Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco

Roon

Nugs

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Follow-up:

Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)

Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though

The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)

Previously:

Eric Portis on Color Spaces

Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything

Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱

Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)

Others with this issue

Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago

Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)

See also:

Krebs on Security

Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)

Ads are coming to Apple Maps

Newsroom

AI-generated code & copyright

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted

Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation?

No right to relicense this project

Monkey selfie

Claude, rewrite yourself

Ask ATP:

When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)

Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)

Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy

Alex’s overview

Screenshot of a Linux machine

Screenshot of a Mac

Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance

Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers

What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)

MK1 High Density Rack Mount

Bandwidth comparisons

Thunderbolt 5

80 Gbit/s symmetric

120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays

SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)

109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read

142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write

PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0

1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)

16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)

…as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)

17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed

Internal vs. external SSD

2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s

OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250

OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700

PolySoft third-party internal SSDs

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Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal

UniFi Travel Router

Cascades trail

Shenandoah National Park

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Follow-up:

Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱

Stephen Robles

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Casey’s snarky toot

Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop

John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)

How much hotter can a Mac get?

Mac Studio power consumption

Mac Pro power consumption

Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)

Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions

RetinaDisplays.com

CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs

They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)

The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski

Mechanical Watch

CIE updates from 2015

On Apple’s CMF

Long Island and “mainland”

United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)

The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time

Overcast link

Every other podcast app

Casey’s write-up

Marco’s letter to John Ternus

A Tale of Two Letters

Ask ATP:

How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)

Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update

Suunto Race S Titanium (Amazon)

Garmin Venu 4

Garmin Forerunner 970

Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED

Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”

Regex to detect user anger

“Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)

Future plans

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Pre-show:

Happy independence day, John!

The Great Saunter

Pedometer++

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

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More about the flag

Follow-up:

Overcast transcripts

Missed Apex

MacBook Neo

Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch

New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)

iBook “Snow”

Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel

Framework

MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks

“NFW”, says Henry

“This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari

“Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple

Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac

Original article 🇩🇪

PCI Express

Ubiquiti

What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?

UniFi Travel Router

“Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO

YouTube announcement

Blog post

Some shadiness from January

🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦

Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa

CUDA

Ask ATP:

Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)

How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)

Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”

Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update

10 February: Delayed to 2027

20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?

The Information

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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 queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)

beanstalkd

Ansible

Monitoring & control interface

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)

System X

RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2

I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac

Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard

Apple Insider

Mac fleet management advice

Apple Business

AirPods Max popularity in New York

WWDC 2026 Announced

Ask ATP

What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)

XKCD

Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)

Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)

Michael Cook’s contrary opinion

Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology

DS1621+

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro

Casey’s NUC

Channels

Proxmox

Tailscale on YouTube

Derek Seaman’s Tech Blog (the extremely helpful listener 🥰)

ESPHome

Syncthing & rclone

Proxmox Backup Server

Transmit

Forklift

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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 footage (via Eric Fox)

On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)

Rosetta

A deep dive from Colin McKellar

Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)

iPhone 17e teardown

MacBook Neo

Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators

Apple Platform Security Guide

On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)

CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)

SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)

Andrew Marc David’s review

M1 MacBook Air benchmarks

General Apple Silicon benchmarks

AmorphousDiskMark

MacBook SSD benchmarks

John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions

Teardowns

Tech Re-Nu

iFixIt

Video

Blog post

AirPods Max 2

Newsroom

John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link)

Apple’s compare page

Overcast beta now has transcripts!

Mac Mini Vault

Green Mini Host

FileVault over SSH

launchd

XPC

Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed

The Verge

Ars Technica

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Gurman on 15 February

Gurman on 15 March

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