Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Athletically Engaged
- Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
- Follow-up:
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
- Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
- 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
- Help with Trackpad dragging
System Settings→Accessibility→Pointer Control→Trackpad Options…→Dragging Style→Three Finger Drag- …or
Drag Lock
- Masimo comes for [more] blood
- UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
- Studio Display with A19
- Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
- Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
- Apple’s Hide my Email feature
- An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
- Anecdote from David Beck
- Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
- Interactive logo
- Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
- “TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
- Maijin Bu on TechWoven
- …and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
- Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
- Ask ATP:
- What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
- Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
- How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
- Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
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Warning Stories
- Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
- Follow-up:
- Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
- ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
- Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
- John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
- 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
- Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
- 😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
- A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
- Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()- FB13375033
- Ask ATP:
- Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
- How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
- Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs
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You Have 24 Hours to Comply
- Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
- Follow-up:
- Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻♂️
- John cycled his mouse again
- AppleCare One
- Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
- Tina’s iPhone
- Tina’s Mac Studio
- Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves
- iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes
- Smart TV interfaces over time
- Running your own mail server
- How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)
- Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)
- Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)
- Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland)
- Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)
- Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer)
- 2024: State of post-quantum internet
- 2025: Update
- John wages war against icons
- Adopting Liquid Glass: App Icons
- WWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon Composer
- John’s Mastodon thread
- Václav Slavík’s solution
- FB19437407
- FB19497128
- FB17892659
- There’s likely to be a lot more of this
- Ask ATP:
- Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)
- How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson)
- How does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)
- Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”
- Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms
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Your Judgement About Pockets
- Pre-Show:
- Brief vacation results
- Tim Cook kisses the… ring
- Follow-up:
- HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
- TV shootout results
- AppleCare One
- iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
- iCare Calculator web app
- John’s experience
- B&H
- Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
- Retro computing corner
- More on Tahoe
- Gus Mueller
- Beta 5 improves selection legibility
- Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
- Art & science of UI design
- Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
- iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
- Apple’s “Answers” team
- Ask ATP:
- How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
- Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
- How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
- Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
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Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded
- Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
- Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with
iperf3- Tutorial
iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and
E01(via J-P Teti & John F.) - Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
- Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
- Apple support app → Chat
- Any retail store on Apple Maps →
...→Message
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
- Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
- Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
- Thoughts from Anonymous
- The 𝓍26 public betas are out
- Tahoe beta 4
- Contrast will decrease until morale improves
- News summaries are back, baby! 😬
- Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
- AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
- Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project
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