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692: A Thinking Hitch

Hosted byCasey LissJohn SiracusaMarco Arment

• 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](https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/ps_2024-9-15_ai-and-its-impact_00