687: You Can Bend This Line
Accidental Tech Podcast | Apr 16 2026 | 01:55:34
Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
Roon
Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
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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
Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
Sponsored by:
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Roon
Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
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
Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
Sponsored by:
Leesa: A mattress for every body and budget.
Zapier: Put AI to work across your company—for real.
Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last
Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!