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

  • 473: Laptop Coasters

    July 6th, 2022  |  55 mins 48 secs
    api samples, calagator, coder radio, color picker, copilot review, development podcast, independent developer, junction, linux toolchain, meld, postman, tabby, visual studio code, vscode

    Mike's Linux Toolchain for 2022, and his first week with CoPilot. Then we chat about the series of choices that led us to go independent so many years ago.

  • 472: Drunken Copilot

    June 29th, 2022  |  53 mins 17 secs
    .net, ai programming, assistance tool, avatar store, coder radio, covid, derivative work, development podcast, github copilot, hp dev one, java, meta fashion, minecraft, pokémon, postgresql, python, small business, travel

    Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises.

  • 471: Technical Guardians of the Galaxy

    June 22nd, 2022  |  44 mins 42 secs
    coder radio, dev one, development podcast, economy, fedora, foundation models, hp hardware, inflation, lamda ai, lemoine, microsoft, milton friedman, pop os, recession, tesla, unemployed, windows 11 arm, x86 emulation

    Mike's hitting the road to solve his old man's PC woes; Chris channels his early inner 80s and some Google AI conspiracy bacon.

  • 470: Make it so, Dev One!

    June 15th, 2022  |  54 mins 40 secs
    amd, arm, buy now pay later, citrix, coder radio, dev one gaming performance, development podcast, fan noise, hp dev one, intel, pat gelsinger, qualcomm, rdp, rosetta, stage manager, system76, virtual remote desktops, zed

    You can't judge a book by its cover, and this week we surprised each other when we dug into the HP Dev One. Plus some insights on remote virtual dev desktops and the gotcha's from WWDC we missed.

  • 469: The Problem with WWDC

    June 8th, 2022  |  51 mins 36 secs
    amd ryzen linux laptop, apple apis, coder radio, collaboration, dev one, family ecosystem, family lockin, family moat, hp dev one review, jupiter broadcasting, live activities api, m2, macbook air, macos, matter, messages, pop os, shared with you api, stage manager, system76, ventura, weatherkit, wwdc 2022

    We jump aboard Hair Force One and are a bit let down. We get into why. Plus Mike's first impressions of the HP Dev One laptop.

  • 468: Coding to Make It

    June 1st, 2022  |  43 mins 24 secs
    antitrust lawsuit, apple, build 2022, coder radio, cydia, decentralized package network, headset, infrastructure as code, jfrog, jupiter broadcasting, m2, microsoft, microsoft dev box, monopoly, neural processing unit, npu, pyrsia, realityos, remote desktop, snapdragon, teams, volterra, wfh, windows 365, windows developers, work from home, wwdc 2022

    What's old is new again, but we're not buying it this time. It's developer conference season, and we're hunting vaporware.

  • 467: No More Snake Mustaches

    May 25th, 2022  |  48 mins 37 secs
    adaptive cards, amazon layoffs, clangformat, coder radio, expression error locations, hp dev one, inflation, json, jupiter broadcasting, microsoft, objective-c, pop! os, python 3.11, reactnative, unemployment, wfh, work from home

    Soon there will be no shame in that snake game, the big trend that is not our friend, and Microsoft reinvents the widget.

  • 466: Luxury Emotional Manipulation

    May 18th, 2022  |  51 mins 40 secs
    coder radio, deep learning, development podcast, director of machine learning, ec2, electron, gan, generative adversarial network, github actions, google i/o, heroku, ian goodfellow, infrastructure as code, jupiter broadcasting, node12, node16, open core, pixel tablet, pixel watch, podcasting 2.0, python challenge, python distilled, remote work, salesforce, tauri, typescript 4.7, wearos

    Why Mike feels like Heroku is in a failed state, what drove us crazy about Google I/O this year, how Chris botched something super important, and some serious Python love sprinkled throughout.

  • 465: Mike's Magic Mom

    May 11th, 2022  |  59 mins 47 secs
    .net python, excel, jarjar, legality of free software, lego star wars game skywalker, market crash, moral dilemma, open core, podcast namespace, podcasting 2.0, python, python.net, pythonnet, retirement, rss 2.0, selling gpl software, software modules, zsh

    After solving a moral dilemma in our particular kind of way, Mike dishes on some ambitious plans that might kick off a new era of development for him.

  • 464: Our Cuban Car Moment

    May 4th, 2022  |  51 mins 37 secs
    chip shortage, coder radio, cuban cars, cycle of centralization, development podcast, discovery, intel ceo, linux foundation platinum membership, mozilla, outdated apps, pat gelsinger, star trek, star wars, supply chain, telegram premium

    Mike shares a tale involving a comedy of errors, and we ponder a new reusable culture around tech.

  • 463: You Git What You Pay For

    April 27th, 2022  |  42 mins 47 secs
    5 users, android api, app store, coder radio, development podcast, elon buys twitter, free accounts, gentoo, gentoo challenge, gitlab, google play, musk, protopop, saas, virtual office, vr update

    Mike battles the onslaught of yet another bout with the plague. At the same time, we react live to Elon buying Twitter, Gitlab kicking off some free accounts, and we discover Google and Apple are working together again to pull the rug on app developers.

  • 462: Account Suspenders

    April 20th, 2022  |  51 mins 54 secs
    47.5%, agile silicon, amazon, brasilia, coder radio, development podcast, encodya, horizon, jack dorsey, macos, meta, metaverse commission, moxie marlinspike, rdp, sell virtual items, tech platforms, tesla, ubuntu 22.04, web3

    We get a bit gleeful over some choice tech monopoly hypocrisy and then spicy with our 18-month outlook.

  • 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.

  • 460: Request Out of Time

    April 6th, 2022  |  59 mins
    android, are apis copyrightable, coder radio, copyright api, development podcast, gnome, google, java api, libadwaita, oracle, supreme court, wwdc

    We crack open the time capsule and see how our spicy takes hold up.

  • 459: Revolution in Review

    March 30th, 2022  |  57 mins 58 secs
    bespoke tokens, bitcoin, blockchain, cardano, coder radio, computation layer, cryptocurrency, defi, developer portal, development podcast, dotcom bubble, eric s. raymond, ethereum, haskell, nix on macos, peer-to-peer, revolution os, sidechains, smart contract, solana sdk, tim cook, via linux, web3

    We just watched Revolution OS before the show, so we reflect on the audacity of their vision and the new revolution we see brewing.

  • 458: No Sideloading in this House

    March 23rd, 2022  |  58 mins 42 secs
    boosts, coder radio, consolidation in podcasting, development podcast, digital asset sanctions compliance enhancement act, digital markets act, eu sideloading bill, hp elite folio, hybrid work, icloud outage, mac studio, matrix, nixos on linode, rcs, sanctioned person, sanctions, senator warren, sideloading, ssd install, weaponisation of open source, windows 11 arm

    Apple enters full panic mode over sideloading, and our plan to push back against industry-wide consolidation kicks off.