Episode description

This week, your hosts talk about using Windows, technology modalities, making sane decisions as a developer, reality TV, 20th anniversary of The Dude, Merlin's new fondness for Spotify, analyzing takes on the HomePod, options for high-quality in smart speakers, dealing with recurring financial (and psychological) eels, competitive heat in the smart home ecosystem, Canadians, and the name of Scotland Yard. They also answer a listener question about feeling overwhelmed by content options.

Links for this episode:

• Amazon Alexa
  (Choose default music services)
• STAMP - Move to Apple Music, Spotify or Google Music
  Stamp moves tracks and playlists across various services - Apple Music, Spotify, Google Music and others!
• Amazon.com: AcuRite 01014M Weather Station with AcuRite Access for Remote Monitoring: Home & Kitchen
  
• Under the Radar #120: Productivity by Inefficiency - Relay FM
  Adopting inefficient hacks to save developer time, since hardware is so fast that it's often a worthwhile tradeoff.
• Under the Radar #70: The Hacks We Ship - Relay FM
  The difference between good and bad hacks, and some glorious hacks we've shipped in our apps.
• GitHub Octoverse 2017 | Highlights from the last twelve months
  
• GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub
  
• Sid the Science Kid, “Checking Out Charts” on Vimeo
  
• Netflix
  
• Credit union - Wikipedia
  
• (1) The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained - YouTube
  
• Great Scotland Yard - Wikipedia
  
• Bored and Brilliant | WNYC
  
• The Beatles discography - Wikipedia
  

• FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).

• Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards select mattresses).