Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show:

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 TouchID 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

SiriAI 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’ SiriAI 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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WWDC 2026

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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Pre-show:

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 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

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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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Pre-show: Marco has something to commend

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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Pre-show:

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her

Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness

Follow-up:

Cut/copy/paste in Finder

Terminal

John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes

tcsh

John’s Terminal settings Window tab

John’s Terminal settings Tab tab

Escape sequence extended tooltip

.cshrc

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

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Why does the Googlebook exist?

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