Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
A Company Man
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- GL.iNet KVM security issues?
- MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
- Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
- More component delays
- It’s Ternus time
- Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
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You Can Bend This Line
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
- Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
- See also:
- Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- AI-generated code & copyright
- Ask ATP:
- Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
- Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
- Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
- What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
- Bandwidth comparisons
- Thunderbolt 5
- 80 Gbit/s symmetric
- 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
- SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
- 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
- 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
- PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
- 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
- 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
- …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
- 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
- Thunderbolt 5
- Internal vs. external SSD
- 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
- OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
- OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
- PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
- Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
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Write Two Letters
- Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- Stephen Robles
- Casey’s snarky toot
- Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
- John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
- How much hotter can a Mac get?
- Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
- Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
- RetinaDisplays.com
- CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
- They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
- The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
- CIE updates from 2015
- On Apple’s CMF
- Long Island and “mainland”
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
- Marco’s letter to John Ternus
- Ask ATP:
- How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
- Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
- Regex to detect user anger
- “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
- Future plans
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The Ability to Be Hotter
- Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
- MacBook Neo
- Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
- New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
- Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
- MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
- “NFW”, says Henry
- “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
- Ubiquiti
- What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
- “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
- Some shadiness from January
- 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
- Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
- Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
- 10 February: Delayed to 2027
- 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
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It’s Not What Young People Do
- Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
- What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
- What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
- Monitoring & control interface
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
- Mac fleet management advice
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- WWDC 2026 Announced
- Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
- Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
- Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS
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