664: Humanity Gets in the Way

• Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro

• 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store (atp.fm/store) is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️

• T568A & T568B (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568#T568A_and_T…)

• Idea courtesy Adam Brandon (mastodon.social/@nottadamb/114516122207900986)

• Don’t Stop Believin’… (youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs)

• An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news (macrumors.com/2025/11/04/ios-26-2-podcasts-app…)

• Follow-up:

• The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/apple-unveils-game-…) (via Ben Mattison (mastodon.social/@benmattison/115473940783618636))

• More dashed Mac Pro dreams

• Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature

• Variants

• P = A_

• G = A_X / A_Z / M_

• S = M_ Pro

• C = M_ Max

• D = M_ Ultra

• X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra

• Examples

• A11 = H10P

• A12X = H11G

• A14 = H13P

• M1 = H13G

• M2 Pro = H14S

• GPUs use G instead of H

• More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:

• Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.h

• Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h

• Apple codenames (theapplewiki.com/wiki/Codenames)

• John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe (mastodon.social/@siracusa/115491845898322390)

• John’s un-fixed Electron apps (furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector)

• More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1 (macrumors.com/2025/11/04/more-spotlight-clipbo…)

• M5 MacBook Pro speed tests

• MaxTech (youtube.com/watch?v=Clwet4ckP2A)

• Casey has tried the new Developer Strap

• Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance (cdn.atp.fm/images/20251105-visionos-wonky-bala…)

• An aside about nanotexture displays

• Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay (amazon.com/dp/B0CV4JKV8D?tag=marcoorg-20)

• Casey upgraded to Tahoe

• Funky sidebar icon (cdn.atp.fm/images/20251105-wonky-sidebar-icon.…)

• reddit.com/r/overcast

• Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit (relay.fm/radar/330)

• Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief (reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1onboxu/m…)

• Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing

• Tinkercad (tinkercad.com)

• Bambu (bambulab.com)

• Eric Welander’s video (youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKUNyXv-cI&t=646s) about Gridfinity (gridfinity.xyz)

• Toybox (toybox.com)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot” (youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so)

• WSJ Article (wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-t…) (or On Apple News+ (apple.news/AMXA3-VUfSga7k_Lx-2RWRg))

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWOP

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