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Casey Liss

John Siracusa

Marco Arment

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Marco has something to commend 

Ubiquiti marketing video
Spanning Tree Protocol
Sonos & Networking Documentation

 • Follow-up: 

 • Formula 1 on Apple TV

 • The case for alarm reminders (via 
Matthew Cave • )

 • SVC 
can • do animations — and way more! (via 
Vítor • ) 

SVG can do THAT‽

 • Yes, you can use AI for 
ffmpeg • , but have you tried 
Lossless Cut • ?

SF Symbols • in Marco’s Reminder app (via 
Clarko • )

 • How can we bemoan 
Electron • and cheer 
WebView • s? (via Julian Gamble)

 • If Finder moves are no good, are 
mv • s the same?

Defrag • lives on …in 
APFS • 

diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable • 

[disk] • is something along the lines of 
diske3 • or 
disk3s1 • , that you get via 
diskutil list

MJ Tsai

 • AI Sentiment 

 • AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via 
Nathan • )

Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy • (via 
Ian Robinson • ) 

Large Energy User Action Plan

Perspectives on art • 

Original Monet

 • The 
Ferrari Luce • 

Previously on ATP
Purosangue
Jaguar I-Pace
BMW i3
BMW i8
GMA T.33
Porsche Taycan
 • Galleries 

The Verge
 • Car and Driver 

Exterior
Interior

 • Coverage 

The Verge
Top Gear
Cleo Abram
MKBHD (stationary tour) • 

ba-dum tss

 • John’s 
EV Stupidity Checklist • 

Saturday Night Live
Affordance

 • Post-show: 
RIP Destiny 2 • 

Associated layoffs, because, of course
Destiny 1 on Wikipedia
Penny Arcade

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How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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693: Negative Bonus Points

• Pre-show: 

 • 🗣️ New 
ATP Member • ’s Special: 
ATP Movie Club: Her
 • Immersive Inlet: 
Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness

 • Follow-up: 

 • Cut/copy/paste in Finder

 • Terminal 

 • John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes 

tcsh
John’s Terminal settings Window tab
John’s Terminal settings Tab tab
Escape sequence extended tooltip
.cshrc

 • Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files

 • Fancy shell prompts like 
Starship • 

KornShell

 • Some other terminal resources 

The Linux Field Guide • by Uros Popovic (via 
Derek • ) 

The terminal, the TTY, and the shell

The Secret Rules of the Terminal • by Julia Evans 

Wizard Zines

 • Ignoring 
node_modules • and the like 

 • In Dropbox 

Dropbox documentation • (via 
Hunter Hillegas • )

 • …or use 
xattr • s 

Dropbox documentation on ignoring files
Automator example from Boz Bundalo

 • In Time Machine 

pnpm • as an alternative to 
npm • (via Paul Galow) 

Technical explanation
Supply chain protection

 • 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display 
will improve a year later • ? 🤨

 • Reminders 

 • Has Marco tried 
“alarm” reminders • ?

 • Reminders snoozing (via 
Rob Howard • )

Updates in 26.5
Flexibits

 • Why does everyone hate AI? 

Pew Research • 

Concern vs. excitement
Ability to think & form meaningful relationships
Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content
Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient
Risk vs. reward
Young adults are using it

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
 • Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint 

University of Central Florida
University of Arizona
Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad • 

On YouTube

Wearable AI friend • 

friend.com
omi.me

Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards • 

Stratechery
Phantom data centers
US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart) • 

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Angine de Poitrine on KEXP

 • Post-show: Marco gets 
geeky • 

Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling
Native all the way… until you need text
PaintCode
XKCD

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Why does the Googlebook exist?

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692: A Thinking Hitch

• Pre-show: 

Project Hail Mary
Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride
Setlist
Bandcamp
Luke Bloom — Bad
D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart
Apocalyptica • 

Vitamin String Quartet
Johnny Cash — Hurt

 • Follow-up: 

 • CapEx vs. OpEx (via 
Andrew Leahey • ) 

Bloomberg

 • “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)

 • Ultra/Neo/etc 

 • Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 
20th anniversary iPhone • ? (via 
Janne Ojaniemi • )

 • Did we forget about “Studio”? (via 
Karan J • )

 • What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via 
Zoran Nešić • )

 • Time Machine 

 • …with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway) 

Asimov

 • …with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)

 • …period (via David Fokkema) 

lsof

Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung • 

Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? • (
Apple News+ link • )

 • Ask ATP: 

