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Accidental Tech Podcast has produced 700 episodes. 214 of those episodes have been sponsored by 114 companies. We last recorded an episode on Jul 7, 2026.
Latest Episodes
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Not the Correct Squircle
Jul 7, 2026Pre-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!
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And Do What?
Jun 30, 2026Pre-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
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The Chart Is Terrifying
Jun 26, 2026Pre-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...
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It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Jun 15, 2026Pre-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...
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The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
Jun 9, 2026WWDC 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]
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Potential and Homework
Jun 4, 2026Pre-show: 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL) Tailscale Funnel DynDns.org no-ip.org Follow-up: Ferrari Luce John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG) John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy Bambu’s battle with its users They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins) Jose agrees Faking alarm rem
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Negative Bonus Points
May 29, 2026Pre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave) SVC can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor) SVG can do THAT‽ Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko) How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are mvs...
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A Thinking Hitch
May 21, 2026Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness Follow-up: Cut/copy/paste in Finder Terminal John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes tcsh John’s Terminal settings Window tab John’s Terminal settings Tab tab Escape sequence extended tooltip .cshrc Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files Fancy shell prompts like Starship KornShell Some other terminal resources The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic...
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A Menlo Phase
May 14, 2026Pre-show: Project Hail Mary Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride Setlist Bandcamp Luke Bloom — Bad D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart Apocalyptica Vitamin String Quartet Johnny Cash — Hurt Follow-up: CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey) Bloomberg “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones) Ultra/Neo/etc Is the “iPhone Ultra” the
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Turn Left at the Next Tree
May 8, 2026Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧 Follow-up: Backblaze & cloud backups Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein) Support document Maestral Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz) Neo-ing… other things Mythos What makes this different (via William Moran) GPT-5.5 is equivalent? cURL security/bug reports Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI AI is still ruining everything See also: MacBook Neo More fro
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