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There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of BreakingChange, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved byfriend of the show, Eric Doggett, who helped out withmixing!
If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuffthose feelings (other than "deep, deep down"):[email protected].
Spicier-than-usual show notes follow:
Kin Euphorics are usually non-alcoholic overpriced cocktailsSquarespace kinda sucks now and a lot of people are worried the new PE overlords are gonna kill itBuild with Becky soft-launched, but it's stealth so you're on your own to figure out the sign-up URL.My newsletter that's reminded some people of my impossibly, unfairly high standardsNifty Cyberpunk VR modAaron's puns, rankedApple Event stuffRest in Playercount, ConcordRemember to make sure your surgeon can tell a spleen and a liver apart before they put you underAll aboard Florida's manslaughter express 🚂🚂The PS5 Pro is the solution to a problem, but nobody's sure whichOpen AI o1-preview is significantly less stupidThanks to our sponsor for all your ERP needs, Oracle NetsuiteStar Wars OutlawsStar Trek: Strange New WorldsDon't start a Civil WarWelcome to Wrexham Season 3For any chumps out there who think listening is the key to persuasion@tompng's awesome Ruby Kaigi keynote now has a video you can watchWalkshop is a super cool way to run a retreat -
It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finallydone* with that big app I've been working on.
I'm running behind on e-mails and need your best and worst takes for the nextepisode: [email protected].
Find out what that asterisk refers to below:
Filing an FCC complaintSupermavenThe git logoiMessage via satelliteAaron's puns, rankedMeta cancels their 2027 Vision Pro competitorA bunch of random, disturbing Black Myth: Wukong linksFord might start making cars again (News+)The Acolyte and review-bombingSmartLess: On the RoadDeathloopAtlas Fallen: Reign of SandStar Wars OutlawsAdam Mcrea's Alpine/Phlex screencast*I am, in fact, not at all done.
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Episodes manquant?
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Boy, have I got a great show for you today! I guess. You be the judge.
If you listen to the podcast, please rate it on a scale from Good Charlotte to My Chemical Romance [email protected].
The following links are included with your subscription:
Macrofactor appButterfly keyboard checks going outMy tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in RailsAaron's punPhysical game sales are finally in declineIntel's processors are borkedFlighty's latest update is an example of "Good" "AI"The M4 Mac Mini MiniGoogle banning accounts for CSAM when there may not be CSAMLoki is fineDeadpool & Wolverine is fiiiine -
I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs withApple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Becausethat's most of what I got this time.
Not enough of you are writing in, and if you don't start soon I am going to CANCELthis PODCAST production PERMANENTLY:[email protected]. (Write in or else.)
Some proof of work:
Aaron's punSearchGPTThe Crowdstrike thingWindows Kernel access to third partiesPete Buttigieg reads angry Delta tweetsLegitimate LLCThe Boys (I failed toexplain what this show is or the basic premise, so here's a Wikipedia link.Whoops!)Gary Larsen's The Far Side comic -
Big day: now with transition music! 🎶
There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, butif you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's becauseBreaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things toget mad about.
Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internetfriend? Now's your chance:[email protected]. (Other topics also welcome.)
I heard you like links:
A "recipe" blog post on how to use Turbo Streams to swap out contentThis month's newsletter about work pressureMy Vision Pros interviewToday's pun, rankedTim Cook uses Vision Pro every dayAll the ways Japan is trying to stop you from visiting (News+)White-collar Work is Just Meetings Now (News+)Star Trek DiscoverySteve! (Martin) documentaryRemembering Gene WilderAirfoil Satellite for Windows AirplayStar Wars: Jedi SurvivorSunny (Apple TV)Objectified film -
I bought a new gadget! And it runs Android! And I don't hate it!
Tell me about things you hate and don't hate and I might just read your feelingson air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, [email protected].
Sources below:
Ubiquiti UniFiLoopback with SSL2+This annoying Safari bugMy first video clip from Breaking ChangeA podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision ProsAaron's punboardThe EU won't get these new Apple featuresGruber's take on this matches my ownThe BOOX PalmaDigital Foundry tells us not to play games on our Windows + Copilot PCsDark MatterGodzilla Minus Onesamus.link -
WWDC came and went and now we're all justleft to ponder what life will be like under the thumb of our new AI overlords(and underlords). But at least for now,humans are still allowed to produce podcasts on their own, which means we cansafely opine about the fresh hell we're all hard at work creating.
