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Brittany's official debut as the host of the podcast! Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core.

Tommy and Adam discuss the decline of traditional computers in favor of mobile devices—but what does the future hold?

In today’s show we cover the rise of scooter sharing and how different localised constraints result in different micromobility solutions blooming. Specifically:

- The scooter sharing model that Bird pioneered, why it emerged in Santa Monica and why it might not apply to other contexts.

- The history from the Segway to the hoverboard, Boosted Board and on to the current scooter form factor.

- The local variables that need to be considered for micromobility fleet operators.

- The parallels of the rise of micromobility with early cellular, and the Galapagos scenario of ecosystem development.

Note - aware that the last 9 minutes of audio from this episode were mistakenly added (as a hidden gem!) to the end of last week’s podcast. Not everyone caught it, and contextually makes far more sense here! Apologies for any confusion.

This week, Merlin's got a LOT going on. Full Catastrophe Living!

Discussed: booger colors, some tv and movies, a dream deferred, various X-Persons, loving GoodTask 3, plus Dan and Merlin just cannot remember many, many things.

Next, your hosts dive into their first day with Mojave and reminisce about the days when you could make your Finder look all steampunk. This leads to a deeper dive on what the future of Macs might be and why they feel how they do (hint: they are both kind of old).

They also both want to know what the heck is going on with Chrome, and Dan pitches a movie.

Jeff and Christian welcome Alanah Pearce from Funhaus to the show this week to discuss Telltale Games shutting down, the Playstation Classic, a new Death Stranding trailer, and more!

The Playlist: Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Destiny 2 Forsaken, Overcooked, WoW

VR Talk: Chronos, Beat Saber, Windlands 2

Parting Gifts!

Tommy and Adam discuss the recent study in which scientists gave MDMA to octopods to find out how they'd react despite their decentralized nervous systems.

This week Cody and Joe discuss iOS12, iPhone XS pre-orders, iPhone XS reviews, Apple Watch reviews, AirPower, and much more!

Katel LeDu, Co-founder of the No, You Go podcast and CEO of A Book Apart, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Topics include: Getting comfortable putting yourself out there when you’re really more of a behind-the-scenes person. Starting a podcast. The life of a photo director at National Geographic. Asking for help. Community outreach—diversity and inclusion. What it’s like to have your therapist as a guest on your podcast. Leading by example. Walking the walk. Finding new authors and new voices. Imposter anxiety and narcissism.

Dan and John compare blues to linoleum flooring. Wood paneling is discussed. John would choose a robot dragon over a robot owl.

In this episode, we look at Marchetti's constant and why commute times tend to aggregate at under 1 hour per day. In this episode we also cover:

- how the 1 hour daily commute has been a constant across time, and how that affects how our cities form.

- What the Marchetti's constant is, and how it has driven the explosion in shared scooters and bikes.

- the Segway, why it failed and what it can teach us about the emergent micromobility phenomena.

- The problems with traditional bikeshare systems, and why new layers of technology have helped this.

- The power-network-intelligence matrix for thinking about emergent trends in micromobility.

- How networks can creatively use incentives to solve for the limitations of the vehicles

Transcript of this show is available on our Medium page.