Accidental Tech Podcast

645: More Frosting

June 26, 2025 01:42:53 • Download (99 MB)

macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 beta 2 updates, the latest AI-training kerfuffles, life with CarKey, and flagship OLED TVs.

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
- Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
- Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
  - Sneakers (1992)
- ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
- Persistent icon replacement helper apps
  - Pictogram
  - Replacicon
- Tahoe beta 2
  - Finder icon updated!
    - Louie Mantia tries again
  - New menu bar background setting!
    - Beta 2, with background
  - Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor)
  - Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo)
    - Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar
    - <meta name="theme-color">
    - theme_color
    - Yosemite Safari tabs
      - From John’s review
  - Installing betas and DFU mode
    - macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry)
    - DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb)
    - InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
- iOS 26 Beta 2
  - Frost all the things!
  - The case of Marco’s missing download/check buttons
    - Roman’s observation
- iPadOS 26 window limits (via Jon Edwards)
- “Apple Vision Pro 4K” (via Greg Kaplan)
All your data are belong to AI companies
- Apple training models on Feedback attachments ಠ_ಠ
  - Original report from Joachim
- Meta AI staffers take an interesting approach
- New York Times 🤝🏻 Amazon AI
- You can train AI models without copyrighted material… it’s just a pain in the 🍑
- Anthropic gets a W… maybe?
Ask ATP:
- Does Marco use Apple CarKey? His car should support it. (via Samuel Polay)
  - CarPlay Ultra partners list is looking… sparse
  - Ferrari keyfob
- Why does macOS want USB mass storage ejected, but iPadOS doesn’t? (via David Campbell)
Post-show: TV Update for Marco
Members-only ATP Overtime: Overlap between appdev & gamedev
- Coyote time & jump buffering
- Secrets to a great platformer with Unity
- Destiny health
- Examples in our apps

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644: You Have to Invert

June 19, 2025 02:22:24 • Download (137 MB)

Impressions of iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass after a week of using the first developer betas. Surprisingly, we have thoughts.

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- Bespoke 3D-printed mount
- Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
- Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
  - ProcessInfo
  - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
  - SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
  - null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
Liquid Glass
- Adopting Liquid Glass
  - Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things
- Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
- Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
macOS Tahoe
- Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
- Squircle Jail
  - Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
  - Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
  - Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
- Speaking of rounded corners…
  - Build an AppKit App with the New Design
- Chonky stoplights
  - macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
  - -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
- Missing title bars
- Missing menu bar fixes
  - GlassBar
  - Boring Old Menu Bar
- Alignment
- Finder icon controversy
  - Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
  - Michael Flarup
  - D. Griffin Jones
- Icons next to menu items
  - Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
  - Today in the HIG
- Tabs contrast
  - Terminal tabs
- Safari contrast
  - Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari
- Arrow cursor has been updated
  - Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
  - Hand cursor as well
- Floating elements & compartmentalization
- Clipboard history
  - Stephen Robles
  - Overview video
- Future of Rosetta
  - Ars Technica
- New disk image format: ASIF
  - Howard Oakley write-up
iOS 26
- UI impressions
- New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
  - Video
iPadOS 26
- Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…
- Slideover is 💀
- UI impressions
Testing Liquid Glass
- UIDesignRequiresCompatibility
Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
Post-show: WWDC Favorites
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?

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ATP Movie Club: Sneakers

June 17, 2025

In this special members-only episode, we watch and discuss "Sneakers" (1992).

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643: You Go to Squircle Jail

June 9, 2025 02:53:57 • Download (168 MB)

Impressions and analysis from WWDC 2025: Apple's new universal UI design with "Liquid Glass", all of the new 26-series OSes using it, and the potential of the new Apple Intelligence APIs.

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- Mario Kart World
WWDC
- F1
- Sam Henri Gold
- Marcel
- Flighty
- Parcel
- Control Plane
- Acorn
Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
- Previously discussed on ATP #609
- GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
- Gary’s 1998 paper
- Gary’s 2001 book

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642: A Rebuilding Year

June 5, 2025 02:18:59 • Download (134 MB)

Hopes, dreams, and predictions for WWDC 2025… after an hour of U2.

Follow-up:
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
- Bono: Stories of Surrender
- Open: An Autobiography
- Rattle and Hum
- Apple Immersive Screenshots:
  - Crowd
  - Stadium
  - TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
- Casey’s toot
- FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
- Retreating to Safety
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS

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