Breaking Change

Zach Holman, founder of Signed, joins me for another 🔥Hotfix🔥. Zach wants more of everything. Let's see what we can do about that. Write into the show at [email protected]. Show notes: Zach Holman's site Signed Ride the Walrus Things Conductor DHH's AI crashout keynote at Rails World 2026

The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, you can e-mail the show at [email protected]. Only a small proportion of listeners will ever write an e-mail, so I now offer a second option: the justin.searls.co/feedback form. People love filling out forms! Go try it out! Check the anonymous checkbox! Hell, enter a fake e-mail address—see if I care! Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them: A TV commercial for the Famicom Disk System Also, the animation that played when a Disk Writer kiosk was overwriting your disk with a new game I am an SS-tier Gundam Designer Test Double is now on Wikipedia Aaron's puns, ranked The End of Programming Nvidia buys Hugging Face for 💵 AI Agents Are Working Around the Clock. Why Are Startup Founders Working Even Harder? (News+) OpenAI is developing "Persistent Mode" for Codex (Archive) Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA Apple Cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams Apple unveils M6, M5 Ultra chips and updates its desktop Macs New Mac Mini and Studio Surprise and Shine event on 9/9 Apple's Foldable iPhone Details (Archive) Former Arkane leads say Xbox let them come in and finish Redfall's final major update after being laid off Your Discs. Now Also Digital. 'This is horrifying' Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI filter leaks and players are inserting it into every game It's about preserving artistic vision GTA 6 is a secret cozy game / healthy living simulator Also with a neat 26-minute trailer. Spiderman: Brand New Day Park Hyatt Tokyo (the one from Lost in Translation) Star Wars Zero Company Star Wars Galactic Racer Exit 8 the Game, Exit 8 the movie

We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang. I always enjoy shooting the shit with/at you, and if you'd like to be a more active participant in the shit-shooting, then hit me up at [email protected]. Really, I'll be nicer to you than I am to Sam Altman and Tang Tan. I promise. Back to manually writing links. The zen of monotonous input tasks is suddenly something to be cherished in the current era. Mandibular Advancement Device Better With Becky Why doesn't the U.S. have small elevators like Europe and China? (News+) My 240hz gaming QD-OLED (and this bizarre Reddit review) App market share is tough apparently Aaron's puns, ranked Apple Upgrade Program Apple might lojack your phone They promise not to, though Apple's MapKit tech will underlie Ford's EV platform Tim Cook EGOTed (EGOT's origin) The Information on Apple's Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work (Archive) OpenAI: Apple is getting this wrong Google adds selfie as a login mechanism A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (Plausible deniability, meanwhile) YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy' Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code Gas Town was a fucking joke Ed Zitron seems too sure that markets are rational Square Enix denies claims its Kingdom Hearts Collection artwork was AI-generated, blames 'human error' YouTube labels Kurzsegagt AI slop (Real Engineering's reaction video) OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000 Xbox's 'disc to digital' feature could be coming as soon as this month Halo: Campaign Evolved Jurassic World Rebirth 金曜ロードショー Chicken Ramen commercials Lazy Kickers The Hot Spot Ohashi Trio Apple Music Spotify Ocarina of Time soundtrack by the Beatuls The Prime Minister of Japan does not sleep (forgot to actually answer the fucking question, oops)

The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag participation. As always, the address is [email protected], and I'd be really curious to hear how America is doing because it seems like everything is going great. For the first time I let Claude write these links for me, because it never occurred to me I didn't have to format the markdown manually: PicoRuby Kaigi 2025 FleaFlicker, my first iOS game! Aaron's puns, ranked Claude Fable 5 gets another bump: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? Apple vs OpenAI Apple's Chip Plans: M6, M7 Pro, M7 Max, M7 Ultra, M8 Details; Touch MacBook Pro (archive) Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available Apple's fm CLI Nvidia's Jensen Huang reunites with Sega exec who saved the company with $5M investment New survey claims 100% of Japanese online game developers use generative AI tools PlayStation announces the end of disc games, starting in January 2028 Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels and Japan's HARD OFF stores Xbox confirms plans to cut 5 studios and thousands of jobs Obsidian is reportedly making a new Avowed Fallout game Id Software dev claims it's been 'relegated to support studio size' Rebooting (a.k.a. Brush Up Life) Straight to Hell You Can't Expense This! Forza Horizon 6 Cook, Serve, Delicious! The Odyssey

The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I broke the show. Find out how by listening for yourself! Want to be my friend? Drop me a line at [email protected]. Want to file a complaint with my supervisor? Forward your concerns to [email protected]. These links may rot, but alas—death comes for us all: Tonal (without a subscription) Better with Becky My appearance on the freeCodeCamp podcast Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD Models are commodities, harnesses are differentiators Aaron's puns, ranked United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices (News+) Your Meta glasses are watching you pee (9to5mac's summary) Tuna for Mac by friend of the show, Mikkel Malmberg MacBook Neo MacBook Neo offers more single-core performance than any mobile processor from AMD, Intel or Qualcomm Apple + Nvidia's CloudXR & Foveated streaming partnership: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Xbox's Project Helix Microsoft's 'Xbox mode' is coming to every Windows 11 PC (News+) Windows: Announcing new tools and platform updates for Windows PC game developers Sony is testing dynamic pricing in the PlayStation Store DLSS 5 should make you excited and/or outraged: video, backlash Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online China mobilizes "one-person company" AI startups Scrubs is back! Mickey 17 is not about a cartoon mouse The Expanse Marathon - and how sickos like me can't stop thinking about it