Accidental Tech PodcastAccidental Tech Podcast

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

396: The World of Moving

Apple's event unveiling the Apple Watch Series 6, new iPad and iPad Air, Family Setup, and Fitness+.

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395: Receive Their Honking

Hopes and dreams for next week's event, Epic's Sign In With Apple problem, and driving lessons from John.

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394: The Price of an ATP Sticker

Supporting a good cause, replacing a Synology, an unexpected hardware review, and Cooking with Casey: The Virginia Treat.

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393: We’re the Bit Company

Apple's continued battle with Epic, antitrust concerns, and trouble in John's computing paradise.

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392: Corporate Relationship Counselor

Spending Casey's money, driving stick, and the continuing battle between Epic and Apple.

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391: Worse in Stupid Ways

Epic goes to war with the App Store, Apple vs. game-streaming, and an ode to most of Phil Schiller's work.

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390: I Invented This Anti-Pattern

Whether we'd distribute our apps outside of the App Store, a deep dive on the Hey email service, and John's true feelings about our Live Photos.

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389: One Branch Leads to Yes

For some reason, nobody asked us to testify before Congress.

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388: Riding the Autocomplete

How many podcasters does it take to open a bottle of seltzer?

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387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think

Guess which host likes the Big Sur UI redesign?

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386: No More Holes in My House

More from WWDC, ARM Mac hardware possibilities, the court of app review, and an imminent sunset in Virginia.

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385: Temporal Smear

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

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384: Equal Emphasis

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

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383: Demand-Paged Outrage

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

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382: Static Ad Removal

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

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381: Uncomfortable Truths

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

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380: Wires Are Great

A live-stream saga, web-development complexity, spending Casey's money, and the macOS version of DLL hell.

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379: The Everything’s OK Alarm

Our business, the promo-code scammer's business, Spotify's business, and Joe Rogan's business.

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378: Whale Quench

More Casey solutions to problems, voice-control superhumans, scams targeting app developers, and the etymology of "camcorder".

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377: $10 Worth of Headaches

The butterfly keyboard is dead! Rst in ppeace.

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376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle

Dropping Dropbox, gaming on the Mac Pro, contact tracing, and "fixing" Casey's unbroken house.

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375: Wobbly Goblin

Magic Keyboard for iPad impressions, getting your first job after college, and corrupting your homeowner association from the inside.

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374: Screwdriver Testing Harness

John pours even more money into his Mac Pro, Casey buys a $300 keyboard for his tertiary computer, and Marco realizes he may not be a programmer.

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373: This Jerk, Right Here

Casey's ridiculously Casey storage waffling, John's ridiculously John evaluation of the PS5 controller, and Marco's ridiculously Marco retro-gaming setup. With special guest Tiff Arment!

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372: Things Are Degraded

Casey's storage tale of woe, Apple buying Dark Sky, and Amazon's in-app-purchase policy exception.

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371: Four-Letter Technologies

A VERY nerdy technical interview with Chris Lattner, and forgiving ourselves for our lack of productivity during the quarantine.

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370: Ghost Finger

New MacBook Air and iPad Pro, and Magic Keyboards for (almost) everyone!

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369: Brown Big Bear

More useful Mac shortcuts, modifier-key symbols, and a bunch of new iOS and watchOS rumors.

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368: A Jacket and Some Pins

Fixing Casey's computer, managing (and backing up) NAS-sized data, and WWDC's potential cancellation due to COVID-19.

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367: Antitrust Relief Valve

Apple possibly adding default-app choice on iOS, shorter HTTPS-certificate lifespans, and Casey's humongous-gust-of wind.

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366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day

We invent new Apple products and fix some bugs for them, and John implements a seemingly trivial feature.

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365: Day-One Cowboy

Butterflies went mainstream, Marco gave up a fight, and John can't stop making new apps.

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364: A Casey Settings Screen

Casey surprises everyone with a new app, John fixes Dock folders, and Marco names Wi-Fi networks.

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363: The Floor is Lava

We fix two big bugs, and use the adrenaline rush to solve iPad multitasking. You're welcome, Apple.

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362: Xcode in Anger

John tries to use Interface Builder.

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361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf

In-flight entertainment, Ethernet drama, restless Macs, and sanding off a Windows logo.

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360: Big Hole in the Middle

John's Pro Display XDR and new app (!), Salt's Apple TV remote, and the untimely death of a 16-inch MacBook Pro.

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359: I Could Live in There

The greatest sales pitch for a gaming PC that we've ever inadvertently made.

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358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro

Cheese, wheels, rat tails, and a Buick.

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357: A Giant Green Field

We have a bit more to say about the Mac Pro.

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356: With a Heavy Heart

We configure a Mac Pro.

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355: The Way Corn Grows

Casey's Computer Corner concludes, we celebrate the season of giving (to ourselves) with Black Friday shopping, John tries Stadia, and Marco tries to buy an appliance.

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354: Casey's Computer Corner

We like computers so much that we need everyone to buy all of them.

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353: Modern-Day Dialup

Solving Casey's conundrums, one at a time.

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352: No One Else Had Calipers

The 16-inch MacBook Pro.

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351: The Floor Is High

The Apple TV+ launch, more MacBook Pro sleuthing, and a week with AirPods Pro.

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350: Wax Buddies

Did you ever wish we'd do a sports podcast? After this, you won't.

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349: Formative Tech Dystopia

Why everyone makes everything now, developer documentation, and the seemingly imminent 16" MacBook Pro.

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348: Panic Shutdown

Apple's China problem, adventures in home networking, and the future of progress bars.

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347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick

macOS Catalina, disposable AirPods, and the bells of Arment county.

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