Breaking Change

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v23 - M4 Supermax Oct 30, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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v17 - Shallow Tissue Massage Jul 27, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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