points
May 29, 2026
- Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
- Follow-up:
- Formula 1 on Apple TV
- The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
- SVC can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
- Yes, you can use AI for
ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? - SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
- How can we bemoan Electron and cheer
WebViews? (via Julian Gamble) - If Finder moves are no good, are
mvs the same? - Defrag lives on …in APFS
diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable[disk]is something along the lines ofdiske3ordisk3s1, that you get viadiskutil list
- MJ Tsai
- AI Sentiment
- AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
- Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
- Perspectives on art
- The Ferrari Luce
A Thinking Hitch
May 21, 2026
- Pre-show:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
- Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
- Follow-up:
- Cut/copy/paste in Finder
- Terminal
- John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
- Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files
- Fancy shell prompts like Starship
- Some other terminal resources
- The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)
- The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
- Ignoring
node_modulesand the like- In Dropbox
- In Time Machine
pnpmas an alternative tonpm(via Paul Galow)
- 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display
A Menlo Phase
May 14, 2026
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
- CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
- “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)
- Ultra/Neo/etc
- Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
- Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
- What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
- Time Machine
- Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
- Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
Turn Left at the Next Tree
May 8, 2026
- Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
- Follow-up:
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
- Maestral
- Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz)
- Neo-ing… other things
- Mythos
- What makes this different (via William Moran)
- GPT-5.5 is equivalent?
- cURL security/bug reports
- Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI
- AI is still ruining everything
- An examination of Apple’s CapEx
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Ultra all the things
- iPhone Ultra
- MacBook Ultra
- AirPods Ultra
- iPad Ultra
- Apple Watch Ultra 4
- Mac Ultra
- iMac Ultra
- Ask ATP:
- What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)
The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
Apr 30, 2026
- Pre-show: Mythos
- Follow-up:
- ATP Store
- Yes, it happened again.
- The ATP Neo Silver made it!
- UPenn is an Ivy
- Gurman’s transition coverage
- The Ability to be Hotter
- ATP Store
- Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
- Ask ATP:
- What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replaceme
A Company Man
Apr 21, 2026
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- GL.iNet KVM security issues?
- MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
- Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
- More component delays
- It’s Ternus time
- Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
You Can Bend This Line
Apr 16, 2026
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
- Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
- See also:
- Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- AI-generated code & copyright
Write Two Letters
Apr 9, 2026
- Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- Stephen Robles
- Casey’s snarky toot
- Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
- John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
- How much hotter can a Mac get?
- Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
- Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
- RetinaDisplays.com
- CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
- They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
- The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
- CIE updates from 2015
- On Apple’s CMF
- Long Island and “mainland”
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
The Ability to Be Hotter
Apr 1, 2026
- Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
- MacBook Neo
- Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
- New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
- Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
- MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
- “NFW”, says Henry
- “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
- Ubiquiti
- What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
- “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
- Some shadiness from January
- 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
- Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
It’s Not What Young People Do
Mar 26, 2026
- Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
- What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
- What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
- Monitoring & control interface
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
- Mac fleet management advice
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- WWDC 2026 Announced
- Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
- Post-show: Casey is contin