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by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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Pre-show: We are not dangerously capable We convince ourselves not to pivot to video Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2 FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈 Follow-up: It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul) Indexing for the new Spotlight Passwords app does the hard thing macOS 27 “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1 Microsoft Bob You can use TouchID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith) sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding Corner radius ∆s, illustrated Mickey hands are back They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition General Golden Gate icon changes Touch Macs are coming Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS ST-S notices NSToolbar changes You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window HIG updates for menu icons iOS 27 SiriAI pull down animation iPadOS 27 ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.) Hardware compatibility watchOS Hardware compatibility Apple’s AI Tech Talk Images Quotes Dan Moren vanity searches An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri” Stephen Robles’ SiriAI review (timestamp link to 5m47s) 3Blue1Brown transformers video Apple’s announcement for third-gen models Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory <a href="https:
WWDC 2026 Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube) Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight Word wall Rob Rhyne’s toot Weird holes Change Detection .well-known Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon Music Video Craig’s toot Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel] TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince) Sam Henri Gold Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape White foldable phone More details Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel] Case leaks Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Pre-show: 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL) Tailscale Funnel DynDns.org no-ip.org Follow-up: Ferrari Luce John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG) John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy Bambu’s battle with its users They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins) Jose agrees Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith) Moving files between volumes Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio) Previously on ATP WWDC 2026 All systems glow Wallpaper Gurman prediction More at MacRumors macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!] Hardware that has been delayed by Siri macOS 27 name What are we dreading? What we’re most excited for? What will we miss? Post-show: Casey wants some advice Callsheet Channels OAuth VLAN Jellyfin Infuse SenPlayer (App Store link) Tailscale Service Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark Previously, the DGX Spark This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s) They’re the same… but not Surface Laptop Ultra Ars Technica Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, me
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave) SVC can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor) SVG can do THAT‽ Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko) How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same? Defrag lives on …in APFS diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable [disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list MJ Tsai AI Sentiment AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan) Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson) Large Energy User Action Plan Perspectives on art Original Monet The Ferrari Luce Previously on ATP Purosangue Jaguar I-Pace BMW i3 BMW i8 GMA T.33 Porsche Taycan Galleries The Verge Car and Driver Exterior Interior Coverage The Verge Top Gear Cleo Abram MKBHD (stationary tour) ba-dum tss John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Saturday Night Live Affordance Post-show: RIP Destiny 2 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-development
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 <a href="https:/
Pre-show: Project Hail Mary Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride Setlist Bandcamp Luke Bloom — Bad D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart Apocalyptica Vitamin String Quartet Johnny Cash — Hurt Follow-up: CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey) Bloomberg “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones) Ultra/Neo/etc Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi) Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J) What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić) Time Machine …with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway) Asimov …with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira) …period (via David Fokkema) lsof Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link) Ask ATP: How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard) Yoink MD5 Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper) Prompt 3 Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper) LSP Intelephense Post-show: .nofollow Apple developer forum post Symlink .nosync, .noindex, .nobackup Hopper MJ Tsai Apple open-source Swift SE-0529: Add FilePath to the Standard Library Safe Path Handling: Why Secure Filesystem Operations Are Harder Than You Think Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps Ben Dansby </l
Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧 Follow-up: Backblaze & cloud backups Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein) Support document Maestral Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz) Neo-ing… other things Mythos What makes this different (via William Moran) GPT-5.5 is equivalent? cURL security/bug reports Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI AI is still ruining everything See also: MacBook Neo More from Tim Culpan An examination of Apple’s CapEx Apple’s R&D spending hits new record SG&A MG Siegler’s take Project Titan died in Febraury 2024 Ultra all the things iPhone Ultra MacBook Ultra AirPods Ultra iPad Ultra Apple Watch Ultra 4 Mac Ultra iMac Ultra Ask ATP: What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy) Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter Ashokan Rail Trail Saunter Map App Pedometer++ Suunto Race S Titanium Barkley Marathons Documentary trailer Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software Jason’s take Foster Brereton somebehemoth Neywiny Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Pre-show: Mythos Anthropic’s blog post Follow-up: ATP Store Yes, it happened again. The ATP Neo Silver made it! UPenn is an Ivy Kieran Healy’s story Marina Epelman’s thought US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools Gurman’s transition coverage Tim Cook’s remarks to employees Comparison between Cook & Ternus The Ability to be Hotter New material proves to be more heat conductive Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878 Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877 Response on Reddit Reparse point Additional response on Reddit Backblaze blog post MJ Tsai roundup Alternatives: Arq Parachute for iCloud Ask ATP: What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe) ATP Neutral: Car Shopping 2014 Honda Accord Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason) How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz) Bug report Gruber’s take Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0 Underscore’s blog post Stephen’s blog post Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things? MaxTech’s musing Sponsored by: Aura Frames: Frames for every memory, gifts for every occasion DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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