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A deep dive into the greatest aspects of Instagram and what alternative services will need to build in order to provide compelling experiences. Also: is 2019 going to be The Year of the iPad Pro? Will iOS 13 push the envelope of what’s possible in iPad software? And, of course, the Pasta PC. You’re welcome. Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Bonus Segment: The Matrix 20 Years Later Instagram Memers Are Unionizing Apple iPad 2 Keynote (Steve’s Closing Speech) Adobe at the October 2018 iPad Pro Event The Pasta PC

There’s been a ton of news in the world of media & entertainment, and Jared is here to dive right in. Also: trolls, awesome people, a book on Cook, working in Portland, and a whole lot more. Links & Show Notes Oh THAT Kind of New Year Apple News+: I’m liking it Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole The Dark Saga of Katie Bouman Q&A with ‘Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level’ author Leander Kahney ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’: What Does the Return of the Emperor Mean? It Was Always The Plan To Bring Back Palpatine In Star Wars 9 Disney+ app and worldwide rollout plans revealed Sorry, Jack Ma: 12-hour workdays are not a blessing Creators of the Week: Noah and Rachel Bradley Noah’s Website Rachel’s Website Noah on Mastodon Rachel on Twitter Creators Chat

In this episode, Jared gives a detailed rundown of all of the big commercial internet services he’s replaced with open source, self-hosted software that he controls himself. Why would anyone want to do this? Three words: privacy, security, and network health. Just as biologists know that an ecosystem with a large amount of organism diversity is more resilient to environmental pressures, the internet is more resilient to negative forces when software and content is distributed and spread across the network (instead of consolidated under the thumb of a few big corporations or governments). Save the open web by switching to your own “personal cloud.” Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Nextcloud Matomo Gitea Mastodon Posture (in private beta) DigitalOcean Netlify FastMail SmugMug Taking control of your internet Casey Neistat was using his phone WAY too much

The first 1 hour long episode of The Jared White Show ever! From computer meltdowns to Dongletown, from dreaming of WWDC 2019 goodies to pontificating on the coming iOS app invasion for the Mac, this is one Apple extravaganza you won’t want to miss. Oh so much good stuff inside, so pour yourself a cuppa and let’s get started. Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Mastodon 101 video by Ryan Ozawa Bringing iOS Apps to macOS Using Marzipanify The new USB4 spec promises a lot: Thunderbolt 3 support, 40Gbps bandwidth, and less confusion Meta Segment Breakdown: How I destroyed my iMac (Ubuntu & Time Machine woes) Awesome yet cheap folio-style iPad Pro case on Amazon Touch ID vs Face ID USB-C lifestyle and Dongletown iPad apps coming to the Mac via “Marzipan” My WWDC 2019 wishlist OLED vs. LCD iPhone displays The future of the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro

In today’s episode, Jared gives his spoiler-free review of Alita: Battle Angel, both the pros and the cons (but mostly pros!). Plus the challenges of living in San Francisco and why Kevin moved to Paris, Emma Thompson takes down The Man (Mr. Lasseter), the Heretic Happy Hour, and we’re just getting started! Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Alita: Battle Angel (2019) 50 Years In Tech. Part 16: From One Ice Floe To The Next Why I moved from San Francisco to Paris and joined the engineering team at Alan Emma Thompson Wrote Letter to Skydance Questioning John Lasseter Image Segment: East of Borneo Creator of the Week: Heretic Happy Hour

At long last it’s here: Jared’s bold predictions of what will move and shake the world of social media in 2019. Will the fediverse last? Will Facebook implode? Will our brains all get uploaded to the Matrix? (Just kidding, there’s nothing in here about the Matrix. What do you think this is, 1999?) Also, the era of the foldable smartphone is upon us, the WorldWideWeb is back baby, and a whole lot more. Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Mastodon User Count bot Samsung’s foldable phone is finally official—meet the Galaxy Fold The Convergence Of The Phone And Laptop – AVC CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild Peter Adams on Instagram: “Elizabeth Feinler” “Kreator” of the Week: Ken Napzok

