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Pre-show: Zip ties vs. Velcro cable ties
Monoprice 106463 cable ties
Follow-up:
Apple’s Public Policy Advocacy (via Kyles the Gray)
macOS Catalina 10.15.6 can read Big Sur APFS volumes (via Ole Begemann)
Would we distribute our iOS apps outside the App Store? (via ...
389: One Branch Leads to Yes
Pre-show:
Working on Stuff that Doesn’t Matter
CMMI
Waterfall
Dithering
Follow-up:
Mac waking up for Reminders
Intel is… not in a good place.
Tech CEO Testimony to Congress
Peter Steinberger on app entitlements
Amazon Prime Video deal email
Rumored Apple pr...
388: Riding the Autocomplete
ATP Membership Update!!
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Pre-show: Seltzer: 1, Tiff: 0, Marco: 0
PV=nRT
Channellock
Follow-up: T2 and TouchBar from Gui Rambo
Apple’s priorities for 🔋/🏋️♀️ for Apple Silicon
TDP
Apple News “Podcast”
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387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think
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Bootleg feed is live!! Some details:
We may @$*&%ng swear
No ads, chapters, or audio quality
Show notes appear for each bootleg once the episode is published
Pre-show:
Is F...
386: No More Holes in My House
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Pre-show:
Phisherman Relieph Phund
Fishman Donut
Marco’s masks
Hamilton is good. Turns out™.
Follow-up:
No Target Disk Mode on ARM Macs
But Mac Sharing Mode will replace i...
385: Temporal Smear
Pre-show: hey_z_ree
Bootleg-feed update
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Audio Hijack
Fraunhofer MP3 Licensing
NetNewsWire
Overcast, Swift, and SwiftUI
Follow-up:
DTK update
Benchmarks
Steve Troughton-Smit...
384: Equal Emphasis
WWDC 2020
iOS 14
Widgets
James Thomson
Vidgets (App Store link)
App Library
Compact Siri/Call UIs/Picture-in-Picture
Translation
Google Translate
Messages
Maps
Home
Pushover
CarPlay & CarKey
U1
Safari
1Password
Have I Been Pwned?
Ghostery
App ...
383: Demand-Paged Outrage
Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce
Follow-up:
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ARM Mac dev kits
Xbox 360 “Dev Kit”
Apple T2
Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro
Tim Cook announces...
382: Static Ad Removal
Reactions to last week’s show
Follow-up:
Race/racism book list
Original listicle
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racis...
381: Uncomfortable Truths
Black Lives Matter
11 Things You Can Do to Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence
How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
How to Be an Activist When You’re Unable to Attend Protests
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Books About Race & Ra...
380: Wires Are Great
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Pre-show: Live-stream icecast saga
New old-style websites
Flexbox
Ebay port scanning
Publish by John Sundell
How do we trust clipboard managers‽
Little Snitch
Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i
Casey’s DNS Diversion
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379: The Everything’s OK Alarm
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until June 7th.
Pre-show: ATP has a new website. (Neutral too!)
John talks about Flatland on Sophomore Lit
Follow-up:
MiniDV import details
HandBrakeCLI
exiftool
Causes for soliciting promo codes
Lime-a-Rita
Destiny...
378: Whale Quench
Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live
Totally unrelated: youtube-dl
Follow-up:
Casey's Garage Project
Instagram Story
Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox
RSI and voice control
Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)...
377: $10 Worth of Headaches
Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple
AppFigures
Changing App Store company names
LLC
DBA
Follow-up:
Casey's Garage Project
Instagram Story
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Raspberry Pi 4
Debugging memory problems in Xcode
ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar)
ATP #285...
376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle
- Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself
- Dropping Dropbox
- Follow-up:
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COVID-19
Contact TracingExposure Notification - iOS 13.5 Improvements
- Google Making its own Chips
- ARM chips in Macs
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375: Wobbly Goblin
- Pre-show: Homeowners associations
- Follow-up:
- Mac Pro wheel stability
- W5700X is a decent deal after all
- iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions
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#askatp- Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
- What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J)
- PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz)
- Post-show: Neutral
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374: Screwdriver Testing Harness
Pre-show: Modern PHP
PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design
Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication
ECDSA
JWT
Marco's resulting APNS-JWT PHP function
Follow-up:
Retro Gaming
OpenEmu
Provenance
MiSTer (via James Thomson)
Light guns and CRTs
360° audio (via Ibrah...
