Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsEach Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form conversations about virtual reality, space travel, electric cars, refresh rates, and a whole lot more.
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182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism
May 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBWe're delighted to be joined this week by Katie Mack, noted astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), to talk about, well, how to think about the end of all existence, along with a bunch of other cosmological topics like the new research being enabled by the JWST, ingenious ways of using astronomical objects to study other astronomical objects, the programming languages astrophysicists use, the shocking truth about chalkboards versus dry erase, and more. ...
181: Hatch Watch Is On
April 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBOur month-ending Q&A is here again, with a bevy of emails and Discord questions pertaining to subjects such as these: scanning and 3D-printing precision parts, parental controls on your kid's first PC, the great Imgur purge of anonymous uploads, our two-factor and recipe-organizing strategies, leaking state secrets on Discord, evolution (and aerodynamics!) in PC cases over the year, and... wearing outside clothes to bed. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to ...
180: Chowder 'n Cookies
April 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBSpring is in the air, flowers are blooming, and the potpourri is back. In our latest floral pouch of podcast topics, we get into the IP camera setup Will is using for his bird cam, Stream Deck alternatives like Bitfocus Companion and Loupedeck, reliable old laser printers, the return of GPU space heaters, replacing filthy Windows installs, and the end of girl scout cookie season. Bitfocus Companion: https://bitfocus.io/companion Loupedeck: https://loupedeck.com/us/ Amcrest IP cameras: htt...
179: The World’s Largest Graphics Card
April 17, 2023 00:04 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBYes, Brad built a new PC. Seriously! For this momentous occasion, we got together to talk all things PC-building, starting with some early impressions of the new build and then heading off into tangents on ludicrous ray tracing performance, the ongoing mystery of PCIe lanes, working with the executive motherboard, the terror of the land grid array, and more. Download Fan Control here: https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get a...
Special FOSS Ep: Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton
April 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBEach of us are on overlapping mini-vacations this week, so we're debuting a brand new episode of the FOSS Pod in the feed. Enjoy! With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of single-board computers, and it's also a great gateway into the world of open source. For this ep, we spoke to none other than co-founder and CEO Eben Upton about every Pi-related topic we could think of, including the Pi's origins in academia, early...
178: Windows on Top of Windows
April 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBIt's been several months since Will needed a laptop and bought an M2 iPad Pro, keyboard, and pencil instead, so we figured enough time has passed to decide if that was the right move or not. In this ep we dig into the ups and downs of replacing a laptop with a tablet, what the workflow looks like, screen protectors that feel like paper, iPad OS multitasking, what you might use this sort of setup for in a serious film or media production setting, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the ...
177: Five Thou Tolerances
March 26, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBAnother month's worth of questions has accrued, and so this week we dispense answers about being the family tech support, silliness with Imperial measurements, gigantic patches for games, recurring spell check issues, questionable PC-building tricks, the MacOS command line, and some truly, truly accursed file systems. Here are links to the sheer insanity of pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs And YouTubeFS: https://github.com/robertkeizer/youtubefs Support the Pod! Contribute to the...
176: Phone Blasters in DOS Land
March 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBTech news is getting a little too surreal for us lately, so we're taking a brief trip back to a simpler time. This week we go through the very first issue of Boot (later Maximum PC) from 1996, which has everything from Jean-Louis Gassée on the launch of the BeBox to Bill Gates on the x86 PC's murder of SGI, the very first cable modem service, a motorized (?) Panasonic laptop, some shocking secrets about the first Dream Machine and the letters section, the Will Smith byline that almost was, a...
175: Short Analog, Long Digital
March 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBOur desks have evolved since the last time we talked about our personal workspaces (Brad has even achieved the elusive Cord Zero), so we're doing an updated check-in to talk about the current gear we're working with, aspirational cable-routing, portable camera setups, gaming on ultra-wide monitors, custom corkboard cutouts, and a bunch of other related topics. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great...
174: Weaponized Smurfing
March 05, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBRemember when pop-up ads looked like they were part of Windows XP? Dark patterns are all around us, even when we don't realize it, and this week we cover a wide range of these insidious methods of manipulating our online behavior, touching on everything from tricks to make you play games longer than you want to subtly enticing you to rope in your friends, succumb to sunk cost fallacy, and more. Editor's note: Brad played Clash Royale for three hours after recording this episode. Support the...
