Breaking Change

Justin Searls
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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

  1. DEC 6

    v48 - Coil Whine

    I'm experiencing what breathing out of my nose properly feels like for the first time. Everything is new and wondrous and I've never felt so optimistic. This sensation lasted for two days and now I'm used to it and existence is once again pain. Share your existential musings at podcast@searls.co and I'll nod and sigh along. I might even nod and sigh performatively for you on the show! Important ground covered in this episode: My new gaming PC's final parts list This nifty Wake-on-LAN app for iOS The POSSE Party has STARTED! Aaron's puns, ranked Polymarket Builds In-House Trading Team as It Re-Enters the US (Archive) Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network (News+) The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All (Another good take) Kirby Air Riders tops the Japanese physical charts as Switch and Switch 2 games sweep the top 15 Meta confirms cuts for Metaverse Efforts (Archive) Alan Dye is leaving apple (Archive) Ben Thompson on Nvidia and OpenAI Everyone in Seattle Hates AI Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI Pluribus Star Trek: Enterprise Section 31 Lower Decks Soulframe Outer Worlds 2

    2h 26m

  2. NOV 22

    v47 - Turbinately Ill

    Had a little pep in my step this time. Maybe it's because I decided to start recording after 7 AM for once. Maybe it's because I can finally f*****g breathe out of my nose holes. Tell me about what you do while you continue to draw breath at podcast@searls.co. Things you can read if you're bored: Beckygram.com Aaron's puns, ranked Steam Frame and Steam Machine Xbox reportedly warning of yet another potential price increase InKonbini retro convenience store simulator Pipboy 3000 replica for $300 Apple introduces Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet Google Antigravity kinda sucks I think I might regret watching The Bear Nano Banana Pro made this episode's social image GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the best coding model I've used yet Adversarial Poetry is a great way to jailbreak LLMs (Comment thread) Cryptographers Cancel Election Results After Losing Decryption Key Outer Worlds 2 ⚡️ Death by Lightning really slaps (claps?) Wicked: For Good is Very, Very Bad (News+) The guy from Pomplamoose is the CEO of Patreon??! "Pixar: The Early Days" interview with Steve Jobs NotebookLM

    2h 37m

  3. NOV 8

    v46 - Adjusted Gross Intelligence

    I'm back and I'm angry. My power went out, which caused my Internet to go down, which broke my favorite mug. And that's just the shit that happened before 7 AM. By 9 AM my doorbell was continuously chiming for no fucking reason. Join me in the struggle. We shall persevere. Tell me how your morning went by writing in to: podcast@searls.co. Here 4 U: Kudos to Adam Mcrea and Judoscale for solving my Heroku issue Kudos to me for separately solving my Heroku issue with Straight-to-Video ALVR for streaming SteamVR games Streaming flat games with Sunshine and Moonlight Aaron's puns, ranked AI's Dial-Up Era (and my take) Sandwich made the world's first immersive ad spot Coinbase CEO Stunt Exposes Prediction Market Vulnerability OpenAI and Microsoft resolve their issue without resolving their issue Amazon v. Perplexity BioWare reassures fans Mass Effect 5 is still coming The Outer Worlds 2 Eddy Burback - ChatGPT Made me Delusional

    2h 24m

  4. OCT 26

    v45 - Developer Strap-on

    This may be the version 45 release of Breaking Change, but when you factor in its Hotfixes and Feature Release entries, this is somehow the 50th episode of the show! Why? Why are we still doing this to ourselves? Write in your answer and how you feel about yourself as a result to podcast@searls.co. Seriously, I need some new material. The web runs on links, so have some: KnightCite's Wikipedia page Whisprflow wasn't for me The POSSE Party is still on and will come to you, eventually Aaron's puns, ranked This Cheap, Tiny Device May Reverse Memory Loss—And Even Prevent Alzheimer's (News+) Why Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified (News+) Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds Tele-conbini workers in Manilla South Korea lost 858TB of government data without a backup The AWS/Smart bed outage (News+) Calendearing by Zach Holman Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon 'likely written' by AI Sora update #1 ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners Perverts on Sora Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults Don't let AI invent your next holiday destination Apple notification forwarding API is a potential game changer for Meta glasses John Ternus as Next CEO? Apple released the M5 Vision Pro And a new Vision Pro Developer Strap Apple Readies High-End MacBook Pro With Touch, Hole-Punch Screen You Only Need $750 to Pilfer Unencrypted Data From Satellites They're making a new Star Trek Voyager game That Wolverine game sure looks M-rated Halo on PlayStation? In this economy? The next Xbox console is a 'premium' system Adam Driver says Disney nixed a Kylo Ren film he pitched with Steven Soderbergh Microsoft Teams can now track attendance Foundation Alien: Earth The Last of Us Invasion The Bear PSVR2 Tears of the Kingdom John writes: Why programming languages aren't going anywhere

