Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell

The trailer for the movie of Ready Player one was just released and it got us quite excited. The book is amazing.. here is my interview with Ernest Cline about 1980s nostalgia first broadcast with the release of the his book Ready Player One in August of 2011.

Originally aired on KUSP on October 21st 2002, this episode of GeekSpeak features special guest, by phone, Kevin Mitnick talking about social engineering and his book The Art of Deception.

Does Facebook help or hinder? Is Net Neutrality dead? Just how dangerous is Pokemon? We discuss these questions and more on this episode of Geek Speak.

Want to find out how waste the scammers time, or how likely you are to be hacked? How about what spending a year in space is like? Join us on this week's Geek Speak and we'll discuss these stories and a whole lot more.

If someone offers you a deal on an iPhone X are you sure it wasn't stolen? Starcraft II may be free, but are humans still better players? Tech giants get grilled by the senate. These stories and more on this week's Geek Speak

An email from a listener sparks a conversation on how the show, and tech, has changed over the years. Also; Kids have their own tablets, and Dungeons & Dragons is experiencing a renaissance. There's lots to hear on this Week's Geek Speak!

Self-taught AI's are better at GO, Building your own modem, and The FBI can't break encryption on today's phones. All this and more on this week's Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell and Miles Elam.

Don't like Mondays? Twitter data shows it really is the worst day of the week. AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down in December, and a year in space is really bad for you. And at the very end, Lyle and Ben try and sing using Ben's wonderful relyric.me-tis a fun one.

A discussion with T39 member Jafar Husain, one of Lyle's software engineering colleagues at Netflix about Jafar's growth as a developer and journey from Object oriented development to functional development and the Reactive Programing pattern used in Rx. This is a highly technical episode of GeekSpeak.

An interview with Michael Lopp (@rands), VP of Engineering at Slack, about the importance of diversity, one-on-one meetings, management vs leadership, no email at Slack, speaking in public, fidget spinners, offer letters, writing, and much more.

Off doesn't mean off under IOS 11, but that's OK your iPhone is too complex for you to fix anyway; You'll soon know where you are with super accuracy thanks to new GPS chips; and Russian election tampering on Facebook was a feature, not a bug. All this plus Flying Taxis on this week's GeekSpeak.

An extra long post show from early this month cut into a technical episode. We chat about Sonos online, iPad1 still running Netflix, Security Cameras, AT&T neighborhood discrimination, Miles Working and work spouses, software testing including at Netflix, Miles's open source software projects: format base, m-text, and filesystem virtual tables for PostgreSQL. We also chat about home storage with NAS or not, and some GeekSpeak navel gazing around Date vs Episode numbering.

The Geeks discuss the need for a corporate death penalty in light of the Equifax data breach exposing private info of every adult in the US. Don't worry, they talk about some fun tech too and even drug running. Well, maybe not running since apparently the regulations mandate you drive your pot within the state of California.

Doctor Dawn Motyka joins Lyle and Miles in a discussion about genetics, living longer, and of course the tech angle on biohacking.

Followup, Germain team wins Hyperloop race, NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto, a new mini-antenna tech, Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices, trigonometry found on ancient Babylonian tablet, Autonomous Forklift, Surface Mount Soldiering, and no USB-C cables at K-Mart.