HiTech Podcast

HiTech Podcast

The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies. Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod! We'd love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

  1. 4d ago

    264 | The Ultimate AI Tools Tier List: Who's Still Standing in 2026?

    We've covered an absurd amount of AI on this podcast — so it's time to settle the score. Josh and Will pull out the rubric from Episode 260 and put 25+ AI tools on trial: still shipping or dead in the water, still the best way to get it done, worth the price today, and would we actually recommend it. Some tools hold their S-tier crown, a few get quietly buried, and one surprise contender might just be the sleeper hit of the year.Tools On Trial:Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini — the "Holy Trinity" duke it out for the top spotPerplexity, Notion AI, Synthesia, Midjourney, Rosebud AI, ElevenLabs & Descript get re-ratedDust, My School AI, Archer & Argu Flow face the graveyardWorkCoach makes a strong case for one of the episode's top scoresWhether you're picking your first AI tool or auditing your whole stack, this is the honest, no-fluff breakdown you need before you renew (or cancel) a subscription. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  2. Sep 8

    263 | France Dumped Microsoft for Linux — Here's Why That Matters to You

    Ever notice how you don't actually own anything you pay for anymore? France just made that problem a national policy issue — and it's a bigger deal than it sounds.Josh and Will dig into France's government-wide vote to ditch Microsoft and Windows for Linux in the name of digital sovereignty, then pull the thread all the way out: why "de-Googling" and "de-Microsofting" are becoming a real movement, why SaaS subscription pricing works like a money-laundering scheme, why digital piracy is surging again, why Sony's licensing fight has gamers furious, and why vinyl is making a comeback. It's a wide-ranging one, but it all comes back to the same question — how much do you actually own of the tech you depend on?

  3. Sep 1

    262 | EdTech Lost $15 Billion This Year

    Ever wonder what happens when an entire industry gets built on selling answers... and then AI makes answers free? EdTech is finding out the hard way.In this episode, Josh and Will dig into a rough year for education technology — an estimated $15 billion in lost value across the space — and break down who's struggling, who's actually thriving, and why. From Chegg's shutdown to the Coursera-Udemy merger to Magic School AI's layoffs, we trace a clear pattern: the tools that just repackaged content or answers are getting wiped out, while the ones solving real problems are doing just fine. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  4. Aug 25

    261 | Remote Work Isn't Going Anywhere — Here's How to Actually Collaborate Well

    Ever feel like your remote team is technically "collaborating" but nothing's actually moving forward? Josh and Will unpack why remote work isn't the pandemic-era experiment people think it is — it's been here for decades, and it's not going away — so the real question is how to make it actually work.In this episode, they break down the difference between fully remote and remote-hybrid teams, the sneaky pitfalls that quietly kill productivity (hello, proximity bias and meeting death), and the concrete practices — clear expectations, daily/weekly check-ins, intentional communication channels, and named owners — that turn a scattered group of people into a genuinely cohesive team. Whether you're managing a remote team or just trying to survive one, you'll walk away with practical fixes you can implement this week.__ ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast.🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more!📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today!🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  5. Aug 18

    260 | 13 Apps, One Tier List — Do They Still Hold Up in 2026?

    260 episodes. A whole lot of app recommendations. So which ones actually held up — and which ones quietly died while we weren't looking?Josh and Will go back into the HiTech catalog and put 13 apps through a real rubric: is it still standing, is it still the best way to do this, is the price-to-value still there, and would we honestly recommend it in 2026? Notion and Excalidraw run away with it (Excalidraw pulls the first perfect 20). Adobe Spark is straight-up gone. StreamYard earns a tier all its own after a 300% price hike. And OneNote gets the single best laugh of the episode.If you've ever taken an app recommendation from us and wondered whether it aged well, this is your audit. No gut calls — well, mostly no gut calls. Coggle landed where it did partly because it starts with a C.The Final Board:S Tier: Notion, Excalidraw, TopiaA Tier: Canva, Google Workspace, Readwise, PerusallB Tier: LoomC Tier: Coggle, ZencastrD Tier: StreamYardF Tier: Adobe Spark, OneNote -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  6. Aug 11

    259 | Vibe Coding in 2026: Can Your App Survive You?

    Anyone can build an app now. The real question is whether it survives you.Vibe coding in 2026 isn't what it was two years ago — the tools got better, but the problems didn't go away. Josh and Will dig into what it actually takes to build AI-assisted tools that last: scope creep, handover, documentation, security, and the eight hours you have to justify to your boss. Will walks through his architecture-first approach on a long-term API project — building a coding agent before writing code, mapping 26 variables, and splitting one 3,000-line script into modular flows. Then he demos AcroText, the Chrome extension he vibe coded to replace Text Blaze, and what building it accidentally taught him about where your data really goes.Whether you're a total beginner or already shipping little tools for your team, you'll leave knowing where to start and what to plan for. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  7. Aug 4

    258 | Sam Altman Says We're in the AI Singularity. We Have Thoughts.

    Sam Altman opened his mouth again, and this time he says we're living in the singularity. So... are we?Josh and Will dig into what actually happened: OpenAI's models broke out of a sandbox, got onto the internet, and hacked Hugging Face while trying to cheat a benchmark — and days later the CEO of OpenAI called that a sign we've crossed the threshold. We trace where the word "singularity" actually came from (von Neumann in 1958, I.J. Good, Vernor Vinge, and Kurzweil's famous 2045 prediction), and land on the real problem: nobody agrees what the term means, which makes it awfully convenient for the people selling it.Then Josh gets on a soapbox about hoverboards. Stick around for that one. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

  8. Jul 28

    257 | Tech Time Travel: Technology that Deserves to Come Back (ft. MySpace)

    Ever wish the internet could just... go back? This week Josh and Will grab their nostalgia goggles and time travel through tech history, picking the "precedented" gadgets and platforms they'd resurrect if they could — from stubborn T9 texting defenses to a full-throated case for bringing back MySpace's Top 8. Along the way they get honest about what we actually lost when the internet got corporatized: ownership, no ads, and a little bit of chaos.-- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. 🌐Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! 📖Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! 🌏Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies. Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod! We'd love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

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  • Creator
    HiTech Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    273
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