173: Splinter Cell in a Kayak
February 26, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBBrad spent a whole bunch of time in the PlayStation VR 2 this past week, and given Will's previous life as the proprietor of a VR-related business, we're pairing hands-on (or maybe face-on) experience with institutional knowledge this week to dissect the ins and outs of the new headset, comparing it to the current PC fare, speculating about its potential to become a PC headset itself, musing about the use of SLAM tracking in robot vacuums, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech P...
172: Orange Ricky & Smashboy
February 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBSome scheduling switcharoos mean we're doing February's Q&A episode one (1) whole week early! This month we field Qs about public Unix servers, noisy hard drives, the desirability of your own phone booth, an update on that attempt at roasting weed coffee, our experiences with house plants, a goblin who handcuffs people to chairs, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can su...
171: "Gratuitous Stroke"
February 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBThis week we're thrilled to be joined by Marcin Wichary, author of the upcoming and extensively detailed history of the keyboard, Shift Happens. We get into all kinds of typing-related subjects like QWERTY dominance, the shift wars of the late 1800s, and 150-year-old designs that have trickled down to software keyboards, plus a fascinating discussion about what it's like to spend seven years traveling the world to write a book of this scope and depth. Find out more about (and snag a copy of...
170: The Robots (Hopefully) Aren't Coming
February 05, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBArtificial intelligence, machine learning--whatever we're calling it, it sure is in the news a lot all of a sudden. Everything about the use of AI feels uncanny enough lately that we sat down and had a free-wheeling conversation about the subject, from some basic (fuzzy) terms and definitions to Will's use of machine learning at Foo, the endless ethical dilemmas about the use of the technology, and some loose speculation about where AI will be used going forward and how long it'll take someo...
169: Don't Trust Alberta's Lies
January 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBYou sent some serious Qs for this month's Q&A, which got us talking about the intermingling of control schemes in online shooters, the best sci-fi robots, the absurdity of discount medical care, pronounceable file extensions, AI-driven customer service, putting Airtags in other devices, and the northern plight of the humble brown rat. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support...
168: It's Cool to Be Cool
January 22, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBIt was a pretty heavy week for a variety of reasons, so we decided to discuss a variety of shorter topics this week to try to take it in, starting by touching on the mass layoffs sweeping the tech industry and elsewhere. Then we make a... Musk sandwich, first by covering the New York Times Magazine's extensive article on Tesla's Full Self-Driving issues, then by examining the Orwellian goings-on with Twitter third-party clients. Finally, we go to our happy place with a quick check-in on Will...
167: We Can't Give Them the Heads
January 15, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBWill does the unthinkable this week and PODCASTS WITH HIS BOSS, as Stray Bombay head Chet Faliszek joins us on the one-year anniversary of the release of The Anacrusis to talk all things running a small video game studio. From Steam and Xbox backend tools to current engine tech, the difficulty of getting noticed in today's ultra-crowded market, management and decision-making on a small team, whether launching on Game Pass was worth it, and more, there's a lot to cover in this ep. Support th...
166: Someone Else's Cables
January 08, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBIt's (belatedly) time to answer more of your questions, and this time you posed Qs that resulted in As about an iPhone without charging ports, cured meats, hyphy dark roast, favorite classic screensavers, favorite console boot-up animations, the rise of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and social acceptance of CRT filters. Last month's questions, today! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefi...
165: I Don’t Believe in Adverbs
January 01, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBOn our first show in 2023, we rejoin our epic task of ranking all of humanity's software. Will we actually start putting things in order this week? Or will we get sidetracked by our love of dot matrix-printed banners? Or by reminiscing about the excitement of IRC channel takeover wars? Will Brad be flabbergasted that Will has never played Gorilla.bas? Will we ever finish this project? Listen on and find out! This week's show art courtesy of Blake Patterson. Support the Pod! Contribute to t...
164: Truly Lawless
December 25, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBHere at the tail end of 2022, are we nuts enough to attempt to rank every piece of software ever written? OK, not quite, but we're going to do our best to assemble a list and put it in an order... eventually. If you've ever wanted to hear someone debate the relative merits of the LAMP stack versus the Video Toaster versus Super Mario 64, you've come to the right podcast. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and ...
