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News Redownload distills sprawling tech-podcast conversations into five-minute briefings you can finish before your coffee cools.Made for engineers – zero fluff, maximum signal.AI... more
FAQs about News Re-Download:How many episodes does News Re-Download have?The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.
January 27, 2026003: Escaping Widget inheritance in Unreal with WidgetExtensionsGenerated by NotebookLM using 40 sources, including some software design spec sheets for new features. It's about the MVVM plugin for Unreal, written to assist a XAML UI engineer in upskilling in Unreal UMG.Here's the prompt I fed NotebookLM to generate this:Generate a podcast episode outline and conversational prompt for a general-audience, technically curious listener.FormatTwo speakers:Expert: senior Unreal UI engineer who’s calm, precise, and explains concepts with simple analogies.Learner: competent developer who’s been duplicating UI behaviour across widgets and is frustrated by inheritance limits.Tone: friendly, nerdy, practical. No arguing. No hype.Length target: 15–25 minutes.ScenarioThe Learner has been building a UI library and keeps re-implementing the same “preview/mock data” and lifecycle glue in multiple widget types. They tried to solve it with base classes, but hit the wall: some widgets don’t share ancestry (e.g., user widgets vs buttons). They discovered Unreal’s MVVM plugin and noticed it uses a thing called a widget extension (via UUserWidgetExtension, with UMVVMView as an example). They want to know if this is the right pattern to avoid inheritance sprawl.Goals for the episodeExplain the problem: why “big base class” inheritance breaks down in UI libraries.Introduce the concept: what widget extensions are in Unreal (composition over inheritance) and how the MVVM plugin uses them.Clarify the constraints: extensions attach to user widgets, not every primitive widget type; what that means in practice.Give a practical mental model using non-Unreal comparisons:“attached behaviours” (WPF/Blend style),“components” (Actor-Component style),“mixins” (conceptually, but not literally).Walk through a high-level implementation plan for a custom extension:purpose (e.g., “design-time mock view-model instantiation”),lifecycle hooks and when they run (editor vs runtime),how a widget finds/uses the extension.Cover 2–3 “gotchas” without deep rabbit holes:initialization order / “too late to add” issues,editor hot reload quirks,how to keep extensions small and focused to avoid a new monolith.Outcome: Learner leaves with a clear decision tree:when to use an extension,when to wrap primitives in a user widget,when to use a plain helper object instead.This episode includes AI-generated content....more17minPlay
January 27, 2026002: Voice Design ShowdownUsing NotebookLM by google, this is generated podcast episode coming from 112 sources. It's a comparison of five different TTS technologies. Below is the prompt used to generate this:Prompt:I need a report comparing VITS, Coqui TTS, Chatterbox, Elevenlabs and Qwen3 TTS.Got through all of these sequentially and inform me on how to use them, their advantages and their pain points.In conclusion, recommend which suits my project best....more29minPlay
April 28, 2025001: VR News - 18 April 2025A five-minute blast of the biggest VR stories from mid-April:Sony hikes PlayStation 5 prices outside the US.Meta Quest 3 S gets a limited-time USD $30 discount (plus Quest Plus + Batman: Arkham Shadow).US tariffs on electronics are briefly lifted, giving headset makers a reprieve.Modders unlock adaptive triggers, eye-tracking and partial HDR for PS VR 2 on PC.NVIDIA RTX 5060 debuts—with RTX 2080-class VR performance for just USD $300.Rapid-fire extras: REC turns esports into real-robot combat, James Cameron praises VR headsets for 3-D film, DeeMio upgrades Vision Pro support, and rumors swirl about Apple’s lighter M5-powered headset. Please find the full episode here:https://www.uploadvr.com/podcasts/...more3minPlay
April 28, 2025000 AboutKick-off episode!I outline what News ReDownload is, why it exists, and the nerdy tooling that lets one AI-powered weekend project crush two-hour podcasts into five-minute briefings:Whisper transcribes long shows.ChatGPT distills the text into a tight script.VITS (ONNX) speaks it back in human-ish tones.No sponsors, no fluff—just a proof-of-concept for busy engineers who still want to keep pace with tech news while juggling real life. Listen in to hear the origin story and what to expect from future episodes....more2minPlay
FAQs about News Re-Download:How many episodes does News Re-Download have?The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.