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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 4 months, 2 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 4 months, 3 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months, 4 weeks 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 6 months ago
285: More Free Space Than Free Time
Episode 285
By listener request, we're talking about our personal file organization and storage layouts this week, with a focus on our desktop computers--including how we use our OS-level home folders, whether t…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
284: Shatner's Sap Shack
Episode 284
Where does Robocop's data spike rank on our big list of connectors? What do you do with an old cable modem or cable box? What's the fastest discontinued product in tech history (and is it the Microso…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago