Episode Archive
All 230 episodes, organized by date
2025 230 episodes
December
93 episodes- #232 The Mystery of Model Rot: Why Your AI Code Assistant Changes
- #231 The $5.5 Million Breakthrough: DeepSeek’s AI Disruption
- #230 From Moths to Models: The Rise of Computer Use Agents
- #229 Beyond Math Puzzles: The Truth About AI Benchmarks
- #228 Vibe Coding & The Rise of the AI Orchestrator
- #227 The Future of Coding: Is Your Brain Wired for AI?
- #226 The ADHD Med Maze: Bureaucracy vs. Brain Health
- #225 Monkey Jaws and Human Health: The Blueprint of Growth
- #224 AI as a Mirror: Mapping Your Philosophical Identity
- #223 Beyond the Headset: Pro Audio for AI Voice Control
- #222 The Fight for Your Financial Data: Why APIs Matter
- #221 Paying for Results: The Future of Government Spending
- #220 The Secret Language of Lines: The Evolution of Barcodes
- #219 Beat the Heat: Rugged Labels for Your Home Inventory
- #216 Inside Smallville: Can AI Agent Villages Predict Humanity?
- #215 Can AI Run a Country? Digital Twins and Sovereign Models
- #214 The Scaling Wall: Why Bigger AI Isn’t Always Smarter
- #215 The Story Behind the Show
- #213 The AI Filing Cabinet: Why Chatbots Feel So Lonely
- #212 The Digital Twin Dilemma: Can AI Truly Understand You?
- #211 Why Won't My AI Talk to Me First?
- #210 The $100 Million Giveaway: Why Big Tech Opens Its AI
- #209 The Price of Politeness: Should AI Guardrails Stay?
- #208 Why AI Lies: The Science of Digital Hallucinations
- #207 The Silicon Arms Race: Why GPUs are the New Oil
- #206 Echoes in the Machine: When AI Talks to Itself
- #205 Why GPUs Are the Kings of the AI Revolution
- #204 The Reverse Turing Test: Can AI Spot Its Own Kind?
- #203 Why Your Smart Home Isn't an Airport: Industrial Reliability
- #202 The Mystery of the Missing Years: Why Babies Forget
- #201 Zigbee vs. Matter: Is Your Smart Home Already Obsolete?
- #200 One Port to Rule Them All? The USB-C Revolution
- #199 Beyond the Titans: Navigating the AI Model Long Tail
- #198 The Future of Local AI: Stable Diffusion vs. The New Guard
- #197 The High-Stakes Tech of Modern Missile Warfare
- #196 VPNs: Privacy Myth vs. Reality
- #195 AI's Hidden Cultural Code: East vs. West
- #194 Dark Web Deception: Google's Monitoring Shift
- #193 AI for Crisis: Fact vs. Fear
- #192 Unsung Hero: The Gooseneck Mic's AI Power
- #191 The Looming Digital Ice Age: AI Eating Itself?
- #190 AI & Code: Scaling or Pivoting?
- #189 Desktop-Server Hybrid: The Virtual Solution
- #188 Security vs. Usability: A Balancing Act
- #187 AI's Senses: Seeing, Hearing, Understanding
- #186 AI for Gut Health: Beyond the Antacid
- #185 System Prompts vs Fine-Tuning: When to Actually Train Your AI
- #184 Fork or Stay? The Art of Customizing Open Source
- #183 Single-Turn AI: The Interface Pattern Nobody's Talking About
- #182 The Hidden Watermarks in Your AI: Privacy or Protection?
- #181 Clean Audio, Messy Reality: Noise Removal for Voice-to-Text
- #180 From Lawyers in Limousines to Developers in Their PJs: The Voice Tech Revolution
- #179 Building an AI Model from Scratch: The Hidden Costs
- #178 Running Video AI at Home: The Real Technical Challenge
- #177 Tokenizing Everything: How Omnimodal AI Handles Any Input
- #176 Instructional vs. Conversational AI: The Distinction Nobody Talks About
- #175 System Prompts vs. Fine-Tuning: Are We Building Solutions for Problems That Don't Exist?
- #174 AI Policy Wargaming: Can Agents Argue Better Than Humans?
