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 [email protected]
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Justin is recording from a Japanese business hotel and shares the good news of purchasing a condo in Shizuoka City, detailing the complex purchasing process and future plans. He also recounts various travel mishaps and observations from visiting different Japanese prefectures, including trash rules, a bullet train mask rescue, crying at a movie, changes in Tokyo, and a memorable meal of living squid. The episode shifts to tech and societal commentary, discussing AI's impact on hiring, education, and the potential dangers of advanced models, before looking ahead to Apple's WWDC, speculating on new OS naming and a potential future iPhone design. Finally, he answers a listener question about his top three video games of all time.
Justin details his extended stay in Japan, recounting a midnight Ring alarm scare while abroad and the ongoing complex process of buying a condo as a foreign non-resident, highlighting finding his ideal city, Shizuoka. He shares cultural observations like public sobbing and signature seals, discusses open source leadership, critiques AI developments and Apple's strategy, and reviews various media and experiences encountered during his trip, alongside listener mail.
Justin shares a major life update about an urgent, extended trip to Japan to secure a condo purchase, discussing the financial and logistical hedges required. He also dives into a range of tech news, including Apple HomeKit frustrations, Vision Pro usability, new iOS features, Backblaze fraud claims, and the concerning impacts of AI on coding competitions and university education. Listener questions cover Japan travel advice and rankings of Apple's best and worst apps.
Your favorite podcast about nothing continues to find things to talk about. Whatever you do, DO NOT e-mail me at [email protected] or else I will read it on air and tell everyone how smart you sound and how good you look. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . Links to follow: Loving my Tariffmas gifts: external SSD array and pool skimmer , especially My first taste of GitHub Copilot's Agent mode Me putting Agent mode to the test in a fun little screencast Aaron's puns, ranked Vide...
Nothing like a peaceful Sunday morning at the end of an exhausting, historically-volatile week to pour a hot cup of coffee and spew absolutely scalding takes in all directions. If you get burned, don't say I didn't warn you. Read the message on the lid. We've done 34 of these now and my mailbag is getting full of old e-mails that don't make sense anymore. Please email new stuff to me at [email protected] and we, like civilization, will start fresh next time! Video of this edition of the show is ...
I hope you ordered your podcast spicy, because this version is a slow heat, but it builds . I was pretty fired up by the end of this one. If I crossed a line here, please report it to HR at [email protected] and they will conduct an investigation. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them: Tailwind 4 Upgrades Aaron's puns, ranked There's a new cringey Star Fox-like coming Shenmue 1 & 2 mixed up the axial tilt Secret A...
Turns out I'd accidentally been letting some of your e-mail get filtered as junk mail. I want to be clear that I don't think you're junk, Apple does. Write in with your feelings to [email protected] and I'll read it, assuming I get it. Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube . Without further ado, links! POSSE Party Aaron's puns, ranked Don't invite anyone you like to a measles party Sorry vegans, plants can feel pain Reddit will add a paywall Junior developers know how to code even l...
Update: This is the first version of Breaking Change available in 4K video. Check it out on YouTube . The one where Justin picks the perfect time to buy his first Tesla vehicle. Sometimes the things I say and do make people feel things. Share those feelings with me at this e-mail address: [email protected] . Whatever you're feeling, I'll read it and do my best to acknowledge it. I also may read it on air. Unless you ask me not to, in which case I won't. Okay, so anyway, there are links to be lun...
If you're here for the spicy, good news: you're gettin' it spicy. I am usually joking, but I mean it this time: I'm going to stop doing this podcast if you don't write in to [email protected] . Give me proof of life, that's all I need. I won't even read it on air if you don't want! If you're not bored yet, click the links: Becky did a reel of our twin birthday cruise Aaron's puns, ranked Fewer than 200 people bought Resident Evil on iPhone Apple Invites and GroupKit are gonna save us from Doodle...
In this episode: Justin goes to a birthday party, drives a Tesla, and configures your BIOS. The compliments department is, as always, available at [email protected] . Have some URLs: This is the combination air fryer / grill I bought Microsoft dropped support for non-SecureBoot PC updates last month Aaron's puns, ranked Nobody Cares Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin The Consensus on Havana Syndrome Is Cracking ( Ne...
I don't normally do this, but content warning , this episode talks at length about death and funerals and, while I continue to approach everything with an inappropriate degree of levity, if that's something you're not game to listen to right now, go ahead and skip the first hour of this one. Recommend me your favorite show or video game at [email protected] and I will either play/watch it or lie and say I did. Thanks! Now: links and transcript: Kirkland Signature, Organic Non-Dairy Oat Beverage ...
HEADS UP: This one has a video version in case you'd prefer to watch that! HEADS UP SEVEN UP: Here's a spoiler-free link to this year's puns as they existed prior to this recording. Welcome to a very special Holiday Edition of Breaking Change: our first annual Breaking Change Punsort! Today, we're joined by a surprise guest! Want to know who it is? You'll just have to listen and find out. Yes, it's Aaron . As always, you can e-mail the show at [email protected] . If you enjoyed this episode and ...
I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it. Send your complaints to [email protected] and they will be read on air. Some bullet points below the fold: My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac Aaron's puns, ranked Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even ...
