Accidental Tech Podcast

699: Not the Correct Squircle

July 6, 2026 02:20:29 • Download (137 MB)

Someone got us started on app icons again.

Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Follow-up:
- Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
- Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
- RAMAgeddon
  - Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
  - Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
  - Steam Machine difficulties
    - Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)
  - Collusion! Well, maybe.
  - Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
- ~~We’re~~ Fable is so back, baby
  - More at Ars Technica
- Siri AI
  - No web browsing for you!
  - Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
  - Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
Revamped icons by Parakeet
Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
- Apple support document
- Opera joins the party
Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
- DevCleaner (App Store link)
Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
- Goose
- Big Modern!
  - Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
- Nugs
- Micro Tyvek Wallet
- Micro Soft Shell Wallet
- Studio Neat
- Casey’s fan
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
- Quinn Nelson’s pitch
- Game Porting Toolkit 4

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698: And Do What?

June 30, 2026 02:13:35 • Download (129 MB)

Siri AI impressions, M6 and M7 rumors, Apple’s role in the supply chain, languages for LLMs, and price hikes for everyone!

Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
- Nugs and Sonos
- As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
- Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
- Rumors about Siri AI indexing
- Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
- Price increases abound! ☹️
  - On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
  - Steam Machine (More)
  - Xbox
  - Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
    - Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
      - Previously, in Palm Pilots
- Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
  - Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
- Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
- GFHK?
- More reporting
New Siri
- Iconography
  - Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
  - Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
- Joanna Stern’s review
- Gui Rambo’s experiment
- Dan Moren
- John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
  - Question 1
  - Question 2
Ask ATP:
- Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
- If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
  - 3Blue1Brown
  - Avoiding Copland 2010
- Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
  - Casey:
    - ThinkPad 701C
    - ThinkPad T30
  - John:
Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS

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ATP Dev: Mac-Assed Mac Apps

June 27, 2026

What makes a great native Mac app?

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697: The Chart Is Terrifying

June 26, 2026 02:06:20 • Download (122 MB)

Apple altered their prices. Pray they don’t alter them any further.

Pre-show:
- Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
- Marco’s trip report
  - Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
- John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
- Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
- Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
  - Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
  - Alex concurs
- Apple’s AI Tech Talk
  - What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
  - Bootleg video (via sayrer)
- Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
- Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
  - New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
    - WWDC session on YouTube
- The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
  - Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
- Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
  - TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
  - Direct product comparisons
    - Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
- Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
  - General overview (via Gui Rambo)
  - cloudOS job listing
  - How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
- Stephen’s tables
- Gruber’s tables
- Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
- Good timing:
Ask ATP:
- Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
  - Joe Lion
  - Blake Patterson
- Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable

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696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

June 15, 2026 01:59:04 • Download (116 MB)

Lots of details from macOS Golden Gate, Apple's AI Tech Talk, road trips, and failed Bobs.

Pre-show:
- We are not dangerously capable
- We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
- Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
  - FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
Follow-up:
- It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
- Indexing for the new Spotlight
- Passwords app does the hard thing
- macOS 27
  - “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
    - Microsoft Bob
  - You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
  - There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    - sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
  - ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
  - The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
  - Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
  - Mickey hands are back
  - They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
  - General Golden Gate icon changes
  - Touch Macs are coming
    - Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
    - ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
  - You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
  - HIG updates for menu icons
- iOS 27
  - Siri AI pull down animation
- iPadOS 27
  - ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
- tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
  - Hardware compatibility
- watchOS
  - Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
- Images
- Quotes
- Dan Moren vanity searches
  - An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
- Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
- 3Blue1Brown transformers video
- Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
- Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
- LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
  - Filippone Stefano’s review
- Ars Technica’s write-up
Post-show: Casey’s trip results
Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
- OpenDoc
- iPhone mirroring resizing

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