- #173 AI Gone Rogue: Inside the First Autonomous Cyberattack
- #172 AI Cyberattacks Are Doubling Every 6 Months—Here's Why
- #171 AI Inference Decoded: The How & Where of AI Magic
- #170 From Sketch to Studio: AI & Control Nets in Design
- #169 Pixels, Prompts & Pseudo-Text: AI's Word Problem
- #168 AI Guardrails: Fences, Failures, & Free Speech
- #167 AI's Wild West: Battling Injection & Poisoning
- #166 Your Tech's Silent Killer: Decoding Power Quality
- #165 AI's Secret: Decoding the .5 Updates
- #164 Local AI Unlocked: The Power of Quantization
- #163 Unlocking Local AI: Privacy, Creativity & Compliance
- #162 SLMs: Precision Power Beyond LLMs
- #161 AI Supercomputers: On Your Desk, Not Just The Cloud
- #160 AI's Secret Language: Vectors, Embeddings & Control
- #159 AI's Hidden History: Beyond the Buzz
- #158 Secure Messaging: Beyond the Buzzwords
- #157 Red Team vs. Green: Local AI Hardware Wars
- #156 The Unseen Magic of AI's Ears: Decoding VAD
- #155 When Night Vanished: Light's Impact on Human Sleep
- #154 ComfyUI: Power, Polish, & The AI Creator's Frontier
- #153 RAG vs. Memory: Architecting AI's Essential Toolbox
- #152 The Multimodal Audio Revolution: A Screen-Free Future?
- #151 Your AI, Evolving: Beyond the Static Snapshot
- #150 AMD AI: Taming Environments with Conda & Docker
- #146 Mic Check: Mastering AI Dictation Hardware
- #147 AI Upskilling: Beyond the Code
- #145 AI's Blind Spot: Data, Bias & Common Crawl
- #148 Personalizing Whisper: The Voice Typing Revolution
- #149 GPU Brains: CUDA, ROCm, & The AI Software Stack
- #140 Architectural AI: Precision with ControlNet & ComfyUI
- #142 Is Your AI Secretly American?
- #144 Beyond the GPU: Unpacking AI's Chip Revolution
- #141 On Deepfakes, SynthID, And AI Watermarking
- #143 Cloud Render Superpowers: Local Edit, Remote Muscle
- #139 AI Images: The Jigsaw Beneath the Magic
November
14 episodes- #135 The AI Breakthrough: Transformers & The Perfect Storm
- #136 AGI's Crossroads: Are LLMs a "Dead End" to True AI?
- #137 AI: Not an Overnight Success Story
- #138 AI Gets Personal: The Power of Voice Fine-Tuning
- #127 Building Your Own Whisper
- #126 Benchmarking Custom ASR Tools - Beyond The WER
- #129 Local STT For AMD GPU Owners
- #133 Fine-Tuning ASR For Maximal Usability
- #131 How Does Fine Tuning Work Anyway?
- #128 Safetensors or something else: STT inference formats explained
- #130 How To Fine Tune Whisper
- #132 How ASR Went From Frustration To ... Whisper Magic
- #125 Building Custom ASR Tools
- #134 If Your Voice Ages, Does Your Fine-Tune Become Useless?
October
1 episodesSeptember
11 episodes- #115 Brains Meet Bots: How AI Prompting Habits Are Rewiring Human Project Management
- #113 IPv6: The Dark Side of the IP Force That You Can Totally Ignore (Until You Can't)
- #114 From 12 Keys to Infinite Macros: Herman’s Guide to the Perfect Ubuntu-Sidekick Macro Pad
- #121 Display Desynchrony: When Your Monitors Go Hive-Mind
- #123 Taming Forever with 3M VHB: The No-Nonsense Tape Round-Up
- #118 Fortress or Friend? Decoding Israel’s Self-Reliance Doctrine Today
- #122 The 1 Gigabit Ceiling: What Really Happens When Your Cable Can't Keep Up
- #116 Untether Your Dongle: The Library That Turns One Bluetooth Receiver Into a Fleet-Wide Music Hub
- #117 Dataset Annotation Deep-Dive: Booking a Half-Hour of Genius
- #120 Magnetic Marvels: How Tiny Stickers Transform Your Home Organization Game
- #119 Deepfakes, Drift, and Data Dilemmas: AI’s New Battlefront for Users and Businesses
August
111 episodes- #103 AI Classroom in VS Code: Three New Tools Teaching Python While You Type
- #102 Secrets, Signatures, and Donkeys: How Smart Should Your Webhooks Be?
