Accidental Tech Podcast

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

Episodes

Total: 620

Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam WWDC How to make a lottery work, like Shmo

Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus. Amazon Fire TV — no fan! USB-IF's render

Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and

Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's S

56: The Woodpecker

2014/3/14

Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile mani

55: Dave, Who Stinks!

2014/3/6

Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production. Software methodologies.

54: goto fail;

2014/2/28

Wolfram Language. The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an

Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful. Kieran Healy's excellent article with science. John Gr

Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural in

The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story. More FU on iPads goin

50: Disk Light Observer Effect

2014/1/31

Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people". Can iOS add m

49: Roamio and Siracusiet

2014/1/24

Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups,

48: Marco Bought Four

2014/1/17

Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HD

47: Better Pixels

2014/1/10

Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store. Marco's Retina theory. PS4 and Xbone s

46: A Compromised Machine

2014/1/3

Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple

45: Give Up On The Retina Dream

2013/12/26

Explaining our podcast artwork. Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness. Dual-input

What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning) Potential for

43: Brilliance Enhancer

2013/12/13

Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.) Desktop 4K/Retina reso

42: The Ultimate Vanity Search

2013/12/6

FU on PrimeSense. Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why. Apple's possible difficulty

41: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

2013/11/29

David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits. Space Monkey, Transporter, Box, and Xdrive.