Breaking Change

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.

[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

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 ⛷️

It's been over two weeks! Let's catch up. We can talk about anything you want, so long as it's App Store policies regarding "retro" game emulators or where to find the best Japanese love hotels. Also, I hate to spoil an announcement, but due to a lack of mailbag engagement, e-mailing podcast@searls.co after you listen to each episode of the program is now mandatory for all listeners. Figure it out. Citations follow: 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games Devs don't want to make live service games The Courage to be Disliked The Top 10 Breaking Change puns Disney changes its accessibility program Spatial personas are quite cool John Gruber is wrong about vibration APIs Emulators! In the App Store! The Humane AI Pin is a bad product Sonos Move 2 is an expensive speaker Constellation is a weird show Fallout hits all the right mid-century notes This Love Hotel room has a water slide A video about how sports betting seems bad DHH announcing his cloud exit

If you're itching for a discussion that explains why I'm afraid to move into my new bathroom, what I really think about Andrew Huberman, and why it might make more sense to learn French than Java… prepare to be scratched, I guess? I am highly confident that at least one person will get angry and unfollow this show as a result of words that came out of my mouth. If you've got thoughts and/or feelings, let me have'm at podcast@searls.co! Some links to things: legitimate.us Added likes for my podcast Browsers ignore autocomplete=off My new dry_eraser gem My newsletter about chronic back issues Tron got snubbed because they "cheated" by using computers (a cool video about its production) The Huberman "hit-piece" (News+) Huberman as pseudo-science Universities have a Computer-Science Problem (News+) The End of Foreign-Language Education (News+) Stardew Valley 1.6 True Detective Season 4

This podcast is dedicated to the brave men and women at the Department of Justice for taking bold and decisive action against a clear and present danger to the continued existence of the United States of America: Apple's use of green bubbles and how they make some Android users feel bad. Since the DOJ's lawsuit is all about vibes, send me your vibes—good or bad—and I'll be there for you. Who knows, if you choose to direct your energy to podcast@searls.co, maybe I'll get lucky and finally feel something in this cold, dead heart of mine. Links and such follow: Rails World 2024 Toy Story Mania Bertrand Russel dishin' out takes A look at Unreal Engine 5's new features like Nanite and Lumen Ubisoft's creepy AI chatbot NPCs The DOJ's 88-page complaint against Apple Jason Snell's first take on it Another Life, finally answering the question, "what if Battlestar Galactica was a CW show but only the Katee Sackhoff parts"? The Halo-flavored Halo show and the mediocre Halo Infinite game Dave the Diver Odell Lake for the Apple II Cook Serve Delicious

This was a long episode, so here are some short notes. As always, your e-mails delight and inspire me. Send one to podcast@searls.co with anything you want in it. I don't care if it's just emoji and gifs. Citations follow: iOS progressive web apps are back to how they were in the EU The Television app unveil "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates Webpacker is retired KameSame is my Japanese language app DHH and Windows Smart EX Starship Troopers led us to Helldivers 2 The story behind Game Dev Story That Weird Al biopic The upcoming Fallout series

[UPDATE: In this episode, I referenced Stripe having an IPO in the past tense. I was mistaken, they are not (yet) publicly traded. We regret the error.] The audio is better this week! I'm learning. Also, I finally had something to talk about that has nothing to do with Apple! The target of the ion cannon that is my mouth this time? drumroll… it's Stripe! Sorry, Stripe. If you like rants about software quality and the systemic reasons everything is terrible, hoo boy! This one brings the heat. 🔥🔥🔥 We're starting to work down our mailbag backlog, so help me freshen it up by e-mailing the show at podcast@searls.co and our dedicated staff (me) will read it and—potentially, maybe—respond on the air! And now, some URLs: Scott Hanselman didn't (doesn't?) think profanity works Mike McQuaid's appearance on Changelog and Friends to talk about Workbrew Aaron's humble love-making blog post Stripe's problematic pause button, which invokes this feature, and which their COVID-19 support page touts iMessage's post-quantum cryptography Execute Program by Gary Bernhardt, one of the only educational services teaching programming that I can recommend Arcade Paradise is a good game The Killer is a movie Also, "Team Bally Total Fitness Extreme Racing" doesn't turn up anything on Google. Just an FYI

Welcome to Breaking Change, the 14th most popular technology podcast in Argentina! (And 30th in Norway!) It's been a couple weeks since my last breaking change and, guess what, I done broke things again. If you would prefer I not make so many breaking changes (or if you wish me to break even more of them!), e-mail me at podcast@searls.co and let me know and/or share your darkest secrets under a pseudonym using a throwaway account. Nobody needs to know. Links and so forth: Open AI's Sora The first good Apple Vision Pro strap Apple vindictively yanked PWAs from Europe How to behead an M2 MacBook Air runruby.dev My newsletter, which if you sign up for now you'll see my announcement of Beckygram Link by Stripe seems neat Welcome to Wrexham is a good show Sidecar is a very grown-up drink for grown-ups Dark AF movies: Drive my Car (starring the guy from きのう何食べた) Cloud Atlas Synecdoche, New York Vanilla Sky Requiem for a Dream

This podcast is a month old and four episodes in and the singular event looming over all of it has finally arrived! The era of facial computing has begun! Join me for a Vision Pro extravaganza in which I detail all of my first impressions using the device, including dozens of things that seemingly every media and YouTube reviewer missed or excluded. Listen to this podcast and you'll hear tell of bugs you wouldn't believe even if you did see them! The headline takeaway is: Apple Vision is clearly the future, because it's clearly not yet the present. (And why I'm probably keeping it anyway.) As always, e-mail me your reviews, reactions, and errata at podcast@searls.co and I'll absorb them into the bubbling stew of opinions I'm forming about this futuristic-and-not-necessarily-in-a-good-way computing platform. Scant show notes follow: Life updates: What life? There is only Vision Pro! Follow-up: No time. Skipped it! I managed to completely botch the reading of yet another of Aaron's puns News: Apple Vision Pro is here and I talk about it. At length! Recommendations: Flowriter is worth checking out for generating immersive 3D spaces with text prompts alone Mailbag: Things 3 for visionOS You know the deal: podcast@searls.co See you, spatial cowboy.