Coder Radio

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 6th, 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.

411: The Misadventures of Mad Mikhail

April 28th, 2021  |  1 hr 10 mins

coder hobbies, coder radio, contractor hardware, development advice, development podcast, ipad pro intel extensions, jupiter broadcasting, m1, macos end of life, opensuse, thinkpad, vscode, wayland, wslg, x1 carbon

Mike has a few stories to share, but more importantly a very hard lesson he's going to make damn sure you learn.

392: Seduced by The Snake

December 16th, 2020  |  54 mins 40 secs

apple m1, atreus, coder radio, development podcast, ergodox, github, jupiter broadcasting, mechanical ergonomic keyboard, olkb, plasma desktop, python, qmk firmware, qt 6.0, qt for python 6, vscode

Mike recalls how he accidentally converted his development shop into a Python house, and Chris experiments with his Minimum Viable Robe.

384: Leaping Lizard People

October 21st, 2020  |  53 mins 14 secs

5g, apple iphone 12, coder radio, dark matter dev, development podcast, dropbox, google, homepod mini, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, lte, micro, opensuse, oracle, suse, typescript, vim, vscode, wfh, work frome home

It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

381: Flamewar Feedback Frenzy

September 30th, 2020  |  57 mins 50 secs

coder radio, containers, development podcast, google to enforce 30% cut, independent development, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, oss laugnages, rancheros, ruby 3.0, suse, swift system, vscode

We provoked quite a response and cover the feedback that puts us in our place. Then we dive into the wild era of text editor of yore and solve an age-old question.

365: Objectively Old

July 8th, 2019  |  38 mins 7 secs

7 languages, backend development, butterfly keyboard, c++, coder radio, design, developer laptop, developer podcast, gnustep, ios, jony ive, jupiter broadcasting, keyboard, language time travel, linux, macbook, object oriented programming, objective-c, oop, programming challenge, programming languages, scissor-switch keyboard, server side development, smalltalk, swift message passing, vscode, windows, windows development, wsl

Wes turns back the clock and explores the message passing mania of writing Objective-C without a Mac, and we wax-poetic about programming language history.

348: Dependency Dangers

March 11th, 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.

Episode 306: Progressive Webbie Things

April 30th, 2018  |  51 mins 28 secs

apple, chrome, coder radio, dev podcast, development market, electron, native app development, progressive web apps, uwl, vscode, webapps, webassembly, windows development

The death of desktop apps has reached the next stage, but the long transition to WebAssembly is going to hurt.