Breaking Change

Justin Searls

A show in which Justin Searls talks with you from time to time. Programmer things. Apple stuff. Gaming news. Dispatches from Disney World. Each episode also entitles the listener to one (1) exclusive pun, care of of Aaron Patterson (aka @tenderlove). Submit questions and comments to podcast@searls.co

  1. 2d ago

    v57 - Go Pace Yourself

    Unlike Sam Altman, I sat down and did the math by hand to calculate that it would actually be less time to produce the show if I were to livestream it than to edit it after the fact and upload it. The fact I recently got upgraded from 30mbps to 2000mbps upstream might allso have something to do with it: welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of Breaking Change! I regret to inform you the episode is now over. You can listen like you always do or watch what remains of the recording on YouTube. It was particularly fun for me to build a production pipeline with updating chyrons, a dynamic salt meter, and on-demand generated stock videos. It's like having a production team, except it manages to crash halfway thru the stream without notice. As always into the show at podcast@searls.co or via the feedback form. Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them: The Odyssey Paseo Pebble Index 01 Steam Frame iPhone 18 Pro Apple Watch Series 12 Apple Watch Live Rewind iPhone Handoff iPhone Duo Aaron's puns, ranked How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry Gallup's global AI sentiment survey Matthew Butterick: Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead Jeff Bezos predicts three-day workweeks thanks to AI ZuckOff Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses Meta VR Glasses New Smash Bros. and Nintendogs games are reportedly in development BlizzCon's StarCraft announcement The trailer World of Warcraft: Forever Vibe-coded browser ports of games Maurice Heumann on game decompilation GameStop's used PS5 Pro listing Nvidia reportedly discontinuing the RTX 5090 Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump's attempt to rename AI The executive order First look at LG and Apple's reported smart-home products Apple's October 13 launch The rumored Apple and ADT partnership Leaked Apple TV 4K, HomeView, and HomePod mini details Kurzgesagt's AI video Star Wars Zero Company The Running Man For All Mankind Star City The Boys, season 5 Omarchy 1Password funds a Linux project and lands in a controversy Why Google told drivers to take a longer route Apple Vision Pro

  2. Oct 5

    v56.0.1 - Zach Holman wants more of everything

    Zach Holman, founder of Signed, joins me for another 🔥Hotfix🔥. Zach wants more of everything. Let's see what we can do about that. Write into the show at podcast@searls.co. Show notes: Zach Holman's site Signed Ride the Walrus Things Conductor DHH's AI crashout keynote at Rails World 2026

    v56.0.1 - Zach Holman wants more of everything

  3. Aug 31

    v56 - Persistent Mode

    The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, you can e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co. Only a small proportion of listeners will ever write an e-mail, so I now offer a second option: the justin.searls.co/feedback form. People love filling out forms! Go try it out! Check the anonymous checkbox! Hell, enter a fake e-mail address—see if I care! Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them: A TV commercial for the Famicom Disk System Also, the animation that played when a Disk Writer kiosk was overwriting your disk with a new game I am an SS-tier Gundam Designer Test Double is now on Wikipedia Aaron's puns, ranked The End of Programming Nvidia buys Hugging Face for 💵 AI Agents Are Working Around the Clock. Why Are Startup Founders Working Even Harder? (News+) OpenAI is developing "Persistent Mode" for Codex (Archive) Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA Apple Cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams Apple unveils M6, M5 Ultra chips and updates its desktop Macs New Mac Mini and Studio Surprise and Shine event on 9/9 Apple's Foldable iPhone Details (Archive) Former Arkane leads say Xbox let them come in and finish Redfall's final major update after being laid off Your Discs. Now Also Digital. 'This is horrifying' Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI filter leaks and players are inserting it into every game It's about preserving artistic vision GTA 6 is a secret cozy game / healthy living simulator Also with a neat 26-minute trailer. Spiderman: Brand New Day Park Hyatt Tokyo (the one from Lost in Translation) Star Wars Zero Company Star Wars Galactic Racer Exit 8 the Game, Exit 8 the movie

  4. Aug 7

    v55 - I'm a good guyjin

    We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang. I always enjoy shooting the shit with/at you, and if you'd like to be a more active participant in the shit-shooting, then hit me up at podcast@searls.co. Really, I'll be nicer to you than I am to Sam Altman and Tang Tan. I promise. Back to manually writing links. The zen of monotonous input tasks is suddenly something to be cherished in the current era. Mandibular Advancement Device Better With Becky Why doesn't the U.S. have small elevators like Europe and China? (News+) My 240hz gaming QD-OLED (and this bizarre Reddit review) App market share is tough apparently Aaron's puns, ranked Apple Upgrade Program Apple might lojack your phone They promise not to, though Apple's MapKit tech will underlie Ford's EV platform Tim Cook EGOTed (EGOT's origin) The Information on Apple's Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work (Archive) OpenAI: Apple is getting this wrong Google adds selfie as a login mechanism A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (Plausible deniability, meanwhile) YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy' Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code Gas Town was a f*****g joke Ed Zitron seems too sure that markets are rational Square Enix denies claims its Kingdom Hearts Collection artwork was AI-generated, blames 'human error' YouTube labels Kurzsegagt AI slop (Real Engineering's reaction video) OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000 Xbox's 'disc to digital' feature could be coming as soon as this month Halo: Campaign Evolved Jurassic World Rebirth 金曜ロードショー Chicken Ramen commercials Lazy Kickers The Hot Spot Ohashi Trio Apple Music Spotify Ocarina of Time soundtrack by the Beatuls The Prime Minister of Japan does not sleep (forgot to actually answer the f*****g question, oops)

