Coder Radio

A weekly talk show

About the show

A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 575: The Omakub Directive

    June 19th, 2024  |  51 mins 36 secs
    ai features, anthropic, apple silicon, arm notebook, bad performance, bamboohr survey, benefit corporation, blame employees, coder radio, desktop linux, developers, development podcast, easy bluetooth, ecosystem, embedded open source summit, employee job satisfaction, firm performance, firm values, for-profit corporation, green status effect, hyper-available, ipados, linux, managers, microsoft, nonprofit board, notes, office culture, openai, operating system, phone syncing, privacy, qualcomm, reassert control, recall, return to office, rto mandates, s&p 500, scapegoat, security safeguards, snapdragon, soc, spyware, stock market index, usb-c, wwdc, xai

    A couple of our long-standing forecasts are coming true. We unpack the recent developments. Plus, our thoughts on OpenAI going commercial and more.

  • 574: Craig Stans Unite

    June 12th, 2024  |  40 mins 25 secs
    ai, apple, apple intelligence, chatgpt, coder radio, developers, development podcast, generative ai, ios 18, ipados 18, macos sequoia, privacy, siri, wwdc 2024, xcode 16

    Our thoughts and reactions to Apple's WWDC '24, and more importantly what was missed.

  • 573: The Ultimate Computer

    June 5th, 2024  |  54 mins 2 secs
    ai, ai safety, arm holdings, azure, ceo, chatgpt outage, chip designer, coder radio, developers, development podcast, google privacy breach, hololens, microsoft, microsoft layoffs, openai, openai whistleblowers, reckless culture, right to warn, tech layoffs, windows developers, windows pc market

    The story of how Mike got in a fight with a supercomputer and, like Captain Kirk, came out on top.