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Accidental Tech Podcast has produced 687 episodes. 201 of those episodes have been sponsored by 111 companies. We last recorded an episode on Apr 9, 2026.
Latest Episodes
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Write Two Letters
Apr 9, 2026Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal UniFi Travel Router Cascades trail Shenandoah National Park 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ Follow-up: Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱 Stephen Robles 1 2 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...
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The Ability to Be Hotter
Apr 1, 2026Pre-show: Happy independence day, John! The Great Saunter Pedometer++ The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons 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...
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It’s Not What Young People Do
Mar 26, 2026Follow-up: 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
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I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
Mar 19, 2026Follow-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...
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Medium Core
Mar 12, 2026Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner Related episode of ATP Follow-up: An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson) MacBook Neo John’s theory about color & clamshells The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné) Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2? MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson) SSD speeds (via The Verge) The logo iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via...
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The Price of Your Nightmares
Mar 5, 2026Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet Million Dollar Homepage 2013 BMW M5 (PDF) 2014 Honda Accord (PDF) M4 iPad Air iPhone 17e New displays (‼️) Studio Display 2 A19 per MacRumors Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn Studio Display XDR Day-one software update Mac support 120Hz-worthy Macs
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A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
Feb 27, 2026Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes TruFuel Follow-up: Casey got the CableCARD email 😭 YoLink alternatives (via Joe) IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement KLIPPBOK (leak sensor) BILRESA (remote control) MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor) House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse) F-150 Lightning On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer) Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot) defaults w
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An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
Feb 16, 2026Pre-show: Marco beach… and app… cleanup results Instagram reel that John found Due YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit We’re recording ✨from the future✨. Follow-up: Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k? Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) Helium Browser unduck.link Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson) “Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue” Objective Development LaunchBar Little Snitch AirTag 2 & speaker tampering Cloudflare Open Access (via George...
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Mentoring a Box of Numbers
Feb 12, 2026Pre-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
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I Accept the Battery Cost
Feb 5, 2026Pre-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 DuckD