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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90: CONTROL MY MONITOR
June 06, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBReinstalling Windows: no one enjoys it, but everyone has to do it eventually. This week, we spend some time chatting about the ways this timeless ritual has gotten better (or worse) over the years, strategies for making the process as painless as possible, some of the unique things we do to customize a fresh install, and a lot more. Also: tune in for a hands-on report on the new GeForce 3080 Ti (and Will's rapid transformation into a '90s industrial vocalist). SHOW NOTES: Find the dates of...
89: Don't Mix the Soaps!
May 30, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBIf you're looking for our monthly Q&A ep, you've found it! This time around we consider such listener-provided topics as questionable soap-on-soap interactions, discerning frame rate by eye, dot-com-era layoffs, the legacy and contemporary influence of Neuromancer, software broadcast over the radio, and HDMI over, uh, coat hangers? 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 th...
88: It Just Makes the Lithium Angrier
May 23, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBSpurred by Will's first month with a Chevy Bolt, we present an episode on electric cars and attempt to answer questions such as: How weird is it to drive without braking? Can you check the car's battery health like it's a phone? What's the public charging situation like these days? How many EVs are out there, anyway? Should your car really have the power to text you? SHOW NOTES That wild mechanical thumb from the cold open: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1396003181151272963 Scie...
87: With a Name Like Deke...
May 16, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBIn honor of Will's birthday, this week we traveled back to the heady days of 1975 to see what was big in science and tech in the year of his birth. Our impromptu retrospective features everything from the Altair 8800 to Space Mountain, the Homebrew Computer Club, the Apollo/Soyuz handshake in space, Benoit Mandelbrot, Jaws, Betamax, and a little history-making company from Bill Gates and Paul Allen called... wait, does this say Traf-O-Data? Operating an Altair 8800 is not for the faint of h...
86: 42U or Bust
May 09, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBVery special guest Vinny Caravella joins us this week for a wide-ranging chat about his years of video production, juggling cameras in the early days of Whiskey Media, a love letter to analog signals, the infamous List of Terminated HDMI Adopters, a consideration of codecs and protocols past and present, and more. From logging tapes to crimping SDI cables, there's a lot in here! These HDMI adopters have been... terminated: https://www.hdmi.org/adopter/terminated Support the Pod! Contribute...
85: Hey, They've Got That Baseball
May 02, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBSix-ish months since launch, the next-gen consoles are now officially current-gen, so we thought it was time for a check-in on the state of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X platforms. How has the user experience matured so far? What system software issues are still lingering? When will games start shipping at 30Hz? Will they ever be easy to actually buy? These questions and more, discussed! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your na...
84: On a Cleaning Jag
April 25, 2021 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBEmail time! In this month's Q&A, we talk about Spring cleaning and strategies for organizing electronics with limited storage space, overusing ellipses and other Internet chat habits, long-lost Usenet posts, the great turn-of-the-century capacitor calamity, a mea culpa and backgrounder on the McDonald's coffee lawsuit, and more. Check out Gretchen McCulloch's linguistics podcast Lingthusiasm, referenced on this episode: https://gretchenmcculloch.com/podcast/ Support the Pod! Contribute to...
83: The Best One Is the One You Can Get
April 18, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBKishore Hari--Tested.com correspondent, noted science communicator, and steak-product connoisseur--rejoins us for a check-in on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic one year after his first appearance. Topics include where we're at with vaccination rates and efficacy, outreach efforts to combat vaccine skepticism, the pause on the Johnson & Johnson shot, how IP ownership is hindering vaccination in the Global South, what a new "normal" might look like, and... what's this feeling? Is that... op...
82: A Hundred Pounds and Razor Sharp
April 11, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBUltra-wideband support has been making its way into phones for a couple of years now, but... what the heck is it? This week we attempt to demystify this old wireless technology being adapted for modern devices, including its potential for very fine location tracking, why nobody is using it much (yet), whether it could replace Bluetooth, what effect it might have on Minority Report-style advertising, how it may turn your phone into your car keys, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the ...
81: A Cube of Cold Opens
April 04, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBWhat is this week's episode about, you might ask? Why, it has a delightfully floral scent, almost like... a potpourri. You could say it's sort of a buffet, offering a little something for everyone. It's a little from column A, a little from columns B through Z. In fact, this episode may be about everything under the sun and also nothing at all. 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 c...
80: That's a Sewer Diamond!
March 28, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBLike Spring, emails are upon us once again, and this month we talk about such listener-provided topics as the stagnation of flash memory, a Starlink trip report, some of the downsides of PC-building, multithreading video games, TVs that are monitors that are TVs, browser containerization, and the things you find down at the water treatment plant. 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...
