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236: Not an Egg, Not Yet a Chicken

May 26, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

The American healthcare system is one of the most innovative in the world. But it’s also riddled with complex challenges, such as access to affordable medications, inefficiency and administrative burdens, and communication barriers between providers. There’s clearly a better way—and at Surescripts, we have a unique sightline into what that may be. In this series, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with today’s most inspiring and innovative leaders in healt ...
235: The Diabolical Nature of Ear Bones

May 19, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

We've got another two-fer of mini-topics this week around projects we've been tinkering with lately. First, Will has been investigating ways to get the SteamOS experience on hardware that's not a SteamDeck, with both the full-on SteamOS rebuild HoloISO and the more general gaming-focused Linux distro Bazzite.
234: One Step Closer to Bringing Back Webrings

May 12, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

Hey, remember RSS? Friend of the show Wes Fenlon joins us for a record fourth (!!) time to reminisce about the glory days of really simple syndication, when you could just aggregate all your favorite news and blogs into one tidy feed.
233: My Wife Is a LaserDisc Guy

May 5, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith |Steve Litchfield

We're embarking on a two-part rundown of home video formats this week, with part one focusing on analog video up through the mid-1990s and covering biggies like VHS and LaserDisc, plus also-rans like Betamax, Video8, and the truly strange CED.
232: Secret Search Engine!

Apr 28, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

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231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?

Apr 21, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

The time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that chronicles the parallel rises of Apple and Microsoft. Join us for a bunch of chatter about the historic business deals and betrayals, the portrayals of Gates, Jobs, Ballmer, Wozniak and others, what the actual people depicted thought about the movie, how Shakespeare informed the production, the delightful '90s blue screen effects, and plenty more.
230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along

Apr 14, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

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229: IMAX, the TikTok of Film Projection

Apr 7, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith |Steve Litchfield

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228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain

Mar 31, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

March's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging topics as our love of screensavers, a world without Gmail, Will's strong opinions on Ethernet termination standards, wearing shoes inside the house (or not), the lack of 9s in product naming, Proton-like cross-platform game support on MacOS, and a bunch more.
227: A Donut of Good Internet

Mar 24, 2024 | player.fm | Nice Segue |Brad Shoemaker |Will Smith

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