Mark and Richard talk about the September Apple event. Yes, this was recorded a month before release… We had a few non-technical difficulties… Also one technical difficulty. No, we did not storm Area 51, thanks for asking. Show notes to be added someday.By Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil

Mark and Richard talk about Mark trying out the Oculus Quest, Richard’s MacBook Pro Repair Experience, Mark’s new P100D and Richard’s Cross Country U-Haul Trip. Opening Friendly Dissonance Podcast Trying Out the Oculus Quest Job Simulator Vader Immortal BeatSaber Will it Blend "You must unlearn what you have learned" Walking across a whole Minecraf…

Mark and Richard talk about Panic’s Playdate, Google Merging with Nest, 3d Touch with a lengthy aftershow talking about Star Trek, Game of Thrones and Westworld. Followup Scroll - There are performance increases with scroll! Ads are bogging down the web Anki is going out of business 😟 Doppler Labs - Here Ones (shuts down) Panic's Playdate Firewatch…

Mark and Richard speak with Scroll CTO Kushal Dave. They talk about Scroll and the Macbook Pro refresh. Richard gives his initial impressions of the Oculus Quest. Scroll Learn about Scroll Scroll Partners Scroll on Twitter (Hi Tony!) Scroll Blog 3rd party cookies Apple ITP Some Technical Information on Content Blockers on iOS Some information about…

Mark and Richard talk about the Apple Services event from March, Google Stadia, the Oculus Rift S and Oprah hate. Apple Event No more Airpower Apple Services Keynote (with Intro Video) The Oatmeal tries to watch Game of Thrones Apple News+ More Information Some criticism on Apple News+ Some criticism on Apple News+ on the WSJ (lol) How to Read all …

Mark and Richard talk about the Model Y, Nintendo Instruction Manuals, Dwarf Fortress, Climbing and new iPads/iMacs. Preshow Hue remembers status after power turned off Product Over Time USB Otoscope Anki Vector Nintendo Instruction Manuals Final Fantasy 1 for NES Manual Startropics Missing Clue Warcraft 1 Manual If Quake 1 was done today How Metro…

Mark and Richard talk about Tesla Updates, Alex Trebek, Hololens 2, USB 3.0 and more MacBook Pro hate. Preshow Nocturnal people don’t live as long People without sleep more likely to get Alzheimer’s Followup Huawei Foldable Phone Huawei Government Restrictions Huawei blatantly rips off other companies Corning and Foldable Glass Reading Rainbow Tran…

Mark and Richard talk about Otoscopes, Folding Phones, Apple Credit Cards, Transitioning to ARM, and Doug Bowser. Featuring lots of Street Fighter 2 nostalgia in the aftershow. Pre-show Return of ProgressQuest! Followup Ludicrous speed update IS a software update What is a Confusopoly Walking away as a tactic Product Over Time: Vector Product Link …

Mark and Richard talk about VR, Tesla Pricing Changes, Tesla Servicing, the Facebook Enterprise Certificate debacle and the Six Colors Apple Report Card. Followup: VR Listener Kazzie and her issues with VR and motion sickness Lone Echo MineCraft VR Beat Saber Budget Cuts VR Job Simulator Tesla Pricing Changes Tesla launches new cheaper Model S and …

Mark and Richard talk about spam calls, Ubiquiti, Github and Unity support for SpatialOS. Intro - Spam Calls Hiya Spam Blocker Google Call Screening AI Ubiquiti Hardware UniFi Security Gateway (buy) UniFi AP AC Pro (buy) AC 60 Watt Switch (buy) Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key (buy) Power over Ethernet Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra Wireless Printers as a Wir…

Richard and Mark discuss Brookhaven, Intel’s stackable CPUs, rev.ai and Ubiquiti networking. Followup The Brookhaven Experiment SuperHot Nintendo Zapper (buy one) Penny Arcade Expo Racing Game Lone Echo The Matrix Headjack Early Access Games and when they fail Minecraft making 33 million before it was out of beta Space Pirate Trainer Metroid Prime …

Mark and Richard talk about more video games, including Doom (2016), Donut County, and various Oculus VR Games. Mark plays Doom 2016 on PC Playing Doom on a 386 Serious Sam and Gameplay Fortnite Dances Richard plays Donut County AnnaPurna Pictures Hawking Radiation Osmos Final Fantasy IV The Omphalos hypothesis and its Bertrand Russel’s Five Minute…

Mark and Richard talk about Sigil, VR, Doom, Donut County and Just Shapes and Beats. Sigil Sigil (Yes, we ended up ordering the physical version…) John Romero is So Sorry About Trying to Make you His Bitch Hexen Gameplay Heretic Gameplay Stuff About Doom List of Songs Doom Music was “inspired by” Doom Berserk Pack Doom (2016) - (Gameplay) VR Stuff …

Mark and Richard talk about Richard’s new Mac Mini, and setting up new computers. Followup Problem with race was that Model 3 was electric after all Apple hiring qualcomm engineers Joel Spolsky - One layer below (Might have actually been mentioned on the Stack Overflow podcast…) Product Over Time Anki Vector Vector mic diagnostic Mac Mini Synology …

Mark and Richard talk about changes to Tesla’s offerings, electric incentives and the iPad Pro. Follow Up Reluctance Motors on Model 3. Update on Model 3 getting disqualified Apple seeking to hire Qualcomm Engineers Tesla v9 Software Update - Multiple Apps Tesla Changes Removing Colors Red is now $2500, White is now $2000, Blue $1500. Price Increas…

