Accidental Tech Podcast

696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

15 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: We are not dangerously capable We convince ourselves not to pivot to video Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2 FYI, Marco: Casey has off...

695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua

09 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

WWDC 2026 Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube) Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight Word wall Rob Rhyne’s toot Weird holes Change Detectio...

694: Potential and Homework

04 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale ...

693: Negative Bonus Points

29 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula...

692: A Thinking Hitch

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness Follow-up: Cut/copy...

691: A Menlo Phase

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Project Hail Mary Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride Setlist Bandcamp Luke Bloom — Bad D. ...

690: Turn Left at the Next Tree

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧 Follow-up: Backblaze & cloud backups Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstei...

689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Mythos Anthropic’s blog post Follow-up: ATP Store Yes, it happened again. The ATP Neo Silver made it! UPenn is an Ivy Kiera...

688: A Company Man

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ Follow-up: GL.iNet KVM security issues? Mark Wadham’s write-up Dan Godin at Ars Technica MacBook Neo co...

687: You Can Bend This Line

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco Roon Nugs 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom...

686: Write Two Letters

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 S...

685: The Ability to Be Hotter

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Happy independence day, John! The Great Saunter Pedometer++ The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist 🗣️ New ATP Member Spe...

684: It’s Not What Young People Do

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Overcast & Transcriptions Marco had never seen inside a datacenter What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Mat...

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: You’re welcome, world Formula 1 A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season Cameras Are not a large portion of the coverage (v...

682: Medium Core

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner Related episode of ATP Follow-up: An explanation for John’s post that broke containme...

681: The Price of Your Nightmares

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes TruFuel Follow-up: Casey got the CableCARD email 😭 YoLink alternatives (via Joe) IKEA Ma...

679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco beach… and app… cleanup results Instagram reel that John found Due YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit We’re recording ✨...

678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco HVAC update Daikin Trane YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range) YoLink leak sensors LoRa 🗣️ New AT...

677: I Accept the Battery Cost

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Icepocalypse update Follow-up: Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare...

676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update Follow-up: atp.fm passkey update Google Private AI Compute Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud Removing copy/paste crud (via...

675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️ Follow-up: We’ll ...

674: A Reliable, Boring Partner

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed Ubiquiti Travel Router Verizon Jetpack Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, t...

673: Six Impossible Things

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco LivePhish Goose on Bandcamp Nugs Thank you, ATP Patrons! Follow-up: Cord-cutting Casey on Downstream ...

672: Wi Hyphen Fi

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3 Pepperidge Farm Remembers Follow-up: Contacts Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell) So...

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time Follow-up: Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees 🇺...

670: Institutionally Inescapable

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires i3: 155/70R19 XC90: 275/40R21 Molex F-150 Lightning’s demise 🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships ar...

669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow Follow-up: Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro Workout Buddy Previously with...

668: So Happy for All Parties Involved

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco has a new toy Follow-up: Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded Vision Pro Size Help tool JPEG XL lives… in PDF Chromium ticket...

667: Wisdom and Treachery

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II Bryan’s toot pen.tips Paperlike 3 Paperlike Pencil Tips Follow-up...

666: We Have Nothing That Hot

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023 Follow-...

665: My Basement Is Beautiful

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: John has some new Vision Pro treats Flight Ready In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth) ATP Tier List: Storage Media Au...

664: Humanity Gets in the Way

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️ T568A & T568B Idea courtesy Adam B...

663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors Flighty 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️ T568A & T568B I...

662: Just Break the Law

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose 🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️ An aside ...

661: Intimate and Regimented

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Languages in Scotland ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler) Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz) Marco’s iPhone...

660: It’s All Chicken Salad

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results Goose Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025 Allianz Ampitheater Chicken Sa...

659: Lose the Ear Lottery

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep… M5 iPad Pro FCC leaks 🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️ Supporting Action for Emergency Response...

658: Your First Mistake Phone

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Podcastathon 2025 Follo...

657: Ears Are Weird

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣ 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT Stephen Hackett said th...

656: A Long T-Shirt

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset iPhone event AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch Series 11 No new System-in-Package? Wh...

655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Follow-up: Casey has thoughts about the com...

654: Athletically Engaged

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad Ben Rice McCarthy Under the Radar Follow-up: 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offse...

653: Warning Stories

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop AITAH Follow-up: Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone John’s dancing cont...

652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days. Follow-up: Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️...

651: Your Judgement About Pockets

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Brief vacation results Tim Cook kisses the… ring Video Follow-up: HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B TV shootou...

650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem Follow-up: D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team Casey’s struggles with iperf3 Tutorial ip...

649: Prove It With Cameras

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link) CalDigit TS5+ (product page) iperf3 Follow-up: F1 (the sport, n...

648: Part of the Movement

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners 🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings Follow-up: Meta Hires Top Apple AI Mo...

647: You Get One Exclamation Point

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱 Reconcilable Differences Follow-up: FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel) Tahoe wi...

646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase 11 June 2011 Documentation of the journey (spoilers!) John’s beloved Ninja Anova After Dark Fo...

645: More Frosting

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront Belkin UltraGlass 2 Some Administrivia: 🗣️ New ATP Memb...

