Breaking Change

v35 - GPT Casserole Apr 20, 2025

Your favorite podcast about nothing continues to find things to talk about.

Whatever you do, DO NOT e-mail me at podcast@searls.co or else I will read it on air and tell everyone how smart you sound and how good you look.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

Links to follow:

v34 - Bait and Switch 2 Apr 06, 2025

Nothing like a peaceful Sunday morning at the end of an exhausting, historically-volatile week to pour a hot cup of coffee and spew absolutely scalding takes in all directions. If you get burned, don't say I didn't warn you. Read the message on the lid.

We've done 34 of these now and my mailbag is getting full of old e-mails that don't make sense anymore. Please email new stuff to me at podcast@searls.co and we, like civilization, will start fresh next time!

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

You can read more about things on other websites below:

My "new" podcast, Merge Commits
Announcing TLDR 1.0
Late to the party on this: it's good that Siri is bubbling up to Craig, finally
Aaron's puns, ranked
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
OpenAI releases 4o Image Generation
ChatGPT Users Are Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
How OpenAI's Ghibli Frenzy Took a Dark Turn Real Fast (Archive)
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
Go to Truant Studio for all your branding and advertising needs
Anthropic released their research into how LLMs "think"
The 500 million worker problem
India's domestic stock bubble
Remember 15 years ago when we cared who would buy TikTok? Amazon might, still
Eddie Burback's "No Phone" video
College students are worse now, says professor, as always
Ubisoft reportedly has lawyers ready to fight Assassin’s Creed Shadows harassment
Nintendo just carried out a major test of its reach in a post-Twitter world
The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct
- Virtual Game Cards
- By "anti-scalping", they meant "for Japan"
- Third-party developers say Switch 2’s horsepower makes them ‘extremely happy’
- Switch backwards compatibility is emulation
- Nintendo delays US preorders because tariffs
Saturday Night film
Titanic
Still playing Avowed
Not playing Inzoi
How to change the oil on a Tesla
Roguelike/Starfoxlike, Whisker Squadron: Survivor
How SNL manages cue cards

v33 - Apathetic Intelligence Mar 15, 2025

I hope you ordered your podcast spicy, because this version is a slow heat, but it builds. I was pretty fired up by the end of this one. If I crossed a line here, please report it to HR at podcast@searls.co and they will conduct an investigation.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them:

Tailwind 4 Upgrades
Aaron's puns, ranked
There's a new cringey Star Fox-like coming
Shenmue 1 & 2 mixed up the axial tilt
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
The history of 3DFX
The first portable Xbox could hit shelves this year
Steam Decard VR thing could also be coming
Tim Sweeney's been Elon-pilled
Is Tesla Cooked?
Cybertruck panels are flying every which way
SpaceX's Starship is fucked, apparently
Why LLMs aren't like Einstein
LLM refuses to code
No one knows what the hell an agent is
crmne/ruby_llm is a new Ruby gem for interacting with LLMs
Vision Pro let this guy see in 3D
iOS 19 will overhaul the system UI
Live translation is coming to iOS 19 (sort of)
RCS is getting End-to-End Encryption Between Android and iOS
Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is
iPhone 17 Ultra may be coming
Google bricked Chromecast
Mozilla bricked Firefoxes
Microsoft bricked a bazillion PCs
Meta is run by a human brick
China bricked the field of public health
Stay tuned to Changelog next week - I'll be on it!
Shogun - where the Japanese speak period-appropriate Japanese and the Portugese speak modern British English
Avowed - the best damn game I've played in a long-ass time
There's a new Vision Pro strap-on in town
Star Trek Enterprise was good, actually
Allstate's human engineers screwed up so the LLMs wouldn't have to
AI Snipd is a podcast player

v32 - Large Lemon Model Mar 03, 2025

Turns out I'd accidentally been letting some of your e-mail get filtered as junk mail. I want to be clear that I don't think you're junk, Apple does. Write in with your feelings to podcast@searls.co and I'll read it, assuming I get it.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

Without further ado, links!

POSSE Party
Aaron's puns, ranked
Don't invite anyone you like to a measles party
Sorry vegans, plants can feel pain
Reddit will add a paywall
Junior developers know how to code even less than usual
GPT 4.5 is a lemon 🍋
Insecure code is how you get Nazis
Ben AI shows off how the hustle bros are thriving with AI
This is the video I'd share with friends and family to explain AI
Mostly non-AI reasons the job market is frozen
Hacking your Eight Sleep to frustrate fascism
Apple pulls encryption from island that famously likes surveilling people
A Vision Pro app is coming to iPhone
Apple debuts iPhone 16e
Is Apple's first cell modem maybe better than we expected?
In 18.4, Apple Maps finally adds a language setting
Spatial AI assistants with Sidekick for Vision Pro
Shoresy is back for Season 4
Avowed is a good game

v31 - Full Searls Driving Feb 16, 2025

Update: This is the first version of Breaking Change available in 4K video. Check it out on YouTube.

