Wes Payne

461: Easy for Schmidt to Say

April 13th, 2022  |  37 mins 35 secs

app store, apple, big tech, brew, coder radio, developer tooling, development podcast, elon musk, eric schmidt, fig, icloud, ide, ios, iterm, kubernetes, max howell, nextcloud, raspberry pi, remote work, return to the office, rust, tea, terminal, vscode, warp

We revel in the hypocrisy of big tech, share a few stories, and catch up with an old friend.

407: Halls of Glowing Apples

March 31st, 2021  |  55 mins 35 secs

.net, bastien nocera, bert belder, chip shortage, clojure, coder radio, deno, development podcast, gnome 40, gplv2, java, jupiter broadcasting, linux, m1, mime types database, mimemagic, mit license, node.js, ruby on rails, rubygems, ryan dahl, shared-mime-info, supply chain, web development

Ruby has gone off the rails this week, and Wes is here to explain what’s happened.

399: Better Living Through Bots

February 3rd, 2021  |  36 mins 21 secs

automation, chatbot, coder radio, deepfake, development podcast, huginn, jupiter broadcasting, outage post mortem, perl.com hijack, personality index, slack, social data

Microsoft is working on a bot that can deepfake you real good, and we have thoughts.

378: Rust, Safe for Marketing

September 9th, 2020  |  56 mins 47 secs

c++ 20, c++ programming language, coder radio, development, fastapi, go, microsoft adopts rust, miguel de icaza, podcast, privacy nutrition labels, python, rust, small business, swift

A special friend of the show joins us to discuss C++ in 2020 and the growing adoption of Rust.

375: The Grey Havens

September 16th, 2019  |  33 mins 16 secs

.net, 7 languages in 7 weeks, apple, automation, bots, business, coder radio, computer science, containers, deployment, developer podcast, devops, docker, dotcloud, functional programming, getting started, iot, jupiter broadcasting, microsoft, mobile, mobile development, objective c, oop, open source, red hat, serverless, software consulting, swift

We say goodbye to the show by taking a look back at a few of our favorite moments and reflect on how much has changed in the past seven years.

374: Python's Long Tail

September 9th, 2019  |  33 mins 27 secs

app store, apple, clue, coder radio, developer podcast, dropbox, emulator, fuzzy finder, fzf, go, google, jupiter broadcasting, macos, perl, perl 6 microsoft, playstation, projectpsx, pry, python, python2, ruby, sherlock, static type checking, typescript, web development

As Python 2's demise draws near we reflect on Python's popularity, the growing adoption of static typing, and why the Python 3 transition took so long.

Plus Apple's audacious app store tactics, Google's troubles with Typescript, and more!

373: Interactive Investigations

September 2nd, 2019  |  37 mins

.net, advertising, appimage, application packaging, bpython, c#, clojure, coder radio, containers, developer podcast, docker, exploratory programming, f#, flatpak, formal methods, forth, homebrew, interactive development, jupiter broadcasting, litecli, macos, macros, memory safety, monkeypatching, npm, pry, python, rebel-readline, repl, ruby, rust, scripting languages, smalltalk, snapcraft, sql, sqlite, supporting open source

We debate the best way to package scripting language apps then explore interactive development and the importance of a good shell.

372: Crystal Clear

August 26th, 2019  |  54 mins 1 sec

7 languages, 7 languages challenge, 7 languages in 7 weeks, abc, abstraction, academia, breaking changes, coder radio, concurrency, crystal, cs, developer podcast, fibers, foss, green threads, intel, julia, jupiter broadcasting, macros, math, nil, null, null-safety, python, rails, rails 6, rust, safety, semver, software maintenance, static types, systems programming, tragedy of the commons

We're back and going crazy about Crystal, a statically typed language that's as fast as C and as slick as ruby.

371: Absurd Abstractions

August 19th, 2019  |  39 mins 22 secs

abstraction, activestorage, algebraic effects, api, coder radio, crystal, developer podcast, donald knuth, functional programming, interfaces, java, joel spolsky, jupiter broadcasting, knuth, leaky abstractions, minio, open source, protocol, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, s3, seven languages challenge, seven languages in seven weeks, type dispatch

It’s a Coder Radio special all about abstraction. What it is, why we need it, and what to do when it leaks.

