Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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703 episodes
Updated July 27

Episodes703

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May 2, 2014 · 1 hr 51 min
63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
ATP T-shirts (hurry!), average gamer age and game genres falling out of favor, Facebook App Links, and Apple's 30% commission vs. Amazon and customers.
Apr 24, 2014 · 2 hr 13 min
62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Developers learning new things, using OS X betas, Thunderbolt 3, what's holding the iPad back, whether tablets will be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops, and the Sega CD.
Apr 18, 2014 · 1 hr 54 min
61: Perfectly Neutral
Vinyl sound, Apple/Samsung trial documents, Greg Christie's departure, pCell, performance vs. scaling, and why Marco never uses JOINs.
Apr 11, 2014 · 2 hr 23 min
60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
WWDC tickets, Heartbleed, Dropbox Carousel, and a spirited after-show about the causes of app crashes and Casey's phonographic tea ceremony.
Apr 4, 2014 · 1 hr 40 min
59: The Little Puck That Could
Amazon Fire TV and the rest of the puck landscape, tech giants' anti-poaching agreements, and WWDC ticketing (sort of).
Mar 28, 2014 · 2 hr
58: Always On Vacation In California
How and when to discuss sexism in technology, Facebook buying Oculus and having visions, and the Hack extension to PHP.
Mar 21, 2014 · 1 hr 34 min
57: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
Flexible phones, interviews and books by hacks, VR headsets, and sexism.
Mar 14, 2014 · 2 hr 5 min
56: The Woodpecker
Software complexity, comp-sci usefulness, Marco's Mac Pro, John's AV receiver, and home-theater speaker philosophies.
Mar 6, 2014 · 2 hr 10 min
55: Dave, Who Stinks!
Software methodologies. (Finally.)
Feb 28, 2014 · 1 hr 52 min
54: goto fail;
Wolfram Language, Apple's SSL bug and the NSA, warnings as exceptions in production, and that Scriptnotes episode.
Feb 21, 2014 · 2 hr 5 min
53: There’s Gonna Be Some Flapping
Flappy Bird hamburgers, things John likes, WhatsApp, and replacing Objective C (Copland 2010).
Feb 14, 2014 · 1 hr 47 min
52: Necessary But Not Sufficient
Gesture explanations, usability ceilings, Flappy Bird, Comcast, and beacon.plumbing.
Feb 7, 2014 · 1 hr 56 min
51: Maybe We’re Just Dinosaurs
Microsoft's new CEO should relaunch the giant Surface table with an exclusive new app named Paper.
Jan 31, 2014 · 1 hr 54 min
50: Disk Light Observer Effect
Making iOS more powerful, ARM Macs, the Mac's 30th anniversary, debating iStat Menus, and the Motorola debacle.
Jan 24, 2014 · 2 hr 6 min
49: Roamio and Siracusiet
iOS storage management, dark times for TiVo and Nintendo, net neutrality, and "pro" iPads.
Jan 17, 2014 · 1 hr 29 min
48: Marco Bought Four
Implications of Google buying Nest, balancing skepticism with pragmatism, modern expectations of privacy, and Casey's vast emoji archive.
Jan 10, 2014 · 1 hr 47 min
47: Better Pixels
"Needing" the Mac Pro, 4K's chances in the market, Steam Boxes as gaming PC replacements, and a LAN-gaming retrospective.
Jan 3, 2014 · 2 hr 2 min
46: A Compromised Machine
Reviewing Apple's 2013 releases, yet more Mac Pro discussion, and the iMac as an alternative.
Dec 26, 2013 · 1 hr 38 min
45: Give Up On The Retina Dream
Marco talks himself into a Mac Pro, John talks himself out of one, and Casey fumes quietly.
Dec 18, 2013 · 1 hr 51 min
44: A Plague With Very Minor Effects
Do you want to give us 5 stars, keep your criticism to yourself, or be asked again every week?