The one where Justin picks the perfect time to buy his first Tesla vehicle.

Sometimes the things I say and do make people feel things. Share those feelings with me at this e-mail address: podcast@searls.co. Whatever you're feeling, I'll read it and do my best to acknowledge it. I also may read it on air. Unless you ask me not to, in which case I won't.

Okay, so anyway, there are links to be lunked:

The RuboCop pull request I referenced having talked about in this month's newsletter
The Space Black Firanto paint I tried to use to heal my M4 MacBook Pro
The little travel router that I'm using strictly for my Vision Pro
Sponsored content: you too can have bad timing when you buy a new Tesla with my link and get $2500 off, apparently.
Aaron's puns, ranked
The ESA announces new "iicon" event after running E3 into the ground
Apple finally lets you migrate purchases to a different Apple ID
Prediction: iOS 19 features a new UI toolkit that looks a lot like visionOS and this new Invites app
Google eliminates the woker half of its holidays calendar
TikTok is so back, baby
Netflix is connected to the Apple TV app! (lol, psyche!)
What the WikTok story can teach us about programmers' future job prospects. (Not much)
Gaudy Jeep ads are ruining Stellantis's terrible reputation
Godzilla Minus One: Two is coming
Even Disney is worried about the high cost of Disney
A major visionOS 2.4 update is around the corner (Archive link)
A youtube essay about "work games"
Tape to Tape is hockey videogaming at its finest
Yakuza: Like a Dragon's business management minigame is all I need.
I also needed Alien: Romulus, though

v30 - Mall of the Gulf of America Feb 01, 2025

If you're here for the spicy, good news: you're gettin' it spicy.

I am usually joking, but I mean it this time: I'm going to stop doing this podcast if you don't write in to podcast@searls.co. Give me proof of life, that's all I need. I won't even read it on air if you don't want!

If you're not bored yet, click the links:

Becky did a reel of our twin birthday cruise
Aaron's puns, ranked
Fewer than 200 people bought Resident Evil on iPhone
Apple Invites and GroupKit are gonna save us from Doodle
Apple cancels the AR glasses you hadn't heard about
Android XR is even more of a rip-off than Android was
Vision Pro is getting Unreal Engine support
WTF is Deepseek
My own declaration of competence
I've started work on my first fuckthis.app, and it's already doing stuff
Nintendo's Alarmo clock
The Wild Robot is not as bad as it looks
Star Trek Unification
Persona 3 Reloaded
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
Via Prem: Exit 8 and Platform 8

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v29 - Super Switch Jan 19, 2025

In this episode: Justin goes to a birthday party, drives a Tesla, and configures your BIOS.

The compliments department is, as always, available at podcast@searls.co.

Have some URLs:

v28 - Do you regret it yet? Jan 04, 2025

I don't normally do this, but content warning, this episode talks at length about death and funerals and, while I continue to approach everything with an inappropriate degree of levity, if that's something you're not game to listen to right now, go ahead and skip the first hour of this one.

Recommend me your favorite show or video game at podcast@searls.co and I will either play/watch it or lie and say I did. Thanks!

Now: links and transcript:

v27 - The Punsort Algorithm Dec 31, 2024

HEADS UP: This one has a video version in case you'd prefer to watch that!

HEADS UP SEVEN UP: Here's a spoiler-free link to this year's puns as they existed prior to this recording.

Welcome to a very special Holiday Edition of Breaking Change: our first annual Breaking Change Punsort! Today, we're joined by a surprise guest! Want to know who it is? You'll just have to listen and find out. Yes, it's Aaron.

As always, you can e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see a second annual edition next year, let me know! If you don't write in, I'll stop—because editing multiple speakers plus video is a massive pain in the ass.

No links today, because we didn't actually talk about anything worth citing.

v26 - Luigi's Mansion Dec 14, 2024

I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it.

Send your complaints to podcast@searls.co and they will be read on air.

