Breaking Change

By Justin SearlsTechnology

Breaking Change episodes

December 06, 2024v25 - Ghost Engineering
I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself.
I made a pretty strong appeal that you should e-mail the show at [email protected], so I won't repeat myself here. DO IT. DO IT NOW.
Hopefully I'll be back at least once more before we call it for 2024. Stay tuned. 📻
Correction: In the opening segment, I said (twice) that the Gender Equality section chief took me to Tokyo to see 紅葉 in 2005, but it was actually Kyoto. I regret the error
iOS 18.2 adds two-step shutter to the Camera Control
Aaron's puns, ranked
The MacBook Upgrade Program
What will the Command Center look like?
Tim Cook hasn't forgotten how to long divide
The Camera Roll is less slow now
Intel is so boned
Google is approaching that level of bonedness (News+)
Ghost Engineers 👻
LLMs seem like a bad business to be in
AGI is right around the corner but don't worry, it sucks
Get your work done before the day gets poisoned
Wonder Project J
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Gladiator II is good
I hope Steam Deck is, too
Neeto Products
2 hr 51 min
November 10, 2024v24 - Prophylactic Jet Lag
TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking.
Had some great e-mails this show. You should keep the streak alive and mouth off with your fingers at [email protected].
Savor this version, folks. Gonna be at least a few weeks until you'll have another one.
International Driver's Permit
Don't be that guy. Don't drive a go-kart in downtown Tokyo
Watch my final talk, The Empowered Programmer (Justin's Version)
I have to pay for a search engine now, wtf
macOS Sequoia iPhone Mirroring is cool
Aaron's puns, ranked
The Nintendo Music app is rad
Fresca is extremely-flavored seltzer water
Don't disable "Prioritize Faster Shooting"
Google has a thumb on the scale
Apple is buying Pixelmator
Mass Effect is coming to Amazon Prime Video
Pour one out for the You've Got Mail guy
Notepad.exe is AI now
LLMs may be reaching a point of diminishing returns
Newest member of the badass scientist of the month club
How to undervolt your GPU
Like a Dragon: Yakuza
Galileo G8 controller
3 hr 5 min
October 30, 2024v23 - M4 Supermax
It is Wednesday, my dudes! This is normally a weekend listen, but there are
new Macs to talk about. I wanted to give you the absolute freshest, least
accurate information I can about all these neat new computers that I WILL
NOT BE BUYING BECAUSE TIM COOK IS A COWARD.
Write something you want to say in all caps over at [email protected]
and maybe I'll scream it on the show!
Inside-voice links follow:
The new Kindle Paperwhite
Black plastic is worse, now. Egg yolks are back to being good
Fancy Shun knives at a reasonable price
Don't waste your money on this combination sleeping mask / Bluetooth speaker
iOS 18 Hearing Test
Ricky Mondello's Apple Passwords migration strategy
My new fuckthis.app platform
Eric Doggett is helping me learn how to take pictures
Aaron's puns, ranked
New M4 Macs BUT NO 12" MACBOOKS TO SPEAK OF
Can't wait to see The Rock star in the Apple Oregon Trail movie
GitHub's new Copilot and Spark announcements
Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants
One man's high-end electric vehicle is another man's obsolete garbage
Star Trucker game
Call of Duty: Blops 6
2 hr 32 min
October 20, 2024v22 - Coming to VHS
Welcome to this podcast which, by now, you have probably decided you either
listen to or don't listen to! And if you don't listen to it, one wonders
why you are reading this.
Remember to write in at [email protected] with
suggestions for news stories and whatever you'd like me to talk about. Please
keep it PG-rated or NC-17 rated. I want nothing in between.
Family-friendly and/or sexually explicit links follow:
I returned this razor
How I fixed Photo Shuffle
I made an unfortunate comment about birds and hands in my newsletter
Koala Nap is not currently working for me, but I appreciate their responsiveness in trying to fix it
Aaron's puns, ranked
🚨 RoboCab Code White 🚨
Matt Mullenwag sounds like a real piece of work at work
Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS. Really
Grindr will soon Grind without you
Apple's next 4 Vision Devices according to Mark Gurman
iPad Mini 7
Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred
I hope Dragon Age: Veilguard redeems Bioware
Strange Planet was a cool show
The Family is creepy
Struggling to care about Slow Horses
Got schmutz? Get a Zodiac MX8 Elite
2 hr 12 min
October 07, 2024v21 - Not From Backup
Get ready for a three-hour-plus Breaking Change spectacular! Why is it special?
I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to listen.
Remember, money doesn't change hands when you consume this Content™, but that doesn't
make it free! In exchange for downloading this MP3, the license requires you to
write in to [email protected] at least once every
three episodes. Some of y'all are past due, and I know where to find you.
Want URLs? I got URLs:
This useless skinny tree fell over
Becky's first app is live at betterwithbecky.com
I bought a camera
I gave my final conference talk. Video is pending, but I'll link to it here when it's up
