Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss their work, software workflows, music discovery, and listener feedback. The episode also covers online education, crowdfunding, privacy and security, books, podcasts, and Super Bowl...
Jason DeFillippo discusses a leg injury, poor sleep, and uncertainty about where to live. The episode also covers data deletion, surveillance, music streaming, crowdfunding, and several online stories. Jason describes how his injury is...
In this episode, the hosts revisit app recommendations, answer a listener’s questions about starting a BMX podcast, and discuss a court ruling on net neutrality. They also consider social media privacy, technology news, crowdfunding,...
Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister record together in Venice and discuss podcasting, the rapid rise and decline of apps, privacy, and data costs. They also review apps and devices, discuss surveillance and films, and close with account...
In this year-end episode, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister thank listeners and supporters, share holiday wishes, and offer advice about helping family members use computers. They also announce a week off and discuss a possible...
Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss holiday plans, social media, privacy, technology, and music. Guest Sean Bonner explains Bitcoin, while the hosts also examine surveillance, a reported payment card breach, and Beyoncé’s...
In this episode, the hosts discuss web services, digital ownership, apps, books, and television. They also consider work and career changes, homelessness, online advertising, and plans for the show over the holidays. They question automatic...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers daily routines, listener feedback, technology news, devices, entertainment, and security research. Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister also discuss ways to support the show and reflect on its...
Tim Ferriss joins the hosts to discuss his television series, book club and approaches to learning. The conversation also covers self tracking, genetic data privacy, email boundaries and sleep habits. Ferriss describes the creative...
The hosts discuss overdue client payments, films, technology, workplace experiences, and digital privacy. They also consider Bitcoin’s costs and risks, review apps and games, and examine the claims and marketing of a business course. They...
The hosts discuss technology, media, work, and privacy, beginning with Dave Eggers’s The Circle and ending with questions about online child exploitation investigations. Along the way, they consider social networks, freelance payments,...
Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss Brian’s trip to Britain, technology and media news, apps, books, podcasts, and crowdfunding rewards. They also share travel stories and plans for their movie podcast, Does It Have Legs?...
In this Halloween episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, the hosts discuss online culture, consumer technology, public policy, and media. Topics range from social media and website tracking to health news, surveillance, science fiction, and...
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss listener statistics, online articles, customer service, and Apple's software and devices. They also cover copyright, reports from Japan, health tracking,...
In this episode, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss work, income, health, and the American Dream. They also cover technology and privacy news, crowdfunding projects, apps, books, and plans for a film podcast. They question...
Mike Vinikour joins Grumpy Old Geeks to discuss his path from game testing at Midway to game design, as well as working conditions in the video game industry. The episode also covers arcade business models, Vinikour’s work in wrestling...
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, the hosts discuss television finales, web hosting, social networks, crowdfunding, and mobile technology. They also consider online discovery, books, the Silk Road investigation, Tor surveillance...
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, the hosts discuss changing software interfaces, online learning, work, and personal habits. They also consider the effects of the technology boom, journalism, surveillance, media stories, and...
In this episode, the hosts discuss digital reading, smartphones, crowdfunding, privacy, and online accounts. They also compare iPad writing apps and recommend a book, an album, and an article about the scale of time. The hosts express...
The hosts discuss The World’s End and the Cornetto trilogy, then turn to apps, books, social media and consumer devices. They also debate staged viral videos and iPhone fingerprint security before closing with a memoir and memories of a...
In this episode, the hosts discuss apps, productivity tools, and advice for someone starting a programming career. They also cover books, password security and surveillance, music, and online recommendations. The hosts revisit fitness apps,...
Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister discuss web design, activity tracking, working across two Macs, and online behavior. They also consider 3D calling, email and news apps, portable chargers, games, and music. They describe the...
In this episode, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister revisit technical hiring, Soylent, activity tracking, and several technology news stories. They also discuss the value of personal data, Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?, and...
Scott Beale joins Grumpy Old Geeks to discuss Laughing Squid and the early web communities of San Francisco and New York. The conversation also covers web maintenance, apps, online culture, counterculture events, and proposed crowdfunded...
Mike Malinin joins Grumpy Old Geeks to discuss touring with the Goo Goo Dolls, changes in music, and eating on the road. The episode also covers online surveillance, newspapers, drinking habits, laboratory grown meat, and recommended...