Really Specific Stories

Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts. Content warning: some coarse language Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (listener) Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/2023-08-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-baldur-bjarnason.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/9/9177fcb6-0a8e-4ec0-a803-2544c12e6b86/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes Fourth Generation 00:00:00 RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Perl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) Interactive media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_media) RÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. (https://www.ruv.is/um-ruv/about-ruv) World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) British invasion of Iceland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasion_of_Iceland) Allied occupation of Iceland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland) Attack of Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor) Telegraphy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy) Axis powers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers) Hotel Borg (https://borg-by-keas-reykjavik.hotel-ds.com/en/) Vox populi (or vox pop) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi) Web development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) Interactive Media Environments 00:08:13 Software widget (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_widget) Graphical widget (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) HyperCard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard) Macintosh SE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE) Solitaire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire) Tetris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris) What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) Comparative literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_literature) Computer science (or ‘comp sci’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science) University of the West of England (UWE) (https://www.uwe.ac.uk) Bower Ashton campus map (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/life/campus-and-facilities/city-campus/bower-ashton-campus-map) BBC Radio (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_one) Dot-com bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble) (including reference to the dot-com crash) Adobe Flash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash) Sandbox (software development) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(software_development)) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy) ebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) Amazon Kindle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Defamiliarisation 00:15:43 Artificial intelligence (AI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency) Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture) The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1291973.The_Real_World_of_Technology) Recordings of public lectures in the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology) Processor (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_(computing)) Musical genre mash-up! Pop-punk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-punk) Post-punk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-punk) Neosurrealism (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/neo-surrealism) Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) Jason Snell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Snell_(writer)) Defamiliarisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization) Viktor Shklovsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovsky) Bertolt Brecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs (https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) Defunctland (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVo63lbKHjC04KqYhwSZ_Pg) Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History (https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE) App Store (iOS/iPadOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)) Tom Abba (https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/TomAbba) *This is not the future of the book (http://thisisnotabook.baldurbjarnason.com/podcast/) Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason (https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com) Open source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source) Pick and Choose 00:31:03 Round table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table) Narrative journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism) 20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats: a podcast on Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm/20macs); a series of written blog posts at Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/08/20-macs-for-2020-an-introduction/); and a YouTube playlist hosted at 512 Pixels (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWicOOpLAfvEv7KODfZYuXS7jVprBDUJc) Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) (rebranding to X) Revenue sharing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_sharing) Threads (social network) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)) Bluesky Social (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social) Mastodon (social network) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)) Algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm) Patreon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon) Whisper (software) (https://openai.com/research/whisper) Descript (https://www.descript.com) Substack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substack) Email list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list#Electronic_mailing_list) Apple Podcasts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Podcasts) Spotify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify) du jour = ‘of the day’, e.g. ’soup *du jour’ = soup of the day My Computer Identity 00:44:05 Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Macintosh Performa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Performa) Microsoft Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) macOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS) (previously referred to as Mac OS X and OS X) Pro Tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tools) Apple Human Interface Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/) User interface design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_design) Apple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/07/apple-simplifies-system-settings-for-macos-ventura-moves-many-items) from AppleInsider System Settings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Settings) (previously named System Preferences) Disk Utility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Utility) Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) GNOME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME) Safari (web browser) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)) ARM architecture family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family) Amy Hoy (https://stackingthebricks.com) User experience (UX) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience) ChromeOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS) Software bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug) Netscape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape) Jamie Zawinski (a.k.a. jwz) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski) HAL 9000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000) Plumbing of the Web 01:01:05 HTML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) XML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML) Markup language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language) Static websites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design#Generated_content) Flat file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-file_database) Client-side (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side) iBook G3 ‘Clamshell’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#iBook_G3_(%22Clamshell%22)) (or what Baldur’s dad refers to as the ‘toilet-seat iBook’) NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com) OPML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML) Domain name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name) Stacking the Bricks (https://stackingthebricks.com/podcast/) (podcast) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/2023-08-really-specific-stories-baldur-bjarnason-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)

