Limitless Possibility

Limitless Possibility

By Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais and Yanik MagnanTechnology
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Limitless Possibility episodes

  • 24: Unintentionally Topical

    Just in time for TwitchCon, Yanik discusses streaming video games on Twitch.

    Related Links
    • FU: Daring Fireball: The iPhones 6S
    • FU: Facebook Code: React Native for Android: How we built the first cross-platform React Native app
    • FU: Designer News: We need sketch for the iPad Pro!
    • FU: Thoughts on Business and Apple's Ecosystem: The iPad Pro as a Greek tragedy
    • Twitch and YouTube Gaming
    • Wikipedia: Justin.tv
    • EVO Championship Series
    • Bungie's playlist of Destiny reveal streams
    • Nintendo Direct archive
    • YARN YOSHI AMIIBO OH MY GOD
    • Games Done Quick
    • YouTube: Shenmue II by Puri_Puri in 2:00:57 - Summer Games Done Quick 2015
    • YouTube: AGDQ 2015 Kaizo Mario World Speed Run in 0:24:36 by dram55
    • Twitch Plays Pokémon (wikipedia)
    • Twitch Plays Dark Souls
    • [Recording of Fish Play Street Fighter on YouTube][fpsf]
    • YouTube: MarI/O Followup: Super Mario Bros, Donut Plains 4, and Yoshi's Island 1
    • YouTube: Super MarI/O Kart Commentary/Stream Highlights
    • @BadLayouts, a Twitter account cataloguing bad Twitch layouts
    • Flywrench
    • Flywrench stream highlights on encorestage's Twitch channel
    • Yanik on Twitch
    • Yanik's Destiny clan plays King's Fall (spoilers): Part 1, Part 2, no part 3 yet because 15 hours later we still haven't beaten the damn thing
    • One of Yanik's favorite sadistic Mario Maker levels with a 0.01% clear rate
    54 min
  • 23: That's Another Reason I'm Grumpy

    An optimistic Luc-Olivier. A grumpy Yanik. An Apple Event.

    Related Links
    • FU: Gamasutra: Why Apple banned chart-topping game Monster Strike from the App Store
    • watchOS 2
    • New Apple Watch Straps
    • Apple Watch Hermès
    • iPad Pro
    • Apple Pencil
    • Apple Smart Keyboard
    • iPad Mini 4
    • The Future of TV
    • iPhone 6S
    • iOS 9

    N.B. The links to the Apple Website are to the Canadian one because Canadian prices ;_;

    1 hr 37 min
  • 22: Not Episode 23 Just Yet

    Yanik explores software versioning and flexibility in the era of cloud services.

    Related Links
    • FU: DEF CON 23 - Charlie Miller & Chris Valasek - Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle - YouTube
    • Wikipedia: Google Play Services
    • ComponentKit
    • React Native
    • AppHub
    • Clay Allsopp: A Dynamic, Crazy, Native Mobile Future—Powered by JavaScript
    • Tapjet (Note: Yanik messes up during the episode and says Tapjoy over and over again, but that's the wrong company, and they aren't as cool)
    • Apple News Publisher
    • AltConf 2015: A Eulogy for Objective-C
    42 min
  • 21: Scared of Things

    Luc-Olivier is concerned about the security vulnerabilities found in Internet of Things.

    Related Links
    • Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED
    • This Gadget Hacks GM Cars to Locate, Unlock, and Start Them (UPDATED) | WIRED
    • Hackers Cut a Corvette's Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget | WIRED
    • Steve Manzuik on Twitter: “for shits and giggles I port scanned my wife's new Cadillac. Both FTP and HTTP are open. http://t.co/8Xb4o89fCd”
    • Charlie Miller on Twitter: “Our paper is released: http://t.co/fJQWfwtZK0 Read it and start doing some car hacking!”
    • Charlie Miller on Twitter: “More cars with dbus on the Internet? https://t.co/Ez5TH4CEMv”
    • Mikko Kenttälä on Twitter: “@0xcharlie similar findings (excluding the CAN hacking part) from Toyota Touch&Go. https://t.co/ad4avkEGsU Thanks for extensive research.”
    • Automakers again at odds with cyber-security researchers
    • Researchers reveal electronic car lock hack after 2-year injunction by Volkswagen | Ars Technica
    1 hr 4 min
  • 20: May Contain Traces of Muzak

    Yanik forces Luc-Olivier to listen to vaporwave for the first time.

