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

  • 394: SaaS is a Blast

    December 30th, 2020  |  50 mins 24 secs
    coder radio, development podcast, jetbrains, jupiter broadcasting, pylance, python, saas for small business

    Services and subscriptions get a bad wrap, so we flip the script and talk about the ones we're grateful to pay for.

  • 393: The Snake in the Room

    December 23rd, 2020  |  1 hr 7 mins
    coder radio, development podcast, edge on linux, fastapi, flask, forking gnome, getting started with mac development, gooseneck tablet holder, is python too slow, jupiter broadcasting, mechanical keyboard chat, mechanical keyboards, plasma desktop, portable monitor, pylance for vscode, qt python bindings, system76, weighted shortest job first

    Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns.

  • 392: Seduced by The Snake

    December 16th, 2020  |  54 mins 40 secs
    apple m1, atreus, coder radio, development podcast, ergodox, github, jupiter broadcasting, mechanical ergonomic keyboard, olkb, plasma desktop, python, qmk firmware, qt 6.0, qt for python 6, vscode

    Mike recalls how he accidentally converted his development shop into a Python house, and Chris experiments with his Minimum Viable Robe.

  • 391: Coder In the Woods

    December 9th, 2020  |  35 mins 55 secs
    coder radio, development podcast, independent business, jupiter broadcasting, lifestyle business, ryzen, small business strategy, system76

    Time to talk business, and Chris reveals his biggest mistake since going independent.

  • 390: The Gold Rust

    December 2nd, 2020  |  38 mins 32 secs
    amazon rust, code mechanical keyboard, coder radio, das keyboard q, development podcast, hector martin, jupiter broadcasting, mechanical keyboard, rosetta2, salesforce buys slack, shane miller, ubuntu virtualized on m1, vortex race 3, why aws loves rust

    After we geek out about keyboards, we answer some feedback and take a dip in the Rust lust.

  • 389: Smoked Laptops

    November 25th, 2020  |  50 mins 2 secs
    coder radio, development podcast, galgo pro, jupiter broadcasting, laptop for dev work, lenovo, python, ruby, system76, tensorflow, thinkpad x1

    Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

  • 388: MacOS Lincoler

    November 18th, 2020  |  56 mins 10 secs
    benchmarks, coder radio, development podcast, jupiter broadcasting, m1 chip, macos big sur, opensuse, performance, pop_os, suse datacenter, youtube-dl

    The guys deploy their sage wisdom to answer your age-old questions and solve why the latest macOS is less appealing than ever to developers.

  • 387: ARMed & Dangerous

    November 11th, 2020  |  30 mins 23 secs
    apple event recap, arm mac, coder radio, development podcast, jupiter broadcasting, python, ruby, xcode on arm

    Our first reactions to Apple's ARM event, how these new systems will impact developers, and if we're buying one.

  • 386: i386

    November 4th, 2020  |  57 mins 6 secs
    arm mac, coder radio, coldfusion, dark matter developer, development podcast, iphone 12, jupiter broadcasting, linux development, mac os development problems, raspberry pi 400, windows compatibility

    Chris attempts a Lizard intervention and gets sucked into Mike's Green tinted data center paradise.

  • 385: Edging the Fox

    October 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 1 min
    chrome, coder radio, dark matter devs, development podcast, firefox, gnome extension crash, google, ios, ish shell, jupiter broadcasting, microsoft edge, mozilla, storage access api, vscode browser developer tool, w3c, web standards

    Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.

  • 384: Leaping Lizard People

    October 21st, 2020  |  53 mins 14 secs
    5g, apple iphone 12, coder radio, dark matter dev, development podcast, dropbox, google, homepod mini, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, lte, micro, opensuse, oracle, suse, typescript, vim, vscode, wfh, work frome home

    It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

  • 383: Java Justice

    October 13th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins
    coder radio, development podcast, google, google llc v. oracle america, inc, java apis, java emails, jonathan schwartz, julia, jupiter broadcasting, linux, oracle, rebasing windows, rubin email thread, sun, sun microsystems, traveling salesman record

    We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

  • 382: Hacktoberbust

    October 6th, 2020  |  53 mins 7 secs
    amd, apple, apple silicon benchmarks, arm, coder challenge, coder radio, cpu, development podcast, futhark, github, hacktoberfest, jupiter broadcasting, linux users, nvidia, opensuse, pr spam, rust kernel development

    We examine the deeper problems in Open Source development the recent Hacktoberfest drama has exposed.

  • 381: Flamewar Feedback Frenzy

    September 30th, 2020  |  57 mins 50 secs
    coder radio, containers, development podcast, google to enforce 30% cut, independent development, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, oss laugnages, rancheros, ruby 3.0, suse, swift system, vscode

    We provoked quite a response and cover the feedback that puts us in our place. Then we dive into the wild era of text editor of yore and solve an age-old question.

  • 380: Developer Unfriendly

    September 23rd, 2020  |  54 mins 3 secs
    arm, coder radio, development podcast, egpu, epic, flask blueprints, ios 14, jupiter broadcasting, laptop, lemur pro, linux laptop, linux server, opensuse, oryx pro, people powered, python, sap, sles, system76, tiktok, unreal

    We get nerdy about Blueprints, and then wary about the future of software distribution.

  • 379: Neckbeards Get Shaved

    September 16th, 2020  |  56 mins 13 secs
    apple hiring rust engineers, c++, coder radio, cross-platform application development, development podcast, hardest programming language to learn, jupiter broadcasting, memory safety, microsoft’s underwater data center, post-open source, rust, swift

    Is it a Post-Open Source world now that the mega-clouds are here? We share our thoughts on this renewed idea.