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447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor
· 2 h 15 min
Episode 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.
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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.
Links in the notes 18
- https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft
- https://parcel.app
- https://scribe.how/talkshow
- https://squarespace.com/talkshow
- https://x.com/adamlisagor/status/2052057904174489723
- https://x.com/adamlisagor/status/2055046267659817357
- https://theater.sandwich.vision/
- https://television.sandwich.vision
- https://cursor.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090802142606/https://birdhouseapp.com/
- https://sandwich.co/work/a-notepad-for-twitter/
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/04/13/birdhouse
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/04/noir-japanese-cookies
- https://allenpike.com/
- https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/02/ep-415
- https://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/
- https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/gruber-yojimbo-items-per-year.pdf
- https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/dvc666.html
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