Coder Radio

To our surprise, Apple gave developers a treat this week and Chris continues to search for the ultimate productivity hack.

We look back at how tools, processes, and developer trends have changed over nearly ten years of the show.

Why Metal might be one of the biggest strategy taxes of the Apple platforms. Plus a thought-provoking appeal to Dark Matter Developers.

We're spooked to learn how one man's life has been turned upside down just because he used Google Photos. Plus Mike's thoughts on .Net 7's trajectory and a little hope for Ionic.

New leaks reveal how hollow Apple's claims of fighting for user privacy are. We discuss their scheme to monetize the downturn. Plus, why we've never seen an App blow it as severely as Telegram is right now, and Electron's Flash moment.

Why we think Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about remote work, and the complicated answer to a simple question.

We debate the lies our tool makers tell us, if Clojure has a Rails-sized hole, and the secrets of a successful software engineer.

We're looking at the big picture and, surprisingly, seeing a lot of possibilities.

Mike's ready to make a case for Declarative UI, and Chris pulls back the curtain to reveal a spicy take.

Why we feel recent attacks by the Software Freedom Conservancy against Microsoft are costing the SFC serious credibility.

Mike's Linux Toolchain for 2022, and his first week with CoPilot. Then we chat about the series of choices that led us to go independent so many years ago.

Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises.

Mike's hitting the road to solve his old man's PC woes; Chris channels his early inner 80s and some Google AI conspiracy bacon.

You can't judge a book by its cover, and this week we surprised each other when we dug into the HP Dev One. Plus some insights on remote virtual dev desktops and the gotcha's from WWDC we missed.

We jump aboard Hair Force One and are a bit let down. We get into why. Plus Mike's first impressions of the HP Dev One laptop.

What's old is new again, but we're not buying it this time. It's developer conference season, and we're hunting vaporware.

Soon there will be no shame in that snake game, the big trend that is not our friend, and Microsoft reinvents the widget.

Why Mike feels like Heroku is in a failed state, what drove us crazy about Google I/O this year, how Chris botched something super important, and some serious Python love sprinkled throughout.

After solving a moral dilemma in our particular kind of way, Mike dishes on some ambitious plans that might kick off a new era of development for him.

Mike shares a tale involving a comedy of errors, and we ponder a new reusable culture around tech.