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This week, Alex invites a DIFFERENT Matthew onto the show to talk about their home automation setup.
While I was with family, Alex took the opportunity to chat with their spouse Mattie about home automation, which was an absolute delight of a conversation.
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Alex and Matthew review the new iPad mini! Find out where the Mini fits in their lives.
Two iPad nerds talking about the latest iPad release – my favorite type of episode to record.
Interestingly, we both came to the same conclusion…
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The fabulous Rosemary Orchard joins as the first guest on Supercomputer – and she blows your hosts’ minds.
We were thrilled to have our first guest on Supercomputer, and who else could it be but Rosemary Orchard from Automators.FM.
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Your hosts discuss the primary computer for most people: their phones.
In a little bit of a shorter episode than last week, Alex and I discussed how many people really only use their phone as their primary computer.
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This week, Alex shows Matthew how little he knows about video production.
This long episode is one of our first deep dives into a specific productivity topic, which I enjoyed because I benefited so much from the clarification.
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Alex and Matthew discuss the disappearance of Control Center – and how it overlaps with Shortcuts.
Control Center is super useful, but many people don’t realize you can automate much of what’s available there.
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Alex and Matthew reflect on the month’s Apple-related news, giving the hot takes some room and seeing how we’re feeling after some extra context. Plus, there’s a celebrity appearance.
Continuing along with new topics, Alex and I are starting an occasional “Cold Takes” show to cover news in the last few months with some added perspective that time gives everyone.
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Alex and Matthew cover their home screens, so open the episode to check out the shots.
In episode 21, we wanted to refocus our subject matter more for each episode.
We’ll be doing an occasional cycle of shows – a good topic, some guest appearances, a look back at the news of the last few months, and more philosophical episode that takes things to a higher level.
We’re always looking for diverse and interesting guests, so please send us recommendations at [email protected].
Plus, we started a Patreon for anyone who feels like supporting the show. We’re gearing up the patronage rewards, but rest assured the show is free and it’s not required. That being said, we really appreciate everyone who’s signed up so far.
For episode 19 of Supercomputer, instead of hitting the “call” button to record, we pressed “video chat” and proceed to produce our podcast. I edited out some moments, added chapter markers for the audio file, and uploaded the video to YouTube.
This last week, for episode 20, I also added visual chapters, actually used Alex’s correct audio file, and shared our second video recording to YouTube.
But podcasts are for audio, right?
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Matthew and Alex talk about going from beginner shortcuts to the next level with the “If” scripting action, plus how this all could be a bit easier.
After last week’s livestream, I explained some of what “conditionals” are – if that sounds confusing, it’s worth listening.
Part of the episode is about breaking down barriers to concepts used in programming hidden behind fancy language, so we’ll explore more topics like this in the future.
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Matthew and Alex are here for the New Apple.
In a classic coffee rant, I got to release all the feeling I built up in our time away from the show – I am more excited than ever for the future of Apple.
Plus, I make a call for app developers to come back.
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This week, Matthew and Alex explore some of their holiday experiments, as well as how to value your time as much as you value your computer.
We’re back from the winter break with a new, 30-minute episode covering what we were up to over the holidays (spoiler: tidying).
Alex and I talked about getting back into the swing of things and teased some plans for the new year – enjoy!
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If you were a visitor to my site in November, you might’ve noticed a lack of posts on the blog. While I’ve been producing videos and podcasts the whole time, I had a mental block on creating the short posts here on my website for each and just didn’t bother to write them up.
As we’re approaching the end of the year, I decided to get my act together and automate more of blog posts for my work, starting with podcast episodes.
That way I’d have no excuse not to do them, I could spread the news for my podcast more easily, and along the way put together a handy shortcut that I repurpose for my YouTube videos, articles on other sites, and eventually embedded shortcuts here on my blog.
To accomplish this, I built a Post Podcast shortcut that I can run each Friday when we release a new episode of Supercomputer.
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This week, Matthew talks about getting his work done entirely on iOS, and Alex talks about her love of tomatoes.
I’m enjoying making this podcast so much.
We keep getting better and better each week – excited for next year.
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This week, Matthew ponders why you can’t get real work done on iOS, and Alex works herself into a tizzy about Pokemon and old men.
After another round of iOS maligning over the weekend, I started to get a little riled up on this episode.
No, I didn’t write the show notes ?
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In a caffeine-fueled rage, Alex & Matthew pleasantly discuss the viability of iPad Pros as computers.
I got a little hyped up on espresso and started ranting this week.
But, it turns out, I had something important to say.
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Your hosts’ iPads have arrived! Matthew wants to change the way we think about the philosophy of Apple, and Alex is very concerned about folios big and small.
This week, Alex and I talked using tablets & their covers.
Plus, I tried to reflect on how the Apple community talks about the leaders of the company.
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Episode 11 of Supercomputer is now out – listen in if you’re curious about the new iPad Pros.
Alex talks about her concerns over USB-C, I tried to talk her down from the ledge, and we both ended up convincing ourselves to be excited about the new iPads.
Plus, we talked about the changes to Shortcuts 2.1 that I covered in my video earlier this week.
With this episode, we’re also making the switch to releasing on Fridays – we’re trying to guarantee the show is as good as possible, plus give us flexibility on recording days to account for any events as well as our schedule. New episodes every Friday – Supercomputer for the weekends!
Start prepping your daily routine plans for an upcoming episode, because we’ll be walking through those shortly – in the meantime, drop us any shortcuts requests in our submission form, we’ll be answering a few soon!
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P.S. Would anyone listen in Spotify or on YouTube? Let me know!
On Thursday, Alex and I released our 9th episode of Supercomputer into the world. Titled “The Allegory of Dark Mode”, this episode follows up from our show two weeks ago on task managers.
After a short one-week break, we broke back into how we use our devices to get things done, plus went off a bit on how I use Twitter.
Near the end things got weirdly philosophical, which I’m totally okay with.
We talked about and shared a good number of shortcuts we use in the show notes, so if you’re not already subscribe to the show and add them as you listen along.
I also started a submission form for Shortcuts questions, so feel free to submit any places you’re getting stuck or shortcuts problems in the Airtable form any time!
Next week we’ll be talking about the home – HomePod, Apple TV, HomeKit, and more – looking forward to episode 10!