Coder Radio

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.

419: Authentication Timeout

June 24th, 2021  |  43 mins 59 secs

antitrust, bulletproof linux, coder radio, cook calls pelosi, development podcast, facebook, google bureaucracy, google risk averse, internal criticism at google, kent walker, kernel extension, linode on the road, mac failure, meetup, microsoft market value, sundar pichai, system76, thelio, windows 11

Big Tech's punishment train has been en route for years, but now that it's almost arrived, are we getting onboard?

398: Testing the Test

January 27th, 2021  |  36 mins 35 secs

.net, alacritty, apple m1, automated tests, big sur‌ vpn, electron, facebook, flutter, framework, gtk, k3s, linode, linux on m1, ml, probabilistic flakines, qt, rust, testing, ubuntu server, unit testing, wsl2

The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

344: Cupertino's King Makers

February 12th, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

ai, angular, app store, apple, c, coder radio, contracting, darter pro, developer podcast, employment, facebook, freelance, functional programming, google, independent contractor, javascript, jetbrains, laptops, laugh track, learning c, mac os, machine learning, mixins, ml, mvc, netflix, nvidia, pwa, pycharm, python, python developer survey, react, react hooks, repl, self-employment, spa, system76, vue

The gangs all together and cover your poignant feedback right out of the gate. Then we jump into the psychological trap of freelancing, and imagine a world where app stores are a true level playing field.

343: Say My Functional Name

February 5th, 2019  |  50 mins 3 secs

.net, app store, apple, c#, c# 8.0, certificates, coder radio, compiler, concurrency, developer podcast, edc, embedded development, enterprise, facebook, facebook research, functional programming, google, haskell, ios, ipad, iphone, jailbreak, macos, maybe, ml, monads, mono, nil punning, npe, null, nullable, nullable reference types, optionals, privacy, rust, rustc, safety, sideload, soundness, static types, unity, vpn, walled garden

Mike breaks down the drama around nullable reference types in C# 8.0, and we debate what it means for the future of the language.