John and Scott discuss Google AI Overviews, the risks of trusting LLMs and Generative AI, and the OpenAI Scarlett Johansson saga. They also cover John's return to the USA, his new dumb watch, and listener meetup possibilities. The episode further explores AI's impact on education, the ethics of voice cloning, and the challenges of ensuring data quality in AI systems.
Vic and John discuss southbooth cooling progress, the lack of Apple Vision Pro internationally, Johns new Electric Ride on Mower, briefly about cricket and finally the US DoJ Anti-Trust case against Apple. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced TechDistortion Referenced Articles: 47 At A Test Match Finally Anti-Trust Links of Potential Interest: What Is Prism Correction in Eyeglasses? Ryobi: 48V 30" 50Ah Brushless Ride-On Lawn Mower OP3 Project Support Pragma...
Vic joins John to go discuss the new iPhone 15 Pro Max Lenses for photos and video, using the Meta Quest 3 and trying out the Fuji Real3D Camera vs iPhone 15 Pro Max Spatial Videos in anticipation of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced Links of Potential Interest: EVSE: Electric Vehicle Fires FujiFilm FinePix Real3D Camera Nomad Goods: Modern Leather Case Pragmatic Electric Episode 10: SuperCharger Blitz Is This The Show? Episode ...
Vic joins John to go through a mixed bag of topics including the two most recent Apple Events, selling lenses, the new 5x iPhone Pro Max Lens, Johns day job company being potentially bought and split as well as the Soundbooth and some conference speaking. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced Links of Potential Interest: Apple Event: October 30 Apple Event: September 12 Nomad Goods: Modern Leather Case ACRNA Conference 2023 Is This The Show? Episode 3: John’s Bur...
Vic joins John to look at the history of Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality as we pre-assess the pros and cons of AR and VR and the upcoming Apple Vision Pro. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced Links of Potential Interest: 3D Display Autostereoscopy Vergence Accommodation (vertebrate eye) Vergence-Accommodation Conflict Virtual Reality Reality Labs List of Virtual Reality Headsets What is the Difference Between AR, MR, VR, XR? Headsets Pre-20...
With some initial discussion of the Twitter Appocalypse and M2 Mac Mini, John and Vic dive into the Apple Watchs evolution since 2015 to present and discuss whether or the newest Apple Watch design can be thought of as the ultimate Ultra. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced Celebrating Causality’s 50th Episode!! The TEN Store is NOW Open! Related Episodes: Pragmatic Episode 69: It’s Complicated Pragmatic Episode 76: Banned Links of Potential Interes...
Following Johns appearance on Episode 100 of Podcasting 2.0, John is joined by Dave Jones to workshop the soundbites tag enhancements, as well as touch on BitCoin and Crypto strengths and weaknesses in the longer term. With Dave Jones and John Chidgey. This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced Create your own Credited Soundbite Related Articles: Podcast Lightning Podcasting 2.0 Podcasting 2.0 Addendum Links of Potential Interest: Podcasting 2.0 Episode 100 Shared Soundbites proposal on GitHub Example...
Clay joins John to walk through the key moments of the WWDC keynote for 2022 and look at what each means for us and also the broader populace. Whilst John is sad about the Trash Can being Ventura-canned, there were lots of things to smile about too. With Clay Daly and John Chidgey. TechDistortion Articles Discussed: Tesla User Interface Pragmatic Episodes Referenced: Pragmatic Episode 107: Tesla Electric Pragmatic Episode 82: Tesla Links of Potential Interest: WWDC 2022 Support Pragmatic on Patr...
Russell returns to Pragmatic to discuss his experiences with renewable energy, both the Model S and Model 3 and we dive into the finer issues with glanceless controls and other concerns regarding Tesla's User Interface. With Russell Ivanovic and John Chidgey. TechDistortion Articles Discussed: Tesla User Interface Pragmatic Electric Links: Pragmatic Electric Pragmatic: Electric - YouTube Introducing Pragmatic Electric Pragmatic Episodes Referenced: Pragmatic Episode 82: Tesla Pragmatic Episo...
Wind Farms are getting bigger and spreading throughout the world both on and off-shore. Vic joins John to talk about Wind Turbines, John's new Tesla and the launch of the new Video podcast/vodcast Pragmatic Electric. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. TechDistortion Articles Discussed: Retro Mac Pro Retro Mac Pro Part 2 Upgrading the Mac Pro SSD Upgrading the Mac Pro RAM Buying A Tesla Pragmatic Electric Links: Pragmatic Electric Pragmatic: Electric - YouTube Introducing Pragmatic Electric Au...
