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

  • 522: Reddit Goes Dark

    June 14th, 2023  |  57 mins 33 secs
    api changes, apollo, app store rating, apple, apple vision headset, apple's game porting toolkit, ar, bottles, ceo ama, cheaper version, coder radio, crossover, debug env, developers, development podcast, gaming revenue, graphics card support, hardware, iphone x, lack of egpu support, mac pro, microsoft, moderators, negative reviews, pc gaming revenue, players, protest, reddit, reddit users, revolt, sonma, subreddits going dark, swiftui, third-party apps, upgrade, ventrua, whisky, wine deps, wine wrapper, x86 brew, x86 terminal, x86 wine, xbox, xcode cli tools

    We chew on the ridiculous situation Reddit has created for itself and the weak position of app developers.

  • 521: More Pro, More Problems

    June 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 2 mins
    $3, 15 inch airs, 499, air pods adaptive audio, apple, apple vision pro development kits, apple vision pro testers, ar headset, ar on ipad, arial screen saver, autocorrect keyboard, baller boosts, binance, biofeedback, boooosts, brain-machine-interface, chris, coder radio, coinbase, developers, development podcast, digital contact sharing apps, eye tracking, eyes, facetime, front screen, game mode, hands, ice breaker, ios 17, ipad, ipad shit show, iphone, iphone 12, live activities, m series mac, m2 chip, m2 max, m2 soc, m2 ultra, mac gaming performance, mac hardware, mac pro, mac studio, macos, optic id, point and speak, predictions inline, r1 chip, rust keynote, sec suees, sensitive content warning, sensors, separate wired battery, sherlocked, siri enhancements, spacial computing, standby mode, sterling crispin, swiftui, unwanted nudes, video call effects, vision pro, visionos, voice control, webapps, widgets, wire, wwdc leftovers

    We argue over what sucked the most at WWDC this year and then surprise each other with two things that thrill us.

  • 520: Microsoft Goes All-In

    May 31st, 2023  |  1 hr 11 mins
    accountability, ai takeover, cloud-powered workstations, coder radio, dev box, developers, development podcast, disruptive innovations, early-stage capital, experimentation, failure, growth, innovation, jeanheyd meneide, market dominance, market share, mechanical keyboards, microsoft, microsoft build, profitability, revenue streams, risk-taking, rust, rust community, scalability, tech startups, vc funding, windows 365 boot

    We chew on the best bits from this year's Microsoft Build and the bright red flag coming from the Rust community.

  • 519: Not So OpenAI

    May 24th, 2023  |  44 mins 53 secs
    ai control, ai debate, ai developer license, ai oversight, ai regulation, ai regulations, ai regulatory hearing, ai risks, amazon, api, apple trademark activity, apple's ar platform, ar camera system, ar content, ar experiences, ar gaming, ar/vr headset, artificial intelligence, coder radio, computer operating systems, deadly ai, design, development podcast, devone, education, existential risks, for-profit company, fosters, gaming, hate for azure, hp instant ink, immersive ar applications, james bond, mac vs linux, microsoft partnership, moat, non-profit organization, nutrition labels, open source ai development, openai, openai ceo, policy makers, press coverage, pricing, reality pro, reality pro launch, realityo systems llc, realityproos, realos, regulation, report, responsible ai development, retail, sam altman, scorecards, senate hearing, serverless, social media, subscription, tech companies, testimony, unable to print, us government, value4value, world government regulatory body, wwdc

    OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has gone straight for the open-source kill move.

  • 518: Driving Mr. Dominick

    May 17th, 2023  |  1 hr 33 secs
    ad revenue, ai battles, apple, brian roemmele, ceo, chat-gpt, chatgpt, cloud service, coder radio, development podcast, ecosystem, elon musk, generative ai, gmail, google assistant, google i/o, google photos, iphone, kennedy interview, linode, llms, m2 macs, m3 chips, new twitter ceo, nvidia, open source, openai, product, production capacity, scientific process, silicon neural engine, sundar pichai, toyota, transform twitter, tsmc, twitter, vehicle data leak

    We laugh at Google's scramble, check in on the Twitter collapse, and how one developer's little mistake screwed millions.

  • 517: Savage Serverless Shutdown

    May 10th, 2023  |  47 mins 18 secs
    2024 election, accurate journalism, ai advancement, ai and social media, ai code assistants, ai doomerism, amazon, architecture redesign, bamboozled, censorship, codeium, coder radio, community reactions, cost reduction, delay, development podcast, dmca takedown, driver patches, empirical evidence, fake news, google ai team, homebrew projects, intel, ipad, kelsey hightower, linode, linux, lockpick, m3 mac, media market, meteor lake, microservices, monolith, next year, nintendo, prime video, rust, self-regulation, serverless, skyline emulator, stack overflow developer survey, tailscale, tsmc, yield issues

    A scathing takedown of Serverless... By Amazon? We react to this strange revelation and more.

