Breaking Change

By Justin SearlsTechnology

Breaking Change episodes

February 17, 2024v5 - Regressive Web Apps
Welcome to Breaking Change, the 14th most popular technology podcast in
Argentina! (And 30th in Norway!)
It's been a couple weeks since my last breaking change and, guess what, I done
broke things again.
If you would prefer I not make so many breaking changes (or if you wish me to
break even more of them!), e-mail me at
[email protected] and let me know and/or share your
darkest secrets under a pseudonym using a throwaway account. Nobody needs to
know.
Links and so forth:
Open AI's Sora
The first good Apple Vision Pro strap
Apple vindictively yanked PWAs from Europe
How to behead an M2 MacBook Air
runruby.dev
My newsletter, which if you sign up for now you'll see my announcement of Beckygram
Link by Stripe seems neat
Welcome to Wrexham is a good show
Sidecar is a very grown-up drink for grown-ups
Dark AF movies:
Drive my Car (starring the guy from きのう何食べた)
Cloud Atlas
Synecdoche, New York
Vanilla Sky
Requiem for a Dream
1 hr 57 min
February 03, 2024v4 - Facial Computing
This podcast is a month old and four episodes in and the singular event looming
over all of it has finally arrived! The era of facial computing has begun!
Join me for a Vision Pro extravaganza in which I detail all of my first
impressions using the device, including dozens of things that seemingly every
media and YouTube reviewer missed or excluded. Listen to this podcast and you'll
hear tell of bugs you wouldn't believe even if you did see them!
The headline takeaway is: Apple Vision is clearly the future, because it's
clearly not yet the present. (And why I'm probably keeping it anyway.)
As always, e-mail me your reviews, reactions, and errata at
[email protected] and I'll absorb them into the
bubbling stew of opinions I'm forming about this futuristic-and-not-necessarily-in-a-good-way computing platform.
Scant show notes follow:
Life updates:
What life? There is only Vision Pro!
Follow-up:
No time. Skipped it!
I managed to completely botch the reading of yet another of Aaron's puns
News:
Apple Vision Pro is here and I talk about it. At length!
Recommendations:
Flowriter is worth checking out for generating immersive 3D spaces with text prompts alone
Mailbag:
Things 3 for visionOS
You know the deal: [email protected]
See you, spatial cowboy.
2 hr 4 min
January 27, 2024v3 - Core Technology Fee
Welp, Apple forced my hand and generated even more news in the run up to the
launch of Apple Vision Pro and it demands a response! (Right?)
As is so obvious and well-established that I forgot to mention it, you
can e-mail me the show at
[email protected] and maybe I'll find a way to work
it in. Comments, questions, and complaints are all welcome!
Without further ado, let's a-do it:
What's new:
It's finally shorts season! 🩳
DNSimple is run by some lovely people and you should host your domains there
My brother is Iron Man, here's proof
Follow-up:
Messaging with Siri paves the way to its becoming a multi-lingual voice assistant
Steam Link and what it might mean if Valve (is allowed to) publish it on visionOS
Another pun for the pun gods from Aaron
News:
The 40th anniversary of the Mac (and my first one)
The absolutely monumental changes in iOS 17.4, including:
Automatic, lyrics-like transcripts in the Podcasts app
Evidence of on-board LLM support for Siri in iOS 18
Cloud streaming apps are now allowed
The Apple-Masimo blood oxygen patent kerfuffle impacting Apple Watch
Why third-party browser rendering engine support isn't what some people were hoping
The 27% / 12% external link "entitlement"
Apple's cunning 50¢ core technology fee
Recommendations:
Cyberpunk 2077 sucks less now
Upload season 3
Mailbag links:
Tonal is my preferred way to "get swole"
Even though I failed to mention it, remember to e-mail me! The address is still [email protected]
That's it. You've got places to be.
2 hr 28 min
January 19, 2024v2 - Vision Pre-order
Heads up gang, there's a new breaking change with this release: my wallet is
like $8000 lighter thanks to the Vision Pro preorders.
As always as of a week ago, you can e-mail me at
[email protected] and I'll read it silently in my
head. If all goes well, I'll read it out loud, too. And everything works out, I
may even read it out loud and into a microphone for the next show.
Okay, let's dig into this latest version:
What's new:
I flew a little too close to the sun at Universal Studios
Speaking of Universal, DJ Khaled is billed for their Mardi Gras concert series
Finally answered the question, "how much of an 8", 12-pound carrot cake can I eat in one sitting?"
Follow-up:
My v1 nervousness
Fixing an ActiveStorage bug
Vision Pro pre-order
This stupid travel case
This hyper-dense 24,000 mAH Anker Power Bank battery to continuously charge the battery
Dual Loop Band >>>> Solo Knit Band
Will it have shake to undo?
How heavy is 650 grams?
News:
Siri and multiple languages
