Episode 86 •Whatever, Software
Coffees, Macs, Kumas, and Mocklers... it's like a grab bag of topics. Also Peter does the math on AppleCare One, Scott tells him how to log into meetings with Dato, and both are angry at reminders.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Backporch Blend — Backporch Coffee Roasters
- Market Basket French Roast Whole Bean Coffee
- Fellow Opus Coffee Grinder
- Prime Day Mac minis
- Foundry Virtual Tabletop
- Tailscale Node
- Uptime Kuma
- Superman movies live on YouTube
- AppleCare One
- Calendar hell with Peter Nikolaidis
- Dato by Sindre Sorhus
- Due Reminder App
- The problem with reminders
- Adam Mockler - YouTube
The Links
- Backporch Blend — Backporch Coffee Roasters
- Market Basket French Roast Whole Bean Coffee
- Opus Conical Burr Grinder – Fellow
- Foundry Virtual Tabletop
- Uptime Kuma - A Fancy Self-Hosted Monitoring Tool
- Superman movies live on YouTube
- AppleCare One
- Dato — Sindre Sorhus
- Due: The Superfast Reminder App for iPhone & iPad
- Adam Mockler - YouTube
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 85 •I’m Big in Japan
Scott went to Japan (and wishes he was still there). Peter went to Japan too, in 2002. They both like Shinkansen and Japanese food. Scott Spotlighted Raycast (that’s a new verb), Scott and Peter both bought refurbished M1 Mac minis to use as Tailscale exit nodes, Peter plays Virtual Tabletop games, and it’s the Year of 5% Linux on the desktop!
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Scott goes to Japan
- Peter’s Japan Rotary Club experience
- Shinkansen
- Visas and long-term stays in Japan
- Spotlighting Raycast
- M1 Mac mini
- Virtual Tabletop gaming
- The Year of 5% Linux on the Desktop
The Links
Episode 84 •Spam and Phishing Are No Exceptions
It’s another blurred line and another line blurred! Peter kills two podcasts with one story by merging Blurring the Lines with Friends with Brews again, which is good for Scott because it means he gets to talk to Adam again. Brews, books, and things we’re watching!
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Blurring the Lines
- AI fakery and other tools
- AI human mimic video
- ElevenLabs
- Can drinking
- Coffee drinking methodologies
- Spam, phishing, and small town business offices
- Storms, flooding, and bamboo
- Webcams
- Logitech C920
- What we’re watching
- What we’re reading
The Links
- Yorkshire Tea | Tea Bags & Loose Leaf Wholesale Tea
- Taylors of Harrogate | Global Suppliers of Great Tea & Coffee
- Stella Artois
- Yonder - Forecast Coffee Company
- Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs
- Logitech C920s PRO Full HD Webcam with Privacy Shutter
- Dope Thief
- Bullet Train
- Wolfs
- The Fall Guy
- Sicario (2015)
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Ted Lasso
- To Live and Die in L.A.
- Moonlighting
- TRON: Ares
- Abundance | Book by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
- Foundation Book Series
- Foundation TV Series
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 83 •Whales Are Submersible
Is it Whisky, or is it Whiskey? None of us care, because John Chidgey is here to tell us about Whisky Whiskey, his video podcast! Don’t worry, there’s an audio only version for people like me who don’t watch things. John, Peter, and Scott also bemoan the state of AI, software in general, and Peter’s body.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Campos Coffee Superior Blend
- Trader Joe’s Fair Trade Organic Bolivian Blend
- Wayfinder Beer La Magie French Pilsner
- Whisky Whiskey Podcast
- Business opportunity – websites for beer companies
- The interrogation of John Chidgey
- John’s work history
- John is an electrical engineer
- Automation systems
- Programming logic controllers and SCADA systems
- Designing UI for clarity and safety
- Semiconductor manufacturing and ASIC design
- Electrical design
- Cybersecurity
- Company cybersecurity specs
- ISA-95 Standard: Enterprise-Control System Integration
- AEMO | AESCSF framework and resources
- John’s podcasting career
- John’s work history
- Six Million Dollar Man – a litany of joints
- Grok determines that Elon and Donald deserve the death penalty
- Whisky Whiskey formats
- Audio, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram
- Shaky politics
- Encryption ban attempts
- Shaky democracy
- AI
- DeepSeek
- LLMs in general
- Apple Intelligence
- Silicon Valley Syndrome
- Following the money
- Dear Tim Apple: Scott’s letter to Tim Cook
- DEI crashed our plane
- Software is broken
- Control systems
The Links
- Campos Coffee Superior Blend
- Trader Joe’s Fair Trade Organic Bolivian Blend
- Wayfinder Beer
- Whisky Whiskey Podcast
- Whisky Whiskey - YouTube
- ISA-95 Standard: Enterprise-Control System Integration
- AEMO | AESCSF framework and resources
- Pragmatic
- Causality
- Whisky Whiskey
- Fediverse Chidgey
- The Engineered Network
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 82 •Peter Sighing for 45 Minutes
Peter’s new book says to drink raw milk. Scott says no. Science is a process. Peter’s Opus ground it wrong, which leads the guys into talking about problem statements. Speaking of problems leads them into talking about Slack vs. Teams, design culture, and free smart scales and other spies. Tell your friends!
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Science, diet, and health
- Pastuerized milk vs. raw milk
- Alcohol vs. no alcohol
- Science is a process
- The Grinding of the Opus
- Peter’s Opus made bad noises
- Peter cleaned it and reassembled it
- The Opus may not be the most robust grinder in the world
- Our favorite problem descriptions
- I can’t get my mail
- It’s broken
- I keep hitting retree and I keep hearing a grinding noise
- I got a warning about an application that’s not supposed to be there
- Some security is blocking us from something
- Slack vs. Teams
- Channels vs. Teams vs. Chats vs. we don’t even know
- Teams within Teams
- Organizing files
- Team meetings
- Team chats
- Design culture (stick a pin in it)
- Microsoft, Google, et. al.
- Intuit, PayPal
- Atlassian Jira
- Web apps vs. native apps
- Free smart scales and other spies