Accidental Tech Podcast

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters. Hosted by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa.

385: Temporal Smear

July 2, 2020 02:28:36 • Download (72 MB)

Audio nerdery, choosing an Apple UI framework, and filesystem changes in Big Sur.

Pre-show: hey_z_ree
Bootleg-feed update
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- Audio Hijack
- Fraunhofer MP3 Licensing
- NetNewsWire
Overcast, Swift, and SwiftUI
Follow-up:
- DTK update
  - Benchmarks
    - Steve Troughton-Smith’s Take
  - Pentium 4 DTK
- John ports to ARM
- Windows on ARM Macs
- Rosetta
WWDC 2020
- Big Sur and APFS
  - Daniel Jalkut’s tweet
- Big Sur release notes
- Messages in Big Sur
  - Starting screen sharing via ⌘K
  - /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app
- “Play sound on startup” (Sound pane in System Preferences)
- Big Sur version number
- APFS, Time Machine, and booting changes
- Apple platform unification
Post-show: Fitness and calorie counting
- FoodNoms
- Club Crackers

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384: Equal Emphasis

June 23, 2020 03:15:01 • Download (94 MB)

Our WWDC 2020 special! (Three hours wasn‘t enough.)

WWDC 2020
- iOS 14
  - Widgets
    - James Thomson
    - Vidgets (App Store link)
  - App Library
  - Compact Siri/Call UIs/Picture-in-Picture
  - Translation
    - Google Translate
  - Messages
  - Maps
  - Home
    - Pushover
  - CarPlay & CarKey
    - U1
  - Safari
  - App Clips
  - Emoji 🔍
  - Scribble
  - Color Picker
    - Pastel
  - StoreKit Testing! 🥳
    - Stripe
    - Brent Simmons’ take on IAP
  - Speed Round
    - iPadOS
    - watchOS
    - AirPods
- macOS Big Sur
  - New Look
- ARM Macs
  - Developer Transition Kit
    - “Compliment of Mac I/O Ports”
      - 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet
  - Universal 2
    - App thinning
  - Rosetta 2
    - Contributions promised
  - Virtualization
    - Hypervisor
    - Parallels
  - Unified memory
  - iOS & iPadOS apps
Post-show:
- Overcast on Catalyst
- 11.0
- Challenging App Store rules

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383: Demand-Paged Outrage

June 18, 2020 02:25:30 • Download (70 MB)

Marco discovers restaurants, Casey discovers the Touch Bar, and Hey discovers the App Store.

Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce
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- ARM Mac dev kits
  - Xbox 360 “Dev Kit”
  - Apple T2
- Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro
- Tim Cook announces Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
- …oh, P.S., Apple’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion left
Casey’s new MacBook Pro
- Casey on Homebrew bundle
- BetterTouchTool
A New Breed of Macs
- Rosetta
Hey.com’s App Store Rejection
Post-show: Brief WWDC predictions
- Connected #299: The Rickies (Summer 2020)

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382: Static Ad Removal

June 11, 2020 02:02:11 • Download (59 MB)

Reactions to last week's show, the latest ARM rumblings, and the technical road to our new membership program.

Reactions to last week’s show
Follow-up:
- Race/racism book list
- On writing into web forms
  - SMART Board
  - Nero Burning ROM
  - Jaz Drive
  - XJACK
  - WASTE
    - Justin Frankel
      - Personal site
    - Icecast
    - SHOUTcast
    - Audio Hijack
    - Cockos
    - LICEcap
    - Gnutella
- On Casey’s SMB issues
- Home.app scenes rather than automations, via Hugo Jobling
- Daniel Jalkut corrects us about powerbox
- Android Live Captions 1 2 (via David D’Arcy)
  - Voice Control on iOS
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- Forecast
ARM Macs are coming! For real this time!
Post-show: Membership Pricing Tiers that Never Were

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381: Uncomfortable Truths

June 4, 2020 01:49:37 • Download (54 MB)

Racism and police in the US, then some temporary escapism thanks to something we can always count on: Casey's overly complex, misbehaving technology.

Black Lives Matter
Follow-up:
- Netscape Navigator, Lynx, and atp.fm (via Alex Chan)
- OpenDoc Parts
- Windows has a clipboard manager (via Max Nuding)
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Casey’s TV issues
- CEC - Consumer Electronics Control
Android vs. iOS Speech-to-Text Speed
- Initial demo (via Dave Mark)
- Follow-up
Catalina and SMB shares
- The operation can’t be completed because the original item for {RootFolder} can’t be found.
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
- Jeff Johnson’s follow-up about shell scripts
Gaming MacBook Pro
#askatp
- What view do we use in Finder? (via The Weakest Muscle)
- How do we clean our screens? (via Stefan)
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- How do we protect our kids from the internet? (via Peter)
  - YouTube SafeSearch
  - Cloudflare DNS for Families

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