Accidental Tech Podcast
Episodes
72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Pre-Show: Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs. Follow-up: Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop A brief meta-di...
71: Security By Guilt
27 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Pre-show: Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia) Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture Casey's Showbot returns. SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Cas...
70: The Endgame Is Omnipotence
20 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing. Whether games are more like apps or movies. Amazon's Fire Phone Who's it for? Mayday tech-support featur...
69: Welcome to the Web, Casey
13 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up: It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both. Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits. Casey's broken Showbot. Abusing new App Bundles an...
68: Siracusa Waited Impatiently For This
03 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Our initial WWDC reactions. Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell! Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to cre...
67: Tim Said, Man
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We'll be guests on the WWDC live episode of The Talk Show: Tuesday, June 3, 6–9 PM. Get tickets here ASAP! John will be taking a plane... for you. ...
66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The modern Apple-store experience Follow-up: Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ev...
65: The Year Of Casey
18 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Casey's big news! (Much better than The Year of Luigi.) Casey and John discuss Monument Valley, the Escher-inspired puzzle game. (Marco didn't do his...
64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived
08 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hurry if you want an ATP T-Shirt! Just $19, and the sale may be over by the time you read this! Follow-up: Who plays video games vs. self-identified ...
63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
02 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week! Follow-up: Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association) ...
62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
24 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimiz...
61: Perfectly Neutral
18 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate...
60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
11 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam WWDC How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does How to write a live blogging system for ...
59: The Little Puck That Could
04 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus. Amazon Fire TV — no fan! USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector The giant a...
58: Always On Vacation In California
28 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity. Facebook buying Oculus: Outrag...
57: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
21 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45). The death of the iPad 2,...
56: The Woodpecker
14 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile manifesto, and what Agile has become. What we found mo...
55: Dave, Who Stinks!
06 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production. Software methodologies. For real this time. Why don’t software developm...
54: goto fail;
28 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Wolfram Language. The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million...
53: There’s Gonna Be Some Flapping
21 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful. Kieran Healy's excellent article with science. John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09. Goofball Jones' ...
52: Necessary But Not Sufficient
14 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface. RootMetrics testing real-world wireless s...
51: Maybe We’re Just Dinosaurs
07 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story. More FU on iPads going pro, giant-tablet-desk ergonomics, trying to und...
50: Disk Light Observer Effect
31 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people". Can iOS add more power-user functionality without harming its s...
49: Roamio and Siracusiet
24 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups, and storage limits, iExplorer for exporting iMessa...
48: Marco Bought Four
17 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HDR TVs. The storage costs of Casey's emoji. Google ...
47: Better Pixels
10 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store. Marco's Retina theory. PS4 and Xbone sales. Trying to care about CES. Who "needs" the Ma...
46: A Compromised Machine
03 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts. Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013...
45: Give Up On The Retina Dream
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Explaining our podcast artwork. Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness. Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 displa...
44: A Plague With Very Minor Effects
18 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning) Potential for 5120-wide Retina displays to overcome Thunderbolt...
43: Brilliance Enhancer
13 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.) Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbo...
42: The Ultimate Vanity Search
06 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
FU on PrimeSense. Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why. Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, ...
41: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
29 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits. Space Monkey, Transporter, Box, and Xdrive. Results of John's Disk Utility repair survey. (Joh...
40: The Compliance Shark
22 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up on Cisco VPNs on Mavericks and [photo backups] to SkyDrive on Windows Mobile Phone Series Metro Not-Metro Phone Windows. Why enterprise sof...
39: Desperation Mode
15 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices. The confusing Photo Stream limits, and all of these links in the show notes. Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-...
38: Auto-Update My Parents
08 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop, Glide) Everpix's failure and impending shutdown: The Verge's profile of the...
37: A 3,000-Word Digression
01 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one. iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode. Little tidbits and windows into the life o...
36: A Weird One
24 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up! Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the...
35: Sea-Level Executives
18 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date. Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis...
34: Made The Dot Smaller
10 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture. Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to...
33: A 30-Minute Skip Button
04 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this). Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the...
32: It Doesn’t Bother Me
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S. Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations. How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) stil...
31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold
19 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Casey goes to an Apple Store. FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem. The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be...
30: Full Frontal Thumb
13 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice. AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video. Economics...
29: Computerized Garden Gnome
06 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John's Mavericks review progress. iPhone event predictions. Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock. iPhone 5S colors....
28: The Pit Of Irrelevance
30 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right! The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault? Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer. Microsoft...
27: Overflow Gallery In The Bathroom
23 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Querying Florida. Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded t...
26: Three Phones Ago
15 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Instapaper's web redesign beta. Rewriting a codebase from scratch. Understandable code and writing for maintainability. The balance between easy-to-w...
25: Thrustmaster Joystick
09 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks. Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful t...
24: Double Meta
01 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB, SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus...
23: The X Or The X
25 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine. iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme. Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this b...
22: Full Brichter
18 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions. Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time. Bugsh...
21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness
12 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
iWatch follow-up. Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch. Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch. iWatch as a means of identity. How ...
20: A Box and a Strap
05 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch". Technological Conservatism. Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery....
19: Designed by App in Cal
27 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John's review progress and show-duration predictors. The WWDC 2013 intro video. (Siri's WWDC 2012 intro) Apple's "Making a Difference, One App at a T...
18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum
20 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Casey's fans at WWDC. Mac Pro followup. (John's halo-car post) The Xbox 180. Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iO...
17: Can’t Innovate Anymore
11 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Special early WWDC episode this week: Reactions to the keynote. New Mac Pro Initial iOS 7 design impressions. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Easy, unl...
16: John, We Don’t Play Games
07 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Opening theme by Larry King (@laking). The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon/TwUI. The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrap...
15: Cat, Modifier Cat
31 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Why Marco sold The Magazine. Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass. Tim Cook at AllThingsD. Cook's presence and speaking style...
14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars
24 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree. Transcendental Money. Square Cash. B2W 120 on financial "safety nets". Tumblr, Yahoo, and ...
13: Animated Kale
17 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Tha...
12: Accidental Server Hardware
10 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
FU on Apple's tick-tock pattern. Marco's PHP framework and sponsor-tracking web app, and why both exist. Usability and security implications of passw...
11: A Particularly Exuberant Adolescence
03 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The WWDC ticket lottery and potential solutions, or a merit system. Why Marco sold Instapaper. (See also.) Prospects for replacing Instapaper's incom...
10: Gradual Ramp Up To Nothing
26 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Laptops in school. Getting a tech job with and without a college degree. Running mail servers in today's spam environment. Steve Jobs' unauthorized t...
9: Fish Bicycle Scenario
19 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Why are PC sales down? Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past. Forgoing or neglecting PCs today. PCs in businesses. Apple and IT departm...
8: Hold Me!
12 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck. Who Facebook Home is for and why Facebook made it. Whether Facebook, Amazo...
7: The Forecast For iCloud
29 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. (Marco, WSJ) The quality of speech recognition. Challenges of big tech compan...
6: Live Like Other People
22 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does). Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI screens. The amazing Mac lineup that few care about. Wh...
5: Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt
15 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The upcoming Google Reader shutdown. The market for RSS today, and the way forward. Client-side vs. server-side feed crawling. Addressing excessive d...
4: The Bridges
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The role of the Mac Pro today. How Apple might manage the launch of a bigger iPhone. App design and auto-layout if the iPhone moves to multiple sizes...
3: Conditions Led To Freecell
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Nifty MiniDrive The challenges of small-camera design Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business revival Apple in the gaming market and the evolution of...
2: The 7th Guest
28 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the ...
1: iPhone Plus
07 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.