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Casey Liss

John Siracusa

Marco Arment

Accidental Tech Podcast

• 🗣️ It’s 
St. Jude • time! 🗣️ 

The Marco Offset™

September 2026 event • 

MacRumors on the cellular chips
SynthID Standard
Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview
Surface Duo
PowerBook Duo
Rafa’s toot about layouts
Apple Developer Videos

 • Post-show: Jetty update

Members-only • ATP Overtime: 
Apple’s new business terms in the EU • 

Ben Thompson’s breakdown
Gruber’s take
Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent

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708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin

• 🗣️ It’s 
St. Jude • time! 🗣️ 

The Marco Offset™

 • Follow-up: 

Luz fooled me, Jerry! • 

Extremely convincing fake • by Daniel Luz

Mea culpa

Apple fooled us all
 • Siri blobs fix 

System Settings • → 
Screen Time • → 
Content & Privacy • → 
Content & Privacy • (turn the switch on) → 
Siri • → 
Writing Assistance • (turn the switch off)

 • John is happy with new Macs timetable

 • Are photo libraries on external disks supported? 

Knowledge base
Iris

Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro • 

Dithering

 • Motivations for 
SME • adoption (via 
shac ron • )

 • ✅ Tim Cook exit interview 

AT 688: A Company Man • at 
1h8m29s • (Overcast timestamp link)

Phil takes another step toward the door • 

Emma Roth at The Verge
Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too

 • iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews

 • iPhone event preview

 • Post-show: John’s storage update 

Backblaze B2
Amazon S3

Members-only • ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro 

 • 10 May: 
Mark Gurman
 • 3 June: 
Juli Clover at MacRumors
 • 21 August: 
Gurman
 • 30 August: 
Gurman

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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost

• Pre-show: Marco’s 
casement windows • 

Screen clips
Screen clips, installed • (white prototypes for visibility)

TPU for AMS

 • 🗣️ New 
Member’s • Special: 
ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind
 • Follow-up: 

 • macOS 27 UI tweaks 

Redesigned stoplights in β6 • 

Video
Stoplights
Stretchy buttons • 

Video

Porsche 911, 996 generation • 

In defense of the fried egg Porsches

Turning off the Siri logo

macOS 27 got the new Preview icon

 • LLM determinism when 
temperature = 0 • 

Write-up by Horace He
IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas • 

See also

Other people’s phones • 

Not sped up! All 1×!
i • vs. 
I

Apple iPhone event announced
 • New 
Mac mini • and 
Mac Studio • 

Core size comparison
SME • replaces 
AMX • in the M6 

Exploratory Github Repo
AMX instruction set
SME Introduction
Hello SME
 • Longhorn 
Toot 1 • and 
Toot 2

Marketing page section • (via 
Daniel Luz • ) 

Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!

High Yield diagram
M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
 • Mac mini 

Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
Mac mini pricing history • 

…inflation-adjusted

Apple Upgrade program • lease [un]availability

Gruber on pricing
Advertisement • 

Behind the scenes

 • Mac Studio 

Gruber on pricing
Advertisement

 • John’s purchasing journey 

The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
The accessory that’s also a spoiler

New […ish] keyboards! • 

MacRumors coverage
 • Apple Part Number: 
MJM4LL/A
 • Previously: 
MXK83LL/A
 • John’s keyboard (
previously • ) 

MMMR3LL/A
A2520

New polishing cloth! • 

MacRumors coverage
Copland Supply

 • Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app 

Front and Center
SwitchGlass
Hyperspace
DragThing
Icon

Members-only • ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations? 

Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault
Benchmark 1
Benchmark 2
Linus Torvalds on using C • (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight

• Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with 
the devil • 

Daikin • 

Home Assistant integration

Home Assistant Green

 • Follow-up: 

 • The OpenAI doughnut 

 • What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)

 • Or perhaps 
red blood cell • shaped? (via Chris Lawrence) 

Biconcave disc

 • Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem

 • Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)

 • RAMageddon 

Apple gets lower display prices
Apple raises trade-in values

 • 🎉 
Unforgetful is out! • 🎉 

E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
Skybridge
Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App • 

Kanban

Quitter
Forecast

AI watermarking • 

Steganography
How Claude’s text watermark works
Pseudorandom number generator
A wonderful visual guide
 • Some 
3Blue1Brown • homework 