I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself. I made a pretty strong appeal that you should e-mail the show at [email protected] , so I won't repeat myself here. DO IT. DO IT NOW. Hopefully I'll be back at least once more before we call it for 2024. Stay tuned. 📻 Correction : In the opening segment, I said (twice) that the Gender Equality section chief took me to Tokyo to see 紅葉 in 2005, but it was actually Kyoto. I r...
TIL that 4 AM is way too goddamn early to record a podcast. Apologies if I'm more chipper than usual, that's probably the coffee talking. Had some great e-mails this show. You should keep the streak alive and mouth off with your fingers at [email protected] . Savor this version, folks. Gonna be at least a few weeks until you'll have another one. International Driver's Permit Don't be that guy. Don't drive a go-kart in downtown Tokyo Watch my final talk, The Empowered Programmer (Justin's Version...
It is Wednesday, my dudes! This is normally a weekend listen, but there are new Macs to talk about. I wanted to give you the absolute freshest, least accurate information I can about all these neat new computers that I WILL NOT BE BUYING BECAUSE TIM COOK IS A COWARD . Write something you want to say in all caps over at [email protected] and maybe I'll scream it on the show! Inside-voice links follow: The new Kindle Paperwhite Black plastic is worse , now. Egg yolks are back to being good Fancy S...
Welcome to this podcast which, by now, you have probably decided you either listen to or don't listen to! And if you don't listen to it, one wonders why you are reading this. Remember to write in at [email protected] with suggestions for news stories and whatever you'd like me to talk about. Please keep it PG-rated or NC-17 rated. I want nothing in between. Family-friendly and/or sexually explicit links follow: I returned this razor How I fixed Photo Shuffle I made an unfortunate comment about b...
Get ready for a three-hour-plus Breaking Change spectacular! Why is it special? I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to listen. Remember, money doesn't change hands when you consume this Content™, but that doesn't make it free! In exchange for downloading this MP3, the license requires you to write in to [email protected] at least once every three episodes. Some of y'all are past due, and I know where to find you. Want URLs? I got URLs: This useless skinny tree fell over Becky's first app...
There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by friend of the show, Eric Doggett , who helped out with mixing! If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"): [email protected] . Spicier-than-usual show notes follow: Kin Euphorics are usually non-alcoholic overpriced cocktails Squarespace kinda sucks now and a lot o...
It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finally done* with that big app I've been working on. I'm running behind on e-mails and need your best and worst takes for the next episode: [email protected] . Find out what that asterisk refers to below: Filing an FCC complaint Supermaven The git logo iMessage via satellite Aaron's puns, ranked Meta cancels their 2027 Vision Pro competitor A bunch of random , disturbing Black Myth: Wukong links Ford might start making ca...
Boy, have I got a great show for you today! I guess. You be the judge. If you listen to the podcast, please rate it on a scale from Good Charlotte to My Chemical Romance at [email protected] . The following links are included with your subscription: Macrofactor app Butterfly keyboard checks going out My tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in Rails Aaron's pun Physical game sales are finally in decline Intel's processors are borked Flighty's latest update is an example of "Good" "AI" The M4 Ma...
I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs with Apple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Because that's most of what I got this time. Not enough of you are writing in, and if you don't start soon I am going to CANCEL this PODCAST production PERMANENTLY: [email protected] . (Write in or else.) Some proof of work: Aaron's pun SearchGPT The Crowdstrike thing Windows Kernel access to third parties Pete Buttigieg reads angry Delta tweets Legit...
Big day: now with transition music! 🎶 There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, but if you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's because Breaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things to get mad about. Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internet friend? Now's your chance: [email protected] . (Other topics also welcome.) I heard you like links: A "recipe" blog post on how to use ...
I bought a new gadget! And it runs Android! And I don't hate it! Tell me about things you hate and don't hate and I might just read your feelings on air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, is [email protected] . Sources below: Ubiquiti UniFi Loopback with SSL2+ This annoying Safari bug My first video clip from Breaking Change A podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision Pros Aaron's punboard The EU won't get these new Apple features Gruber's take on this matches my own The B...
WWDC came and went and now we're all just left to ponder what life will be like under the thumb of our new AI overlords (and underlords ). But at least for now, humans are still allowed to produce podcasts on their own, which means we can safely opine about the fresh hell we're all hard at work creating. I finally got a chance to get to some mailbag questions in this episode! If you want to be a part of the ✨magic🪄, shoot me an e-mail to [email protected] . I won't read your last name on air, u...
WWDC is right around the corner, and I wanted to do a predictions podcast before Monday's keynote, but then Mark Gurman went and just read back literally everything that's going to happen. So I guess let's talk about that or something. As always, I love love love to receive your e-mail even though it's hard to get through very many of them on the program. Please know that your comments and questions really bring me a lot of joy and that you should e-mail whatever pops into your head to podcast@s...
[Update: if you're reading this, then you're listening to an updated version of this episode with a more aggressive denoise filter, to try to combat the karaoke jingles playing incessantly in the background 🎤.] Welcome to the rhetorical Bemusement Park that is the Breaking Change podcast! This episode was recorded in Japan, the recording of which was an ordeal that you will hear all about if you choose to press play and listen to this version of the podcast. I have failed you all, however, beca...
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 [email protected] to keep it that way. Each e-mail you send entitles you to a license to listen to three more episod...
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 [email protected] 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 wan...
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 [email protected] ! Some links to things: legitimate.us Added likes for my podc...
