Technology
Played Podcasts 🎧
A decade's-long playlist from all my commutes.
Podcasts
- 99% Invisible
- Accidental Tech Podcast ⭐️
- All The Smoke
- Back to Work ⭐️
- Cortex
- Drama Queens
- Freakonomics Radio
- Hello Internet ⭐️
- The Infinite Monkey Cage
- The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
- The Kyiv Independent
- Mac Power Users
- The Making of Modern Ukraine
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
- Pivot ⭐️
- Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World ⭐️
- The Ringer NBA Show
- Serial ⭐️
- Stuff You Should Know
- The Talk Show With John Gruber
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- This American Life ⭐️
- Ukrainecast ⭐️
- The Vergecast ⭐️
- Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Settings
- Default Speed
1.1x - Smart Speed
Yes - Voice Boost
Yes - Seek Back By
15 seconds - Seek Forward By
30 seconds - Stop After Each Episode
Yes - Smart Resume
Yes - Seek Acceleration
Yes - Play Top Episode Next
Yes - Smart Speed Saved
222 hours222 hours saved using smart speed, likely using speeds of +.05x to +.35x, resulting in total podcasts of 25 days to 185 days; averaging out to ~40 minutes/day over 10 years.
Playlists
- Primary podcasts are my favorites, and are more ephemeral and current-event than normal.
- Secondary podcasts are there when I want to unplug from current-events and listen to something different.
- In Progress podcasts are podcasts I have started but have not completed. This often happens when there a movie, book, or game is brought up I have not played.
- Relax podcasts, well, help me relax. I often use these to go to bed
- Partner podcasts can be played with my partner at anytime, likely when commuting together.
- Starred podcasts were my favorite throughout years. Nostalgia.
- All Episodes is a complete listing of every podcast I have downloaded.
Players
THe following are recommended podcast players on iOS.
- Overcast
- Great overall experience
- Developer is a podcaster
- Smart Speed, Voice Boost
- Castro
- Beautiful design
- Novel podcast management: manage a queue instead of playlists
- Trim Silence, Enhance Voices
- Pocket Casts
- Video support
- Great web player
- Trim Silence, Volume Boost
- Spotify
- Many exclusives
- Mix music and playlist
- Apple Podcasts
- Largest podcast bank
- Apple ecosystem integration
Use Cases
- Fall Asleep
- Learn Ukrainian
- In the car
- While stretching
- While prepping for dinner
- While grinding, video games
I avoid the Mac App Store as much as possible. It's buggy. It's slow. Apps are getting pulled from it left and right. But I couldn't avoid it permanently because of software updates. As macOS Sierra 10.12 rolled out, I clicked on the App Store, followed by updates, and...
I couldn't get the updates page to open. Killed App Store. Restarted computer. Everything.
After doing some research, I discovered there's a way to update software from the terminal: softwareupdate. So, after running one command (sudo softwareupdate -iv), I'm writing this from the latest version of macOS Sierra.