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  <title>579: The Insufferable Small Business</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it.</itunes:subtitle>
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</li><li><a title="The AI summer" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/7/9/the-ai-summer">The AI summer</a> &mdash; Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.</li><li><a title="Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple">Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform</a> &mdash; We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Coder QA</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53334&amp;coupon=darthjarjar">Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly!</a> Promo Code: darthjarjar</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike" rel="nofollow" href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a> &mdash; Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats.</li><li><a title="📻 Boost with Fountain.FM" rel="nofollow" href="https://fountain.fm/show/OWdse4h3MzNbS8Og5RJk">📻 Boost with Fountain.FM</a> &mdash; Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀</li><li><a title="Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/1aqpbnr/small_business_owners_are_the_most_insufferable/">Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet</a> &mdash; Small businesses are amazing and necessary and I love them, but the people behind them are the absolute worst. </li><li><a title="AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns" rel="nofollow" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-effectively-useless-created-fake-194008129.html?guccounter=1">AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns</a> &mdash; “So anyone who's sort of a bit long in the tooth and has seen this sort of thing before is tempted to believe it'll end badly.”</li><li><a title="Squawk on the Street on X: &quot;&quot;America loves financial manias,&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/SquawkStreet/status/1810359584063705144">Squawk on the Street on X: ""America loves financial manias,"</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring">Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions</a> &mdash; Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.</li><li><a title="Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0">Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube</a> &mdash; We talked at length about his work, OpenAI's mission, and some of the criticisms that the young outfit is facing. We had fun, talking with him for this extended sit-down; hope you'll enjoy it, too.
</li><li><a title="The AI summer" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/7/9/the-ai-summer">The AI summer</a> &mdash; Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.</li><li><a title="Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple">Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform</a> &mdash; We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>348: Dependency Dangers</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>40:03</itunes:duration>
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Plus Mike reviews the System76 Darter Pro, our tool of the week, and some fantastic audience feedback. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.</p>

<p>Plus Mike reviews the System76 Darter Pro, our tool of the week, and some fantastic audience feedback.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="TechSNAP Episode 388: The One About eBPF" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/388">TechSNAP Episode 388: The One About eBPF</a> &mdash; eBPF is a technology that you’re going to be hearing more and more about. It powers low-overhead custom analysis tools, handles network security in a containerized world, and powers tools you use every day.

</li><li><a title="Feedback from Tom" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/axq0qy/rusty_rubies_coder_radio_347/ei12vpf/">Feedback from Tom</a> &mdash; I don't think people need to worry about Google's/Chrome's dominance the way we did about IE6. It's not just that Chrome is cross-platform and open-source, and (with Chrome Web Apps well behind us) sticks to the standards in a way that IE did not. Practically speaking, we must keep in mind that the browser is locked down on iOS in a way that didn't exist (and wouldn't have been tolerated) back then. This means that no matter how popular Chrome becomes, an importnat portion of mobile users must use Apple's browser (engine). But also, now matter how much effort, money Google puts into their web initiatives and in spite of their browser share dominance, they can lose big as they did with web components and webasm. That's the beauty of a standards based platform.</li><li><a title="How to publish iOS apps to the App Store with GitLab and fastlane" rel="nofollow" href="https://about.gitlab.com/2019/03/06/ios-publishing-with-gitlab-and-fastlane/">How to publish iOS apps to the App Store with GitLab and fastlane</a> &mdash; See how GitLab, together with fastlane, can build, sign, and publish apps for iOS to the App Store.</li><li><a title="Inside Clojure: Journal 2019.10 " rel="nofollow" href="http://insideclojure.org/2019/03/08/journal/">Inside Clojure: Journal 2019.10 </a> &mdash; Some tests I wrote were posted on Reddit this week, which was unexpected. The one thing in there that I think is worth thinking about is how to write tests that validate returns while also being open to accretion.