  5. Jul 23

    v54 - Hot Sleeper

    The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag participation. As always, the address is podcast@searls.co, and I'd be really curious to hear how America is doing because it seems like everything is going great. For the first time I let Claude write these links for me, because it never occurred to me I didn't have to format the markdown manually: PicoRuby Kaigi 2025 FleaFlicker, my first iOS game! Aaron's puns, ranked Claude Fable 5 gets another bump: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? Apple vs OpenAI Apple's Chip Plans: M6, M7 Pro, M7 Max, M7 Ultra, M8 Details; Touch MacBook Pro (archive) Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available Apple's fm CLI Nvidia's Jensen Huang reunites with Sega exec who saved the company with $5M investment New survey claims 100% of Japanese online game developers use generative AI tools PlayStation announces the end of disc games, starting in January 2028 Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels and Japan's HARD OFF stores Xbox confirms plans to cut 5 studios and thousands of jobs Obsidian is reportedly making a new Avowed Fallout game Id Software dev claims it's been 'relegated to support studio size' Rebooting (a.k.a. Brush Up Life) Straight to Hell You Can't Expense This! Forza Horizon 6 Cook, Serve, Delicious! The Odyssey

  6. Mar 20

    v53 - Pod Freeze

    The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I broke the show. Find out how by listening for yourself! Want to be my friend? Drop me a line at justin@searls.co. Want to file a complaint with my supervisor? Forward your concerns to podcast@searls.co. These links may rot, but alas—death comes for us all: Tonal (without a subscription) Better with Becky My appearance on the freeCodeCamp podcast Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD Models are commodities, harnesses are differentiators Aaron's puns, ranked United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices (News+) Your Meta glasses are watching you pee (9to5mac's summary) Tuna for Mac by friend of the show, Mikkel Malmberg MacBook Neo MacBook Neo offers more single-core performance than any mobile processor from AMD, Intel or Qualcomm Apple + Nvidia's CloudXR & Foveated streaming partnership: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Xbox's Project Helix Microsoft's 'Xbox mode' is coming to every Windows 11 PC (News+) Windows: Announcing new tools and platform updates for Windows PC game developers Sony is testing dynamic pricing in the PlayStation Store DLSS 5 should make you excited and/or outraged: video, backlash Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online China mobilizes "one-person company" AI startups Scrubs is back! Mickey 17 is not about a cartoon mouse The Expanse Marathon - and how sickos like me can't stop thinking about it

  7. Mar 7

    v52.0.1 - Len Testa: Bring back the Starcruiser

    Today, we're joined by a very special guest, Len Testa! You might know him from The Disney Dish podcast or from his excellent theme park travel planning app Touring Plans. Or you might not know him at all! No wrong answers. This episode is all about Disney's ill-fated Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser live action role-playing hotel—which we both had the opportunity to experience right when it first launched. It was a life-changing experience for both of us, so why did it fail? Is it true that the top Disney brass learned all the wrong lessons from that failure? And will the CEO-in-waiting Josh D'Amaro ever have the courage to attempt something so ambitious again? Listen to this episode, in which we speak with an unearned confidence that suggests we have all of these answers! You can reach out to Len at len@touringplans.com and you can write into the show at podcast@searls.co. He'll read your e-mail and reply to it, but I may only skim it.

    v52.0.1 - Len Testa: Bring back the Starcruiser

  8. Mar 1

    v52 - Skynet any%

    Sure feels like some combination of AI, the US military, and the AI military could bring an end to the world any day now, so I figured I'd better record one last show for posterity. Welcome me on this version's speedrun to the apocalypse! So long as the EMP blasts don't nuke all our ham radios, write in to podcast@searls.co and I'll read it on the next release of the program. Over. Be sure to click all these links while the clickin's good: Ninja Creami Deluxe prove_it Agents are ushering in the Antisocial Era Brace for the Fuckening Citrini Research fanfic Would you like your AI singularity benign or extinction-level? Original post by the Dallas Fed Anthropic's Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth OpenAI's agreement with the Department of War U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Apple introduces a new video podcast experience on Apple Podcasts Foveated Streaming for Apple Vision Pro Huge Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer retiring, Sarah Bond resigns, Microsoft AI boss becomes new Microsoft Gaming CEO XCOM's Jake Solomon announces his new studio is closing, reveals now-cancelled AI-driven narrative game Fan group makes Unreal Tournament 2004 available to play for free and in 4K Video Games Are Losing a Brain Rot Race to Gambling and Porn (News+) Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer (News+) Why Netflix Actually Won Even Though It Lost Warner Deal (News+) Aaron's puns, ranked Your Friends & Neighbors Rental Family Halt and Catch Fire (again) Paradise: Season 2 Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown xcbeautify turbocommit The double loop model for agentic coding

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A show in which Justin Searls talks with you from time to time. Programmer things. Apple stuff. Gaming news. Dispatches from Disney World. Each episode also entitles the listener to one (1) exclusive pun, care of of Aaron Patterson (aka @tenderlove). Submit questions and comments to podcast@searls.co

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  • Creator
    Justin Searls
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    65
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Justin Searls
  • Show Website
    Breaking Change

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