Worrying Bugs

Worrying Bugs

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  • Generationally Archived Streams

    Zak and Liz discuss the Dairy-Free lifestyle, Liz’s fear of loosing data, and what Big-Milk is doing to market to Gen-Z.

    Recorded on July 3, 2022

    Dairy-Free Mac & Cheese – Daiya

    • Wicked Kitchen
    • Daiya Slices
    • Original Creole Seasoning – Tony Chachere’s
    • Media

      • Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Studio C on YouTube
      • Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Archived on the Internet Archive
      • The Dollop Podcast
      • The Offline Internet Archive – Internet Archive blog
      • Archivebox.io
      • Against SQL – Scattered Thoughts
      • Life Streams

        • iOS File System Recommendations – Apple Developer Documentation
        • Desktop Metaphor – Wikipedia
        • Lifestreams homepage – Yale.edu
        • Yahoo Pipes – Wikipedia
        • Lifestreams – Wired
        • Reconcilable Differences #169 – Relay.fm
        • Zettelkasten – Wikipedia
        • The Murderbot Diaries – Martha Wells
        • Apache Kafka Explainer Comic
        • iBeacon – Apple Developers
        • Feed (novel)
        • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
        • Marketing Milk to Gen Z

          • Gen Z and Driving Dairy Demand – Martha Kemper on LinkedIn
          • Cow Methane Capture – AG Daily
          • Undeniably Dairy sponsoring Version1 – Midwest Dairy
          • Generation Z: Uncovering Dairy Insights – Oregon Dairy Industry
          • Rick Diggins’ Monologue (from Dimension 20 Tiny Heist) – HippoMii on YouTube
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          • Queerly Journaled Project

            Zak and Liz try out other pharmacies, discuss the best gay chatbot that 2022 can offer, and check-in about yearly themes.

            Recorded on Jun 18, 2022

            Containers

            • MicroK8s
            • Trevor Project

              • Walgreens Rainbow Logo (as of June 2023) – Facebook
              • What does “Queer” mean? – them magazine
              • One neurodivergent critique on Autism Speaks – Autistic Heroes
              • Autism Speaks high executive compensation – Disability Scoop (2009)
              • Allism – Zefram on fysh.org
              • The Trevor Project’s AI use for training – Protocol (via the Wayback Machine)
              • Google engineer says Lamda AI may have its own feelings – BBC
              • Three Laws of Robotics – Wikipedia
              • Interview with GPT-3 as a squirrel – AI Weirdness
              • PogChamp – Wikipedia
              • Care With Pride – via the Internet Archive
              • OGX Care with Pride collection – GCI Magazine
              • Themes

                • Minidump Stackwalk crate – docs.rs
                • Remarkable tablet
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                  1 hr 15 min
                • Fulfillingly Phony Pharmacy

                  Zak and Liz talk about Zak’s Year of Being a Better Friend, how he plans to be the latest-greatest Zak next year, and why Liz is NOT friends with Walgreens.

                  Recorded on Jun 12, 2022

                  Zak’s New Theme

                  • Your Theme – CGP Grey on YouTube
                  • Big Friendship
                  • Call Your Girlfriend
                  • Walgreens Pharmacy Woes

                    • Economies of Scale – Wikipedia
                    • CPOE – Wikipedia
                    • Alarm Fatigue – Wikipedia
                    • Therac-25 – Wikipedia
                    • Calvinball – TV Tropes
                    • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – Kalzumeus
                    • Express Scripts
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                      51 min
                    • Rockily Competitive Messaging

                      Zak and Liz want the aliens to kiss, the milks to duke it out for glory, and the error messages to say what they mean.

                      Recorded on May 8, 2022

                      GMO Free Chicken – Sentient Media

                      Project Hail Mary

                      • Andy Weir
                      • The Martian
                      • Artemis
                      • Randomize
                      • The Frontiers Saga
                      • The Silmarillion
                      • Dwarf Fortress – Wikipedia
                      • Project Hail Mary Fanfiction – AO3
                      • Seveneves
                      • Milk Alternative Bracket

                        • Hey Riddle Riddle
                        • Oat Cinnamon Swirl – Nutpods
                        • Pocket Sand – Know Your Meme
                        • BattleBots – Wikipedia
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                          Russian Doll – Wikipedia

                          Zak Programming

                          • WSDL – Wikipedia
                          • REST
                          • Microsoft Dynamics
                          • X++
                          • ekuber (the Rust errors guy) – hachyderm
                          • Function overloading – Wikipedia
                          • Museum of Endangered Sounds

                            Causative Verbs – Wikipedia

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                          • Freely Shared Maps

                            Zak and Liz talk about mapping tools and displays of geograpic data. They also talk about the “gay pirate show”. Something for everyone this episode.

                            Recorded on April 24, 2022

                            More Maps Manifesto

                            • Zak’s Tweet about Black Restaurant Week – Twitter
                            • What is GIS? – Esri
                            • Milwaukee Spec Hydrants
                            • Edward Tufte
                            • Milwaukee Food Deserts and Grocery Stores– Fox 6
                            • Urban Milwaukee
                            • On Milwaukee
                            • Zak’s postcard map – ArcGIS
                            • OpenBenches
                            • Wikitravel
                            • Atlas Obscura
                            • GeoJSON
                            • Content Management System– Wikipedia
                            • Semantic Web – Wikipedia
                            • Our Flag Means Death – IMDB

                               

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                            • Measurably Proximal Signals

                              Zak and Liz talk about weighing a W boson (with “bonus content” for those who participated in the Worrying Bugs Book Club). Liz’s new old has bluetooth audio… if you’re willing to work for it. The 2016 Macbook Pro only has USB-C ports and drivers are a nightmare.