  • 516: There is No Moat

    May 3rd, 2023  |  1 hr 6 secs
    ad revenue, alphabet, amazon, bing, chatgpt, cloud adoption, coder radio, dangers of ai, development podcast, digital ads, fraudulent applications, geoffrey hinton, google, google leaked file, h1-b visa, layoffs, llama, llms, meta, neural networks, openai, responsible approach to ai, sernau, uscis, visa requests, we have no moat

    Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so."

  • 515: Codeium Comes for Copilot

    April 26th, 2023  |  56 mins 4 secs
    adapters, antitrust lawsuit, app store, apple, apple vr headset, aws, aws codebuild, aws lambda, boosts, california governor, cloud exodus, cloud-native, codeium, coder radio, compute, cost, customers, database lock-in, development podcast, dynamo database, efficiency, elon's alt account, engineers, epic games, fitness, funding goals, github copilot, github issues, gpl, lambda functions, layoffs, lift and shift migration, media organization, microsoft, olympia meetup, operational perspective, orm tools, patterns, python 3.10, scaling, serverless, storage, tech industry layoffs, techsnap, ubuntu, vc degens, vendor lock-in, vscode

    We have a laugh at Elon's alt account, why the knives are out for GitHub Co-pilot, and our thoughts on Apple's "major victory" this week.

  • 514: Designing a Villain

    April 19th, 2023  |  51 mins 24 secs
    ai code generator, amazon codewhisperer, app sideloading, auto-gpt, aws cloud9, chaos-gpt, coder radio, digital markets act, elon musk, espanso, european union, github copilot, gpu processors, intellij idea, linode, olympiameetup, open ai, podcast index, pycharm, tailscale, text expander, vr/ar, vs code, webstorm, wwdc ios 17, x.ai

    Elon launches another AI company, leaks suggest Apple might enable sideloading, and why we should let Chaos-GPT run free.

  • 513: Apple's Golden Hour

    April 12th, 2023  |  54 mins 54 secs
    act, apple, apple store burglars, at&t, coder radio, developers, development podcast, doctorgpt, intel, mac shipments, microsoft, open app markets act, recession, software failures, tsmc, verisign, verizon, vscode

    Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset.

  • 512: The Hysterics Chronicles

    April 5th, 2023  |  59 mins 42 secs
    ai panic, apple, co-pilots, code transparency, coder radio, developers, development podcast, keynote, musk, recommendation algorithm, restrict act, tiktok, wwdc lottery

    Our thoughts on the recent AI hysteria and why it betrays the massive egos involved, our issues with the RESTRICT Act, and we do some Monday morning code review.

  • 511: Robot Chat Shack

    March 29th, 2023  |  57 mins 1 sec
    chatgpt-3, chatgpt-4 challenge, chatgpt4, co-pilot x, coder radio, development podcast, github co-pilot, ip concerns, nextcloud ethical ai, python, radiogpt

    Mike's spent 90+ days with GitHub Co-Pilot, and shares the surprising conclusion.

  • 510: Edge of Disaster

    March 22nd, 2023  |  49 mins 25 secs
    .net, ai, amazon, andy jassy, bank failure, bing, ceo, chatbot, co-creator of unix, coder radio, delphi, development podcast, edge, in-person, ios, ken thompson, ken thompson switches to linux, layoffs, linux, macos, mark zuckerberg, meta, microsoft, objective-c, perform, remote work, remotely, svb

    Microsoft's moonshot is turning into a crapshoot.

  • 509: The Great Cloud Exodus

    March 15th, 2023  |  43 mins 22 secs
    anti-luddite, bug bounties, cloud exit, coder radio, data security, development podcast, kubernetes, linuxfest northwest 2023, on premises, restrict act, rust, sdks, senate tiktok bill, shou zi chew, social media, suse, tailscale, tiktok ban, user data, white house

    We're told companies are abandoning the cloud to save money. But is the trend our friend?

  • 508: Hybrid Hangover

    March 14th, 2023  |  50 mins 53 secs
    autonomous driving, bailout, bank term funding program, coder radio, collapse, development podcast, emergency measures, financial regulators, firesale, interest rate risk, ios, mass layoffs, objective-c, python, recession, rust, silicon valley bank, us, venture funding, woke policies

    Our spicy take on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout, how it will impact everyday developers, and how badly this screws over small businesses.

  • 507: Tough Little Liver

    March 4th, 2023  |  58 mins 18 secs
    amazon hq2, code camps, coder radio, development podcast, ford patent, lockout condition, macbook m2, objective-c, path of titans, python, systems and methods to repossess a vehicle

    Mike's got a new rig, and Ford wants to recall yours automatically! Plus, we get a bit spicy about money.