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! Well, maybe. Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
We’re Fable is so back, baby
More at Ars Technica
Siri AI
No web browsing for you! Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2 Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
Revamped icons by Parakeet
Design services price list SwitchGlass
SwitchGlass dark icon SwitchGlass old icon
Front and Center
Front and Center old icon
Callsheet
Callsheet old icon Jelly’s write-up Ste Grainer The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons
Overcast Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App
Fire Island Lighthouse
Parakeet’s post about our icons
Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
Apple support document Opera joins the party
Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
DevCleaner (App Store link)
Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
Goose Big Modern!
Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
Nugs Micro Tyvek Wallet Micro Soft Shell Wallet Studio Neat Casey’s fan
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
Quinn Nelson’s pitch Game Porting Toolkit 4
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Pre-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
Previously, in Palm Pilots
Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
Financial Times
No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
Touchscreen MacBook Pro
Intel to fabricate the M7‽
GFHK? More reporting
New Siri
Iconography
Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
Joanna Stern’s review Gui Rambo’s experiment Dan Moren John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
Question 1 Question 2
Ask ATP:
Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar) If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
3Blue1Brown Avoiding Copland 2010
Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
Casey:
ThinkPad 701C ThinkPad T30
John:
eMate Newton 2000 Trashcan
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Announcement video On the store All Ubiquiti NAS offerings Xserve RAID
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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 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh) Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
WWDC session on YouTube
The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey) Direct product comparisons
Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
General overview (via Gui Rambo) cloudOS job listing How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
Chart South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!
25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
Stephen’s tables Gruber’s tables Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨 Good timing:
tmcgeary Aaron Greg Pierce
Ask ATP:
Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
Joe Lion Blake Patterson
Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI Members-only ATP Overtime: The Fable about… Anthropic Fable
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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 Touch ID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding Corner radius ∆s, illustrated Mickey hands are back They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition General Golden Gate icon changes Touch Macs are coming
Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window HIG updates for menu icons
iOS 27
Siri AI pull down animation
iPadOS 27
ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
Hardware compatibility
watchOS
Hardware compatibility
Apple’s AI Tech Talk
Images Quotes Dan Moren vanity searches
An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s) 3Blue1Brown transformers video Apple’s announcement for third-gen models Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
Filippone Stefano’s review
Ars Technica’s write-up
Post-show: Casey’s trip results
UniFi Travel Router GL-iNet Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
OpenDoc iPhone mirroring resizing
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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] TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince) Sam Henri Gold
Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
White foldable phone More details
Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
Case leaks
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🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 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 reminders (via Ben Smith) Moving files between volumes
Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
Previously on ATP
WWDC 2026
All systems glow Wallpaper Gurman prediction
More at MacRumors
macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!] Hardware that has been delayed by Siri macOS 27 name What are we dreading? What we’re most excited for? What will we miss?
Post-show: Casey wants some advice
Callsheet Channels OAuth VLAN Jellyfin Infuse SenPlayer (App Store link) Tailscale Service
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
Previously, the DGX Spark This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
They’re the same… but not
Surface Laptop Ultra Ars Technica
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Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation
Follow-up:
Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave) SVG 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 the same? Defrag lives on …in APFS
diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
[disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
MJ Tsai
AI Sentiment
AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan) Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
Large Energy User Action Plan
Perspectives on art
Original Monet
The Ferrari Luce
Previously on ATP Purosangue Jaguar I-Pace BMW i3 BMW i8 GMA T.33 Porsche Taycan Galleries
The Verge Car and Driver
Exterior Interior
Coverage
The Verge Top Gear Cleo Abram MKBHD (stationary tour)
ba-dum tss
John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
Saturday Night Live Affordance
Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
Associated layoffs, because, of course Destiny 1 on Wikipedia Penny Arcade
Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
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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 (via Derek)
The terminal, the TTY, and the shell
The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
Wizard Zines
Ignoring node_modules and the like
In Dropbox
Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas) …or use xattrs
Dropbox documentation on ignoring files Automator example from Boz Bundalo
In Time Machine
pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)
Technical explanation Supply chain protection
20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨 Reminders
Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders? Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard) Updates in 26.5 Flexibits
Why does everyone hate AI?
Pew Research
Concern vs. excitement Ability to think & form meaningful relationships Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient Risk vs. reward Young adults are using it
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint
University of Central Florida University of Arizona Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad
On YouTube
Wearable AI friend
friend.com omi.me
Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards
Stratechery Phantom data centers US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Angine de Poitrine on KEXP
Post-show: Marco gets geeky
Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling Native all the way… until you need text PaintCode XKCD
Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
Why does the Googlebook exist?