Marco tells the story of how he became a Mac enthusiast, indie app developer and tech podcaster, covering his work on Tumblr, Instapaper, Overcast and Accidental Tech Podcast, among other projects. He also explains why he thinks it's so important to maintain the open Web and podcasting through RSS, in the face of more exclusive publishing platforms and audio hosts. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (producer) Find Marco at marco.org (https://marco.org). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/0048b-2023-05-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-marco-arment.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/9/92211901-f651-49ec-b6c7-755582c32644/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes The Stronghold of Podcasting 00:00:00 This Week in Tech (TWiT) (https://twit.tv) This Week in Tech (podcast) (https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1635) MacBreak Weekly (https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1643) The Word Nerds (Archive) (https://thewordnerds.libsyn.com) Tumblr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr) You Look Nice Today (https://www.youlooknicetoday.com) Ricky Gervais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais) The Ricky Gervais Show (https://www.therickygervaisshow.com/podcasts) Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com) The Stack Overflow Podcast (https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/) Joel Spolsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky) Jeff Atwood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood) Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) CD-R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R) MP3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3) CD player (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_player) iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod) The iPod Video was the fifth generation of a product line that is now collectively referred to as the iPod Classic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic). iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) This American Life (https://www.thisamericanlife.org) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) Audiobook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook) Cable television (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television) Leo Laporte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte) AM broadcasting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_broadcasting) Talk radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio) Self-taught 00:09:11 Videocassette recorder (VCR) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder) Microsoft Paint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Paint) BASIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) 3-2-1 Contact Magazine (https://archive.org/details/321contact) was an American educational television show about science that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, with an adjoining children's magazine, and which can now be found in the Internet Archive. Windows 3.1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x) Disk operating system (DOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_operating_system) MS-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS) QBasic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic) Visual Basic (classic) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)) C (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)) Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) Solution stack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_stack) Sun Microsystems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems) Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC) SPARCstation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation) Solaris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris) Segmentation fault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault) Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) IBM PC compatible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible) (now more of a historical term that relates to our current usage of the term ‘Windows PC’) Vivísimo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisimo) Yippy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippy) (originally developed and released as ‘Clusty’) Computer memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_memory) Version control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control) Software bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug) Tumblr 00:20:24 Craigslist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist) Tumblr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr) Software development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development) Indie (disambiguation) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie) West Coast of the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States) Amazon (company) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)) Bloomberg L.P. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.) Bloomberg Technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Technology) Davidville (https://www.davidville.com) David Karp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Karp) PHP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP) Shard (database architecture) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Content management system (CMS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) Microblogging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging) (The first micro-blogs were known as ‘tumblelogs’.) Myspace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace) (formerly known as MySpace) Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) LiveJournal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveJournal) WordPress (content management system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress) A Great Time to Be a Mac User 00:33:02 Apple, Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Desktop computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_computer) Windows Update (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update) Digital Visual Interface (DVI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface) Vim (text editor) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)) Terminal emulator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator) Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) Server (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)) Ruby on Rails (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails) TextMate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextMate) MacBook (2006–2012) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2006–2012)) PowerBook G4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4) A Better Audience 00:38:13 Web development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) 5by5 (https://5by5.tv) Weblogs, Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs,_Inc.) Engadget (https://www.engadget.com) Gizmodo (https://gizmodo.com) Lifehacker (https://lifehacker.com) RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) News aggregator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator) (or in certain cases or implementations, RSS reader) Digg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg) Reddit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit) Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) Instapaper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instapaper) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Build and Analyze (https://archive.org/details/podcast_build-analyze_404064215) was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Overcast (app) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcast_(app)) Merlin Mann (http://www.merlinmann.com) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) Accidental Tech Podcast 00:49:43 Neutral (https://neutral.fm) Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) Membership program (https://atp.fm/join) Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) John Roderick (musician) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roderick_(musician)) Overcast 00:58:16 Overcast (https://overcast.fm/) Overcast (app) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcast_(app)) (further information) Music (software) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(software)) (The app to which Marco refers was originally known as the iPod app on iPhones.) Downcast (app) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downcast_(app)) Android (operating system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)) Pocket Casts (https://pocketcasts.com) Apple Podcasts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Podcasts) Stitcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stitcher) App store (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_store) App Store (iOS/iPadOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)) TikTok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok) Instagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram) Proxy server (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) How the Internet Is Supposed to Work 01:05:06 World Wide Web (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web) Web standards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards) (redirecting from ‘open Web’) Decentralisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization) Comcast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast) Verizon Communications, Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications) UUNET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET) Internet Protocol (IP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol) Walmart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart) Monopsony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony) Google (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google) Amazon Kindle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle) Spotify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify) Trade magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_magazine) Eddy Cue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Cue) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/aeb0c-2023-05-really-specific-stories-marco-arment-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of Marco Arment’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Marco as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

Grace is a developer and podcast fan, who shares her experience of following various independent shows over the years and in producing her own chatcast, titled Monkey Mind (https://www.monkeymind.xyz/). During the conversation, she also covers her passion for video games and considers the key differences between aural and visual media, drawing on her own study of film and background in video production. Content warning: discussion of clinical depression Podcast case study: Connected at Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm/connected) (listener) Find Grace at graceteng.me (https://www.graceteng.me). Read the transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://loungeruminator.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-05-Really-Specific-Stories-Transcript-—-Grace-Teng.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/6/640bf427-af0f-4a25-ba45-a6d91db5cc1d/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes How the Habit Started 00:00:00 Major depressive disorder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder) (or clinical depression) The Pen Addict (https://www.penaddict.com) (blog) Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) The Pen Addict (https://www.relay.fm/penaddict) (podcast) Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) 99% Invisible (https://99percentinvisible.org) Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/) Myke Hurley (http://www.mykehurley.net) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) Merlin Mann (http://www.merlinmann.com) 43 Folders (https://www.43folders.com) Cortex (https://www.relay.fm/cortex) Mac Power Users (https://www.relay.fm/mpu) Ungeniused (https://www.relay.fm/ungeniused) Playing for Fun (https://www.relay.fm/playingforfun) Celeste (video game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game)) Analog(ue) (https://www.relay.fm/analogue) Connected (https://www.relay.fm/connected) The Dynamic 00:09:18 Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) Parasocial interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction) Google (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google) Amazon (company) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)) Blog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) Early adopter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_adopter) Monkey Mind 00:18:49 Monkey Mind (https://www.monkeymind.xyz) Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_Scarlet_and_Violet) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) What Sound Can Do 00:26:17 Software engineering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering) Start-up company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company) Multimedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia) Apple File System (APFS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System) NPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR) This American Life (https://www.thisamericanlife.org) Montage (filmmaking) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(filmmaking)) Juxtaposition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposition) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Not a Purist 00:36:46 Chatcast = a podcast with a conversational format, rather than a narrative one RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Adam Savage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Savage) Adam Savage’s Tested (https://www.youtube.com/@tested) Speedrunning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedrunning) Dear PB (https://www.dearpb.podbean.com) Games Done Quick (https://www.youtube.com/@gamesdonequick) Think Fast! Sly Another Day (https://youtu.be/lwBpBOMciRA) (video example) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/80e42-2023-05-really-specific-stories-grace-teng-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)

Shelly is a writer, editor and podcaster who tirelessly advocates for greater accessibility in digital technology. Joining Really Specific Stories, she shares her journalistic and storytelling experience, explains her audio projects, such as Parallel with Relay FM, and illustrates how far we’ve come (and still have to go) in making hardware, software and media accessible. Podcast case study: Parallel at Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm/parallel) (producer) Find Shelly at brisbin.net (https://www.brisbin.net). Read the transcript of this episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/8e41d-2023-05-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-shelly-brisbin.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/2/2527e7e3-1ffa-4797-8cc4-016dcddc76a2/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes Mindful of Ethics 00:00:00 RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Macworld/iWorld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macworld/iWorld) Watch the Macworld 2005 keynote in the Internet Archive. (https://archive.org/details/mwsf-2005) Adobe Pagemaker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker) Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Desktop publishing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing) Laser printing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_printing) Linotype machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine) Macintosh Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus) Page layout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_layout) (with further information about galleys) Rubylith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith) Light table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_table) See a scan of the top portion of Supercomputing News (Vol. 1 No. 3) from 1988 (https://loungeruminator.