Episode 684

684: It’s Not What Young People Do

WWDC 2026 hopes, the state of passkeys, more on podcast transcripts, and how businesses manage fleets of Macs.

March 26, 20261h 55m

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Show Notes

Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
  - Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
  - What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
  - What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
    - beanstalkd
    - Ansible
  - Monitoring & control interface
  - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
    - System X
    - RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2
    - I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac
    - Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard
    - Apple Insider
  - Mac fleet management advice
    - Apple Business
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
WWDC 2026 Announced
Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
  - XKCD
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
  - Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS