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Pre-show: Good SwiftUI days
Follow-up:
Vision Pro
Privacy considerations (via Brandon Jones)
WWDC 2023 #10096: Build Great Games for Spatial Computing
Designing for Spatial Input
6m5s
7m8s
Vergence & accommodation in eyesight (via Christopher Masto)
Ve...
539: The Strap Situation
Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
Flighty
“Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
“Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching)
iOS 17: Siri & Search → Listen For
Vision Pro
Promo video
xrOS at WWDC
Mas...
538: We Studied Thousands of Heads
- Pre-show: 🧘 Feelings check 🧘
- WWDC
- Post-show: WWDC food review
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537: Worse Than All of Our Toilets
Pre-show: Phish season
Live Phish
DMB Friday Night Concert Series
Goose on Bandcamp
Follow-up:
The Anonymous Corner
Some anonymous thoughts on mail delivery to Apple Park
BELIEVE shirts are at Apple Park
Rank-and-file engineers also hate Radar
Why does Apple both...
536: I Reboot With Reason
Follow-up:
Alex Stevenson-Price’s thread on his initial experiences with the Dell 6K monitor
Monitor Control
Dell Display Manager (via Ben Smith)
Hands on with Final Cut Pro & Logic for iPad
Ferrite
Dan Moren says Time-based rulers don’t work
Keep Final Cut P...
535: My Computer Supports Math
Pre-show:
🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️
A New Yorker’s View of the United States
Follow-up:
The Kobo FU continues
The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini)
Install NickelMenu
Add the Dropbox menu item
Libra 2
Other Kobos
Multiple Displ...
534: On the Cheerleader Bus
Follow-up:
Marco’s new Kobo
Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol)
Games breaking the fourth wall
Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick
Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung)
Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (...
533: The Beach Is the Beach
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch ⚠️ before Saturday, 6 May ⚠️.
Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up
kobo sage
PMN Caecilia
Calibre
what if?
Pragmatic Programmer
Tao Te Ching
1984
Follow-up:
Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
Q...
532: The Meat Part of Multitasking
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May.
Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading
Boox Nova Air C
Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.)
reMarkable
Jason’s e-Reader Roundup
iPad Mini (6th-gen.)
Tobor Robot
PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font)
Follow-up:...
531: Rock It in the Right Direction
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May.
Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough.
Follow-up:
macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱
John’s demo GIF
Demo Video
CarPlay does avoid some problems
Newer version of Casey...
530: You Are Not Nintendo
Pre-show:
Top Four: Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets
Pizza Rolls
Fun Dip
Pixy Stix
Nerds
The Food that Built America
Smarties
Sprees
SweetTarts
Jelly Belly
Weird and Gross
Follow-up:
The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native.
We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s...
529: The Cycles of Marco
Pre-show:
Mugs & some pint glasses are in stock!
Fixes:
Member’s episodes and iPod & iTunes/Music users (yes, really)
Prospective members from 🇮🇳
Thank you, new and existing members! 💙💙💙
Follow-up:
Quick correction about the CalDigit TS4
Apple Photos de-...
528: My Favorite Slap in the Face
Pre-show: Samoas vs. Caramel DeLites
Casey found 🎉 More Occasions! 🎉
John’s anniversary & ATP #476
Jonathan’s anniversary
ATP Movie Club returns! We watched My Neighbor Totoro
Follow-up:
HDMI Quick Media Switching (QMS) in action
Threaded rod suggestions
...
527: The True Siri Experience
Pre-show: Marco has solved his Apple Watch Ultra band problem?
Orange Alpine Loop
Trail Loop
Ocean Band
Solo Loop
Follow-up:
iOS 16.4 will detect duplicate photos in iCloud Shared Photo Library
Kurt’s screenshot
John chose… poorly
RTINGS OLED Burn-In testing u...
526: Food Comes From Cans
Pre-show:
Marco’s load-bearing pinky
We stand in support of trans people, including trans youth. 🏳️⚧️
Alex Cox’s words
Alex Cox’s voice
5calls.org
Moltz’s toot
Happy 10th anniversary, ATP!
Follow-up:
Press ↑ to see the Apple TV screensaver location. (via Ted)
R...
525: The Glory Speakers
Pre-show:
Declan made an interesting observation
Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
John has…returned.
Follow-up:
Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
...
524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby
Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
Follow-up:
John’s COVID project
mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
“Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
Adam Wunn on iMazing
Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled...
523: I Can’t Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough
Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️
Follow-up:
Getting a copy of your data from Apple
privacy.apple.com
Zack Whittaker’s experience in 2018
GDPR
iMazing
On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard)
A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson)
More o...
522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years
Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
TFL Offroad
Your Daily Lex
Follow-up:
The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
Video review
Bundle on Amazon
What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
An Unsolicited ...
521: Dance Compatible
Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
Follow-up:
HomePod 2
Siri speed test video
And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
HomePod 2 power connector
IEC 60320
A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
Foo...
520: Bananas Ingestion System
Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry.
macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists
iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs
Follow-up:
Overview of US healthcare terminology
Ars Technica on the US heal...
519: Paint My Wings
Pre-show:
Frame Game
❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
Belated observation of an anniversary
Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
Max Tech
Twitter officially b...
518: Deconstructed iMac
Pre-show:
Marco’s window-washing woes
Chicken hat dregs
❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
Follow-up:
Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion Litigation
One more from CES: solid-state cooling
PC World video
Microelectromechanical s...
517: A Tesla Full of Kindles
Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car
Follow-up:
Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas)
Dell 5K monitor
Dell 6K monitor
Teaser video
Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456
XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384
CES TV News
Samsung 77-inch QD-OLED
LG Signature OLED “wi...
516: One of My Fits of Rage
Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake
Follow-up:
AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee)
Github Terms of Service
Github Corporate Terms of Service
CRUD
chkbit
True Life
Diary
Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast
Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy ...
515: The Elder Programmer Look
Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
Project Highrise
Don’t Starve Together
Follow-up:
Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
Have I Been Trained?
Have I Been Pwned?
A fun Tw...
514: My Immense Softness
Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex
Superbad
DIVX
Follow-up:
Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima?
Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement?
Blink
Gecko
Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris)
Trident II D5
...
513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat
Pre-show: Is moisturizer real?
Orange Goop
The 🐔🧢 is back!!
Follow-up:
Recovery keys & backup contacts
Apple’s information
Oliver Ames’ thoughts
More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds
Tech Talk
Request a Refund
The Sharrow is real, John.
WWDC 2017
Relevant...
512: Owned With a P
Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price
Follow-up:
Mastodon instances and federation
Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually
Sharrow
👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing
👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arro...
511: Moving to Antarctica
Pre-show: Sharrows
EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed.
The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs!
Follow-up:
Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham)
Marco’s 🍑💨...