Breaking Change

Justin Searls
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Sep 15, 2024 • 2h 57min

v20 - Mandatory Stealth

There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by friend of the show, Eric Doggett, who helped out with mixing! If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"): podcast@searls.co. Spicier-than-usual show notes follow: Kin Euphorics are usually non-alcoholic overpriced cocktails Squarespace kinda sucks now and a lot of people are worried the new PE overlords are gonna kill it Build with Becky soft-launched, but it's stealth so you're on your own to figure out the sign-up URL. My newsletter that's reminded some people of my impossibly, unfairly high standards Nifty Cyberpunk VR mod Aaron's puns, ranked Apple Event stuff Rest in Playercount, Concord Remember to make sure your surgeon can tell a spleen and a liver apart before they put you under All aboard Florida's manslaughter express 🚂🚂 The PS5 Pro is the solution to a problem, but nobody's sure which Open AI o1-preview is significantly less stupid Thanks to our sponsor for all your ERP needs, Oracle Netsuite Star Wars Outlaws Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Don't start a Civil War Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 For any chumps out there who think listening is the key to persuasion @tompng's awesome Ruby Kaigi keynote now has a video you can watch Walkshop is a super cool way to run a retreat 🌶️
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Aug 25, 2024 • 2h 25min

v19 - Feature Complete

It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finally done* with that big app I've been working on. I'm running behind on e-mails and need your best and worst takes for the next episode: podcast@searls.co. Find out what that asterisk refers to below: Filing an FCC complaint Supermaven The git logo iMessage via satellite Aaron's puns, ranked Meta cancels their 2027 Vision Pro competitor A bunch of random, disturbing Black Myth: Wukong links Ford might start making cars again (News+) The Acolyte and review-bombing SmartLess: On the Road Deathloop Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand Star Wars Outlaws Adam Mcrea's Alpine/Phlex screencast *I am, in fact, not at all done.
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Aug 11, 2024 • 2h 36min

v18 - Arriving today by 10 PM

Boy, have I got a great show for you today! I guess. You be the judge. If you listen to the podcast, please rate it on a scale from Good Charlotte to My Chemical Romance at podcast@searls.co. The following links are included with your subscription: Macrofactor app Butterfly keyboard checks going out My tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in Rails Aaron's pun Physical game sales are finally in decline Intel's processors are borked Flighty's latest update is an example of "Good" "AI" The M4 Mac Mini Mini Google banning accounts for CSAM when there may not be CSAM Loki is fine Deadpool & Wolverine is fiiiine
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Jul 27, 2024 • 2h 19min

v17 - Shallow Tissue Massage

I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs with Apple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Because that's most of what I got this time. Not enough of you are writing in, and if you don't start soon I am going to CANCEL this PODCAST production PERMANENTLY: podcast@searls.co. (Write in or else.) Some proof of work: Aaron's pun SearchGPT The Crowdstrike thing Windows Kernel access to third parties Pete Buttigieg reads angry Delta tweets Legitimate LLC The Boys (I failed to explain what this show is or the basic premise, so here's a Wikipedia link. Whoops!) Gary Larsen's The Far Side comic
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Jul 14, 2024 • 2h 53min

v16 - No Politics Allowed

Big day: now with transition music! 🎶 There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, but if you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's because Breaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things to get mad about. Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internet friend? Now's your chance: podcast@searls.co. (Other topics also welcome.) I heard you like links: A "recipe" blog post on how to use Turbo Streams to swap out content This month's newsletter about work pressure My Vision Pros interview Today's pun, ranked Tim Cook uses Vision Pro every day All the ways Japan is trying to stop you from visiting (News+) White-collar Work is Just Meetings Now (News+) Star Trek Discovery Steve! (Martin) documentary Remembering Gene Wilder Airfoil Satellite for Windows Airplay Star Wars: Jedi Survivor Sunny (Apple TV) Objectified film
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Jun 30, 2024 • 2h 46min

v15 - An E Ink iPod Touch

I bought a new gadget! And it runs Android! And I don't hate it! Tell me about things you hate and don't hate and I might just read your feelings on air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, is podcast@searls.co. Sources below: Ubiquiti UniFi Loopback with SSL2+ This annoying Safari bug My first video clip from Breaking Change A podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision Pros Aaron's punboard The EU won't get these new Apple features Gruber's take on this matches my own The BOOX Palma Digital Foundry tells us not to play games on our Windows + Copilot PCs Dark Matter Godzilla Minus One samus.link
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Jun 20, 2024 • 2h 36min