Mark and Richard talk about the October 2018 Apple event, and a little bit about Coda with VPNs. Preshow / Misc Shut up and take my money Apple Logos Venue: Brooklyn Academy of Music People in Australia hearing us complain about waking up early. Less space than a nomad, lame. Whole Apple Event in 9 minutes iOS 12.1 fakeout Macbook Air Product Page …

Mark and Richard talk about Audio Hijack, Anki Vector, Tesla (again) and Oculus Quest (again) Followup: Oculus Quest indoor only Tesla Software version 9 update: If you want to buy a Tesla, click here. Improved situational awareness New neural net Dash Cam Audio Hijack: Our graphs Richard’s graph Mark’s graph Difficulty connecting boxes Loopback Fa…

Mark and Richard talk about the Teslas that they have owned and driven. If you want to buy a Tesla, click here. Richard and Mark’s P90Ds: Reasons for our purchases Old vs new nose design Interior vs Mercedes E or S class Dimensions vs BMW 5 & 7 series Utility as people haulers Purchase experience vs Dealerships Guilt-free acceleration Creep (or no …

Mark and Richard talk about Oculus Connect and the past, present and future of VR. Oculus Go: Oculus Quest: 6DOF Pricing Inside out tracking Lady spinning video Whoa Vader Immortal Starwars: Jedi Challenges Snapdragon 835 Mobile Benchmarks Chromatic aberration SIFT Oculus Rift HTC Vive Arena scale VR VR Office/In the workplace: Virtual Humans Stack…

Mark and Richard talk about our orders, Nintendo Switch Online and the NVIDIA 2080. Bitcoin thrown in for good measure. Intro: Firefly Serenity Our Orders: Mark’s phone Richard’s phone Wallet phone case Mark’s watch Richard’s watch Heart rate sensor changes iOS 12: Screen time Sonicare bluetooth toothbrush Linus letter to community Coda subversion …

Mark and Richard talk about the fall iPhone event. Wait, what happened to Season 2 Episode 1??? Apple Watch Series 4: Store Larger screen & thinner Improved Cellular Verizon ending 2G Edition watches discontinued Has an ECG built into the crown Fall detection and discussion of false positives Waterproof rating iPhone Xs, Xs Max, Xr: Puns Apple’s Pa…

Mark and Richard talk about the Tesla P85D, car automation, and the DARPA Grand Challenge. Tesla P85D: Announcement Specs and Pricing Build your own Updated Interior - (Topspeed review says no) Supercharger stations Information on Supercharger stations Swap Battery - Video Top Gear / Tesla Controversy Roadster Review The Controversy Tesla Roadster …

Mark and Richard give very brief impressions on the October 16th Apple event a couple minutes after it ended. Come back to this post in a few days if you'd like to listen to an audio overlay track that you can play on top of the Apple stream to hear our impressions as the event happened.By Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil

We speak briefly about the Shell Shock bug before moving on to Oculus Connect and our impressions of the current state of DK2 software. Shell Shock: How it works Fixing Shell Shock Heartbleed Oculus Connect: Brendan Iribe Nate Mitchell Michael Abrash John Carmack Palmer Luckey DK1 Open Source Pentile display Creative Commons attribution 4.0 Realspa…

We talk about why we pre-ordered the iPhones that we did, Apple Watch pricing, the state of Microsoft as a company (including their purchase of Minecraft), and Ballmerman! Follow-Up: Mark and Richard both ordered an iPhone 6+ The pocketed shirt Richard uses when running 6/6+ cutouts Apple Pay leveraging POS upgrades Gruber and expensive Apple Watch…

A special edition Aliens Land Here. We moved up our schedule to talk about the recent news. Intro: Silver and Gold Feed troubles Japanese & Chinese audio… Feed jumping around between parts (Possibly HLS?) Denny’s parody iPhone 6 / 6+: Product Site Form Factor iDevice Size reference Aesthetics Dual domain pixels A8 speed improvements Battery Has bar…

Mark talks about his trials and tribulations with PHP. Also, we get excited by the prospect of 5K displays coming soon, talk about Celebgate and the state of password management, and discuss the recent Samsung/Oculus announcement. Follow-Up: Dell’s new 5K display NVIDIA Quadro K5000 driving the display during the demo. Advantages of CRTs The hdmi p…

We talk about Hyperlapse, delve into what it means to be a computer user, and take wild guesses as to the nature of the giant building involved in Apple’s September 9th announcement. Also, a card trick. Follow Up: Fire phone does use cameras for tilt gestures Only 35K sales so far Tivo HD & Tivo Romeo Console Sales are up Forza 5 Mario Kart 8 Pixel…

In Episode 3 Mark and Richard discuss what it’s like to be an independent developer and how to survive in a market where good free or cheap software is getting more prevalent. Also, the word “Microbolometer” is used during follow-up. We think that’s a pretty cool word. Pre-show: Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock Topcoder swift challenge Audacity CMU Speech t…

We talk about our RSS addictions, Richard’s new FLIR_ONE, Oculus DK2 and Google Cardboard, Mark’s new headphones and microphone, and the kragle! Pre-Show: Podcasts Richard listens to: Accidental Tech Podcast, Core Intuition, Debug, Developing Perspective, Garnett on Games, The Incomparable, John and Garnett Podcast, Neutral, Pragmatic, Release Note…

Intro: History of the name Aliens Land Here iOS 8: Handoff Jobs & Dropbox Metal Swift, including pseudo-plans for Swift in Simple Lift Log Size classes Next iPhone: Fate of the 4 inch phone Same chip in all sizes? Mark’s new laptop: (15 inch, GeForce GT 750M, 2.8GHz i7, 1TB flash) Process of transferring things from old to new laptop Boot time Moni…