Aaron's puns, ranked
Apple: 1, Europe: 0
Google should figure out security architecture
A nice longread about where AI is and where it (may) be going over the next decade
I'm bearish on IBM's prospects
1Password 8 doesn't feel like an upgrade
The iPhone 16 Pro is all about camera styles and tone map customization
Can't wait for that 12" MacBook Pro
The new Reduce Interruptions focus mode
Folks are mad about Star Wars Outlaws
Star Trucker, a game I mistakenly called "Space Trucker"
Furiosa is good
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives isn't
Penguin is remarkable 2 episodes in
🫡
3 hr 24 min
September 15, 2024v20 - Mandatory Stealth
There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking
Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by
friend of the show, Eric Doggett, who helped out with
mixing!
If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff
those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"):
[email protected].
Spicier-than-usual show notes follow:
Kin Euphorics are usually non-alcoholic overpriced cocktails
Squarespace kinda sucks now and a lot of people are worried the new PE overlords are gonna kill it
Build with Becky soft-launched, but it's stealth so you're on your own to figure out the sign-up URL.
My newsletter that's reminded some people of my impossibly, unfairly high standards
Nifty Cyberpunk VR mod
Aaron's puns, ranked
Apple Event stuff
Rest in Playercount, Concord
Remember to make sure your surgeon can tell a spleen and a liver apart before they put you under
All aboard Florida's manslaughter express 🚂🚂
The PS5 Pro is the solution to a problem, but nobody's sure which
Open AI o1-preview is significantly less stupid
Thanks to our sponsor for all your ERP needs, Oracle Netsuite
Star Wars Outlaws
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Don't start a Civil War
Welcome to Wrexham Season 3
For any chumps out there who think listening is the key to persuasion
@tompng's awesome Ruby Kaigi keynote now has a video you can watch
Walkshop is a super cool way to run a retreat
🌶️
2 hr 57 min
August 25, 2024v19 - Feature Complete
It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finally
done* with that big app I've been working on.
I'm running behind on e-mails and need your best and worst takes for the next
episode: [email protected].
Find out what that asterisk refers to below:
Filing an FCC complaint
Supermaven
The git logo
iMessage via satellite
Aaron's puns, ranked
Meta cancels their 2027 Vision Pro competitor
A bunch of random, disturbing Black Myth: Wukong links
Ford might start making cars again (News+)
The Acolyte and review-bombing
SmartLess: On the Road
Deathloop
Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand
Star Wars Outlaws
Adam Mcrea's Alpine/Phlex screencast
*I am, in fact, not at all done.
2 hr 25 min
August 11, 2024v18 - Arriving today by 10 PM
Boy, have I got a great show for you today! I guess. You be the judge.
If you listen to the podcast, please rate it on a scale from Good Charlotte to My Chemical Romance at
[email protected].
The following links are included with your subscription:
Macrofactor app
Butterfly keyboard checks going out
My tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in Rails
Aaron's pun
Physical game sales are finally in decline
Intel's processors are borked
Flighty's latest update is an example of "Good" "AI"
The M4 Mac Mini Mini
Google banning accounts for CSAM when there may not be CSAM
Loki is fine
Deadpool & Wolverine is fiiiine
2 hr 36 min
July 27, 2024v17 - Shallow Tissue Massage
I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs with
Apple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Because
that's most of what I got this time.
Not enough of you are writing in, and if you don't start soon I am going to CANCEL
this PODCAST production PERMANENTLY:
[email protected]. (Write in or else.)
Some proof of work:
Aaron's pun
SearchGPT
The Crowdstrike thing
Windows Kernel access to third parties
Pete Buttigieg reads angry Delta tweets
Legitimate LLC
The Boys (I failed to
explain what this show is or the basic premise, so here's a Wikipedia link.
Whoops!)
Gary Larsen's The Far Side comic
2 hr 19 min
July 14, 2024v16 - No Politics Allowed
Big day: now with transition music! 🎶
There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, but
if you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's because
Breaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things to
get mad about.
Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internet
friend? Now's your chance:
[email protected]. (Other topics also welcome.)
I heard you like links:
A "recipe" blog post on how to use Turbo Streams to swap out content
This month's newsletter about work pressure
My Vision Pros interview
Today's pun, ranked
Tim Cook uses Vision Pro every day
All the ways Japan is trying to stop you from visiting (News+)
White-collar Work is Just Meetings Now (News+)
Star Trek Discovery
Steve! (Martin) documentary
Remembering Gene Wilder
Airfoil Satellite for Windows Airplay
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
Sunny (Apple TV)
Objectified film
2 hr 53 min

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