LLMs explained briefly • 

Next-word prediction probabilities

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs • 

Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
Image

Gruber’s take
 • Some responses to Gruber 

Dan Moren
Daniel Jalkut

Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks” • 

I Made This

 • Post-show: Casey has news 

CarMax
Previously on ATP…
BMW i4
San Remo Green
A Better Route Planner
EV Stupidity Checklist

Members-only • ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on 
Stephen Robles’ video • )

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705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

• Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn 

Lutron Caséta Fan Control
Fanimation
Technology Connections video

 • Follow-up: 

 • Marco’s favorite feedback (about 
Myke • ) was from 
Analog(ue) • 😬 

SQLite bug write-up
Blackbird

 • Post-show 
Neutral • 

 • Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing 

CarEdge • (via John Siracusa)

Delivrd • (via Roger Coxon) 

Wall Street Journal • (
News+ link • )

The Car Chick • (via Juan Boyce) 

The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men

Your Car Buying Advocate • (via Ian McCullough)

 • Two options from Colin Macdonald 

Automatch Consulting
Insight Auto Consulting

 • Casey makes some discoveries over the last week 

 • Justification from the midwest dealer

 • Ventilated seats

Laser headlights

 • Marco takes a spin as well

 • John’s passwords pro-tip

Codex Micro • (via 
St. Chris • ) 

Icon keys

 • John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon 
CableCARD • s 😭

 • Backups 

 • Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)

 • …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen) 

Transcend JetDrive
BaseQi Adapter

 • Are backups even necessary? (via 
Mustapha Hamoui • )

 • Apple Upgrade 

 • Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)

 • Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)

 • RAMpocalypse 

Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen
iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging
All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out • (🇹🇼 link) (via 
Kevin Beaumont • )

 • New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons 

Siri
Chess
 • John pours one out for 
his homie
Keir’s observation about icon composition
Safari
Preview
Settings

Apple Watch overhaul rumors • 

The Casio watch everyone has • (it’s small; 
here’s a bigger one • if you want, or 
a more modern one with step-counting • )

 • John’s Passwords pro tip

 • Post-show: John’s macOS update woes

Members-only • ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors 

Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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704: Past the Ternus Horizon

• Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine” 

Adam Wunn’s blog post
 • Previously in 
ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine

 • Follow-up: 

Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 • [
The system works! — Ed. • ] 

Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode

 • Be wary of Sonos + 
Pi-hole • or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)

Ubiquiti High Availability • 

Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS
SmartPower Cable USP-Cable

 • “Odd” RAM amounts (via 
Joe Lion • )

 • Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)

Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs

SuperDuper 4 • 

Previously in the SuperDuper blog…

Apple Upgrade Program • 

John Voorhees at MacStories
The Verge with example numbers
Apple Upgrade vs. iPhone Upgrade
“Restricted Mode” isn’t about this
Is it worth it? Joe Rossignol answers

macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit
 • Ask ATP: 

 • What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri) 

Backblaze • (former sponsor)

Tailscale • (former & future sponsor)

 • What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri) 

Wizard zine

 • Post-show: Casey is car shopping again 

Visor
AutoTempest
Bimmer.work
Driveway
Safari extension screenshot

Members-only • ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress 

Codex Micro • 

Gruber • 

Quinn’s take

Stack Overflow keyboard

Rumored speaker

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703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast

• Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks

 • Follow-up: 

 • Adam Wunn 
published his email as a blog post
 • Sharing files in 
Screen Sharing.app • (via Ingmar Wittkau)

 • Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)

 • Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis 

Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”

 • An update on 
Passwords.app • “doing the hard thing” 

macOS
iOS

More clipboard changes in macOS 27 • 

Video in question

Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies • 

P. A. Semi

Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom • 

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors

Slate Truck price & availability announced • 

Previously on ATP

Apple 🤝 Ford • 

CarPlay is Additive

Safari on 𝑥OS 27 • 

WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27
Pie chart
A contrary take
Safari MCP server • 

Federico’s take

 • Ask ATP: 

 • How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)

 • How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah) 

John’s theory
ATP #689
ATP #641
John on replaceable batteries
iPhone SE
TSR

 • How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James) 

With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work

 • Post-show: How does John pack? 

InstaCrate
Shibumi • 

Wind Assist

Members-only • ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family 

RAM
“Side RAM” on the Pros • 

Supposed leaked drawings

Battery capacities
 • Bodies 

Colors • 

Original mockups

Thicker?

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702: Isolate the Evil

• Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe 

CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
The dead ATS
The proposed replacement

 • 🗣️ New 
Member’s • Special: 
ATP Tier List: Emoji
 • Follow-up: 

 • Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App 

LosslessCut

 • Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience 

Previously on ATP
Version 85.01 announcement post
FAQ post

Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
 • Sony 💔 💿 

 • A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)

CD sales are going up

 • Price increase corner: 
Apple Music edition • 

Chart by BasicAppleGuy
AppleCare+ too

FileMaker • 

 • In defense… 

CVE
Monday.com

 • Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years 

Scratch

 • And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻

Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods • 

Six additional categories
The Monkey’s Paw

OLED iMacs?
 • Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson) 

Bambu X2D
TinkerCAD
Onshape

 • Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast 

WSOLA
F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

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Research paper
Extended write-up
Mechanistic interpretability
Bobby Tables

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701: I Improved My Town

• Pre-show: Anniversary Corner! 

catatp • (see also 
Statistics • )

Bootleg visualization

 • Follow-up: 

 • Public beta check-in

 • Casey’s iMessage notification issue

Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
 • Apple keeps futzing with rendering of 
.icon • files

 • Mac-assed Mac Apps 

Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT • 

Gruber #1
Gruber #2

Gus Mueller
Gruber

 • Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via 
Philip Hofstetter • ) 

LaunchAgent • 

~/Library/LaunchAgents

Casey’s former keyboard • 

 • Tina’s keyboard: 
MMMR3LL/A

 • Shouldn’t the 
Studio Display • get a price bump? (via 
Brian Nehring • )

 • Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)

Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers

 • Follow-out to 
Upgrade #627 • : What 
was • is 
FileMaker • 

Agentic development

Goodbye, Maestral • 🫡 

Gruber

Apple Sues OpenAI • 

Apple Inc. vs. Liu
Chance Miller’s summary
The Verge
Gruber
Dithering
OpenAI’s response • and 
part 2

 • Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition 

Unifi Travel Router
 • Formerly, 
GL.iNet KVM
GL Comet Q

Members-only • ATP Overtime: 
Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs • 

Ars Technica
The funeral has begun
Ars Technica on library erasure
The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld

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700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies

• Pre-show: Casey’s oops 

Magic TrackPad
Magic Keyboard
Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard

 • Follow-up: 

 • Casey 
may have • fixed his notification problem!

Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill • (via 
Bart Reardon • )

 • RAMAgeddon 

 • Feel free to 
donate to St. Jude • any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)

 • Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via 
ShutterAperture • )

Steam Machine difficulties • 

Interview on YouTube • (Timestamp link to 12m48s)

 • Collusion! 
Well, maybe • .

 • Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? 
Awax did math

We’re • 
Fable is so back, baby • 

More at Ars Technica

 • Siri AI 

No web browsing for you • !

Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
 • Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)

 • Revamped icons by 
Parakeet • 

Design services price list
SwitchGlass • 

SwitchGlass dark icon
SwitchGlass old icon

Front and Center • 

Front and Center old icon

Callsheet • 

Callsheet old icon
Jelly’s write-up
Ste Grainer
The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons

Overcast
Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App • 

Fire Island Lighthouse

Parakeet’s post about our icons

Apple adds paste protection to Terminal • 

Apple support document
Opera joins the party

 • Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & 
DerivedData • 

DevCleaner • (App Store link)

 • Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco 

Goose
Big Modern! • 

 • Casey likes 
Savenger • , 
Good2B • , and 
Torero

Nugs
Micro Tyvek Wallet
Micro Soft Shell Wallet
Studio Neat
Casey’s fan

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Quinn Nelson’s pitch
Game Porting Toolkit 4

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699: Not the Correct Squircle

WWDC 2026 • 

Watch the Keynote • (alternatively, 
on YouTube • )

Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
Word wall
Rob Rhyne’s toot
Weird holes
Change Detection
.well-known
Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple

 • Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon 

Music Video • 

Craig’s toot

Tim’s Good Morning video • [Alternatively, 
on Xcancel • ]

TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support • (via 
Vince • )

Sam Henri Gold

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White foldable phone
More details • 

Sonny Dickson’s images • [Alternatively, 
on Xcancel • ]

Case leaks

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