Jared was sick…but at long last he’s been told he’ll make a full recovery, so enjoy this latest episode of the show: recorded, edited, produced, and published exclusively on iPad Pro! Yes, Jared has a brand-new tablet with Ferrite installed, which means it’s totally possible to record a podcast anywhere, anytime. Also in this episode: thoughts on Zucked, the new book by Facebook cheerleader-turned-critic Roger McNamee, how it could be possible to live as a web developer and creator without using any Apple tools, and a whole lot more. Links and Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Ferrite Recording Studio Roger McNamee’s book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe “Zuckerberg Learns About the Internet” I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating Dumb troll comment: “What a sad existence. Literally millions of humans live happy fulfilled lives without being devastated by any single luxury product but your life is devastated. Really.” Yes, really!

Everyone’s talking about the Fyre festival documentary, so of course Jared does too…along with NSA dragnet busting Edward Snowden. What does one have to do with the other? Listen to the show and find out! Also: HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY iPAD! Plus what normal people understand about how Facebook’s ad tech works (hint: they don’t), and a whole lot more. Links & Show Notes Support the show on Patreon! Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? Apple got tablets right, and created a whole new market with the iPad Top 10 Tablet PCs of 2009 Microsoft Tablet PC - Wikipedia DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for local searches on the web Creator of the Week: Jeremiah Shoaf / Typewolf

What an action-packed show to kick off 2019! In this episode, Jared talks about the launch of his new Patreon subscription package, the positive response he got from friends and loved ones about his private family photo gallery powered by SmugMug, the greatly exaggerated death of RSS, Apple is doomed (again?), and more. Time to hit that play button! Links & Show Notes My YouTube Channel My Instagram Account Creator of the Week: The John Campea Show SmugMug Exclusive: Flickr bought by SmugMug, which vows to revitalize the photo service PixelFed — an open federated social network for photography The Rise and Demise of RSS

LAST EPISODE OF 2018! Herein our intrepid host pontificates on the virtues of forming habits (not resolutions) in the coming year, and talks about the latest otherworldly developments on the web—including deepfakes, Doctor Strange 2, Facebook security breaches (I’m shocked, shocked! to find this sort of thing is going on here), and a whole lot more. Links & Show Noters The future of the deepfake — and what it means for fact-checkers Scott Derrickson Returning to Direct ‘Doctor Strange’ Sequel ‘Collaboration’ Creates Mediocrity, Not Excellence, According to Science Google+ to shut down early after second major security incident How numb are we to Facebook’s fuck-ups at this point? Creator of the Week: Nathan Kontny (YouTube channel about Chicago, business, marketing, parenting and life)

In this week’s post-Thanksgiving extravaganza, host Jared presents a video of great planetary significance, dribbles a ball over to the fine purveyors of podcast player Castro, drops a Chinese dragonfly on Google, and talks YET AGAIN about weird religion! Links & Show Notes Essential Life with Jared (YouTube) If the Planets Were As Close As the Moon iOS podcast app Castro bought by owners of Dribble We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly. More Than 20,000 Employees Participated in Google Walkout Discussion of Wild Wild Country: Episode 18 of The Jared White Show Weird Religion: THE CULT (podcast episode)

In this episode, Jared talks about his latest journey into the world of microblogging, the problems of live news analysis and skewed U.S. election coverage, the wild cultish world of Wild Wild Country, social media’s effect on depression, and more. Links & Show Notes My video overview of Apple’s latest products (iPad Pro, etc.) on YouTube Microblogging again at JaredWhite.com Election coverage and the problems of live analysis Thoughts on Wild Wild Country D’Marge: Researchers Find the Link Between Depression & Social Media