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SupercomputingNews_Brisbin.pdf), which was kindly provided by Shelly because the publication preceded the Web. This was her first editing job! Hydra (operating system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(operating_system)) Cray-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1) MacUser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacUser) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Microsoft Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) Go My Own Way 00:07:44 Trade journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_journalism) Tech Podcast Network (https://techpodcasts.com) History of podcasting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting) (with references to couplecasting) Accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and more specifically, computer accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility) and Web accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility) Diversity (politics) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_(politics)) Accessibility in the Mainstream 00:16:36 Disability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability) Assistive technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology) Google (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google) Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft) Software bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug) Pro Tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tools) iRiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRiver) MP3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) Artificial intelligence (AI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) Transcription software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_software) Content management system (CMS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) iOS Access for All: Your Comprehensive Guide to Accessibility for iPhone and iPad (https://www.iosaccessbook.com) by Shelly Brisbin Jason Snell (https://sixcolors.com/) Use Switch Control on Mac (https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh43607/mac) Use Switch Control to navigate your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201370) iOS Switch Control Demo (https://youtu.be/kj9UodcwIes) (YouTube video excerpt of Todd Stabelfeldt's keynote from Apple's WWDC 2017) Parallel and Relay FM 00:35:31 Parallel (https://www.relay.fm/parallel) Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) Stephen Hackett (https://512pixels.net) Myke Hurley (https://www.mykehurley.net) iOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS) macOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS) Android (operating system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Slack (software) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)) Discord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord) Feedback and Engagement 00:45:24 Mastodon (social network) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)) Mention (blogging) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mention_(blogging)) Wallflower (people) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallflower_(people)) Aural Inclusivity, Niches and Narratives 00:49:49 Fortune 500 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_500) 36 Seconds that Changed Everything: How the iPhone Learned to Talk (http://www.36seconds.org) Narrative journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism) Radio documentary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_documentary) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/220a2-2023-05-really-specific-stories-shelly-brisbin-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)

Jason recounts his personal history as a tech enthusiast and how he built a new life on the Web as an independent writer and podcaster. Along the way, he considers his identity, interaction with fan communities and development of various solo and collaborative projects. Podcast case study: 20 Macs for 2020 at Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm/20macs) (producer) Find Jason at sixcolors.com (https://sixcolors.com). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/8b37a-2023-03-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-jason-snell.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/d/d6b5fa56-5380-4e75-ae54-a9a9e2ecf58d/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes A Highly-focused Beam 00:00:00 Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) iTunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes) Apple announced support for podcasts in iTunes 4.9. Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream (https://www.apple.com/au/newsroom/2005/06/28Apple-Takes-Podcasting-Mainstream/) (Apple Newsroom press release from 28 June 2005) Steve Jobs announces switch to Intel & Podcasting WWDC 2005 (https://youtu.be/iNwvAuc0nCU?t=406) (Steve Jobs Archive on YouTube, jumps straight to podcast announcement at 00:06:46) For those who enjoy digital spelunking, here’s the full history of iTunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_iTunes). Macworld (https://www.macworld.com) Macworld Podcast (https://www.macworld.com/opinion/podcast) Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod) Hypercritical (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/) (podcast) Build and Analyze (https://archive.org/details/podcast_build-analyze_404064215) was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. Marco Arment (https://marco.org/about) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com/) Downstream (https://www.relay.fm/downstream) Julia Alexander (https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia) Parrot Analytics (https://t.co/nme8a4mVYC) Tim Goodman (https://twitter.com/BastardMachine) Articles at The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/tim-goodman/) San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfchronicle.com) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) The Incomparable (https://www.theincomparable.com) InterText (http://intertext.com/magazine/) Building an Audience 00:10:17 RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Ricky Gervais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais) The Ricky Gervais Show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ricky_Gervais_Show) tv.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20050915000000*/tv.org) (Snapshots are in the Internet Archive.) Usenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) FTP server (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP_server) Offset printing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_printing) GarageBand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GarageBand) Substack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substack) Accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Byline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline) Leo Laporte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte) This Week in Tech (TWiT) (https://twit.tv) MacBreak Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly) Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) Myke Hurley (http://www.mykehurley.net) Stephen Hackett (https://512pixels.net/) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) John’s archive of articles at Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/author/john-siracusa/) Community and Persona 00:22:05 Mastodon (social network) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)) New tool ‘Movetodon’ makes it easier to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/a-new-tool-movetodon-makes-it-easier-to-find-your-twitter-friends-on-mastodon/) (This is one example of the tools that were available to switch networks.) Upgrade (https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) MacUser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacUser) The Rebound (https://reboundcast.com) Dan Moren (https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren) Lex Friedman (https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri) John Moltz (https://mastodon.social/@Moltz) Honesty and Care 00:30:51 Anti-fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fan) Star Trek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek) Star Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars) Marvel Entertainment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Entertainment) Google Pixel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pixel) Android (operating system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)) Harry McCracken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_McCracken) Andy Ihnatko (https://twit.social/@ihnatko) E-reader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-reader) AppleScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript) A Massive Media Transition 00:44:09 20 Macs for 2020 (https://www.relay.fm/20macs) TikTok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Rene Ritchie (https://reneritchie.net) Jason’s @bleedsixcolors YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@bleedsixcolors) I Have Eight Jobs! 00:53:41 Jason mentions three of his membership programs for podcast fans: Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com/subscribe/); The Incomparable (https://www.theincomparable.com/members/); and Upgrade+ (https://www.relay.fm/membership) (displayed alongside other shows at Relay FM). Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) Airbnb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) David Sparks (https://www.macsparky.com) John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/4bbf2-2023-03-really-specific-stories-jason-snell-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg As an insight into community influence and my own fandom, I use Ferrite Recording Studio with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil because of Jason's early reviews of the app (such as this one (https://sixcolors.com/post/2015/11/editing-podcasts-on-ios-with-ferrite/)) and his comprehensive demo video on YouTube (https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/02/video-editing-podcasts-with-ferrite-and-apple-pencil/). Just to emphasise the 'iPadness' of this academic/community audio project, you may notice that I left the iPadOS pointer visible in the screenshot above, which Jason also wrote about optimistically back in 2020 (https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/03/the-ipad-cursor-is-here-no-wait-required/). Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Martin is a paying subscriber of Jason’s Six Colors and Upgrade+ membership programs; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Jason as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

Gaby loves a good story. In this episode, he dives into his fandom for technology podcasts and all things comic-book-related, and then elaborates on his own experimentation with microcasting. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (listener) Find Gaby at gabz.omg.lol (https://gabz.omg.lol). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/ed3b8-2023-03-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-gaby-santiago.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/2/2ce160a0-f75b-4e76-9336-a72c18e760e2/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes Telling a Story 00:00:00 iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) iMore (https://www.imore.com) Debug (https://www.imore.com/debug) Software developer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development#Software_developer) DC Comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics) Greg Capullo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Capullo) Kevin Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith) Batman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman) Fat Man on Batman (https://thatkevinsmithclub.com/category/podcasts/podcast-fat-man-on-batman/) Now Fatman Beyond (https://soundcloud.com/fatmanonbatman/tracks) Dan DiDio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_DiDio) Zack Snyder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Snyder) Guy English (https://guyenglish.net) Rene Ritchie (https://reneritchie.net) Tweetbot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetbot) Marco Arment (https://marco.org) Overcast (https://overcast.fm) omg.lol (https://home.omg.lol) Hemispheric Views (https://hemisphericviews.com) Pocket Casts (https://pocketcasts.com) iMessage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMessage) Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) Connected (https://www.relay.fm/connected) That Sense of Community 00:11:42 The Rebound (https://reboundcast.com) Discord (https://discord.com) Slack (https://slack.com/intl/en-au/) Pixelated Audio (https://pixelatedaudio.com) Indie Creators 00:21:03 Superman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman) Marvel Comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics) Image Comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Comics) Pick of the Week Podcast (https://ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/potw/) Saga (comics) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(comics)) Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Need to Create Something 00:31:05 COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) Micro.blog (https://micro.blog) Gabz/ml Microcast (https://gaby.micro.blog/categories/microcast/) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/a5eaa-2023-03-really-specific-stories-gaby-santiago-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Gaby is a paid subscriber of Martin’s One Prime Plus membership program for the shared podcast, Hemispheric Views; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Gaby as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

Michael shares his story as a long-time tech podcast listener and explains his motivation to design and build personal tools that leverage the power of open RSS. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (listener) Find Michael at inqk.net (https://inqk.net). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/dc4be-2023-02-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-michael-camilleri.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/4/410af7a1-f6d8-4b34-b0eb-e54ef2bbdffe/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes The Full Arc of Things 00:00:00 John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) The Talk Show (https://web.archive.org/web/20160214235854/http://thetalkshow.net/#30) was a podcast by Dan Benjamin and John Gruber on the 5by5 network, which can now be found (partially) in the Internet Archive. PlayStation Portable (PSP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable) Michael refers to PSPWare (https://web.archive.org/web/20061205211347/http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/pspware) by nullriver, which was an app that integrated your Sony PSP with your Mac. References to it on the Web can now be found in the Internet Archive. MP3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3) Defining the term ‘homebrew’ (https://www.techopedia.com/definition/10649/homebrew) Disk operating system (DOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_operating_system) MS-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS) Microsoft Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) MiniDisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc) Personal computer (PC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer) LucasArts adventure games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LucasArts_adventure_games) List of Sim video games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sim_video_games) Platform game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game) (or ‘platformer’) Shoot ‘em up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up) Role-playing video game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Michael refers to the rivalry between Ford Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Australia) and Holden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden). iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod) Mac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) (computer) Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) Control Panel (Windows) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Panel_(Windows)) Metro (design language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)) Windows 95 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95) Windows 3.1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x) Graphics card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card) iMac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac) Native resolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution) A Certain Similarity 00:13:55 Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) Marco Arment (https://marco.org) Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) System 6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6) The Talk Show with John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/) Ben Thompson (writer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Thompson_(writer)) Dithering (https://dithering.fm) National Basketball Association (NBA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association) Can’t Wait to Do the Dishes! 