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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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490: Final Boss Battle Nov 02, 2022

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We slip into full boss mode after digging into some long-term tech trends impacting developers.

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You’re Gonna Have To Pay To Use Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now — Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
Apple flexes its control over the App Store — In its changes this week, Apple updated its App Store rules to give itself a cut of some advertising revenue in social media apps and purchase revenue from Web3 apps
Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs — Durov said Apple is not "happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax" and that Telegram has no choice but to disable paid posts and channels on its iOS app. "This is just another example of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content," Durov continued.
MacRumors.com on Twitter — Story updated with the following statement from an Apple spokesperson: "We have paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages."
alex 🤷🏽‍♂️😬👍🏾 on Twitter — AppStore discovery has become so shit even in 2016 that Indy devs were finding it hard to get organic growth. What did Apple do? Slowly but surely offer more and more advertising instead of better alternatives ⁦ @dominucco ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisLAS
How Gamification Affects Software Developers — They urge caution: gamification can steer the behavior of software developers in unexpected and unwanted directions.
Casey Newton on Twitter — Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.
MAX PAIN 👀☣️ on Twitter — Elon actually brought in Tesla engineers to review Twitter code Wolf of Wall Street style and not only fired CEO Parag, CFO, and the Indian lawyer lady but the entirety of the C-suite executives on day 1
The Elon Effect: Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth on Twitter — Dogecoin just doubled in less than 24 hours.
Young Workers Face New Reality: Tech Jobs Tumble As Meta, Twitter And Apple Cut Employees And Perks — Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush, shares troubling words: “Winter is coming to the tech world.” How can workers prepare for this new season?
Facebook parent Meta Q3 2022 earnings — The company’s Reality Labs division, which houses its VR headsets, lost over $9 billion in the first three quarters.
Jim Cramer on Twitter — Meta bought back $6.5 billion as free cash flow dropped off the face of the earth. I did not see this coming. I trusted this management and that was ill-advised
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489: Luther Curious Oct 26, 2022

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One of the most challenging aspects of being an independent developer, and our thoughts on Microsoft's recent bad news.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — Been offline but meet the Dominicks!
Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am An Engineer' — An electronics engineer says he found a flaw in traffic lights. The Oregon engineering board fined him for it.
7 Estimation Anti-Patterns — Here are 7 estimation anti-patterns and also how you could fix them. Fair warning: in most cases, there are no easy answers.
Microsoft employees are the latest casualties amid the tech world's layoffs trend — Precisely how many people are being put out of work is unclear. Axios’s source said the newly unemployed will number "under 1,000," which is an odd phrasing, since it could mean just about anything, but it’s pretty clear that the total is significant.
Brad Sams on Twitter — I get that companies have to make priorities and cuts happen but when that same company is trying to spend $70b on an acquisition…it feels odd
Mark Zuckerberg has a $10 billion plan to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from their bosses — But some experts are wary of a full-scale pivot to the metaverse. “We would have to carefully attend to the physical implications of headsets,” Roshni Raveendhran, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told Fortune last year. “Like if it harms our eyesight or implicates our brain functions; we don’t know any of these things now, and we won’t know until there’s more of a continual usage pattern. We need to pay attention to some of those before we go into full-scale adoption.”
Mark Zuckerberg Should Make Facebook 'Facebook' Again — The Meta CEO should prioritize growing engagement and revenue on the company's core apps.
he Wire retracts two recent stories about Meta's XCheck — Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta, especially the sources and materials involved in our reporting.
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488: Code Laundering Oct 19, 2022

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We debate if GitHub's Copilot enables automated code laundering after a developer makes a startling discovery. Then we dispense some seriously old-school wisdom.

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Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Alberta regulator says no. — The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), has asked a court to order one of the province’s leading software companies, Octopusapp Inc., known as Jobber, to stop using the term “engineer” in job titles and postings unless it gets a permit from the regulator.
Frank Karlitschek | Nextcloud — Frank Karlitschek started Nextcloud as an open source project to power a decentralized internet, believing that companies should control their own data. As an engineer in computer science, he worked on many open source projects throughout his career.
Configuring GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code — GitHub Copilot includes a filter which detects code suggestions matching public code on GitHub. You can choose to enable or disable the filter. When the filter is enabled, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on GitHub. If there is a match or near match, the suggestion will not be shown to you.
Tim Davis on Twitter — @github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. For example, the simple prompt "sparse matrix transpose, cs_" produces my cs_transpose in CSparse. My code on left, github on right. Not OK.
Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Illegal source code laundering, automated by GitHub
Hector Martin on Twitter — Don't do this. Ever. This is insulting and disrespectful to your users. Nobody is entitled to support from volunteer FOSS projects, but they absolutely do deserve not to have the issues they took time to file actively thrown away. If you haven't fixed the bug, it stays open.
Meta Sunk $15 Billion Building the Metaverse. Where Did the Money Go? — Meta has sunk more than $15 billion into its metaverse project since the start of last year.
Most Metaverse Users Don't Even Make It a Month — Most Metaverse users don't return to the Horizon Worlds platform after the first month, WSJ reported.
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487: Casual Coders Oct 12, 2022

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Elon Musk's leaked messages reveal how tech CEOs think and talk about their employees, and we dig in.

