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 (listener)

Find Michael at inqk.net.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes

The Full Arc of Things 00:00:00

• John Gruber
• Dan Benjamin
• The Talk Show 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)
  • Michael refers to 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
• Defining the term ‘homebrew’
• Disk operating system (DOS)
• MS-DOS
• Microsoft Windows
• MiniDisc
• Personal computer (PC)
• LucasArts adventure games
• List of Sim video games
• Platform game (or ‘platformer’)
• Shoot ‘em up
• Role-playing video game
• Apple Inc.
• Michael refers to the rivalry between Ford Australia and Holden.
• iPod
• Mac (computer)
• Unix
• Steve Jobs
• John Siracusa
• Control Panel (Windows)
• Metro (design language)
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.1
• Graphics card
• iMac
• Native resolution

A Certain Similarity 00:13:55

• Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
• Marco Arment
• Casey Liss
• System 6
• The Talk Show with John Gruber
• Ben Thompson (writer)
• Dithering
• National Basketball Association (NBA)

Can’t Wait to Do the Dishes! 00:18:11

• Overcast
• iPhone
• HomePod
• RSS
• Spotify
• NHK
• Server (computing)
• Ruby (programming language)
• Blog
• Matthew Yglesias
• Vox
• Google Reader
• Feedbin
• NetNewsWire
• iPad

Kabatsu 00:28:52

• The New York Times
• The Atlantic
• The New Yorker
• HTML

Ordinary People 00:35:17

• 22 Goals
• FIFA World Cup
• Brian Phillips
• What the hell is Apple’s butterfly keyboard? (explanatory article)
• Keyboard Service Program for MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro
• Fixing the MacBook Pro (blog piece by Marco Arment)
• 194: Dark Night of the Soul (ATP episode featuring [first?] mention of the ‘MacBook Escape’)
• Touch Bar (2016–2020)
• Jason Snell
• Myke Hurley
• C Sharp (programming language)

Comfort Food 00:47:06

• Audiobook
• Upgrade

Folk Culture 00:51:03

• Accessibility and more specifically, Web accessibility
• Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
• JavaScript
• Google Search
• AltaVista
• Twitch (service)
• YouTube
• Markup language

Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

Contact

• Website: rsspod.net
• Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
• Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld