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295: Hacker Tourism

Episode 295

Wired 04.12, December 1996: https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-december

Show notes with page numbers for everything we discuss: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-295-wired-dec-96

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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

294: The God-Tier GPU

Episode 294

Brad's historic YouTube video, "Here's Like 18 Minutes of Destiny 2 at 4k60:"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4

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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

293: J-ing and K-ing

Episode 293

The monthly Q&A ep is here again, and this time around we field emails and Discord Qs about managing the cognitive load of your hobbies, doing jury duty in a movie theater, site discovery on the indi…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

292: Winning the Hummingbird War

Episode 292

On this week's ep, we take inventory of upcoming tech projects we've been looking into, to evaluate our use cases and pick each other's brains about what's worth sinking the time and/or money into in…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

291: Evil Finder Icon

Episode 291

Apple's WWDC and Google I/O have both come and gone, and... well, we took a look at I/O and it was practically all AI this year, so we skipped that. But Apple's annual developer's conference was surp…

Published on 3 months ago

290: Earn Your Nintendo License

Episode 290

Will got a chance to attend the Switch 2 launch event at Nintendo's brand new San Francisco store and then started feverishly digging into the fundamentals of the new hardware, so this week we had an…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

289: Computer Shangri-La

Episode 289

Will's here with a two-fer trip report this week, one of which was a literal trip to the grand opening of the brand new Bay Area Micro Center. We dig into what a big-box retailer oriented around buil…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

288: High Quackuracy

Episode 288

That Q&A time is here again, and this month we field emails and Discord Qs about such things as the hopeful return of the webring, what to do with the hardware if your PC is compromised by a bad acto…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

287: Never Click "Show More"

Episode 287

We're reaching deep into the grab bag again this week, with a wide array of topics like the fascinating world of shorthand and stenography machines (plus an open source project to build your own, nat…

Published on 4 months ago

286: SheevQuest 2025

Episode 286

With Brad spending most of his week in a courtroom for the rest of May, we may be doing some looser episodes here and there until we're back on our normal schedule again. This week, a grab bag of tec…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago