After talking about what they've been doing at home, Andrew and Steve talk about Raspberry Pi, Broadwell, game development, the internet, Internet Explorer, OpenGL, USB, Markov Chains, and dice. Banter Holoroom – Space Janitors Season 2 Ep. 2 (in 4k resolution!) – YouTube The SnapPiCam | A Raspberry Pi Digital Camera. by Gregory L Holloway — Kickstarter News device manager – Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? – Super User Broadwell is coming: A look at Intel’s low-pow...
Aug 14, 2014•58 min
After talking about how things Comcast and Kickstarter go awry, Andrew and Steven talk about the demoscene, Hemingway, sales charts, jQuery, CSS, notes, RAM drives, and listener feedback. Banter Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call | The Verge Comcast customer jailed in gun case | Albuquerque Journal News Never back a Kickstarter without a programmer (and other tips for not losing your money) | Polygon Road Redemption official website Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behi...
Aug 01, 2014•49 min
Andrew and Steven come around to talk about what's been going on around the internet, two Kickstarters, Raspberry Pis, free Microsoft stuff, web protocols, standards, FCC crashing, listener feedback, and other cool things. Banter Google’s Self-Driving Car – YouTube 123 – Homestar Runner’s Matt Chapman – The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show Everybody! Everybody! Homestar Runner April Fool’s 2014 Comcastic service disconnection by ryan.block on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds Here’s why your Comcas...
Jul 18, 2014•40 min
After trying again, Andrew and Ryan talk about Google, Opera, MP3s, DoS attacks, security, HP, IBM, Samsung, Xanadu, Aaron Swartz, accomplishments, podcast feedback, and some other interesting tidbits. Banter Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam Tchau Orkut – Orkut Blog Google Takeout – Download Your Data Google Apps update alerts: Removal of Quickoffice from Google Play and App Store News Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream – Opera Desktop – Opera Software Ryan Maguire – T...
Jul 03, 2014•1 hr 20 min
Andrew and Steve talk about British knights, Apple acolytes, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, FPGAs, SSDs, memristors, listener feedback, and more, as the storms roll in. Special thanks to LoadingReadyRun and Musopen. Links Crapshots Ep143 – The Crossroads – YouTube Nexus Special #30: E3 2014 › The Nexus The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says – Forbes The Intel 80386 and 80486 | Indiegogo BBC News – Raspberry Pi pioneer honoured in Birthday list Crate of Penguins — ...
Jun 20, 2014•1 hr 10 min
Andrew and Steven talk about Kickstarters, web links, web browsers, 3D, the future of the Internet, and some more things. Then they tell a story in low bandwidth voices: once upon a time, Tom Chris came back. The End. Links Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words – Prooffreader Arena Commander Launched! – Roberts Space Industries Road Redemption by DarkSeas Games » Road Redemption (new version) – splitscreen multiplayer and more!!! — Kickstarter...
Jun 06, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Andrew and Steven invite Ross Nover to the show and interview him about himself, The System and tools that he uses. Afterwards, they discuss a Raspberry Pi tank, computer time, OS user experience, securing HTTP, accessible HTML, colorful games, and listener feedback. Links Macaw: The Code-Savvy Web Design Tool Macaw: The Code-Savvy Web Design Tool by Macaw — Kickstarter Arena Commander Weekly Report – May 12-16 – Roberts Space Industries Control Structure #41: Space Garage › The Nexus The Econom...
May 23, 2014•1 hr 25 min
On this episode of the food show, Andrew and Steven talk about Rasberry Pi, Dell, Brian Fargo, Unreal Engine, Skype, AMD, internet middlemen, listener feedback, and so much more. Links New Emergency Services – The IT Crowd Wiki Primanti Bros. Restaurants – A Pittsburgh Tradition Fox’s Pizza GoPiGo: The Delightful Raspberry Pi Robot by Dexter Industries — Kickstarter Dell – Google+ – Thank you from +Michael Dell An open letter to our… Untitled: http://www.biography.com/people/michael-dell-9542199...
May 09, 2014•1 hr 8 min
Andrew and Steven talk about the fallout from Heartbleed, compile times, realistic graphics, servers, Andrew's new backup strategy, a double dose of listener feedback, and more! And don't forget to submit any questions for Ross Nover from The System Comic! Links The Escapist : Quizzes : Your 420 Quiz You appear to be creating a new IDE… Borderlands 2 – Vladof Weapons Video – YouTube Is the Toilet Free? | Made by Many Stefan Urbanek – Google+ – “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too ...
Apr 25, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Andrew and Steven say Goodbye to Windows XP, then talk about other operating systems, AMD, Unreal Engine, Microsoft, web browsers, Heartbleed, services that should and are being killed, a rant against OpenStreetMaps, and more. Links Support for Windows XP for Enterprise Business is ending It’s Bliss: behind the iconic Windows XP photo – Digital Cameras: SLR & Compact Cameras US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week | TechCrunch Quake III bounty: we have a winner! | ...