Jared was sick last week and so he did what comes naturally: binge watch Nazis. Yes, and not just Nazis but Japanese imperialists as well as the rebels who fight them to bring freedom to America in The Man in the High Castle—a “what if” scenario presented by Amazon Prime’s hit show. And if that weren’t crazy enough, while Jared was sick he attempted to install macOS Mojave on his iMac with less than stellar results (but there is a happy ending to the story). Plus Tim Cook’s tough talk on privacy rights, Helm fighting Google, and more. Never a dull moment here on The Jared White Show! Links & Show Notes HazeOver: even darker Dark Mode for macOS Mojave Tim Cook Calls for Strong Privacy Protections Meet Helm, the startup taking on Gmail with a server that runs in your home

In today’s episode, Jared dives right into the latest Apple iPad Pro rumors, muses on the applicability of Universal Basic Income, throws shade on Google’s Pixel 3 XL and Pixel Slate, and shares a couple of projects he’s been working on. Just another fine day here on The Jared White Show. Links & Show Notes The podcast will now be released bi-weekly on Thursdays. Next episode will come out October 25. Essential Life is now on YouTube! Simple Praxis: Walking the Jesus Path with Radical Compassion, Love, and Equality Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam Google failed to justify the Pixel 3 XL’s massive notch 9to5Mac Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPod-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, A12X processor, and more

In today’s episode, Jared talks about essentialism and why he’s starting (er, rebooting, technically speaking) a new YouTube channel all about it—as well as travel vlogs in and around the Portland, Oregon area. Links & Show Notes Essential Life on YouTube (new videos on the way!) Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (book by Greg McKeown) The Difference Between Intrinsic Motivation & Extrinsic Motivation (by Novella Thompson)

In this episode of the show, Jared lounges by the pool and stays out of the rain to dive right into such heady topics as the new Nike ad featuring Colin Kaepernick, racist reviews of Crazy Rich Asians, the mobbing of Wil Wheaton, the release of Mastodon 2.5, and more. Also, you should believe people. Just sayin’. Links & Show Notes Release Notes for Mastodon 2.5 Dumb racist reviews of Crazy Rich Asians on IMDB Nike Ad featuring Colin Kaepernick (YouTube)

Never fear, Professor Jared is here! You will learn all about Mastodon, the hot new social networking platform that is exploding in popularity and giving Twitter a run for its money. What makes Mastodon so exciting is it’s not a single commercial service run by a corporation—it’s simply open source software using open protocols that anyone can install on their own server. Just like email isn’t owned by any one company (you can email me and I can email you and we’re not all forced to use Gmail for example), federated social networks allow online messaging and following/follower relationships to work much like Twitter but using the beauty and power of the open web. Listen to today’s episode to find out how Mastodon ticks, who created it, and why open federated social networks are the best thing to happen to the internet in a long time. And if you aren’t already using Mastodon, now’s the perfect time to sign up on an instance of your choosing and join the thriving “fediverse”. Links & Show Notes 👉 Sign up on my instance: OpenWeb.social Mastodon Website Esquire: Tired of Nazis in Your Twitter Mentions? Try Mastodon.

In today’s episode, Jared is excited to announce Posture: a Better Way to Engage the News—a software product he’s been developing since the beginning of the year. It’s currently in beta testing, and you can sign up now to try it out for free! Also: how to reach 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, the cosmic balance between work and rest, the Summer of Marvel, and so much more! (PLUS the Book Giveaway has been extended for one more week!) Links & Show Notes Posture: sign up for the beta here REROOT: Eamon & Bec on reaching 100K YouTube subs (and how to start your own YouTube channel) Menuha! by Rob Bell (spiritual insights into the nature of rest and the very human need for Shabbat) Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnorok, and more: panel discussions during the Summer of Marvel on The Incomparable podcast The Pudding (fantastic visual essays with animations and other awesome web features)

