Profile avatar
siracusa.bsky.social
Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not. https://hypercritical.co
133 posts 16,505 followers 88 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 27

Huge props to @isaacmarovitz.com who recently put his fantastic OSS project, Whisky in maintenance mode. Whisky is a macOS front end to play games using Wine and the Apple’s Wine-based GPTK. Isaac explains his reason on his docs page and I have to say, this is what integrity looks like.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

635: An Effective Operator atp.fm/635 Chaos in the government, chaos in the Siri group, chaos in Casey's AirPods case…and new t-shirts!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you want to hear why I love the design of the 2019 Mac Pro, check out episode 123 of Thoroughly Considered: www.relay.fm/tc/123

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

258: All These Little Things relay.fm/rd/258

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The @atp.fm WWDC sale is back! atp.fm/store These are strange times, in big ways and small. It’s 2025, and Apple’s most powerful chip has a number that’s one lower than the chip in the iPad Pro. Are those two M3 Maxes joined to make an M3 Ultra? Well…sort of. Strange shirts for strange times.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees atp.fm/634 The Nintendo Switch 2, iOS-redesign rumors, finally surrendering in three old battles, and our plans for [waving hands] all of this.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Love, Death & Robots: hypercritical.co/2025/04/10/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 10 days ago • 1115 comments

I wrote a bunch of words trying to explain how economically incomprehensible the tariff stuff is. It explains how a 5th grader understands basic econ better than Trump and his economic advisors. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

633: Moonshoot atp.fm/633 Rumors of foldable phones, foldable iPads, foldable MacBooks, foldable TVs, foldable EU directives, foldable unemployment, foldable tech-support expectations, and foldable universal links.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I want to praise the Atomfall devs for making each of the game’s three elements - combat, exploration, and survival - independently adjustable. You want to get in hard fights but not hunt for crafting supplies? You can. Want to find your way with just a compass? No problem.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Just posted for Incomparable members: John Siracusa watched the 1974-75 Doctor Who story that was airing when he was born. Yes, it's "Robot"... or not.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

257: Reverse Procrastination Bingo relay.fm/rd/257

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

632: The Uncertainty Is Gone atp.fm/632 New Siri leadership, WWDC's announcement, the EU's new demands, and a dropped axe that could've been much worse.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Can’t stop thinking about this podcast review - gosh what happened that changed the kinds of stories we tell on Decoder over the last two months??? (Also it is very, very funny to suggest Vox Media has any influence over Verge editorial and specifically me lol)

submitted 25 days ago • 31 comments

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.

submitted 27 days ago • 34 comments

New member-exclusive special! ATP Insider: Our Websites atp.fm/atp-insider-... The history of our personal websites and the ridiculous systems we’ve built to write and serve them.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni atp.fm/631 Metallica on Vision Pro, the Apple Intelligence Siri delay, and the partial opening of the restaurant.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.

submitted 28 days ago • 104 comments

630: Time to Spiral atp.fm/630 Mac Studio benchmarks, Mac Pro chip rumors, the value of products with colors, and the rumored UI redesigns that may come to this fall's Apple OSes.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

256: Tomorrow is an Ice Day relay.fm/rd/256

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work

submitted 41 days ago • 65 comments