Accidental Tech Podcast· Folge 692

692: A Thinking Hitch

Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2026 · 2 h 07

MP3

Shownotes

• Pre-show:

• 🗣️ New ATP Member (atp.fm/join)’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her (atp.fm/atp-movie-club-her)

• Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness (tv.apple.com/us/movie/real-madrid-the-weight-o…)

• Follow-up:

• Cut/copy/paste in Finder

• Terminal

• John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes

• tcsh (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcsh)

• John’s Terminal settings Window tab (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260515-johns-terminal-sett…)

• John’s Terminal settings Tab tab (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260515-johns-terminal-sett…)

• Escape sequence extended tooltip (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260515-johns-terminal-sett…)

• .cshrc (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260515-johns-terminal-cshr…)

• Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files

• Fancy shell prompts like Starship (starship.rs)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell

• Some other terminal resources

• The Linux Field Guide (lfg.popovicu.com/about) by Uros Popovic (via Derek (hachyderm.io/@deach/116588984623741402))

• The terminal, the TTY, and the shell (lfg.popovicu.com/series/the-shell-as-a-languag…)

• The Secret Rules of the Terminal (wizardzines.com/zines/terminal) by Julia Evans

• Wizard Zines (wizardzines.com)

• Ignoring node_modules and the like

• In Dropbox

• Dropbox documentation (help.dropbox.com/sync/how-to-prevent-files-fro…) (via Hunter Hillegas (copland.social/@hunter/116573251299476653))

• …or use xattrs

• Dropbox documentation on ignoring files (help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored-files#mac2)

• Automator example from Boz Bundalo (medium.com/@bozzified/dropbox-ignore-solving-i…)

• In Time Machine

• pnpm.io as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)

• Technical explanation (pnpm.io/motivation#saving-disk-space)

• Supply chain protection (socket.dev/blog/pnpm-11-adds-new-supply-chain-…)

• 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later (macrumors.com/2026/05/14/2027-curved-display-i…)? 🤨

• Reminders

• Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders (macrumors.com/how-to/set-alarm-style-iphone-re…)?

• Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard (techhub.social/@RobHoward/116141333040240207))

• Updates in 26.5 (9to5mac.com/2026/05/05/ios-26-5-makes-reminder…)

• Flexibits (flexibits.com)

• Why does everyone hate AI?

• Pew Research (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-america…)

• Concern vs. excitement (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/views-of-ai…)

• Ability to think & form meaningful relationships (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-america…)

• Ability to tell the ∆ between AI & human-generated content (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-america…)

• Retaining the ability to be self-sufficient (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/views-of-ai…)

• Risk vs. reward (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/americans-o…)

• Young adults are using it (pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-america…)

• The more young people use AI, the more they hate it (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401…)

• Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint

• University of Central Florida (404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed)

• University of Arizona (bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mm2ivguvq22x)

• Joanna Stern interviews a recent UCF journalism grad (thenewthings.com/p/why-this-college-grad-booed…)

• On YouTube (youtube.com/shorts/b3zdPERXkuM)

• Wearable AI friend (youtube.com/watch?v=VViY5rm-Y1Y)

• friend.com

• omi.me

• Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards (news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-d…)

• Stratechery (stratechery.com/2026/data-center-discontent-un…)

• Phantom data centers (powermag.com/phantom-data-centers-didnt-break-…)

• US nuclear power: 1970-2023 (Chart) (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260525-us-nuclear-power.pn…)

• Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57280)

• Angine de Poitrine on KEXP (youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so&t=531s&…)

• Post-show: Marco gets geeky

• Modern SwiftUI APIs for Programmatic Scrolling (nilcoalescing.com/blog/ModernSwiftUIAPIsForPro…)

• Native all the way… until you need text (justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-unt…)

• PaintCode (paintcodeapp.com)

• XKCD (xkcd.com/974)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Googlebook (blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/a…) & Aluminum OS

• Why does the Googlebook exist? (theverge.com/report/929374/google-googlebook-l…)

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