79: A Subsidiary of Starko Industries
March 21, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBWhat the heck is going on with modern video game controllers? That's the question we're trying to address this week, with Joy Con and DualSense analog stick drift, unresponsive Xbox face buttons, do-it-yourself repair, advanced soldering techniques, class action lawsuits and other subjects all weighing on our minds. Is there any end in sight? 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...
78: The One With the Racing Stripes
March 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBThis week our quest to find consensus on the best advancements in PC-building reaches its end. From the USB superposition to the class warfare of fancy motherboards, the baffling duality of the M.2 socket, the many flavors of PCI Express, and the questionable inclusion of the headlamp, rest assured that we considered every possible angle in assembling this authoritative list that should be taken extremely seriously. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our b...
77: Big Shoutout to Thumbscrews
March 07, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBThe urge to rank is upon us again, and this time we're looking to put together a list of the best advancements in hardware over our 25-year history of building PCs. Can modular power supplies step to the mighty universal serial bus? Is there anything better than a case that doesn't lacerate your hands every time you open it? How serial IS serial ATA, anyway? Listen and find out! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credi...
76: Hell or Palo Alto
February 28, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBListener emails return after a brief hiatus, and this time they bring chatter about the correct Windows taskbar positioning, the latest PlayStation VR news, where we think AR might be going, "biannual" workarounds, a lament for the closure of Fry's, Freeman Dyson's fast-and-loose orbital mechanics, and the eternal glory of RSS. 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 sh...
75: The Right Right-Stuff Stuff
February 21, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBThis week we're joined by Adam Rogers, Wired senior correspondent and author of Proof: The Science of Booze, to talk all things alcohol. Topics include millennia-old fermentation practices, the stimulant/depressant dichotomy of drinking, that classically refined sommelier's palate, attempts to speed up the aging process, and modern assembly-line whiskey production. Bottoms up! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits...
74: Mining for Computronium
February 14, 2021 18:36 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBGoogle's "pivot" away from first-party Stadia development seemed like a good cue to spend an episode not only pondering the future of the company's game-streaming service--including third-party applications for Stadia's technology stack, and what all those server racks might be good for--and also going through the company's many, many dearly departed products. Anyone remember Google Pie? Links! The Google Graveyard Google's statement on the Stadia pivot The guy who founded his own ISP S...
73: Thirteen Issues a Year
February 07, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBWill used to work for a tech magazine. Brad always wanted to. We both read more than our fair share back in the day. So let's talk about magazines! In this ep we look back on those mammoth issues of Computer Shopper, our love of the PC Gamer demo CD, embargoes and print deadlines, Will's years in the magazine mines, what the (bumpy) transition from print to online was like, and lots more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in...
72: The State of the (Virtual) Union
January 31, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBIt's time for a check-in on the health of VR, including the latest in headsets and controllers, standout games and productivity software, the open-sourcing of Tilt Brush, our amazement that Windows Mixed Reality still exists, and the potential for AR to eventually supplant the whole thing anyway. You knew we'd find an excuse to use that photo eventually. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benef...
71: Curiosity and Perseverance
January 24, 2021 18:46 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBFriend of the podcast Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab stops by to give us the lowdown on the newest Mars rover Perseverance, set to land on the red planet in just a few weeks, plus all kinds of fun info about Lagrange transceivers, making oxygen out of thin air, flying helicopters on other planets, and recording home movies at mach 25. 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! Yo...
70: Executed By Google
January 17, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBTime for some 2021 emails! This month we talked about dearly departed Google products, how to fix a broken USB port (or whether you should even try), how we got started doing this, why your TOSLINK cable is keyed, a lab meat topic we should never have read out loud, and the current whereabouts of Maura Labingi. Intel's ARK CPU Fact Sheet Site AMD's Product Fact Sheet Site Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits...
69: The Gravest Day
January 10, 2021 14:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBWe were unable to turn our attention to anything but the week's horrifying events in Washington, D.C., so for this episode we had a freewheeling chat about... well, everything, including some perspective from Will's time working on the Hill, the infosec implications of the Capitol breach, how we attempted to keep up with the onslaught of news on Wednesday, and more. Stay safe, everyone. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in t...
68: The Treacherous World of Magnetic Flux
January 03, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBWe're kicking off 2021 with a trip back to... 1985? Yes, we sat down with a vintage episode of the Computer Chronicles to reflect on the hard disk's momentous arrival on the personal computing scene. Join us as we take a look back at drives measured in the whopping tens of megabytes, Winchester drives, XTs and ATs, the Mac HyperDrive, the ancient precursor to the Zip drive, beige boxes, and business suits galore. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our boom...
67: Nog Ambitions
December 27, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBWith 2020 (finally) drawing to a close, we look back on a few of our favorite tech things, big or small, from this challenging year. From advances in medical science to ways to stay social from afar, from new workflows we worked out to new gadgets we, uh, gadgeted, here's an informal list of some of the stuff that kept our spirits up, and a couple of things we're looking forward to, during this strange time in history. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to ou...