Some bullet points below the fold:

My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac
Aaron's puns, ranked
Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even retire
I bought my 8 year old a switch and didn’t realize how much games cost
Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
Install the Mozi app (manifesto here | app here)
Vision Pro getting PSVR2 controllers
The 2024 Game Awards news roundup
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet looks badass, but is it too inclusive for The Gamers?
We don't talk about Luigi
An invisible desktop app for cheating on technical interviews (HN comments)
Sora is out, but it's not good yet
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is out, and it is good yet
Emudeck is so great it shouldn't be legal, and some people probably think it isn't
Pikmin
Stay tuned to my YouTube channel for upcoming LIVE streams

v25 - Ghost Engineering Dec 06, 2024

I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself.

I made a pretty strong appeal that you should e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co, so I won't repeat myself here. DO IT. DO IT NOW.

Hopefully I'll be back at least once more before we call it for 2024. Stay tuned. 📻

Correction: In the opening segment, I said (twice) that the Gender Equality section chief took me to Tokyo to see 紅葉 in 2005, but it was actually Kyoto. I regret the error
iOS 18.2 adds two-step shutter to the Camera Control
Aaron's puns, ranked
The MacBook Upgrade Program
What will the Command Center look like?
Tim Cook hasn't forgotten how to long divide
The Camera Roll is less slow now
Intel is so boned
Google is approaching that level of bonedness (News+)
Ghost Engineers 👻
LLMs seem like a bad business to be in
AGI is right around the corner but don't worry, it sucks
Get your work done before the day gets poisoned
Wonder Project J
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Gladiator II is good
I hope Steam Deck is, too
Neeto Products

v24 - Prophylactic Jet Lag Nov 10, 2024

TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking.

Had some great e-mails this show. You should keep the streak alive and mouth off with your fingers at podcast@searls.co.

Savor this version, folks. Gonna be at least a few weeks until you'll have another one.

International Driver's Permit
Don't be that guy. Don't drive a go-kart in downtown Tokyo
Watch my final talk, The Empowered Programmer (Justin's Version)
I have to pay for a search engine now, wtf
macOS Sequoia iPhone Mirroring is cool
Aaron's puns, ranked
The Nintendo Music app is rad
Fresca is extremely-flavored seltzer water
Don't disable "Prioritize Faster Shooting"
Google has a thumb on the scale
Apple is buying Pixelmator
Mass Effect is coming to Amazon Prime Video
Pour one out for the You've Got Mail guy
Notepad.exe is AI now
LLMs may be reaching a point of diminishing returns
Newest member of the badass scientist of the month club
How to undervolt your GPU
Like a Dragon: Yakuza
Galileo G8 controller

v23 - M4 Supermax Oct 30, 2024

It is Wednesday, my dudes! This is normally a weekend listen, but there are new Macs to talk about. I wanted to give you the absolute freshest, least accurate information I can about all these neat new computers that I WILL NOT BE BUYING BECAUSE TIM COOK IS A COWARD.

Write something you want to say in all caps over at podcast@searls.co and maybe I'll scream it on the show!

Inside-voice links follow:

The new Kindle Paperwhite
Black plastic is worse, now. Egg yolks are back to being good
Fancy Shun knives at a reasonable price
Don't waste your money on this combination sleeping mask / Bluetooth speaker
iOS 18 Hearing Test
Ricky Mondello's Apple Passwords migration strategy
My new fuckthis.app platform
Eric Doggett is helping me learn how to take pictures
Aaron's puns, ranked
New M4 Macs BUT NO 12" MACBOOKS TO SPEAK OF
Can't wait to see The Rock star in the Apple Oregon Trail movie
GitHub's new Copilot and Spark announcements
Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google’s AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants
One man's high-end electric vehicle is another man's obsolete garbage
Star Trucker game
Call of Duty: Blops 6

v22 - Coming to VHS Oct 20, 2024

Welcome to this podcast which, by now, you have probably decided you either listen to or don't listen to! And if you don't listen to it, one wonders why you are reading this.

Remember to write in at podcast@searls.co with suggestions for news stories and whatever you'd like me to talk about. Please keep it PG-rated or NC-17 rated. I want nothing in between.

Family-friendly and/or sexually explicit links follow:

I returned this razor
How I fixed Photo Shuffle
I made an unfortunate comment about birds and hands in my newsletter
Koala Nap is not currently working for me, but I appreciate their responsiveness in trying to fix it
Aaron's puns, ranked
🚨 RoboCab Code White 🚨
Matt Mullenwag sounds like a real piece of work at work
Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS. Really
Grindr will soon Grind without you
Apple's next 4 Vision Devices according to Mark Gurman
iPad Mini 7
Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred
I hope Dragon Age: Veilguard redeems Bioware
Strange Planet was a cool show
The Family is creepy
Struggling to care about Slow Horses
Got schmutz? Get a Zodiac MX8 Elite

v21 - Not From Backup Oct 07, 2024

Get ready for a three-hour-plus Breaking Change spectacular! Why is it special? I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to listen.

