Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of slightly too complicated programming languages.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and for reasons you're going to hear about really soon, I am sitting here deep in Apple shortcuts on my computer.

I have been basically sitting here coming up with all of the things that I do over and over on my computer.

And it turns out there's a lot of them, like renaming files and resizing images and all these

like little sort of busy worky things that you just like don't think about what you do over

and over again. I'm trying to automate them all away. Again, for reasons we're going to get into

in this episode. In this episode, we're going to get into in this episode.

In this episode, we're going to do two things.

First, I'm going to talk to V-Song about her review of the meta-rayband display.

That's the new meta-smart glasses with the actual screen in the right eye.

She's been wearing them and sort of freaking out everybody in her life with them.

She's done a review, and we caught her just before she went on vacation to talk about her experience. I'm fascinated by what has actually been like to live in these things. We're also going to talk to Stephen Robles, who you might know from his work on YouTube or on his podcast. There's just a lot of stuff he and I need to talk about. He and I have been fighting

about Apple Shortcuts for a long time publicly on the internet. We yell at each other on Blue Sky. He's going to come on, and he's going to try to convince me that Apple Shortcuts is a good thing, and it's not going to work because it's not. But he's going to try, and I admire that. After that, we're going to take a question from the Vercast Hotline.

Lots to do, lots of fun stuff coming up.

But first, I'm going to see and I admire that. After that, we're going to take a question from the Vergecast hotline.

Lots to do, lots of fun stuff coming up. But first, I'm going to see if I can automate it so that it goes on,

do not disturb every time I turn on my microphone, because that seems like it would be useful.

Wish me luck. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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