"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
John Siracusa
@siracusa.social
Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not. https://hypercritical.co
"Millennium Actress" by Satoshi Kon is available for free on YouTube (in North America only). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqg...
702: Isolate the Evil atp.fm/702 Safari 27 and web standards, Apple Maps coming to cars (?), and our very different philosophies on packing for a family road trip.
Accidental Tech Podcast: 702: Isolate the Evil
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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I'm just back from a trip to Germany to visit one of my closest friends, Daniel, who's been held in solitary confinement 23h a day for the past ten months in a 2 × 5m cell. They get one hour of visitation per month.
701: I Improved My Town atp.fm/701 3D-printing for fun and utility, a defense of squircle-icon jail, how AirPlay was finally fixed in Overcast, and cutting-edge modern technology such as audio CDs, FileMaker, and the Mac Pro.
Accidental Tech Podcast: 701: I Improved My Town
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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At least this one believes in a future for physical discs.
Ramin Nasibov@nasibov.me · 2w agowait a minute
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
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Accidental Tech Podcast: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
700 (🎉): A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies atp.fm/700 Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, the state of the 27 OSes heading into the public betas, what FileMaker was (or is?), and looking for a new home for Maestral.
Accidental Tech Podcast: 700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
Apple’s new Developer Search LLM (https://developer.apple.com/search) refuses to answer general knowledge questions unless you phrase them in the form of a programming question. 😂
the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims
This is one of my favorite Robot or Not episodes in a long time. We're not mad, Tennis Robot, we're just disappointed! 🎾
Tennis Robot (Derogatory) (Robot or Not? 354)
Just in time for Wimbledon, Listener Muhammad provides a “tennis robot” for us to judge. We issue a judgment, but we’re not particularly happy about it.
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699: Not the Correct Squircle atp.fm/699 Someone got us started on app icons again.
Accidental Tech Podcast: 699: Not the Correct Squircle
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Turned in copy edits on my latest book this week so I should probably remind people I have a book coming out later this year. It’s called ETERNITY’S TOMB and it answers the question we’ve all asked ourselves: what if we were robbing a space tomb heading for a black hole?! dmoren.com/writing/eter...
698: And Do What? atp.fm/698 Siri AI impressions, M6 and M7 rumors, Apple’s role in the supply chain, languages for LLMs, and price hikes for everyone!
Accidental Tech Podcast: 698: And Do What?
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
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Accidental Tech Podcast: ATP Dev: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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June marks the Iconfactory's 30th year in business. To help celebrate the occasion we're kicking things off with a sale of some of our most popular apps, plus other surprises. 🤓🎉 Thanks to all our fans, clients and supporters, we wouldn't be here without you. blog.iconfactory.com/2026/06/the-...
The Iconfactory Turns 30 – How Time Flies! • The Breakroom
Thirty years ago this month, three friends working at a small multimedia company in Greensboro, NC, decided to post a few fun sets of Mac desktop icons on an AOL webpage. Little did we know what we we...
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697: The Chart Is Terrifying atp.fm/697 Apple altered their prices. Pray they don’t alter them any further.
Accidental Tech Podcast: 697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.Ed Norton & Brad Pitt
Amen! weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/f... Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile.
Free The Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)