    Related Links
    • FU: Go listen to Ellie Goulding's show archived on Apple Music Connect
    • FU: The Loop: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it
    • Origins: FLORAL SHOPPE / MACINTOSH PLUS
    • Vektroid's website
    • Vaporwave: A Brief History by Wolfenstein OS X
    • prism genesis / fuji grid tv (on YouTube, because the original album has been pulled)
    • Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition / New Dreams Ltd.
    • Classic: ATMOSPHERES 第1 / ECO VIRTUAL
    • Virtual Saxophone Transmissions / g h o s t i n g
    • ATMOSPHERES 第2 / ECO VIRTUAL
    • Midnight Television / Midnight Television
    • Telenights / g h o s t i n g
    • viewers like you / television archives
    • Escapism: 未来へ / t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者
    • Dream Catalogue, the label telepath founded with HKE
    • Give It Up / KC & The Sunshine Band, sampled in あなたの愛
    • 仮想夢プラザ (Virtual Dream Plaza), telepath's 15 hour magnum opus
    • COOL JAPAN, which is probably just tofubeats
    • 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open / 식료품groceries
    • ふたりの夏物語 / 杉山清貴&オメガトライブ, sampled in あなただけ
    • 浪漫的夢想 (Romantic Dreams) / Hong Kong Express
    • 2814 / 2814 and 新しい日の誕生 / 2814 (not 2084 like I say on the show)
    • Future Funk: Hit Vibes / SAINT PEPSI
    • call me maybe (SAINT PEPSI edit) / SAINT PEPSI
    • The music video for Can't You See, Skylar Spence/Saint Pepsi's newest single
    • Bae / YUNG BAE
    • Rollergirl / Rollergirl!
    • SUPERSEX420 x TENDENCIES SPLIT EP
    • ネオ東京 / マクロスMACROSS 82-99
    • BABYBABYの夢 from friend of the show TANUKI's upcoming (?) カタカナ・タイトル EP
    • Want to get into vaporwave?
    • Soft Season / Lasership Stereo is a good ~10 min intro to the sound of vaporwave.
    • Neon Nights, a weekly vaporwave-y Internet radio show by friend of the show luxury elite
    • Consult Reddit's Vaporwave Essentials Guide: Ultra Edition
    • Hologram Plaza / Disconscious, Yanik's favorite mallsoft album
    1 hr 7 min
  • 19: Surprise Rule

    Luc-Olivier shakes up the show formula by introducing a new rule.

    Related Links
    • The Insert Credit Show
    • Nintendo: Notification of Death and Personnel Change of a Representative Director
    • Satoru Iwata's GDC2011 keynote
    • Beats1 schedule
    • iPod touch
    • iPod nano
    • iPod shuffle
    • JRPG July
    • Howlongtobeat
    • Backloggery
    59 min
  • 18: One-Hit Wonder

    Behind the scenes of Yanik's app Eos.

    Related Links
    • FU: Apple Music Revenue Share to Music Labels, Publishers Explained | Re/code
    • FU: Taylor Swift - To Apple, Love Taylor
    • FU: Apple Says It Will Pay Taylor Swift for Free Streams After All | Re/code
    • FU: Taylor Swift on Twitter: “After the events of this week, I've decided to put 1989 on Apple Music…and happily so.”
    • FU: Listen to everything Zane Lowe said during the first hour of Beats 1 | The Verge
    • Apple Music
    • Eos
    • Facebook's Building Paper 2014 tech talks
    • Limitless Possibility 12: Unbundle of Joy
    • Aged & Distilled
    • Glyphish
    • Acorn
    • Crashlytics / Fabric
    • Open source packages used in Eos
    • OmniFocus
    • A successful Git branching model
    • K's concept art for the Eos mascot character
    • Frums
    • End of life announcement for Mitsuba
    • inessential: Love
    1 hr 41 min
  • 17: Worldwide Dadjoke Conference

    The guys blabber about Apple’s WWDC.

    Related Links
    • FU: Rental Circulation 5: Shhhh (Art)
    • Analogue 44: Pillow Talk with Myke and Casey
    • The Talk Show: Live from WWDC, with Special Guest Phil Schiller
    • Limitless Possibility 11: Dealing with New Software
    • ATP 122: My Results Were Inconclusive
    • Debug 67: WWDC 2015 roundtable podcast
    • Re/code: Apple’s Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue Explain the Beats Deal and Hint at the Future (Video)
    2 hr 3 min
  • 16: Pile of Sadness

    Yanik goes on ad nauseum about trends in the gaming industry before E3.

    Related Links
    • FU: Android Auto review | The Verge
    • FU: Android Auto Review: The Smartphone Finally Finds Its Rightful Home in the Car - WSJ
    • FU: Chevy bringing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to 14 models | The Verge
    • Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Project Morpheus
    • The weirdos: HoloLens, Cardboard, Project Tango
    • The Verge: Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango
    • Polygon: 'Big indie' Kickstarters are killing actual indies
    • List of games in the Dreamcast Diaspora
    1 hr 44 min
  • 15: Shifting above 6000 RPM Because VTEC DUDE

    Luc-Olivier shares his experience of joining a local car community.

    Related Links
    • FU: @musashino_unsou, Yanik's Japanese Twitter account
    • FU: Yanik's redesigned website
    • FU: Limitless Possibility 5: The Current State of Streaming Services
    • FU: Amazon Records (in Japanese)
    • FU: The Verge: This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify
    • FU: Monowear's third-party Apple Watch bands
    • FU: Exponent 45: It's a Watch that Does Stuff
    • Mitsubishi Lancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Ford Fiesta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Go buy Yanik's new iOS app, Eos!
    1 hr 41 min

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A fortnightly podcast focusing on geeky topics that are mostly, but not always, tech-related.