691: A Menlo Phase
Accidental Tech Podcast | May 14 2026 | 01:55:14
Pre-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 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
Time Machine
…with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)
Asimov
…with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)
…period (via David Fokkema)
lsof
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)
Ask ATP:
How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)
Yoink
MD5
Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)
Prompt 3
Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)
LSP
Intelephense
Post-show: .nofollow
Apple developer forum post
Symlink
.nosync, .noindex, .nobackup
Hopper
MJ Tsai
Apple open-source
Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library
Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think
Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps
Ben Dansby
Sponsored by:
Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp.
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!
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 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
Time Machine
…with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)
Asimov
…with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)
…period (via David Fokkema)
lsof
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)
Ask ATP:
How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)
Yoink
MD5
Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)
Prompt 3
Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)
LSP
Intelephense
Post-show: .nofollow
Apple developer forum post
Symlink
.nosync, .noindex, .nobackup
Hopper
MJ Tsai
Apple open-source
Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library
Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think
Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps
Ben Dansby
Sponsored by:
Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp.
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!