Accidental Tech Podcast

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 (via everyone)

ATP Movie Club: WarGames

WarGames

AI

Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️

Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations

Three apps in one day

On usage limits

Dread & fatalism

We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson

The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)

Productivity promise vs. reality

Anthropic study

Experienced developers are slower?

Microsoft study

Atlassian study

Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains

Harvard: Slop hinders productivity

MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns (PDF)

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas

AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison

Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar

Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al

Some related links from our AI conversation:

n8n

Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans

Computer (occupation)

Memento mori

Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases

Ferrari Luce

Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge

Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL

Associated post

Dieter Rams

Patek Philippe Nautilus

Braun

Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50

Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)

Other videos

Leica

Post-show: Casey is car shopping

Porsche Taycan

Audi e-tron GT

BMW i4

Rivian R3

Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles

Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins

Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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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 David Schaub)

The state of MicroLED

Robert Tait of The Hook Up

Claude Code & AI ethics

Alec’s video

Irish wind farm

Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro

Marco’s experiment

Cortex

DuckDuckGo

Kagi

Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3

John’s Tahoe icon battle continues

Rubber duck debugging

Kyle Hughes

Drop shipping

Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X

Most recent earnings

Earnings call transcript

The Robotaxi is dangerous according to… Tesla

We really need to get to self-driving

Waymo’s safety record

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin

Apple buys Q.ai

Ryan Christoffel

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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 Dobie)

Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds

Window management in macOS (via Ben)

FlashSpace

AltTab

New AirTags

The chime has changed from F → G

Apple hosting LA event

Invite image

Jason’s Creator Studio review

TCL has bought Sony’s TV business

TCL Super Quantum Dot

TCL X11L

John Ternus takes over design at Apple

Sebastiaan de With → Apple

Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?

Post-show:

We stand with Minnesotans.

Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook

Tim’s internal memo

Tim’s letter after George Floyd

Gruber on Tim’s letter

Gruber on language

CRDT

John’s new bff

XKCD #974: Pass the salt

Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

Congress is unsure if it complies with law

Are content moderation changes afoot?

More data slurping definitely is

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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 an Apple thing

No, really

Indonesia is not small

MainStage is not new (via Mike Taffet et al)

Interview

Apple’s Pro Apps Bundle still exists for education users (via Pekka Salonen)

Pro apps free trials

Prior art (via Karoline)

The trials are full versions (via Ian Robinson)

Monitors at CES

DisplayPort alternate mode for USB-C

What about color accuracy?

Extended Display Identification Data

ProMotion in Safari

iOS: Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Feature Flags

Test

Vision Pro does have Keynote

Icons in Tahoe menus

Nikita Prokopov

Jim Nielsen

Colin M. Ford (and an explanation)

Apple’s guidelines

You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe

How to prevent Tahoe update nags

Many Tricks

Device management profiles

Actually it’s a bug 🤭

Ask ATP:

Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design than Jony Ive? (via Austin)

Will Alan Dye’s departure affect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong)

What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)

macOS Screenshot Library

Post-show: John’s migration continues

John’s Fastmail referral link

Cron

Namecheap

Cloudflare

Claude Code

MiniDV

StatusBoard

Grafana

Prometheus

CandyBar

Members-only ATP Overtime: Fender’s first wireless headphones

The Verge coverage

Demo video

Sony WH-1000XM6

Auracast

Wikipedia

Sony MDR-7506

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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 Downstream

Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)

Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high

MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)

MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)

Wi-Fi channel selection & size

Wi-Fi 7 8

A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES

As a reminder…

Apple Studio Display

Pro Display HDR

MSI MPG 271KRAW16

DisplayHDR 1400 certification

MSI MAG 271KPD7

Monitors Unboxed

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)

HDTVTest

Subpixel arrangements

Apple Creator Studio

Icons over time

Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)

MacRumors

Apple’s defense of the icons

Jason on iWork freemium

Apple 🤝🏻 Google

More from The Information

Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card

FAQ

Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)

Post-show: NBA Immersive

Stratechery

Dithering

Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter

Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store

Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images

Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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