Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 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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136: The Hubble-ub
May 22, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBPart two of our 1993 retrospective is here, with our consideration of the following: Power Computing's Macintosh clones, Apple's first Newton, the proving of Fermat's last theorem, happenings in SPAAAAACE including the Hubble mirror kerfuffle, the loss of Mars Observer, and the discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, computing miscellany from Lua to UTF-8 to the SGI Onyx to the creation of the .rar, the sheer spectacle that was Biosphere 2, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod...
135: This Machine Is a Server!!
May 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBOn the occasion of Will's birth we're back for another year in review, this time taking a look at the year he went off to college, 1993 (or at least as much of it as we can fit into one episode). Join us as we gab about everything from NCSA Mosaic and the creation of the World Wide Web at CERN to the founding of Nvidia, the Pentium FDIV bug, the CG-free Jurassic Park that almost was, the inexplicable longevity of the .mp3, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and ge...
134: Another Lane Disaster Waiting to Happen
May 08, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBThis week we're putting ourselves to the test by bringing a list of PC and tech peeves, and then passing judgement on our own complaints. Do we have a legitimate grievance, or are we just being crotchety about things like monitors that don't behave themselves, the disappearance of PCIe slots, Internet of Things things going off the grid, useless motherboard shrouds, rattling hard drive cages, and the algorithmic destruction of useful search results? We decide! Then you also decide! SHOW NOT...
133: The Lady and the Samba Problem
May 01, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBQueeeeeestions and aaaaaaanswers. This month we field Qs from you, the listener, about better electric vehicles versus better mass transit, the mysteries of the L-shaped desk, extreme climate-change preparedness, throwing bread like a frisbee (??), monitors that double as modems, (mostly) useless domain names, how many Discord servers is too many, the last San Francisco eatery you'll ever need, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Disco...
132: The Coldest Open
April 24, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBWith Will briefly trapped in the great frozen north(ern California), we got together for a chilly, scrappy two-fer this week with a couple of short topics. First we chat about Panic's Playdate, with an emphasis on our time spent compiling sample games and otherwise fiddling around with the new handheld's SDK and web-based Pulp game creation tool. Then we get into some home network spring cleaning, from unidentified and forgotten devices to lazy Raspberry Pi update strategies. It's like two s...
131: Booth by GWAR
April 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBIt's time for another visit with Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles. This time we're heading back to 1995 for a computer games special that includes Microsoft's ill-fated DirectX event Judgment Day, a very silly Bill Gates promo video, demos of MechWarrior 2 and Phantasmagoria (with Roberta Williams!), a random PlayStation-versus-Saturn head to head from Stewart, and more. SHOW NOTES The relevant Computer Chronicles episode, season 13 episode 8: https://archive.org/details/CC1308...
130: The Last Home Button Standing
April 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBWell, we're only about *check's Apple Watch* a month late to the most recent Apple event, which we're using as an excuse to talk about a whole range of topics like: the (potential) death of millimeter-wave 5G, whether the Mac Pro line has truly left us or not, Brad's time so far with an M1 MacBook Pro, the weirdness of spatial audio in your ears, the many ways Will's wrist is now controlling his life, and more! SHOW NOTES The Verge story on 5G and the iPhone SE: https://www.theverge.com/2...
129: Main Character Territory
April 03, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWill sure had a wild, weird week on Twitter following last week's, uh, historic showdown at the Oscars, and now he's here to decompress. What were the first 24 hours like? How close did he get to being on cable news? Have Twitter's tools improved for managing torrents of incoming tweets? What kinds of questionable business offers came in? C'mon, you knew we weren't going to talk about anything else. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, y...
128: An Elevator Named Otis
March 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBThe monthly questions came in, and now the answers go forth, pertaining to such topics as these: weirdly named folders on our desktops, regrettable usernames, paltry American downstream speeds, Brad's delusions of cross-coastal VPN grandeur, an unprecedented round of answers seeking questions (??), a spirited debate about showering protocols, some shocking stats on streaming service penetration, and a shocking reveal about elevator open and close buttons that you won't see coming! Support t...
Special Episode: Return of Manhattanhenge
March 21, 2022 02:37 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBThe United States Senate proved to be full of Tech Pod listeners this week as it passed a measure to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. But wait, did they pick the right time? This week we're reissuing our in-depth DST explainer from last Fall, complete with a new intro looking at what's going on in Congress, musings on overnight-flight and time-zone nonsense from our past and present, some feedback from a chronobiologist we received about our original episode, and more. SHOW NOTES The ...
127: "fear, sex"
March 13, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBWill just happened to watch a whole bunch of Star Trek: TNG when he was laid up recently, so we got together this week to decidedly NOT talk about Best of Both Worlds, Measure of a Man, Darmok, or The Inner Light, but instead to run down some of our favorite sleeper eps, genre work, and picks for some of the most under-appreciated gems from one of our favorite TV series ever. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits,...
126: Welcome to the Question Store
March 06, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBAnother round of your questions meets another round of our answers this week, with queries about delayed eating habits, the "break-even" point on fixing or replacing old appliances, the mystery of cryptic crosswords, a theoretical number of monitors that's too many, the criminal bottom-charging Apple mouse, and a SHOCKING revelation about Windows Notepad's deepest, darkest secret. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the cre...
125: A NUC With a Screen
February 27, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBIt's a little reunion this week as our Steam Deck-equipped friends Norman Chan (of Tested) and Wes Fenlon (of PC Gamer) join us for a deep dive into Valve's new handheld after a couple of rigorous weeks of trying it out. Topics covered include the performance you can expect from games of various eras, a thorough breakdown of the controls, battery life and suspend mode, flinging your current game right to your PC, what it's like digging into the machine's Linux underpinnings, and much more. ...
Special Episode: FOSS NAS Solutions
February 20, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBuilding a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached storage options like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and Proxmox, plus dishing out some practical tips about why you'd want a NAS in the first place, some advice on hardware requirements, best practices for backups, and more. FOSS projects for running your own NAS that we mentioned in this episode include: O...
124: The Year of the Grid
February 13, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBThat pleasantly floral scent you're detecting means it's time for another potpourri ep! This time we dive into the nitty gritty of our podcast workflow and Brad's forthcoming adventures with XLR recording chains, a laparoscopic trip report, the collapse of the Nvidia/ARM deal, Will's mad-scientist experiments in RGB synchronization, the perils of running double-digit hard drives at once, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, you...
Special Episode: Enter the FOSS Pod
February 06, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBHey, we're launching a new spinoff podcast alongside the Tech Pod! It's a biweekly show about free and open source software called The FOSS Pod (which we think is extremely on brand), and this here is the first episode, in which we consider the Open Broadcaster Software--commonly known as OBS--and talk at length to founder and maintainer Jim Bailey about the past, present, and future of the project. Big thanks to Jim for taking the time to chat with us, and we hope you enjoy! Subscribe to t...
123: Not a Positive Outcome
January 30, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBYou have questions, we have answers about what we thought was cool in 2021, a couple of our war stories working in media, repairing a classic flip clock (and other old gear), the ins and outs of a hologram group-buy, a short love letter to neofetch, the ideal monitor size, what might come after "FAANG," 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 show at: https://...
122: Hashtag Octothorpe
January 23, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBMicrosoft's mind-boggling purchase of Activision this week prompted us to look back on other tech acquisitions large and small over the last two decades. Herein, a chat about the big winners, the stinkers, and everything in between. Which company has swallowed up the most smaller fish? Was Compaq seriously worth $25 billion dollars? Who exactly owns those robots that are going to end us all? What should you definitively NOT say in a meeting with Steve Jobs? Support the Pod! Contribute to th...
121: Notepad Dark Mode?!?
January 16, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBWill just successfully shipped his first game, and Brad has spent years asking questions about shipping games, so this week we met in the middle with a freewheeling chat about some of the technical nitty gritty of making and promoting a game. Listen in for topics from build servers to CNAMEs, working with varying storefront CMSs, running playtests on PCs in another state, some thoughts on collaboration from our time working with other startups and small teams, and more. Support the Pod! Con...
120: What Comes After
January 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThis week we avoided traveling to Las Vegas for CES and instead tried to absorb all the news coming out of the show from the comfort of our desks. Listen on for some loose chatter about goggles-shaped VR headsets, Samsung's entry into the OLED market, the travails of dealing with the latest HDMI standard, the latest from AMD and Nvidia, Will's Vegas survival dos and don'ts, and more. Stories discussed in this episode: CES attendance plummets 70%, E3 in-person canceled: https://www.msn.com...
