I need to write a page that explains the following so I can link to it regularly:

"Bluetooth" is a constellation of barely-related protocols. Audio connections are completely unrelated to CoreBluetooth. But many audio devices *also* (separately) can communicate with CoreBluetooth as a custom control channel.

iOS gives access to only a tiny handful of these protocols, and all with significant restrictions. What you want to do is probably impossible if you don't control the device firmware.

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For reference, for the people saying I shouldn't raise my price:

Pocket Casts: $40/year
The Podcast App: $37/year
Castbox: $35/year
Castro: $25/year
…
Overcast: $10/year

I have no problem telling everyone this now: I'm raising my price in the near future.

I've only waited this long because I wanted to give you some new stuff at the same time!

Ryan's guide to determining whether your password is secure:

1) Did you pick it yourself? If yes, it is not secure.

2) Is it unique? If no, it is not secure.

3) Is it part of a "password system"? If yes, it is not secure.

4) Is created using a deterministic password generator? If yes, it's part of a "password system" and therefore not secure.

5) Did your password manager randomly generate it for you? If yes, it's probably fine.

6) Did you generate it with dice? If yes, it's probably fine.

7) Did you create your password in some other way? It's probably fucked.

I feel sorry for all the news companies that launched research for stories on “Who is Tom Emmer?” only to have him drop out of the race for Speaker in four hours.

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic are getting effective at creating new measures of time! A Scaramucci (or Mooch) is 11 days. A Liz Truss is 44 days. And now an Emmer is four hours! (“Man, it's only 1 pm? I have a whole Emmer before I can kick off from work!”)

A fun game to play if you work at a bigger company where you don’t know everyone is to pick a random person on Slack/Teams/whatever and send a message that says something like “of course you’d say that - but what of the horses??”

Then when they start typing to reply, delete it and say “sorry wrong person” and they’ll wonder what the eff you just heard forever.