In the first episode, Jake explores the strange, stubborn life of HTTP status code 418: how a joke protocol for internet-connected coffee pots became a real standard, why developers fought to keep it when someone tried to remove it, and how it ended up on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defence during one of the most serious moments in recent history.

Along the way: what a well-placed "I'm a teapot" says about building better AI, and why confidently knowing your limits might be the most underrated quality a system — or a person — can have.

A show about the web, accessibility, AI, and the fact that the internet is gloriously weird.

I'm Jake. I'm a teapot. And I hope you are too.