119: The Sardine Warlord of the Wasteland
January 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBNew year, new set of listener questions! This month's Q&A has us addressing CES survival strategies, how to lose 77 terabytes of data overnight, the wisdom of dumping irradiated water into the ocean, the baffling continued existence of WinZip, lifelong breakfast meats, and a long overdue consideration of Marty the Stop & Shop robot. Check out Wordle, the word game everyone refuses to stop talking about! https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Gaze upon Marty and despair: https://www.huffpo...
Holiday Special: Abit, Are You Listening?
December 26, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBThis week we're reaching deep into the vault for the holidays and unlocking one of our favorite Patron-exclusive episodes, featuring dramatic readings of some of our most excruciating old posts from places like Usenet and the Ars Technica forums. Thanks to everyone for supporting us, have a safe and happy holiday, and we'll see you in 2022! Wait, is that actually a real year? Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits,...
118: #TidyDeskLife
December 20, 2021 00:22 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBThe weather is getting frigid (at least some places), and that means one thing: it's time for us to deliver another cube of cold opens. This time around we tackle everything from long-term Christmas tree planning to VPN strategies, the perils of teaching your child to use a can opener, freeing A Charlie Brown Christmas in the public interest, to haircut or not to haircut, the TSA's extreme aversion to coffee, and making enough egg nog to bathe in. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod...
117: A Turnip Cures Elvis
December 12, 2021 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBWe had such a good time talking about Hackers a few weeks ago that we're back with that other seminal '90s computer crime movie, Sneakers! Join us for a deep dive into the movie's stellar and surprisingly august cast, the prescient view of information warfare and government power, the joys of the Rube Goldberg heists, that saxophone, some chatter about San Francisco movies in general, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your n...
116: Nano on Both Sides
December 05, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBThe holidays are here again, and with them, the need to gift. This week we offer an informal not-a-gift-guide chat about gift giving and receiving, including topics like how to pick thoughtful gifts, trinkets and doodads our community loves, the ever-expanding (and surprisingly erotic) offerings on Etsy, a quick primer on Harbor Freight, the simple joy of a weighted blanket, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the...
115: Deals on Wheels
November 28, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBThis week we're thankful for our listeners and the many questions they provided to this Q&A ep, which got us talking about topics including how we research a new tech project before diving in, using VR to desensitize yourself to real motion sickness, the ravages of space on the human body, the .png pronunciation, a deep dive on stuffing recipes, and whether we'll ever daily-drive a Linux desktop or not. All that, plus, a real live chronobiologist (!) weighs in on our recent Daylight Savings ...
114: That's One Spicy Pillow
November 21, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week Apple announced an effort to begin offering service manuals, replacement parts, and other self-repair services to its customers. Who better to discuss this landmark move than iFixit CEO and right-to-repair advocate Kyle Wiens? Kyle joins us to talk about his DIY repair efforts over the years, what opening up your own iPhone will be like, Microsoft's exploratory moves toward repairability, the legal state of affairs that's driving this sea change, where e-waste actually goes when yo...
113: Three Prongs Bad, Two Prongs Good
November 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe've been holding video game controllers for most of our natural lives, and now we're attempting to put them in a qualitative, ordered list; a sort of "ranking," if you will. In this ep, we go decade by decade, from the NES to today, considering the technical innovations, ergonomics, fit and finish, historical influence, and general usability of our favorite (and not-so-favorite) controllers to arrive at the best of the best. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get acce...
112: Here Comes Manhattanhenge!
November 07, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBBy the time you hear this ep, Daylight Savings Time will have departed for another year, so DST is naturally what we're chatting about this week. We clear up some myths and history about DST's origins, talk about the axial tilt of the planet a bunch, swap tips about time changes and home automation, look at DST's relative safety and economic effects, debate whether society should keep doing this whole thing or not, and uncover the ancient myth of... Manhattanhenge. Episode Links! A cartogr...
111: Flanders Is Running in a Degraded State
October 31, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBIt's the most horrifying Q&A episode we've ever recorded! This month we field Qs about such topics as: how to teach your kids to view Internet content and influencers with a critical eye, our home electronics protocols for going out of town, essential gadgets we just can't bring ourselves to splurge on, listening to podcasts at super speed, and our favorite historical OS transitions. Plus, Will recounts his longtime experience running BartStorage, and Brad reveals his deepest personal secret...
