Ian and Jay Space Out

Twitter was way ahead of it's time. Jay and I discuss some innovative work (that sadly never got off the ground) Twitter was doing on ephemeral environments back in the day. We also talk about a $200K bug that spawned that work. Also, we try not to kink shame Donald Trump and/or Dan Scavino. Elon Musk still sucks.

Ian and Jay talk about JavaOne, Project Leyden, and Netflix. Donald Trump is a garbage person. Scott Bessent does it again. Iran can probably strike most of Europe if it wants to. Marc Andreessen has a no-personality disorder. Twitter would have been 20 years old if it had survived.

Ian and Jay come in hot with takes on the War on Iran (and Venezuela), xAI and Elon starting over again from "first principles", and the idiots who were running DOGE.

War all the time. Trees kill people in the winter. Pete Hegseth is cosplaying as a "warfighter". RIP Dan Simmons.

In under 40 minutes (Ian had to take the kids skiing) Jay and Ian send out good vibes to Owncast's Gabe Kangas, laugh at Donald Trump's assault on efficiency, lament the downward spiral of the Washington Post, and rejoice in the small-world serendipity that have brought Tim Bray, Rob Sayrer, and Claude together. Get well soon Gabe!!!

Ian and Jay talk sports, the Superbowl, and the origins of the show. Shout out to Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Kravitz! Also, can we have servers in space? Probaby not yet. SpaceX now owns Groq and Twitter. RIP Heroku. Tim Bray is in the Epstein Files! Sort of.

The End of America. ICE murdering civilians in the streets of Minneapolis. Trump Officials cosplaying as Nazis. Who needs a warrant if you have a gun? Oh yeah, Musk wanted to party with Jefferey Epstein and Dan Scavino is getting married today.

It is war all the time. Ian and Jay say what everybody else is saying. Nothing really revalatory in this show, since the Trump administration no longer gives a fuck about the Constitution they don't even try to hide it. The President is slurring the quiet part at press conferences. Also, it is a war, so innocent people are getting hurt and killed. Ian and Jay try, unsuccessfully, to end things on a high note, with a couple of jokes and some hopeful thoughts about the Fediverse. Oh well. So it goes.

Hüsker Dü vs The Replacements. A Kenyan explains why people can't identify ChatGPT-generated content just by looking for em-dashes. The billionaires don't want to pay taxes. Jay Holler is hiring.

Ian has (self-diagnosed) carpal tunnel from too much doomscrolling. The Wall Street Journal let an LLM manage a vending machine and it lost thousands of dollars, ordered live fish and a Playstation for workers, and was completely pwned. Suzie Wiles, JD Vanace, Stephen Miller, and Dan Scavino pose for a revealing photo shoot. The Sub-Pop store in Sea-Tac closes, and Elon Musk is giving financial advice.

We start off on a somber note as news of horrifying attacks at Brown and in Sydney trickle in. On a lighter note, Jay is excited to see that Lily Allen is on SNL this weekend, Marco Rubio declares war on Calibri, Marcin Wichary wants to see shift delimiters in markup languages, and we ponder the fate of the Twitter Time capsule before abruptly ending the show when the laptop battery dies. Enjoy!

Elon wants to break up the EU. JD Vance is looking ahead to 2028. The negatives of the positive feedback loop of ELon and his enablers. Bryan Cantrill and Oxide's take on writing and reading in the age of LLMs. Transcribing podcasts with Whisper.cpp. Analyzing Twitter archives using ChatGPT.

Trump wants to jail and/or execute his enemies. Kash Patel is spending taxpayer money to jet around the country while literally SWAT-ing his girlfriend. The CEO of Roblox goes full cringe on a podcast. Jack Dorsey (and everyone else on Twitter) gets doxxed.

We kick things off with a hot mic, a bit of an echo, and then don't talk about David Harbour before getting into X traffic inflation, Dan Scavino and Hannah Aendt, the apparent appearance of a blue wave, before closing with a thing or two about restaurants.

A hero is a sandwich but is also a guy who throws a sandwich at ICE goons during the invasion of DC. The MAGA Secret Police show up at a Gavin Newsom rally. Also teeth, teeth, teeth, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

Jay and Ian talk about how to grow a language, the JVM Language Summit, new features in Java 25, and how long it takes to get to the other side of the planet.

Trump continues to act like a fascist. Jen Easterly is denied a West Point position based on Laura Loomer's Tweets. There is a doom^H^H^H^H hyperloop coming to Nashville. We experience profound technical difficulties.

Jay and Ian are back after a few weeks of undeserved vacation. They kick things of with technical difficulties and then get into Vine's disturbing rebirth as an something something 'AI'. Sequoia's Shaun Maguire is still a terrible person, and GrowSF's Garry Tan is bad at economics/math. Trump continues to wage war on the poor. In good news, yet another study shows (black) coffee is good for you.

Zohran Mamdani, a new hope for the Democrats? Garry Tan is cooked. America is in the Upside Down.

Jack Dorsey is getting into vibe coding and intellectual posturing. Elon and Trump are getting divorced. 2000 troops from the National Guard are being deployed to Los Angeles.

Jay and Ian talk about international travel, neverending war, the failings of Twitter Search, Musk's ineptitude, Frank Chu's 12 Galaxies, and the No Kings protests.