163: JWST (Just Wonderful Science and Technology)
December 18, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBOur friend Kishore Hari becomes our first three-time guest by joining us this week to run down some of our favorite science and tech stories of 2022, including the latest developments in nuclear fusion, some ML-driven mid-podcast protein prediction, the latest addition to the dark energy debate, extremely American asteroid deflection strategies, one of the more exciting Antarctic discoveries in recent memory, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to ou...
162: Storage Wars
December 11, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWill's recent clean-slate PC build and newfound abundance of extremely fast storage got us thinking about all things storage. So this week we had a top-to-bottom chat about our current storage strategies, including the ways we are and aren't still using local drives, our fondness for portable apps, how many cloud storage services is too many, the promise of something like rclone to manage all of your offsite storage, dumping long-term data into S3 Glacier, and more. Here's Will's recent PC ...
161: Get Stretchy
December 04, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBBrrr, is it cold in here? It's time to deliver our semi-annual Cube of Cold Opens: Holiday Edition, with short and pithy conversations about cramming your Fortnite homework, that loud phone life, running your laptop off of your PC, reckless Thanksgiving leftovers, game console quality modes, the etiquette of (not) asking for your controller back, the unrivaled glory of a working dishwasher, and more. Enjoy, and stay warm! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to...
160: Gelatinous Soup Tube
November 27, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWe're thankful for the copious bounty of questions sent in by you this month, which got us talking about all kinds of stuff. Stuff like our love of treehouses (and mushroom soup), mouse pad technology, advanced s'more techniques, people who hold their phone in the toast position, more on setting up your own blog, the iPad apps Apple doesn't want you to have, Will's love of model railroads, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, y...
159: It's Good Brain
November 20, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBTechsgiving is here again, as we wax thankful about some of the stuff we love in our own specific nerdy spheres. Join us for some chill discussion of everything from defying gravity (under the desk) to the simple joy of playing guitar into your computer, wearable tech, wireless charging, intergalactic space inside your drinking bottle, good old simple human communication, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the cr...
158: Twitastrophe
November 13, 2022 20:19 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBElon Musk's Twitter disaster has been impossible to look away from, and since we probably owe some amount of our careers to everyone's favorite social media platform, we had to spend this ep running down and trying to make sense of a series of events that's almost impossible to believe. We also dig into some of the feasible alternatives to Twitter, like Mastodon, Cohost, and the Bluesky project with its AT protocol. #twitastrophe SHOW NOTES Stories and reporters referenced in this episode ...
157: Cereal's Dark Legacy
November 06, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBThis week we decided to do something radically different and "record" a "podcast" to answer some of your "questions." In the course of doing so we revealed shocking details about breakfast cereal, ran down our three-day weekend preferences, discussed the latest in sleep and robe technology, talked about spooky names, considered future Steam Decks, checked our interest in Linux laptops, and more. It's a Q&A! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Di...
Special Ep: Don't Pull the Frenulum
October 30, 2022 07:05 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBBrad is feeling under the weather this week, so we weren't able to turn Qs into As, but we did manage to find a classic Halloween episode of the Patron cast deep in the Tech Pod Vault. Brad and Will turn Qs into As and talk about the true horrors of the technological world, self-closing doors. Enjoy! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show...
156: The People's Benchmark
October 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBIt's been too long since PC World's hardware expert Gordon Mah Ung dropped by, and what better occasion than the big launch of new CPUs from both AMD and Intel? Gordon runs down all his recent experience with the Ryzen 7000 and 13th gen Core parts, sits through a lightning round of hardware vendor Qs, considers whether undervolting is just overclocking for old people, and a bunch more in this loose, wide ranging chat about our first and most enduring love, PC hardware. Support the Pod! Cont...
155: Cyberplunk
October 16, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBThe sizable slab of silicon known as the Geforce 4090 has landed in Will's computer, so this week we did a deep dive on his experiences with it so far, ranging from basic performance to impressions of how DLSS 3 impacts micro-stutter and game feel, installing the massive three-slot card and dealing with its new power connector, some speculation about what drove the unusual branding decisions around the 40-series, a hodgepodge of info we picked up at Nvidia's recent editor's day, and more. N...
