{"id":5724,"date":"2025-08-03T22:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:50:21","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-573a-tsunami-of-tech-topics-uncle-jons-bank-for-parents-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/03\/mobileviews-podcast-573a-tsunami-of-tech-topics-uncle-jons-bank-for-parents-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 573:A Tsunami of tech topics + Uncle Jon&#8217;s Bank for Parents &#038; Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 573:A Tsunami of tech topics + Uncle Jon's Bank for Parents &amp; Kids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=xu74s-1922c9a-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MViews-573-Jon-me-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MViews-573-Jon-me-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MViews-573-Jon-me-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MViews-573-Jon-me-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MViews-573-Jon-me.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall covered a range of interesting topics, from real-world natural disasters to the cutting edge of AI development and personal tech. Todd shared his recent experience during a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2025\/07\/29\/tsunami-watch-issued-hawaii-after-m8-earthquake-off-russia\/\"><b>statewide tsunami alert in Hawaii<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, triggered by an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/featured-story\/usgs-releases-aftershock-forecast-m88-russian-kamchatka-peninsula-earthquake#:~:text=On%20July%2029%2C%202025%2C%20at,wide%20tsunami%20watches%20and%20warnings.\"><b>8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. While initial information was well-managed, he highlighted significant issues with <\/span><b>traffic chaos during evacuation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a concerning <\/span><b>lack of information post-wave impact<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On the technology front, Todd discussed <\/span><b>Google Notebook LM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, praising its ability to create succinct summaries and slideshows with voiceovers from source material. He also introduced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/en\/introducing-opal\/\"><b>Google Opal<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new experimental tool from Google Labs that allows users to build and share powerful AI mini-apps using <\/span><b>natural language and visual editing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, describing it as a &#8220;step beyond Visual Basic&#8221; for accelerating AI prototyping and workflows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon Westfall also shared his recent tech purchases and an exciting new project. He acquired an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CDG2HKBF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title\"><b>8Bitdo Micro Bluetooth Gamepad<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a pocket-sized mini-controller weighing just 24.8 grams with 16 buttons. Its versatility allows it to function as a game controller for Switch, Android, and Raspberry Pi, or as a <\/span><b>keyboard mode device<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for various applications, including as a remote for his new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us.kobobooks.com\/products\/kobo-libra-colour\"><b>Kobo Libra Colour eReader<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The Kobo Libra Colour features a <\/span><b>7&#8243; E Ink Kaleido\u2122 3 color display<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Kobo Stylus 2 compatibility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for colorful mark-ups and note-taking, with notebooks backed up to Kobo Cloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive. <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gD4fV6k5\">Jon also unveiled his open-source project, <\/a><\/span><b>Uncle John&#8217;s Bank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a self-hostable banking system for parents and kids designed to teach financial literacy, notably incorporating <\/span><b>daily compounding interest and Certificates of Deposit (CDs)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This sophisticated project was developed remarkably fast (75 hours) thanks to extensive use of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-codex\/\"><b>OpenAI Codex<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which integrated directly with his GitHub repository, even writing developer documentation. However, Jon noted a peculiar issue where <\/span><b>GitHub Copilot (AI) reviewing Codex (AI)-generated code sometimes caused new problems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, suggesting limitations in AI-to-AI code interaction. Finally, Jon shared intriguing results from asking various AIs (Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude) for investment advice, observing their diverse recommendations and risk appetites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall covered a range of interesting topics, from real-world natural disasters to the cutting edge of AI development and personal tech. 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