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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form co

Episodes

Total: 303

62: PEMDAS for Monitors

2020/11/22

Our Fall cornucopia of emails contains such succulent questions as: How future-proof should your new

61: The Bad Kind of Complexity

2020/11/15

On this busy week we threw together a delightful potpourri of different topics, from gadget repair t

Big AMD energy this week. PC World's Gordon Mah Ung has gotten his hands on the new Ryzen 5000 serie

We've both tumbled down the Home Assistant rabbit hole, so this week we recorded an informal trip re

58: Lil' Doppler Redshift

2020/10/25

On this month's email show we talk about our love of astrophysics, a PC that could last you forever,

All these new PC hardware announcements have us feeling nostalgic again, so we took another trip dow

56: TressFX Vs. HairWorks

2020/10/11

This week, we couldn't resist talking about the newly announced Zen 3 CPUs from AMD, along with the

Brad just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time (and Will reread it for the eleve

54: Lack Rack!

2020/9/27

The emails cometh, and bringeth with them questions and tips about why nobody can order a 3080 or PS

53: The Mass-to-Volume Ratio

2020/9/20

Nvidia bought ARM. Nvidia bought ARM! It's one of the biggest semiconductor deals in history, so we

52: It's an App Basket!

2020/9/13

Playing video games remotely has gotten surprisingly good lately, so this week we decided to sit dow

51: The Man With the Spatula

2020/9/6

Last week Brad and Will got to attend a virtual deep dive on Nvidia's new 30-series GPUs, and in thi

50: Two Is One, One Is None

2020/8/30

Our 50th episode doesn't quite have 50 emails, but it's close: tune in for listener mails about bugo

49: Proto-Prepping

2020/8/23

With the latest round of California wildfires heavy on our minds, this week we ended up with a wide-

48: Grip Is Good

2020/8/16

Following up on our software unitasker ep from a few weeks ago, we're now moving into the physical r

47: Key-Hoarding

2020/8/9

This week we very carefully lower ourselves into the unthinkably deep rabbit hole of mechanical keyb

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeemails this month address questions like: Where the heck are the color e-ink readers?

45: No-Tonsil-Stone Zone

2020/7/26

PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon stops by to talk about turning an old PC into a new router. Why would you want

In these trying times, we thought a nostalgic little walk down memory lane might be nice. Join us as

43: Sigh Ops

2020/7/12

This week we run down a few of the common and not-so-common software tools that make our lives a bit