Overcast Reviews and details

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• Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

  Exercise can supposedly help outcomes for some types of cancer—-I wonder whether the mechanism is similar to that of fasting. The supposed mechanism AIUI is that exercise makes less glucose available to the tumor. Podcast with more info here: https://overcast.fm/+6j6rLbfGM. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption

  Interesting interview from the last week or so with the head of Australia’s domestic intel agency here which talks about this in quite some detail which I found helpful to get some better context (hint: as usual it’s more nuanced than a headline would allow for) https://overcast.fm/+AAIt0hqfC1w. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Whither CockroachDB?

  The related podcast episode has an extended discussion of past experience pushing postgres beyond its original design. Despite working with Bryan and dap at Joyent post Samsung acquisition, I had no idea about much of this. https://overcast.fm/+AA4jBHynCD8. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]

  I particularly liked this interview on Ed Zitron’s own show: https://overcast.fm/+BGz6-w7jjI. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable

  Reminds me of the applesauce project for Apple ][ disks; https://overcast.fm/+BRm0EGSWs. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

  In no particular order: Prologue [0] - iOS Audiobook player, used Plex as a media source Overcast [1] - iOS Podcast player CleanShotX [2] - macOS screenshot/video/gif capture with annotation Drafts [3] - iOS/macOS note taking tool Paprika [4] - Cross platform recipe app YNAB [5] - "You Need A Budget" - web/mobile budgeting app 1Password [6] - Cross platform password manager Carrot Weather [7] - iOS weather app... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US

  When do people will stop using Google products!? Anyway, https://overcast.fm have been here for a while and no reasons to go anytime soon. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Vice website is shutting down

  Some interesting insider insights in the last days. https://overcast.fm/+2EPJZOFok. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. A software glitch ruined sent people to jail

  If you’re interested in knowing more. I just listened to a WSJ podcast about it. https://overcast.fm/+SussgBq-E. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal

  > This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes https://overcast.fm/+b8tG_Unzo. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?

  The two part “Why’d I take speed for twenty years?” episode of Search Engine by PJ Vogt Part 1: https://overcast.fm/+BBVQRWO5g8 Part 2: https://overcast.fm/+BBVQSkynRM. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?

  - "Review" of "Programming as theory building" paper by Peter Naur (of BNF fame): https://overcast.fm/+JrqaObyhE/. The idea that the code is actually a physical manifestation of an _idea_ was so mind-blowing to me. Goes on to explain why team churn is bad for the software, why re-writes happen, how software dies. - Non-human Biologics, UFO Encounters, and Mexico’s Alien Bodies https://overcast.fm/+WO2ETzarQ/ -- a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm and curiosity

  For those so inclined, Tara Brach had a lovely interview with Roland early this year: https://overcast.fm/+SWwgtYFDM. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you organize your life?

  I really like Cal Newport's thinking in this area. Basically, yes, you need a system that you trust to keep yourself focused on what matters most in each of your roles. The specific tools don't matter and are often an excuse to distract yourself from doing the work. Here's a good podcast covering this idea: https://overcast.fm/+b1V3bnLPc. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• There is no way out of Chicago’s parking meter disaster

  I first heard about the story on this podcast episode of “Cautionary Tales”. I thought that an article would be a better post. https://overcast.fm/+5K6ZISYMc. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Wind and Solar Will Be 25% of Total U.S. Generating Capacity Within Three Years

  Surely u/bit_logic's enthusiastic phrasing was aspirational vs literal. That said, the bottle neck is now expanding and upgrading the grid. u/bit_logic is advocating we continue to build new generators, do not wait for the grid, and use that excess capacity to create green hydrogen. ASAP. Aka known as The Correct Answer™. Here's an interview with Andrew Wang of ETFuels, who is executing this strategy, with paying... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Data. Congress Has a New Chance to Stop It

  This story is adjacent to some topics I follow fairly closely for various reasons. I had seen a lot of not super well informed commentary on it when it was talked about here previously and so in that spirit I wanted to offer a short 20 minute chat that was aimed at policy makers between a well respected infosec journalist journalist and someone who previously spent a long time working at the Australian equivalent... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Using Spotify as my main podcast player is so bad

  If you're on an M-series Mac, you can run the iOS/iPad version of the app on your Mac. Their web player is here (but it's apparently not getting new updates moving forward): https://overcast.fm (hit login up top). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Motherhacker season 1 back in the old RSS feed?

  I also experienced something weird. I knew I still had Dolores Roach in my Overcast player. Only I could not find it. I could not search it. I could not re-add it. I went to overcast.fm and I also could not search it there at all. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Atari 2600 Video Chess disassembled and commented at last

  The podcast advent of computing just had a deep dive into the intricacies and limitations of the Atari 2600. Having just listened to that episode, it makes this achievement even more impressive. https://overcast.fm/+Ri2NFzoG8. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Biggest mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business

  The iOS and Android app stores likely hold the most examples of high scale one person businesses. Someone already mentioned Apollo. I'd add [Overcast](https://overcast.fm) and [David Smith](http://david-smith.org) (maker of many apps, including the wildly successful widgetsmith). There are plenty of other really successful apps that are just one person operations. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago