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

  • 480: Google's 1984 Moment

    August 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 16 mins
    .net 7, android get the message, appflow, coder radio, cordova, csam, cybertipline, development podcast, google, ionic, ionic portals, maui, minimal api, pixelmator, rcs, remote work, subscription fatigue, tcg tampa, the orville

    We're spooked to learn how one man's life has been turned upside down just because he used Google Photos.

  • 479: Apple's Mob Move

    August 17th, 2022  |  55 mins 18 secs
    ads in maps, app store, att, cameras on, chromium, coder radio, development podcast, discord, discovery, elctron rce, electron's critical flaw, electronjs, element, emoji, facebook ad cut, framework, guidelines, orville, slack, tabs or spaces, teams, telegram, workplace tracking, xss

    New leaks reveal how hollow Apple's claims of fighting for user privacy are. We discuss their scheme to monetize the downturn.

  • 478: Strange New Workflows

    August 10th, 2022  |  1 hr 15 mins
    alphabet, clojure, coder radio, culture, development podcast, elisp, emacs, gitlab self-hosting, gittea, google, java, lenovo, linux market, linux platforms, lisp, lua, macos problems, macro environment, malcolm gladwell, mark pearson, minecraft 1.19.1, mojang studios, pichai, player reporting, simplicity sprint, vim

    Why we think Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about remote work, and the complicated answer to a simple question.

  • 477: Sweet Little Lies

    August 3rd, 2022  |  55 mins 4 secs
    apple, apple migration assistant, ci/cd, clojure, coder radio, decentralized internet, development podcast, infrastructure automation, luminus, macos, open source licenses to avoid, rails, researchkit, secrets of a successful software engineer, semantic web, wsl

    We debate the lies our tool makers tell us, if Clojure has a Rails-sized hole, and the secrets of a successful software engineer.

  • 476: Tapping the Breaks

    July 27th, 2022  |  51 mins 27 secs
    apple, apple silicon, ars, bbedit, cisco, coder radio, dart, development podcast, flutter, google, gruber, hiring slowdown, inconvenient truth, kotlin, macbook, microsoft, netflix subscrition button, pausing hiring, reviews, swift, tech lay-offs, textmate, vim, wirecutter

    We're looking at the big picture and, surprisingly, seeing a lot of possibilities.

  • 475: I Do Declare

    July 20th, 2022  |  59 mins 58 secs
    coder radio, declarative ui, development podcast, flutter, full-functioned ui entity, neovim, pure linux desktop, react native, solarwinds, swiftui, tech media, tech news, wsl, zsh plugins

    Mike's ready to make a case for Declarative UI, and Chris pulls back the curtain to reveal a spicy take.

  • 474: Horton Hears a Linux User

    July 13th, 2022  |  48 mins 55 secs
    ads on the lockscreen, alacrity, android, apple fatal flaw, azure, china, coder radio, copoilt, development podcast, github, glance, konsole, lennart poettering, microsoft, sfc, software freedom conservancy, systemd, vscodium, warp, west coast meetup, windows app store

    Why we feel recent attacks by the Software Freedom Conservancy against Microsoft are costing the SFC serious credibility.

  • 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.