Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

355: Spindly, Greebly

We're back with another hodgepodge of user-submitted topics this week to clear out some of our backlog from the summer, leading us to talk about everything from uses for a PC's real-time-clock wake fe...

2026-09-06

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354: The Dog Nose Knows

The Q&A returns for August with a variety of topics including pet-related tech mishaps, the contentious multimeter pronunciation debate, arcade boards and Super NES expansion chips, the return of ...

2026-08-30

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353: Notes About Notes

It's been a while since we checked in on note-taking apps and ways to wrangle their data, and a lot has changed with our personal use cases on that front. Will has gone deep on Notion's relational cap...

2026-08-23

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352: Tell the Robots to Eff Off

We reach into the grab bag again this week for a selection of topics we hope will delight and/or inform. On the AI front, Twitch stepped in it this week with a belated ability to opt your streams out ...

2026-08-16

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351: if Name == "Will Smith" { Grade = "A" }

Brad and Will reconvene this week to talk about their recent adventures in the real world. Brad returns from the Vintage Computer Festival West once again with a recap of this year's highlights, inclu...

2026-08-09

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350: Mice Make Bad Decisions

Our friend Steve Lin joins Will this week for a broad discussion about hobbies, learning new skills, and preserving the past. Topics include everything from the multidisciplinary practice of maintaini...

2026-08-03

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349: We're Gonna Do Some Popcorn Science Here

It's our first-ever solo Q&A episode, and Will takes on a backlog of awesome questions from the audience. Topics include Will's favorite way to make popcorn, under-volting for fun and profit, good boo...

2026-07-26

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348: Vincent Caravella, Back Alley Electrician

In a wide-ranging conversation, Nextlander's Vinny Caravella sits down with Will to ask a cavalcade of questions. Topics include whether paid search engines are worth the cash, what happens when your ...

2026-07-19

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347: Is That The Monster from Godzilla?

PC Gamer and Read Only Memo's Wes Fenlon joins us on the pod this week to talk about the latest retro game recompilations for N64, PSX, and Xbox 360 games, with a big bonus helping on the latest MiSTe...

2026-07-12

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346: Are Steam Sales Even That Good?

This week, Will is joined by Tested's Norman Chan to dig deep into their extensive hands on testing with the Steam Machine, including how it fits into Valve's burgeoning hardware ecosystem, performanc...

2026-07-05

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345: I Covered This On My Livejournal

This week, Will is joined by tech journalist Florence Ion, of PC Mag, Material Podcast, and Android Faithful to talk about what Google's been up to, the inevitable encroachment of Gemini into Android,...

2026-06-28

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344: A Fistful of Videogames

Brad's out of town this week, so Will welcomes Expedition: Handheld and The Full Nerd's Adam Patrick Murray to run down the current state of the handheld gaming console market. We talk about Intel's n...

2026-06-21

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343: Siri Lives on Dynamic Island

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference happened this week, and there was enough going on that we wanted to unpack the whole thing, primarily due to the company's uncharacteristic backpedaling on its....

2026-06-14

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342: Faster Thinner Quieter Cooler Cheaper

Computex happened this week, and there was enough to talk about to devote this week's episode to rounding up the high points, including Nvidia's attempt to dominate the consumer Windows market with RT...

2026-06-07

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341: F2 Is My Most Used F

Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploadin...

2026-05-31

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340: Like a Bong for Your CPU

Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a chec...

2026-05-24

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339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 20...

2026-05-17

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338: Everything for Everything

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, ...

2026-05-10

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337: They're 3D-Printing Shoes Now

We've got a project potpourri this week of things we've been getting our hands on, literally in the case of Will and his brand new Steam Controller. We talk through the ins and outs of Valve's first n...

2026-05-03

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336: When Triple Redundancy Isn't Enough

After all these monthly Q&A episodes, you folks continue to send us great Qs every month, and this time around we dig into such topics as the MacBook Neo's target audience, Windows running on Linux, t...

2026-04-26

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