v54 - Hot Sleeper

The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag participation. As always, the address is podcast@searls.co, and I'd be really curious to hear how America is doing because it seems like everything is going great. For the first time I let Claude write these links for me, because it never occurred to me I didn't have to format the markdown manually: PicoRuby Kaigi 2025 FleaFlicker, my first iOS game! Aaron's puns, ranked Claude Fable 5 gets another bump: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? Apple vs OpenAI Apple's Chip Plans: M6, M7 Pro, M7 Max, M7 Ultra, M8 Details; Touch MacBook Pro (archive) Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available Apple's fm CLI Nvidia's Jensen Huang reunites with Sega exec who saved the company with $5M investment New survey claims 100% of Japanese online game developers use generative AI tools PlayStation announces the end of disc games, starting in January 2028 Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels and Japan's HARD OFF stores Xbox confirms plans to cut 5 studios and thousands of jobs Obsidian is reportedly making a new Avowed Fallout game Id Software dev claims it's been 'relegated to support studio size' Rebooting (a.k.a. Brush Up Life) Straight to Hell You Can't Expense This! Forza Horizon 6 Cook, Serve, Delicious! The Odyssey