I finally got a chance to get to some mailbag questions in this episode! If youwant to be a part of the ✨magic🪄, shoot me an e-mail [email protected]. I won't read your last name onair, unless I accidentally do. Promise!
Here are some links to stuff from this episode:
Tiana's Bayou AdventureFlash MountainJock Lindsey and his hangar barKoala NapSandwich's Theater app and how they live-streamed the TalkShowThree Simple Rules to using my large language modelDear AI companies, please scrape this websiteMy growing POSSE thanks to feed2threadAaron's v14 punMy WWDC appearance on the ChangelogBen Thompson being mostly right, as usualApple suspends work on the Vision Pro 2Mouse Jigglers!!!!More bad security news forMicrosoftbecause memosalonearen't a realsolutionThe Xbox Games Showcase was goodThe Nintendo Profit machine seems set to roll onJim Henson: Idea ManHideo Kojima: Connecting WorldsAshley Madison documentaryDancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok cultDiablo IV -
WWDC is right around the corner,and I wanted to do a predictions podcast before Monday's keynote, but thenMark Gurman went and just read back literally everything that's going tohappen.
So I guess let's talk about that or something.
As always, I love love love to receive your e-mail even though it'shard to get through very many of them on the program. Please know that yourcomments and questions really bring me a lot of joy and that you shoulde-mail whatever pops into your head to [email protected]. Quick. Now. Don't think, hit send.
Okay, and now for some 👐Show Notes👐:
I'm speaking at Rails WorldI didn't pick this thumbnailWWDC rumors:The new Apple Passwords app"Apple Intelligence"Mark Gurman's motherlodeValve made a billion dollars selling loot boxesLike a Dragon: YakuzaDark Matter (show)Jenny Nicholson's Starcruiser videoJust think, next time we speak, it'll be Beta Season.
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[Update: if you're reading this, then you're listening to an updatedversion of this episode with a more aggressive denoise filter, to try to combatthe karaoke jingles playing incessantly in the background 🎤.]
Welcome to the rhetorical Bemusement Park that is the Breaking Change podcast!This episode was recorded in Japan, the recording of which was an ordeal thatyou will hear all about if you choose to press play and listen to this versionof the podcast.
I have failed you all, however, because I had to duck out of my "recording""booth" ahead of schedule and I didn't get to any items from the mailbag. Thatmeans now's your chance to skip the line ahead of all those other mailbaggers byrapid-firing off an e-mail to [email protected] forinclusion in a theoretical, unannounced, unsure-if-it'll-even-happen version 13.
Heard people liked URLs so I hallucinated some for you:
Golden WeekJustin's "Backside of water" 2024 tour:MatsueTottoriKanazawaToyamaNiigata…TBDRuby KaigiPen-san's keynoteKoic's LSP talkNintendo's incredible Switch profitsHeroku finally supports HTTP2John Ternus may be the next Apple CEOCopilot + PC = ?Correction: Dub Dub is June 10th, not June 7thさようなら
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Today we have a veritable smorgasboard of potpurri as we indulge in thefigurative potluck dinner that is, "shit Justin wants to talk about." This maybe the last major version for a while, so savor this.
Thank you to listeners who took version 10's mandatory e-mail feedback demandseriously, as the mailbag once again is full of good questions. But you mustdo your part and e-mail [email protected] tokeep it that way. Each e-mail you send entitles you to a license to listen tothree more episodes, so—in a sense—you can't afford not to write in.
Have some links:
The Synapse 25 bag I'm downgrading intoSandwich video makes cool commercialsSearls After Dark was a 10 part YouTube series I didStar Trek Into Darkness"Open face" Vision setupsTikTok ban passesBase RAM hasn't budged since Tim Cook took overPeter Cooper be trollin'Llama sucks at codingMy new Spots media type and mapping featureThe man who killedGoogle⛷️
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It's been over two weeks! Let's catch up. We can talk about anything you want,so long as it's App Store policies regarding "retro" game emulators or where tofind the best Japanese love hotels.