644: You Have to Invert

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro Bespoke 3D-printed mount Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight What betas are we running? Virtual Buddy 𝑥OS ...

643: You Go to Squircle Jail

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions Mario Kart World WWDC F1 Sam Henri Gold Marcel Flighty Parcel Control Plane Acorn Post-show: RIP, John&#82...

642: A Rebuilding Year

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial) macOS 26: Tahoe? macOS 26 supported h...

641: We're Saving That for the Egg

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple Five Whys Follow-up: SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer Vision Pro on T...

640: Put It in a Potato

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️ Follow-up: Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner How I ...

639: Crimp the World

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro CalDigit TS5 Follow-up: Letterboxd SF Symbol Procured via volunteer Alyce D...

638: Hop, Hop, Hop

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions Follow-up: At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁 Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay Blue Man Group Epic...

637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone ThinOptics round clear New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now Follow-up: A ...

636: Nose-Biting Territory

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️ Follow-up: Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins) AliExp...

635: An Effective Operator

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2 Porsche Taycan Ioniq 5 BMW i4 Chevy Bolt 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️ Foll...

634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Technology Connections on dishwashers Maestral How to excise Dropbox Brave Firefox Kagi Orion Arc Palm Pre 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 ...

633: Moonshoot

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy anniversary, Siracusa! ATP #476 Hypercritical: Independence Day...

632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites Follow-up: Vision Pro corner Spatial Gallery has an...

631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Casey received a present Follow-up: Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert Colorful Macs MacBook Adorable “Hidra” ...

630: Time to Spiral

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong Follow-up: Vision Pro Corner New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo Spatial Gallery Metallica immersive sp...

629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos Tim Cook teaser History lesson Mac Studio General announcement M3 Ultra announcem...

628: There’s a Certain Smell

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco messed with the system Zoom F1 USB Pre 2 Schiit Jotunheim Follow-up: New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surf...

627: Dragged Across the Line

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue VoIP ATA Ubiquiti Managed VoIP Follow-up: Apple Account transfers Updated restrictions & guideli...

626: No Longer ery Good

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck) First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert) You can use a cable with Sideca...

625: Time and Smoke

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: BBQ ZZQ Q Follow-up: New immersive video: Man vs. Beast “Historical Commission”? Sonos volume changes are local DeepSeek ...

624: Do Less Math in Computers

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Follow-up: Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby) Apple insists it&#...

623: It’s About Human Connection

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️ Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America Follow-up: Apple pauses notification summaries for news ap...

622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: AirPod noises Gui Rambo & AirBuddy One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach) Also, more on status l...

621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them 20k Hz The Sound of Apple 1.0 The Sound of Apple 2.0 Auto-Tone ...

620: Mostly Cookies

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Holiday results Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace Casey’s impending mess John needs technical support Follow-up: Satirical...

619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show Become an ATP Member to listen ATP Gift Memberships Follow-up: “Hey, Futur...

618: Type System Says No

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show Follow-up: John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app A funny conspiracy theory shared by Th...

617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Laundry tactics Follow-up: Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news Channels Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights CGPa...

616: I Have No Grippers

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives Follow-up: Yet more football (🏈) news Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭 TVEverywh...

615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: All John’s apes gone Follow-up: Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable Sunday Ticket updates On sale! It was f...

614: Don’t Puke for the Show

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service Kiki’s Delivery Service Follow-up: The Weeknd: Open...

613: Dress for the Chip You Want

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday! Follow-up: Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by ...

612: Screen on Face

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Politics later. #195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link) 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November! F...

611: RAM Christmas

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱) Submerged Sleep No More Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz. Please don’t elect a racist with ...

610: More Values in the Darkness

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special Follow-up: New iPad Mini “Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?...

609: You’re the Oreo Cookie

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️ Follow-up: Marco updates AutoSleep iPhone leather backs Suti Phone...

608: Boot to Toot

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: NotebookLM podcast Camera Control button material iPhone case suggestions Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit Arc Pulse Leather backs Suti ...

607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Windows woes Follow-up: Thank you, listeners. 💙 Hard-wired camera indicator light AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dix...

606: A Decade of Half-Presses

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP’s name! Ryan Ricard’s great idea Calculate your ...

605: Manage the Moisture Situation

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: It’s early 🥱 ATP live announcement post Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in AT...

604: Minimized Embiggening

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP’s name! Apple September 2024 Event Quinn’s vi...

603: Too Smart to Move

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP’s name! Follow-up: Mac mini redesign updates from M...

602: A Glimpse of a Better World

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★ Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP&#...

601: Foreheads Over the Years

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: App Store reorganization 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows Follow-up: iPhone 16 “Capture Butt...

600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉 Clear Channel ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier Follow-up: Vista-fication of macOS Is the prob...

599: Where Did Salad Go?

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: Mophie 3-in-1 Analog(ue) #228: We Don’t Have to Talk About Air Conditioning (Posted on Sunday, 11 August) Follow-up: Apology Tou...

598: Three-Burner Stove

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up: Rivian Repair Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby) Marco’s Repair Breakdown Parts: 39% Right Uniside assembly...

597: Apple Watch Shuffle

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️ Follow-up: Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers...