Playdate first impressions, home-Ethernet-wiring updates, and fond farewells to two products that — let's be honest — most of us had already forgotten.

• Follow-up:
  • A little more on Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explainers
    • Mechanical Watch Explainer
    • GPS
    • Naval Architecture
    • Patreon
  • Apple’s New Developer Center
    • More from Parker Ortolani
  • John’s multi-factor authentication college account update
    • An aside about password managers
    • Protobuf
  • John’s Microsoft Precision Mouse
  • Casey’s Ethernet Project
    • Cat 6A cable types
• Playdate impressions
  • Panic Podcast
  • Playdate Podcast
  • Altered Beast
  • Super Mario 64
  • Total Annihilation
  • Scorched Earth
  • Non-Season Playdate Games
• The iPod Touch is dead, but the music lives on
• …it meets the same fate as macOS Server
• #askatp:
  • Will an Apple Silicon Mac Pro have ECC RAM? (via Robert Boyle)
    • HBM4
  • Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS? (via Jon Sulek)
    • Pacifist
  • Does choice of programming language matter for server-side crawling? (via Abel Demoz)
    • Go
    • Rust
• Post-show: Marco’s capture system
  • Sonnet Echo Express SEIIIe Enclosure
  • Magewell Pro HDMI Quad Capture Card
  • Sonnet Allegro 4-port USB-A card
  • Sonnet Allegro 4-port USB-C card

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