Remember, money doesn't change hands when you consume this Content™, but that doesn't make it free! In exchange for downloading this MP3, the license requires you to write in to podcast@searls.co at least once every three episodes. Some of y'all are past due, and I know where to find you.

Want URLs? I got URLs:

This useless skinny tree fell over
Becky's first app is live at betterwithbecky.com
I bought a camera
I gave my final conference talk. Video is pending, but I'll link to it here when it's up
Aaron's puns, ranked
Apple: 1, Europe: 0
Google should figure out security architecture
A nice longread about where AI is and where it (may) be going over the next decade
I'm bearish on IBM's prospects
1Password 8 doesn't feel like an upgrade
The iPhone 16 Pro is all about camera styles and tone map customization
Can't wait for that 12" MacBook Pro
The new Reduce Interruptions focus mode
Folks are mad about Star Wars Outlaws
Star Trucker, a game I mistakenly called "Space Trucker"
Furiosa is good
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives isn't
Penguin is remarkable 2 episodes in

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v20 - Mandatory Stealth Sep 15, 2024

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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v19 - Feature Complete Aug 25, 2024

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:

*I am, in fact, not at all done.

v18 - Arriving today by 10 PM Aug 11, 2024

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:

v17 - Shallow Tissue Massage Jul 27, 2024

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

v16 - No Politics Allowed Jul 14, 2024

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

v15 - An E Ink iPod Touch Jun 30, 2024

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

v14 - Actual Intelligence Jun 20, 2024

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:

v13 - WWDC Spoilers Jun 08, 2024

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.

v12 - LIVE from Japan May 29, 2024

[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

v11 - I'm feeling unlucky Apr 26, 2024

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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v10 - Inhumane A.I. Apr 18, 2024

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

v9 - Learn to Unicode Apr 02, 2024

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

v8 - Anti-trustworthy Mar 23, 2024

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

v7 - Outside your app's business hours Mar 10, 2024

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

v6 - Pausing doesn't pause Feb 25, 2024

[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

v5 - Regressive Web Apps Feb 17, 2024

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

v4 - Facial Computing Feb 03, 2024

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.

v3 - Core Technology Fee Jan 27, 2024

Welp, Apple forced my hand and generated even more news in the run up to the launch of Apple Vision Pro and it demands a response! (Right?)

As is so obvious and well-established that I forgot to mention it, you can e-mail me the show at podcast@searls.co and maybe I'll find a way to work it in. Comments, questions, and complaints are all welcome!

Without further ado, let's a-do it:

What's new:
- It's finally shorts season! 🩳
- DNSimple is run by some lovely people and you should host your domains there
- My brother is Iron Man, here's proof
Follow-up:
- Messaging with Siri paves the way to its becoming a multi-lingual voice assistant
- Steam Link and what it might mean if Valve (is allowed to) publish it on visionOS
Another pun for the pun gods from Aaron
News:
- The 40th anniversary of the Mac (and my first one)
- The absolutely monumental changes in iOS 17.4, including:
  - Automatic, lyrics-like transcripts in the Podcasts app
  - Evidence of on-board LLM support for Siri in iOS 18
- Cloud streaming apps are now allowed
- The Apple-Masimo blood oxygen patent kerfuffle impacting Apple Watch
- Why third-party browser rendering engine support isn't what some people were hoping
- The 27% / 12% external link "entitlement"
- Apple's cunning 50¢ core technology fee
Recommendations:
- Cyberpunk 2077 sucks less now
- Upload season 3
Mailbag links:
- Tonal is my preferred way to "get swole"
- Even though I failed to mention it, remember to e-mail me! The address is still podcast@searls.co

That's it. You've got places to be.

v2 - Vision Pre-order Jan 19, 2024

Heads up gang, there's a new breaking change with this release: my wallet is like $8000 lighter thanks to the Vision Pro preorders.

As always as of a week ago, you can e-mail me at podcast@searls.co and I'll read it silently in my head. If all goes well, I'll read it out loud, too. And everything works out, I may even read it out loud and into a microphone for the next show.

