🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
Wikipedia
Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
Paperlike
Rock Paper Pencil
Steam Machine
EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidShaub)
PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
Wikipedia
PS Dev Wiki
Steam Frame
Lenses (via Michael)
Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
Top strap image
Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
Guide on Reddit
SteamOS
Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
Bazzite
CachyOS
Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
Steam strategy
Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
Additional thoughts from Ava
Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
“High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
John mourns the recent news
GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
GeekBench Metal scores
Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
Financial Times, 14 November 2025
Gruber’s take
Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
Rage-baiting
Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
Dan Moren @ Six Colors
MJ Tsai
Apple shipped its source maps
Svelte
See also: Apple Maps on the web
Announcement
See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
Juli Clover @ MacRumors
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665: My Basement Is Beautiful
Follow-up:
John has some new Vision Pro treats
Flight Ready
In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
ATP Tier List: Storage Media
Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
Subscriber audio chapters are a mess
New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
Mark Gurman’s coverage
MD101
Tahoe & Electron app fixes
Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
macOS Emoji Picker
⌃ ⌘ Space
Rocket
Pogo-stick robot
Boston Dynamics
A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
iPhone Pocket
Paul’s analogy
Gruber’s post
iPod Socks
On eBay
New Steam Hardware
Initial coverage
Image of the new devices
Announcement video
Digital Foundry’s coverage
Dave2D’s coverage
Steam Controller
TMR not Hall Effect
Understanding the difference
Steam Machine
Images on The Verge
Steam Frame
More photos
Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
Press release
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664: Humanity Gets in the Way
Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
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
John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
John’s un-fixed Electron apps
More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
MaxTech
Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
An aside about nanotexture displays
Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
Casey upgraded to Tahoe
Funky sidebar icon
/r/overcast
Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
Tinkercad
Bambu
Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
Toybox
Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
QWOP
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663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory
Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors
Flighty
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
Vision Pro
Mac Virtual Display
On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng)
Apple Support
Tapping-and-holding × allows for hiding other windows (via Nick Anthony)
Vision Pro vs. ski goggles
Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers
Would it come to the MacBook Air (via Andy Lang)
Coming to the iPad Pro?
Apple’s MLS deal
…is worldwide; not US-only
Apple advertises in Korea (via Jake Lee)
John’s Shortcuts bug
Calum’s example
Fleedar’s example
lukens77 on Reddit (via eurozerozero)
Is it all Shortcuts-related files?
Possible fix from gleeful
Overwrite If File Exists
Fixing the “iconic plateau” (via Gordon Mcdowell)
The Cheesecake Factory does, apparently, make everything fresh
ATP Inside: The Restaurant, Season One
Cube Rule
Mac Rumors
M6/OLED MacBook Pro?
Previously from Mark Gurman
Brendan Shanks’ discovery
𝓍OS 26 β4 includes Liquid Glass toggle
iOS/iPadOS: Settings → Display and Brightness
macOS: System Settings → Appearance
Example image
Lock Screen swipe for camera can now be disabled, too
Settings → Camera → Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera
Is Tahoe safe yet?
The Electron bug
Fixes are rolling out
Detector app by Tomas Kafka, via Craig Hockenberry
Status of popular apps
Post-show: More of John’s impressions of the Vision Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: How does one actually make an app? (via not that coach mike)
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662: Just Break the Law
Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
An aside about outerwear
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
T568A & T568B
Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
Recognition corner
Casey begs for help
Callsheet List bug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉
However, Menu(::primaryAction:) is broken (FB20755661)
Some M5 Vision Pro clarifications
The M5 does have Memory Integrity Enforcement
The M5 MacBook pro without a charger is actually cheaper in most regions
EU is €100 cheaper without / €35 with (via Nick Heer)
UK is the same though
The non-determinism of LLMs (via Heiko Hotz)
New chat
Mira Murati’s company piece discussing non-determinism
The M5 Vision Pro
Dual Knit Band
HDCP
Television
Theater
New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
MacRumors coverage
Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
AVIF
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Previous offerings
Apple’s bespoke F1 camera
Wired’s coverage
Apple’s F1-themed WWDC intro
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