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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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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...
282: You Can't Contest the Knob Feel
We've both gotten our hands on CRT televisions recently--Will's one from his youth and Brad's a much more modern set--and we've spent a bunch of time...
281: Fully Ray-Traced Metal Mario
With the wraps finally being taken off the Switch 2 this week, PC World's Adam Patrick Murray joins us for a handheld state of the union this week, wi...
280: Pay-to-Reject Cookies Should Be Illegal
Links mentioned on this episode:
ShaderGlass: https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglass
Articles on Apple's sealed/immutable system layout in r...
279: $30,000 to Take Off a Pair of Glasses
The Game Developers Conference has come and gone for another year, and this week we have a potpourri mostly focused on our experiences at the show, wi...
278: rare-platypus-1372
Email hasn't gotten any less complicated since the last time we covered it, but we have tried a few new options for wrangling our ever-increasing numb...
277: Very Ultra
The PC hardware market has finally settled down with the release of AMD's new Radeon 9000 series and no more major CPU or GPU product launches later t...
276: The Greatest Treasure of the Sith
We've done it: we've brought on Rob Zacny -- host of (among many other things) A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast -- to dissect and attempt to...
275: The Bottomless Q Hole
We had quite a PC-heavy Q&A this month, with multiple questions about Windows 10 and 11 with the former's end-of-support date looming in October, as w...
274: A Little Bit Less Good
Will is trying on a new hat soon, with a newsletter about the ongoing enshittification of our collective computing experience, and some tips and trick...
273: The Requisite DeepSeek Episode
It's been a couple of weeks since the Chinese firm DeepSeek released its new R1 large-language model and sheared an enormous amount of value off of Am...
272: Mac OSX Snow Leopard 2
Questions! The time to answer them is here again, and this month we do our best with such topics as the relative scarcity of nuclear energy, nested co...
271: Big Honkin' Die
Will's gotten his hands on Nvidia's fancy new RTX 5090 in advance of its release at the end of the month, and he's spent the last several days feveris...
270: Cat o' Five Tails
The work of ages continues as we return (for the last time this month) to our tier list of every-ish cable and connector ever made. Such heavy hitters...
269: Comically Tall Laptops
It's the Consumer Electronics Show once again, and there's a lot to talk about this year, so we chat this week about all the most interesting topics o...