Apr 10, 2014•1 hr 13 min
Steven and Andrew talk about Oculus VR, new Java things, Microsoft, Mozilla, and tons of gaming related technical news, along with listener feedback. Links EVERYTHING IS FINE – YouTube Pinburgh 2014 | PAPA.ORG Twitch Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter Facebook to Acquire Oculus | Facebook Newsroom Twitter / notch: We were in talks about maybe … Latest JDK 8 Release Notes NetBeans IDE 8.0 Release Information Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pric...
Mar 27, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Steven joins Andrew again to talk about graphics, browsers, JPEGs, fonts, storage, theft, operating systems, copyright, CPUs, Snowden, languages, and plenty of other things. Links Hemingway Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system | Firstpost One Billion Dollars A birthday present from Broadcom | Raspberry Pi MSDN Blogs pheelicks.com | Rendering large terrains What browser am I using? Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project | Mozilla Research Clear Sans | 01.org Adobe – Fonts : S...
Mar 11, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Ryan and Andrew talk about being hacked, Linux, Google, social media, benchmarks, singletons, programming platforms, languages, libraries, and user feedback. Links 10 Lessons from 10 Years in Corporate IT | I Hate the Sounds around Me The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology Update Your Browser | Facebook Important Kickstarter Security Notice » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter Steve Jobs time capsule dug up after 30 years: Here’s the video | Apple – CNET News Who’s Writing ...
Feb 19, 2014•1 hr 40 min
Andrew and Steven talk about near catastrophes, data retrieval, old hardware, new hardware, hard drives, Microsoft, killing processes, encryption, listener feedback and more. Links Xannathor | LoadingReadyRun Video Gallery | The Escapist support SQLite for functional testing purposes by bendavies · Pull Request #12 · fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle · GitHub This is the one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis Ghost ship Lyubov Orlova ‘sinks’ in Atlantic Ocean – Mirror Online Apps Status Dashboar...
Jan 31, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Andrew and Steven return to podcasting to talk about lost technology, acquisitions, web browsers, New Year's resolutions, deprecation of the web and the internet, Markov chains, and more, along with a long winded explanation of btrfs features. Links SimCity’s upcoming offline mode the result of six and a half months of work, says Maxis | PC Gamer Tourist walks off pier while browsing on Facebook | World news | theguardian.com The Cubli: A Gravity-Defying Cube that Can Jump, Balance, and Walk | C...
Jan 17, 2014•1 hr 10 min
Ryan disturbs Andrew's evening by wanting to do a show, where they talk about Kickstarers, old times, security, video, Linux distros, CSS tools, NSA, and other things. Links DNA seen through the eyes of a coder Space Janitors Webseries – Season 3 by Space Janitors Crew — Kickstarter The Magazine: The Book (Year One) by Glenn Fleishman — Kickstarter Keacher.com » How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s Blog Pixel Scalers two-facto...
Dec 19, 2013•1 hr 25 min
Andrew yells for Chris, gets Matthew instead. They talk about small computers, hard drives, insane power, web servers, web browsers, and some other stuff. Links Desert Bus for Hope :: Welcome to Desert Bus for Hope Empty-Stomach Intelligence – New York Times Medium Maker Micro Python: Python for microcontrollers by Damien George — Kickstarter TWO MILLION! | Raspberry Pi Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays? ← Terence Eden’s Blog The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Informat...
Nov 21, 2013•1 hr 6 min
Andrew and Chris ruminate about old episodes and the future. Music Crucible | Miracle Of Sound Jamendo – Dibujando Infinitos Ciclos que Van y Vienen en el Tiempo by JOSE TRAVIESO Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news....
Nov 14, 2013•12 min
Steven dares to wake the idle podcasting phenomenon of Andrew! They talk about some stories, then Dell, Apple, Mozilla, Cisco, helium filled hard drives, SEC, RSA, NSA, Google, and some other ancillary anecdotes. Links Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria. The parable of the fisherman « Figuring Shit Out The parable of the fisherman | Hacker News Dell Completes Go-Private Transaction | Business Wire XPS 15 Touch Screen Lapto...
Nov 01, 2013•1 hr 27 min
Andrew nabs Ryan and talks about the end of XP, Andrew's side project, IKEA, jokes, Indians, standards, careers, emails, RAM, trials, Google's TOS, fabs, Firefox, NSA, hosts, patterns, Ghost, and listener feedback. Links Millions in Asia still on Windows XP | Visual.ly Google Chrome Blog: Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015 Project Twentieth Century: Resurrection | the Andrew Bailey IKEA or Death 50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’ | Thought Catalog The Fundamenta...
Oct 17, 2013•1 hr 20 min
Chris starts the podcast without Andrew, and then proceeds to catch up with things, then they make remarks about the government failures, Titus, security leaks, employee leaks, DRM, robots vs. humans, trolls, REST, Linux kernel structure, and user feedback. Links Project Twentieth Century: Planning | the Andrew Bailey GovUptime xkcd: Open Letter Size Comparison – Science Fiction spaceships by DirkLoechel on deviantART Letter from the Chairman: $21 Million! – Roberts Space Industries Archaeology:...