370: F'ing #

August 12th, 2019  |  44 mins 4 secs

.net, 737, 737 max, aerospace, boeing, coder radio, concurrency, developer podcast, f#, functional programming, jupiter broadcasting, microsoft, ml, open source, pattern matching, ruby, rust, static types, topshell

Things get heated when it’s time for Wes to check-in on Mike’s functional favorite, F#, and share his journey exploring modern .NET on Linux.

369: Old Man Embraces Cloud

August 5th, 2019  |  49 mins 7 secs

advice, audio, audio technica, aws, browser extension, browser extension development, buildah, cgroups, chrome, cloud, coder radio, containers, developer podcast, docker, docker-compose, education, firefox, jack, jupiter broadcasting, learning new things, linux audio, microphone, namespaces, new technology, podman, red hat, scaling containers, security, staying fresh, sustainable development, tools, virtual machines, wisdom

Chris finally gets excited about Docker just as Wes tells him it’s time to learn something new.

368: Clojure Clash

July 29th, 2019  |  43 mins 36 secs

.net, 7 languages, clojure, clojurescript, coder radio, computer science, developer podcast, elixir, erdos, erlang, f#, foss, github, jupiter broadcasting, kotlin, lisp, microsoft, open source, openssl, parinfer, rust, rustls, sensitivity conjecture, tls, trade policy, trade war

Mike and Wes debate the merits and aesthetics of Clojure in this week's rowdy language check-in.

367: 10x Evilgineers

July 22nd, 2019  |  34 mins 43 secs

10x, 10x engineers, app development, app store, app store tax, apple, c++, coder radio, culture, developer podcast, emacs, epic, evil, fortnite, fp, functional programming, google, intellij, jetbrains, jupiter broadcasting, monopoly, oop, play store, programming tools, rubocop, rubymine, software development, spacemacs, spotify, tinder, tools, vi, vim

Mike rekindles his youthful love affair with Emacs and we debate what makes a "10x engineer".

366: Functional First

July 16th, 2019  |  38 mins 53 secs

.net, api design, c#, clojure, coder radio, data driven development, data flow, data pipeline, developer podcast, frp, functional programming, haskell, idempotent, immutability, integration tests, jupiter broadcasting, mapreduce, mechanize, mocking, object oriented programming, oop, programming culture, programming paradigms, rafal dittwald, react, reactive programming, redis, redux, reframe, ruby, ruby f#, software architecture, software design, solving problems the clojure way, static types, testing, wasm, web scraping, webassembly

It’s a Coder Radio special as Mike and Wes dive into functional programming in the real world and share their tips for applying FP techniques in any language.

365: Objectively Old

July 8th, 2019  |  38 mins 7 secs

7 languages, backend development, butterfly keyboard, c++, coder radio, design, developer laptop, developer podcast, gnustep, ios, jony ive, jupiter broadcasting, keyboard, language time travel, linux, macbook, object oriented programming, objective-c, oop, programming challenge, programming languages, scissor-switch keyboard, server side development, smalltalk, swift message passing, vscode, windows, windows development, wsl

Wes turns back the clock and explores the message passing mania of writing Objective-C without a Mac, and we wax-poetic about programming language history.

364: Gabbing About Go

July 1st, 2019  |  48 mins 46 secs

7 languages challenge, 7 languages in 7 weeks, accounting, apple, application distribution, bureaucracy, c++, coder radio, compilers, concurrency, developer podcast, executable, go, goroutines, gradual types, ide, jony ive, jupiter broadcasting, linux, oop, pex, programming, prototyping, pyoxidizer, python, python packaging, ruby, ruby on rails, rust, shiv, sorbet, static linking, static types, stripe, type checking, windows, wsl, wsl2

Mike and Wes burrow into the concurrent world of Go and debate where it makes sense and where it may not.