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Coder Radio

The Mad Bottercoder.show
A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.
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520: Microsoft Goes All-In

We chew on the best bits from this year's Microsoft Build and the bright red flag coming from the Rust community. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Ford adopts Tesla charging standard — Under the agreement – revealed in a live Twitter Spaces interview with Tesla and Twitter boss Elon Musk, Farley said current Ford o...

May 31, 20231 hr 11 min

519: Not So OpenAI

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has gone straight for the open-source kill move. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used — It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your ...

May 24, 202345 min

518: Driving Mr. Dominick

We laugh at Google's scramble, check in on the Twitter collapse, and how one developer's little mistake screwed millions. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Michael Guimarin on Twitter — About a month from now Apple is going to announce support for using its silicon neural engine to run commercial and open source LLM...

May 17, 20231 hr 1 min

517: Savage Serverless Shutdown

A scathing takedown of Serverless... By Amazon? We react to this strange revelation and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Revegnus on Twitter — Update: No M3 Mac or iPad for this year Due to yield issues with TSMC not being able to supply enough of the M3 to Apple, Apple has delayed the release of the M3 until...

May 10, 202347 min

516: There is No Moat

Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so." Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Jupiter Jobs Matrix Chat Room There is No Moat Document — An interesting paper from a googler working in research has published an internal paper on how ChatGPT & Bard will essenti...

May 03, 20231 hr

515: Codeium Comes for Copilot

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. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29 — Let's get together at a local hidden gem, the Boston Harbor Marina. A classic location, with a covere...

Apr 26, 202356 min

514: Designing a Villain

Elon launches another AI company, leaks suggest Apple might enable sideloading, and why we should let Chaos-GPT run free. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 P — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Espanso — A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander WWDC iOS 1...

Apr 19, 202351 min

513: Apple's Golden Hour

Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset. Plus, the tool we found uses ChatGPT to help you debug errors. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together. We haven't picked exactly where ye...

Apr 12, 202355 min

512: The Hysterics Chronicles

Our thoughts on the recent AI hysteria and why it betrays the massive egos involved, our issues with the RESTRICT Act, and we do some Monday morning code review. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup — Two meetups coming up in April. ChatGPT banned in Italy — The country’s data protection aut...

Apr 05, 20231 hr

511: Robot Chat Shack

Mike's spent 90+ days with GitHub Co-Pilot, and shares the surprising conclusion. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: 90+ Days With Github Co-Pilo — Today, I want to talk about a tool that has been making waves in the programming community lately – Github Co-Pilot. Introducing GitHub Copilot X — With chat and terminal...

Mar 29, 202357 min

510: Edge of Disaster

Microsoft's moonshot is turning into a crapshoot. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Berlin Meet Up, Fri, Mar 24, 2023 — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin! Berlin Buddies Matrix Chatroom — A room to organize Jupiter Broadcasting fans in Berlin. LinuxFest Northwest Matrix Chat...

Mar 22, 202349 min

509: The Great Cloud Exodus

We're told companies are abandoning the cloud to save money. But is the trend our friend? Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 Bellingham Technical College We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit — The rough math goes like this: We spent $3.2m on cloud in ...

Mar 15, 202343 min

508: Hybrid Hangover

Our spicy take on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout, how it will impact everyday developers, and how badly this screws over small businesses. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — LFNW October 20-22, 2023 Bellingham Technical College US guarantees all deposits after Silicon Valley Bank collapse,...

Mar 14, 202351 min

507: Tough Little Liver

Mike's got a new rig, and Ford wants to recall yours automatically! Plus, we get a bit spicy about money. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is black and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. It is embroidered on the left chest with a clas...

Mar 04, 202358 min

506: Hay Tay

It's been one week, and Microsoft's new bot's already gone full Tay. Plus one of the worst examples of under-funded open source yet. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before! Jupiter Broadcasting Garage — R...

Feb 22, 202342 min

505: Panic at the GPTdisco

The pitchforks are out for Google's CEO, and hoopla is leaking! Plus, our thoughts on baking telemetry into Go, the big Web3 crackdown, and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Avalonia UI - Home — Avalonia UI creates pixel-perfect, native apps. Grab a Robe from the Jupiter Broadcasting Garage — Robes, Tumblers, ...

