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2024-04-21

  231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?

The time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that chronicles the parallel rises of Apple and Microsoft. Join us for a bunch of chatter about the historic business deals and betrayals, the portrayals of...
  Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker author
2024-04-14

  230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along

This week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after the discovery of a secret backdoor that was inserted by a malicious actor into the the xz-utils package, with a focus on which specific Linux distros we...
  Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith author
2024-04-07

  229: IMAX, the TikTok of Film Projection

We're doing a follow-up Q&A this week while we sort out some scheduling hurdles on the backend, and taking a bunch more of your questions from the last six months about ideal pixel density on monitors, what the heck Salesforce does, a portable gami...
  Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker author
2024-03-31

  228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain

March's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging topics as our love of screensavers, a world without Gmail, Will's strong opinions on Ethernet termination standards, wearing shoes inside the house (or...
  Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith author
2024-03-24

  227: A Donut of Good Internet

Inspired by what's probably the most common subject we see questions about on our Discord, this week we're doing an updated primer on home networking, with a refresher on some basic terms and concepts and our thoughts on a wide array of topics from mod...
  Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker author
2024-03-17

  226: shooter.exe

We've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their own but turn out to be two great podcast tastes that, uh, taste great together... anyway, first we talk about the benchmark Will is currently creating i...
  Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith author
2024-03-10

  225: The Goldblum Conjecture

What makes a great tech demo? Besides killer tech, do you need theatricality? Stage presence? The risk of everything exploding at the seams at any moment? This week we look back on a ton of notable tech demos big and small, from the largest Apple and M...
  Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker author
2024-03-03

  224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger

Book club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person. Join us for an extremely nerdy chat about Romero's early days as a teenage Apple II developer learning 6502 assembly, the pr...
  Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith author
2024-02-25

  223: Our Favorite Corporate Besties

This month's Q&A features another bumper crop of great topics, including installing in-wall speakers and hidden audio systems, the final word on the origins of WASD, doing A/V production on Linux (really), the relative value of the Raspberry Pi in ...
  Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith author
2024-02-18

  222: War of the Chatbots

News has been happening (when hasn't it?) and this week we're rounding up some of the stories that caught our attention in recent days. First, the launch of OpenAI's generative-video product Sora, as we consider what this thing is actually going to be ...
  Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker author