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Sometimes, I put down my keyboard and pick up my microphone to record a solo podcast that I like to call Breaking Change. It's an intermittent series of long-form discussions on whatever's happening in my little corner of life and technology. Each episode also features a hand-crafted pun delivered to us by Aaron "@tenderlove" Patterson and then I rank the pun on air. So that's fun.

Should I listen to it?

If you like to listen to podcasts while you do the dishes, walk the dog, or drive from A to B, and you enjoy blazing hot takes marinated in uncomfortably personal banter about Apple rumors, AAA gaming, whatever's streaming on TV, and life as a programmer, then yes!

If you like tightly-produced, heavily-sponsored, 30 minute panel discussions on a narrow topic, keep moving.

Solo? No cohost? Just you?

They are unusual, for sure. The podcast has a real drive time radio feel, which has become something of a lost in the current era that seems to dictate all podcasts must be interviews and panel discussions. Trust me, I have plenty of voices in my head for the both of us. When you're listening to Breaking Change, It's just me and you out there.

How do I get my ideas into the show?

Have a question you want me to answer or a hot take and want me to react to? Shoot me an e-mail at podcast@searls.co and I'll try to fit it on the next show! I read each and every e-mail.


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v4 - Facial Computing

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This podcast is a month old and four episodes in and the singular event looming over all of it has finally arrived! The era of facial computing has begun!

Join me for a Vision Pro extravaganza in which I detail all of my first impressions using the device, including dozens of things that seemingly every media and YouTube reviewer missed or excluded. Listen to this podcast and you'll hear tell of bugs you wouldn't believe even if you did see them!

The headline takeaway is: Apple Vision is clearly the future, because it's clearly not yet the present. (And why I'm probably keeping it anyway.)

As always, e-mail me your reviews, reactions, and errata at podcast@searls.co and I'll absorb them into the bubbling stew of opinions I'm forming about this futuristic-and-not-necessarily-in-a-good-way computing platform.

Scant show notes follow:

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v3 - Core Technology Fee

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Welp, Apple forced my hand and generated even more news in the run up to the launch of Apple Vision Pro and it demands a response! (Right?)

As is so obvious and well-established that I forgot to mention it, you can e-mail me the show at podcast@searls.co and maybe I'll find a way to work it in. Comments, questions, and complaints are all welcome!

Without further ado, let's a-do it:

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v2 - Vision Pre-order

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Heads up gang, there's a new breaking change with this release: my wallet is like $8000 lighter thanks to the Vision Pro preorders.

As always as of a week ago, you can e-mail me at podcast@searls.co and I'll read it silently in my head. If all goes well, I'll read it out loud, too. And everything works out, I may even read it out loud and into a microphone for the next show.

Okay, let's dig into this latest version:

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v1 - Initial Commit

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I finally gave up and recorded a podcast. And now I'm writing show notes. I tried not to let this happen but here I am typing this and it's happening. Forgive me.

This is a podcast for anybody who shares my interests and likes passing the time with a friendly, opinionated voice in their head. I have done thousands of hours of chores and errands over the years listening to mostly agreeable, sometimes interesting 1.5-3 hour podcasts to keep my mind busy. Now it's time for me to give back, I guess.

Here's the deal: e-mail me at podcast@searls.co and I'll talk about whatever you want me to talk about. Write whatever you want into that e-mail body: ask a question about video games, ask for my take on a new technology, ask for relationship advice, tell me my podcast sucks. You write it, I'll read it.

Okay, here's what I covered in version one of Breaking Change:

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