Also, I hate to spoil an announcement, but due to a lack of mailbag engagement,e-mailing [email protected] after you listen to eachepisode of the program is now mandatory for all listeners. Figure it out.
Citations follow:
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older GamesDevs don't want to make live service gamesThe Courage to be DislikedThe Top 10 Breaking Change punsDisney changes its accessibility programSpatial personas are quite coolJohn Gruber is wrong about vibration APIsEmulators! In the App Store!The Humane AI Pin is a bad productSonos Move 2 is an expensive speakerConstellation is a weird showFallout hits all the right mid-century notesThis Love Hotel room has a water slideA video about how sports betting seems badDHH announcing his cloud exit -
If you're itching for a discussion that explains why I'm afraid to move into mynew bathroom, what I really think about Andrew Huberman, and why it might makemore sense to learn French than Java… prepare to be scratched, I guess?
I am highly confident that at least one person will get angry and unfollow thisshow as a result of words that came out of my mouth. If you've got thoughtsand/or feelings, let me have'm at [email protected]!
Some links to things:
legitimate.usAdded likes for my podcastBrowsers ignore autocomplete=offMy new dry_eraser gemMy newsletter about chronic back issuesTron got snubbed because they "cheated" by using computers (a cool video about its production)The Huberman "hit-piece" (News+)Huberman as pseudo-scienceUniversities have a Computer-Science Problem (News+)The End of Foreign-Language Education (News+)Stardew Valley 1.6True Detective Season 4 -
This podcast is dedicated to the brave men and women at the Department ofJustice for taking bold and decisive action against a clear and present dangerto the continued existence of the United States of America: Apple's use of greenbubbles and how they make some Android users feel bad.
Since the DOJ's lawsuit is all about vibes, send me your vibes—good or bad—andI'll be there for you. Who knows, if you choose to direct your energy [email protected], maybe I'll get lucky andfinally feel something in this cold, dead heart of mine.
Links and such follow:
Rails World 2024Toy Story ManiaBertrand Russel dishin' out takesA look at Unreal Engine 5's new features like Nanite and LumenUbisoft's creepy AI chatbot NPCsThe DOJ's 88-page complaint against AppleJason Snell's first take on itAnother Life, finally answering thequestion, "what if Battlestar Galactica was a CW show but only the KateeSackhoff parts"?The Halo-flavored Halo show and the mediocre Halo Infinite gameDave the DiverOdell Lake for the Apple IICook Serve Delicious -
This was a long episode, so here are some short notes.
As always, your e-mails delight and inspire me. Send one [email protected] with anything you want in it. Idon't care if it's just emoji and gifs.
Citations follow:
iOS progressive web apps are back to how they were in the EUThe Television app unveil"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill GatesWebpacker is retiredKameSame is my Japanese language appDHH and WindowsSmart EXStarship Troopers led us to Helldivers 2The story behind Game Dev StoryThat Weird Al biopicThe upcoming Fallout series -
[UPDATE: In this episode, I referenced Stripe having an IPO in the pasttense. I was mistaken, they are not (yet) publicly traded. We regret theerror.]
The audio is better this week! I'm learning.
Also, I finally had something to talk about that has nothing to do with Apple!The target of the ion cannon that is my mouth this time? drumroll… it'sStripe! Sorry, Stripe. If you like rants about software quality and the systemicreasons everything is terrible, hoo boy! This one brings the heat. 🔥🔥🔥
We're starting to work down our mailbag backlog, so help me freshen it up bye-mailing the show at [email protected] and ourdedicated staff (me) will read it and—potentially, maybe—respond on the air!
And now, some URLs:
Scott Hanselman didn't (doesn't?) think profanity worksMike McQuaid's appearance on Changelog and Friends to talk about WorkbrewAaron's humble love-making blog postStripe's problematic pause button, which invokes thisfeature,and which their COVID-19 support page toutsiMessage's post-quantum cryptographyExecute Program by Gary Bernhardt, one of theonly educational services teaching programming that I can recommendArcade Paradise is a good gameThe Killer is a movieAlso, "Team Bally Total Fitness Extreme Racing" doesn't turn up anything on Google. Just an FYI
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Welcome to Breaking Change, the 14th most popular technology podcast inArgentina! (And 30th in Norway!)
