Episodes
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502: Too Big to Care
January 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
amazon, apple, bad planning, birthday wishes, coder radio, decentralised backend, development podcast, economy, elon musk, eu commissioner, eu goes after elon, fountain charts, ftc, google, head adjustment, headspace adjustment, layoffs, layoffs hit home, life lesson, live life not work, metrics, microsoft, nostr, old vs new homepod, opentelemetry, python, retail channels, tech layoff playbook, tracing, world without big tech
How the world without "big tech" might look like, the EU promises to go after Elon and a much-needed head adjustment.
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501: The AWS of AI
January 18th, 2023 | 53 mins 6 secs
96gb of ram, apple, aws, azure, chatgpt, coder radio, copyright lawsuit, development podcast, duolingo, elon musk, investment, m2 max, m2 pro, microsoft, new mac mini, nostr, openai, rust, swift, third-party apps, tim cook paycut, twitter api
Microsoft gives Google an OpenAI gut punch, why Apple's new hardware fails to impress, and our reaction to the undignified death of Twitter's third-party client API.
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500: Internal Server Error
January 11th, 2023 | 43 mins 47 secs
000 workers, airpods, amazong lays of 18, apple, apple tv, apple watch, coder 500, coder radio, coder robe, dell, development podcast, displayport, ethernet, gamer radio, hdmi, homepod, ipad, llvm, m2 ultra, mac pro, mac studio, mixed reality headset, reality pro headset, samsung, thunderbolt, usb-a, wasm, webassembly, wwdc
After sacrificing our pound of flesh for episode 500, we get into some spicy Big Tech dynamics and the performance mess of WebAssembly runtimes.
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499: The Copy Paste Wars
January 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 50 secs
apple silicon transition, bad iphone sales, bad year for apple, c++, c++ 23, coder radio, copilot legal trouble, developer survey, development podcast, github, intel, m2, mac pro, microsoft, python, qa role, rust, stack overflow
We share our spicy C++ take, major Apple frustrations, and 2023 spoilers.
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498: The Birds and the Elephants
December 28th, 2022 | 47 mins 41 secs
coder radio, cosmic, development podcast, google maps, iced, iphone supply chain break down, linux foundation, meta, microsoft, overture maps, peter zeihan, rust, system76, tomtom
Our take on why several tech companies just teamed up to take on Google Maps, and then we react to the global analyst who says we won't have any new iPhones until 2028. We don't talk about Elon; if we did, it would be chaptered. But we definitely did not.
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Gamer Radio 0: Gaming with Perspective - Test Show
December 23rd, 2022 | 36 mins 31 secs
classic games, dark castle, family gaming, flesh and blood, gameboy, gamer radio, gaming culture, genisis, magic the gathering, marvel midnight sun, nintendo, pokemon, saga
Mike and Chris spend a little time chatting about one of their loves in life, great games. It's a test pilot episode for a possible new show, and we'd like your feedback. Consider it a holiday treat for the Coder fans out there.
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497: Shots Across the Pond
December 21st, 2022 | 51 mins 45 secs
activision blizzard, apple, azure, chatgpt, coder radio, development podcast, end-to-end encryption, ftc, ftc sues to block microsoft, gpt-3, icloud, lina khan
Mike's skeptical of the rumors Apple is preparing to allow third-party app stores, and in a total flip of roles, Chris comes to the defense of Microsoft.
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496: Sweeney's Final Swing
December 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
.net, apple store, coder radio, dart 3, development podcast, edit tweets, elon musk, epic games, null safety, open app markets act, rust, s.2710, scrum, tim sweeney, twitter blue
We debate a few more drunk or 4D chess moves, the mad lad taking on Apple, and why Dart 3 has people talking. Plus, what a recent criticism of Scrum got wrong.
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495: .Not Funded
December 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
.net underfunded, active directory, app store, aws, aws re:invent, coder radio, coinbase wallet, development podcast, elon, fastapi, improve wcf, mastodon, nfts, pydantic, pyo3 rust, saikat banerjee, sam bankman-fried, sbf, twitter
Amazon used the stage of AWS re:Invent to toss shade on .Net and reveal its broader ambitions.
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494: Python Paradigms
November 30th, 2022 | 54 mins 21 secs
.net, coder radio, copilot, development podcast, ecosystem lockin, fads in coding, ftx, github, go, guido van rossum, lex fridman, managers who code, mypy, pyenv, python 4, rust, sbf, types in python
We reflect on the recent musings of Python's creator, from the functional to the philosophical.
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493: Super Spellcheck
November 23rd, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
ai, built-in ai, bullet proof linux desktop, cbs, coder radio, court documents, development podcast, diffusionbee, ftx, gnome, nixos, phil schiller, pmc, professional-managerial class regime, sam bankman-fried, sbf, stable diffusion, tiling desktop, ventura, xcode
We will discuss the practical implementations of AI embedded in future products, then take a look at FTX's books and have a few highlights to share.
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492: The Troll Wizard
November 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
.net 7, .net conf, aegis, amazon lay off, authenticator, bitwarden, coder radio, development podcast, ftx, gpl two-factor, maui, memory-safe programming, meta, microsoft, safe, sbf, tim cook, vc, very deliberate, yubikey
Microsoft lets its geek flag fly, our observations on .NET 7, and the recent upset caused by the Troll Wizard, but we can't understand who will pay the toll.
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491: Voltron Based Development
November 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
2fa authentication, amazon, apple halts production, asyncimage, codeable, coder radio, copilot, decodable, development podcast, drop in mac revenue, encodeable, esther george, github, iphone 14, javascript, layoffs.io, lyft, stripe, swift, swiftui
Mike just came up for air after a Swift deep dive, and he has a fresh new take. Plus, the wheels of history are spinning faster; we take a snapshot in time and then round it all out with spicy Apple bacon.
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490: Final Boss Battle
November 2nd, 2022 | 54 mins 6 secs
app store, apple, coder radio, coder review, development podcast, earnings, elon musk, engineer, engineers, gambling ads, gamification, gate keeping, github, javascript, licensed, licensing, meta, telegram ceo, tesla, twitter, uniform
We slip into full boss mode after digging into some long-term tech trends impacting developers.
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489: Luther Curious
October 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
antipatters, coder radio, development podcast, electronics engineer, engineers, java, layoffs, mats järlström, meta, microsoft, oregon engineering board, oregon state board of examiners, rates, resume, software engineer, software estimates, traffic camera, xcheck, xcode, zuck season, zuckerberg
One of the most challenging aspects of being an independent developer, and our thoughts on Microsoft's recent bad news.
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488: Code Laundering
October 19th, 2022 | 49 mins 14 secs
alberta, coder radio, copilot, development podcast, github, github actions, metaverse retnetion, microsoft certified systems engineer, nextcloud, public code, québec, software engineer, source code laundering, velcro patches
We debate if GitHub's Copilot enables automated code laundering after a developer makes a startling discovery. Then we dispense some seriously old-school wisdom.