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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
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MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn) Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon More component delays
It’s Ternus time
Fashion
Cook’s shoes Ternus’s Shirt Cook’s Shirt
Johny Srouji named Chief Hardware Officer Tim’s letter New York Times coverage Marco’s blog post
Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue Infinite Loop by Michael S. Malone Revolution in the Valley
folklore.org
Jason’s recommendations
Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
Stephen Robles’ $3,000 video box
Kaleidescape Strato
MakeMKV Tom’s Hardware: Audiophiles are full of 💩
Original post
One Man’s Dream (Callsheet link)
RIP, Ken Fritz
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Pre-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 subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions RetinaDisplays.com CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis) The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
Mechanical Watch
CIE updates from 2015 On Apple’s CMF
Long Island and “mainland”
United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
Overcast link Every other podcast app Casey’s write-up
Marco’s letter to John Ternus
A Tale of Two Letters
Ask ATP:
How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
Suunto Race S Titanium (Amazon) Garmin Venu 4 Garmin Forerunner 970 Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
Regex to detect user anger “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan) Future plans
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🗣️ 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 air”, says Ari
“Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac
Original article 🇩🇪
PCI Express
Ubiquiti
What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
UniFi Travel Router
“Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
YouTube announcement Blog post
Some shadiness from January
🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa CUDA
Ask ATP:
Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent) How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”
Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
10 February: Delayed to 2027 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
The Information
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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 was added in macOS 26.2 I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard Apple Insider
Mac fleet management advice
Apple Business
AirPods Max popularity in New York
WWDC 2026 Announced Ask ATP
What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
XKCD
Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius) Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
DS1621+ Ubiquiti UNAS Pro Casey’s NUC Channels Proxmox Tailscale on YouTube Derek Seaman’s Tech Blog (the extremely helpful listener 🥰) ESPHome Syncthing & rclone Proxmox Backup Server Transmit Forklift
Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS
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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 camera & mic on-screen indicators
Apple Platform Security Guide On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer) SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
Andrew Marc David’s review M1 MacBook Air benchmarks General Apple Silicon benchmarks
AmorphousDiskMark MacBook SSD benchmarks
John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions Teardowns
Tech Re-Nu iFixIt
Video Blog post
AirPods Max 2
Newsroom John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link) Apple’s compare page
Overcast beta now has transcripts!
Mac Mini Vault Green Mini Host FileVault over SSH launchd XPC
Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
The Verge Ars Technica
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
Gurman on 15 February Gurman on 15 March
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Drive to Survive (Apple TV link) Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube) 2026 season preview F1TV vs. Apple TV
Link accounts
Romain Grosjean’s
Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
MKBHD The Verge
Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
Great Saunter Injinji toe socks Altra Torin 8 wide shoes Garmin Venu 4 41mm Garmin Forerunner 570 Garmin Fenix 8 Suunto Race S WorkOutDoors Pedometer++
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
Tahoe 26.4 warnings Slightly more detail from Ars Technica
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Pre-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
M5 MacBook Air
No change in RAM upgrade pricing?
M5 Pro & M5 Max
Efficiency cores still exist
M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
MacBook Neo
Name leak Prior art Jason’s review & charts No indicator light Jason’s observation about the Apple logo Announcement video
Post-show: John had a post break containment
Context collapse
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience
HLS Dan Moren notes prior art Not based on RSS, laments Manton Reece Stephen Robles’ video
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…was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
Technical details (via Videoalex)
Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric) Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent) Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
System Settings
Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
Wall Street Journal video Accompanying article
Apple News link
This predates this administration?
