Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
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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Prove It With Cameras
- Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
- CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
- CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
iperf3
- Follow-up:
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
- Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
- John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
- To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
- John’s toaster update
- AirPods & AppleCare+
- Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
- Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
- Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
- Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
- Press release
- ChangeDetection.io
- Stratechery (paywalled)
- Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
- John’s hat that he likes
- John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
- 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
- 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
- Australian sunscreen video
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?
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Part of the Movement
- Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
- 🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
- Follow-up:
- Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
- SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
- Standard SFSymbol:
xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder - Private SFSymbol:
xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder - Random string:
xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder - FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
- Standard SFSymbol:
- Toolbars
- Safari
- Beta 1 image
- Beta 3 image
- The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
- Terminal
- iOS 26 Beta 3
- Safari
- YouTube’s new player UI
- “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
- HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
- ✌️ out, Jeff Williams
- Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
- Post-show: John & Casey review F1
- Plumber Problem
- Guenther Steiner
- Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
- Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
- Casey’s pinball machine
- Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
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