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
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 53 • The Passive Roasting of Animals
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
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
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
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 51 • Excited and a Little Disappointed
Peter is a runner, Scott's a pretender, and they both have beer. You can be built from broken, and you can learn what your cron jobs are doing.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Half Marathon Man
- Get your house in order – wills and accounts
- Dealing with frustration, ineffectiveness, and imposter syndrome
- The mental & physical aspects of running and fitness
- Built from Broken by Scott Hogan | Injury Recovery and Corrective Exer
- The role of muscles
- Cron Description for Raycast
The Links
Episode 50 • Moderately Desperate Regret
Peter is BACK for beautiful episode 50, but he regrets to inform you his beer of choice tastes like moderately desperate regret. Scott has coffee and talks about a blog post on Raycast that he's writing VERY slowly, and they both launch into an impromptu impersonation of John Siracusa watching other people use their computers very slowly and inefficiently.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- The letter M
- Fellow Opus Conical Burr Grinder
- Carvana increases the value of Peter’s Tesla
- Athletic Brewing Company beer
- Mac high contrast and visibility settings
- Scott’s very slowly written blog post about Raycast
- Medford Brewing and their website