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Seven Ways to Measure a Country's Isolation
Episode 5527
Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York for a few hours at the UN General Assembly — no meeting with Trump, no Musk, a walkout reportedly planned, and wh…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Can a Phone Bond Two Cellular Links?
Episode 5526
Daniel wrote in asking whether a dual SIM phone with two data plans could bond both cellular connections entirely on the handset — no mobile router, …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Does an eSIM Adapter Need a Card Reader?
Episode 5525
A listener wrote in with three questions about his 9eSIM adapter: why the company sells a physical USB reader when his phone can already talk to the …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Why AI Voice Agents Can't Hang Up
Episode 5524
A screening bot should attend your low-value sales calls and hang up when the pitch goes nowhere. The hard part isn't the screening logic — it's the …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Where Does the Coding Agent Actually Live?
Episode 5523
Inference was never local — what's moving is the agent process, the filesystem it touches, and the tool runtime. This episode unpacks Daniel's three-…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Building a Podcast Backup Appliance
Episode 5522
A listener wrote in with a specific ask: a single-purpose appliance that incrementally pulls podcast episodes onto local storage he owns, reachable o…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Old Laptops as Home Servers: A Field Guide
Episode 5521
Every tech enthusiast has one: an old laptop with a dead battery, too slow to use and too functional to bin. This episode walks through the full play…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Keeping a Fine-Tune Alive Across Model Releases
Episode 5520
Daniel wrote in with a plan: fine-tune DeepSeek Flash 4.1 on several hundred hand-edited episode transcripts, deploy the checkpoint to Modal, and rep…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Mobile Warehouse: Racking That Travels With the Tech
Episode 5519
Daniel wrote in with a sharp observation: most inventory systems assume stock sits still while people come to it. But what if the whole system gets w…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Task-Based Organization: What ER Carts Teach Home Workshops
Episode 5518
A listener's email about a $30 small-parts box sent us down a research rabbit hole into emergency medicine. Task-based package organization (TPO) gro…
3 weeks, 2 days ago