Breaking Change

By Justin SearlsTechnology

Breaking Change episodes

June 30, 2024v15 - An E Ink iPod Touch
I bought a new gadget! And it runs Android! And I don't hate it!
Tell me about things you hate and don't hate and I might just read your feelings
on air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, is
[email protected].
Sources below:
Ubiquiti UniFi
Loopback with SSL2+
This annoying Safari bug
My first video clip from Breaking Change
A podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision Pros
Aaron's punboard
The EU won't get these new Apple features
Gruber's take on this matches my own
The BOOX Palma
Digital Foundry tells us not to play games on our Windows + Copilot PCs
Dark Matter
Godzilla Minus One
samus.link
2 hr 46 min
June 20, 2024v14 - Actual Intelligence
WWDC came and went and now we're all just
left to ponder what life will be like under the thumb of our new AI overlords
(and underlords). But at least for now,
humans are still allowed to produce podcasts on their own, which means we can
safely opine about the fresh hell we're all hard at work creating.
I finally got a chance to get to some mailbag questions in this episode! If you
want to be a part of the ✨magic🪄, shoot me an e-mail to
[email protected]. I won't read your last name on
air, unless I accidentally do. Promise!
Here are some links to stuff from this episode:
Tiana's Bayou Adventure
Flash Mountain
Jock Lindsey and his hangar bar
Koala Nap
Sandwich's Theater app and how they live-streamed the Talk
Show
Three Simple Rules to using my large language model
Dear AI companies, please scrape this website
My growing POSSE thanks to feed2thread
Aaron's v14 pun
My WWDC appearance on the Changelog
Ben Thompson being mostly right, as usual
Apple suspends work on the Vision Pro 2
Mouse Jigglers!!!!
More bad security news for
Microsoft
because memos
alone
aren't a real
solution
The Xbox Games Showcase was good
The Nintendo Profit machine seems set to roll on
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Ashley Madison documentary
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok cult
Diablo IV
2 hr 37 min
June 08, 2024v13 - WWDC Spoilers
WWDC is right around the corner,
and I wanted to do a predictions podcast before Monday's keynote, but then
Mark Gurman went and just read back literally everything that's going to
happen.
So I guess let's talk about that or something.
As always, I love love love to receive your e-mail even though it's
hard to get through very many of them on the program. Please know that your
comments and questions really bring me a lot of joy and that you should
e-mail whatever pops into your head to [email protected]. Quick. Now. Don't think, hit send.
Okay, and now for some 👐Show Notes👐:
I'm speaking at Rails World
I didn't pick this thumbnail
WWDC rumors:
The new Apple Passwords app
"Apple Intelligence"
Mark Gurman's motherlode
Valve made a billion dollars selling loot boxes
Like a Dragon: Yakuza
Dark Matter (show)
Jenny Nicholson's Starcruiser video
Just think, next time we speak, it'll be Beta Season.
2 hr 51 min
May 29, 2024v12 - LIVE from Japan
[Update: if you're reading this, then you're listening to an updated
version of this episode with a more aggressive denoise filter, to try to combat
the karaoke jingles playing incessantly in the background 🎤.]
Welcome to the rhetorical Bemusement Park that is the Breaking Change podcast!
This episode was recorded in Japan, the recording of which was an ordeal that
you will hear all about if you choose to press play and listen to this version
of the podcast.
I have failed you all, however, because I had to duck out of my "recording"
"booth" ahead of schedule and I didn't get to any items from the mailbag. That
means now's your chance to skip the line ahead of all those other mailbaggers by
rapid-firing off an e-mail to [email protected] for
inclusion in a theoretical, unannounced, unsure-if-it'll-even-happen version 13.
Heard people liked URLs so I hallucinated some for you:
Golden Week
Justin's "Backside of water" 2024 tour:
Matsue
Tottori
Kanazawa
Toyama
Niigata
…TBD
Ruby Kaigi
Pen-san's keynote
Koic's LSP talk
Nintendo's incredible Switch profits
Heroku finally supports HTTP2
John Ternus may be the next Apple CEO
Copilot + PC = ?
Correction: Dub Dub is June 10th, not June 7th
さようなら
2 hr 52 min
April 26, 2024v11 - I'm feeling unlucky
Today we have a veritable smorgasboard of potpurri as we indulge in the
figurative potluck dinner that is, "shit Justin wants to talk about." This may
be the last major version for a while, so savor this.
Thank you to listeners who took version 10's mandatory e-mail feedback demand
seriously, as the mailbag once again is full of good questions. But you must
do your part and e-mail [email protected] to
keep it that way. Each e-mail you send entitles you to a license to listen to
three more episodes, so—in a sense—you can't afford not to write in.
Have some links:
The Synapse 25 bag I'm downgrading into
Sandwich video makes cool commercials
Searls After Dark was a 10 part YouTube series I did
Star Trek Into Darkness
"Open face" Vision setups
TikTok ban passes
Base RAM hasn't budged since Tim Cook took over
Peter Cooper be trollin'
Llama sucks at coding
My new Spots media type and mapping feature
The man who killed
Google
⛷️
2 hr 43 min