 • How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard) 

Yoink
MD5

 • Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper) 

Prompt 3

 • Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)

 • 

LSP
Intelephense

 • Post-show: 
.nofollow • 

Apple developer forum post
Symlink
.nosync, .noindex, .nobackup
Hopper
MJ Tsai
Apple open-source
Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library
Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think

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Ben Dansby

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691: A Menlo Phase

• Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧

 • Follow-up: 

 • Backblaze & cloud backups 

Carbon Copy Cloner • & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein) 

Support document

Maestral
 • Arq’s approach (via 
Daniel Luz • )

 • Neo-ing… other things

Mythos • 

 • What makes this different (via William Moran)

GPT-5.5 is equivalent?
cURL security/bug reports

Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI
AI is still ruining everything • 

See also: MacBook Neo
More from Tim Culpan
Paul Haddad’s toot showing $25K-$35K Mac Studios for sale on eBay

 • An examination of Apple’s 
CapEx • 

Apple’s R&D spending hits new record
SG&A
MG Siegler’s take • 

Project Titan died in Febraury 2024

 • Ultra all the things 

iPhone Ultra
MacBook Ultra
AirPods Ultra
iPad Ultra
 • Apple Watch Ultra 4

 • Mac Ultra

iMac Ultra

 • Ask ATP: 

 • What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)

 • Post-show: Marco’s 
Great Saunter • 

Ashokan Rail Trail
Saunter Map App
Pedometer++
Suunto Race S Titanium
Barkley Marathons • 

Documentary trailer

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Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software • 

Jason’s take
Foster Brereton • 

somebehemoth
Neywiny

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690: Turn Left at the Next Tree

• Pre-show: 
Mythos • 

Anthropic’s blog post

 • Follow-up: 

 • ATP Store 

 • Yes, it happened again.

 • The ATP Neo Silver made it!

UPenn is an Ivy • 

Kieran Healy’s story
Marina Epelman’s thought • 

US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools

 • Gurman’s transition coverage 

Tim Cook’s remarks to employees
Comparison between Cook & Ternus

The Ability to be Hotter • 

New material proves to be more heat conductive

Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage • 

Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878
Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877
Response on Reddit • 

Reparse point
Additional response on Reddit

Backblaze blog post
MJ Tsai roundup
 • Alternatives: 

Arq
Parachute • for iCloud

 • Ask ATP: 

 • What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe) 

ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
2014 Honda Accord

 • Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via 
Jason • )

 • How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz) 

Bug report
Gruber’s take

 • Post-show: 
Pedometer++ version 8.0 • 

Underscore’s blog post
Stephen’s blog post
Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS

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MaxTech’s musing

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689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

• 🗣️ 
ATP STORE • IS LIVE! 🗣️

 • Follow-up: 

 • GL.iNet KVM security issues? 

Mark Wadham’s write-up
Dan Godin at Ars Technica

 • MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via 
Edward Munn • )

Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
More component delays

It’s Ternus time • 

 • Fashion 

Cook’s shoes
Ternus’s Shirt
Cook’s Shirt

Johny Srouji named Chief Hardware Officer
Tim’s letter
New York Times coverage
Marco’s blog post

 • Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey 

Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue
Infinite Loop by Michael S. Malone
Revolution in the Valley
 • 

folklore.org

Jason’s recommendations

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Stephen Robles’ $3,000 video box • 

Kaleidescape Strato

MakeMKV
Tom’s Hardware: Audiophiles are full of 💩 • 

Original post

One Man’s Dream • (
Callsheet link • ) 

RIP, Ken Fritz

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688: A Company Man

• Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco 

Roon
Nugs

 • 🗣️ 
ATP STORE • IS LIVE! 🗣️

 • 🗣️ New 
ATP Member • Special: 
ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
 • Follow-up: 

Suunto is… not young • (via Henri Sivonen) 

Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though

The other neat explainer John was thinking of • (via 
Ben Landsberg • ) 

 • Previously: 

Eric Portis on Color Spaces
Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything

Is Apple running out of A18 Pros • ‽ 😱

 • Apple IDs & passkeys (via 
Vitor • ) 

Others with this issue
Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago

Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! • (via Nye Hughes) 

 • See also: 

Krebs on Security
Darknet Diaries • (via 
David Brownman • )

Ads are coming to Apple Maps • 

Newsroom

 • AI-generated code & copyright 

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted
Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation? • 

No right to relicense this project

Monkey selfie
Claude, rewrite yourself

 • Ask ATP: 

