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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
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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
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#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
Peak ...
270: Three Major Zippers
Backpacks:
Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
Tom Bihn Synapse 25
Chase Reeves on YouTube and on the web
Tom Bihn Cache
Tom Bihn Cadet & Casey's review
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
The best laptop ever made
Top Four
Robot or N...
269: Cooled by Jellyfish
Follow-up:
iPhone throttling notification
macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
Learn More...
ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think...
268: A Tarnished Brass Age
- Follow-up:
- HAM radio and GMRS licenses
- New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
- Education feedback
- Pulsating help prompts
- iCloud's free storage
- Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
- Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
- Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
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#askatp- Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
- Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
- External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
- Post-show Neutral:
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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals
Pre-show: Marco's road trip
Sudden Coffee
Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
Keyboard
Mouse
Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's ed...