That New Mouse Pad Feeling

Casey Liss (0:00)

What are you talking to us through right now?

John Siracusa (0:02)

Oh, yeah. So if you've noticed that the tone of my voice is colder and not as warm as it used to be.

That's the sound of an ARM CPU. Intel just had that extra.

Casey Liss (0:16)

That extra warm?

John Siracusa (0:17)

Extra sold. It's just missing from these modern ARM CPUs.

Casey Liss (0:20)

All right. Well, I'm excited for you.

John Siracusa (0:23)

I'm on my new computer. If this recording goes wrong, you know, the last one, I just realized that the Big Mac Pro that's still sitting next to me, I had for more than half of the life of the show for like seven years. Is that right? Wow. I think so, right?

Casey Liss (0:36)

I mean, that sounds right, yeah.

John Siracusa (0:39)

And it has served me well during those seven years, but my microphone is now plugged into a new computer.

Casey Liss (0:45)

Oh, we're going to talk about this more later.

Marco Arment (0:47)

This is the saddest sound of you getting a new computer I've ever heard.

Casey Liss (0:51)

I know, right?

John Siracusa (0:52)

It's the tide me over computer.

Marco Arment (0:54)

I know, but it's also a huge upgrade. Are you able to feel happy about this? Do you enjoy it? Does it feel fast? Does it feel good?

John Siracusa (1:04)

Oh, yeah, no. I mean, I'll talk about it when we get to all our new products, but the whole household is happy because now I no longer need to hog my wife's computer to do dev work.

So everybody, there is much happiness in the house about this.

Marco Arment (1:17)

She bought it for you here, please.

Casey Liss (1:19)

Yes. I'm very excited for you. When you had told us in Slack, I don't know, a day or two back, that you were starting your migration, which we will talk about later in the show. Marco and I, our immediate reaction was, it's the end of an era. Again, as much as I poke fun at you, John, I know how much you love that computer. It pains me to be serious and to be kind with you about this because I love making fun of you for it so much. But I know how much you loved the Tower Mac Pro and I know how sad you are that you do not have a spiritual replacement or maybe at best you do have a spiritual replacement but certainly not a more literal replacement. And so it did serve you well. It was very expensive, but you got a lot of use out of it. And I am sad. I am genuinely sad for your loss. Although I'm excited for you to join, what is it? Five years ago, six years ago, whatever it was.

So I'm happy for you even if you sound slightly morose.

It is still September as we record this. There's a bit of September left. And actually this month, believe it or not, or this year, September actually goes into October. And we're going to talk about that in a second. But September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. And that means it is time for ATP to work in concert with Relay and with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to try to raise money for St. Jude. St. Jude, I hope by now you're familiar, but like I said, they're a children's research hospital and they do incredible, incredible work to try to meet their mission of no child dying in the dawn of their life. And generally speaking, that relates to childhood cancer, but it's not exclusively cancer. They do all sorts of absolutely banana stuff. And one of the many things that they offered for us to talk about, although we could say whatever we want, but one of the things they offered was that St. Jude has produced 18 of the world's most highly cited scientists in November 2025 The 2025 list of highly cited researchers recognized 18 St. Jude scientists as among the world's most impactful, the most in St. Jude history. These researchers authored multiple scientific papers ranging in the top, excuse me, ranking in the top 1% by citations for their fields for roughly 10 years. This is a small example of how, I know we have a very international audience and I'm very glad for that, but it would be a reasonable conclusion to say, oh, well, St. Jude is in America and their health care system is barely a system, which yes and yes, but why does that help me, says the person not in America? Well, it's for things like this. It's because their research, the research done at St. Jude really does have a worldwide impact. We've talked in the past this month about how they have more concrete and explicit worldwide impacts with things like shipping medicine overseas and stuff like that. But really, St. Jude is a tremendous, tremendous place. To remind you, the reason we do this, or one of the many reasons we do this is because our dear friend, Stephen Hackett, his eldest child was stricken with childhood cancer at something like six months old. That child is now 16, 17 years old or something like that. That's all because of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.