Breaking Change

Your favorite podcast about nothing continues to find things to talk about. Whatever you do, DO NOT e-mail me at podcast@searls.co or else I will read it on air and tell everyone how smart you sound and how good you look. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . Links to follow: Loving my Tariffmas gifts: external SSD array and pool skimmer , especially My first taste of GitHub Copilot...

Nothing like a peaceful Sunday morning at the end of an exhausting, historically-volatile week to pour a hot cup of coffee and spew absolutely scalding takes in all directions. If you get burned, don't say I didn't warn you. Read the message on the lid. We've done 34 of these now and my mailbag is getting full of old e-mails that don't make sense anymore. Please email new stuff to me at podcast@se...

I hope you ordered your podcast spicy, because this version is a slow heat, but it builds . I was pretty fired up by the end of this one. If I crossed a line here, please report it to HR at podcast@searls.co and they will conduct an investigation. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them: Tailwind 4 Upgrades Aaron's puns,...

Turns out I'd accidentally been letting some of your e-mail get filtered as junk mail. I want to be clear that I don't think you're junk, Apple does. Write in with your feelings to podcast@searls.co and I'll read it, assuming I get it. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . Without further ado, links! POSSE Party Aaron's puns, ranked Don't invite anyone you like to a measles party So...

Update: This is the first version of Breaking Change available in 4K video. Check it out on YouTube . The one where Justin picks the perfect time to buy his first Tesla vehicle. Sometimes the things I say and do make people feel things. Share those feelings with me at this e-mail address: podcast@searls.co . Whatever you're feeling, I'll read it and do my best to acknowledge it. I also may read it...

If you're here for the spicy, good news: you're gettin' it spicy. I am usually joking, but I mean it this time: I'm going to stop doing this podcast if you don't write in to podcast@searls.co . Give me proof of life, that's all I need. I won't even read it on air if you don't want! If you're not bored yet, click the links: Becky did a reel of our twin birthday cruise Aaron's puns, ranked Fewer tha...

In this episode: Justin goes to a birthday party, drives a Tesla, and configures your BIOS. The compliments department is, as always, available at podcast@searls.co . Have some URLs: This is the combination air fryer / grill I bought Microsoft dropped support for non-SecureBoot PC updates last month Aaron's puns, ranked Nobody Cares Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 Judge ends man's 11-year que...

I don't normally do this, but content warning , this episode talks at length about death and funerals and, while I continue to approach everything with an inappropriate degree of levity, if that's something you're not game to listen to right now, go ahead and skip the first hour of this one. Recommend me your favorite show or video game at podcast@searls.co and I will either play/watch it or lie a...

HEADS UP: This one has a video version in case you'd prefer to watch that! HEADS UP SEVEN UP: Here's a spoiler-free link to this year's puns as they existed prior to this recording. Welcome to a very special Holiday Edition of Breaking Change: our first annual Breaking Change Punsort! Today, we're joined by a surprise guest! Want to know who it is? You'll just have to listen and find out. Yes, it'...

I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it. Send your complaints to podcast@searls.co and they will be read on air. Some bullet points below the fold: My...

I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself. I made a pretty strong appeal that you should e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co , so I won't repeat myself here. DO IT. DO IT NOW. Hopefully I'll be back at least once more before we call it for 2024. Stay tuned. 📻 Correction : In the opening segment, I said (twice) that...

TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking. Had some great e-mails this show. You should keep the streak alive and mouth off with your fingers at podcast@searls.co . Savor this version, folks. Gonna be at least a few weeks until you'll have another one. International Driver's Permit Don't be that guy. Don...

It is Wednesday, my dudes! This is normally a weekend listen, but there are new Macs to talk about. I wanted to give you the absolute freshest, least accurate information I can about all these neat new computers that I WILL NOT BE BUYING BECAUSE TIM COOK IS A COWARD . Write something you want to say in all caps over at podcast@searls.co and maybe I'll scream it on the show! Inside-voice links foll...

Welcome to this podcast which, by now, you have probably decided you either listen to or don't listen to! And if you don't listen to it, one wonders why you are reading this. Remember to write in at podcast@searls.co with suggestions for news stories and whatever you'd like me to talk about. Please keep it PG-rated or NC-17 rated. I want nothing in between. Family-friendly and/or sexually explicit...

Get ready for a three-hour-plus Breaking Change spectacular! Why is it special? I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to listen. Remember, money doesn't change hands when you consume this Content™, but that doesn't make it free! In exchange for downloading this MP3, the license requires you to write in to podcast@searls.co at least once every three episodes. Some of y'all are past due, and I...

There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by friend of the show, Eric Doggett , who helped out with mixing! If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"): podcast@searls.co . Spicier-than-usual show note...

It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finally done* 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 next episode: podcast@searls.co . Find out what that asterisk refers to below: Filing an FCC complaint Supermaven The git logo iMessage via satellite Aaron's puns, ranked Meta cancels their 2027 Visi...

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 at podcast@searls.co . The following links are included with your subscription: Macrofactor app Butterfly keyboard checks going out My tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in Rails Aaron's pun Physical game sales are finally in...

I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs with Apple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Because that'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 CANCEL this PODCAST production PERMANENTLY: podcast@searls.co . (Write in or else.) Some proof of work: Aaron's pun SearchGPT The Cr...

Big day: now with transition music! 🎶 There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, but if you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's because Breaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things to get mad about. Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internet friend? Now's your chance: podcast@...

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 feelings on air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, is podcast@searls.co . Sources below: Ubiquiti UniFi Loopback with SSL2+ This annoying Safari bug My first video clip from Breaking Change A podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision Pros A...

WWDC came and went and now we're all just left 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 can safely 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 you want to be a p...

WWDC is right around the corner, and I wanted to do a predictions podcast before Monday's keynote, but then Mark Gurman went and just read back literally everything that's going to happen. So I guess let's talk about that or something. As always, I love love love to receive your e-mail even though it's hard to get through very many of them on the program. Please know that your comments and questio...

[Update: if you're reading this, then you're listening to an updated version of this episode with a more aggressive denoise filter, to try to combat the 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 that you will hear all about if you...

Today we have a veritable smorgasboard of potpurri as we indulge in the figurative potluck dinner that is, "shit Justin wants to talk about." This may be the last major version for a while, so savor this. Thank you to listeners who took version 10's mandatory e-mail feedback demand seriously, as the mailbag once again is full of good questions. But you must do your part and e-mail podcas...