Coder Radio

650: Meat Mike Is Back

June 7th, 2026  |  19 mins 14 secs

ai, bi, bigdata, co-pilot, coding, dotnet, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, sega, tabnine, vibe coding, windows, wsl msbuild

The real Mike is back and he's finally covering the developer news - at least some of it - well it's mostly MSBuild but it's still fun!

539: Mike Breaks the Build

October 11th, 2023  |  56 mins 59 secs

ai, ai profitability, ai services, ai shaming, bialetti moka express, chemex, coffee, coffee maker, compiler macros, copilot, cross-platform testing, developers, disney's loki, domain nightmare, gaggia classic, github, greg price, hybrid workers, iced coffee, kuregs, microsoft, poetry, pour over coffee, press coverage, profitability, sam altman, sam altman's sister, secret invasion, windows

Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.

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.

402: Payment Required

February 24th, 2021  |  1 hr 10 mins

.net, android, bug bounty program, catalyst, coder radio, development podcast, ios, jupiter broadcasting, keychron k3 review, linux, mac, pomodoro, pomodoro technique, rsi, software niche, thinkpad, to do list, tvos, windows, windows arm64, xamarin

We open the robe and share some vintage career origin stories.

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.

364: Gabbing About Go

July 1st, 2019  |  48 mins 46 secs

7 languages challenge, 7 languages in 7 weeks, accounting, apple, application distribution, bureaucracy, c++, coder radio, compilers, concurrency, developer podcast, executable, go, goroutines, gradual types, ide, jony ive, jupiter broadcasting, linux, oop, pex, programming, prototyping, pyoxidizer, python, python packaging, ruby, ruby on rails, rust, shiv, sorbet, static linking, static types, stripe, type checking, windows, wsl, wsl2

Mike and Wes burrow into the concurrent world of Go and debate where it makes sense and where it may not.

355: F# Shill

May 2nd, 2019  |  1 hr 45 secs

.net, aws, bosque, chromebooks, chromeos, coder radio, developer podcast, earth day, egpu, f#, git-secrets, gpl, hardware, lgpl, mad botter, memory management, ml, pinning, programming language research, qt, rust, software licenses, strong types, system76, telemetry, thunderbolt, type safety, typed strings, typescript, windows, windows 10, xfce

Mike and Wes dive into Bosque, Microsoft’s new research language, and debate if it represents the future of programming languages, or if we should all just be using F#.

353: A Week with WSL

April 17th, 2019  |  50 mins 7 secs

amd, apple, chromebook, chromeos, clojure, coder radio, coreml, crates.io, developer education, developer podcast, egpu, elixir, erlang, graphics cards, haskell, http prompt, ios, java, linux desktop, machine learning, mesa, microsoft, nvidia, ocaml, pengwin, programming languages, python, rails, ruby, rust, sean griffin, thunderbolt, usb-c, windows, windows 10, wlinux, wsl

Mike's back with thoughts on his recent adventures with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and what it might mean for the future of Linux development.

346: Serverless Squabbles

February 26th, 2019  |  45 mins 21 secs

access, apple, aws, aws lambda, azure, azure functions, coder radio, containers, developer podcast, docker, functional programming, hardware, haskell, ios development, linux, microservices, objective c, patent trolls, patents, pragmatism, ruby on rails, rust, serverless, software patents, swift, swift on windows, tools, vapor, vmware, web development, windows, zealots

The three of us debate when to go full serverless, and if ditching servers is worth the cost.