

Breaking Change
Justin Searls
A show in which Justin Searls talks with you from time to time. Programmer things. Apple stuff. Gaming news. Dispatches from Disney World. Each episode also entitles the listener to one (1) exclusive pun, care of of Aaron Patterson (aka @tenderlove). Submit questions and comments to podcast@searls.co
Episodes
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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
🌶️

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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
⛷️


