It's time for episode 649 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay, recorded Wednesday, March 25th,

2006.

Clockwise, four people, four tech podcast that is on the march.

And as we march along, I am Dan Moran and I am joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, the one, the only, Micah Sergeant.

How are you doing today, Micah? One, two, three. One, two, three. Did you know that my march is also a waltz? Oh, that's nice. I like that. We got rhythm. We got rhythm. We got rhythm. We got music. Ah, very good. Very good. All right. The show's got started off on a great beat, and we're going to continue that by introducing our two fantastic guests this week. To my left, it is Software Visionary Pyecaster and my brother in arms. Guy English. Welcome back, Guy. Oh, nice to be here. To my left, printing history enthusiast, it's the wonderful Glenn Fleischman. Hello, Glenn. Well, hello. Let me show you my cha-cha and some fox trots on an audio medium, which is the important thing. All right. I'm reeling it in. I'm reeling it in because we got 30 minutes and we got four topics. We got to cover them. So here we go. I'm going to kick things off. I'm curious to know if you have done any technology projects recently that are purely for yourself, they're not a work thing. They're just something you're like, hey, I'm going to do this thing. And it's totally self-indulgent and a thing that you just want to do for yourself. Guy, any self-directed projects lately?

Recently, I've been noodling around with the language that I've made for myself and doing hyper-cardi kind of stuff.

Wow. Yeah.

I mean, if I get it to a point that it's actually useful, I'll share it with you guys.

But, I mean, it's just a hobby hacking.

What does writing sort of desk accessories look like in today's age?

And could you have AI sort of take care of some of the functionality? I don't know. I'm still

noodling with it. A language, though. You're creating a language to express that in. So people

could write that kind of stuff in a simpler form, like a hypercardi form. Exactly. yeah. Like a more simplified kind of thing. This started like years ago when I was trying to learn Swift, I basically started implementing my own little Swift version just to sort of learn how it would work, which is a crazy idea. But it's the way, like, you know, taking a party car and putting it back together poorly kind of vibe. Anyway, so it's evolved from that. It's, again, very hobby project, and Dan

asked about some things that are just for yourself, this is it. It's totally useless, but it consumes

my creative side of my software stuff right now. For me, it would be that after fighting with it for too long, going as far as to find,

you have to find a proper SD card that was small enough for this, and then do some fancy stuff

to flash the card with new firmware to get my aftermarket head unit to work, I decided, I'm just going

to get a new one. And it's great, but my memory was a little shoddy because it actually took

even longer than the long that I thought it took that I thought I remembered it taking.

It was a time commitment, but it was well worth it to have I thought I remembered it taking. It's, it was a time commitment,

but it was well worth it to have this Sony aftermarket head unit I have in now that

immediately connects via wireless carplay. Anytime I get to do both sort of like software stuff,

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