AppleCare One, the OS 26 public betas, and tensions between art and usability in interface design.

• Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
• Follow-up:
  • D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
  • Casey’s struggles with iperf3
    • Tutorial
    • iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
  • John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
  • Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
    • Research paper
  • Apple security for unreleased devices
  • Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
    • Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
  • Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
    • Apple support app → Chat
    • Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
  • CloudFlare & AI crawlers
    • Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
    • Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
    • Thoughts from Anonymous
      • JA3/JA4 fingerprint
  • The 𝓍26 public betas are out
    • Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
  • Tahoe beta 4
    • Contrast will decrease until morale improves
      • Startup disk selection (cropped)
      • Startup disk selection (full)
    • News summaries are back, baby! 😬
• Apple and interfaces
  • Tog in Interface (1992)
    • Amazon
    • NNG
  • Tog on Software Design (1995)
    • Amazon
    • NNG
  • Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
• AppleCare One
  • Dan Moren’s take
  • The Verge
  • Fees & deductibles
  • FAQ (scroll way down)
• Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project
  • Marcin’s announcement
  • Mihai’s associated announcement
  • Embed Infinite Mac
  • Infinite Mac Construction Set

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Our broken and drowned electronics, Apple's lawsuit against Prosser, Cloudflare's power exercise, and Marco's solution to sunscreen.

• Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
  • CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
  • CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
  • iperf3
• Follow-up:
  • F1 (the sport, not the movie)
    • Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
      • F1 TV
      • Vroom
    • John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
      • To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
  • John’s toaster update
  • AirPods & AppleCare+
    • Keratoconus
    • Water resistance
      • IP54
    • AirPods Express Replacement Service
    • B&H
  • Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
    • defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
  • Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
    • mandonam
• Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
  • 99% Invisible #626: Emoji Law
  • Gruber’s theorized redactions
  • Gruber’s predictions
• Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
  • Press release
  • ChangeDetection.io
  • Stratechery (paywalled)
• Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
  • John’s hat that he likes
  • John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
  • 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
  • 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
  • Australian sunscreen video
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?
  • Kuycon G32P 6K 32” IPS monitor
    • Video review by Oliur / UltraLinx
  • ASUS 32” 6K ProArt display
    • Previously on ATP overtime
    • D. Griffin Jones’ review of the 5K
  • Studio Display Mark II coming in early 2026?

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Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.

• Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
• 🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
• Follow-up:
  • Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
  • SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
    • Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
    • Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
    • Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
    • FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
  • Toolbars
    • Safari
      • Beta 1 image
      • Beta 3 image
      • The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
    • Terminal
      • Beta 1 image
      • Beta 3 image
    • iOS 26 Beta 3
      • Direct video link
      • _David Smith’s beta 2 (?) video
      • Stephen Hackett’s beta 3 video
      • Matt Birchler: Liquid glass, now with frosted tips
      • Steve Troughton-Smith pours water on the fire
  • YouTube’s new player UI
  • “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
  • HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
    • Demo project
• ✌️ out, Jeff Williams
  • Gruber
  • Gurman
• Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
  • Casey in Dongletown
• Post-show: John & Casey review F1
  • Plumber Problem
  • Guenther Steiner
  • Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
  • Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
  • Casey’s pinball machine
• Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
  • John Giannandrea

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Ranking the entire set of pizza toppings available in central Long Island in the 1900s.

Job advice for CS graduates, whether external drives should be USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire, and a draft of how we'd make the worst MacBook.

• Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
  • Reconcilable Differences
• Follow-up:
  • FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
  • Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
    • Developer downloads
    • ↳ Direct link
  • Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
  • UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
  • Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
    • Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
    • Rebuttal
    • Rebuttal of the rebuttal
    • More from Gary Marcus
    • The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
  • HDR in 𝑥26
  • iPadOS 26 window limits
  • “Glass iPhone” demo
    • ↳ Direct video link
  • That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
• Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
  • Apple A18
  • References spotted in code
  • Jason on A18 speed
  • Stephen on the technical limitations
• Ask ATP:
  • Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
    • CalDigit TS5+
  • What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
    • Atto Xtend SAN
  • How does a new grad land a job?
• Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
  • YouTube Premium Lite
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU
  • Jason’s coverage
    • Store Services tiers in the EU
  • Gruber’s summary
  • Cranky man remains cranky
  • Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
  • The Verge

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