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by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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- 2 days ago2h 30m
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 “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 <a href="https://xcancel.com/SonnyDicks
- 6 days ago2h 10m
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 experience Previously on ATP Version 85.01 announcement post FAQ post Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle Sony 💔 💿 A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis) CD sales are going up Price increase corner: Apple Music edition Chart by BasicAppleGuy AppleCare+ too FileMaker In defense… CVE Monday.com Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years Scratch And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻 Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods Six additional categories The Monkey’s Paw OLED iMacs? Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson) Bambu X2D TinkerCAD Onshape Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast WSOLA F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities Research paper Extended write-up Mechanistic interpretability Bobby Tables Sponsored by: Leesa: A mattress for every body and budget Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
- 1 weeks ago1h 56m
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 Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT Gruber #1 Gruber #2 Gus Mueller Gruber Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter) LaunchAgent ~/Library/LaunchAgents Casey’s former keyboard Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring) Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous) Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker Agentic development Goodbye, Maestral 🫡 Gruber Apple Sues OpenAI Apple Inc. vs. Liu Chance Miller’s summary The Verge Gruber Dithering OpenAI’s response and part 2 Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition Unifi Travel Router Formerly, GL.iNet KVM GL Comet Q Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs Ars Technica The funeral has begun Ars Technica on library erasure The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with
- 3 weeks ago2h 20m
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 saved by buying early! (via Jonathan) Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture) Steam Machine difficulties Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s) Collusion! Well, maybe. Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math We’re Fable is so back, baby More at Ars Technica Siri AI No web browsing for you! Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2 Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo) Revamped icons by Parakeet Design services price list SwitchGlass SwitchGlass dark icon SwitchGlass old icon Front and Center Front and Center old icon Callsheet Callsheet old icon Jelly’s write-up Ste Grainer The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons Overcast Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App Fire Island Lighthouse Parakeet’s post about our icons Apple adds paste protection to Terminal Apple support document Opera joins the party Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData DevCleaner (App Store link) Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco Goose Big Modern! Casey
- 4 weeks ago2h 13m
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! ☹️ On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley) Steam Machine (More) Xbox Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link) Steve Troughton-Smith’s take Previously, in Palm Pilots Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓 Financial Times No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽ Touchscreen MacBook Pro Intel to fabricate the M7‽ GFHK? More reporting New Siri Iconography Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit) Joanna Stern’s review Gui Rambo’s experiment Dan Moren John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.) Question 1 Question 2 Ask ATP: Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar) If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth) 3Blue1Brown Avoiding Copland 2010 Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim) Casey: ThinkPad 701C ThinkPad T30 John: eMate Newton 2000 Trashcan Post-show: Casey asks for technical support Members-only ATP Overtime: Ub
- Jun 26, 20262h 6m
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 Doug Weinfield) Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27 Steve Riggins notes it takes a while Alex concurs Apple’s AI Tech Talk What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall) Bootleg video (via sayrer) Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh) Tesla 🤝 CarPlay? New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle) WWDC session on YouTube The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient! Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel Tracking Apple’s environmental progress TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey) Direct product comparisons Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680) General overview (via Gui Rambo) cloudOS job listing How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox) Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June) Chart South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭 We’re all trying to find the guy who did this! 25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link) Stephen’s tables Gruber’s tables Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨 Good timing: tmcgeary Aaron Greg Pierce Ask ATP: Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster) Joe Lion <li
- Jun 15, 20261h 59m
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 app does the hard thing macOS 27 “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1 Microsoft Bob You can use TouchID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith) sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding Corner radius ∆s, illustrated Mickey hands are back They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition General Golden Gate icon changes Touch Macs are coming Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS ST-S notices NSToolbar changes You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window HIG updates for menu icons iOS 27 SiriAI pull down animation iPadOS 27 ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.) Hardware compatibility watchOS Hardware compatibility Apple’s AI Tech Talk Images Quotes Dan Moren vanity searches An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri” Stephen Robles’ SiriAI review (timestamp link to 5m47s) 3Blue1Brown transformers video Apple’s announcement for third-gen models Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory <a href="https:
- Jun 9, 20262h 51m
695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
WWDC 2026 Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube) Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight Word wall Rob Rhyne’s toot Weird holes Change Detection .well-known Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon Music Video Craig’s toot Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel] TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince) Sam Henri Gold Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape White foldable phone More details Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel] Case leaks Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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