686: Write Two Letters

• Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 (youtu.be/H3KnMyojEQU?t=1936) in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal

• UniFi Travel Router (techspecs.ui.com/unifi/wifi/utr)

• Cascades trail (gohikevirginia.com/cascades-falls)

• Shenandoah National Park (nps.gov/shen/index.htm)

• 🗣️ ATP STORE (atp.fm/store) IS LIVE! 🗣️

• Follow-up:

• Studio Display XDR (apple.com/us-edu/shop/buy-mac/studio-display-xdr) price drop‽ 😱

• Stephen Robles

• mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/116329937693355…

• mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/116343236836850…

• Casey’s snarky toot (mastodon.social/@caseyliss/116165680073219782)

• Tangentially related: John’s Google One (one.google.com) price drop

• John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)

• How much hotter can a Mac get?

• Mac Studio power consumption (support.apple.com/en-us/102027)

• Mac Pro power consumption (support.apple.com/en-us/102839)

• Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)

• Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions (macrumors.com/2026/03/30/apple-subsidiary-fine…)

• RetinaDisplays.com (retinadisplays.com)

• CIE 1931 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space) & Apple’s 2026 CMFs

• They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis (ericportis.com/posts/2024/okay-color-spaces))

• The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski (ciechanow.ski/color-spaces)

• Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch)

• CIE updates from 2015 (files.cie.co.at/LpR%2060%20CIE%20RESEARCH%20Sp…)

• On Apple’s CMF (portrait.com/resource-center/using-apple-color…)

• Long Island and “mainland”

• United States v. Maine (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Maine) (via Craig Bowers (mstdn.ca/@CraigB/116337909198367595))

• The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time (phonographpodcast.com/phonograph/2026/3/31/kno…)

• Overcast link (overcast.fm/+ABTumP7B7PY)

• Every other podcast app (pod.link/1438655330/episode/ZDVhMmY3YzEtNmJjOS…)

• Casey’s write-up (caseyliss.com/2026/4/3/a-history-lesson)

• Marco’s letter to John Ternus (marco.org/2026/04/01/letter-to-john-ternus)

• A Tale of Two Letters (washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/01/15…)

• Ask ATP:

• How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble (hachyderm.io/@johnnydecimal/116349914767070595))

• Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update

• Suunto Race S Titanium (us.suunto.com/products/suunto-race-s-titanium-…) (Amazon (amazon.com/dp/B0DDSYW4MZ/?tag=marcoorg-20))

• Garmin Venu 4 (garmin.com/en-US/p/1613801)

• Garmin Forerunner 970 (garmin.com/en-US/p/1462801)

• Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED (garmin.com/en-US/p/1723221)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak (arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/entire-claude-code-…) & how Claude “actually works”

• Regex to detect user anger (github.com/chatgptprojects/clear-code/blob/642…)

• “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan (mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116330105563818936))

• Future plans (arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/heres-what-that-cla…)

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