Jay and Ian talk about Twitter, which caught fire and halted last week. We dig a little bit into Twitter's infrastructure budget back in the day, and talk about MC Paul Barman and Stereolab. Also, ffmpeg is awesome and so is the Internet Archive.

Grok would like to talk to you about "white genocide". Ian and Jay would like to talk to you about BART, Qatari jets, and our kickstarter to buy some, uh, "facetime" with the President of the United States. Also, we review the CNN's docuseries "Breaking the Bird", giving it a solid 3 out of 5 "Larry Birds". Whoop! Whoop!

In today's show, Jay "Unit" Holler and Ian Brown talk about software testing and sponsoring open source software, updates to Mastodon's team (and Andy Piper taking over Tooting comms!), a darkhorse candidate for the papacy emerges, POTUS is losing his mind, we pour one out for "Around the Horn", Marc Andreessen hallucinates, and we review "Careless People".

Jay and Ian celebrate a few anniversaries. Another OPSEC fail by Pete Hegseth. Faiz Siddiqi's new book on Elon's descent into madness. Gottlob Frege's been dead for a 100 years. Weird vibes and vendor lock-in with LLMs.

Rise again! Wake and bake! Join Jay and Ian they celebrate Easter or 4/20 or whatever. On this episode: RFK Jr. is an uniformed fool. Slopsquatting is a thing. Fuck ICE. Ian made another Emacs thing. ffmpeg is nigh unstoppable. Has Sub-Pop sold out? We are all Jay Holler.

Cybertrucks are too big. People are getting disappeared. Hating Tesla is a crime. Jack Dorsey is a sad sack of a simp.

Run your own Mastodon instance, they said. It will be fun, they said. In this episode Ian and Jay discuss the perils of provisioning, Linux system administration, Elon Musk's neverending meltdown, Cybertruck parking, and the growing use of facial recognition technology by billionaires against the public. Oh, right, and that time the Secretary of Defense accidentally texted America's war plans to a rando journalist in a group chat.

Welp. DOGE is full of irredeemable, racist idiots. Our VP thinks racism is OK. America shuts of aid & support to everyone on the planet except white South Africans. Oh, and Lilly Allen and David Harbour broke up. Sigh.

Elon musk is a Nazi: Jack Dorsey's "singular solution" does a bunch of "seig heil" salutes at a Trump inauguration event. Brandolini's law rules everything around us. Jay and Ian talk about Acetone.

Jay and Ian try to bring a little masculine energy to the show. Jack Dorsey pisses off FOSS nerds. Twitter is racist AF. Elon Musk is bad at computers and even worse at computer jokes.

Jay and Ian talk about the the JOY of Dark MAGA, @'murica, a16z's attempt to walk back a really bad bet, the convergence of Dan Scavino & David Sacks (Sackvino?), and why VCs like Mike Maples Jr. are just lucky and rich and are not to be taken seriously.

Jay and Ian prove that even a couple of morons can host a show. OpenAI gets freaky in a jacuzzi as it burns a ton of cash. We review the latest Twitter book by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac.

Twitter moves out of San Francisco. Bob Chapek was maybe not a very good CEO and Bob Iger seems like a sociopath. Ian finally gets into NFTs. Jay is not the Twoffice shitter. Harris destroys Vance^H^H^H^H^H Trump in a debate. Taylor Swift enters the discussion. Elon Musk gets even creepier. Another Twitter book is coming!

Turns out LLMs are actually good at generating unhinged chartjunk using D3js. Jay's college buddy's band comes to town. Gavin Newsom is a self-serving opportunistic douchebag who hates homeless poeple. Garry Tan doesn't understand innovation.

Jay gets robbed! The last !!Con was amazing. Elon pulls of a 'reverse Orkut'. Twitter exits the scene. Amtrak is pretty cool.

David Sacks says the quiet part out loud. A red-tailed hawk appears. Ben Horowitz has a meltdown. Elon and X DDOS^H^H^H^H tell on themselves.

Ian and Jay acheive the dream of a unified scene. Harris picks a punk-rock VP. Musk is not a fan of free speech or free markets. Lina Yaccarino is being held hostage. Intel is not doing well. Nerds of a feather flock together at JVMLS. JRuby could use some money.

BSOD all the things! U can't spell 'assassination attempt' without ASS. Republicans blame everything on immigrants. Kurt Gödel was right. The PayPal Mafia shows up at the RNC. Venture capitialists are gonna get us all killed.

What a difference halfway-decent WiFi makes. Jay and Ian talk about 'digital workers', cronjobs, LGBTQ+ vs. Threads, the Fediverse makes an appearance, and we close on...wait for it...'AI' again. Oh, and Jay's super talented kid Lila is in a Rolling Stone contest for new stars in the music scene.

The gang comes up with a brilliant business idea that can't possibly fail. Ian spends, like, 5 minutes on mute without realizing it.

This one starts off pretty slow. We (Jay, actually) accidentally bans friend-of-the-show Matt Silver. We then talk about Twitter trolls for a bit. At the end, after a beer or two, we get a bit philosophical about corporate vs. corporeal existence.

Amal and Pipes save the show from crashing and burning by bringing real content to the Space^H^H^H^H^H podcast.

Another re-org will fix it.

log4j, amirite?

Jay and Ian try to say something nice.