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Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my show about what to watch, listen to, read, download, and something

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deep every week.

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If you do listen on Apple or Spotify, I'd appreciate dropping a 5-star rating and review

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if you could.

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But number one, what to watch.

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The YouTube algorithm actually hit it out of the park because it surfaced this video

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on my homepage, Stop being an audience member of your own life.

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This is from a channel I had never heard about before, oddly, but incredible production value

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in the first minute of this video.

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And then she goes into talking about screen time, how she feels about consuming more than

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And getting over that hurdle of just making something, even if you're not good at it,

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and how much better it is to make something rather than consume, I thought it was just

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really good.

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Love the video, and I'll be watching for her future videos.

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So link to that down in the show notes, and of course, you can get this as a newsletter.

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That link is also below.

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I deliver all those links every Friday.

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And on a bonus, what to watch.

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I really enjoyed Knife's Edge.

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This is an Apple TV+ original show.

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It's about restaurants seeking Michelin stars, either their first, their second, or even

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their third.

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to the first season and it was just renewed for a second

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I'll put the link to that Apple TV Plus show down below as well.

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On number two, what to listen to, I'm going to pull from the archive because I talked about

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Antarctica last week in Cleo Abrams' video. I'm going to get her name right and be sure.

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But there was actually a great episode of the Omnibus podcast.

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This was back when Ken Jennings and John Roderick were both co-hosting it,

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and they did a show about the Antarctic snow cruiser,

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this boondoggle of a massive RV that they tried bringing down there.

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And I remember really enjoying this episode. There's also a lot of great topics in this.

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the Halifax explosion is a.

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about a historic event I didn't know, but this one in particular, if you're into Antarctica,

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check this out.

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Number three, on what to read, I'm going to link this Mac Stories article down in the

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show notes.

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This is actually about an Apple Vision Pro mini documentary about Real Madrid, and I

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watched it in Apple Vision Pro, really enjoyed it.

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It's a short article, but it explains what makes things in Apple Vision Pro compelling,

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and maybe why you should check it out.

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Again, if you don't have a Vision Pro, maybe make an appointment at an Apple store, do

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the trial, ask if you can watch something like this, but I really enjoyed watching it.

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And Devin does a great job of breaking down what

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makes it compelling. On number four, what to download, there's so many different

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social media platforms. I've been trying to balance Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, and

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Indigo is a new app that actually combines two of those. So BlueSky and

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Mastodon, which are both built on like Fediverse style properties, well the

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Indigo app takes advantage of that. And if you're on both of those platforms, or

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you just want to use it for one of them, it works great for that too, it actually

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combines your timelines, syncs your timeline across all your Apple devices,

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Let's you interact, post to both platforms, and the great

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part is that there's a cross post. Like if you see a post of mine that maybe I put on BlueSky and

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Mastodon, you'll only see it once. And then you'll actually see the little cross post section. You can

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choose if you want to see the Mastodon version or the BlueSky version if it's slightly different.

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And this has made managing social media and browsing my timeline much easier. It is free to

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use. There's an in-app purchase for some of the pro features. But if you're on both of those platforms

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and want to streamline your social media consumption/posting, Indigo is a great way to go.

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Didn't mean to pun that, but yeah, pun intended, I guess.

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So Google I/O was earlier this week and there was a ton of all the AIs, everything.

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They just put AI in everything and it can be wearing and maybe a little tiring to hear about.

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But one aspect I wanted to point out was that Google AI Studio,

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which is Google's way of letting you vibe code Android apps,

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they actually announced that it's coming to Android as an app.

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So pretty soon you'll be able to vibe code an Android app on an Android device.

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And this is something that is still missing from the Apple ecosystem.

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You can't develop or make or do any of that stuff for an iPhone app on an iPhone.

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You have to build it in Xcode on a Mac and then move it over to the iPhone or install it or whatever.

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This would be awesome if maybe we'll see a dub dub this year,

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but the ability to actually start maybe test vibe code using Apple Intelligence

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and some of the LLMs built in to make an app for the iPhone starting on the iPhone.

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That would be pretty wild.

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And if you're still unsure about vibe coding and making apps with AI, a little bonus pick.

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I highly recommend listening to this episode of The Talk.

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I'm your host, Adam Lissagore, who has been a guest on two of my podcasts,

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Movies on the Side and Primary Technology.

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But he talks about vibe coding the app Hovercraft,

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which I actually featured a couple of episodes ago on this show

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and his approach to using AI as a vibe coder, but to more direct the process,

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how important taste is and why AI can't replace that just yet.

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I think it'll really help shape a mindset about vibe coding

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and what the future of AI and building apps could be.

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And what really the most exciting thing is you might want to build an app

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and you don't have to ship it or publish it anywhere.

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Jason Aitzen, he built Contextly because he wanted a notes app

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that did a very specific thing.

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It turns out other people wanted that, too, and people are downloading and using it.

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But I think the future of personal apps, which kind of what shortcuts is, too.

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I mean, I built so many shortcuts that are express purpose for my needs.

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Other people might not find value in it, but for my workflow,

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it really helps me be productive and do things faster.

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Well, imagine if you could do that for entire apps,

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Maybe even entire operating systems and platforms one day.

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little bit head in the clouds, but 10 years from now, I imagine AI could write an entire

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operating system in not very long. And so I think the possibilities of having a very personalized

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custom to you tailored to how you want to and need to use an app, a product or service. And I think

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that's one of the best promises AI can make right now. So I encourage you to listen to this episode.

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You can also learn about all the things from the Google I/O on the latest episode of primary

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technology that came out yesterday. And again, I'd appreciate a five star rating and review in

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the comments if you're listening and watching it there. Or you can get the newsletter delivered

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every Friday. The link is in the show notes to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching and

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listening. I'll catch you next time. Transcribed by https://otter.ai