Michael Camilleri

Michael shares his story as a long-time tech podcast listener and explains his motivation to design and build personal tools that leverage the power of open RSS. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (listener) Find Michael at inqk.net (https://inqk.net). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/dc4be-2023-02-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-michael-camilleri.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/4/410af7a1-f6d8-4b34-b0eb-e54ef2bbdffe/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes The Full Arc of Things 00:00:00 John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net) Dan Benjamin (https://danbenjamin.com) The Talk Show (https://web.archive.org/web/20160214235854/http://thetalkshow.net/#30) was a podcast by Dan Benjamin and John Gruber on the 5by5 network, which can now be found (partially) in the Internet Archive. PlayStation Portable (PSP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable) Michael refers to PSPWare (https://web.archive.org/web/20061205211347/http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/pspware) by nullriver, which was an app that integrated your Sony PSP with your Mac. References to it on the Web can now be found in the Internet Archive. MP3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3) Defining the term ‘homebrew’ (https://www.techopedia.com/definition/10649/homebrew) Disk operating system (DOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_operating_system) MS-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS) Microsoft Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) MiniDisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc) Personal computer (PC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer) LucasArts adventure games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LucasArts_adventure_games) List of Sim video games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sim_video_games) Platform game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_game) (or ‘platformer’) Shoot ‘em up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up) Role-playing video game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game) Apple Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) Michael refers to the rivalry between Ford Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Australia) and Holden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden). iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod) Mac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)) (computer) Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) John Siracusa (https://hypercritical.co) Control Panel (Windows) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Panel_(Windows)) Metro (design language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)) Windows 95 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95) Windows 3.1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x) Graphics card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card) iMac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac) Native resolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution) A Certain Similarity 00:13:55 Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) (https://atp.fm) Marco Arment (https://marco.org) Casey Liss (https://www.caseyliss.com) System 6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6) The Talk Show with John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/) Ben Thompson (writer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Thompson_(writer)) Dithering (https://dithering.fm) National Basketball Association (NBA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association) Can’t Wait to Do the Dishes! 00:18:11 Overcast (https://overcast.fm) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) HomePod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePod) RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Spotify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify) NHK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK) Server (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)) Ruby (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)) Blog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) Matthew Yglesias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias) Vox (https://www.vox.com) Google Reader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader) Feedbin (https://feedbin.com) NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Kabatsu 00:28:52 The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com) The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com) The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com) HTML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) Ordinary People 00:35:17 22 Goals (https://www.theringer.com/22-goals) FIFA World Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup) Brian Phillips (https://www.theringer.com/authors/brian-phillips) What the hell is Apple’s butterfly keyboard? (https://thenextweb.com/news/what-hell-apple-butterfly-keyboard-keys-design) (explanatory article) Keyboard Service Program for MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro (https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks) Fixing the MacBook Pro (https://marco.org/2017/11/24/fixing-the-macbook-pro) (blog piece by Marco Arment) 194: Dark Night of the Soul (https://atp.fm/194) (ATP episode featuring [first?] mention of the ‘MacBook Escape’) Touch Bar (2016–2020) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Fourth_generation_(Touch_Bar)) Jason Snell (https://sixcolors.com/jason/) Myke Hurley (https://mykehurley.net) C Sharp (programming language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)) Comfort Food 00:47:06 Audiobook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook) Upgrade (https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) Folk Culture 00:51:03 Accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and more specifically, Web accessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility) Web 1.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0#Web_1.0) and Web 2.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0) JavaScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) Google Search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search) AltaVista (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista) Twitch (service) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Markup language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/) Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/a1449-2023-02-really-specific-stories-michael-camilleri-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com) Contact Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net) Email: martin@loungeruminator.net (mailto:martin@loungeruminator.net) Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld) Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)