 • When Marco goes on a 
saunter • with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via 
Jason • )

 • Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)

 • Post-show: Casey’s silly 
new toy • 

Alex’s overview
Screenshot of a Linux machine
Screenshot of a Mac

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Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? • (via Jan Wedekind) 

MK1 High Density Rack Mount

 • Bandwidth comparisons 

 • Thunderbolt 5 

 • 80 Gbit/s symmetric

 • 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays

 • SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB) 

 • 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read

 • 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write

PCIe speeds • on PCIe 5.0 

 • 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)

 • 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)

 • …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s) 

 • 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed

 • Internal vs. external SSD 

 • 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s

OWC Envoy Ultra • : 
~5.1 GB/s • ; 8 TB for $2,250

OWC Thunderblade • : 
~5.75 GB/s • ; 8 TB for $2,700

PolySoft third-party internal SSDs • 

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687: You Can Bend This Line

• Pre-show: The new 
Ceramic Shield 2 • in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal 

UniFi Travel Router
Cascades trail
Shenandoah National Park

 • 🗣️ 
ATP STORE • IS LIVE! 🗣️

 • Follow-up: 

Studio Display XDR • price drop‽ 😱 

 • Stephen Robles 

1
2

Casey’s snarky toot
 • Tangentially related: John’s 
Google One • price drop

 • John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)

 • How much hotter can a Mac get? 

Mac Studio power consumption
Mac Pro power consumption

 • Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)

Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
RetinaDisplays.com
CIE 1931 • & Apple’s 2026 CMFs 

 • They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via 
Eric Portis • )

 • The GOAT, 
Bartosz Ciechanowski • 

Mechanical Watch

CIE updates from 2015
On Apple’s CMF

 • Long Island and “mainland” 

United States v. Maine • (via 
Craig Bowers • )

The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time • 

Overcast link
Every other podcast app
Casey’s write-up

Marco’s letter to John Ternus • 

A Tale of Two Letters

 • Ask ATP: 

 • How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via 
Johnny “Decimal” Noble • )

 • Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update 

Suunto Race S Titanium • (
Amazon • )

Garmin Venu 4
Garmin Forerunner 970
Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED

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The Claude Code leak • & how Claude “actually works” 

Regex to detect user anger
 • “Undercover mode” (via 
Aral Balkan • )

Future plans

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686: Write Two Letters

• Pre-show: 

 • Happy independence day, John!

The Great Saunter • 

Pedometer++

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

 • 🗣️ New 
ATP Member • Special: 
ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons • 

More about the flag

 • Follow-up: 

 • Overcast transcripts 

Missed Apex

 • MacBook Neo 

Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
 • New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson) 

iBook “Snow”

Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel • 

Framework

 • MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks 

 • “NFW”, says Henry

 • “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari

 • “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple 

Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac • 

Original article • 🇩🇪

PCI Express

 • Ubiquiti 

 • What about site-to-site VPN for Marco? 

UniFi Travel Router

 • “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 
MLO • 

YouTube announcement
Blog post

Some shadiness from January

 • 🪦 
RIP, Mac Pro • 🪦 

Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa
CUDA

 • Ask ATP: 

 • Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)

 • How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)

 • Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands 

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”

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 • 10 February: 
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 • 20 February: 
Smart speaker with a camera? • 

The Information

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685: The Ability to Be Hotter

• Follow-up: 

 • Overcast & Transcriptions 

Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
 • What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via 
Matt King • ) 

Apple Podcasts transcript options
 tag
MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag

 • What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps 
Faktory • ? (via Drew Stephenson) 

beanstalkd
Ansible

Monitoring & control interface
 • Imagine a 
Beowulf cluster • of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner) 

System X
RDMA over Thunderbolt • was 
added in macOS 26.2
I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac
Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard
Apple Insider

 • Mac fleet management advice 

Apple Business

 • AirPods Max popularity in New York

WWDC 2026 Announced
 • Ask ATP 

 • What’s the deal with 
passkeys • , anyway? (via Phillip Miller) 

XKCD

 • Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via 
Jon Fabritius • )

 • Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton) 

Michael Cook’s contrary opinion

 • Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology 

DS1621+
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro
Casey’s NUC
Channels
Proxmox
Tailscale on YouTube
Derek Seaman’s Tech Blog (the extremely helpful listener 🥰)
ESPHome
Syncthing • & 
rclone
Proxmox Backup Server
Transmit
Forklift

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690: Turn Left at the Next Tree

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