110: The UPC of the Beast
October 24, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBWill's daughter recently had her first encounter with a corded telephone, which got us thinking about other technologies that are on the way out or have already vanished from society. In this ep we touch on a wide range of aspects of the old phone system, what things were like before every product had a barcode on it, whether we're trending toward a cashless society or not, how in the heck they processed credit card transactions before the magnetic strip, and more. Support the Pod! Contribu...
109: A House of Lies
October 17, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBIt's been nine years since Will's last big house cleanup, and the time has come once again to discuss... THE PURGE (of all his stuff). In the interest of general decluttering, this ep is a rambling consideration of such topics as: What should you do with all your fancy Lego builds? Is it better to hoard stuff, or data? Can you dig a basement under a house that already exists? How many USB cables does a person need, anyway? Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access t...
108: Deez Network Servers
October 10, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBWell, this was one heck of a week. On Monday, Facebook experienced a historic outage of its infrastructure that impacted services used by billions of people. On Tuesday, a new Windows came out. On Wednesday, Twitch disclosed one of the largest data breaches in years, maybe ever. We were duty-bound to talk through our view on all these momentous events, and some of the things we've learned along the way, and that's exactly what we did. If you'd like to jump to any of the individual topics th...
107: The Kick-Ass Stamp of Approval
October 03, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBWill Smith, this is your life! Or at least one month of it, specifically November 2009, when you published an issue of Maximum PC that included a review of Windows 7, speculation about ray tracing in video games, a breathless report about absolutely enormous 160GB SSDs, and other historical curiosities. With Windows 11 looming, we thought it would be fun to reach back into the vault and check out some coverage of a previous Windows launch and all the other fun and/or embarrassing stuff that ...
106: That's So USB!
September 26, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBOur monthly Q&A episode is all over the place in September, addressing such wide-ranging subjects as the fastest Internet we've ever used, surviving bear attacks, why they're so stingy with the USB-C ports, when exactly the week begins and ends, and a housewares block including electric kettles, cleaning bathrooms, letting go of boxes, and a debate about that age old matchup, oatmeal versus grits. Thanks to everyone who wrote in! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get a...
105: The Hardest Lift
September 19, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBHealth science writer and noted swole woman Casey Johnston joins us this week to talk about the convergence of exercise and strength training, food science, mobile tech, and the Internet. What's a healthy way to track your fitness progress without staring at numbers all day? How much commitment does it take to lift weights, really? Is food good? (Hint: probably.) We ponder these questions and more, plus a conversation about the past and present of digital journalism and some thoughts on the ...
104: Get the Good out of It
September 12, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBBang for the buck! There's no greater feeling than finding that one product that's way, way better than it should be for the price--or modifying it yourself to eke out that extra little bit of worth. In this episode we reminisce about some of the best tech scores we can remember, from venerable overclockers like the Celeron 300A and Duron 600 to huge audio upgrades by Sennheiser, Cambridge Soundworks, and even Radio Shack. From firmware upgrades to Ikea hacks to the Catleap monitor phenomeno...
103: A Watershed Moment in Copyright Litigation
September 05, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis week we're joined by Google's director of open source, Chris DiBona, to talk all things software licensing. Topics include corporate sponsorship of open source developers, how Google maintains license compliance across all its projects, what the ramifications of Oracle's long-running Java lawsuit could have been, why there isn't more open source game development, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credit...
102: My Little iPad Pillow
August 29, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBOn this month's Q&A ep, we debut some wild new cold-open technology, and then get on with the business of addressing subjects like the future of movie theaters, putting OnlyFans on the block chain, WinAmp memories, our current thoughts on smart watches, the explosion of new web and mobile tech around 2010 (and our fondness for WebOS), the ease of starting a company on the Internet, the best Star Trek tech that isn't the replicator, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patre...
101: Big-Dot-Little
August 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBThis week we recorded a grab bag about some disruptive current events going on in various tech spaces. Intel is finally making a real push into the GPU space, and also getting excited about the angstrom. OnlyFans has abruptly shut out the sex workers it built its business on, while placing the blame on moralizing payment processors. And Facebook is attempting to inch toward whatever the hell it thinks the metaverse is with its new VR workplace app. Join us as we attempt to dissect these and ...
