Accidental Tech PodcastMarco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaAll episodes

701: I Improved My Town

Hosted byCasey LissJohn SiracusaMarco Arment

• Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
• CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
• The dead ATS
• The proposed replacement
• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
• Follow-up:
• Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
• LosslessCut
• Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience
• Previously on ATP
• Version 85.01 announcement post
• FAQ post
• Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
• Sony 💔 💿
• A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
• CD sales are going up
• Price increase corner: Apple Music edition
• Chart by BasicAppleGuy
• AppleCare+ too
• FileMaker
• In defense…
• CVE
• Monday.com
• Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years
• Scratch
• And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻
• Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
• EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods
• Six additional categories
• The Monkey’s Paw
• OLED iMacs?
• Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)
• Bambu X2D
• TinkerCAD
• Onshape
• Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast
• WSOLA
• F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities
• Research paper
• Extended write-up
• Mechanistic interpretability
• Bobby Tables

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