Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Mappable Buttons.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am standing on my back patio in front of the grill I just bought.

It's a weird time to buy a grill right before the end of the summer, but I did it anyway

because it was on sale and because this grill, the Weber Spirit E310, is the one everybody

told me to buy.

So I bought it.

I like it so far, but the best thing about this grill is this button.

It's a mission, which turns on all the burners all at once.

I find myself yelling, I have created fire every single time I turn it on.

It just feels powerful, you know?

Today's whole episode is about buttons.

We're going to spend the whole show talking about the Stream Deck.

Not the game console, the Steam Deck, but the Stream Deck from Elgato, which is a desk

accessory that is basically just a bunch of buttons.

And it turns out a bunch of buttons is a pretty seriously powerful thing.

We're going to hear how people use their Stream Deck, how to hack it to do even more,

and how to turn your old devices into something kind of like it.

But first, let me finish these burgers that I came out here to grill.

Buttons are good, and so are burgers.

That's the takeaway.

This is the Vergecast, seeing the second.

Support for today's show comes from Slack.

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