Episode 56 • Monarch: Legacy of Black Friday
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.
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- We recorded an episode about OpenAI, but now it’s out of date, and frankly, it wasn’t any good anyway.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- Two Linode servers have been replaced by one bigger Linode server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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