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
    • Flight Ready
  • In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
    • ATP Tier List: Storage Media
  • Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
    • We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
    • Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
      • Subscriber audio chapters are a mess
  • New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
    • Mark Gurman’s coverage
    • MD101
  • 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
    • Boston Dynamics
  • A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
• iPhone Pocket
  • Paul’s analogy
  • Gruber’s post
• iPod Socks
  • On eBay
• New Steam Hardware
  • Initial coverage
    • Image of the new devices
    • Announcement video
    • Digital Foundry’s coverage
    • Dave2D’s coverage
  • Steam Controller
    • TMR not Hall Effect
    • Understanding the difference
  • Steam Machine
    • Images on The Verge
  • Steam Frame
    • More photos
• Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
  • Press release

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• Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
• 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
  • T568A & T568B
    • Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
  • Don’t Stop Believin’…
• 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_ Pro
      • C = M_ Max
      • D = M_ Ultra
      • X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
    • Examples
      • A11 = H10P
      • A12X = H11G
      • A14 = H13P
      • M1 = H13G
      • M2 Pro = H14S
    • GPUs use G instead of H
    • 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.h
      • Xcode.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
    • MaxTech
• Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
  • Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
• An aside about nanotexture displays
  • Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
• Casey upgraded to Tahoe
  • Funky sidebar icon
• /r/overcast
  • Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
  • Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
• Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
  • Tinkercad
  • Bambu
  • Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
  • Toybox
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
  • WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
  • QWOP

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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
  • Flighty
• 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
  • T568A & T568B
    • Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
• 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
  • Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers
    • Would it come to the MacBook Air (via Andy Lang)
    • Coming to the iPad Pro?
  • Apple’s MLS deal
    • …is worldwide; not US-only
    • Apple advertises in Korea (via Jake Lee)
  • John’s Shortcuts bug
    • Calum’s example
    • Fleedar’s example
    • lukens77 on Reddit (via eurozerozero)
    • Is it all Shortcuts-related files?
      • Possible fix from gleeful
        • Overwrite If File Exists
  • Fixing the “iconic plateau” (via Gordon Mcdowell)
  • The Cheesecake Factory does, apparently, make everything fresh
    • ATP Inside: The Restaurant, Season One
    • Cube Rule
• Mac Rumors
  • M6/OLED MacBook Pro?
    • Previously from Mark Gurman
  • Brendan Shanks’ discovery
• 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
• Is Tahoe safe yet?
  • The Electron bug
  • Fixes are rolling out
  • Detector app by Tomas Kafka, via Craig Hockenberry
  • Status of popular apps
• 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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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! 🗣️
  • T568A & T568B
    • Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
• Follow-up:
  • Recognition corner
  • Casey begs for help
    • Callsheet List bug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉
    • However, Menu(::primaryAction:) is broken (FB20755661)
  • 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)
    • New chat
    • Mira Murati’s company piece discussing non-determinism
• The M5 Vision Pro
  • Dual Knit Band
  • HDCP
  • Television
  • Theater
  • New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
    • MacRumors coverage
• Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
  • AVIF
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝🏻 F1 in 🇺🇸
  • Previous offerings
  • Apple’s bespoke F1 camera
    • Wired’s coverage
  • Apple’s F1-themed WWDC intro

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The first year of Marco's restaurant: how it all went, what was surprising, how the tech played out, and what's next.