154: Gas Station Tri-Tip
October 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBWill and family just did the Southern California theme-park circuit, so this week we had a casual chat about some of the more technical aspects of visiting Disneyland and Universal Studios in 2022. How well do the old animatronics hold up? What's up with all that new Star Wars stuff? Just how much do you need your phone, really? What goes on in the Disneyland nerve center? (We can only speculate about that one... for now.) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access t...
Special FOSS Ep: OctoPrint With Gina Häußge
October 02, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBThis week, we're checking back in with the FOSS Pod--now that we're several months (and more than a dozen episodes) into its run--by presenting our recent chat with Gina Häußge, founder and maintainer of OctoPrint, along with a new intro and outro by us. Gina covers topics like the work that goes into supporting endless printer models, transitioning from being the sole contributor on a project to managing contributors, doing open source work in Europe, why you shouldn't run your Raspberry Pi...
153: A Time for Questions
September 25, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBSummer may be over, but we're still here and ready to answer the hot questions from you, the listener. This month we field everything from automating household chores to HDMI-CEC woes, that time one of the Mythbusters (guess who!) built a buzzsaw-equipped drone of death, our dream interviews from throughout history, 140-year-old fire safe technology, a preemptive year-end performance review, plus other stuff! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming ...
152: Three Pfizers to the Wind
September 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBThis past Friday EVGA made the shocking and abrupt announcement that it's exiting the GPU market after two decades of making Nvidia cards. We drew on Will's many years of reviewing PC hardware to look back on that span of time, ponder the circumstances around the decision, and consider what's next for all involved. Plus, we dig into the slightly less shocking reveal that the PlayStation VR2 will lack backwards compatibility with games from the previous headset. What a topical show! Here's t...
151: A Dynamic Island Getaway
September 11, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBThe annual Apple event has come and gone, and we're here to run down the goings on with the latest iPhones, Watches, and AirPods. Learn more about satellite SOS and crash detection, privacy concerns around body temperature sensors, camping out overnight at the Apple Store, the Apple Watch as status symbol, Will's secret history as a diver (!), Brad's shocking thoughts on the latest notch, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, yo...
150: Things You Plug Into Your TV
September 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBWe're thinking a lot about the ways you receive and watch TV this week, with a look back at the last 20-ish years of set-top boxes beginning with the venerable TiVo. Remember paying a monthly fee for TV listings, or hacking your old Xbox to run an open-source media player? How frustrating is it that content has become so balkanized, just when all the apps are finally available everywhere? Are built-in TV apps ever going to be good enough to replace the boxes entirely? We consider these and a...
149: The Rhythm Nation Test Suite
August 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBWe're doing some navel-gazing on this month's Q&A with a bevy of questions that came in about this very podcast: the business of hosting and advertising, research and production work, how we choose topics, and more. Plus: creating your own Wikipedia page (or not), Will's other life as an ageless and all-powerful being, too much discussion about software version numbering, and destroying hard drives with the power of pop music. SHOW NOTES Perfect Bid, the Price is Right documentary we menti...
148: Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Foo VR Story
August 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBHey, did you know Will ran a VR animation company before we did this podcast? By popular request, this week we talk through the history of Foo VR start to finish, touching on all kinds of topics like leaving behind a steady paycheck to bet on an emerging technology, the overwhelming shininess of venture capitalist offices, the meaning of "bad signal," how rapidly three months can turn into a year, and more. SHOW NOTES The Foo Show: https://store.steampowered.com/app/411820/The_FOO_Show_fea...
147: Why Thread Matters
August 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBTogether, Matter and Thread are the new software and networking standards that promise to make all of your home automation and IoT gear work together, regardless of manufacturer. After Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen piqued our interest on the FOSS Pod, we decided to do a deep dive this week to demystify exactly what the two standards are and how they relate to one another, how they'll (hopefully) make things better, what they mean for your existing smart home equipment, and more. NOTES ...
146: Nothing Beats Parachute Day
August 07, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBA grab bag, a smorgasbord, a potpourri -- whatever you call it, we've assembled another batch of micro-topics to wend our way through. This time around, precision German podcasting plugins, Will's new green screen-free life (and growing array of tiny pixel art screens), a bit of desk efficiency chat, graphite pads versus thermal paste, and the sheer arrogance of putting an AWE64 in a Windows 3.1 machine. Links for this episode! 86Box: https://86box.net/ WinWorldPC's old operating system a...
