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#121: Finding the Fun with AI and Mohammad Azam
Mohammad Azam turned a childhood game into Block Bop with AI and three days of work. He joins The Trio to talk expressive blocks, playtesting, and paid level packs, wi...
#120: Mike Zornek Fights For the Users
Mike Zornek wants your software to keep working even when the company behind it disappears. He joins The Trio to explain local-first software, Automerge, and CRDTs, th...
#119: Hello, John Apple
John Ternus is Apple’s new CEO, and The Trio have a wish list ready. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron size up his practical hardware legacy, imagine a stronger developer story...
#118: Even LLMs Hate Jira with Bill Atkins
Bill Atkins put a Mac mini in his spare room so local models can handle the coding chores he would rather skip, all without sending Stylebook's code to the cloud. Bill...
#117: Assumption One: You’re a Hoarder
The desktop has barely changed in decades, even as we’ve all become digital hoarders. Scott Jenson’s Local-First Conf talk, “How the Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep...
#116: BentoFit in the Loop
Steve puts BentoFit in the loop, using agentic coding to add themes and straighten out the app's Swift package structure. The Trio digs into Mike Zornek's three-year A...
#115: Jelly Pilled
Steve drops serious cash on an M5 Max MacBook Pro right as Apple's Rampocalypse price hikes hit, then immediately bricks his iPhone 14 Pro Max installing iOS 27 Beta 3...
#114: WWDC26 — Emails Deleted
Steve is back from a Royal Caribbean cruise to Bermuda just in time for the WWDC26 wrap-up, and Kotaro wastes no time YOLOing onto the macOS beta to demo Siri AI live....
#113: WWDC26 — No, Seriously, Siri Works Now
Recorded thirty minutes after the WWDC26 State of the Union keynote ended, The Trio delivers a hot-take reaction to everything Apple just announced. Steve makes his bo...
#112: WWDC26 — Xcode Pro
With WWDC26 just around the corner, The Trio burns off some Google I/O feelings before getting to the speculation they actually care about. Steve breaks down why AI-sl...
#111: A Bazooka of Syntax
Steve finally fixed phillycocoa.org, and the journey from broken CircleCI pipelines and hijacked S3 buckets to a blazing-fast Cloudflare Pages site took one Side Proje...
#110: So Long, Tim Apple, and Thanks for All the Fish!
Tim Cook is stepping down in September, and The Trio has plenty of thoughts on what the Ternus era means for Apple. Kotaro dives into his embedded systems rabbit hole ...
#109: Instant Wrong Answer
The Trio tests Google's new Gemma 4 model running locally on an iPhone and gets an instant wrong answer, which sets the tone for a sprawling conversation about AI hype...
#108: AppleClaw
iOS 26.4 just dropped and Steve is thrilled that the keyboard finally works again. The Trio digs into the new Music app concerts feature (powered by Bands in Town, pro...
#107: Buttery Smooth Text
The Trio declares this an AI-free episode and dives into Apple's latest hardware announcements. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron break down the new MacBook Neo, its surprising...
#106: No Flow State
The Trio kick off with the rumors about Apple's March 4th event and the possible return of a budget 12-inch MacBook on an A18 chip, which leads to a very poorly resear...
#105: How Alex Hillman Built an AI Assistant with Claude Code
In this episode, Alex Hillman, co-founder of Philadelphia's legendary coworking space Indy Hall, takes us through his journey building a sophisticated AI executive ass...
#104: Beyond the Simulator IRL!
The Trio meet to discuss two of the talks (ours!) from the recent in-person PhillyCocoa meetup called "Beyond the Simulator: Perspectives on Modern App Development" th...
#103: 2026 Vibes
#103: 2026 Vibes We're back! In this season 6 premiere, Steve struggles to speak after being sick, but still manages to talk a lot about the current hype around Claud...
#102: Side Project Ideas for 2026
In this Season 5 finale, the Trio discuss ideas for next year's side projects and have a ton of laughs along the way. Have a great holiday season and a Happy New Year!...