v14 - Actual Intelligence

WWDC came and went and now we're all just left to ponder what life will be like under the thumb of our new AI overlords (and underlords). But at least for now, humans are still allowed to produce podcasts on their own, which means we can safely opine about the fresh hell we're all hard at work creating. I finally got a chance to get to some mailbag questions in this episode! If you want to be a part of the ✨magic🪄, shoot me an e-mail to podcast@searls.co. I won't read your last name on air, unless I accidentally do. Promise! Here are some links to stuff from this episode: Tiana's Bayou Adventure Flash Mountain Jock Lindsey and his hangar bar Koala Nap Sandwich's Theater app and how they live-streamed the Talk Show Three Simple Rules to using my large language model Dear AI companies, please scrape this website My growing POSSE thanks to feed2thread Aaron's v14 pun My WWDC appearance on the Changelog Ben Thompson being mostly right, as usual Apple suspends work on the Vision Pro 2 Mouse Jigglers!!!! More bad security news for Microsoft because memos alone aren't a real solution The Xbox Games Showcase was good The Nintendo Profit machine seems set to roll on Jim Henson: Idea Man Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds Ashley Madison documentary Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok cult Diablo IV
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Jun 8, 2024 • 2h 51min

v13 - WWDC Spoilers

WWDC is right around the corner, and I wanted to do a predictions podcast before Monday's keynote, but then Mark Gurman went and just read back literally everything that's going to happen. So I guess let's talk about that or something. As always, I love love love to receive your e-mail even though it's hard to get through very many of them on the program. Please know that your comments and questions really bring me a lot of joy and that you should e-mail whatever pops into your head to podcast@searls.co. Quick. Now. Don't think, hit send. Okay, and now for some 👐Show Notes👐: I'm speaking at Rails World I didn't pick this thumbnail WWDC rumors: The new Apple Passwords app "Apple Intelligence" Mark Gurman's motherlode Valve made a billion dollars selling loot boxes Like a Dragon: Yakuza Dark Matter (show) Jenny Nicholson's Starcruiser video Just think, next time we speak, it'll be Beta Season.
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May 29, 2024 • 2h 51min

v12 - LIVE from Japan

[Update: if you're reading this, then you're listening to an updated version of this episode with a more aggressive denoise filter, to try to combat the karaoke jingles playing incessantly in the background 🎤.] Welcome to the rhetorical Bemusement Park that is the Breaking Change podcast! This episode was recorded in Japan, the recording of which was an ordeal that you will hear all about if you choose to press play and listen to this version of the podcast. I have failed you all, however, because I had to duck out of my "recording" "booth" ahead of schedule and I didn't get to any items from the mailbag. That means now's your chance to skip the line ahead of all those other mailbaggers by rapid-firing off an e-mail to podcast@searls.co for inclusion in a theoretical, unannounced, unsure-if-it'll-even-happen version 13. Heard people liked URLs so I hallucinated some for you: Golden Week Justin's "Backside of water" 2024 tour: Matsue Tottori Kanazawa Toyama Niigata …TBD Ruby Kaigi Pen-san's keynote Koic's LSP talk Nintendo's incredible Switch profits Heroku finally supports HTTP2 John Ternus may be the next Apple CEO Copilot + PC = ? Correction: Dub Dub is June 10th, not June 7th さようなら
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Apr 26, 2024 • 2h 42min

v11 - I'm feeling unlucky

Today we have a veritable smorgasboard of potpurri as we indulge in the figurative potluck dinner that is, "shit Justin wants to talk about." This may be the last major version for a while, so savor this. Thank you to listeners who took version 10's mandatory e-mail feedback demand seriously, as the mailbag once again is full of good questions. But you must do your part and e-mail podcast@searls.co to keep it that way. Each e-mail you send entitles you to a license to listen to three more episodes, so—in a sense—you can't afford not to write in. Have some links: The Synapse 25 bag I'm downgrading into Sandwich video makes cool commercials Searls After Dark was a 10 part YouTube series I did Star Trek Into Darkness "Open face" Vision setups TikTok ban passes Base RAM hasn't budged since Tim Cook took over Peter Cooper be trollin' Llama sucks at coding My new Spots media type and mapping feature The man who killed Google ⛷️

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