00:18:11 Overcast (https://overcast.fm) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) HomePod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePod) RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Spotify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify) NHK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK) Server (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)) Ruby (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)) Blog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) Matthew Yglesias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias) Vox (https://www.vox.com) Google Reader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader) Feedbin (https://feedbin.com) NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Kabatsu 00:28:52 The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com) The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com) The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com) HTML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) Ordinary People 00:35:17 22 Goals (https://www.theringer.com/22-goals) FIFA World Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup) Brian Phillips (https://www.theringer.com/authors/brian-phillips) What the hell is Apple’s butterfly keyboard? (https://thenextweb.com/news/what-hell-apple-butterfly-keyboard-keys-design) (explanatory article) Keyboard Service Program for MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro (https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks) Fixing the MacBook Pro (https://marco.org/2017/11/24/fixing-the-macbook-pro) (blog piece by Marco Arment) 194: Dark Night of the Soul (https://atp.fm/194) (ATP episode featuring [first?] mention of the ‘MacBook Escape’) Touch Bar (2016–2020) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Fourth_generation_(Touch_Bar)) Jason Snell (https://sixcolors.com/jason/) Myke Hurley (https://mykehurley.net) C Sharp (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)) Comfort Food 00:47:06 Audiobook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook) Upgrade (https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) Folk Culture 00:51:03 Accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and more specifically, Web accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility) Web 1.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0#Web_1.0) and Web 2.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0) JavaScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) Google Search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search) AltaVista (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista) Twitch (service) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Markup language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/a1449-2023-02-really-specific-stories-michael-camilleri-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)

John covers his extensive history as a Mac enthusiast, web developer, writer, podcaster and lover of music and art. He also explains his transition to a fully independent career on the Internet and how he has juggled various personas, roles and fandoms over the years. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (producer) Find John at hypercritical.co (https://hypercritical.co). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/f9740-2023-01-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-john-siracusa.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/9/97153536-5ced-4130-8ca4-e9a60714e243/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes I Was Primed 00:00:00 Mur Lafferty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur_Lafferty) Geek Fu Action Grip (https://archive.org/details/pcs_Geek_Fu_Action_Grip) (now in the Internet Archive) I Should Be Writing (https://murverse.com/podcasts/isbw/) iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod) iTunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes) NPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) YouTuber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTuber) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Hypercritical (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm) (podcast) Gabe Newell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell) Valve Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation) Half-Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(series)) (series) Portal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(series)) (series) Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com) Book review: Infinite Loop (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/1999/10/book-review-infinite-loop/) — John’s first article for Ars Technica Ivory tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_tower) Hypercritical (https://hypercritical.co/fatbits/2009/05/06/hypercritical) (the mentioned article from John’s Ars Technica blog, now linked on his website) Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) I Had the Cultural Context 00:08:22 Home computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer) (redirected from ‘personal computer revolution’) Commodore VIC-20 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20) Macintosh 128K (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K) Graphical user interface (GUI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface) Pictionary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary) Usenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) U2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2) Ken Fisher (https://arstechnica.com/author/caesar/) Mac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) (computer) Mac OS X (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#Mac_OS_X) NeXT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT) Macintosh clone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone) OS X Reviewed (https://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed) (a blog post that links to all of John’s reviews) Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/?guccounter=1) ebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) Amazon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)) (company) Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) MacUser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacUser) Macworld (https://www.macworld.com) MacWEEK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWEEK) Multiple ‘Me’s 00:20:13 Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) A text file online (https://www.chedong.com/u2/lyrics.txt) that preserves information from John’s U2 Lyrics Archive Perl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) CPAN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN) 5by5 (https://5by5.tv) Jason Snell (https://sixcolors.com/jason/) The Incomparable (https://www.theincomparable.com) Robot or Not? (https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/) Merlin Mann (http://www.merlinmann.com) Back to Work (https://www.backtowork.limo) Marco Arment (https://marco.org/about) Build and Analyze (https://archive.org/details/podcast_build-analyze_404064215) was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) Hypercritical (https://hypercritical.co) (website) Independence Day (https://hypercritical.co/2022/03/30/independence-day) (blog post about John’s career transition) Open source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source) A Childhood Dream 00:33:42 BASIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) HyperCard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard) Computer programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming) Web developer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer) Below are blog posts about John’s two Mac apps: Front and Center (https://hypercritical.co/2020/01/08/front-and-center); and SwitchGlass (https://hypercritical.co/2020/02/12/switchglass), along with the more recent SwitchGlass 2.0 (https://hypercritical.co/2022/10/25/switchglass-2). Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conference) API (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API) iOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS) CodeWarrior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior) App Store (iOS/iPadOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)) Mac App Store (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store) Apple Tech-nerd World 00:42:18 AnandTech (https://www.anandtech.com) Tom’s Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com) Microsoft Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) Windows 95 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95) Celeron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron) Context collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse) Fandom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom) Anti-fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fan) Some references to terminals include: computer terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal); terminal emulator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator); and Terminal (macOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_macOS_built-in_apps#Terminal). ‘Seeing the matrix’ means seeing the true nature of reality (or any particular situation) and is a phrase from The Matrix franchise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)). Marvel Comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics) DC Comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics) Ford Mustang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang) Chevrolet Camaro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro) Tom Cruise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise) New York City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) The Incomparable Mothership (https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Mastodon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)) (social network) Repotting Myself 00:59:13 John’s use of the initialism ‘m.o.’ refers to the Latin term ‘modus operandi’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi), which is translated approximately as ‘mode (or manner) of operating’. ARM architecture family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family) (John’s reference to ‘ARM Macs’, running Apple Silicon) John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net) BMX bike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMX_bike) Remote-control car (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_car) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/e06dc-2023-01-really-specific-stories-john-siracusa-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of John Siracusa’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on John as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

Stephen delves into the history of Relay FM, discussing the origins of the show Connected and the broader podcast network. He also explains his personal shift from blogging to podcasting and co-founding a business—balancing the needs of advertisers, co-hosts, members and of course, family. Podcast case study: Connected at Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm/connected) (producer) Find Stephen at 512pixels.net (https://512pixels.net). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/46813-2022-12-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-stephen-hackett.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/2/298d788d-0ce0-4375-9135-2e9a5f546f84/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes The Conversation Is the Work 00:00:00 Information technology (IT) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology) Apple, Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Myke Hurley (https://twitter.com/imyke) Blog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Elementary (or primary) school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school) Middle school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school) Macintosh Performa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Performa) Skype (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype) Zoom (software) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_(software)) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Tablet computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer) Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft) Windows tablets through the ages: The good, the bad and the ugly, in pictures (https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/microsoft-tablets-through-the-ages-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-in-pictures/) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) A Little Patch of Land 00:08:36 Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) The Pen Addict (https://www.relay.fm/penaddict) 5by5 (https://5by5.tv) Federico Viticci (https://social.lol/@[email protected]) MacStories (https://www.macstories.net) The Prompt (https://www.relay.fm/prompt) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) Connected 00:16:51 Connected (https://www.relay.fm/connected) Genius Bar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_Bar) (Stephen’s reference to the role of ‘Apple Genius’) Establishing the Network 00:19:42 Jason Snell (https://twitter.com/jsnell) Macworld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macworld) Rocket (https://www.relay.fm/rocket) Christina Warren (http://christina.is) Simone de Rochefort (https://twitter.com/doomquasar) Brianna Wu (https://twitter.com/briannawu) Upgrade (https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) Cortex (https://www.relay.fm/cortex) Freedom to Build What We Need 00:29:41 Content management system (CMS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) Relay FM Membership (https://www.relay.fm/membership) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) (Linking to Stephen’s line: ‘Everyone knows what happened in early 2020.’) Discord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord) The Beatles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) Mac Power Users (https://www.relay.fm/mpu) Personal Changes 00:40:19 Relay FM for St. Jude (2022) (https://www.extras.relay.fm/blog/2022/8/29/relay-fm-for-st-jude-2022) (blog post about the fourth annual fundraiser) Two Sides of a Coin 00:44:14 TikTok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok) Instagram Stories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram#Instagram_Stories) YouTube Shorts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Shorts) ESPN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN) Kathy Campbell (https://twitter.com/mrssoup) Woodworking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking) Dell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell) Augmented reality (AR) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality) Virtual reality (VR) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/25b24-2022-12-really-specific-stories-stephen-hackett-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of Stephen Hackett's shared membership program for Relay FM; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Stephen as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

