Accidental Tech Podcast

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)

SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)

SVG can do THAT‽

Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?

SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)

How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)

If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?

Defrag lives on …in APFS

diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable

[disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list

MJ Tsai

AI Sentiment

AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)

Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)

Large Energy User Action Plan

Perspectives on art

Original Monet

The Ferrari Luce

Previously on ATP

Purosangue

Jaguar I-Pace

BMW i3

BMW i8

GMA T.33

Porsche Taycan

Galleries

The Verge

Car and Driver

Exterior

Interior

Coverage

The Verge

Top Gear

Cleo Abram

MKBHD (stationary tour)

ba-dum tss

John’s EV Stupidity Checklist

Saturday Night Live

Affordance

Post-show: RIP Destiny 2

Associated layoffs, because, of course

Destiny 1 on Wikipedia

Penny Arcade

Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community

How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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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 settings Tab tab

Escape sequence extended tooltip

.cshrc

Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files

Fancy shell prompts like Starship

KornShell

Some other terminal resources

The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)

The terminal, the TTY, and the shell

The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans

Wizard Zines

Ignoring node_modules and the like

In Dropbox

Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas)

…or use xattrs

Dropbox documentation on ignoring files

Automator example from Boz Bundalo

In Time Machine

pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)

Technical explanation

Supply chain protection

20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨

Reminders

Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?

Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)

Updates in 26.5

Flexibits

Why does everyone hate AI?

Pew Research

Concern vs. excitement

Ability to think & form meaningful relationships

Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content

Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient

Risk vs. reward

Young adults are using it

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint

University of Central Florida

University of Arizona

Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad

On YouTube

Wearable AI friend

friend.com

omi.me

Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards

Stratechery

Phantom data centers

US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart)

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Angine de Poitrine on KEXP

Post-show: Marco gets geeky

Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling

Native all the way… until you need text

PaintCode

XKCD

Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS

Why does the Googlebook exist?

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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)

Bloomberg

“Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)

Ultra/Neo/etc

Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)

Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)

What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)

Time Machine

…with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)

Asimov

…with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)

…period (via David Fokkema)

lsof

Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri

Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung

Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing

Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)

Ask ATP:

How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)

Yoink

MD5

Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)

Prompt 3

Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)

LSP

Intelephense

Post-show: .nofollow

Apple developer forum post

Symlink

.nosync, .noindex, .nobackup

Hopper

MJ Tsai

Apple open-source

Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library

Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think

Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps

Ben Dansby

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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 (via William Moran)

GPT-5.5 is equivalent?

cURL security/bug reports

Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI

AI is still ruining everything

See also: MacBook Neo

More from Tim Culpan

Paul Haddad’s toot showing $25K-$35K Mac Studios for sale on eBay

An examination of Apple’s CapEx

Apple’s R&D spending hits new record

SG&A

MG Siegler’s take

Project Titan died in Febraury 2024

Ultra all the things

iPhone Ultra

MacBook Ultra

AirPods Ultra

iPad Ultra

Apple Watch Ultra 4

Mac Ultra

iMac Ultra

Ask ATP:

What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)

Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter

Ashokan Rail Trail

Saunter Map App

Pedometer++

Suunto Race S Titanium

Barkley Marathons

Documentary trailer

Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software

Jason’s take

Foster Brereton

somebehemoth

Neywiny

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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 coverage

Tim Cook’s remarks to employees

Comparison between Cook & Ternus

The Ability to be Hotter

New material proves to be more heat conductive

Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage

Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878

Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877

Response on Reddit

Reparse point

Additional response on Reddit

Backblaze blog post

MJ Tsai roundup

Alternatives:

Arq

Parachute for iCloud

Ask ATP:

What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)

ATP Neutral: Car Shopping

2014 Honda Accord

Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)

How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)

Bug report

Gruber’s take

Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0

Underscore’s blog post

Stephen’s blog post

Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS

Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?

MaxTech’s musing

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