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🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
Comparison video
Previously, in 2018
Making of (via Techzha)
Preliminary Geekbench scores
A20 Pro (iPhones 18...
708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- September 2026 event
- Post-show: Jetty update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU
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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
Luz fooled me, Jerry!
Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
Mea culpa
Apple fooled us all
Siri blobs fix
System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on...
706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows
Screen clips
Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
TPU for AMS
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind
Follow-up:
macOS 27 UI tweaks
Redesigned stoplights in β6
Video
St...
705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
Daikin
Home Assistant integration
Home Assistant Green
Follow-up:
The OpenAI doughnut
What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)
Biconcave disc
Time Capsule...
704: Past the Ternus Horizon
Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
Lutron Caséta Fan Control
Fanimation
Technology Connections video
Follow-up:
Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
SQLite bug write-up
Blackbird
Post-show Neutral
Professional negotiators / “headhunters...
703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast
Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”
Adam Wunn’s blog post
Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
Follow-up:
Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]
Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode
Be wary ...
702: Isolate the Evil
Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
Follow-up:
Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)
Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis
Ubiquiti “Shad...
701: I Improved My Town
Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
The dead ATS
The proposed replacement
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Follow-up:
Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
LosslessCut
Casey has leveled-up his Sonos exp...
700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
catatp (see also Statistics)
Bootleg visualization
Follow-up:
Public beta check-in
Casey’s iMessage notification issue
Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
Mac-assed Mac Apps
Steve Tr...
699: Not the Correct Squircle
Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Magic TrackPad
Magic Keyboard
Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Follow-up:
Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
RAMAgeddon
Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have sa...
698: And Do What?
Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
Nugs and Sonos
As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
Rumors about Siri AI indexing
Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
Price increases abound! ☹️
...
697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Pre-show:
Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
Marco’s trip report
Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via D...
696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Pre-show:
We are not dangerously capable
We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
Follow-up:
It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
Indexing for the new Spotlight
Passwords a...
695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
- WWDC 2026
- Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
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- White foldable phone
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694: Potential and Homework
Pre-show:
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
John and dynamic DNS
Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
Tailscale Funnel
DynDns.org
no-ip.org
Follow-up:
Ferrari Luce
John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (ext...
693: Negative Bonus Points
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
Ubiquiti marketing video
Spanning Tree Protocol
Sonos & Networking Documentation
Follow-up:
Formula 1 on Apple TV
The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
SVC can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
SVG can d...
692: A Thinking Hitch
Pre-show:
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
Follow-up:
Cut/copy/paste in Finder
Terminal
John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
tcsh
John’s Terminal settings Window tab
John’s Terminal set...
691: A Menlo Phase
Pre-show:
Project Hail Mary
Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride
Setlist
Bandcamp
Luke Bloom — Bad
D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart
Apocalyptica
Vitamin String Quartet
Johnny Cash — Hurt
Follow-up:
CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
B...
690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
Follow-up:
Backblaze & cloud backups
Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
Support document
Maestral
Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz)
Neo-ing… other things
Mythos
What makes this different (v...
689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
Pre-show: Mythos
Anthropic’s blog post
Follow-up:
ATP Store
Yes, it happened again.
The ATP Neo Silver made it!
UPenn is an Ivy
Kieran Healy’s story
Marina Epelman’s thought
US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools
Gurman’s transition cov...
688: A Company Man
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
GL.iNet KVM security issues?
Mark Wadham’s write-up
Dan Godin at Ars Technica
MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
More component delays
It’s Ternus time
Fashi...
687: You Can Bend This Line
Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
Roon
Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
Follow-up:
Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
The other neat explainer John was ...
686: Write Two Letters
Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
UniFi Travel Router
Cascades trail
Shenandoah National Park
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
Stephen Robles
1
2
Casey’s snarky toot
Tangentially related...
685: The Ability to Be Hotter
Pre-show:
Happy independence day, John!
The Great Saunter
Pedometer++
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
More about the flag
Follow-up:
Overcast transcripts
Missed Apex
MacBook Neo
...
684: It’s Not What Young People Do
Follow-up:
Overcast & Transcriptions
Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
Apple Podcasts transcript options
<podcast:transcript> tag
MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag
What is Marco using for a job...
683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
Follow-up:
You’re welcome, world
Formula 1
A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season
Cameras
Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)
Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)
Great camera overview video
The other perk of in-car foo...
682: Medium Core
Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
Related episode of ATP
Follow-up:
An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
MacBook Neo
John’s theory about color & clamshells
The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (v...
681: The Price of Your Nightmares
Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
Million Dollar Homepage
2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
M4 iPad Air
iPhone 17e
New displays (‼️)
Studio Display 2
A19 per MacRumors
Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn
Studio Displ...
680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes
TruFuel
Follow-up:
Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement
KLIPPBOK (leak sensor)
BILRESA (remote control)
MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor)
House batteries & V2H/...