Feb 15, 202354 min

504: Gateway Timeout Error

We get spicy about the state of hybrid app development and then dig into the App store gatekeeper busting by the White House. Sponsored By: The Coder : The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear and is embroidered on the left chest with a classic white-on-black Coder Radio logo. Save $10 with code SWIFT. Promo Code: SWIFT Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-...

Feb 08, 202355 min

503: Ruby in the WebAssembly

The shiny userbase flocking to WebAssembly, our thoughts on the "openAI scam", and why they just keep cramming stuff into Docker containers. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: pop-os core: WIP immutable base — POP working on an immutable base? We're interested. The Blocksize War — This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize...

Feb 01, 202346 min

502: Too Big to Care

How the world without "big tech" might look like, the EU promises to go after Elon and a much-needed head adjustment. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Links: JB's Jobs Matrix Chatroom — Looking for work or hiring? It's a spot for people in our community to make a connection. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, others have cut more...

Jan 25, 20231 hr 3 min

501: The AWS of AI

Microsoft gives Google an OpenAI gut punch, why Apple's new hardware fails to impress, and our reaction to the undignified death of Twitter's third-party client API. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Gamer Radio Episode 3: SEGA! Meet the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini - YouTube — Introducing the new MacBook Pro and Ma...

Jan 18, 202353 min

500: Internal Server Error

After sacrificing our pound of flesh for episode 500, we get into some spicy Big Tech dynamics and the performance mess of WebAssembly runtimes. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Gamer Radio Discord — Join Mike in the Gamer Radio Discord Gamer Radio on the Podcastindex.org Here’s why Samsung and Dell’s new monitors ...

Jan 11, 202344 min

499: The Copy Paste Wars

We share our spicy C++ take, major Apple frustrations, and 2023 spoilers. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Links: What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition — Depending on how long Apple waits to launch its next Mac, the time following the launch of the MacBook Air could be among the longest periods with no new Mac model...

Jan 04, 20231 hr 1 min

498: The Birds and the Elephants

Our take on why several tech companies just teamed up to take on Google Maps, and then we react to the global analyst who says we won't have any new iPhones until 2028. We don't talk about Elon; if we did, it would be chaptered. But we definitely did not. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Peter Zeihan — Geopolitical...

Dec 28, 202248 min

Gamer Radio 0: Gaming with Perspective - Test Show

Mike and Chris spend a little time chatting about one of their loves in life, great games. It's a test pilot episode for a possible new show, and we'd like your feedback. Consider it a holiday treat for the Coder fans out there. Sponsored By: Network Membership Holiday Discount : Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Sign up now and save $3/m FOREVER! Promo Code: 2024 Links: Super Mario All-Stars - Full Game Walkthrough - YouTube...

Dec 23, 202237 min

497: Shots Across the Pond

Mike's skeptical of the rumors Apple is preparing to allow third-party app stores, and in a total flip of roles, Chris comes to the defense of Microsoft. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone — Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will respond ...

Dec 21, 202252 min

496: Sweeney's Final Swing

We debate a few more drunk or 4D chess moves, the mad lad taking on Apple, and why Dart 3 has people talking. Plus, what a recent criticism of Scrum got wrong. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - GO VOTE! — Cast your vote for the best in open source for 2022. Launch Keyboard - System76 — Laun...

Dec 14, 20221 hr 5 min

495: .Not Funded

Amazon used the stage of AWS re:Invent to toss shade on .Net and reveal its broader ambitions. Plus, why Pydantic is giving Mike a headache. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Elon Musk on Twitter — Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from th...

Dec 07, 20221 hr 7 min

494: Python Paradigms

We reflect on the recent musings of Python's creator, from the functional to the philosophical. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: Zoë Schiffer on Twitter — NEW: Elon Musk has sent another email to Twitter engineers warning them about code reviews. “All managers are expected to write a meaningful amount of software t...

Nov 30, 202254 min

493: Super Spellcheck

We will discuss the practical implementations of AI embedded in future products, then take a look at FTX's books and have a few highlights to share. Plus, we lay out the PMC warfare theory, which might explain what bloated tech companies have coming. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion ...

Nov 23, 20221 hr 5 min

492: The Troll Wizard

Microsoft lets its geek flag fly, our observations on .NET 7, and the recent upset caused by the Troll Wizard, but we can't understand who will pay the toll. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder Tailscale : Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links: NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages — "NSA recommends that organizations use memory safe languages when p...

Nov 16, 20221 hr 7 min
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