April 18, 2024v10 - Inhumane A.I.
It's been over two weeks! Let's catch up. We can talk about anything you want,
so long as it's App Store policies regarding "retro" game emulators or where to
find the best Japanese love hotels.
Also, I hate to spoil an announcement, but due to a lack of mailbag engagement,
e-mailing [email protected] after you listen to each
episode of the program is now mandatory for all listeners. Figure it out.
Citations follow:
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games
Devs don't want to make live service games
The Courage to be Disliked
The Top 10 Breaking Change puns
Disney changes its accessibility program
Spatial personas are quite cool
John Gruber is wrong about vibration APIs
Emulators! In the App Store!
The Humane AI Pin is a bad product
Sonos Move 2 is an expensive speaker
Constellation is a weird show
Fallout hits all the right mid-century notes
This Love Hotel room has a water slide
A video about how sports betting seems bad
DHH announcing his cloud exit
2 hr 56 min
April 02, 2024v9 - Learn to Unicode
If you're itching for a discussion that explains why I'm afraid to move into my
new bathroom, what I really think about Andrew Huberman, and why it might make
more sense to learn French than Java… prepare to be scratched, I guess?
I am highly confident that at least one person will get angry and unfollow this
show as a result of words that came out of my mouth. If you've got thoughts
and/or feelings, let me have'm at [email protected]!
Some links to things:
legitimate.us
Added likes for my podcast
Browsers ignore autocomplete=off
My new dry_eraser gem
My newsletter about chronic back issues
Tron got snubbed because they "cheated" by using computers (a cool video about its production)
The Huberman "hit-piece" (News+)
Huberman as pseudo-science
Universities have a Computer-Science Problem (News+)
The End of Foreign-Language Education (News+)
Stardew Valley 1.6
True Detective Season 4
2 hr 10 min
March 23, 2024v8 - Anti-trustworthy
This podcast is dedicated to the brave men and women at the Department of
Justice for taking bold and decisive action against a clear and present danger
to the continued existence of the United States of America: Apple's use of green
bubbles and how they make some Android users feel bad.
Since the DOJ's lawsuit is all about vibes, send me your vibes—good or bad—and
I'll be there for you. Who knows, if you choose to direct your energy to
[email protected], maybe I'll get lucky and
finally feel something in this cold, dead heart of mine.
Links and such follow:
Rails World 2024
Toy Story Mania
Bertrand Russel dishin' out takes
A look at Unreal Engine 5's new features like Nanite and Lumen
Ubisoft's creepy AI chatbot NPCs
The DOJ's 88-page complaint against Apple
Jason Snell's first take on it
Another Life, finally answering the
question, "what if Battlestar Galactica was a CW show but only the Katee
Sackhoff parts"?
The Halo-flavored Halo show and the mediocre Halo Infinite game
Dave the Diver
Odell Lake for the Apple II
Cook Serve Delicious
2 hr 48 min
March 10, 2024v7 - Outside your app's business hours
This was a long episode, so here are some short notes.
As always, your e-mails delight and inspire me. Send one to
[email protected] with anything you want in it. I
don't care if it's just emoji and gifs.
Citations follow:
iOS progressive web apps are back to how they were in the EU
The Television app unveil
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates
Webpacker is retired
KameSame is my Japanese language app
DHH and Windows
Smart EX
Starship Troopers led us to Helldivers 2
The story behind Game Dev Story
That Weird Al biopic
The upcoming Fallout series
3 hr 5 min
February 25, 2024v6 - Pausing doesn't pause
[UPDATE: In this episode, I referenced Stripe having an IPO in the past
tense. I was mistaken, they are not (yet) publicly traded. We regret the
error.]
The audio is better this week! I'm learning.
Also, I finally had something to talk about that has nothing to do with Apple!
The target of the ion cannon that is my mouth this time? drumroll… it's
Stripe! Sorry, Stripe. If you like rants about software quality and the systemic
reasons everything is terrible, hoo boy! This one brings the heat. 🔥🔥🔥
We're starting to work down our mailbag backlog, so help me freshen it up by
e-mailing the show at [email protected] and our
dedicated staff (me) will read it and—potentially, maybe—respond on the air!
And now, some URLs:
Scott Hanselman didn't (doesn't?) think profanity works
Mike McQuaid's appearance on Changelog and Friends to talk about Workbrew
Aaron's humble love-making blog post
Stripe's problematic pause button, which invokes this
feature,
and which their COVID-19 support page touts
iMessage's post-quantum cryptography
Execute Program by Gary Bernhardt, one of the
only educational services teaching programming that I can recommend
Arcade Paradise is a good game
The Killer is a movie
Also, "Team Bally Total Fitness Extreme Racing" doesn't turn up anything on Google. Just an FYI
1 hr 58 min

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A show in which Justin Searls talks with you from time to time. Programmer things. Apple stuff. Gaming news. Dispatches from Disney World. Each episode also entitles the listener to one (1) exclusive…