                              Recorded on April 10, 2022

                              Newly Measured Particles – Quanta

                              • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Bookshop.org
                              • Elden Ring Messages – Fextralife
                              • The 7 Percent Solution – Section from Surely You’re Joking, on okstate.edu
                              • Feynman diagram – Wikipedia
                              • Schrödinger’s cat – Wikipedia
                              • Standard Model – CERN
                              • ORM – freeCodeCamp
                              • Homomorphic Encryption – Wikipedia
                              • Bluetooth

                                • Why talking on the phone while driving is dangerous – CityMonitor
                                • Proximity Effect
                                • Backprop – Wikipedia
                                • Genie – Stanford
                                • Ethernet

                                  • DriverKit
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                                    1 hr 12 min
                                  • Poorly Publicized Snotworm

                                    Zak and Liz talk about Liz just wanting the all the levels of software to get along and Zak’s recent travel experience.

                                    Recorded on April 3, 2022

                                    Whale Fall – Wikipedia

                                    • I Contain Multitudes – Harper Collins
                                    • Chemosynthesis vs Photosynthesis – NOAA
                                    • Osedax mucofloris – Wikipedia
                                    • The Universe is Weird – Hank Green on YouTube
                                    • “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Victor E. Frankl
                                    • Logitech’s Bad Software

                                      • Logitech MX Master Series
                                      • Better Touch Tool
                                      • Logitech G Hub
                                      • RansomWhere
                                      • Richard Stallman – Wikipedia
                                      • The Printer Story – gnu.org
                                      • OBS Studio
                                      • Kensington Trackball Mouse
                                      • Open Source Trackball Mouse – Ploopy
                                      • Train Review

                                        • Amtrak
                                        • Hiawatha Route – Amtrak
                                        • California Zephyr – Amtrak
                                        • Amtrak Not Owning Their Tracks – Atlas Obscura
                                        • Snowpiercer (film) – Wikipedia
                                        • PSA Source – The Atlantic

                                           

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                                          47 min
                                        • Independently Corny Decisions

                                          Zak and Liz talk about E15 gasoline; it’s like E10 gasoline, but 5 more.

                                          Zak tells us what he has found out about the Home Front Energy Independence Act. There is a billion dollars on the line to accomplish 4 things (and the 4th thing is “Other”).

                                          Recorded on March 12, 2022

                                          Home Front Energy Independence Act

                                          – Russia Invades Ukraine, one year on – Associated Press
                                          – The Cold War – Wikipedia
                                          – American Car Dependency – Bloomberg CityLab
                                          – Redlining – Wikipedia
                                          – American Sprawl and the Cold War – Treehugger
                                          – Tear down this wall! – Wikipedia
                                          – Is Modern Russia Communist? – Russia Beyond
                                          – Oil crisis – Wikipedia
                                          – Stop de Kindermoord – Environmental Justice Atlas
                                          – Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency – StreetsBlog Chicago
                                          – The Tweet Liz Was Talking About
                                          – Inelastic Demand – Investopedia
                                          – They Don’t Represent Us – IndieBound
                                          – Senator Baldwin Supports Biofuel Bill, Blames Putin for Fuel Prices
                                          – E15 – US Department of Energy
                                          – Home Front Energy Independence Act – congress.gov
                                          – Does Git actually keep track of changes? – stackoverflow
                                          – Overton Window – Wikipedia
                                          – Freight Rail Efficiency – BNSF

                                           

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                                          53 min
                                        • Manifestly Tertiary Web

                                          Zak and Liz talk about what Liz’s vision of a better Internet looks like. She’s got some radical ideas like “don’t make your website worse for the sake of profit”, “wow, online advertising is pretty intrusive these days”, and “putting existing infrastructure on a blockchain is strictly worse.”

                                          Recorded on Feb 28, 2022

                                          Screaming

                                          – How to Scream – WikiHow
                                          – How to bellow like a koala

                                          Web 3.manifest0

                                          – Tim O’Reilley Web 2.0
                                          – Web 2.0 – Wikipedia
                                          – Web Application – Wikipedia
                                          – Gamergaters and Geek Masculinity – SagePub
                                          – Big O Notation – Wikipedia
                                          – Accessibility – W3C
                                          – Is web accessibility as big of a deal as it seems? – Reddit
                                          – As a designer, if accessibility is killing design for brands that exert fun. Would you move on? – Reddit
                                          – Repeat Stuff by Bo Burnham – Genius.com
                                          – 3 Ways We Fail to Take Accessibility Seriously – Reddit
                                          – Polymer a11y – Web Components
                                          – Accessibility for Everyone – A Book Apart
                                          – SOLID – Wikipedia
                                          – Markdown – Wikipedia
                                          – tag – mdn
                                          – The Big Short – Wikipedia
                                          – ZeldaDungeon.net

                                           

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                                          1 hr 11 min

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                                        Zak Sharp and Certus Stone host a podcast that is generally about our lives, but we promise it's more interesting than that. We might talk about milk politics, philosophy, technology, college life,…