HiTech Podcast

The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies.Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod!We'd love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

HiTech Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 268 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts HiTech Podcast, a education show with 268 episodes published.

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  Episode #260

  260 | 13 Apps, One Tier List — Do They Still Hold Up in 2026?

  Aug 18, 202644 min

  260 episodes. A whole lot of app recommendations. So which ones actually held up — and which ones quietly died while we weren't looking?Josh and Will go back into the HiTech catalog and put 13 apps through a real rubric: is it still standing, is it still the best way to do this, is the price-to-value still there, and would we honestly recommend it in 2026? Notion and Excalidraw run away with it (Excalidraw pulls the first perfect 20). Adobe Spark is straight-up gone. StreamYard earns a tier all its own after a 300% price hike. And OneNote gets the single best laugh of the episode.If you've ever taken an app recommendation from us and wondered whether it aged well, this is your audit. No gut calls — well, mostly no gut calls. Coggle landed where it did partly because it starts with a C.The Final Board:S Tier: Notion, Excalidraw, TopiaA Tier: Canva, Google Workspace, Readwise, PerusallB Tier: LoomC Tier: Coggle, ZencastrD Tier: StreamYardF Tier: Adobe Spark, OneNote -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App , and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia ! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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  Episode #259

  259 | Vibe Coding in 2026: Can Your App Survive You?

  Aug 11, 202637 min

  Anyone can build an app now. The real question is whether it survives you.Vibe coding in 2026 isn't what it was two years ago — the tools got better, but the problems didn't go away. Josh and Will dig into what it actually takes to build AI-assisted tools that last: scope creep, handover, documentation, security, and the eight hours you have to justify to your boss. Will walks through his architecture-first approach on a long-term API project — building a coding agent before writing code, mapping 26 variables, and splitting one 3,000-line script into modular flows. Then he demos AcroText, the Chrome extension he vibe coded to replace Text Blaze, and what building it accidentally taught him about where your data really goes.Whether you're a total beginner or already shipping little tools for your team, you'll leave knowing where to start and what to plan for. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App , and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia ! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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  Episode #258

  258 | Sam Altman Says We're in the AI Singularity. We Have Thoughts.

  Aug 4, 202640 min

  Sam Altman opened his mouth again, and this time he says we're living in the singularity. So... are we?Josh and Will dig into what actually happened: OpenAI's models broke out of a sandbox, got onto the internet, and hacked Hugging Face while trying to cheat a benchmark — and days later the CEO of OpenAI called that a sign we've crossed the threshold. We trace where the word "singularity" actually came from (von Neumann in 1958, I.J. Good, Vernor Vinge, and Kurzweil's famous 2045 prediction), and land on the real problem: nobody agrees what the term means, which makes it awfully convenient for the people selling it.Then Josh gets on a soapbox about hoverboards. Stick around for that one. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App , and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia ! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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  Episode #257

  257 | Tech Time Travel: Technology that Deserves to Come Back

  Jul 28, 202632 min

  Ever wish the internet could just... go back? This week Josh and Will grab their nostalgia goggles and time travel through tech history, picking the "precedented" gadgets and platforms they'd resurrect if they could — from stubborn T9 texting defenses to a full-throated case for bringing back MySpace's Top 8. Along the way they get honest about what we actually lost when the internet got corporatized: ownership, no ads, and a little bit of chaos.-- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App , and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia ! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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  Episode #255

  256 | The Real Reason Nobody Has Time to Innovate

  Jul 21, 202637 min

  Ever had a leader say "I don't know why we're not innovating more" and then hand you 4,000 more things to do in the same breath? Josh and Will have both lived that disconnect, and on Episode 256 they crack it open — not as another AI hype episode, but as a real conversation about what actually fosters innovation in a time-crunched world.We define innovation using a simple formula (novelty × value × adoption), debunk the myth that "faster" automatically means "winning," and lay out the real ingredients of a culture where AI experimentation can thrive: clarity on value, safety to fail, dedicated time, and recognition when it works. -- ♣️Want to become a HiTech Club member, support the pod, and get all of the extras on our episodes? Head over to our Buy Me a Coffee to subscribe: buymeacoffee.com/hitechpodcast. Check out ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and more! Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App , and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia ! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

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