Breaking Change

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v13 - WWDC Spoilers Jun 08, 2024

Show notes

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

Show notes

[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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

[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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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.

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