100: The Spiteful Fork
August 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBDrama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles new and old, with conversations about Ubiquiti's no-good-very-bad week, pfSense's self-immolation via buggy Wireguard commit, Linksys' ancient violations of the GPL, illicit binaries, warring office-furniture companies, petty domain hijacking, and why so many of these situations seem to spring up around open-source projects. pfSense's Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBS...
99: You Wanna Be Elite?
August 08, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBWe recently found a Hackers-sized hole in Brad's filmgoing history, so we're killing two birds with one stone this week by making him watch the movie, and then recording an ep about it! Join us for a chat about this campy cult classic as we consider chunky laptops, cornball effects shots, teen-movie clichés, a star-studded cast, the presentation of the '90s hacker ethos, all the things the movie got right and wrong, and the idea that there might just be a little Zero Cool in all of us. #hack...
98: The Fox Knows What's Up
August 01, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBQuestion time is here again, and this month our answers address topics like these: why anyone is still using big ol' ATX, our favorite flea market finds of the past, drop shadows under mouse cursors, extremely frivolous 3D printing projects, the mysteries of random Bluetooth interference, and the puny little billionaires who couldn't even manage to escape low Earth orbit. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and...
97: How to Survive the Chipocalypse
July 25, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBEver wonder what it's like to try your hand at small-batch manufacturing overseas? Keyboardio's Jesse Vincent joins us this week to address that very subject in a broad discussion of his company's history, with a focus on the trials and tribulations of getting a hardware startup off the ground, setting up production-line tooling in China, being on the outs with your factory reps, solving IC shortages with FPGAs, finding loose iPhone processors in Shenzhen electronics stalls, and more. You c...
96: National Ground Beef Day
July 18, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBWe enjoyed Will's birth-year episode so much a few weeks ago that we're back with a look at the notable events in tech, science, and culture of 1979 now that it's Brad's turn. Slap this tape in your Walkman and listen to us prattle about CompuServe's origins in the life insurance industry, C++, events in nuclear energy (and weapons), the debut of the compact disc, the founding of Pixar and Sierra On-Line, the first Daytona 500 broadcast, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the rings of Jupiter, a...
95: The Pirate Radio of Podcasts
July 11, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBThis week we're joined by Will's friend Ben Brown, longtime online software developer, to talk about the Internet old and new. Topics include Ben's grassroots efforts to resurrect the Finger protocol, rooting around in 1977-era Unix source code, why the tech industry keeps reinventing the same features over and over, reading 'zines over Telnet, the never-ending accumulation and corporate consolidation of content, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access t...
94: "Naked Corporate Opportunism"
July 04, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBYou knew we couldn't resist doing a Windows 11 episode, and indeed we're here to talk about the whole shebang: virtualized security and the controversy around CPU support, the good (better window-snapping!), the bad (bottom-only taskbar!), and the ugly (rounded corners!?) of the new UI, the ol' Trusted Platform Module, Microsoft Store revenue changes, Android apps, and the coming war between Microsoft and Google. NOTES Here's TechRepublic's informative piece on Windows 11 CPU compatibility...
93: Missives From the Void
June 27, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBThis month's Q&A episode features Qs (from both email and our Discord) that got us chatting about such topics as: the ARPANET, passive-aggressive email signatures, pre-microprocessor computing history, battery management in devices you never use, corporate-mandated brand pronunciations, why video conferencing is merely "good enough," how we've navigated the sharing of our personal lives online over the years, and more! This week's show art courtesy of UCLA Support the Pod! Contribute to th...
92: Carmackology
June 20, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBid Software's Quake came out 25 years ago this week, and it also changed both of our lives. In this episode we wax nostalgic about the astonishing legacy of technical innovations Quake brought to game design, the ways it inspired our fascination with everything from client/server networking to NeXT workstations, the communities and studios that sprung up in its wake, all those endless .plan updates, the perfection that is DM3, and a lot more. Happy birthday, Quake. SHOW NOTES Here are the ...
91: Professor Will’s Magical Sensorium
June 13, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt's been a big week around these parts--Will helped reveal a new game at E3, and Brad helped launch a new online media property--so we did a potpourri episode touching on a bunch of the technical details of working on these projects, including: Will's embrace of git, how to positively influence Internet behavior, Microsoft's open-source moves, when we might see shipping Unreal Engine 5 games, a search engine that plants trees, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon a...