Episodes
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590: Google’s Loss is Our Win
October 9th, 2024 | 34 mins 45 secs
Our reaction to Google's major legal blow, forcing them to open the Play Store wide, our thoughts on the world's lovefest with AI-generated podcasts, and the next tool Microsoft is porting over from Linux.
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589: Blame the Tools using the Tools
October 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
ai safety bill, apple, ar glasses, big tech power demands, california ai regulations, coder radio, cosmic, data centers, developers, development podcast, education technology, energy needs, hololens, iphone foldable, meta quest 3s, microsoft, nuclear power, open source ai, openai restructuring, orion, sam altman, superintelligence
Our thoughts on big tech firing up old nuclear reactors to satisfy the AI growth plans, Sam's big week, and debate if Meta just had their iPhone moment.
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A Coder PSA
September 24th, 2024 | 1 min 46 secs
A quick update from Chris on where the show is at this week, and what to watch out for next week!
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588: Hulk Smash “PUNY DEVS”
September 18th, 2024 | 59 mins 32 secs
ai cameras, anthropic, california ai bill, coder radio, crowdstrike incident, demand decline, developers, development podcast, drones, google, iphone 16 pre-orders, kernel access, larry ellison, liability, microsoft, open-source ai, openai, oracle, police oversight, regulation, safety committee, safety protocols, sam altman, surveillance, windows security
The insidious undercurrents threatening to crush open-source AI projects, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's "big changes" to Windows post-CrowdStrike.
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587: Surfing the WSL Wave
September 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 sec
a18 chip, active-listening software, antitrust, apple, apple ai, apple intelligence, apple watch series 10, coder radio, cox media group, developers, development podcast, digital ads market, doj, google, ios 18, iphone 16 pro, iphone 16 pro max, key management, nostr, privacy concerns, r programming language, satellite messaging, sleep apnea detection, steve jobs, targeted advertising, tim cook, wsl
Our thoughts on the iPhone 16, and then Mike surfs the WSL wave.
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586: Mike's Clone Army
September 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai, amazon s3, app cloning, apple, aws, burnout, coder radio, coding, conditional writes, developers, development podcast, devops, digital id, dmca, docker-osx, dokku, freelancers, github, ios, kubernetes, language models, productivity, pwas, release management, steve jobs, workload
How Mike plans to win the Clone Wars with Dokku, we review some shocking developer data and say goodbye to another project DMCA'd by Apple.
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585: From Ops to Dev and Back Again
August 28th, 2024 | 53 mins 30 secs
apple tabletop robot, cloud skills training, cloud talent shortage, coder qa, coder radio, compliance issues, data collection operators, developers, development and operations collaboration, development podcast, devops history, docker, foxconn, generative ai criticism, github influence, hongzhun, humanoid robot, ipad illustration, john allspaw, motion capture, patrick debois, paul hammond, procreate, rails, security vulnerabilities, tdd, tesla optimus training
We reflect on the rise of DevOps and the frustrating dynamics that led to it. Plus, tech's latest bright idea: Roombas with attitude.
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584: Google’s Poisoned Apple
August 21st, 2024 | 47 mins 35 secs
c++ programming, coder radio, developers, development podcast, diablo for web browsers, digital driver's licenses, epic vs google app store lawsuit, github copilot autofix, github outage, google antitrust breakup, network-attached storage, open source contributions, raspberry pi 5
The walled garden wrecking ball is fueling up - where we think it strikes first. Plus, what was really behind the recent GitHub outage.
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583: A Shekel for Every Click
August 14th, 2024 | 53 mins 45 secs
app security rules, apple's app store policies, arcee.ai, automatic speeding violation reporting, coder radio, developers, development podcast, ford patent, google pixel 9 announcement, in-app purchase requirements, instructlab, law enforcement vehicles, linux advantages, macos sequoia permission changes, patreon fee increase, pixel 9 pro and pro xl announcement, potential standardization, purpose-focused llms, screen recording apps, small ai models
Apple goes into full crackdown mode and begins to squeeze even more out of developers and creators. Plus, why tiny models are suddenly the rage.
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582: Intel: It Hurts Inside
August 7th, 2024 | 55 mins 36 secs
advertising, antitrust, appeal, apple, apple intelligence, coder radio, cpu failures, data management, default search engine, department of justice, developers, development podcast, distributed file system, features, google, intel, ios 18, layoffs, monopoly, phishing, podcast, search market, seaweedfs, siri
We take a look at SeaweedFS, roast Apple Intelligence, and reveal the vendor that caught Intel's mess before it shipped.
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581: Lunacy Lake
July 31st, 2024 | 48 mins 51 secs
ai search, airlines, antitrust, banking, blockchain, c# type unions, california dmv, car titles, coder radio, cpu issue, crowdstrike outage, crypto regulation, developers, development podcast, fraud, google, healthcare, intel, kamala harris, losses, microcode patch, openai, raptor lake, searchgpt, transportation, waitlist
Why is Google feeling lucky, and the Intel situation slips into pure lunacy. Plus, thoughts on the C# Type Union proposal.
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580: Error Lake
July 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
ai safety, amd, bsod, chip manufacturing, coder radio, cpu crashes, crowdstrike, developers, development podcast, driver error, employee agreements, european commission, government regulation, instability, intel, kernel panic, llama, meta, microcode error, microsoft, nondisclosure agreements, open-source ai, openai, security software, water scarcity, whistleblowers
Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.
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579: The Insufferable Small Business
July 17th, 2024 | 52 mins 35 secs
adobe photoshop performance, ai bubble, ai carbon emissions, battery life, benchmarks, bigtech, blender performance, capex, climate change, coder radio, compute infrastructure, copilot plus pcs, data centers, developer support, developers, development podcast, enterprise adoption, gpu performance, investment risks, llms, macbook air comparison, native arm64 support, nuclear power, overvaluation, power grid, product integration, snapdragon x cpus, stock market, water consumption, windows on arm, x86 emulation
Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it.
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578: Cancel the 100X
July 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
apple apps, apple intelligence, bloomberg, chatgpt integration, coder radio, context-aware assistance, developer beta, developers, development podcast, display interaction, generative ai, ios 18.4, mark gurman, photo editing, public launch, release timeline, siri, wwdc announcement delay
Apple finally stands down in its battle with Epic, and Google gets caught with its hand in the full access to everything jar.
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577: Holy Order of the Admins
July 2nd, 2024 | 47 mins 50 secs
advanced features, ai, alice ai, apple intelligence, aspen institute, bugs, character.ai, chatgpt, coder radio, computing resources, developer, developers, development podcast, docker, eq, events, fountain, github issue, google, indeed, iq, jar-jar desktop, lary summers, macos, meta, migration, mitigations, monthly fees, no-li brewhouse, obj-c, oneapi, open-source, oses, perforce, piper, regression testing, repository operations, research partnerships, retail demos, rosetta, rust, smtp, software development job postings, source control, spokane meetup, st. louis fed, sycl, system76, tdd, terminal, testgen-llm, testing, unit test improvement, user stories, vision pro, xai
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests, and the crazy deals new AI companies are getting themselves into to access hardware.
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576: The New 800-pound Gorilla
June 26th, 2024 | 59 mins 15 secs
ai-generated, anti-steering, antitrust, app store, apple, bots, bundling, coder radio, developers, development podcast, dma, eu, fake images, microsoft, mof, open source ai, osi, social media, teams
Big Tech vs. Big Brother, how Ashley Madison predicted the rise of AI bots and the messy world of "open source" AI.