Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form conversations about virtual reality, space travel, electric cars, refresh rates, and a whole lot more. Support the pod on Patreon: http://patreon.com/techpod
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322: It Was DNS
We get into the nitty gritty this week with a grab bag of home computing projects that's really more like a set of cautionary tales. Will discovers th...
321: How to Charge Your Knife
Another new year means another CES means another roundup of CES news. This year we cover all the announcements from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (or at leas...
320: Maybe Somebody Hates Brian Eno
We're back to start the new year with the second and final installment of our ranking of startup sounds. To close out the tier list we consider later...
319: An Amuse-bouche for Your Device
As is tradition (?) around here, over the holidays we're doing another extended ranking, and this year it's a two-part tier list of... every startup s...
318: System B or systemd?
As the end of the year rolls up on us, we attempt a little personalized year-in-review, looking back at 2025 without dwelling on the various tech cris...
317: Schrödinger's AirPod
It's briskly, unusually cold here in the Bay Area this year, so what better time to crack open another tray of cold opens for your bite-size listening...
316: I Don't Like the Sparkle
Things are getting so dire in the PC-building space that we had to revisit the subject again this week, primarily to discuss the sudden and shocking e...
315: Work-in-Progress Till I Die
The end of November brings a fresh crop of your questions, this month addressing subjects like getting lost in a corporation's Kafka-esque support inf...
314: We Hope, We Wish, We Ask, We Request
It's a news roundup this week, with a ton of recent goings on to discuss, including the sudden explosion in RAM prices (and a similar looming problem...
313: Chan's on the Move
It seems like this week's big salvo of Valve hardware announcements is all anyone's talking about right now, particularly the Steam Machine, and who b...
312: The Original Tree Puncher
Online game design veteran Raph Koster recently posted a new piece about how he thinks about game design, which got us talking about the history of on...
311: The Fab Floor
PC World's Adam Patrick Murray stops by this week to discuss the trip he and Will recently took to visit Intel's new 18A chip fabrication facility in...
310: Target Has a GitHub Account
It's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously fast CD-RO...
309: Tivoization
A bunch of products and services seem to be going end-of-life all at once right now, so we did a round-up of some notable ones this week. Believe it o...
308: NEW Lake???
It's been a bit since we did a roundup of tools and tricks that are making our tech lives a little easier, so we're doing that again this week! Will t...
307: I Hate Smishing
A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least fa...
306: The Worst Thing About Bluetooth Is "Sometimes"
Question time is here again, and this month we attempt to provide answers about subjects such as homebrew on the Steam Deck, outsourcing the universit...
305: Hardly an Off-the-Shelf Knob
We've been tinkering with a lot of esoteric PC hardware stuff lately, so we're here with a roundup on what we've been up to this week that you'll hope...
304: Gamify Your Sleep
Apple really brought the goods to its iPhone 17 event this week, with a freakishly thin phone in the new iPhone Air, major production-level video feat...
303: Spaceships Built for Cats
For years, Blendo Games has been releasing its unique brand of systems-driven games on open source id Software tech, most recently with this year's Sk...
302: The System Tray Is No Man's Land
A few links from this episode:
The musical No BS Podcast #100: https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100
A particularly cool cyberdeck...
301: Will Ruined the Internet
Some handy links if you want to start playing with your own virtual Windows 95 machine:
https://86box.net/
https://winworldpc.com/home
300: Never Stop Talking
Have we really done 300 episodes of this podcast? We have now! To mark the occasion, we're taking a look back at a lot of the things that have changed...
299: Donkey Kong Is a Florida Man
It's a topic two-fer! Brad's refrigerator died last week, which gives us a chance to talk about online appliance-buying on a budget in 2025, some refr...
298: Don't Accidentally Become a Bank
The situation we talked about in the episode is evolving pretty rapidly; here are some of the latest updates since we recorded:
Info on how to c...
297: The AI-Content Centipede
It's the monthly question time again, and this month we talk about what's going to happen when AI is only left with AI-generated content to consume, o...
296: The Slopposite
What better way to beat the summer heat than with another stack of cold opens for your listening micro-pleasure? This time around we delve into such s...
295: Hacker Tourism
Wired 04.12, December 1996: https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-december
Show notes with page numbers for everything we discus...
294: The God-Tier GPU
Brad's historic YouTube video, "Here's Like 18 Minutes of Destiny 2 at 4k60:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4
Support the Po...
293: J-ing and K-ing
The monthly Q&A ep is here again, and this time around we field emails and Discord Qs about managing the cognitive load of your hobbies, doing jury du...
292: Winning the Hummingbird War
On this week's ep, we take inventory of upcoming tech projects we've been looking into, to evaluate our use cases and pick each other's brains about w...
291: Evil Finder Icon
Apple's WWDC and Google I/O have both come and gone, and... well, we took a look at I/O and it was practically all AI this year, so we skipped that. B...
290: Earn Your Nintendo License
Will got a chance to attend the Switch 2 launch event at Nintendo's brand new San Francisco store and then started feverishly digging into the fundame...
289: Computer Shangri-La
Will's here with a two-fer trip report this week, one of which was a literal trip to the grand opening of the brand new Bay Area Micro Center. We dig...
288: High Quackuracy
That Q&A time is here again, and this month we field emails and Discord Qs about such things as the hopeful return of the webring, what to do with the...
287: Never Click "Show More"
We're reaching deep into the grab bag again this week, with a wide array of topics like the fascinating world of shorthand and stenography machines (p...
286: SheevQuest 2025
With Brad spending most of his week in a courtroom for the rest of May, we may be doing some looser episodes here and there until we're back on our no...
285: More Free Space Than Free Time
By listener request, we're talking about our personal file organization and storage layouts this week, with a focus on our desktop computers--includin...
284: Shatner's Sap Shack
Where does Robocop's data spike rank on our big list of connectors? What do you do with an old cable modem or cable box? What's the fastest discontinu...
283: Nook NUC: A NUC for Your Nook
It's been 16 frigid months since our last all-intro episode, but now we're pulling the ice tray out of the freezer and offering you another cube of co...