It's been a couple weeks since my last breaking change and, guess what, I donebroke things again.
If you would prefer I not make so many breaking changes (or if you wish me tobreak even more of them!), e-mail me [email protected] and let me know and/or share yourdarkest secrets under a pseudonym using a throwaway account. Nobody needs toknow.
Links and so forth:
Open AI's SoraThe first good Apple Vision Pro strapApple vindictively yanked PWAs from EuropeHow to behead an M2 MacBook Airrunruby.devMy newsletter, which if you sign up for now you'll see my announcement of BeckygramLink by Stripe seems neatWelcome to Wrexham is a good showSidecar is a very grown-up drink for grown-upsDark AF movies:Drive my Car (starring the guy from きのう何食べた)Cloud AtlasSynecdoche, New YorkVanilla SkyRequiem for a Dream -
This podcast is a month old and four episodes in and the singular event loomingover all of it has finally arrived! The era of facial computing has begun!
Join me for a Vision Pro extravaganza in which I detail all of my firstimpressions using the device, including dozens of things that seemingly everymedia and YouTube reviewer missed or excluded. Listen to this podcast and you'llhear tell of bugs you wouldn't believe even if you did see them!
The headline takeaway is: Apple Vision is clearly the future, because it'sclearly not yet the present. (And why I'm probably keeping it anyway.)
As always, e-mail me your reviews, reactions, and errata [email protected] and I'll absorb them into thebubbling stew of opinions I'm forming about this futuristic-and-not-necessarily-in-a-good-way computing platform.
Scant show notes follow:
Life updates:What life? There is only Vision Pro!Follow-up:No time. Skipped it!I managed to completely botch the reading of yet another of Aaron's punsNews:Apple Vision Pro is here and I talk about it. At length!Recommendations:Flowriter is worth checking out for generating immersive 3D spaces with text prompts aloneMailbag:Things 3 for visionOSYou know the deal: [email protected]See you, spatial cowboy.
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Welp, Apple forced my hand and generated even more news in the run up to thelaunch of Apple Vision Pro and it demands a response! (Right?)
As is so obvious and well-established that I forgot to mention it, youcan e-mail me the show [email protected] and maybe I'll find a way to workit in. Comments, questions, and complaints are all welcome!
Without further ado, let's a-do it:
What's new:It's finally shorts season! 🩳DNSimple is run by some lovely people and you should host your domains thereMy brother is Iron Man, here's proofFollow-up:Messaging with Siri paves the way to its becoming a multi-lingual voice assistantSteam Link and what it might mean if Valve (is allowed to) publish it on visionOSAnother pun for the pun gods from AaronNews:The 40th anniversary of the Mac (and my first one)The absolutely monumental changes in iOS 17.4, including:Automatic, lyrics-like transcripts in the Podcasts appEvidence of on-board LLM support for Siri in iOS 18Cloud streaming apps are now allowedThe Apple-Masimo blood oxygen patent kerfuffle impacting Apple WatchWhy third-party browser rendering engine support isn't what some people were hopingThe 27% / 12% external link "entitlement"Apple's cunning 50¢ core technology feeRecommendations:Cyberpunk 2077 sucks less nowUpload season 3Mailbag links:Tonal is my preferred way to "get swole"Even though I failed to mention it, remember to e-mail me! The address is still [email protected]That's it. You've got places to be.
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Heads up gang, there's a new breaking change with this release: my wallet islike $8000 lighter thanks to the Vision Pro preorders.
As always as of a week ago, you can e-mail me [email protected] and I'll read it silently in myhead. If all goes well, I'll read it out loud, too. And everything works out, Imay even read it out loud and into a microphone for the next show.
Okay, let's dig into this latest version:
What's new:I flew a little too close to the sun at Universal StudiosSpeaking of Universal, DJ Khaled is billed for their Mardi Gras concert seriesFinally answered the question, "how much of an 8", 12-pound carrot cake can I eat in one sitting?"Follow-up:My v1 nervousnessFixing an ActiveStorage bugVision Pro pre-orderThis stupid travel caseThis hyper-dense 24,000 mAH Anker Power Bank battery to continuously charge the batteryDual Loop Band >>>> Solo Knit BandWill it have shake to undo?How heavy is 650 grams?News:Siri and multiple languagesVictor Shepelev's Useless Ruby SyntaxLandon Gray's react_ai gem / proof-of-concept (based on Cornell's ReAct paper)EntertainmentFoundation Season 2The Crown's final seasonMoonlighterYou Suck at CookingMailbag:Dead Space remakeRiley H on Fiverr is the fellow that made the show's jingleRewind.aiNext time, it's up to you to e-mail [email protected]Phew. Until next time, I guess.
