Accidental Tech Podcast

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

Stoplights

Stretchy buttons

Video

Porsche 911, 996 generation

In defense of the fried egg Porsches

Turning off the Siri logo

macOS 27 got the new Preview icon

LLM determinism when temperature = 0

Write-up by Horace He

IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas

See also

Other people’s phones

Not sped up! All 1×!

i vs. I

Apple iPhone event announced

New Mac mini and Mac Studio

Core size comparison

SME replaces AMX in the M6

Exploratory Github Repo

AMX instruction set

SME Introduction

Hello SME

Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2

Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)

High Yield diagram

M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max

Mac mini

Video support summary from Tim Hardwick

Mac mini pricing history

…inflation-adjusted

Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability

Gruber on pricing

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Behind the scenes

Mac Studio

Gruber on pricing

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John’s purchasing journey

The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler

The accessory that’s also a spoiler

New […ish] keyboards!

MacRumors coverage

Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A

Previously: MXK83LL/A

John’s keyboard (previously)

MMMR3LL/A

A2520

New polishing cloth!

MacRumors coverage

Copland Supply

Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app

Front and Center

SwitchGlass

Hyperspace

DragThing

Icon

Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux due to filesystems? ()

Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Aactually Slow, It’s macOS APFS’s Fault

Benchmark 1

Benchmark 2

Linux Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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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 was to solve the laptop-backup problem

Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)

RAMageddon

Apple gets lower display prices

Apple raises trade-in values

🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉

E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

Skybridge

Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App

Kanban

Quitter

Forecast

AI watermarking

Steganography

How Claude’s text watermark works

Pseudorandom number generator

A wonderful visual guide

Some 3Blue1Brown homework

LLMs explained briefly

Next-word prediction probabilities

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs

Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable

Image

Gruber’s take

Some responses to Gruber

Dan Moren

Daniel Jalkut

Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals

Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”

I Made This

Post-show: Casey has news

CarMax

Previously on ATP…

BMW i4

San Remo Green

A Better Route Planner

EV Stupidity Checklist

Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)

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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” are very much a thing

CarEdge (via John Siracusa)

Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)

Wall Street Journal (News+ link)

The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)

The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men

Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)

Two options from Colin Macdonald

Automatch Consulting

Insight Auto Consulting

Casey makes some discoveries over the last week

Justification from the midwest dealer

Ventilated seats

Laser headlights

Marco takes a spin as well

John’s passwords pro-tip

Codex Micro (via St. Chris)

Icon keys

John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭

Backups

Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)

…but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)

Transcend JetDrive

BaseQi Adapter

Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)

Apple Upgrade

Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)

Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)

RAMpocalypse

Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen

iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging

All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)

New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons

Siri

Chess

John pours one out for his homie

Keir’s observation about icon composition

Safari

Preview

Settings

Apple Watch overhaul rumors

The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)

John’s Passwords pro tip

Post-show: John’s macOS update woes

Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors

Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.

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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 of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)

Ubiquiti High Availability

Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS

SmartPower Cable USP-Cable

“Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion)

Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)

Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs

SuperDuper 4

Previously in the SuperDuper blog…

Apple Upgrade Program

John Voorhees at MacStories

The Verge with example numbers

Apple Upgrade vs. iPhone Upgrade

“Restricted Mode” isn’t about this

Is it worth it? Joe Rossignol answers

macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit

Ask ATP:

What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri)

Backblaze (former sponsor)

Tailscale (former & future sponsor)

What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri)

Wizard zine

Post-show: Casey is car shopping again

Visor

AutoTempest

Bimmer.work

Driveway

Safari extension screenshot

Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress

Codex Micro

Gruber

Quinn’s take

Stack Overflow keyboard

Rumored speaker

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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 “Shadow Mode High Availability”

An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”

macOS

iOS

More clipboard changes in macOS 27

Video in question

Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies

P. A. Semi

Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors

Slate Truck price & availability announced

Previously on ATP

Apple 🤝 Ford

CarPlay is Additive

Safari on 𝑥OS 27

WWDC 2026 #204: What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27

Pie chart

A contrary take

Safari MCP server

Federico’s take

Ask ATP:

How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)

How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)

John’s theory

ATP #689

ATP #641

John on replaceable batteries

iPhone SE

TSR

How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)

With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work

Post-show: How does John pack?

InstaCrate

Shibumi

Wind Assist

Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family

RAM

“Side RAM” on the Pros

Supposed leaked drawings

Battery capacities

Bodies

Colors

Original mockups

Thicker?

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