In this episode, Jared talks about his first experience using Apple laptops in the early days of Mac OS X, and what Apple needs to do now to simplify its consumer laptop product line and offer a “Mac for the masses” just like the original iBook. Also, Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard will return, Patreon buys a Memberful, and the origin of the hashtag. All this and more on The Jared White Show. Don’t miss this!!! This is your LAST chance to enter the Book Giveaway. Win your choice of either So Good They Can’t Ignore You or Deep Work by Cal Newport. All you have to do is…well, listen to the first minute or so of the show and you’ll get all the deets. It’s very straightforward. The winner will be announced during Episode 12 next week! Links & Show Notes 512 Pixels talks Titanium PowerBook G4 Another reference to low-cost 13-inch MacBook emerges in supply-chain report Jean-Luc Picard is BACK Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates Origin of the #Hashtag in Social Media Clair de Lune — footage from NASA for its 60th anniversary

The first annual summer book giveaway is here! Enter to win your choice of So Good They Can’t Ignore You or Deep Work, both by Cal Newport. Details in the show (just a minute or so in). Also in this episode, Apple iBooks is changing to just Apple Books in iOS 12, even tech workers can’t afford to buy now in San Francisco, letting go of past regrets, and more! Links & Show Notes Why I Regret Not Taking a Sabbatical When I Was 25 Apple Books: A Love Letter to Readers San Francisco’s housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say they can’t afford homes MoviePass Makes Its Most Drastic Change: Subscribers Can Only See Three Movies a Month Tangerine Dream Live! Concert Recorded August 2018

Nothing is too impossible here on The Jared White Show as we tirelessly embark on the mission of recording new episodes every week! That’s right—on today’s show, Jared reviews the blockbuster hit Mission: Impossible - Fallout and comments on the epic score by Lorne Balfe. Plus a close look at “van life” YouTubers, e-scooters on the streets of Portland, Millenials’ obsession with plants (who knew?), and more! Links & Show Notes Van life meetup in Portland! Eamon & Bec’s channel ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Composer Lorne Balfe on Crafting an Epic Score Sorry folks, the scooter craze could be a data-privacy nightmare Bird Privacy Policy Lime Privacy Policy You are the product if you use a Roku What is it with millennials and plants? (DuckDuckGo search) Riki Fridrich: Current State of Web Design

Jared’s ready to do nothing, and we have to wait for the leaf blower to stop! Also, remembering the life of comic book movie pundit Jon Schnepp (may he rest in peace), a look at historical studio gear that came to define modern music, WebVR, and a whole lot more. Links & Show Notes Shout out to some awesome people who have messaged me lately with feedback and ideas about this podcast and my blog: Geoffrey, James, Anthony, Scott, Alexa, Greg, Rose, Rick, Marty, and I hope I’m not forgetting anybody else! R.I.P Jon Schnepp Follow Up: TrueTone example on new MacBook Pros The Archival Benefits of Static Site Generators 3 Ways to Do Nothing – Creating Life’s White Space 6 Pieces of Studio Gear That Changed the Sound of Music Forever Hubs by Mozilla: Great WebVR Concept WikiPedia on WebVR

In this episode, Jared explains why the show almost never happened in the first place and why excuses are the enemy of action. Plus a hands-on overview of the new MacBook Pros from Apple with improved butterfly mechanism keyboards, how news curation on major media platforms is threatening the open web, the brutalism movement in design, and more! Links & Show Notes 2018 MacBook Pro keyboards include silicone membrane, might protect against key failure More details in the iFixit teardown Listen to The Verge’s recording of the quieter keys on the 2018 YouTube has a plan to boost “authoritative” news sources and give grants to news video operations Brutalist Web Design Clockwise Podcast. Four people, four tech topics, thirty minutes! Hosted by Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent

The year was 1994. Dial-up modems ruled. Netscape Navigator had not even been released yet. The only browser anyone had heard of was called Mosaic. Trumpet Winsock was how people got online with Windows 3.1. 1994: the year Jared White first logged on to the internet. Special Thanks to Alexa at vintagevinogirl.com for helping us kick off the first ever Share & Tell segment of the show! Links & Shownotes Jared’s first website, iReview Trumpet Winsock and Microsoft Windows How the Blog Broke the Web by Amy Hoy Stylish browser extension: uninstall immediately! It’s spyware Install Stylus instead if you wish NASA photos of Jupiter and user-contributed artwork and enhanced images — amazing!!!