Okay, let's dig into this latest version:

What's new:
- I flew a little too close to the sun at Universal Studios
- Speaking of Universal, DJ Khaled is billed for their Mardi Gras concert series
- Finally answered the question, "how much of an 8", 12-pound carrot cake can I eat in one sitting?"
Follow-up:
- My v1 nervousness
- Fixing an ActiveStorage bug
- Vision Pro pre-order
  - This stupid travel case
  - This hyper-dense 24,000 mAH Anker Power Bank battery to continuously charge the battery
  - Dual Loop Band >>>> Solo Knit Band
  - Will it have shake to undo?
  - How heavy is 650 grams?
News:
- Siri and multiple languages
- Victor Shepelev's Useless Ruby Syntax
- Landon Gray's react_ai gem / proof-of-concept (based on Cornell's ReAct paper)
Entertainment
- Foundation Season 2
- The Crown's final season
- Moonlighter
- You Suck at Cooking
Mailbag:
- Dead Space remake
- Riley H on Fiverr is the fellow that made the show's jingle
- Rewind.ai
- Next time, it's up to you to e-mail podcast@searls.co

Phew. Until next time, I guess.

v1 - Initial Commit Jan 10, 2024

I finally gave up and recorded a podcast. And now I'm writing show notes. I tried not to let this happen but here I am typing this and it's happening. Forgive me.

This is a podcast for anybody who shares my interests and likes passing the time with a friendly, opinionated voice in their head. I have done thousands of hours of chores and errands over the years listening to mostly agreeable, sometimes interesting 1.5-3 hour podcasts to keep my mind busy. Now it's time for me to give back, I guess.

Here's the deal: e-mail me at podcast@searls.co and I'll talk about whatever you want me to talk about. Write whatever you want into that e-mail body: ask a question about video games, ask for my take on a new technology, ask for relationship advice, tell me my podcast sucks. You write it, I'll read it.

Okay, here's what I covered in version one of Breaking Change:

What's new:
- I made a massive pot of Japanese curry rice for my buddy Len, who hosts his own actually real podcast
- I'm building a couple apps for my better half's business, which makes Becky my product owner and me her developer—what could go wrong?!
- Weather in Orlando has been freezing so please pity me and my inability to deal with temparatures below 65º F
Follow-up:
- I made a video about speaking: Secrets of Great Conference Talks
- I wrote a post about careering: Only you can give meaning to your career
- I shipped a newsletter about the book The Courage to Be Disliked: Searls of Wisdom Newsletter
- I exhorted my fellow Rubyists: Why you should come to this RubyKaigi in 2024
Pun break:
- I asked and @tenderlove agreed to write me a pun for each episode of Breaking Change that I will read for the first time live as I record to the camera
- If you want to know the pun, you'll just have to listen to the podcast
- Actually, I'm going to rate the puns, so I've decided to (extremely inadvisably) share this Numbers spreadsheet publicly
News:
- I am currently wearing the XREAL Air 2 glasses when working in public to prepare everyone around me to get ready for the Vision Pro landing onto my face next month
- I paid for GPT Plus and it's just uncanny sometimes how good it is compared to Google Search, thanks in part to how much worse Google Search has gotten. There's no other way I'd have found these tweezers
- The original Workflow Team is angling to be the first group to sell their company to Apple twice by forming a new AI desktop automation startup
- Standard Ruby might have made it into Rails 8, but it didn't, and I basically completely agree with DHH that it shouldn't:
  - David's original issue
  - The new bikeshed David built
  - David's blog post about style guides
- I revisited the whole POSSE meme for web sites and how I'm building another app to integrate with my feed2gram gem to help people escape Instagram
- I started using ActiveStorage and this thread was absolutely vital to figuring it out (the Rails Guide could probably use a few updates, but the real issue is the API is probably due to be pruned a bit)
- Tailwind still feels like the Correct™ approach to styling web sites, but Rails needs a better answer for rendering forms with it. In lieu of an official solution, Daniel Huss described an approach I've been using since late 2022 with a custom FormBuilder subclass
- Speaking of correct approaches, I'm convinced Stimulus and HTMX are basically the right way to handle JavaScript in most apps, but I'll be damned if I don't have to totally relearn Stimulus's API every time I use it
  - I think I forgot to mention it, but Stimulus Components is a neato project that I'd love to see more of—little modular, prepackaged actions that are (mostly) free of gnarly dependencies and import-map friendly
Entertainment
- Playing Harvest Moon 64 and immediately falling for min-maxing the hell out of it instead of just playing the game
- Bullets and Blockbusters is a great YouTube channel on films, especially "what if" scenarios
- Searls After Dark is less great, but also on YouTube. Please subscribe to my channel so I can hit 1000 followers and disable ads on all my videos!
- Foundation is fine, but slow
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is… bad, I think? I'm muscling through it
- Letterkenny and Shoresy never disappoint, however
Mailbag:
- Empty! Nobody knew I was going to start a podcast, least of all me, so nobody e-mailed me. Get featured on my next installment by emailing podcast@searls.co

Phew. Until next time, I guess.

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