66: That Classic Chonk
December 20, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBOur last email ep of 2020 addresses such topics as: how to trust Google search results (or not), bad tech habits we just can't shake, how to get and stay digitally organized, the worth of external GPU enclosures, a life-changing tip about our Gmail workflow, some more home networking tips, and a treatise on the regional naming differences of winter hats. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benef...
65: Visionary or Villain
December 13, 2020 14:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBProduct design is on our minds this week, starting with the industry-redefining research that led to the production of modern, psychologically optimized junk food. Have the same sensibilities now overtaken the design of consumer electronics? Do soundbars and Cheetos have more in common than we realize? Is there a bliss point, but for tech? We explore this slightly abstract topic and attempt to arrive at a few answers. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our...
64: That Cheapskate Cumulonimbus
December 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBThe time has come to discuss 5G and the latest cellular data specs (largely because Will got an iPhone 12). We get into his hands-on experience with 5G speeds, the differences between low, medium, and high-band spectra, how 5G compares to LTE, what millimeter wave is exactly, how 5G may or may not interfere with weather forecasts, and 5G's potential to turn you into a lizard person. (One of these topics may be fake.) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our ...
63: Brad and Will Build a Dream House
November 29, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBWhile we're nursing our meat hangovers, we took a cue from last week's email about future-proofing your home to chat about 21st-century home ownership, including the thermodynamically efficient passive house, strategies for replacing cables in walls, current solar and battery capacity, novel construction materials, hanging furniture, and more!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 ...
62: PEMDAS for Monitors
November 22, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBOur Fall cornucopia of emails contains such succulent questions as: How future-proof should your new smart home be? To prebuilt PC or not to prebuilt PC? Where are all the HDMI 2.1 accessories? How do you wrangle a monitor and a TV in Windows? Plus, a whole bunch of tech that we--and you--have been thankful for in this trying year. 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 th...
61: The Bad Kind of Complexity
November 15, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBOn this busy week we threw together a delightful potpourri of different topics, from gadget repair to drilling through PCBs, lust for 4k TVs (or not), making the lightest mouse in history, the huge potential of handheld lidar, and a quick glimpse at what's coming next in big-budget video game development. Support the show and join the Techpod Discord for as little as $2/month at https://patreon.com/techpod. Bearded Bob's YouTube G Pro switch replacement video (the whole channel is good too...
60: Forgiveness, Not Permission
November 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBBig AMD energy this week. PC World's Gordon Mah Ung has gotten his hands on the new Ryzen 5000 series chips, and now he's here to tell us all about AMD's latest attempt to take the CPU crown (well, that and getting the fire department called). Then we dig into the announcement of the new RDNA 2-based Radeon 6000 cards, perhaps more affectionately known as BIG NAVI. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other ...
59: How You Know You're Living in the Future
November 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBWe've both tumbled down the Home Assistant rabbit hole, so this week we recorded an informal trip report on this sprawling open-source home automation system. Why would you want to replace your commercial hub? What sort of crazy scripting and automations can you come up with? Is it really worth editing .yaml files for all this? The answers lie within!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, an...
58: Lil' Doppler Redshift
October 25, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBOn this month's email show we talk about our love of astrophysics, a PC that could last you forever, bad interface design in consumer electronics, why e-ink screens aren't everywhere, Android longevity, the social niceties of Discord, and a bonus segment with Will's thoughts on gaming at THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY HERTZ. 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: htt...
57: Everything's Bigger in Texas
October 18, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBAll these new PC hardware announcements have us feeling nostalgic again, so we took another trip down memory lane to talk in-depth about the '90s 3D accelerator boom. The rise and fall of 3dfx! The OpenGL vs. Direct3D wars! All those .plan updates! Join us for some reminiscing about how we got from the earliest cards to the GeForces and Radeons of today. Computer Time vs. Human Time Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the ...
56: TressFX Vs. HairWorks
October 11, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThis week, we couldn't resist talking about the newly announced Zen 3 CPUs from AMD, along with the tease of their upcoming Big Navi-based graphics cards, plus a bonus segment on that PlayStation 5 teardown. We're just a couple of big old hardware nerds at heart, what can we say? 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://patreon.com/techpod Links! AMD's...
55: Five Altairian Dollars a Day
October 04, 2020 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBBrad just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time (and Will reread it for the eleventy-thousandth), and now we're here to discuss the book's cheeky sci-fi Anglicisms and cavalier relationship with reality and metaphysics, its endless influence on pop culture, the career of Douglas Adams, and more. Thanks to all of our supporters who made this episode possible! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits...
