Coder Radio

515: Codeium Comes for Copilot

April 26th, 2023  |  56 mins 4 secs

adapters, antitrust lawsuit, app store, apple, apple vr headset, aws, aws codebuild, aws lambda, boosts, california governor, cloud exodus, cloud-native, codeium, coder radio, compute, cost, customers, database lock-in, development podcast, dynamo database, efficiency, elon's alt account, engineers, epic games, fitness, funding goals, github copilot, github issues, gpl, lambda functions, layoffs, lift and shift migration, media organization, microsoft, olympia meetup, operational perspective, orm tools, patterns, python 3.10, scaling, serverless, storage, tech industry layoffs, techsnap, ubuntu, vc degens, vendor lock-in, vscode

We have a laugh at Elon's alt account, why the knives are out for GitHub Co-pilot, and our thoughts on Apple's "major victory" this week.

513: Apple's Golden Hour

April 12th, 2023  |  54 mins 54 secs

act, apple, apple store burglars, at&t, coder radio, developers, development podcast, doctorgpt, intel, mac shipments, microsoft, open app markets act, recession, software failures, tsmc, verisign, verizon, vscode

Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset.

486: The Fight for the Next Knight Rider

October 5th, 2022  |  49 mins 13 secs

andorid auto, android automotive, calyxos, carplay, coder radio, dev one, development podcast, flastseal, flatpak, grapheneos, infotainment, killed by google, onlive, oryx pro, permisions, qnx, sega channel, stadia, volvocar os, vscode

Why we think Google will ultimately lose the next big tech battle.

485: Going All In on Linux

September 28th, 2022  |  51 mins 3 secs

30 day challenge, benchmarks, coder radio, development podcast, electron, fleet, heat, kotlin, pine64 scam, pop, pwa, system76, thelio 2022 redesign, thelio review, vscode, web apps, webassembly

Mike has spent just over a month living in Linux full-time, and Chris wants to check in and see how he’s doing. Plus we both have the new Thelio from System76 in-house, and our takeaways might surprise you.

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.

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.

449: Monetized Misery

January 19th, 2022  |  48 mins 48 secs

apple, apple headset, ar, coder radio, development podcast, fleet, green bubble shame, iap, ide, imessage for android, jetbrains, linux, m1, meta, metaverse, netherlands, pop, python, self-hosting for small business, south korea, tabby, vscode, web3

Emboldened by his success, Mike takes a victory lap. Little does he know it's all virtual.

439: Github NoPilot

November 10th, 2021  |  59 mins 13 secs

.net 6, .net native aot, ahead of time compilation, arm64, azure, coder radio, craig federighi, development podcast, github ceo, github copilot, iphone malware, julia liuson, nat friedman, python, sideloading, single binary, thomas dohmke, vscode

Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.

434: Coding Gungan Style

October 7th, 2021  |  44 mins 11 secs

apple "unique arrangement" with netflix, coder radio, codex, development podcast, facebook, hermit programmers, hip hop vm, m1 update, middle-skilled developer, move fast, openai, prompt engineering, python 3.10, test suite effectiveness, types in python, vscode

It's final push time on a big project for Mike, but Chris is the one who is exhausted. But we've got some new insights into testing and thoughts on an emerging category of developer.

431: Success is not Illegal

September 15th, 2021  |  52 mins 5 secs

a15, apple m1, apple vs epic, c++, california streaming reaction, coder radio, development podcast, employment law, facebook, gonzalez rogers, instagram is toxic, intellij, ipad mini, iphone 13, java, jdk 17, k-duo, labor relations, mobile game transactions market, pay discussions, promotion, prores, vscode, windows, wsl, wsl2

The more you read into it, the worse it gets.

At least we have new devices to keep us happy.