686: Write Two Letters

• Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
  • UniFi Travel Router
  • Cascades trail
  • Shenandoah National Park
• 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
• Follow-up:
  • Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
    • Stephen Robles
      • 1
      • 2
    • Casey’s snarky toot
    • Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
  • John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
  • How much hotter can a Mac get?
    • Mac Studio power consumption
    • Mac Pro power consumption
  • Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
  • Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
  • RetinaDisplays.com
  • CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
    • They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
    • The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
      • Mechanical Watch
    • CIE updates from 2015
    • On Apple’s CMF
  • Long Island and “mainland”
    • United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
• The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
  • Overcast link
  • Every other podcast app
  • Casey’s write-up
• Marco’s letter to John Ternus
  • A Tale of Two Letters
• Ask ATP:
  • How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
• Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
  • Suunto Race S Titanium (Amazon)
  • Garmin Venu 4
  • Garmin Forerunner 970
  • Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
  • Regex to detect user anger
  • “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
  • Future plans

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