Oct 11, 2013•50 min
Andrew welcomes back Steven to talk about old computers, government shutdowns, CERN, Google Street View, chiptunes, more GPU news, Valve, GNU, Bill Gates, funny observations, 64-bit, Mozilla, copyright, debugging private keys, and more. Links Windows 98 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover, I am setting them free The Panda Cam? That’s Shut Down, Too | WBAA Mars Rover Curiosity Still Running, Shutdown Halts Other NASA Operations | Weather Unde...
Oct 04, 2013•1 hr 35 min
Chris decided to be sick, so Andrew ropes in Ian Buck to talk about himself, Steam, GPUs, NVidia, GPU drivers, how GPUs render, Java using GPUs, GPU manufacturers, Google, and so forth. It's like there's some sort of theme to this episode! Links At The Nexus #94: Eject A Ballmer Official Enterprise Blog: More On Gmail’s Delivery Delays GTA V: Java Update Coffeeshop – Orcz.com, The Video Games Wiki CCC | Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID SteamOS If we consider Newell’s history porting Doom...
Sep 27, 2013•1 hr 28 min
Andrew almost dies, so Chris comes back. They talk about long names, video games, LoadingReadyRun, disasters, Dell, tries, Linux, Bezos, outgunned, dark poetry, and listener feedback. Links Action Line: State alters woman’s name after it fails to fit on driver’s license | KHON2 Smarter than you think: the internet isn’t dumbing us down after all | The Verge Petition | Rockstar: Release GTA V on PC | Change.org Petition | Rockstar Games: DONT MAKE A PC VERSION OF GTA V | Change.org LRR’s Last Sea...
Sep 18, 2013•57 min
Andrew explains Kickstarter and FM transmission, then interviews Steven. They also talk about far flung topics like risk, business decisions, loans, McAfee, chargers, web servers, databases, display managers, social networks, signing up, Steam, compromised security algorithms, listener feedback, and so much more. Links Schneier on Security: Our Newfound Fear of Risk NSA and GCHQ: the flawed psychology of government mass surveillance | Chris Chambers | Science | theguardian.com The Dumbest Idea I...
Sep 13, 2013•1 hr 26 min
Andrew and Chris talk about copyright, the Amish, language, AES, game engines, memory, good judtment, SEO, CSS, and colors. Links /var/null The Technium: Amish Hackers Micro Phone Lens: Cell Phone Based Microscope by Thomas Larson — Kickstarter Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business for $7.1 billion | Ars Technica Official: The next edition of Android is “KitKat,” version 4.4 | Ars Technica BANCStar/README.md at master · jloughry/BANCStar · GitHub Linux kernel swear counts Moserware: A Stick Figu...
Sep 04, 2013•42 min
Andrew and Chris agree to not talk about the NSA, discuss the number 42, a bus, StarCraft science, updates on Kickstarters, Siria, Linux, Ballmer, FiOS, YouTube, ECMAScript, unwanted wares, adblocking, Xerox, frameworks, destroying code, Firefox plugins, and whitelisting. Links Paul Horn Is In Our Chat | The Nexus A Tour of the Bus | Hank Bought A Bus The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life | Surprising Science ‘StarCraft’ Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study – Digits – WSJ Autho...
Aug 30, 2013•1 hr
Chris and Andrew wonders whether or not you should have this much jargon or snails, game genre alphabet soup, reckless twittering, filesystems, Google, Windows 8, XML, the NSA (yet again), war on general computing, and more games. Links Do I Really Want All This Stuff? — Editor’s Picks — Medium Do I Really Want All This Stuff? | Hacker News Jargon Generator Inside Boy’s Knee, Sea Snail Egg Grew And Hatched (VIDEO) [Project Phoenix] Japan’s indie RPG feat. AAA talent! by Creative Intelligence Art...
Aug 22, 2013•40 min
Andrew tells of his pinball excursions, then joins Chris and discuss SDL, Linux, SATA, clueless kids, websites being down, hashing algorithims, DeviantArt, NSA, feedback, and some other stuff. Links PAPA 16 World Pinball Championships PAPAtvPinball Designer Edge Image of the Day – Guns Fired Underwater > ENGINEERING.com StarCraft Universe by Upheaval Arts — Kickstarter [SDL] Announcing SDL 2.0.0 No Longer Buying Aircraft Carriers – DataChomp Bash Shell Scripting – Wikibooks, open books for an...
Aug 14, 2013•1 hr 3 min
Andrew and Chris talk about the Sun being the end of the world, how to hide, Canada, new things, POWER, assumptions about names, patents, the future, typography, SQL Server, security, Xerox, and listener feedback. Links The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip – NASA Science ‘New-pot in bloom’: Cannabis plants found growing in council flower pots in Newport – Wales Online Kickstarter in Canada — Kickstarter Bethesda – QuakeCon 2013 Keynote w/ John Carmack QuakeCon in pictures: North America’s b...
Aug 07, 2013•1 hr 2 min
