Episodes
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553: Fake AI Until You Make AI
January 17th, 2024 | 49 mins 31 secs
app store split, apple ai team, ces 2024 ai hype, companies with layoffs, discord, epic vs. apple final judgment, eu, post-holiday layoffs google, small business support group, smart bathroom tech, vision pro virtual keyboard
They are building AI into toilets now; CES was a clown show. But we put our business hats on and find the bright side.
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552: iPad Friend Zone
January 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
antitrust charges, app approval, app store rejections, apple approval, apple bullying tactics, apple ecosystem, apple rejection, apple vision pro, apple-fortnite dispute, biggest banks, bitcoin etf, blindspot, chatgpt valuation, coder qa crew, copyright infringement, department of justice, digital markets act, etf, failed negotiations, financial impact, free software project, hey calendar, hey calendar blog post, in-store experience, kangaroo court, limited quantity, liquid detection, macs, magna carta, marketing style guidelines, monkey jpgs, new york times lawsuit, openai and microsoft, personalized adjustments, preorders, price, pwa solution, sales start, tech bros, tech community history, the verge article, tim sweeney tweet, twitter threads, us stock market, usb-c ports, visionos
A prominent developer has brought the anti-trust heat against Apple to the public, kicking off a chain reaction that could have gone very wrong for Apple. Plus, why the Apple Vision Pro is destined for the Friend Zone.
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551: The Workstation Lifestyle
January 3rd, 2024 | 44 mins 59 secs
adobe, amd ryzen threadripper, antitrust laws, apple, apple watch series 9, apple watch ultra 2, assassin's creed, beeper mini, blood oxygen feature, coder radio, cooking process, dell precision, developers, development podcast, dsa violations, elden ring, epic games, eu, figma acquisition, fortnite, hardware, humbling experience, imessage, justice department, mike's new machine, nvidia rtx a2000, patent dispute, presidential review period, real-time 3d graphics, red dead redemption, regulatory approval, remake, scylladb, the coder robe, tim sweeney, uk, unreal engine, unreal engine 5, us senators, x
Mike shares his adventures and process of coming from mobile app projects to working with Unreal Engine, and why he realized a laptop just wasn't going to cut it.
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550: Buff Uncle Jeff
December 27th, 2023 | 51 mins 14 secs
advent calendars, ai training, anonymity, antitrust case, bat token, beeper, brave browser, cartridges, censoring, client fingerprints, coder robe, coding challenge, developers, development podcast, epic games, fat32, fxpak pro, google, krikzz, lfnw, linuxfest northwest, manipulation, microsd support, microsoft, oder radio, pasadena convention center, programmers, project measurement, puzzles, scale 21x, texas linux fest, tips, vivaldi browser, work and workflow changes
We reflect on how our work has changed over the last year and get some sage advice from buff Uncle Jeff.
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549: Hacking The Gathering
December 20th, 2023 | 57 mins 17 secs
2024 dev predictions, after-hours work, babylon 5, babylon 5 vs star trek, bard, brain implant, brain signals, burnout, c#, china, client-side code, coder radio, cyber intrusions, decompiled, deep space nine, desk workers, developers, development podcast, digital weapon, ds9, exploit, focus time, fps, google spotify deal, hacking, human trial, instawin, magic the gathering arena, meetings, network communication, neuralink, neuralink + chatgpt, patch, play store fees, productivity, programming, real-time info, secret deal, servers, slack, software engineers, source code review, star trek, stuxnet, the washington post, vulnerabilities
The clever way one developer hacked an online game, why we're not buying the latest round of cyber war fear, and we finally have our Babylon 5 vs Star Trek debate.
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548: Don't Fight the Music
December 13th, 2023 | 46 mins 17 secs
ai, ai tooling, apple, apple id, beeper mini, chatgpt, coder radio, coder robe, developers, development podcast, donkey kong country, florida joker, gemini, gergely orosz, google, gpt4, gta 6, hypebeast, imessage, junction, layoffs, llms, model behavior, push notifications, rockstar, ron wyden, snes, spotify ai, super mario cart, super mario world, vivaldi browser, washington post, zelda
The fantastic opportunity Google is letting slip through its hands, and why Apple might win the consumer LLM race.
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547: The Slow and the Infuriating
December 6th, 2023 | 58 mins 44 secs
.net 8, acquisition, activision blizzard, activision blizzard deal, alderon games, android game store, apple contractors, apple envy, aspire, aspire components, austin, brain-inspired chips, broadcom, cbc tv, chat history, coder radio, corporate layoffs, developers, development podcast, epic, evidence destruction, federal warn act, google, google chat history, google deal, job cuts, judge donato, layoffs, microsoft, middle east investors, mobile games, mobile gaming store, monopoly, openai, performance focused types, play store, play store monopoly, project boston, radio staff, rain ai, random shuffle, risc-v architecture, sam altman, serialization improvements, settlement, spotify, tailscale, transaction fee, twilio, unity, unreal, utf8 improvements, vmware jobs, workforce, workforce reduction, xbox, xcode
After years of resistance, Mike finally surrenders to Xcode. And the secret Apple envy leaked to the public this week.
