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Sep 7, 2026
NC #1113 Marked QL, Invisible Cadence Editing, UGREEN Transmitter/Receiver, AI-Assisted Coding with Adam Engst
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62:34Adam EngstGUEST
Wait, so you were
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62:35Allison SheridanHOST
referencing these reviews in MacUser
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62:39Adam EngstGUEST
and then talking about them?
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62:41Allison SheridanHOST
No, just
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62:42Adam EngstGUEST
literally indexing them.
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62:43Allison SheridanHOST
So
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62:44Adam EngstGUEST
if you wanted to look up, you could search on RamDobbler, and it would tell you that it was reviewed in that issue of MacUser, so you could go find it in your collection.
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62:52Adam EngstGUEST
Because you had no other way of knowing which issue of MacUser it would be in, even if you were a subscriber and had all of them.
Floppy Days 166 - Interview with David Pogue, Tech Journalist and Author
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17:55David PogueGUEST
So the same guy, the same editor, volunteer editor, Rob Allen, said after about a year, you know, I love that you're writing reviews for our little newsletter, but you could be making money from this.
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18:08David PogueGUEST
Why don't you send your sample writings, your sample reviews to the glossy computer magazines like Macworld and Macuser? And maybe they'll hire you and pay you for this.
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18:19David PogueGUEST
And so that's what I did.
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18:21David PogueGUEST
I didn't hear back from Mac user, but Macworld hired me immediately.
CCATP #840 — Adam Engst on From HyperCard to AI-Assisted Programming

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37:13Adam EngstGUEST
Wait, so you were
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37:14Alison SheridanHOST
referencing these reviews in MacUser and then
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37:18Adam EngstGUEST
talking about
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37:18Alison SheridanHOST
them? No, just
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37:21Adam EngstGUEST
literally indexing them.
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37:22Adam EngstGUEST
So that if you wanted to look up, you could search on RamDubbler, and it would tell you that it was reviewed in that issue of MacUser, so you could go find it in your collection.
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37:31Adam EngstGUEST
Because you had no other way of knowing which issue of MacUser it would be in, even if you were a subscriber and had all of them.
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37:38Alison SheridanHOST
Okay.