</li><li><a title="QuickCheck: Automatic testing of Haskell programs" rel="nofollow" href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck">QuickCheck: Automatic testing of Haskell programs</a> &mdash; QuickCheck is a library for random testing of program properties. The programmer provides a specification of the program, in the form of properties which functions should satisfy, and QuickCheck then tests that the properties hold in a large number of randomly generated cases.</li><li><a title="Darter Pro Review - dominickm.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://dominickm.com/darter-pro-review/">Darter Pro Review - dominickm.com</a> &mdash; My continuing adventures in Linux hardware and working on Linux as a software developer has lead me to check out the System 76 Darter Pro.</li><li><a title="Google+ API Shutdown" rel="nofollow" href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">Google+ API Shutdown</a> &mdash; Legacy Google+ APIs have been shut down as of March 7, 2019.</li><li><a title="omniauth-google-oauth2: Oauth2 strategy for Google" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2">omniauth-google-oauth2: Oauth2 strategy for Google</a> &mdash; A ruby gem for Oauth2 with Google.</li><li><a title="Mention removal of Google+ API usage in CHANGELOG by stanhu · Pull Request #350 · zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2/pull/350/files">Mention removal of Google+ API usage in CHANGELOG by stanhu · Pull Request #350 · zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2</a></li><li><a title="code-server: Run VS Code on a remote server." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/codercom/code-server">code-server: Run VS Code on a remote server.</a> &mdash; Code on your Chromebook, tablet, and laptop with a consistent dev environment, take advantage of large cloud servers to speed up tests, compilations, downloads, and 
 preserve battery life when you're on the go.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.</p>

<p>Plus Mike reviews the System76 Darter Pro, our tool of the week, and some fantastic audience feedback.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="TechSNAP Episode 388: The One About eBPF" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/388">TechSNAP Episode 388: The One About eBPF</a> &mdash; eBPF is a technology that you’re going to be hearing more and more about. It powers low-overhead custom analysis tools, handles network security in a containerized world, and powers tools you use every day.

</li><li><a title="Feedback from Tom" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/axq0qy/rusty_rubies_coder_radio_347/ei12vpf/">Feedback from Tom</a> &mdash; I don't think people need to worry about Google's/Chrome's dominance the way we did about IE6. It's not just that Chrome is cross-platform and open-source, and (with Chrome Web Apps well behind us) sticks to the standards in a way that IE did not. Practically speaking, we must keep in mind that the browser is locked down on iOS in a way that didn't exist (and wouldn't have been tolerated) back then. This means that no matter how popular Chrome becomes, an importnat portion of mobile users must use Apple's browser (engine). But also, now matter how much effort, money Google puts into their web initiatives and in spite of their browser share dominance, they can lose big as they did with web components and webasm. That's the beauty of a standards based platform.</li><li><a title="How to publish iOS apps to the App Store with GitLab and fastlane" rel="nofollow" href="https://about.gitlab.com/2019/03/06/ios-publishing-with-gitlab-and-fastlane/">How to publish iOS apps to the App Store with GitLab and fastlane</a> &mdash; See how GitLab, together with fastlane, can build, sign, and publish apps for iOS to the App Store.</li><li><a title="Inside Clojure: Journal 2019.10 " rel="nofollow" href="http://insideclojure.org/2019/03/08/journal/">Inside Clojure: Journal 2019.10 </a> &mdash; Some tests I wrote were posted on Reddit this week, which was unexpected. The one thing in there that I think is worth thinking about is how to write tests that validate returns while also being open to accretion.

</li><li><a title="QuickCheck: Automatic testing of Haskell programs" rel="nofollow" href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck">QuickCheck: Automatic testing of Haskell programs</a> &mdash; QuickCheck is a library for random testing of program properties. The programmer provides a specification of the program, in the form of properties which functions should satisfy, and QuickCheck then tests that the properties hold in a large number of randomly generated cases.</li><li><a title="Darter Pro Review - dominickm.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://dominickm.com/darter-pro-review/">Darter Pro Review - dominickm.com</a> &mdash; My continuing adventures in Linux hardware and working on Linux as a software developer has lead me to check out the System 76 Darter Pro.</li><li><a title="Google+ API Shutdown" rel="nofollow" href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">Google+ API Shutdown</a> &mdash; Legacy Google+ APIs have been shut down as of March 7, 2019.</li><li><a title="omniauth-google-oauth2: Oauth2 strategy for Google" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2">omniauth-google-oauth2: Oauth2 strategy for Google</a> &mdash; A ruby gem for Oauth2 with Google.</li><li><a title="Mention removal of Google+ API usage in CHANGELOG by stanhu · Pull Request #350 · zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2/pull/350/files">Mention removal of Google+ API usage in CHANGELOG by stanhu · Pull Request #350 · zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2</a></li><li><a title="code-server: Run VS Code on a remote server." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/codercom/code-server">code-server: Run VS Code on a remote server.</a> &mdash; Code on your Chromebook, tablet, and laptop with a consistent dev environment, take advantage of large cloud servers to speed up tests, compilations, downloads, and 
 preserve battery life when you're on the go.</li></ul>]]>
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