Cyberdeck Users Weekly

A conversation with my wonderful former pastor, Tim Fox. He's leaving me, so I wanted to scrape together some life advice from him before he went. But really he just wants to talk about Lord of the Rings 24/7.

John 6

John 8

John 10

Romans 1

"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton

Psalm 37

"The Lord of the Rings" trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

2 Corinthians 3

"Return of the Strong Gods" by R.R. Reno

"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis

"The Chronicles of Narnia" series by C.S. Lewis

Herman Bavinck

Westminster Confession

Albert Camus

Galatians 5

1 Corinthians 13

Hebrews 11

Ezekiel 3

"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin

"Commentary on Revelation" by Peter Leithart

Doug Wilson

Kevin DeYoung

"Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis" by Craig Carter

"Lost in the Cosmos" by Walker Percy

The Verge

"Thank God for Bitcoin" conference

@jmbushwrites

Thank God for Bitcoin

BibleProject

Romans 15:4

The Most Important Commandment

Micah 6:8

The law was our teacher

The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

We reap what we sow

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Bretton Woods system

Denial of self

The rich young ruler

The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil

Easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle

Proverbs 30:7-9

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's

Zealot

Vengeance is mine, says the Lord

New FinCEN rule for Bitcoin custody

Daniel 6

Jimmy Song and George Mekhail pod about Thank God for Bitcoin

You Are What You Love

God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish

1 Samuel 22

The poor you will always have with you

Revelation 13:11-18

Noded 76 with the Authors of Thank God for Bitcoin

Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money

Really glad to have Matt Odell as a return guest. Instead of an interview we used this as an opportunity to talk about our wonderful dystopia full of 30 hour battery life, folded proteins, and zero privacy. Enjoy!

SHOW NOTES

Apple Silicon

Mac Mini vs iMac 5K

Syncing Bitcoin on M1

Why it's fast

Community builds of Visual Studio Code

The Verge's MacBook Air review

Redox OS with Jeremy Soller

(I was trying to remember the word "UEFI")

Apple bricks its own hardware

Jailbreaking your T2 Mac

PopOS PopShop

Your Computer Isn't Yours

(Matt's right there's no version with 32GB of RAM)

GrapheneOS

Chromium OS Verified Boot

bunnie's Precursor open source mobile hardware

The Facebook headcrab

Pod people in Ready Player One

Protein folding is "solved"

Matt shames Paul for using TikTok

The Social Dilemma

Lex on AlphaFold 2

What machine learning isn't

Michael Rectenwald on "The Google Election"

Edward Snowden

Signal

Signal is the Messaging App of the Protests

Apple bans Bitcoin wallets (in 2014)

mattodell.com

Matt's laptop

(My mnemonic is busted, I bought Micro USB cables)

In classic podcasting style, I managed to frontload this episode with highly technical questions up front and then we slowly morphed the conversation into a more conceptual what-is-the-future-of-computers sort of thing.

James is a really wonderful guy from what I've learned over the decade or so I've been following him on Twitter and you should def check out Actual if you're in the market for budgeting software.

James Long

Prettier

Actual Budget

Stripe

Mozilla XUL

React

Reason

rustfmt

Silicon Valley season three, episode six

The Local-first software manifesto

CRDT

Clarity Money ewwww

Quantified Self

Roam

"I want Roam to be not just a tool for thought, but a tool for computation" @jlongster

Using CRDTs in the wild

Jupyter

Observable

Literate programming

Light Table

A Visual History of Eve: 2014 - 2018

Microsoft Fluid Framework

Project Xanadu

If you have 100 hours to read a million words, check out this Wired piece on Xanadu

SHOUTOUT Ryan Florence

This is a tough one because I'm fairly undecided. Are we sliding toward an apocalypse? Is too much getting worse to expect anything to get better? Is YouTube actually kind of a great thing? I've been stuck on this long enough that I figured I should just put it out there and let you decide. A lot of different thoughts here but I swear it's all connected.

Thanks to ZappyCode for buying a fake ad this week!

SHOW NOTES

GaryVee still preaches the hustle gospel in the middle of a pandemic

The pleasure of walking tall

YouTube

Udemy

Melodics

Amazon

Citi Bike

Halo Band

No offense to @jayriverlong, but I think his think piece on GPT-3 is kind of dumb: "In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech"

So I did a whole podcast about it.

Also check out this book: How Innovation Works

Today's episode is a work-in-progress essay about the role of UX and "ease of use" in tech, with a specific focus on Bitcoin. Here are some links to what I'm talking about in the episode. The full essay will be published on my blog someday. Thank you for your patience.

Bitcoin Node Q+A

Bitcoin Governance

Strike app

Bitcoin bites the bullet

Utreexo

"Don’t make me think" thread

So I screwed up and didn't select my nice podcasting microphone for this episode and am instead speaking to you through that joke of a pinhole mic on my MacBook Pro.

The good news is that we're not here to listen to me, we're here to hear from the fascinating Jonathan Pallant: Town Mayor, retro computing enthusiast, and embedded systems engineer.

@therealjpster

thejpster on GitHub

St Ives

42 Technology

Monotron

Monotron - a 1980s style home computer written in Rust

Monotron - Building a Retro Computer in Embedded Rust

C64 interrupts

Memory segmentation

DLLs

On The Metal podcast

Google Fuchsia

Redox OS

Windows Terminal

Neotron

MS-DOS

Cylinder-head-sector

Neotron 32

KiCad EDA

Let's Try PCB Etching!

OSH Park

Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad

Neotron 528ST

JLCPCB SMT assembly service

VideoCore

"Woohoo! Made my EME-232 into Drive B: so I can boot from the Gotek but still read 3" disks. @ZxSpectROM, this has been so much fun :)"

Commodore 128

Bill Herd's Story of Commodore from the Computer Engineers' Perspective

Something that's been refreshing about doing this new podcast is how little of my time is spent thinking about what "big" companies are doing.

But these big companies keep doing stuff. So let's talk about it!

Skate 4 has been announced!

Vergecast segment about Skate 4 in 2019 (at around the one hour mark)

Will Skate be the "Quake 3: Arena" of skateboarding games?

Session

Skater XL

Burnout Paradise

What I also want is a skateboarding shooter game. Trick combos generate shields.

Vergecast interview with @dhh and Rep. David Cicilline

Starting to think big companies and big government sort of deserve each other. Will whatever antitrust tribunals we end up with this time around catch the subtlety and just ask Apple to allow sideloading? Or are we going to get a "Apple forever" mentality and enshrine it into law somehow?

Also patents = monopoly.

Twitter audio tweets

I almost tried to care about this but I didn't pull it off. I always wonder if we can make it to a post-literate society tho. Interesting to think about.

It looks so dumb I'm sorry.

Also it has approximately 10,000x more "next-gen" games than the Xbox so far so I'm feeling pretty bullish on it. Might have to learn to use those stupid thumbsticks.

Wish there was a duck demo.

These are getting very, very good. Scratch AND Python? Yes, please.