- #101 How Firewalls Block the World But Still Let You Browse: The Magic of Stateful Inspection
- #104 Prompt or Not? Building, Annotating, and Open-Sourcing an AI Prompt Detection Dataset
- #109 Single-Turn Agents vs. Instructional Builders: Your Workflow Grail Quest
- #111 2.5 Gig Internet: When Lightning Speed Becomes a Marketing Mirage
- #105 Building Your Own Speech-to-Text Model: Smarter, Leaner, Cheaper
- #106 How Much Audio Do You Need to Fine-Tune a Speech-to-Text Model?
- #110 o Downtime: How Critical Networks Keep the Internet Alive
- #108 When Your Home Network Has No Firewall: A Digital Horror Story
- #100 Why Cloud Giants Move Data at Lightning Speed: Inside the Internet’s Backbone
- #107 Why Hostage Rescue in Gaza is So Brutally Hard – The Strategic Puzzle Israel Can’t Solve
- #93 Time-Proof Python: Books That Stand the Test of Code
- #98 On-Device AI on the OnePlus Nord 3: What's Really Under the Hood?
- #84 How Militaries Build Secure, Mobile Networks in the Field
- #80 Beyond Transcription: The Rise of True Multimodal Audio Intelligence
- #95 Why the $60 Coral TPU Is the Secret Weapon in NVR Systems
- #94 Why Is ADHD Medication So Hard to Get? Bureaucracy, Bias, and the Fight for Fair Access
- #86 Memory Without the Headache: Rethinking Context in Large Language Models
- #83 Freeze-Proof Your Creative Flow: Building a Resilient Ubuntu Workstation
- #90 Serverless Backups: Can Cloudflare Workers Handle Your GitHub Sync?
- #96 Is AES-256 Still King? Encryption in the Military and Consumer Worlds
- #82 Cutting Off the Supply: Why Can't We Stop Houthi Missile Shipments?
- #99 Voice Cloning 101: Turning Your Dickensian Read-Alouds into a Digital Twin
- #91 The Ephemeral AI: Why Your Prompts Deserve Better Than the Digital Trash
- #88 Peeking Behind the Curtain: How AI Guardrails Really Work (And Why They Don’t Always Slow You Down)
- #97 Always-On Remote Access: The Smart Way to Connect to Your Ubuntu Desktop
- #92 The Quiet Architects: How Tiny Tribes Power the Digital World
- #79 Bridging the Knowledge Gap: How to Keep LLMs Up-to-Date with Real-Time Data
- #81 Bridging the Gap: From Visual Workflows to Deployable AI Agents
- #87 Object vs. Facial Recognition: Open Source Models and Architectures
- #89 Seamless Networks: Lessons from Militaries and Roadshows
- #85 Instant vs. Professional Voice Cloning: What's the Real Difference?
- #48 AI Behind the Great Firewall: China's Parallel AI Universe
- #55 CLI vs IDE: The Hidden Costs and Coding Accuracy Showdown
- #53 Decoding Speech: The State of ASR Benchmarks and Accent Performance
- #74 Why Go Local? The Real Reasons People Host AI Models at Home
- #68 The Path to Becoming a Systems Integrator in AI and Automation
- #67 The Perfect App for Capturing Spontaneous Video Content
- #51 Emergency Alerts on Your Wrist: Android Wearables for Critical Notifications
- #66 The Surprisingly Light Weight of Voice Note Automation
- #52 Do Babies Understand Us Before They Can Talk?
- #54 Cloud-Based Docker Builds: Speed Up Your Deployment Workflow
- #49 Finding Your Voice: Communities and Advocates in the Speech-to-Text Revolution
- #40 lding Your Own AI Podcast Pipeline: From Voice Notes to Audio Episodes
- #39 Why Baby Monitor AI is Harder Than It Should Be (And How to Make It Work)
- #41 When Words Won't Come: The Hidden Power of Speech-to-Text as Assistive Tech
- #78 What Exactly Is Batch Processing in LLM APIs?
- #64 Headless Computing: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Power and Accessibility
- #70 The High-Rise Housing Paradox: Why Taller Isn't Always More Efficient
- #45 Building Resilient TTS Workflows in n8n with Fallback Logic
- #58 Smart Type: How AI Could Transform Keyboard Input on Ubuntu
- #56 From Turing to Transformers: A Brief History of AI's Long Road to the Spotlight
- #60 The Apartment-Sized Supercomputer: Can You Run ChatGPT Locally?
