447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft , his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he's developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel : Track your packages in one place, with native apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Scribe : Instantly capture and optimize workflows so your teams and AI agents do their best work. Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW . Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good . Links: Hovercraft — A virtual presentation camera for Mac . Adam’s intro video, on Twitter/X . Version 1.1 is already out with some cool new features . Theater — Sandwich Vision’s theater experience app for VisionOS. Television — Sandwich’s, well, television experience app. Cursor — Adam’s preferred coding agent. Birdhouse, Adam and Cameron Hunt’s “Notepad for Twitter” from 2009 . The Birdhouse launch video, which launched Sandwich Video . Daring Fireball: Birdhouse — A Notepad for Twitter . Noir — Delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies . Allen Pike . Allen on The Talk Show, back in December 2024 . Yojimbo . The graph I generated , using AppleScript and Numbers, of the new Yojimbo items I’ve created per year. Canon’s XL1 digital video camera from 1998 . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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topics

• virtual presentation camera app
• ai coding tools
• japanese spite sandwich cookies
• package tracking
• workflow optimization
• website and domain purchasing
• visionos apps

persons

• John Gruber
• Adam Lisagor
• Allen Pike
• Cameron Hunt
• Caleb Sexton

companys

• Hovercraft
• Parcel
• Scribe
• Squarespace
• Sandwich Vision
• Cursor
• Birdhouse
• Daring Fireball

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