Coder Radio

446: Blizzard Battery Battle

December 29th, 2021  |  38 mins 19 secs

alice, battle born batteries, coder radio, developer funding, development podcast, freezing lithium-ion, funding free software, github sponsors, open source maintainers, pangolin review, patreon, system 76, the mad botter

Mike finds a new normal and doubles down on what works. Chris meanwhile is stranded in the woods and is having a bit of a panic.

445: Say No to Node

December 22nd, 2021  |  56 mins 52 secs

apple, async activerecord, coder radio, development podcast, mac apps on ipad, node, rails 7, return to offices, ruby on rails, swift playgrounds, the one person framework, webpack, xcode for ios

We're both impressed by Rails 7 and how an old foe got us down again.

444: Mining the Logs

December 15th, 2021  |  40 mins 50 secs

app store, apple, apple silicon porting guide, coder fire, coder radio, crypto miners, csam, development podcast, elastic, ios 15.2, ios family account, jndi, log4j, log4shell, malware, microsoft, mike's xbox, nude-image detection, open source funding, robe fire, show note search, vulnerability, xbox-exclusive games

The broader software problem the Log4Shell vulnerability reveals, and the story of how Chris lit his Coder robe on fire... While wearing it.

443: Reptilian Power Play

December 8th, 2021  |  48 mins 23 secs

900 fired, a freelancer’s dilemma, apple's plan to crack small business, better.com, blockchain uses, business essentials, centos, coder radio, development podcast, ec2 m1, fedora, hdmi, kinesis keyboard, opensuse, paper notes, system for productivity, task management, tumbleweed, ubuntu

We peak in on one of the nastiest corporate moves in a while, and Chris has a big confession.

442: Touched by the Bar

December 1st, 2021  |  47 mins 52 secs

bumpr, clipboard manager, coder radio, development podcast, ditto, elgato stream deck, intel build time, junction for linux, linux virtual machine, m1 election performance, m1 max review, metal, parallels desktop 17, performance, python productivity tricks, sqlalchemy, vifo, virtio gpu, visual studio code for python

Mike visits Pallet Town and comes back with some SQLAlchemy performance wisdom to share. Meanwhile, struggling with a lack of performance, Chris has kicked the tires of his new M1 Max MacBook Pro and is ready to share his counter-narrative take on the new hardware.

441: Dependency Derby

November 24th, 2021  |  45 mins 1 sec

coder radio, development podcast, drew decault, fastapi on windows, pip, python, python packaging, ruby, rust core team, rust drama, rust moderator resignations, solid, unaccountability, web3, windows 11 development environment, wsl

Are Linux devs getting upset with the Python community? We weigh in on a nuanced issue. Plus the mass-moderator resignation over at Rust, and Mike's thoughts on setting up a dev environment on Windows 11.

440: Just Say No to M1

November 17th, 2021  |  38 mins 26 secs

app tracking transparency, apple buys google ads, apple search ads, apple services, att, blockchain, coder radio, development podcast, linux, pangolin, paradigm, pop os, ryzen, side-loading, system76, web3

We get some spicy emails, dig into why Mike just picked up another Linux laptop, and then share our real thoughts on Web3.

439: Github NoPilot

November 10th, 2021  |  59 mins 13 secs

.net 6, .net native aot, ahead of time compilation, arm64, azure, coder radio, craig federighi, development podcast, github ceo, github copilot, iphone malware, julia liuson, nat friedman, python, sideloading, single binary, thomas dohmke, vscode

Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.

438: The Oppenheimer Problem

November 3rd, 2021  |  55 mins 9 secs

173-page unredacted filing, airplay to mac port 5000, apfs, async-ruby, coder radio, concurrency gem, concurrent-ruby, data volume, development podcast, fiberscheduler, firmlinked, gnome shell, google amp, immutable filesystem, inotch, jedi blue, low power mode, macos, monterey, project bernanke, project jedi, project nera, ruby async, ruby blocks, ruby fibers, sealed system volume, simplified boot volume, snapshot, terminal

After a little async Ruby chat and developer morality struggle, Chris explains how macOS Monterey has lapped Linux with a critical workstation feature.

437: Microsoft War Stories

October 27th, 2021  |  48 mins 22 secs

.net 6, .net 6 sdk, apple tech talks, c+, claire novotny, coder radio, css, development podcast, foundation, html, javascript, m1 max, m1 pro, microsoft, project reunion, python, son, typescript, universal windows platform, uwp, uwp deprecated, visual studio code for the web, vscode.dev, windows app sdk, wwdc is dead

Chatting about the week's .NET news leads us into a blue-tinted tale of woe. When Microsoft taketh, they also giveth. But is it enough?

436: The Diablo is in the Details

October 20th, 2021  |  1 hr 6 mins

apple mac event, coder radio, data loss, development podcast, diablo ii outage postmortem, django, facebook assassination, fastapi, flask, jetbrains, m1 max, m1 pro, numpy, promotion, pycharm, python developers survey, vs code

Why mastering your development environment can be a tricky feat, and a server outage brought to you by the late 1990s.

435: Ask Alice

October 13th, 2021  |  59 mins 15 secs

ai bot, alice, anti-steering, apple apeals epic, asahi linux, ask alice, asyncio, automation, c++, coder radio, data formats, development podcast, fastapi, learning python, m1 linux support, open podcasting, pyo3, rosetta stone, rust, twitch data leak, understanding python, universal data fluency, websockets

Mike just launched the secret project he's been working on for months and shares all the details.

434: Coding Gungan Style

October 6th, 2021  |  44 mins 11 secs

apple "unique arrangement" with netflix, coder radio, codex, development podcast, facebook, hermit programmers, hip hop vm, m1 update, middle-skilled developer, move fast, openai, prompt engineering, python 3.10, test suite effectiveness, types in python, vscode

It's final push time on a big project for Mike, but Chris is the one who is exhausted. But we've got some new insights into testing and thoughts on an emerging category of developer.

433: Falling for FastAPI

September 29th, 2021  |  46 mins 57 secs

apis with python, apple, coder radio, coder to developer, deirdre o'brien, development podcast, employee monitoring, fair pay, fastapi, ios focus, nfc tag, pay equity, pydantic, shortcut automation, sqlmodel, starlette, street coder book review, svp of retail and people, tim cook, typer, web framework

Mike's falling in love with FastAPI and gives us a hint at the next project he's building.

432: That Time We Stepped In It

September 22nd, 2021  |  50 mins 26 secs

apple slack, coder radio, colorado, development podcast, equal pay for equal work act, experimental os, fair pay, focus, ios 15, live text, microsoft, phone support, safe programming language, singularity

We’ve really had a week, one of those makes ya feel old kinda weeks.

431: Success is not Illegal

September 15th, 2021  |  52 mins 5 secs

a15, apple m1, apple vs epic, c++, california streaming reaction, coder radio, development podcast, employment law, facebook, gonzalez rogers, instagram is toxic, intellij, ipad mini, iphone 13, java, jdk 17, k-duo, labor relations, mobile game transactions market, pay discussions, promotion, prores, vscode, windows, wsl, wsl2

The more you read into it, the worse it gets.

At least we have new devices to keep us happy.