Episodes

  • 647: You Get One Exclamation Point

    647: You Get One Exclamation Point
    Jul 7 2025
    Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱 Reconcilable DifferencesFollow-up: FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)Tahoe without XCode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta Developer downloads↳ Direct linkPutting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643) Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)RebuttalRebuttal of the rebuttalMore from Gary MarcusThe original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨HDR in 𝑥26iPadOS 26 window limits“Glass iPhone” demo ↳ Direct video linkThat “natural language to CLI” app is SubstageApple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽ Apple A18References spotted in codeJason on A18 speedStephen on the technical limitationsAsk ATP: Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil) CalDigit TS5+What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms) Atto Xtend SANHow does a new grad land a job?Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected YouTube Premium LiteMembers-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU Jason’s coverage Store Services tiers in the EUGruber’s summaryCranky man remains crankySteve Troughton-Smith’s takeThe Verge Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.Squarespace: Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • 646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

    646: On the Shelf With the Pickles
    Jul 1 2025
    Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase 11 June 2011Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)John’s belovedNinjaAnovaAfter DarkFollow-up: We’re doing good work here, folks YoLink leak sensorsLeak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hubTravel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton) Allianz conciergeWindow widget size in TahoeApple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2Floating tab bars in iOS 26Apple “Ducks” The Architect’s LionsMaybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester)It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition “We Messed Up”Bullstrap open-bottom caseAds in YouTube Why not use uBlock Origin? (via Igor Kulman)…or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown)RIP FireWireApple marketing continues to misfireApple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri OpenAI/Meta leadership talent rivalryAsk ATP: Is it worth buying a laptop where Tahoe is preinstalled? (via François-Olivier Leblanc)How much faster will an M4 be than an M1 for Xcode Simulator launches? (via Alistair Logie)How do we choose a new UPS? (via David Levine) John’s pickCasey’s pickATP #569Eaton UPSesPost-show: Marco restaurant-tech MVPs… from his co-hosts! Tailscale (Tailscale is a prior sponsor) Casey’s introductory postTailscale 4via6YoLink temperature sensors (even cheaper with a smaller temp. range) ThermoworksVHB TapeEve RoomMembers-only ATP Overtime: Should we pay developers like athletes? Sam Altman claims Meta has made $100M offers Jack Altman’s podcastReuters coverage Sponsored by: Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.1Password: Award-winning password manager trusted by millions of users.Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • 645: More Frosting

    645: More Frosting
    Jun 26 2025
    Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season Allianz Ampitheater at RiverfrontBelkin UltraGlass 2Some Administrivia: 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️ Sneakers (1992)ATP Performance Shirt Inventory SaleFollow-up: Persistent icon replacement helper apps PictogramReplaciconTahoe beta 2 Finder icon updated! Louie Mantia tries againNew menu bar background setting! Beta 2, with backgroundTahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor) Beta 1, grayBeta 1, redBeta 1, whiteSafari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo) Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bartheme_colorYosemite Safari tabs From John’s reviewInstalling betas and DFU mode macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry)DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb)InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)iOS 26 Beta 2 Frost all the things!The case of Marco’s missing download/check buttons Roman’s observationiPadOS 26 window limits (via Jon Edwards)“Apple Vision Pro 4K” (via Greg Kaplan) visionOS what’s new2048ThreesAll your data are belong to AI companies Apple training models on Feedback attachments ಠ_ಠ Original report from JoachimMeta AI staffers take an interesting approachNew York Times 🤝🏻 Amazon AIYou can train AI models without copyrighted material… it’s just a pain in the 🍑Anthropic gets a W… maybe?Ask ATP: Does Marco use Apple CarKey? His car should support it. (via Samuel Polay) CarPlay Ultra partners list is looking… sparseFerrari keyfobWhy does macOS want USB mass storage ejected, but iPadOS doesn’t? (via David Campbell)Post-show: TV Update for Marco RTINGS: Sony Bravia 8 II reviewRTINGS: Bravia 8 II vs. A95LLG G5 RTINGS: LG G5 reviewHDTVTest: LG G5 reviewRTINGS: LG’s New Firmware for the G5Members-only ATP Overtime: Overlap between appdev & gamedev Coyote time & jump bufferingSecrets to a great platformer with UnityDestiny healthExamples in our apps Sponsored by: Notion: Your notes, docs, and projects in one space.DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • 644: You Have to Invert

    644: You Have to Invert
    Jun 19 2025
    Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro Bespoke 3D-printed mountFancy-schmancy Marco-recommended FlashlightWhat betas are we running? Virtual Buddy𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo) ProcessInfo/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plistTahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley) SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26Liquid Glass Adopting Liquid Glass Don’t Liquid Glass All the ThingsNot present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)macOS Tahoe Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)Squircle Jail Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)Say Hello to the New Look of App IconsSquircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)Speaking of rounded corners… Build an AppKit App with the New DesignChonky stoplights macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)-[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]Missing title barsMissing menu bar fixes GlassBarBoring Old Menu BarAlignment Tahoe dialogTahoe dialog, center-icon mockupLeft-aligned title bar text imagesFinder icon controversy Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid resultsMichael FlarupD. Griffin JonesIcons next to menu items Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)Today in the HIGTabs contrast Terminal tabsSafari contrast Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in SafariArrow cursor has been updated Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-PanotHand cursor as wellFloating elements & compartmentalization ScreenshotWe all float down hereMario Alberto Guzmán’s observationsSteve Troughton-Smith’s observationsClipboard history Stephen RoblesOverview videoFuture of Rosetta Ars TechnicaNew disk image format: ASIF Howard Oakley write-upiOS 26 UI impressionsNew slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky) VideoiPadOS 26 Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith) Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…Slideover is 💀UI impressionsTesting Liquid Glass UIDesignRequiresCompatibilityVision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)Post-show: WWDC Favorites Apple’s transcription APIs John Voorhees’s write-upYapGenerableSwitchGlassMembers-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod? Interview roundup on MacRumorsJoanna Stern 7-minute excerptFull 24-minute interviewMark from Tom’s Guide & Lance from TechRadar Sponsored by: Hello Fresh: America’s #1 Meal KitSquarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 643: You Go to Squircle Jail

    643: You Go to Squircle Jail
    Jun 10 2025
    • Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
      • Mario Kart World
    • WWDC
      • F1
      • Sam Henri Gold
      • Marcel
      • Flighty
      • Parcel
      • Control Plane
      • Acorn
    • Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
      • Previously discussed on ATP #609
      • GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
      • Gary’s 1998 paper
      • Gary’s 2001 book

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    2 hrs and 54 mins
  • 642: A Rebuilding Year

    642: A Rebuilding Year
    Jun 5 2025
    • Follow-up:
      • Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied
      • Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial)
      • macOS 26: Tahoe?
      • macOS 26 supported hardware
      • Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview
        • MacRumors coverage
        • Molly White’s newsletter
        • Polycom “star”/”spider” phones
    • Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
      • Bono: Stories of Surrender
      • Open: An Autobiography
      • Rattle and Hum
      • Apple Immersive Screenshots:
        • Crowd
        • Stadium
        • TV
    • PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
    • Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
      • Casey’s toot
      • FB17661404
    • WWDC hopes & predictions
      • Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
      • Physicality: The new age of UI by Sebastiaan de With
      • Windows Aero
      • Newton’s cradle
      • Sendable
    • Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
      • Retreating to Safety
      • Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS
      • Federico’s exclusive
      • Stu Maschewitz’s take
      • Software Applications Incorporated

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    2 hrs and 19 mins
  • 641: We're Saving That for the Egg

    641: We're Saving That for the Egg
    May 29 2025
    • Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
      • Five Whys
    • Follow-up:
      • SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
      • Vision Pro on The Price is Right
      • What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
        • Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
        • Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
      • Alexa Plus Update
      • Neutral:
        • Slate Truck Top Gear review
        • TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
          • There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
          • DeMuro’s review
          • Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
        • Pickup beds over time
    • Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
      • ATP #639: Crimp the World
      • Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory
      • Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event from 2010
    • Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
      • DeWalt LED Work Light
      • DeWalt Tire Inflator
      • DeWalt 60V Blower
      • Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
      • 3M VHB Tape
      • Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
      • Knipex Wire Stripper
      • Wago Connectors
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple OS rebranding & macOS name predictions

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    2 hrs and 10 mins
  • 640: Put It in a Potato

    640: Put It in a Potato
    May 22 2025
    Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️Follow-up: Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homesSSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff) SpinRite (Intel-only)Fornite is back in the US App Store App Store linkJudge YGR’s filingApple 🤝🏻 EpicEpic courts Apple developersGurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco Previously on ATPThe EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all Apple documentationApple to open AI models to developers?OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io Sam and JonyGurman’s coverageAsk ATP: What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison) FBLADisc cameraWhat’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid) Show artWheel size explainedIs there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson) Matt on InstagramPancake lensFuji GFX 100RFAPS-CLensRentalsSony RX100Ricoh GR IIIxPost-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra Top Gear reviewPreviously on ATPThe VergecastMembers-only ATP Overtime: Meanwhile, in Europe… European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA Gruber did the mathNew smartphone labels for battery life & repairability Official releaseNutrition labelEnergy Star Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp.DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.Hello Fresh: America’s #1 meal kit. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    2 hrs and 15 mins