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Links:

• remembertoremember on Twitter — @ChrisLAS you sounded afraid to use the term lifestyle business. Why let this be a bad word. I maintain that these are just businesses. It’s the hyper scalers struggling to pay back huge returns to vcs. That are doing something weird. Does scale really deliver value to customers?
• New Podcast Apps that Support Boosts
• Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Let's hang out at the park across the street from Prime BBQ.
• Google tells employees to return to offices in April — Google told employees on Wednesday that it expects them to begin returning to physical offices April 4.
• The next chapter of our hybrid workplace: update on our Washington state work sites - The Official Microsoft Blog — Our Washington state work sites will move to our sixth and final stage of the hybrid workplace model, effective Feb. 28, 2022. From this date, employees will have 30 days to make adjustments to their routines and adopt the working preferences they’ve agreed upon with their managers.
• Apple CEO Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th — The company plans a hybrid work approach, which it expects to begin in full on May 23rd
• Former Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft — Former Xamarin cofounder Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft, the company he joined through acquisition just over six years ago.
• AT&T RCS is taking over Google's, and people are mad — AT&T has apparently rolled its own RCS system into Messages. The AT&T RCS protocol has appeared on at least some carrier-branded Galaxy S22 devices. According to these two threads, the carrier-branded system prevents RCS communication with people who aren’t on AT&T and/or aren’t using a Galaxy S22 device.
• Firefox removed Yandex search option (and used misleading bug name to hide) — Ensure consistency among search configuration for Firefox

And we save Mike's soul by answering a few emails.

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Links:

• Coder Radio Episode 400 Poster — Celebrate 400 episodes of Coder Radio with this word cloud tribute poster.
• The Coder — Look and feel comfortable, while kicking ass. Life is better in a robe.
• Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Mechanical Keyboard — Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard has included keycaps for both Windows and macOS, and users can hotswap every switch in seconds with the hot-swappable version.
• Keychron K3 review — If you need the lightest and smallest low-profile mechanical keyboard, Keychron's new K3 fits the bill.
• Keychron K3 Travel Pouch
• Keychron K6 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard — Crafted to maximize your workspace with an ergonomic design, while retaining all necessary multimedia and function keys. The hot-swappable version offers the freedom to easily personalize your typing experience without soldering.
• RSI Work Regime — When Chris mentioned his ongoing battle against RSI on episode 401, it got me thinking about a few coding techniques I rely on.
• Start with a niche — One of the most common mistakes is to ignore niches and just try to attract all kinds of customers. It’s essential to find 1-2 ponds to start from and then expand to the other, larger, and more promising lakes and oceans
• Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1 — Our unification efforts offer something for all .NET developers. If you are desktop app developer, there are new opportunities for you to reach new users. If you are a mobile app developer, you will benefit from using the mainline .NET tools and APIs while targeting iOS and Android platforms. If you are a web or cloud developer, it will be easier to expose services to .NET mobile apps and share code with them.

Plus the value of manual testing, Visual Studio Code Remote, and Conway's Game of Life in Rust.

Links:

• Feedback: Testing as a Career
• Feedback: Keeping up with Documentation
• ruby/rdoc — RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects.
• Javadoc — Javadoc is a documentation generator created by Sun Microsystems for the Java language for generating API documentation in HTML format from Java source code.
• Literate programming — Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced by Donald Knuth in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which a compilable source code can be generated.
• Literate Programming — Writing a literate program is a lot more work than writing a normal program. After all, who ever documents their programs in the first place!? Moreover, who documents them in a pedagogical style that is easy to understand? And finally, who ever provides commentary on the theory and design issues behind the code as they write the documentation?
• A tutorial that implements Conway's Game of Life in Rust and WebAssembly. — This tutorial is for anyone who already has basic Rust and JavaScript experience, and wants to learn how to use Rust, WebAssembly, and JavaScript together.
• JupiterBroadcasting/Talks — Public repository of crew talks, slides, and additional resources.
• Visual Studio Code Remote Development — Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment.
• Remote Development - Visual Studio Marketplace
• Introducing .NET 5 — There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.
• The Friday Stream — Our crew from all over the world share stories, make new friends, and give each other a hard time live.

Plus adventures with rust on MacOS, your feedback, and more!

Links:

• Feedback from Eric — I like Python as well but since I spend most of my day in .Net Framework/Core I tend to prefer dotnet-script.
• dotnet-script — Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI.
• Feedback from Tom — I haven't tried Rust yet, but it seems to have a lof of momentum. Maybe there are issues with it, but I'm not going to take advice from someone who "really doesn't care" that Rust produces safer and more secure code.
• Mike's fork of stl-thumb — Stl-thumb is a fast lightweight thumbnail generator for STL files.
• Why I miss Rails — In the transition to the modern web stack we’ve unsolved some of what tools like Rails made easy 10 years ago. I don’t think it needs to be that way.
• Luminus — Luminus is a Clojure micro-framework based on a set of lightweight libraries. It aims to provide a robust, scalable, and easy to use platform. With Luminus you can focus on developing your app the way you want without any distractions.
• Phoenix — A productive web framework that does not compromise speed or maintainability. Phoenix leverages the Erlang VM ability to handle millions of connections alongside Elixir's beautiful syntax and productive tooling for building fault-tolerant systems.
• Phoenix LiveView: Interactive, Real-Time Apps. No Need to Write JavaScript. — LiveView powered applications are stateful on the server with bidrectional communication via WebSockets, offering a vastly simplified programming model compared to JavaScript alternatives.
• How to develop Xamarin.Android applications on Linux with Rider – JetBrains Rider Support — Please note that Xamarin.Android on Linux is officially unsupported. However, it is possible to manually install Xamarin.Android and configure Rider so that it can build and run Xamarin.Android apps on Linux.
• Can not create Xamarin Application in Rider (Linux platform) – JetBrains Rider Support
• Careers – Linux Academy

Plus Chris thinks he knows why Microsoft is willing to kill off their Edge browser engine and switch it out for Chromium. But can he convince Mike?

Special Guest: Peter Kretzman.

Links:

• Electron — The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Atom editor and many other apps.
• Visual Studio 2019
• Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements
• The case against #NoEstimates: the bottom line
• Recommended reading for the CTO/CIO
• LinuxFest Northwest

Plus a few more thoughts on Unit Testing, embedded productivity companion devices, and the hoopla of the week.

Links:

• Matthew's Thoughts on Students and Linux
• u/HCharlesB on Unit Testing
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Well, lookie here -> through the power of #dotnetcore, I have #Microsoft #Bot Framework working on #Linux in #csharp instead of JS. The more I learn about .Net Core & .Net Standard, the more impressed I am.… https://t.co/jBeQLB48c0"
• Help us plan the future of .NET! | .NET Blog
• Did Microsoft Really Just “Open Source All Its Patents”??
• ​Redis Labs and Common Clause attacked where it hurts: With open-source code
• Adobe announces full Photoshop CC for iPad shipping 2019

Plus some recent hoopla, a new way to get started contributing to open source, and more!

Links:

• Win95 in a box
• Scoop — A command-line installer for Windows
• Steve's Travel Hack
• Sunsetting React Native — Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making native amazing.
• React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity — We removed the last traces of React Native from the apps because the only remaining React Native feature was being sunset and we no longer had to support it.
• CodeTriage — Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it.

Plus your emails, a bit of hoopla, and more!

Special Guest: Jérôme Laban.

Links:

• I just went on a coder binge
• Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction To Programming
• No Escaping an Echo Chamber
• Mailspring - The best free email app
• Spark Email
• Uno
• Uno Playground
• Currents