689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

From Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

April 30, 2026 · 1h 56m · Episode 689

About this episode

The episode discusses various technology topics including Apple's leadership, cloud storage updates, and engineering education.

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 & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools Gurman’s transition coverage Tim Cook’s remarks to employees Comparison between Cook & Ternus The Ability to be Hotter New material proves to be more heat conductive Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878 Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877 Response on Reddit Reparse point Additional response on Reddit Backblaze blog post MJ Tsai roundup Alternatives: Arq Parachute for iCloud Ask ATP: What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe) ATP Neutral: Car Shopping 2014 Honda Accord Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason ) How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz) Bug report Gruber’s take Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0 Underscore’s blog post Stephen’s blog post Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Topics covered

  • technology
  • Apple
  • cloud storage
  • engineering schools
  • enthusiasm
  • Mac
  • data privacy

Keywords

  • Apple
  • Backblaze
  • engineering schools
  • Tim Cook
  • cloud storage
  • technology
  • enthusiasm

Sponsors

Aura Frames, DeleteMe

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US News & World Report, Backblaze, Apple

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