54: Lack Rack!
September 27, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThe emails cometh, and bringeth with them questions and tips about why nobody can order a 3080 or PS5, the eyeball-saving properties of red nightlights, rounded vs. angular phone design, consumerism in tech and ethics in coding, and, yes, how to make your own Lack rack. 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://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contri...
53: The Mass-to-Volume Ratio
September 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBNvidia bought ARM. Nvidia bought ARM! It's one of the biggest semiconductor deals in history, so we dive deep into what it all means, from some basics on CPU architecture to the implications for the mobile, enterprise, and machine-learning markets. One of our nerdiest episodes yet! 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://patreon.com/techpod Support the...
52: It's an App Basket!
September 13, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBPlaying video games remotely has gotten surprisingly good lately, so this week we decided to sit down and figure out the what's what of home game streaming. From older options like Steam Link to the Parsecs and Moonlights of today, not to mention some of the recent high-quality, low-latency backend tech that's making it possible, there's a lot to unpack. Join us! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other gr...
51: The Man With the Spatula
September 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBLast week Brad and Will got to attend a virtual deep dive on Nvidia's new 30-series GPUs, and in this ep we attempt to break down all the new ray-tracing optimizations, DirectStorage capability, whole-system latency reduction, push-pull cooler designs, V-shaped PCBs, and more. Be warned, it's a lot! 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://patreon.com/te...
50: Two Is One, One Is None
August 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBOur 50th episode doesn't quite have 50 emails, but it's close: tune in for listener mails about bugout bags, evacuation tips, data over HAM radio, the resilience of municipal fiber, and very, very high-end broadcast video. 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://patreon.com/techpod Show art credit: Chechu Risk Gemini (a Gopher-like protocol) Camera C...
49: Proto-Prepping
August 23, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBWith the latest round of California wildfires heavy on our minds, this week we ended up with a wide-ranging conversation about what to take with you when you evacuate, climate change, PCs as space heaters, crawl space water cooling, and the genius of Douglas Adams. 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://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute ...
48: Grip Is Good
August 16, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBFollowing up on our software unitasker ep from a few weeks ago, we're now moving into the physical realm. This week we run down a few of our favorite devices, trinkets, and doodads that make it just a little bit easier to get things done. Here's a quick list of the stuff we mentioned on this ep which should be easy to search for: Brad Genki Covert Dock by Human Things Retractable cables (Digital Ant's look pretty good) Charging station (bamboo or other) Articulated HDMI extenders (Monopri...
47: Key-Hoarding
August 09, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBThis week we very carefully lower ourselves into the unthinkably deep rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards. If you've ever wanted to know your MX reds from your blues, tenkeyless from 65%, keycaps, backlights, and more, this episode is for you. 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://patreon.com/techpod Some mech keyboard resources: Drop: https://drop....
46: The Suborbitable Caterpillar
August 02, 2020 13:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBEeeeeeeeeeeeeeemails this month address questions like: Where the heck are the color e-ink readers? Can we imagine a world without DNS? What in the world is a sputtering target? Want a quick 'n easy cable-organizing tip that will BLOW YOUR MIND? 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://patreon.com/techpod Here's the magical hanging cable organizer in al...
45: No-Tonsil-Stone Zone
July 26, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBPC Gamer's Wes Fenlon stops by to talk about turning an old PC into a new router. Why would you want to roll your own router in the first place? What are your hardware and software options to do so? What kind of fancy new network stuff can you do with it? The answers lie within! 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://patreon.com/techpod Here's Wes' ar...
44: alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die
July 19, 2020 13:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIn these trying times, we thought a nostalgic little walk down memory lane might be nice. Join us as we look back at the '90s Internet, from PPP connections and .plan files to Gopher, IRC, and Will's part in the Eternal September. 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://patreon.com/techpod Here's the microsuction stuff Will mentions in the intro: https...
43: Sigh Ops
July 12, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBThis week we run down a few of the common and not-so-common software tools that make our lives a bit easier. From text-syncing to task-scheduling, audio management and phone automation, we hope there's something in here that can make your life a little easier, too. 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://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute ...
42: It’s Only a Mistake if You Don’t Learn
July 05, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis month's email episode contains some of your own tech horror stories, from melted carpet fibers and shutting down a whole town's Internet to causing seven-figure production stoppages. Also: draconian ISP upstream policies and a chat about the mechanical, pre-silicon days of computing. Enjoy! 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://patreon.com/techpo...
41: The Great Simian Mathematician
June 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBAnother Apple episode already? Yeah, we didn't expect it either until WWDC brought such a bounty of new stuff to talk about. In addition to ARM-based Macs, somehow iOS managed to be the most interesting thing at this year's conference. Home screen widgets! Multitasking! App defaults? After all these years?! 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://patreo...