689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm

• 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?

  • MaxTech’s musing

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