Victor Shepelev's Useless Ruby Syntax
Landon Gray's react_ai gem / proof-of-concept (based on Cornell's ReAct paper)
Entertainment
Foundation Season 2
The Crown's final season
Moonlighter
You Suck at Cooking
Mailbag:
Dead Space remake
Riley H on Fiverr is the fellow that made the show's jingle
Rewind.ai
Next time, it's up to you to e-mail [email protected]
Phew. Until next time, I guess.
1 hr 44 min
January 10, 2024v1 - Initial Commit
I finally gave up and recorded a podcast. And now I'm writing show notes. I
tried not to let this happen but here I am typing this and it's happening.
Forgive me.
This is a podcast for anybody who shares my interests and likes passing the time
with a friendly, opinionated voice in their head. I have done thousands of hours
of chores and errands over the years listening to mostly agreeable, sometimes
interesting 1.5-3 hour podcasts to keep my mind busy. Now it's time for me to
give back, I guess.
Here's the deal: e-mail me at [email protected] and
I'll talk about whatever you want me to talk about. Write whatever you want into
that e-mail body: ask a question about video games, ask for my
take on a new technology, ask for relationship advice, tell me my podcast sucks.
You write it, I'll read it.
Okay, here's what I covered in version one of Breaking Change:
What's new:
I made a massive pot of Japanese curry rice for my buddy Len, who hosts his own actually real podcast
I'm building a couple apps for my better half's business, which makes Becky my product owner and me her developer—what could go wrong?!
Weather in Orlando has been freezing so please pity me and my inability to deal with temparatures below 65º F
Follow-up:
I made a video about speaking: Secrets of Great Conference Talks
I wrote a post about careering: Only you can give meaning to your career
I shipped a newsletter about the book The Courage to Be Disliked: Searls of Wisdom Newsletter
I exhorted my fellow Rubyists: Why you should come to this RubyKaigi in 2024
Pun break:
I asked and @tenderlove agreed to write me a pun for each episode of Breaking Change that I will read for the first time live as I record to the camera
If you want to know the pun, you'll just have to listen to the podcast
Actually, I'm going to rate the puns, so I've decided to (extremely inadvisably) share this Numbers spreadsheet publicly
News:
I am currently wearing the XREAL Air 2 glasses when working in public to prepare everyone around me to get ready for the Vision Pro landing onto my face next month
I paid for GPT Plus and it's just uncanny sometimes how good it is compared to Google Search, thanks in part to how much worse Google Search has gotten. There's no other way I'd have found these tweezers
The original Workflow Team is angling to be the first group to sell their company to Apple twice by forming a new AI desktop automation startup
Standard Ruby might have made it into Rails 8, but it didn't, and I basically completely agree with DHH that it shouldn't:
David's original issue
The new bikeshed David built
David's blog post about style guides
I revisited the whole POSSE meme for web sites and how I'm building another app to integrate with my feed2gram gem to help people escape Instagram
I started using ActiveStorage and this thread was absolutely vital to figuring it out (the Rails Guide could probably use a few updates, but the real issue is the API is probably due to be pruned a bit)
Tailwind still feels like the Correct™ approach to styling web sites, but Rails needs a better answer for rendering forms with it. In lieu of an official solution, Daniel Huss described an approach I've been using since late 2022 with a custom FormBuilder subclass
Speaking of correct approaches, I'm convinced Stimulus and HTMX are basically the right way to handle JavaScript in most apps, but I'll be damned if I don't have to totally relearn Stimulus's API every time I use it
I think I forgot to mention it, but Stimulus Components is a neato project that I'd love to see more of—little modular, prepackaged actions that are (mostly) free of gnarly dependencies and import-map friendly
Entertainment
Playing Harvest Moon 64 and immediately falling for min-maxing the hell out of it instead of just playing the game
Bullets and Blockbusters is a great YouTube channel on films, especially "what if" scenarios
Searls After Dark is less great, but also on YouTube. Please subscribe to my channel so I can hit 1000 followers and disable ads on all my videos!
Foundation is fine, but slow
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is… bad, I think? I'm muscling through it
Letterkenny and Shoresy never disappoint, however
Mailbag:
Empty! Nobody knew I was going to start a podcast, least of all me, so nobody e-mailed me. Get featured on my next installment by emailing [email protected]
Phew. Until next time, I guess.
1 hr 48 min

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