Friends with Brews

Beeping Machine
  • 3.7 (3)
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • UPDATED BIWEEKLY

Two friends, two brews, many topics

  1. The Honey and the Sugar Dried Up

    FEB 17

    The Honey and the Sugar Dried Up

    Peter goes to the Genius Bar. Peter drinks coffee and Scott drinks tea. Listen while we Watch (or talk about watches, anyway). The Topics The Brews La Colombe Coffee Roasters Decaf Monte Carlo Dark Roast Coffee Numi Hojicha The honey in the Mac Foundry Virtual Tabletop Sophos advice Sophos XGS 88 AirPods Pro 3 Amazon is a terrible company with good customer service Single reviews backlog AeroPress Premium Coffee Maker How much coffee? Garmin 965 review Garmin 955, 965, and 970 Product Comparison What about the Apple Watch? The Links La Colombe Coffee Roasters Decaf Monte Carlo Dark Roast Coffee Numi Hojicha Foundry Virtual Tabletop XGS Series Firewall Appliances - 2nd Gen Desktop Models AirPods Pro 3 - Apple AeroPress Premium Coffee Maker | Glass and Metal Coffee Maker Garmin 955, 965, and 970 Product Comparison

    48 min
  2. Workshopping Our Cult

    12/25/2025

    Workshopping Our Cult

    Cults are bad, unless they're good. Peter and Scott talk about the psychology of changing your beliefs. Also, Ghostty, AI, and COFFEE!! The Topics The Brews Whole Foods Whole Bean Italian Roast New Seasons Market Cottonwood Whole Bean Coffee Scott switches to Ghostty Ghostty is simple and fast Warp's BS became too much zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh The AI tools Scott pays for Claude (and Claude Code), ChatGPT Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages You’re all wrong - YouTube Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition by Dan M. Kahan :: SSRN The Links Whole Foods Whole Bean Italian Roast New Seasons Market Cottonwood Whole Bean Coffee Ghostty Warp zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages You’re all wrong - YouTube Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition by Dan M. Kahan :: SSRN

    36 min
  3. Espresso Edition – Turks in the Upper Left

    12/15/2025

    Espresso Edition – Turks in the Upper Left

    Peter's fasting, but he still drinks coffee. Scott was coffee fasting, but now he's not. Peter's got the Sophos jacket, and they both have thumbs up for their drinks!

    21 min
  4. Big 50

    11/24/2025

    Big 50

    Welcome to the Menu Bar! No, that was a different podcast. But we do talk about menu bar management apps, watches, Overcast, and airlines!! And the stupid Ecobee.

    35 min
  5. This is a Podcast

    10/27/2025

    This is a Podcast

    Peter has some Apple things, Scott gets lowballed while Peter gets highballed, and overall it's a short espresso sized episode.

    23 min
  6. Sleepwalking Through Berlin

    09/27/2025

    Sleepwalking Through Berlin

    Peter has a calendar scheduling AI assistant and 9 extra time zones. Scott has anxiety about the sound quality of Peter's impromptu Unsere Weisse Berliner Kindl review.

    43 min
  7. One Topic Yubikey

    09/11/2025

    One Topic Yubikey

    It’s all Yubikey all the time as Peter and Scott perform live technical exercises for your listening displeasure!

    1h 16m
  8. I Don’t Have That Many Tendons In My Brain

    08/31/2025

    I Don’t Have That Many Tendons In My Brain

    Scott and Peter do some live coffee drinking and AI agent installs while pondering how much f word is too much f word.

    1h 14m
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Ratings & Reviews

3.7
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3 Ratings

About

Two friends, two brews, many topics

Information

  • Creator
    Beeping Machine
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ©2026 Beeping Machine
  • Show Website
    Friends with Brews