Coder Radio

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.

438: The Oppenheimer Problem

November 3rd, 2021  |  55 mins 9 secs

173-page unredacted filing, airplay to mac port 5000, apfs, async-ruby, coder radio, concurrency gem, concurrent-ruby, data volume, development podcast, fiberscheduler, firmlinked, gnome shell, google amp, immutable filesystem, inotch, jedi blue, low power mode, macos, monterey, project bernanke, project jedi, project nera, ruby async, ruby blocks, ruby fibers, sealed system volume, simplified boot volume, snapshot, terminal

After a little async Ruby chat and developer morality struggle, Chris explains how macOS Monterey has lapped Linux with a critical workstation feature.

428: Epic's Receipts

August 25th, 2021  |  52 mins 58 secs

aws, c#, c++, coder radio, competitve profile of 3rd party apps, csam scanning, development podcast, insights into management, little snitch, lulu, macos, nsurlsessiond, project hug, rust, the effective manager, the unicorn project, “nsurlsession daemon”

Things are worse than we ever thought, but that doesn't prevent us from taking a victory lap.

374: Python's Long Tail

September 9th, 2019  |  33 mins 27 secs

app store, apple, clue, coder radio, developer podcast, dropbox, emulator, fuzzy finder, fzf, go, google, jupiter broadcasting, macos, perl, perl 6 microsoft, playstation, projectpsx, pry, python, python2, ruby, sherlock, static type checking, typescript, web development

As Python 2's demise draws near we reflect on Python's popularity, the growing adoption of static typing, and why the Python 3 transition took so long.

Plus Apple's audacious app store tactics, Google's troubles with Typescript, and more!

373: Interactive Investigations

September 2nd, 2019  |  37 mins

.net, advertising, appimage, application packaging, bpython, c#, clojure, coder radio, containers, developer podcast, docker, exploratory programming, f#, flatpak, formal methods, forth, homebrew, interactive development, jupiter broadcasting, litecli, macos, macros, memory safety, monkeypatching, npm, pry, python, rebel-readline, repl, ruby, rust, scripting languages, smalltalk, snapcraft, sql, sqlite, supporting open source

We debate the best way to package scripting language apps then explore interactive development and the importance of a good shell.

361: ZEEEE Shell!

June 10th, 2019  |  35 mins 32 secs

7 languages, apple, apple watch, bash, bourne shell, coder radio, developer podcast, fish, foss, frp, gpl, ios, kotlin, macbook pro, macos, macpro, open source, posix, react, reactive programming, shell, software licenses, swift, swiftui, wwdc, zsh

Apple is shaking up the foundations of UI development with SwiftUI and raising developer eyebrows with a new default shell on MacOS.

360: Swift Kick In The UI

June 3rd, 2019  |  46 mins 11 secs

apple, apple watch, arkit, c#, clojurescript, coder radio, cooling, developer podcast, egpu, elixir, erlang, fan noise, ios, ipad, ipados, java, javascript, kotlin, macos, macpro, marzipan, phoenix, project catalyst, rails, reasonml, ruby, static types, swift, swiftui, system76, thelio, thermal management, typescript, wwdc

We react to Apple's big news at WWDC, check in with Mike's explorations of Elixir, and talk some TypeScript.

359: 7 Languages

May 28th, 2019  |  43 mins 44 secs

app development, apple, c#, coder radio, developer podcast, electron, elixir, engineering, engineering titles, esoteric languages, functional programming, github sponsors, indie business, ios, jon skeet, macos, marzipan, mobile development, nullable reference types, open source development, poll, seven languages in seven weeks, software development, survey, typescript, uno, uno platform, web development, wkwebview

Wes is back and Mike's got a few surprises in store, including a new view on Electron, a hot take on titles, and a programming challenge for the both of them.

351: Riding the Rails

April 2nd, 2019  |  38 mins 14 secs

.net, c, coder radio, developer podcast, dotnet-script, elixir, framework, gatsbyjs, github, graphics, graphql, ide, javascript fatigue, jetbrains, library, linux, luminous, macos, metal, mobile development, monolith, native apps, open source, opengl, phoenix, python, rails, rider, ruby, ruby on rails, rust, safety, stl, tooling, web development, xamarin, xamarin.android

Mike explores the state of Xamarin.Android development on Linux, and we talk frameworks versus libraries and what Rails got right.

348: Dependency Dangers

March 12th, 2019  |  40 mins 3 secs

api shutdown, automation, aws, battery life, breaking change, brendan gregg, build server, chrome, ci, clojure, clojurescript, cloud9, code signing, code-server, coder radio, darter pro, dependencies, developer podcast, ebpf, elementary os, fastlane, firefox, functional programming, generative testing, gitlab, google, google plus, google+, haskell, idempotent, integration tests, ios, laptop review, macos, oauth, omniauth, outage, pop!_os, quickcheck, rails, react, ruby, safari, scale, standards, state, system76, testing, ui tests, unit tests, vscode, wasm, web assembly

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.