ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
Marco seeks input about a dilemma, weighing the pros and cons of tackling a new project.
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665: My Basement Is Beautiful
Apple's new phone… holder, Steam's new hardware, and slightly more evidence that CD-Rs are S-tier.
- Follow-up:
- John has some new Vision Pro treats
- In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
- Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
- We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
- Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
- New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
- Tahoe & Electron app fixes
- Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
- Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
- macOS Emoji Picker
- ⌃ ⌘ Space
- Rocket
- Pogo-stick robot
- A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
- iPhone Pocket
- iPod Socks
- New Steam Hardware
- Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
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664: Humanity Gets in the Way
AI podcast-chapter generators were never designed to handle us.
- Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
- 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
- Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
- Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
- Variants
P= A_G= A_X / A_Z / M_S= M_ ProC= M_ MaxD= M_ UltraX= M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
- Examples
A11=H10PA12X=H11GA14=H13PM1=H13GM2 Pro=H14S
- GPUs use
Ginstead ofH - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.hXcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h- Apple codenames
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
- Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- An aside about nanotexture displays
- Casey upgraded to Tahoe
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- Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
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663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory
Bold MacBook Pro rumors, Liquid Glass gets frosted, whether Tahoe is a safe upgrade yet, and more experiences with the Vision Pro.
- Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors
- 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro
- Mac Virtual Display
- On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng)
- Apple Support
- Tapping-and-holding × allows for hiding other windows (via Nick Anthony)
- Vision Pro vs. ski goggles
- Mac Virtual Display
- Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers
- Would it come to the MacBook Air (via Andy Lang)
- Coming to the iPad Pro?
- Apple’s MLS deal
- John’s Shortcuts bug
- Calum’s example
- Fleedar’s example
- lukens77 on Reddit (via eurozerozero)
- Is it all Shortcuts-related files?
- Fixing the “iconic plateau” (via Gordon Mcdowell)
- The Cheesecake Factory does, apparently, make everything fresh
- Vision Pro
- Mac Rumors
- 𝓍OS 26 β4 includes Liquid Glass toggle
- iOS/iPadOS:
Settings→Display and Brightness - macOS:
System Settings→Appearance - Example image
- Lock Screen swipe for camera can now be disabled, too
Settings→Camera→Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera
- iOS/iPadOS:
- Is Tahoe safe yet?
- Post-show: More of John’s impressions of the Vision Pro
- Members-only ATP Overtime: How does one actually make an app? (via not that coach mike)
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662: Just Break the Law
Finally, we have all taken a trip together to Mount Hood.
- Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
- 🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
- An aside about outerwear
- 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Recognition corner
- Casey begs for help
- Callsheet
Listbug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉 - However,
Menu(::primaryAction:)is broken (FB20755661)
- Callsheet
- Some M5 Vision Pro clarifications
- The M5 does have Memory Integrity Enforcement
- The M5 MacBook pro without a charger is actually cheaper in most regions
- EU is €100 cheaper without / €35 with (via Nick Heer)
- UK is the same though
- The non-determinism of LLMs (via Heiko Hotz)
- The M5 Vision Pro
- Dual Knit Band
- HDCP
- Television
- Theater
- New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
- Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝🏻 F1 in 🇺🇸
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