New member special! 🍿 ATP Movie Club: Her (2013) 🍿 atp.fm/atp-movie-cl... What could possibly be relevant about this 13-year-old movie in today's world? 🤔 Join now to listen! atp.fm/join

I tried to introduce my son, Alex, to programming when he was young. He wasn’t interested. But he eventually found his way to it on his own. By the time Alex graduated high school, he had put his first iOS app into the App Store. (cont.)

The younger folks at work don't even understand what I'm saying when I say I listen to music ON my phone. "Yeah, but like, what service?" "No, the music is ON my phone." "Like... a ringtone?" "..."

Nice shot of one of the best parts of my job.

691: A Menlo Phase atp.fm/691 Apple's chip-fab options, branding the 20th-anniversary iPhone, Terminal and Xcode preferences, and some very special filenames.

in 2016 I made a comic titled “Mr. Gotcha” that would become most viewed and circulated image I’d create. Now it is the subject of a book by @glennf.com examining its history in online discourse. That One Matt Bors comic is live on Kickstarter—back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Today @benricem.bsky.social and I are launching Indigo, a full-featured client for Bluesky and Mastodon. Ben's in charge of marketing, but I wrote my own thing to commemorate the launch. Enjoy!

Introducing Indigo A beautiful new app for Bluesky and Mastodon and the best way to experience both social networks together. It's tough keeping up with everyone when they're split across networks but Indigo brings them together for a seamless social experience. apps.apple.com/us/app/indigo-...

286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride relay.fm/rd/286

690: Turn Left at the Next Tree atp.fm/690 How could Apple make Neo and Ultra versions of more of their products?

I just watched The Devil Wears Prada for the first time. Here’s my take: * Andy did nothing wrong. * Andy’s friends were terrible and unsupportive. * Andy should have met the magazine editor. * Andy should not have taken her boyfriend back. * This movie undersells how awful these industries are.

Found some prescience in a manual from the 1950s.

689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm atp.fm/689 Mythos, the different personalities of Tim Cook and John Ternus, the complexity of backing up files from cloud-storage providers on macOS, and the long-term future of the Mac.

I’m going to take the bold, brave stance that TRUTH/LIES [6/6] is too hard when playing solo. Is it *possible* solo? Yes. I’ve *almost* done it myself, many times! I’ve been within 40 seconds of doing it! I can see that it’s possible. But it is not calibrated well. /cc @marathonthegame.bungie.net

i collected a bunch of explosions for specific reference so I made a little video of them some cool movie explosions youtu.be/qwl9azNeup4?...

IT’S OVER, ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND

Our @atp.fm WWDC 2026 sale ends TOMORROW! If you plan to buy something, don’t wait any longer. See this earlier thread for some highlights from this year’s offerings: bsky.app/profile/sira... atp.fm/store

There’s almost nothing you can do in the United States, short of being filmed saying the N-word (and maybe not even that), to be racist enough for the US press to call you a racist.

285: The Regular Amount of Hopelessness relay.fm/rd/285

688: A Company Man atp.fm/688 John Ternus was announced as Apple’s next CEO! We review the strengths and weaknesses of the Tim Cook era as he transitions to Executive Chairman.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

687: You Can Bend This Line atp.fm/687 Ads in Apple Maps, copyright of AI output, and a short supply of flawed chips.

With 150GW solar, India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/i...

Sandwiches at ballparks! Sandwiches at Wendy’s! Several items unrelated to sandwiches. This week’s free newsletter has it all: get-your-phil-newsletter-ccdfef.beehiiv.com/p/get-your-p...

💸🚨 New member special! 🚨💸 ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom atp.fm/atp-dev-nugg... Lessons of various sizes that we’ve learned as software developers. Join now to listen! atp.fm/join

"Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this"

Our @atp.fm WWDC 2026 sale includes shirts that attempt to match the colors of the MacBook Neo, right down to the subtly tinted logo that’s meant to match the keyboard colors. (Yes, the Silver is clearly too dark. We were limited by available shirt colors, but we did our best.) atp.fm/store

284: Burger Boy relay.fm/rd/284

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

686: Write Two Letters atp.fm/686 @siracusa.social’s next Mac is going to be very expensive.

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Rob McGinley Myers and Britta Greene just released an episode of their podcast, Phonograph, about “The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time,” featuring me and some other folks I know. pod.link/1438655330/e... overcast.fm/+ABTumP7B7PY beforeithadatheme.libsyn.com/knob-feel-th...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

685: The Ability to Be Hotter atp.fm/685 Farewell, Mac Pro.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

📱 New member special! 📱 ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons atp.fm/atp-tier-lis... Ranking the app icons on our iPhone home screens, including built-in Apple apps, third-party apps, and — somewhat awkwardly — even our own. Join now to listen! atp.fm/join

283: Famous in My Head relay.fm/rd/283

684: It’s Not What Young People Do atp.fm/684 WWDC 2026 hopes, the state of passkeys, more on podcast transcripts, and how businesses manage fleets of Macs.

Fellow runners know… #MarathonGame www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLJCq…

In the latest episode of @atp.fm atp.fm/683 @marcoarment.bsky.social shares his amazing story of how he, as a lone developer, created a transcripts feature for @overcastapp.bsky.social to compete with Apple Podcasts. You do not want to miss this one. (starts at 54:46) overcast.fm/+BQnv4MC0jU/...

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug atp.fm/683 MacBook Neo hands-on, Studio Display XDR eyes-on, and how Overcast is transcribing podcasts at scale.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Here are 4,000 words on the DOGE bro depositions that the gov't got pulled down because the DOGE bros, who defined DEI as getting something "on the basis of something other than merit" and who used ChatGPT to ask "is this DEI?" are being criticized for being totally incompetent dipshits.

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

oh no the guy who ruined people's lives is being made fun of online

282: Sadness Accrues relay.fm/rd/282