Special guest Brent Simmons returns to
May 31
448: ‘Twins Named John’, With Stephen Hackett
Stephen Hackett returns to the show to help me make sense of a problem that is hard even to describe, let alone solve, regarding Apple One, family sharing, a separate Media & Purchasing account, and iCloud storage space. Also: what we're expecting from WWDC 2026.
1h 50m
May 15
447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he's developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies.
2h 15m
Sep 2022
Ambient Mesh, with Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson
<p>When you think of a service mesh, you probably think of "sidecar containers running with each pod". The Istio team has come up with a new approach, introduced recently as an experimental preview. Google Cloud software engineers <a href= "https://twitter.com/Justin_D_Pettit">Ju ... Show More
55m 48s
Feb 2025
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects. Thank you for lis ... Show More
5h 16m
Feb 2025
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time
<p>This week, we’re joined by the Times reporter Jonathan Swan to discuss Elon Musk’s tech takeover of Washington, D.C. Then, Liz Pelly, author of a new book about Spotify, stops by to discuss “ghost musicians” and how Spotify’s algorithms are reshaping music culture. And finally ... Show More
1h 22m
Nov 2019
#416 - The wild but true stories from The Cult of Mac
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2453212/open_sms">Send us a text!</a></p><p>This week: on the cusp of its release, authors Leander Kahney and David Pierini regale us with stories from their new book, The Cult of Mac 2.0, and we hear of ... Show More
59m 18s
Nov 2025
939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta
State space models (SSMs), granite models, and Mamba: Dell’s Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta discuss with Jon Krohn why state space models can process information so efficiently, and how Dell’s AI factory helps enterprises manage custom AI workloads. Hear the latest on the Dell Pro A ... Show More
1h 6m
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<li>Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price</li>
<li>Follow-up:
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<li>Mastodon instances and federation</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hivesocial.app/">Hive Social</a> is going… well, it’s <a href="https://arstechnica.com/i ... Show More