Ask ATP:
What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen John: lock & home Casey: lock & home
Indigo Croissant
Marco: lock & home
What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
Overtime on ATP #675 Casey
AirPods Pro 3 Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω Desktop speakers
Sonos Era 100 × 2 Sonos Sub Mini Sonos Combo Adapter
John:
Sony MDR-7506 Kanto ORA4 ATP #630
Marco:
Podcasting
Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
Music
HifiMan HE6
Speakers
KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62 Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
BMW i4 M50 Audi e-tron GT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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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 Black)
Explanatory video
Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
Fastmail’s donation John’s referral link
Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link) Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨 New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process? Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Juli Clover at MacRumors Ben Lovejoy at 9to5 Mac Ben in December 2024 Vadim Yuryev (of MaxTech)
Ask ATP:
What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
Casey’s “tailgate battery” Casey’s “bequeathed” generator Tesla Powerwall
Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.) What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011 More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
Post-show: Casey’s Status Board Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
ReplayTV
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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 On usage limits
Dread & fatalism
We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
Productivity promise vs. reality
Anthropic study Experienced developers are slower? Microsoft study Atlassian study Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains Harvard: Slop hinders productivity MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns (PDF)
Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
Some related links from our AI conversation:
n8n Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans Computer (occupation) Memento mori
Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases
Ferrari Luce
Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL
Associated post
Dieter Rams Patek Philippe Nautilus Braun Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50
Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04) Other videos
Leica
Post-show: Casey is car shopping
Porsche Taycan Audi e-tron GT BMW i4 Rivian R3 How the second-gen Porsche Taycan is better than the first-gen
Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles
Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin
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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 DuckDuckGo Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
John’s Tahoe icon battle continues
Rubber duck debugging
Kyle Hughes Drop shipping
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Most recent earnings Earnings call transcript The Robotaxi is dangerous according to… Tesla We really need to get to self-driving Waymo’s safety record
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
Apple buys Q.ai Ryan Christoffel
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atp.fm passkey update Google Private AI Compute Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli) Screen on RAM ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas) Modular headphones
AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie) Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
Window management in macOS (via Ben)
FlashSpace AltTab
New AirTags
The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
Invite image Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
TCL Super Quantum Dot TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
Sebastiaan de With → Apple Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
We stand with Minnesotans.
Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook Tim’s internal memo Tim’s letter after George Floyd Gruber on Tim’s letter Gruber on language CRDT
John’s new bff
XKCD #974: Pass the salt
Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time
Congress is unsure if it complies with law Are content moderation changes afoot? More data slurping definitely is
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Nikita Prokopov Jim Nielsen Colin M. Ford (and an explanation) Apple’s guidelines
You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe How to prevent Tahoe update nags
Many Tricks Device management profiles Actually it’s a bug 🤭
Ask ATP:
Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design than Jony Ive? (via Austin) Will Alan Dye’s departure affect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong) What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)
macOS Screenshot Library
Post-show: John’s migration continues
John’s Fastmail referral link Cron Namecheap Cloudflare Claude Code MiniDV StatusBoard Grafana Prometheus CandyBar
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fender’s first wireless headphones
The Verge coverage Demo video Sony WH-1000XM6 Auracast
Wikipedia
Sony MDR-7506
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Icons over time Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)
MacRumors
Apple’s defense of the icons Jason on iWork freemium
Apple 🤝🏻 Google
More from The Information
Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card
FAQ Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)
Post-show: NBA Immersive
Stratechery Dithering
Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter
Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
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Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg) The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)
Quinn’s video on making a 5K display
Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)
This started in late 2020 with Big Sur Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control) Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering
Docs
PlayStation Portal
…works with PlayStation Plus …but really needs solid Wi-Fi …and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6 …and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones
Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)
Knowedge base System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill
Wi-Fi 7
Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)
WPA3
WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve) Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch) Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in …as does pro Saul Sutherland John’s Eero Max 7 setup
Thread vs. Matter
Thread Matter Derek Seaman’s series To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container
Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day
Bodi
ASML & TSMC
Extreme ultraviolet lithography Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained
Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones
The Information MacRumors Mockup image & video Jason’s & Stepen’s posts iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?
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Tahoe Studio Display flickering Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts
Previously 1 Previously 2
iPhone roadmap
Article on The Information
iPhone XX rumor roundup
Under-screen FaceID? Haptic buttons?
Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases
Patent
Ask ATP:
How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy) How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing! Post-show: John’s bug
FB21375029 Sample project
Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend
Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal RAM is ruining everything It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne The RAM shortage is here to stay Chipwrecked
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WarGames
Follow-up:
Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special John’s Cloudflare update
Hypercritical
Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan) Apple executive departures
Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board
Press release The Verge
Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?
Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach) Split iMessage groups (via sirshannon) AI-generated voice-matched dubbing
Fran Besora tried the Spanish version Stefanus Secundus tried the German version Ben Mattison had an odd YouTube experience
Siri and pronunciations (via Paul Zadunajsky) Intel stealing learning from chips it fabs
Thread by Joe Lion
VHDL
Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography
Galois blog post
Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)
Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card
Casey’s tangentially-related rant
Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers
Dominic Preston at The Verge From the past: Blockbuster’s reaction to Netflix
Marc Randolph’s comment
Paramount launches hostile $108B bid
Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son Gruber’s take As per Brian Stelter, Netflix is prepared More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge
Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Verizon FiOS stabs John & Casey CableCARD PCMCIA TiVo Channels HDHomeRun TVEverywhere
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