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I finally gave up and recorded a podcast. And now I'm writing show notes. Itried not to let this happen but here I am typing this and it's happening.Forgive me.
This is a podcast for anybody who shares my interests and likes passing the timewith a friendly, opinionated voice in their head. I have done thousands of hoursof chores and errands over the years listening to mostly agreeable, sometimesinteresting 1.5-3 hour podcasts to keep my mind busy. Now it's time for me togive back, I guess.
Here's the deal: e-mail me at [email protected] andI'll talk about whatever you want me to talk about. Write whatever you want intothat e-mail body: ask a question about video games, ask for mytake on a new technology, ask for relationship advice, tell me my podcast sucks.You write it, I'll read it.
Okay, here's what I covered in version one of Breaking Change:
What's new:I made a massive pot of Japanese curry rice for my buddy Len, who hosts his own actually real podcastI'm building a couple apps for my better half's business, which makes Becky my product owner and me her developer—what could go wrong?!Weather in Orlando has been freezing so please pity me and my inability to deal with temparatures below 65º FFollow-up:I made a video about speaking: Secrets of Great Conference TalksI wrote a post about careering: Only you can give meaning to your careerI shipped a newsletter about the book The Courage to Be Disliked: Searls of Wisdom NewsletterI exhorted my fellow Rubyists: Why you should come to this RubyKaigi in 2024Pun break:I asked and @tenderlove agreed to write me a pun for each episode of Breaking Change that I will read for the first time live as I record to the cameraIf you want to know the pun, you'll just have to listen to the podcastActually, I'm going to rate the puns, so I've decided to (extremely inadvisably) share this Numbers spreadsheet publiclyNews:I am currently wearing the XREAL Air 2 glasses when working in public to prepare everyone around me to get ready for the Vision Pro landing onto my face next monthI paid for GPT Plus and it's just uncanny sometimes how good it is compared to Google Search, thanks in part to how much worse Google Search has gotten. There's no other way I'd have found these tweezersThe original Workflow Team is angling to be the first group to sell their company to Apple twice by forming a new AI desktop automation startupStandard Ruby might have made it into Rails 8, but it didn't, and I basically completely agree with DHH that it shouldn't:David's original issueThe new bikeshed David builtDavid's blog post about style guidesI revisited the whole POSSE meme for web sites and how I'm building another app to integrate with my feed2gram gem to help people escape InstagramI started using ActiveStorage and this thread was absolutely vital to figuring it out (the Rails Guide could probably use a few updates, but the real issue is the API is probably due to be pruned a bit)Tailwind still feels like the Correct™ approach to styling web sites, but Rails needs a better answer for rendering forms with it. In lieu of an official solution, Daniel Huss described an approach I've been using since late 2022 with a custom FormBuilder subclassSpeaking of correct approaches, I'm convinced Stimulus and HTMX are basically the right way to handle JavaScript in most apps, but I'll be damned if I don't have to totally relearn Stimulus's API every time I use itI think I forgot to mention it, but Stimulus Components is a neato project that I'd love to see more of—little modular, prepackaged actions that are (mostly) free of gnarly dependencies and import-map friendlyEntertainmentPlaying Harvest Moon 64 and immediately falling for min-maxing the hell out of it instead of just playing the gameBullets and Blockbusters is a great YouTube channel on films, especially "what if" scenariosSearls After Dark is less great, but also on YouTube. Please subscribe to my channel so I can hit 1000 followers and disable ads on all my videos!Foundation is fine, but slowMonarch: Legacy of Monsters is… bad, I think? I'm muscling through itLetterkenny and Shoresy never disappoint, howeverMailbag:Empty! Nobody knew I was going to start a podcast, least of all me, so nobody e-mailed me. Get featured on my next installment by emailing [email protected]Phew. Until next time, I guess.
