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🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉
ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County
ATP #225: A Conversation with Siri
Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
Follow-up:
Retina MacBook Air battery replacements are easier
iFixIt
Command Strips
command.com
Control Strip
Mac...
299: Headphone Bump
- The ATP Store is back!! Place your orders until 15 November!
- Follow-up:
- The Good News Podcast #201 with Jeremy Burge
- iPad Pro and Apple Pencil compatibility
- Some Macs' microphones are disconnected by hardware
- Our website is now dark-mode enabled! Thanks, Spencer Wohlers!
- iPad Pro impressions
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#askatp- How has being a programmer changed our world view? (via Jonathan Bowling)
- Why do high-end iOS devices need so much less RAM than Macs? (via Benedikt Beckmann)
- Post-show: More iPad thoughts & John's homework laptop
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298: Protective Sandwich
- ATP T-shirts and pins are back!
- Apple October 2018 event
- Post-show: Hobnobbing with the Apple executives
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297: It Also Deserves to Die
Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets
Independence #37: Evolution of an App
Follow-up:
Marco's lookahead limiter
iOS and memory swapping
Wear leveling
John's last Apple Photos book
The iPhone XR
The Stalman Podcast #36: "Just" Creators and Hands-On with the...
296: Giant Buffers of Floats
Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter
Accelerate framework
objc_msgSend()
Let's build objc_msgSend
Apple fixes bagel emoji
Follow-up:
Screen Time issues abound
Emergency bypass
Casey's blog post
Apple iCloud contacts sync limits
Apple printer compatibility list
Palm...
295: Outlets That Suck
Watch pontification
Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's ...
294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever
The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
Apple PR post
iOS 12.1 wrap-up
Lender's bagels
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
Apple Watch fall detection is...
293: You Know My Pouches
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Lattner interview
iPhone 🎾 is fast
The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
Our Marco & J...
292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
Dead man's switch
50% faster tessellation... maybe?
Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
Gr...
291: John’s Special Day
- Follow-up:
- Nokia phone with five cameras
- Phil: "muhmoji"
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Apple's September Event
- Leaked names
- Tim's tweet
- Apple Watch
- iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
- AirPower?
- HomePod & tvOS
- Post-show: John's special day
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290: A Weird Sandwich
- Follow-up:
- AirPrint on old printers
- Eero competitors and privacy
- iPhone preorder PSA
- iPhone "XS" marketing image found
- Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
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#askatp:- Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
- Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
- What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
- Post-show Neutral: Casey's walk of shame... but also pride.
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289: Everybody’s in the Alliance
Follow-up:
MoCA and MoCA Bridge
Hades Canyon NUCs
Engadget Video Review
Snell's NUC article
Anandtech
The AirPort Express lives!
Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
DD-WRT
Tomato
WRT54G
Phil Schiller flies
Panzer's tweet
iPhone mockups preview
...
288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi
- Follow-up:
- Photo books → PDF (
File→Export→Export Book as PDF→ ☑️Production PDF) - Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
- Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
- Photo books → PDF (
- Low-end Mac rumors
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#askatp:- Long-distance Wi-Fi
- OLED TVs
-
Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
- Top Gear's overview
- Porsche Taycan
- Small electric cars:
- Post-show: John's 🐝
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287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich
Follow-up:
Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
Finding the settings
Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
Backblaze
Data retention
Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
Dock auto-hide delay
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modi...
286: I Respect a Good Crust
Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
CrashPlan, John, and Java
java mx
java mx {newNumber}m
SpiderOak
BackBlaze
BackBlaze B2
Arq
John's Photo books
DiskInventoryX
DaisyDisk
Photo printer's extension
AMD and TSMC and 7nm
D...
285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House
Follow-up:
The law is complicated
Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
RISC-V
Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
Michael Tsai's summary
Marco's comment
#askatp:
Overflowing portable...
284: Hotel California Keyboard
Follow-up:
Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
Membranes are for ingress prevention
More from MacRumors
"Subsequent remedial measures"
iFixit particle experiment
Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
The mythical USB-C hub
Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Cor...
283: Just Lower Your Standards
Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
iJustine & MKBHD unbox a sealed, 18-year-old iBook G3
Casey Neistat and MKBHD review a Lamborghini
DeMuro's botched video
Follow-up:
Patenting the perpetual motion machine
Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware ...
282: Not Unreliable Enough
Follow-up:
Distributing Marzipan Apps
Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
The Verge's review
iFixIt reveals key-protecting membranes
Apple's Patent
Keyboard Service Program
Apple T2
Apple A10
Geekbench
Marco's tweet...
281: My Private Siri
Home repairs: Window air conditioners
Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
Local snapshots maybe?
Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
A A A A V...
280: Extinction-Level Event
Follow-up:
Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
Adobe is rethinking things
Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
One example of many
The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
A a a a a Very Good Song
...
279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing
Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
AT&T International Day Pass
Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
cp -c
Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
Carrying case
John's rel...
278: Best Worst Influence
Follow-up:
WWDC Intro Video
It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
A perspective from Jen Simmons
Feminist Frequency
It's Road Trip!
RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross)
APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Le...
277: You’re Not a Mac App Yet
We're live from WWDC 2018!
- iOS 12
- ARKit 2
- Siri Shortcuts
- Activity reports and App Limits
- Notification management
- Memoji
- watchOS 5
- macOS Mojave
- UIKit apps on Mac
- Neutral: The electric-scooter invasion
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276: Observing a Black Hole
- App Camp for Girls fundraiser: Live Near WWDC
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iOS 11.4
- Messages in the Cloud:
Settings→ {Your Name} →iCloud→Messages
- Messages in the Cloud:
- WWDC
- Marco's 🏖️💻 problem
-
#askatp- What is the best way to "accidentally"
stalkfind us at WWDC? (via CW Bennett) - How do we maintain multiple development environments? (via Pat Murphy)
- What is the best way to "accidentally"
- Post-show Neutral: Casey is a sad panda
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275: It’s Difficult When You’re a Billionaire
Follow-up:
People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco?
Your logical fallacy is...
How old are your ears?
Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out
Cortex #69: Minimum Viable
Tesla and Elon Musk
Grimes, Elon's girlfriend
Top Gear kerfuffle
Elon announces...
274: Not the Teddy Bear’s Fault
Yanny vs. Laurel
New York Times article
Follow-up:
Raise to listen in 🇨🇳
Google Duplex
Bob Burrough's summary
Matt Drance 1 & 2
Duplex will identify as non-human
First-hand story from retail
Amazon and executive diversity
🤬 Twitter.
Sean Heber
Craig Hockenberr...
273: Playing You Like a Video Game
Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X
You should go to Layers
Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Google Duplex
Keynote video
The Verge's 14-minute summary
Ihnatko's take
20 years of USB
iMac Retrospecti...
272: 60% Satisfied
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- Follow-up:
- More on 32-bit deprecation
- Raise to Listen and phantom audio messages on iPhone X
- What about Apple Pay and Siri? (via Andrew Milham)
- More about Marzipan
- What is left for WWDC?
- Apple's rumored AR glasses
- Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
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#askatp- Apple IDs at work (via Alex Faber)
- Camera paranoia (via Ryan Taylor)
- CarPlay thoughts (via John)
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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet
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Follow-up:
Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier?
ATP Interview with Chris Lattner
Marco's backpack woes
Tom Bihn Synapse 25
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