145: Fat Stacks of DIMMs
July 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBLook, it's getting harder to think of intro text for a Q&A episode -- but it's ever easier to record one with so many great Qs! This month we tackle our fantasy space missions, a bidet breakdown, dirty dishes on the desktop, the future collectability of current tech, WFH survival strats, filling drives to the brim, the origin of "software," cloud-connected router provisioning, and one intrepid listener's nuclear aspirations. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access...
144: The Anamorphic Squinch
July 24, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBBrad's birthday has come and gone, which gives him the privilege of choosing our next tech year in review. This time, the banner year of 1997, which saw everything from Dolly the cloned sheep to IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue, the nuclear-powered Cassini probe to Saturn (and protests to match), the American launch of DVD, Steve Jobs' return to Apple, the anything-goes brutality of Ultima Online, and a bunch more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our boomi...
Special Ep: A Flickr Group for Martian Photographers
July 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBWith the James Webb telescope in the news and Will convalescing from COVID-19, we're bringing back one of our favorite patron-exclusive eps this week: the first appearance of our friend Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, in which he regales us with stories about taking photos not of Mars but on it, data throughput from another planet, what it's like to work at JPL, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discor...
143: The Ol' Dirty Bastard Adapter
July 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBWill and family have made their annual month-long pilgrimage to the desert once again, so this week we ended up having a free-wheeling conversation about portable tech and working on the road. Topics include tech-savvy AirBnb hosts, optimizing your electric car, dealing with Xbox development away from home, the moment that USB-C finally happened, the value of just getting TSA pre-check already, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Disco...
142: Flanders Is Dead. Long Live Neddy
July 03, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBWill's longtime home server Flanders has finally given up the ghost, and now he's streamlined his life by moving to an integrated Synology box. After significant hands-on time, we get into the ins and outs of what it's like running network storage in this sort of turnkey, integrated box, including ease of setup, hardware specs and limitations, Will's possibly controversial feelings about Docker, Brad's slow descent into madness on the extreme other end of the NAS hardware spectrum, and more....
141: Poor Pour Pore Technique
June 26, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBIt means being bad at researching how to use a spout. Oh, right, this is a Q&A episode! This month we discuss the potential of open smartphones, Fermi's paradox, French toast supremacy, electronics in the bathroom (yea or nay), Brad's dwindling sardine hoard, a bunch of barbecue-related subjects, mispronouncing tech, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the sho...
140: Wes and Norm Were Right
June 19, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBWill got his hands on his very own Steam Deck and he's bursting at the seams to talk about it, so we're back with a follow-up to our first Deck ep with an updated trip report. How has compatibility, performance, and system software shaped up in the months since the device first started shipping? What are some of the fun third-party apps you can install for emulation, game management and so forth these days? Did Will dabble with the forbidden emulation fruit? The answers lie within. SHOW NOT...
139: Grill Drama Is Real Drama
June 12, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBAs summer heats up, we're cooling things down with another (now-semi-annual?) cube of cold opens. Thrill! to the long and sordid tale of Will's Stripe fraud saga. Chill! at the campsite mishap that demolished someone's data plan. Spill! your drink everywhere when you realize that the innocent Roblox scammers of today may become the business leaders of tomorrow. Uh, fill? your ears with all the other bite-size topics that weren't long enough to consume a whole episode! Support the Pod! Contr...
138: Crank: The Unofficial Game of the Movie
June 05, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBWe've been mulling the idea of donning our game dev hats and attempting to make our own little Playdate game as an educational exercise, and this week we commit ourselves to this task publicly with a consideration of the hardware and controls at our disposal, followed by a bunch of brainstorming different game ideas. Plus, a few interludes about the coming dominance of 40Hz games, Will's shocking ignorance of gorilla.bas, and some other fun stuff! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod...
137: Emails Qs Are Qs Too
May 29, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBIt seems like it was only last month that we answered our last batch of questions, and yet here we are with another one. This time we address subjects like getting squashed by an asteroid (or meteorite), who in the world ever used eSATA, the ancient noodle superset, Will's scandalous views on cats, diving into the ol' money bin, coding showcases for kids, Apple's stringent stance on VMs, social Siri engineering, and incendiary devices connected to your smart home. Support the Pod! Contribut...