Breaking Change Justin Searls

Today we have a veritable smorgasboard of potpurri as we indulge in the
figurative potluck dinner that is, "shit Justin wants to talk about." This may
be the last major version for a while, so savor this.

Thank you to listeners who took version 10's mandatory e-mail feedback demand
seriously, as the mailbag once again is full of good questions. But you must
do your part and e-mail podcast@searls.co to
keep it that way. Each e-mail you send entitles you to a license to listen to
three more episodes, so—in a sense—you can't afford not to write in.

Have some links:


The Synapse 25 bag I'm downgrading into
Sandwich video makes cool commercials
Searls After Dark was a 10 part YouTube series I did
Star Trek Into Darkness
"Open face" Vision setups
TikTok ban passes
Base RAM hasn't budged since Tim Cook took over
Peter Cooper be trollin'
Llama sucks at coding
My new Spots media type and mapping feature
The man who killed
Google

⛷️

It's been over two weeks! Let's catch up. We can talk about anything you want,
so long as it's App Store policies regarding "retro" game emulators or where to
find the best Japanese love hotels.

Also, I hate to spoil an announcement, but due to a lack of mailbag engagement,
e-mailing podcast@searls.co after you listen to each
episode of the program is now mandatory for all listeners. Figure it out.

Citations follow:


60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games
Devs don't want to make live service games
The Courage to be Disliked
The Top 10 Breaking Change puns
Disney changes its accessibility program
Spatial personas are quite cool
John Gruber is wrong about vibration APIs
Emulators! In the App Store!
The Humane AI Pin is a bad product
Sonos Move 2 is an expensive speaker
Constellation is a weird show
Fallout hits all the right mid-century notes
This Love Hotel room has a water slide
A video about how sports betting seems bad
DHH announcing his cloud exit

If you're itching for a discussion that explains why I'm afraid to move into my
new bathroom, what I really think about Andrew Huberman, and why it might make
more sense to learn French than Java… prepare to be scratched, I guess?

I am highly confident that at least one person will get angry and unfollow this
show as a result of words that came out of my mouth. If you've got thoughts
and/or feelings, let me have'm at podcast@searls.co!

Some links to things:


legitimate.us
Added likes for my podcast
Browsers ignore autocomplete=off
My new dry_eraser gem
My newsletter about chronic back issues
Tron got snubbed because they "cheated" by using computers (a cool video about its production)
The Huberman "hit-piece" (News+)
Huberman as pseudo-science
Universities have a Computer-Science Problem (News+)
The End of Foreign-Language Education (News+)
Stardew Valley 1.6
True Detective Season 4

This podcast is dedicated to the brave men and women at the Department of
Justice for taking bold and decisive action against a clear and present danger
to the continued existence of the United States of America: Apple's use of green
bubbles and how they make some Android users feel bad.

Since the DOJ's lawsuit is all about vibes, send me your vibes—good or bad—and
I'll be there for you. Who knows, if you choose to direct your energy to
podcast@searls.co, maybe I'll get lucky and
finally feel something in this cold, dead heart of mine.

Links and such follow:


Rails World 2024
Toy Story Mania
Bertrand Russel dishin' out takes
A look at Unreal Engine 5's new features like Nanite and Lumen
Ubisoft's creepy AI chatbot NPCs
The DOJ's 88-page complaint against Apple
Jason Snell's first take on it
Another Life, finally answering the
question, "what if Battlestar Galactica was a CW show but only the Katee
Sackhoff parts"?
The Halo-flavored Halo show and the mediocre Halo Infinite game
Dave the Diver

Odell Lake for the Apple II
Cook Serve Delicious

This was a long episode, so here are some short notes.

As always, your e-mails delight and inspire me. Send one to
podcast@searls.co with anything you want in it. I
don't care if it's just emoji and gifs.

Citations follow:


iOS progressive web apps are back to how they were in the EU
The Television app unveil
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates
Webpacker is retired
KameSame is my Japanese language app
DHH and Windows
Smart EX
Starship Troopers led us to Helldivers 2
The story behind Game Dev Story
That Weird Al biopic
The upcoming Fallout series

[UPDATE: In this episode, I referenced Stripe having an IPO in the past
tense. I was mistaken, they are not (yet) publicly traded. We regret the
error.]

The audio is better this week! I'm learning.

Also, I finally had something to talk about that has nothing to do with Apple!
The target of the ion cannon that is my mouth this time? drumroll… it's
Stripe! Sorry, Stripe. If you like rants about software quality and the systemic
reasons everything is terrible, hoo boy! This one brings the heat. 🔥🔥🔥

We're starting to work down our mailbag backlog, so help me freshen it up by
e-mailing the show at podcast@searls.co and our
dedicated staff (me) will read it and—potentially, maybe—respond on the air!

And now, some URLs:


Scott Hanselman didn't (doesn't?) think profanity works
Mike McQuaid's appearance on Changelog and Friends to talk about Workbrew
Aaron's humble love-making blog post
Stripe's problematic pause button, which invokes this
feature,
and which their COVID-19 support page touts
iMessage's post-quantum cryptography
Execute Program by Gary Bernhardt, one of the
only educational services teaching programming that I can recommend
Arcade Paradise is a good game
The Killer is a movie

Also, "Team Bally Total Fitness Extreme Racing" doesn't turn up anything on Google. Just an FYI