Episode 56 • Monarch: Legacy of Black Friday
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2023 •
34 minutes
Peter and Scott love monsters and coffee and monsters who love coffee. Black Friday came and went without TOO much money being spent – ok, who are we kidding? Money was spent. Mostly by Peter, but partly by Scott. Scott says f-u to the Brie Larson haters and whiny little misogynists in general. Peter says hello to Kaiju board games, and Scott wants in. Stop playing those games without him.
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The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Not all Friends with Brews become Friends with Brews with Publishing Episodes
- We recorded an episode about OpenAI, but now it’s out of date, and frankly, it wasn’t any good anyway.
- Black Friday
- Trade Coffee
- Scott’s new TV
- Peter’s iPad Air and Magic Keyboard
- Audible
- Eat and Run by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
- Text to Speech apps
- Dawn of the Daikaiju
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- The Last of Us
- The Marvels
The Links
- Rao’s Coffee Roasting Company Sicilian Roast “The Godfather”
- Counter Culture Coffee Hologram
- Trade Coffee
- Audible.com | Try Audible Free Today
- Eat and Run by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman - Audiobook - Audible.com
- Voice Dream Reader - Text to Speech App
- Speechify | Turn Any Reading Into Audio | TTS, AI Voice Over
- AI Voices - NaturalReader Home
- Savage Worlds Adventure Edition: Dawn of the Daikaiju - Pinnacle Entertainment | Savage Worlds Adventure Edition | DriveThruRPG
- Watch Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Apple TV+
- The Last of Us | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
- The Marvels (Movie, 2023) | Cast, Characters, Credits, Release Date
- Big Sandwich – For the cost of a big sandwich but you don’t have to, no pressure.
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Episode 55 • Bring in the Copilot
Peter and Scott use AI, but why? And why does Okta never believe it when someone tells them they've been hacked?
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Ronnie hates strong opinions
- Should beer be gluten free?
- Friends with Brews website updates
- Transcripts now have speaker attribution
- Two Linode servers have been replaced by one bigger Linode server
- Halloween Apple Event
- Our current iPad use cases
- Reading (Scott)
- Journaling (Peter)
- The Weekly Planet podcast
- AI and AI assistants
- Perplexity
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- GPT-4 AI Chat in Raycast Pro
- GitHub Copilot
- Microsoft Security Copilot
- code llama
- Ollama
- What we use AI for
- Procedure and document creation and summarizing (Peter)
- Programming questions (Peter and Scott)
- Scott’s newest cat will eat anything
- Okta gets hacked and it affects 1Password, among others
The Links
- Wegmans Just Tea English Breakfast Black
- Evasion Brewing Tantamount Stout
- Halloween Apple Event
- The Weekly Planet podcast
- Perplexity
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Raycast Pro
- GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
- Microsoft Security Copilot | Microsoft Security
- code llama
- Ollama
- 1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account | Ars Technica
- 1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise • The Register
- Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit – Krebs on Security
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Episode 54 • Imagine the Smell
Hacker beer, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is a great sequel, speech and sandwiches both start with the letter s, and numbers go up when people are stupid.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Our watches – Apple Watch Ultra 2
- Speechify
- The Weekly Planet and Big Sandwich
- Number Go Up – Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
The Links
- Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen
- Three Creeks Brewing Fivepine Chocolate Porter
- Dapper & Wise Roasters Highbrow Blend
- Apple Frames 3.1: Extending Screenshot Automation with the New Apple Frames API - MacStories
- Apple Frames shortcut
- Speechify
- Number Go Up – Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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Episode 53 • The Passive Roasting of Animals
Friday, 13 Oct 2023 •
34 minutes
Peter runs, Peter pays for podcasts, Peter drives electric things. Most importantly, Elon Musk is no longer part of Peter's life. Scott explains why this podcast is a source of ancient Apple OS news.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Quiet Amoebas, slow passwords
- Doing things backwards
- Moving on from one Aeropress to another
- Lots of running
- Wintering away from home - Peter’s potential travel plans
- Podcasts Peter pays for
- Bye Bye, Tesla
- Peter traded in his Tesla Model S
- Peter bought a Kia EV6
- The Cons
- In latest ‘right to repair’ move, Kia shuts off new car tech in Massachusetts
- Doesn’t handle quite as well as a sedan like the Model S
- Wired CarPlay instead of wireless CarPlay
- The Pros
- All-wheel drive
- Super fast
- Sunroof
- CarPlay
- The Cons
- Ancient Apple OS news
The Links
- Wegmans Organic Whole Bean Peruvian Decaf
- Coava Coffee Roasters S.O. Blend
- Baerlic Beer Co OktoBAERfestbier
- Baerlic Brewing Co
- Trail Animals Running Club TARC Spring Classic
- Accidental Tech Podcast
- Grumpy Old Geeks
- The Weekly Planet
- Big Sandwich – For the cost of a big sandwich but you don’t have to, no pressure.
- In latest ‘right to repair’ move, Kia shuts off new car tech in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe
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Episode 52 • If I Were a Beer
Peter and Scott talk about the betas (yes, this was recorded a couple weeks ago), which beer Peter would be if he were a beer, text editors, books, first cars, and why Peter's blood pressure suddenly spiked.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- All the betas
- iPadOS and family iPads
- iPadOS with Health data
- Everyone else in Scott’s family uses iPad Pros as their only computers
- iPadOS and family iPads
- The frequency of this podcast – a Friends with Brews update!
- Scott sadly retired from Is This the Show? podcast
- Sonoma
- Wallpaper and screen savers
- Widgets
- Stacks on the desktop
- iOS 17
- Workout status on the phone Home Screen
- Shared AirTags
- Widgets
- watchOS 10
- Dodgy batteries, dodgy signal, and dodgy messages
- Text editors
- What are we reading?
- What were we driving?
The Links
- Opa Opa Brewing Oktoberfest
- Laurelwood Brewing Company Piston Pale Ale
- Laurelwood Brewing Co.
- Is This The Show?
- CotEditor -Text Editor for macOS
- Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
- Proxima by Stephen Baxter
- macOS Apprentice | Kodeco
- Hacking with macOS – learn to make macOS apps with Swift 5.7 using real-world projects
- SwiftUI by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers
- Book Tracker: Bookshelf Log for iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Neal Stephenson - Anathem
- Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language
- The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition: your journey to mastery by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
- The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World
- Blinkist: Powerful ideas—15 minutes at a time
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
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