Casey shares the story of his tech fandom (starting from early childhood), through to his discovery of the tech podcasting community, work as an independent app developer and co-hosting of shows such as Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue). He also elaborates on career highlights, the friends he’s made along the way and what motivates him as a creative producer. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (producer) Find Casey at caseyliss.com (https://www.caseyliss.com/). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/5ab47-2022-12-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-casey-liss.pdf) or in plain text (). Links and Show Notes It Was Accidental 00:00:00 Marco Arment (https://marco.org/about) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) Build and Analyze (https://archive.org/details/podcast_build-analyze_404064215) was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. 5by5 (https://www.5by5.tv/) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) Hypercritical (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm) (podcast) Neutral (https://neutral.fm) SoundCloud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundCloud) Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) Serial (https://serialpodcast.org) 99% Invisible (https://99percentinvisible.org) Apple, Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Back to Work (https://www.backtowork.limo) Merlin Mann (http://www.merlinmann.com) App Store (iOS/iPadOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)) Apple Podcasts (https://www.apple.com/apple-podcasts/) iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod) Tech Fandom and Community 00:09:29 IBM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM) The photo of Casey as a toddler with an IBM computer (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/39a50-casey-liss-as-a-toddler-with-an-ibm-pc.jpg) All-in-one PC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in-one_PC) Mac (computer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) Windows 3.1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x) i386 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386) DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS) IBM Disk Operation System Version 3.30 User Manual (https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcdos80alReferenceApr87_11867920) in the Internet Archive Command-line interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface) Intel 8088 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088) Intel 8283 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8283) AUTOEXEC.BAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT) Discman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discman) Visual Basic (classic) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)) Floppy disk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk) Software development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development) (what Casey refers to as ‘professional development’) Virginia Tech (https://www.vt.edu) Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) C++ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B) .NET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET) C Sharp (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)) (also C#) Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft) Charlottesville, Virginia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia) Richmond, Virginia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia) Web development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) Personal computer (PC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer) (Casey refers to Windows PCs specifically.) Marco and Casey’s extensive Tumblr discussion (https://tumblr.caseyliss.com/tagged/switch/chrono) ThinkPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad) Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#0710) Ubuntu 8/04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#0804) Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Developers_Conference) MacBook (2006–2012) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2006–2012)) (polycarbonate model) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) iPod touch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) Steve Jobs, “Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.” - Michael Lawrence Films (https://youtu.be/ob_GX50Za6c) (YouTube video) Giving a Crap 00:28:27 Casey’s apps on the App Store Peek-a-view (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peek-a-view/id1491554407?ls=1) MaskerAid (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maskeraid/id15901638280) Vignette (https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/5/22/vignette) (no longer available) Callsheet (https://apps.apple.com/au/app/callsheet-find-cast-crew/id1672356376) (launched after this episode was recorded) Casey’s use of the word ‘cancelled’ refers to cancel culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture). Connected (https://www.relay.fm/connected) ATP membership (https://atp.fm/member) (including the bootleg) ATP store (https://atp.fm/store) Studio Neat (https://www.studioneat.com) ATP × Studio Neat Chicken Hat Collab (https://www.studioneat.com/blogs/main/atp-x-studio-neat-chicken-hat-collab) Rocket (https://www.relay.fm/rocket) Relay FM (https://www.relay.fm) Christina Warren (http://christina.is) GitHub (https://github.com) Tiff Arment (http://www.tiffanyarment.com) Business and Additional Media 00:39:00 Coronavirus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) Do By Friday (https://dobyfriday.com) Patreon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon) Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Three member-only instalments to celebrate 500 episodes ATP Movie Club: My Cousin Vinny ATP Movie Club: The Rundown ATP Movie Club: Edge of Tomorrow Swift (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)) Analog(ue) (https://www.relay.fm/analogue) Myke Hurley (https://twitter.com/imyke) Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) A Great Equaliser 00:46:14 RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Spotify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify) Sirius XM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_XM) Sydney, Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney) What Is Dynamic Ad Insertion? (https://www.spotx.tv/resources/blog/spotxer/what-is-dynamic-ad-insertion/) Roman Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Mars) What Is the Open Web? (https://prototypr.io/post/open-web) Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Name Your Heroes 00:55:15 Upgrade (https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) Jason Snell (https://twitter.com/jsnell) ‘Underscore’ David Smith (https://david-smith.org) (or @_davidSmith (https://twitter.com/_DavidSmith)) Widgetsmith on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/in/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319) Highlights 00:59:38 Analog(ue) #5: The Only Way Out Is Through (https://www.relay.fm/analogue/5) Stephen Hackett (https://512pixels.net) iOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS) Phil Schiller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schiller) Casey’s ATP highlights 317: We’re Customers Too (https://atp.fm/317) 96: The Windows of Siracusa County (https://atp.fm/96) Window management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager) Earlier episodes of Hypercritical featuring the words ‘Siracusa County’ 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/15) 66: The Housewives of Siracusa County (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/66) 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U (https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/99) The Human Element 01:04:53 Parasocial interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction) Two Headed Girl (https://twoheadedgirl.transistor.fm) Casey’s Instagram profile (https://www.instagram.com/caseyliss/) The joke about temperature refers to the ongoing discussion between Casey, his fellow podcasters and listeners about the pros and cons of Celsius and Fahrenheit as measures of ambient air temperature. Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/9fa30-2022-12-really-specific-stories-casey-liss-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld) A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of Casey Liss's shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Casey as a participant of this academic podcasting project.