Where have all the chips gone? Scott Willsey joins John to look at how the shifting automotive use of ICs, a drought, a pandemic and poor planning amongst other things has led to an unprecedented global chip shortage with no end in sight. With Scott Willsey and John Chidgey. Links of Potential Interest: 2020–2021 Global Chip Shortage Surging Demand Cause Semiconductor Shortfall Global shortage in computer chips reaches crisis point Wafer (electronics) 22 new 200mm fabs in semiconductor capacity ...
Watching photography evolve in the past few years had demonstrated with computing power comes the possibility of ditching the SLR entirely and going mirrorless. Clay returns to discuss the mirrorless revolution. And yes, Clay called it first. With Clay Daly and John Chidgey. Related Episode Link: Pragmatic Episode 94: Photography Pragmatic Episode 101: Astrophotography Related Articles: Kit vs Tamron vs Prime Shoot-out WhitePapers And Photography Shooting Indoor Sports 200-500mm Zoom Lens Test A...
Lockdowns due to the pandemic of 2020-2021 has shifted a lot of peoples computing needs with working from home on their computer now a real driver for many people. We look at how it's impacted John and take a walk down history lane of Vic and John's various Macs for the past few decades and how it led to a controversial purchase. With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey. Related Articles: Retro Mac Pro Retro Mac Pro: Part 2 John’s Macs Past and Present: eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) Specs (eMac U...
A team of podcasters and developers are working on the next evolution of podcasting they call Podcasting 2.0. Dave Jones joins John to talk about their goals, RSS, XML and JSON pieces and how they fit together. To top it all off, we also dive into BitCoin, Lightning and distributed monetisation in podcasting. With Dave Jones and John Chidgey. Related Articles: Podcasting 2.0 Podcasting 2.0 Addendum Links of Potential Interest: Podcastindex.org Developer Documentation for the podcastindex.org API...
Ian Norman from Lonely Speck joins John to talk about photographing the MilkyWay with just your DSLR and without spending a fortune. We cover everything from Star-Trackers, Red-light filter removal, Pollution Filters, Focussing techniques, Image stacking and lots more. With Ian Norman and John Chidgey. Links of Potential Interest: How to Photograph the Milky Way - LonelySpeck Bahtinov Mask SharpStar2 Precision Focusing Tool – Lonely Speck Hyperfocal Distance The Center Column – Independent Tripo...
Casey returns to join John in an episode where we explore all things NAS - specifically the Synology. How we use it, what we use it for and how we neither of us can ever live without one anymore! With Casey Liss and John Chidgey. Related Article: Oh My NAS Links of Potential Interest: Plex Starport 75 QNAP Parallels Plex/NAS Compatibility Spreadsheet MoCA Bridge Plex Pass Plex Naming Primer Channels Homebridge Transmission Sonarr Jackett Backblaze 3-2-1 Network Attached N00bs Plex Primer SSD Cac...
SpaceX and Elon Musk have been accelerating a project to provide high-speed, low latency broadband internet around the world via Satellites and are calling it StarLink. Radek joins John to deep dive into what StarLink is trying to accomplish, why it's a such a different approach to the problem and why it might actually succeed where others have failed. With Radek Pietruszewski and John Chidgey. SpaceX Achievements: SpaceX Sets A Turnaround Record Radio Bands: Ka band Ku band V band Electroma...
After a brief chat about John's App-in-progress Timeless Day, Ronnie Lutes joins to dissect the problems and pitfalls of poorly shielded or cheap USB 3 devices and how they can create BlueTooth drops out, Trackpad bullet chattering, Mouse stuttering and more and how one might diagnose and fix these issues. A must listen for those with suspected interference on their PC or Mac wireless devices. With Ronnie Lutes and John Chidgey. Related Articles: Docks And Interference SLIP Apps Related Podc...
Myke Hurley returns to the show to follow on with Optimal Interfaces, now looking into application specific advantages of the different user interfaces we have available to us for our specific use cases. We also consider an apocalyptic world where we can only have one device and what it would be. With Myke Hurley and John Chidgey. Related Episode Link: Pragmatic Episode 93: Optimal Interface Related Article Links: TechDistortion: Back To The Mac TechDistortion: Optimal Interface Part 1: Input Te...
In an episode that could not be put off any longer, Merlin Mann joins John to unpick the habit of procrastination, how to identify when you're doing it, why you're doing it and how to stop yourself from doing it and get yourself back on track. With Merlin Mann and John Chidgey. Related Episode Links: Pragmatic Episode 40: Productivitus Interruptus Pragmatic Episode 50: Accidental Clicking Miscellaneous Links: Getting Things Done Definition of Procrastinate Procrastination Support Pragmat...
