Accidental Tech Podcast — Podcast Ad Analysis
3 episodes analyzed
6 min ads · 6% of episode is ads
3.3 ads/episode
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
PodSkip has analyzed 3 episodes of Accidental Tech Podcast, averaging 3.3 ads per episode (6% of runtime).

713: I Have Medium Hopes
Oct 15, 2026
Apple’s New Home-Related Products
HomeView
Newsroom
iMac G4
Intro video
TV commercial
Schneider press release
Wired’s review
WWDC 2026: Rev Up Your CarPlay App
Developer agreement
“HomeView” &…
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712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized
Oct 08, 2026
Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo
Follow-up:
Casey’s MyBMW foibles
iMazing
Approov
BMW case study
Screen sharing
OBD-II
Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian)
GL.iNet Comet…
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711: Hot Dog on an Actuator
Oct 01, 2026
Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
John’s mouse pad (via Andy)
Rounded corners…
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710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling
Sep 24, 2026
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
The Marco Offset™
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Follow-up:
New treats
John
iPhone 18 Pro
John’s case
AirPods 5 with…
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709: Steel-Cable Insurance
Sep 17, 2026
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
Comparison video
Previously, in 2018
Making…
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708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
Sep 10, 2026
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
September 2026 event
MacRumors on the cellular chips
SynthID Standard
Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview
Surface Duo
PowerBook Duo
Rafa’s toot…
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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
Sep 03, 2026
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
Luz fooled me, Jerry!
Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
Mea culpa
Apple fooled us all
Siri blobs fix
System Settings → Screen…
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706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
Aug 27, 2026
Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows
Screen clips
Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
TPU for AMS
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the…
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705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
Aug 20, 2026
Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
Daikin
Home Assistant integration
Home Assistant Green
Follow-up:
The OpenAI doughnut
What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
Or perhaps red…
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704: Past the Ternus Horizon
Aug 13, 2026
Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
Lutron Caséta Fan Control
Fanimation
Technology Connections video
Follow-up:
Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
SQLite bug…
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703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast
Aug 06, 2026
Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”
Adam Wunn’s blog post
Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
Follow-up:
Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The…
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702: Isolate the Evil
Jul 27, 2026
Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
Follow-up:
Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
Video game preservation (via…
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701: I Improved My Town
Jul 23, 2026
Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
CyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault
The dead ATS
The proposed replacement
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
Follow-up:
Member’s Special video trimming /…
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700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
Jul 16, 2026
Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
catatp (see also Statistics)
Bootleg visualization
Follow-up:
Public beta check-in
Casey’s iMessage notification issue
Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
Apple…
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699: Not the Correct Squircle
Jul 06, 2026
Pre-show: Casey’s oops
Magic TrackPad
Magic Keyboard
Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Follow-up:
Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart…
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698: And Do What?
Jun 30, 2026
Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:
Nugs and Sonos
As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
Rumors about Siri AI…
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697: The Chart Is Terrifying
Jun 26, 2026
Pre-show:
Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
Marco’s trip report
Gucci Osteria
Follow-up:
John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of…
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696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
Jun 15, 2026
Pre-show:
We are not dangerously capable
We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X…
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695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
Jun 08, 2026
WWDC 2026
Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
Word wall
Rob Rhyne’s toot
Weird holes
Change Detection
.well-known
Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
Post-show…
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694: Potential and Homework
Jun 04, 2026
Pre-show:
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
John and dynamic DNS
Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
Tailscale…
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693: Negative Bonus Points
May 29, 2026
Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
Ubiquiti marketing video
Spanning Tree Protocol
Sonos & Networking Documentation
Follow-up:
Formula 1 on Apple TV
The case for alarm reminders (via…
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692: A Thinking Hitch
May 21, 2026
Pre-show:
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
Follow-up:
Cut/copy/paste in Finder
Terminal
John’s Terminal.app state…
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691: A Menlo Phase
May 14, 2026
Pre-show:
Project Hail Mary
Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride
Setlist
Bandcamp
Luke Bloom — Bad
D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart
Apocalyptica
Vitamin String…
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690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
May 08, 2026
Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
Follow-up:
Backblaze & cloud backups
Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
Support document
Maestral
Arq’s approach (via Daniel…
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689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
Apr 30, 2026
Pre-show: Mythos
Anthropic’s blog post
Follow-up:
ATP Store
Yes, it happened again.
The ATP Neo Silver made it!
UPenn is an Ivy
Kieran Healy’s story
Marina Epelman’s thought
US News &…
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688: A Company Man
Apr 21, 2026
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
GL.iNet KVM security issues?
Mark Wadham’s write-up
Dan Godin at Ars Technica
MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
Joe Lion waxes poetic…
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687: You Can Bend This Line
Apr 16, 2026
Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
Roon
Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
Follow-up:
Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
Garmin…
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686: Write Two Letters
Apr 09, 2026
Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
UniFi Travel Router
Cascades trail
Shenandoah National Park
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
Studio Display XDR price…
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685: The Ability to Be Hotter
Apr 01, 2026
Pre-show:
Happy independence day, John!
The Great Saunter
Pedometer++
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
More about the…
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684: It’s Not What Young People Do
Mar 26, 2026
Follow-up:
Overcast & Transcriptions
Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
Apple Podcasts transcript options
tag
MP3…
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