Somehow on today’s show we end up waxing nostalgic about the Sci-Fi of youth: namely, Babylon 5 and Star Trek: The Next Generation. But don’t worry, there’s also plenty to look forward to, such as throwing off the shackles of our corporate web overlords and embracing the scrappy technology of the IndieWeb. (Recent rebel activity was spotted on the surface of the planet Earth, in the city known as Portland in the state of Oregon.) But wait — THERE’S MORE! Next week, I’m launching a new segment called Share and Tell, and you are invited to send in your stories of your first experience of the web. What first captivated you about the web? What motivated you to go online and explore the web? What was it like to experience this amazing new technology for the first time? Just send me an email (jared AT jaredwhite.com) with the subject Share and Tell, and I will share your story on my show next week, along with your first name, and (if you wish) a link to your website. I can’t wait to hear your responses! Links & Show Notes The IndieWeb Summit in Portland, Oregon The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”. Babylon 5, now streaming on Amazon Prime Creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), on Twitter How Jurassic Park led to the modernization of dinosaur paleontology LCARS on Star Trek: The Next Generation PADDs Below the Surface: 700,000+ Historical Artifacts from a Drained Riverbed Under Amsterdam

A man of rituals (but not the kind that involve funny hats and long robes), Jared in this episode talks about identifying and honoring daily routines that make us happy, how to create digital experiences that are ethical and respect users, minimalism, freedom from slavery, and the opposite of that—aka Jeff Sessions’ un-Christian separation of children from their familes. Just another day on The Jared White Show! Links & Show Notes How Rituals Unleash Your Creativity The Ethics Of Persuasion United Methodist Church urges Sessions to halt migrant family separations 2018 SBC Annual Meeting Resolutions The Minimalists: Essentials, Nonessentials, and Junk On June 19th—HISTORY: What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth article on Wikipedia

In this episode, it’s all Apple all the time! Its big annual developer conference, WWDC 2018, just kicked off and we get to talk about all the goodies and exciting announcements from Apple and third party app creators around the world. Join me as we dive into yesterday’s keynote and discover what’s new for iOS, macOS, and all the rest. Show Notes This episode’s a bit longer than usual so here are the timestamps for interesting points throughout: 00:00 — Introduction 03:19 — iOS 12 16:36 — Curbing Smartphone Addiction 20:25 — Group Communication 23:41 — watchOS 5 29:25 — macOS Mojave 42:01 — Mac App Store & “Project Marzipan”

In this episode, Jared questions the morality of working in tech, Alexa proves too helpful, Wikipedia puts on a new suit, Patagonia wows with web campaign to save Europe’s wild waterways, and much more. Links & Show Notes Custom stylesheets to spruce up Wikipedia and other popular sites such as YouTube: Stylish “Wikipedia Gentle Suck” V for Wikipedia (iOS app) Oh Alexa, how could you? Some additional context from Wired The Terrible Story of Theranos (not Thanos!) What’s Next for Theranos (video) Federico Viticci is living a better life now: Rethinking Myself Through Exercise, Mindfulness, and Gratitude The Blue Heart of Europe by Patagonia. This site is gorgeous! Site of the Day on Awwwards

The inaugural episode of The Jared White Show is here! We talk about the history of the web, Myst’s 25th anniversary, the growth of podcasting, and so much more. Links & Show Notes The history of Hypertext (entry on Wikipedia) Midroll — 2018 Forecast: Podcast Ads, Metrics, Revenue Grant Gustin (of The Flash) interview on ID10T with Chris Hardwick Myst 25th Anniversary Collection Kickstarter 20th Anniversary of the HTML 4.0 Spec Reddit: The Face of a Man Who’s Just Been Cleared of a 17 Years Long False Conviction for Murder The Faith Angle with Kirsten Powers & Jonathan Merritt