Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

3 DAYS AGO

688: A Company Man

* 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 * Mo...

Apr 16

687: You Can Bend This Line

* 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 ...

Apr 09

686: Write Two Letters

* 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 *...

Apr 01

685: The Ability to Be Hotter

* 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 t...

Mar 26

684: It’s Not What Young People Do

* 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 * <podcast:transcript> tag *...

Mar 19

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

* Follow-up: * You’re welcome, world * Formula 1 * A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season * Cameras * Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby) * Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line) ...

Mar 12

682: Medium Core

* Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner * Related episode of ATP * Follow-up: * An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson) * MacBook Neo * John’s theory about color & clamshells * The M1 M...

Mar 05

681: The Price of Your Nightmares

* Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet * Million Dollar Homepage * 2013 BMW M5 (PDF) * 2014 Honda Accord (PDF) * M4 iPad Air * iPhone 17e * New displays () * Studio Display 2 * A19 per MacRumors * Some excellen...

Feb 27

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

* Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes * TruFuel * Follow-up: * Casey got the CableCARD email * YoLink alternatives (via Joe) * IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement * KLIPPBOK (leak sensor) * BILRESA (remote control) ...

Feb 16

679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

* Pre-show: * Marco beach… and app… cleanup results * Instagram reel that John found * Due * YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit * We’re recording from the future. * Follow-up: * Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k? * Mar...

Feb 12

678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

* Pre-show: Marco HVAC update * Daikin * Trane * YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range) * YoLink leak sensors * LoRa * New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple * Follow-up: * Units corner * Ro...

Feb 05

677: I Accept the Battery Cost

* Pre-show: Icepocalypse update * Follow-up: * Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish * Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps * Cloudflare Access * Zero trust architecture * OpenID connect * tsidp ...

Jan 29

676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

* Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update * Follow-up: * atp.fm passkey update * Google Private AI Compute * Apple Google Cloud * Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli) * Screen on RAM * ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thom...

Jan 22

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

* Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey * New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos * Follow-up: * We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week! * Gruber’s post * Top Dogs is coming * “Cloud technology”? * Google’s blog post ...

Jan 16

674: A Reliable, Boring Partner

* Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed * Ubiquiti Travel Router * Verizon Jetpack * Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new) * Solis Edge * Follow-up: * The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD ema...

Jan 08

673: Six Impossible Things

* Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco * LivePhish * Goose on Bandcamp * Nugs * Thank you, ATP Patrons! * Follow-up: * Cord-cutting * Casey on Downstream * suppose.tv * Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including S...

Jan 01

672: Wi Hyphen Fi

* Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3 * Pepperidge Farm Remembers * Follow-up: * Contacts * Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell) * Some non-obvious complications (via Paul) * Face ID & Touch ID * Older folks r...

2025/12/23

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

* Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time * Follow-up: * Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID * ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees * : Remember when we had a CFPB? * Chat math * Metadata thread splitting & merging * Colin spells it...

2025/12/19

670: Institutionally Inescapable

* Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires * i3: 155/70R19 * XC90: 275/40R21 * Molex * F-150 Lightning’s demise * Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing! * New ATP Members Special: ATP Movie Club: WarGames * WarGames * Follow-up: *...

2025/12/11

669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

* Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow * Follow-up: * Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro * Workout Buddy * Previously with Jay Blahnik * More adventures with Cloudflare * jramskov’s observation *...