Free Open Source Software is at the heart of the Federated Social revolution that's gathering momentum. David Chartier joins John to walk through where we are in that journey so far, the current players, the current challenges and value of having multiple social-network options. With David Chartier and John Chidgey. Related Article Links: TechDistortion: Engineered Space Take 2 TechDistortion Fediverse Series: Own Your Social Graph Related Episode Links: Pragmatic Episode 89: The Problem Is ...
If you want to take the best possible picture, far better than a smartphone will ever be able to, where do you begin? John is joined by Clay Daly to walk through the details of modern digital photography, the pitfalls, the misconceptions and the reasons you should consider it if you haven't. With Clay Daly and John Chidgey. Related Episode Links: Pragmatic Episode 12: Pages Blocks Planes Die Bank Device Pragmatic Episode 14: The Worlds Most Popular Camera Our Photography: John’s PixelF...
With a growing number of device categories and devices within them, it can be hard to pick what devices from what category will meet your needs. Jason Snell joins John to try to determine what the optimal interface is for what use case you might need and where technology is heading. With Jason Snell and John Chidgey. Related Article Links: Optimal Interface: Part 1 Input Optimal Interface: Part 2 Output Optimal Interface: Part 3 Devices Referred During Show: The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeli...
Following on the Pragmatic Coffee journey, Miha joins to discuss every detail behind the Espresso coffee and how to make the best shot you can. With Miha Rekar and John Chidgey. Previous Episode Links: Pragmatic Episode 30: Coffee Pragmatic Episode 30A: Coffee Follow-up Part A Parallel Passion Episode 4: John Chidgey Miscellaneous Links: John Making A Latte Miha Latte Art History: Espresso History of Espresso and the First Espresso Machine Angelo Moriondo Turin Total Solar Eclipse Of 15th Februa...
John Siracusa returns to Pragmatic to discuss everything Zelda related, with a focus on Breath of the Wild and how so many established Zelda gameplay rules were thrown out the window with resounding success. With John Siracusa and John Chidgey. Miscellaneous Links: John Chidgey’s Zelda Amiibo Collection The Legend of Zelda Role-playing Video Game 10 Games With Guinness World Records Player’s Basic Rules for Dungeons & Dragons Zelda BoTW Took 4yrs to Develop MetaCritic: Zelda BoTW...
Waterfall development is being overtaken Agile and in only two decades its popularity continues to grow. Casey Liss weighs in on the pros and cons of Agile while we look at where it's best to use it and what can help to make Agile work. With Casey Liss and John Chidgey. Previous Episode Link: Pragmatic Episode 79: Diluted My Metric Goodness Miscellaneous Links: Waterfall Model Technical Debt Agile Software Development Kanban Board Slicky Notes Support Pragmatic on Patreon Episode sponsor: Cl...
Social Media has taken the world by storm but recent history has shown all that glitters isn't gold and has many people wondering if the technology is the problem, or if the problem is us? With Seth Clifford and John Chidgey. Previous Episode Link: Pragmatic Episode 80: Mastodon Miscellaneous Links: I Don’t Want to Do This Anymore: Fundamentally Broken My Company Tried Slack For Two Years - This Is Why We Quit The History of Social Media SixDegrees Evolution of Social Networking Parley...
With Cloud Storage becoming a staple of modern computing, we deep dive into the history of how cloud storage came about, what features it has or should have and ultimately who can you trust? With Rob Griffiths and John Chidgey. Miscellaneous Links: Cloud Storage Box DropBox Amazon S3 Single Source Of Truth MobileMe Meet iCloud’s great-grandfather: iTools Apple Enhances .Mac Nextcloud vs ownCloud: The Whole Story Self-Hosted Web Episode 02: Nextcloud iCloud Storage Plans and Pricing Apple t...
From the retronymous Web 1.0 through 2.0 and beyond, we look at how web development is coming full circle and when Static, Dynamic or Statically Generated sites make the most sense. With Radek Pietruszewski and John Chidgey. Miscellaneous Links: Web 2.0 Page Caching: Varnish vs Nginx FastCGI Cache Varnish (software) Support Pragmatic on Patreon Episode Gold Producer: 'r'. Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow....
Follow up (Part A) to Space X where we address the outcome of the first Falcon Heavy launch and Falcon 9 booster relanding outcome, SpaceMan and we don't panic. With Radek Pietruszewski and John Chidgey. Related Links: Falcon Heavy Falcon Heavy Montage Support Pragmatic on Patreon Episode Gold Producer: 'r'. Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow....