    2h 59m
  5. v44.0.2 - Mike McQuaid: If you don't like it, Quit

    OCT 17

    v44.0.2 - Mike McQuaid: If you don't like it, Quit

    Post-recording update: As I've been lobbying for (both publicly and behind the scenes), it has been announced that the RubyGems and Bundler client libraries are being transferred to Matz and the Ruby core team. Mike McQuaid (of Homebrew fame) and I scheduled this episode of Hot Fix a week before the Ruby community exploded. Hot Fix is all about getting spicy, but even we were a little wary of the heat in that particular kitchen. The problem Mike brought to the table is the same one he's always on about: open source is not a career. Incidentally, Mike's favorite topic also happens to be relevant to the latest RubyGems controversy—because it all boils down to paying people to work on open source. Not content to miss out on the fun, Jerod from The Changelog asked if he could join and discuss the ongoing Ruby drama as a group. So we decided to team up and do a collab episode—call it Breaking Changelog, I guess? It's nothing if not efficient: record once, edit twice, and syndicate everywhere. If you don't mind swear words, listen to this version. If you don't like swearing, what the f**k are you doing here? (But seriously, you can listen to their edit if you want!) Please send your compliments to podcast@searls.co and your complaints to editors@changelog.com.

    1h 39m
  6. v44.0.1 - José Valim: It's a time for builders

    SEP 29

    v44.0.1 - José Valim: It's a time for builders

    If you know who José Valim is, then you know he probably made a mistake by joining me for our third installment of 🔥Hotfix🔥. The inventor of the Elixir programming language is at it again with his colleagues at Dashbit and they've got a new product called Tidewave. It's a coding agent with a twist: it has such a deep level of integration with your web framework that it can get the executable feedback it needs to tackle the entire feature development lifecycle. I do eventually let him plug the tool (and our conversation genuinely makes me want to try it—I logged a todo and everything!), but to be on Hotfix you gotta bring a thorny problem to the table, and he picked a great one: marketing hype aside, nobody has a clue what the future of AI agents looks like. Like always, we totally 100% and A+ solved the problem by correctly predicting the future. You gotta listen to find out. Every time I talk to José, I get ideas for what I should be doing instead of what I'm actually doing. If you feel so inspired, write into podcast@searls.co and I'll read it on the next mainline version release of Breaking Change. You can follow José on Bsky, X, and Mastodon. Pick your poison. ☠️

    1h 31m

  7. SEP 22

    v44 - Can't get it up

    Hey, look! Breaking Change now has chapter support for each segment! More on how I did that while still upholding my commitment to laziness later. I didn't get a good job connecting this version's release to what I was referencing, so to be clear I was referring to my heart rate as opposed to any other bodily functions. The other ones are getting up just fine, thank you. Get your head out of the gutter. Thanks for all the great e-mails the last couple weeks! Throw yours on the pile at podcast@searls.co. Hopefully Fastmail won't lose it. For the folks who pronounce URLs like Earls: Fallout comes to HHN Apple's b******t Watch Series 11 battery claims Echofeed is like POSSE Party, kind of Only POSSE Party is POSSE Party. Working on it. Aaron's puns, ranked Scuba-wearing restaurant robber swims away with cash at Disney Springs India is f****d H1-B's cost $100k now making India super f****d Why tradwives aren't trad Why Marriage Is Increasingly for the Affluent (News+) Virtual Boy is coming to the Switch Samsung brings ads to US fridges Meta's bad demos and explanations Steve Jobs smoking the good shit Expedition 33 Super Mario Odyssey Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Paradise Season 1 The Last of Us Season 2 The Invincible

    2h 34m
  8. v43.1 - iPhone 17 Event Review

    SEP 9

    v43.1 - iPhone 17 Event Review

    It's an emergency bonus edition of Breaking Change as I take the covers off yet another show-within-a-show. I call it Feature Release, and its job is to fill in that middle number in our semantically versioned series of conversations together. No pun, no news, just some timely content wrapped up in a name, logo, and jingle package that still has that new podcast smell. It's a 1-hour review of the Airpods, Apple Watch, and iPhone updates Apple announced today. You can see the full event video on YouTube. The Verge has a 17 minute abridged version if you just want the synopsis. Please enjoy this episode of Feature Release! It may be the only one. Write into podcast@searls.co with your feedback!

    1 hr
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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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    53
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 Justin Searls
  • Show Website
    Breaking Change

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