- #62 Solving Cloudflare-Protected Stream Access on Android Without Persistent VPNs
- #63 Optimizing Single-Turn AI Workflows: Matching ChatGPT's Edge
- #77 When Surgery Goes Wrong: The Hidden Costs of Gallbladder Removal
- #57 Smoke Signals: Solving Secondhand Smoke in Apartment Buildings
- #61 Streamlining Your Speech Dataset Workflow: Tools for Smarter Annotation
- #72 The Complex Legal Status of West Jerusalem: International Law and Recognition
- #46 Building a Long-Context AI CLI for Deployment Workflows
- #47 Bluetooth's Surprising Range: From Home Assistant to Garden Parties
- #71 The Encryption Paradox: When Unbreakable Security Meets Public Safety
- #43 Voices Behind the Voice: The Pioneers of Speech-to-Text and Whisper
- #75 Who Controls the Last Mile? The Hidden Hub of Israel's AliExpress Deliveries
- #59 Putting a Price on the Planet: The Rise and Risks of Impact Accounting
- #42 Tailscale on OPNsense: The Gateway Strategy for Network Access
- #73 Checklists, Cockpits, and Changing Diapers: How Aviation Safety Can Fly Into Everyday Life
- #76 Why Are Asian AI Models So Much Cheaper Than Western Ones?
- #69 The One-Ear Wonder: Finding the Perfect Single Earbud for New Parents
- #65 The Transformer Revolution: How One Architecture Changed Everything
- #50 Exploring the Google ADK Ecosystem: Tools, Forks, and Free Resources
- #44 Can AI Learn to Shop on AliExpress for You?
- #22 The CLI Renaissance: Why Command Line Is Winning the AI Agent Race
- #14 How AliExpress Beat Amazon at Their Own Game in Israel
- #13 Medical Microphones: From Dictation to AI in Healthcare
- #35 Baby Cry Detection: The Hunt for the Perfect Audio Library
- #37 Conda Environments - Sharing The Load, Not The Install
- #36 The Great Speech-to-Text Showdown: OpenAI's Three Models Compared
- #33 Fine-Tuning Spech To Text (STT) Models: How .. And Why?
- #18 The Quest for the Perfect Portable Phone Tripod: Finding Height Without the Hassle
- #4 Code-Switching Speech Recognition: When Your Voice Notes Speak Multiple Languages
- #27 From Photos to Digital Doubles: Creating Lifelike 3D Characters
- #24 Building Your Own Voice AI Chatbot: From Concept to Phone Call
- #15 GPT-5: Beyond the Hype - Intelligent Routing and the Future of AI Models
- #5 Building Your Own Image Dataset: A Guide to Capturing and Sharing City Life
- #30 Voice-to-Text Apps That Actually Give You the Audio: A Developer's Quest
- #16 The Quest for the Perfect TTS Note App: Beyond APIs to Audio Bliss
- #21 The Great Charging Conundrum: Building Better Battery Habits
- #12 N8N: Your Personal Podcast Factory
- #7 Sticky Situations: Finding the Perfect Labels for Your Home Inventory System
- #9 Scanning Stuffed Animals: Finding 3D Scanning Services in Jerusalem
- #34 Bluetooth Button Mapping: Finding the Right Remote for Input Remapper
- #8 Screen Sharing AI: The Future of Tech Support or Just Another Gimmick?
- #11 Pimp My Stroller: The Rise of High-Tech Baby Buggies
- #6 Smart TV Spying: Are Your Screens Really Being Screenshots?
- #19 The Holy Grail of Entertainment: AI-Powered Content Discovery That Actually Works
- #28 Baby Cry Apps: Science or Snake Oil?
- #29 Will Security Cameras Crush Your WiFi?
- #31 Unsloth AI: Demystifying Fast and Efficient Model Fine-tuning
- #25 Building the Perfect Storage Foundation: ZFS, BTRFS, and the Art of Future-Proofing Your System
- #38 The Quest for the Perfect Wearable Microphone: Neckband Mics That Disappear
- #17 The Quest for the Perfect Speech-to-Text Microphone: A Deep Dive into Desktop and Mobile Options
- #10 Remote Camera Control: Turning Your Spare Phone into a Discreet Photography Tool
- #26 Building Hannah's Vision: Creating an Architectural Details Database
- #23 Automating Ubuntu Installations: From Preseed to Cloud-Init
- #20 Finding the Sweet Spot: Balancing Cost and Quality in AI Inference Pipelines
- #32 Budget-Friendly AI Models for High-Volume Classification Tasks
- #3 Pools, Copies, and Checksums: Btrfs, ZFS, and XFS Explained
- #1 Backup Your Headless Blog: The Published-Unpublished Safety Net
- #2 Who's Really Using Headless CMS? Data, Trends, and Practical Advice