373: This Jerk, Right Here
Pre-show: Search Engines before Google
WebTV
BNC connector
Follow-up:
Synology RAID rebuild time
Getting progresscat /proc/mdstat
lvm
Dark Sky acquisition & location data
Weather data consolidation
Dark Sky's data sources
Trump continues to fill the swamp
Case...
372: Things Are Degraded
Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week
Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad
Follow-up:
A12Z is the A12X with all GPU cores working properly
Chip binning
All 2020 iPad Pros have 6 GB RAM
Part-name theories
Casey's Synology Catastrophe
DS1813+
S...
371: Four-Letter Technologies
Special guest Chris Lattner!
High Output Management
TensorFlow
Caffe
TPU
Python
PyTorch
Swift for TensorFlow
Swift TensorFlow tutorials
Fortran
Swift for TensorFlow
Clang
Jupyter
Python interop workbook
Dynamic Callable
Dynamic Member Lookup
NumPy
MLIR: Multi-Level I...
370: Ghost Finger
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WWDC 2020 will be online-only
- Press release
- Original Gravity ("the beer-and-sausage place")
- Follow-up:
- Rebinding Xcode commands via Incoherent Toots
- Apple Style Guide
- New Apple Hardware
- Post-show: Consoles
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369: Brown Big Bear
Pre-show: Marco's Problem
Marco's image-retention test
Apple Cinema Display HD
Follow-up:
The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places).
Recommended info sour...
368: A Jacket and Some Pins
Follow-up:
Feedback & Radar
Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
Pegasus J2i
Mountain
Certificate revocation
Ben Thompson and nvALT
Just Enough Grammar
How does one back up a Synology?
Backblaze B2
Amazon Glacier
Arq
WWDC cancellation?
Under the Radar #186: Replacing ...
367: Antitrust Relief Valve
Follow-up:
SwitchGlass desktop-image update
Apple Music high-quality streamingSettings → Music → Cellular Data → High Quality Streaming
Swift and static analysis
Overcast and UI state restoration
Microsoft Defender ATP
Coming for iOS
Safari and long-lived HTTPS cert...
366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day
Pre-show: Catalina. 🙄 × ∞
Machine-gun trackpad
Marco on OS upgrades
Casey's Radar
Follow-up:
Grasshopper
Logo
Butterfly keyboards and ergonomics
Finder toolbar bug... defeated?
Mac malware getting worse?
What does Apple need to make most?
iOS 13.4
Mail toolbar fixes...
365: Day-One Cowboy
Follow-up:
SwiftUI previews of UIKit
Gualtiero Frigerio
NSHipster
Folder aliases in the Dock
Snow Leopard Review
Radar #59289423
Shell scripts
Jan Vitturi
Richard Kanson
John's new app (‼️)
Keyboard Maestro
Pastebot
Taika Waititi on Apple Keyboards
IBM Model ...
364: A Casey Settings Screen
Pre-show: Docks
Follow-up:
Pro Display XDR reference modes
Mac Pro internal disk options
iPad Multitasking and recent apps
Casey's new app (‼️)
Detecting Guided Access
SwiftUI
Knife Switch
Google Photos Privacy Breach
#askatp
What do we think about homebrew? (via S...
363: The Floor is Lava
Casey's Complaints about his Co-Hosts Corner
Marco's replaced BMW link
The actual link
Reconcilable Differences #121: Impotent Hydra
Wegmans
Update on Marco's iMac Pro fan issues
SMC reset
Pro Display XDR reference modes
Rack-mount Mac Pro videos from Neil Parfitt
Unbox...
362: Xcode in Anger
Follow-up:
That's the Microsoft logo, you fools
Redesigning the Windows Logo
Removing the Dropbox Finder extension
System Preferences → Extensions → Dropbox → Finder Extension
Pro Display XDR display profiles
Aerial screensaver
Logitech G305 mouse review
Pacifist...
361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf
AirPods vs. AirPlanes
neverssl.com & alwayshttp.com
Follow-up:
Camera ergonomics (via Henrik Helmers)
PopSockets
Jumpy mice (via Scott Simpson)
USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices
Photo sharing
Mario Panighetti
Andrew Elliott
...