Accidental Tech Podcast

638: Hop, Hop, Hop

May 6, 2025 02:14:02 • Download (129 MB)

Hyperspace updates, more on Apple's in-app-purchase injunction, how to choose Ubiquiti gear (and when not to), and some actual vibe-coding (we think?).

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
  - Blue Man Group
- Epic vs. Apple
Ubiquiti
- Marco Recommendations
- Cloud Gateway Fiber
- changedetection.io
- Pushover
- magicplan
- Ubiquiti Designer
Hyperspace update
Casey’s Coding Corner
- Vibe coding journey
  - GIFWrapped
  - Casey on Bluesky
- SF Symbols journey
Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
- LaTeX
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro successor rumors
- “Vision Air”
- XREAL glasses

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637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

May 1, 2025 02:07:32 • Download (123 MB)

The ruling against Apple, the Slate Truck, and using a reMarkable e-ink tablet.

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
- ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
- A surprising Vision Pro corner:
- D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF
- iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen)
- Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power)
  - Server Part Deals
Judge tells Apple “yeah, no”
Marco returns to YouTube
Ask ATP:
- Is it even possible for Siri to get good? (via David MacQueen)
- Do we stll carry wallets? (via Stephen Klinck)
  - John’s ridiculous wallet
- How do we share photos outside of a family unit? (Dylan Copeland)
Post-show Neutral: Slate Truck
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
- Research paper
- LoRA not LoRa

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ATP Insider: School, Then and Now

April 29, 2025

How our experiences in school in the 1980s and 1990s were better and worse (mostly worse) than our kids' modern schooling.

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636: Nose-Biting Territory

April 23, 2025 02:02:23 • Download (118 MB)

Spending Casey's money.

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Follow-up:
- Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
- Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
  - AliExpress
- AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
  - USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
- Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing user uprising
  (This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.)
- 🫏🕳️ leaders are not good
- John continues to try to spend Marco’s money
  - Rtings’ new glare testing
  - LG G5 brightness
- Apple’s self-service repair program (via Sky Velleity)
iPadOS 19 rumors
Footguns and Synology
- Enshittification
- Ars Technica’s Synology coverage
Post-show: Marco’s first batch of restaurant-tech MVPs
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s AI doctor

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635: An Effective Operator

April 15, 2025 02:19:05 • Download (134 MB)

Chaos in the government, chaos in the Siri group, chaos in Casey's AirPods case… and new T-shirts!

Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
  - Message from US Customs & Border Protection
  - Connor Mason’s post about Tim Cook’s top two skills
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
  - John’s boosted post
- Cross-platform photo management
  - Immich (via bapt)
- Nintendo Switch 2
  - 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
    - Specifications
  - Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
  - Other open-world racing games
  - Console games price history
- Dropbox & File Provider
- John’s daughter’s college laptop
- Folding aspect ratios
  - iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
- Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
  - iBoff
  - Introductory video
How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
- MacRumors summary
- More on JG’s Siri leadership
- On Robby Walker
- Cross-towngroup tensions
- That fateful demo
- NIH syndrome
- New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
Post-show: AI mind-share
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces its 2025 TVs

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