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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 really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harriso...
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 out for us
TV Everywhere
XMLTV
m3u8
...
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:
Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about...
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
TLS Certificate lifetimes
Alternatively, GitHub Page...
668: So Happy for All Parties Involved
Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
Follow-up:
Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded
Vision Pro Size Help tool
JPEG XL lives… in PDF
Chromium ticket
jxl-rs: JPEG XL in Rust
Chapter links in Apple Podcasts
Stephen Robles on The Talk Show
Apple documentation
ATP on T...
667: Wisdom and Treachery
Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
Bryan’s toot
pen.tips
Paperlike 3
Paperlike Pencil Tips
Follow-up:
macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electron slowdown (per shamelectron)
Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
Gaming in ARM
A...
666: We Have Nothing That Hot
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
Wikipedia
Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
Pap...
665: My Basement Is Beautiful
Follow-up:
John has some new Vision Pro treats
Flight Ready
In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
ATP Tier List: Storage Media
Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
Some more technical details (via ...
664: Humanity Gets in the Way
Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
The current MacBook Pro design i...
663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory
Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors
Flighty
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
Vision Pro
Mac Virtual Display
On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng)
Apple Suppor...
662: Just Break the Law
Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
An aside about outerwear
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-...
661: Intimate and Regimented
Follow-up:
Languages in Scotland
ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler)
Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz)
Marco’s iPhone case survey: Ryan London bare bottom (via Oliver Thomas)
/u/LaughingMan11 is Benson Leung (via Deta & Daniel Luz)
ZFS and th...
660: It’s All Chicken Salad
Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results
Goose
Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025
Allianz Ampitheater
Chicken Salad Chick
Nugs.net
ZZQ
Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order:
Hungersite
Give it Time
How it Ends
Dripfield
Follow-up:
ATP i...
659: Lose the Ear Lottery
Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
M5 iPad Pro
FCC leaks
🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
Supporting Action for Emergency Response
Lebanon case study
Global crisis repsonse blueprint
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
Follow-up:
ATP in ...
658: Your First Mistake Phone
Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
Podcastathon 2025
Follow-up:
Auburn’s colors are UVA’s colors (via Tony Scida)
You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed
iPhone Air
Why p...
657: Ears Are Weird
Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
μm is a “micron”
The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adap...
656: A Long T-Shirt
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- iPhone event
- Post-show:
- Apple trade-in
- ✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s competing implementations for the new Siri
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655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type
Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
Follow-up:
Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
Settings → Apps → Safari
Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
Place your phone...
654: Athletically Engaged
Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
Ben Rice McCarthy
Under the Radar
Follow-up:
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accide...
653: Warning Stories
Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
AITAH
Follow-up:
Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
John’s dancing controls
☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
Merriam-Webster’s take
Are size classes similar to today’s des...
652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply
Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
Follow-up:
Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻♂️
Short Pump
John cycled his mouse again
AppleCare One
Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
Tina’s iPhone
Tin...
651: Your Judgement About Pockets
Pre-Show:
Brief vacation results
Tim Cook kisses the… ring
Video
Follow-up:
HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
TV shootout results
Nilay’s comments
AppleCare One
iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
iCare Calculator web...
650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded
Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
Casey’s struggles with iperf3
Tutorial
iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan S...
649: Prove It With Cameras
Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
iperf3
Follow-up:
F1 (the sport, not the movie)
Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
F1 TV
Vroom
John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
To s...
648: Part of the Movement
Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' ...
647: You Get One Exclamation Point
Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
Developer downloads
↳ Direct link
Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via G...
646: On the Shelf With the Pickles
Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
11 June 2011
Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
John’s beloved
Ninja
Anova
After Dark
Follow-up:
We’re doing good work here, folks
YoLink leak sensors
Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
Travel insurance is mor...
645: More Frosting
Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
Sneakers (1992)
ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
Persistent ico...
644: You Have to Invert
Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
Bespoke 3D-printed mount
Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
ProcessInfo
/System/L...
643: You Go to Squircle Jail
- Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- WWDC
- Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
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