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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
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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/...
679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
Pre-show:
Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
Instagram reel that John found
Due
YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit
We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
Follow-up:
Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
...
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers
Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
Daikin
Trane
YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range)
YoLink leak sensors
LoRa
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
Units corner
Robert Tait’s video
WarGames display reincarnated ...
677: I Accept the Battery Cost
Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
Cloudflare Access
Zero trust architecture
OpenID connect
tsidp
Pocket ID
Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via D...
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction
Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
atp.fm passkey update
Google Private AI Compute
Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
Screen on RAM
ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
Modular headphones
AIAIAI (via Graham Dob...
675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load
Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️
Follow-up:
We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week!
Gruber’s post
Top Dogs is coming
“Cloud technology”?
Google’s blog post
Gurman’s post
Clipboard hijacking
It’s...
674: A Reliable, Boring Partner
Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed
Ubiquiti Travel Router
Verizon Jetpack
Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)
Solis Edge
Follow-up:
The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John
TiVo Roamio Pro
Casey on Dow...
673: Six Impossible Things
Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco
LivePhish
Goose on Bandcamp
Nugs
Thank you, ATP Patrons!
Follow-up:
Cord-cutting
Casey on Downstream
suppose.tv
Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)
The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Se...
672: Wi Hyphen Fi
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...