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546: A Very Tidy Excuse
November 29th, 2023 | 44 mins 54 secs
agi, ai, ai breakthrough, ai doomers, ai regulation, amazon workspaces thin client, artificial general intelligence, aws, coder radio, desktop linux, developers, development podcast, fire tv cube, llms, microsoft ceo, openai researchers, openai upset, q-star, reuters, sam altman, satya nadella, secure by design, us britain ai agreement
The messy details and tidy excuses we noticed in all this OpenAI upset, and some fundamental problems that have been plaguing desktop Linux for years.
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545: Sam's Busy Weekend
November 22nd, 2023 | 48 mins 27 secs
acquisition, ai development pace, ai research team, alderon games, alex heath, angry horses, apple, azure, bin laden letter, bindu reddy, bloomberg, board, brad lightcap, cautious views, ceo, ceo title, chip venture, chris bakke, condolences, coup, developers, dumbest ai hype, egon, elon musk, emmett shear, existential risks, feedback, firing, google ai, gpus, greg brockman, hedgedoc, investors, memo, microsoft, microsoft hires, microsoft's investment, olympia mike, openai, openai staff, panic, podcast, power, protest, resignation, risk, sam altman, satya nadella, startups, tailscale, tensor processing units, tigris, tiktok ads, tpus, twitch, twitter advertising
OpenAI's weekend coup, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's gambit and their looming risk.
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544: Microsoft Already Did It
November 15th, 2023 | 40 mins 39 secs
a eulogy for coding, a.i. in programming work, ai tools, app store, apple, building a pc, chatgpt, chatgpt plus subscribers, chatgpts, coder radio, coding, ctrl+v generation, custom ai agents, developers, development podcast, ecosystem, gpt platform, grok, hostile platform, mac, openai, openai developer day, openaidevday, safari, search ads, teaching future generations
Yet another thing Microsoft was early to, and still somehow missed the boat.
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543: For Your Safety
November 8th, 2023 | 45 mins 13 secs
ai safety, apple tv+, bias, coder radio, data poisoning, data privacy, developers, development podcast, employee pay, equity, executive order, government agencies, hosted workstation, job opportunities, linux kernel code reviews, m1 air, manufacturing, nintendo executives, privacy, stack overflow survey, super mario bros, supply chain companies, technology industry
New AI "regulation" from on high this week, a few signs you might be pissing in your own pond, and the game dev team that's been together for 40 years.
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542: Fresh Cut Fraud
November 1st, 2023 | 39 mins 40 secs
ai, android 14, arm, chatcontrol, coder radio, developers, development podcast, engineers, european parliament, jetson, microsoft, nasa, nvidia, online safety bill, simulatated hardware, storage problems
We've all made mistakes and tried to play dumb, but this week history is being made.
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541: Better Late than Never
October 25th, 2023 | 46 mins 18 secs
ai, ajax, apple, arm-based pc chips, coder radio, coderly, developers, development podcast, economist steve hanke, generative ai, headscale, inflation, linux, mac event, nasa, nixos, nvidia, podcast index, risc-v, robe, robinhood, sifive, software engineering, ssd, tailscale, voyager 1, voyager 2, voyager team
Rumors of internal panic at Apple, and concerns about the future of RISC-V. Plus, the software update of the century.
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540: Sherlockin All Over the Place
October 18th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
4k nintendo 64, 90/10 rule, ai features, analogue, apple, big tech, c#, chat control 2.0, coder radio, dev retention rates, developers, development podcast, drew houston, dropbox, email, employee retention, end-to-end encryption, eu commission, mandatory chat control, messenger, n64 cartridges, openai, private messaging, remote work, scanning reports, secure encryption, sherlocked, surveillance, telephony, third-party developers, trust, videoconferencing, virtual-first company
We're about to see a wave of big tech AI features "inspired" by third-party developers at a scale that makes the Sherlocking on Apple's platform seem like chump change. Plus, how Dropbox turned around their dev retention rates, and more.
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539: Mike Breaks the Build
October 11th, 2023 | 56 mins 59 secs
ai, ai profitability, ai services, ai shaming, bialetti moka express, chemex, coffee, coffee maker, compiler macros, copilot, cross-platform testing, developers, disney's loki, domain nightmare, gaggia classic, github, greg price, hybrid workers, iced coffee, kuregs, microsoft, poetry, pour over coffee, press coverage, profitability, sam altman, sam altman's sister, secret invasion, windows
Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.
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538: You Never Forget Your First
October 4th, 2023 | 42 mins 48 secs
aeropress, alderon games, amazon secret 'project nessie' algorithm, apple enforces new check on apps in china, bones coffee out of fl, breville barista express, cafe americano, canada podcasting regulations, coder radio, developers, development podcast, eddy cue, eu tells tim cook to open up its gates to competitors, feedback, french press, how to brew espresso like a pro, john schmidtlein, microsoft ceo satya nadella, objective-c
How does your first major programming language/technology still shape your work and career? Then grab some popcorn and let's watch the next epic tech titan battle unfold.