Accidental Tech Podcast

679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

February 16, 2026 02:00:49 • Download (117 MB)

Solar and batteries vs. generators, news about Perl (?!), hiding apps as a self-improvement tool, and the age-old debate of "Save As…" vs. "Duplicate", which we basically only see in Preview now.

Pre-show:
- Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
- We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
Follow-up:
- Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
- Marco’s ~~defection~~ move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
  - Helium Browser
  - unduck.link
- Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
  - “Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
  - Explanatory video
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
  - Fastmail’s donation
  - John’s referral link
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
  - Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
  - From back in 2012!
Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
- ReplayTV

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678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

February 12, 2026 02:34:02 • Download (149 MB)

More on the impact of AI coding, and the Jony Ive-designed Ferrari interior.

Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
- Units corner
  - Robert Tait’s video
- WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
  - ATP Movie Club: WarGames
  - WarGames
- AI
  - Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations
    - Three apps in one day
    - On usage limits
  - Dread & fatalism
    - We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson
    - The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
  - Productivity promise vs. reality
  - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas
  - AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison
  - Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar
  - Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
- Some related links from our AI conversation:
- Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases
Ferrari Luce
- Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge
- Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL
  - Associated post
- Dieter Rams
- Patek Philippe Nautilus
- Braun
- Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50
  - Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)
  - Other videos
- Leica
Post-show: Casey is car shopping
Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles
- Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins
- Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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ATP Insider: After Apple

February 10, 2026

What would have happened if Apple never existed? What if they stop existing? Which platforms and products would we use?

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677: I Accept the Battery Cost

February 5, 2026 02:01:32 • Download (117 MB)

If you really don’t like AI, we have some bad news for you.

Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
  - Cloudflare Access
    - Zero trust architecture
  - OpenID connect
    - tsidp
    - Pocket ID
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
  - Robert Tait of The Hook Up
- Claude Code & AI ethics
  - Alec’s video
  - Irish wind farm
Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
Marco’s experiment
- Cortex
- DuckDuckGo
- Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
- Apple buys Q.ai
- Ryan Christoffel

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676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

January 29, 2026 02:20:12 • Download (135 MB)

TCL and Sony TVs, Apple and Google's AI infrastructure, new AirTags, John Ternus overseeing design, and more adventures with Claude Code.

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
- atp.fm passkey update
- Google Private AI Compute
- Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
- Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
- Screen on RAM
- ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
- Modular headphones
  - AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)
  - Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
- Window management in macOS (via Ben)
  - FlashSpace
  - AltTab
New AirTags
- The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
- Invite image
- Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
- TCL Super Quantum Dot
- TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
- Sebastiaan de With → Apple
- Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
- We stand with Minnesotans.
- John’s new bff
  - XKCD #974: Pass the salt
Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

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