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PayPal Misinformation Fines Musk Criticized Were Published by Mistake — Policy update threatened penalty of $2,500 for each violation
alex 🤷🏽‍♂️😬👍🏾 on Twitter — Yo this is a really compelling testimonial from ⁦ @ChrisLAS on the merits of 3D media — shame it’s not really taking off or didn’t take off. ⁦@CoderRadioShow ⁩ any thoughts why?
It’s official, Elon Musk is buying Twitter — It sure looks like Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover is actually happening.
Michael Dominick on Twitter — What's the value of avoiding a possibly embarrassing and likely damaging deposition? Apparently, $44B. Damn! #tech
Elon Musk: Twitter won't 'take yes for an answer' — Billionaire Elon Musk has said he aims to complete his purchase of Twitter by the end of the month, but the company "will not take yes for an answer".
Elon Musk and Jason Calacanis's messages reveal how return-to-office mandates can be used to get workers to quit — Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition saga may be exhausting, but it has revealed how some business leaders are thinking privately about return-to-office mandates.
Swimply — Rent your own private pool by the hour.
Bucco Capital on Twitter — “Internally, we called it the LPA cycle: Launch, Promo, Abandon”
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486: The Fight for the Next Knight Rider Oct 05, 2022

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Why we think Google will ultimately lose the next big tech battle.

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I486 - Wikiwand — The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386.
Aquamacs Emacs — An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more…
Our List of Meetup Rooms on Matrix
Stadia died because no one trusts Google — No one trusts Google. It has exhibited such poor understanding of what people want, need and will pay for that at this point, people are wary of investing in even its more popular products.
Nibel on Twitter — No clue where this is going but I'm intrigued.
Sega Channel — The Sega Channel is a discontinued online game service developed by Sega for the Sega Genesis video game console, serving as a content delivery system. Launched on December 14, 1994, the Sega Channel was provided to the public by TCI and Time Warner Cable through cable television services by way of coaxial cable.
OnLive — Games were delivered to OnLive's client software as streaming video rendered by the service's servers, rather than rendered locally by the device.
The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car — For the car companies involved, which face the nearly impossible challenge of producing software on par with what tech companies offer, working with Silicon Valley can address consumer desires while also staving off competition from companies like Tesla.
WSJ Archive Link
Flatseal—Linux Apps on Flathub — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
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485: Going All In on Linux Sep 28, 2022

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Mike has spent just over a month living in Linux full-time, and Chris wants to check in and see how he’s doing. Plus we both have the new Thelio from System76 in-house, and our takeaways might surprise you.

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Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring — Honestly, when I use my Linux computer, very little is different from my Mac or Windows machines. It works so well that it’s essentially kind of boring. Which is what you want, right? You don’t want to have to think about your operating system, or worry about it. You just want it to work.
System76 Thelio — We’ve slimmed down Thelio’s wood wrapping into a swappable accent on the front of the system. Style your Thelio with a variety of wood or powder-coated aluminum accents to empower any mindset.
Thelio 2022 Redesign Review - dominickm.com — Proudly proclaiming “real computers have ports”, it comes with a variety of HDMI, Display Port (depending on your GPU) and UBS-C ports. Whether your a developer who needs to connect IOT devices for debugging or a content creator preaching the gospel of Objective Binks, you’ll have the ports you need for your audio devices and (in my case) your mute pedal. Keen observers will notice that the back panel is slightly less styled than previous model, but that hardly detracts from the overall aesthetic appeal.
Thelio Timed Linux Kernel Compilation — This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration (defconfig) for the architecture being tested or alternatively an allmodconfig for building all possible kernel modules for the build.
Parboil DevOne Benchmarks — The Parboil Benchmarks from the IMPACT Research Group at University of Illinois are a set of throughput computing applications for looking at computing architecture and compilers. Parboil test-cases support OpenMP, OpenCL, and CUDA multi-processing environments. However, at this time the test profile is just making use of the OpenMP and OpenCL test workloads.
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484: I Wanted to be a Hipster Sep 21, 2022

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Mike's first look at a built from scratch yet to be released IDE. And we cook up a little Adobe-flavored bacon.

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Instacart Plans to Focus IPO on Selling Employee Shares — Most shares listed will come from employees, in a move that could help the delivery company retain and recruit talent
Directory of Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Chatrooms — Join us in the Matrix with this handy Meetup Space.
JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains — Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. JetBrains Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.
Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design — Adobe today announced that it would acquire Figma for $20 billion, taking out one of its biggest rivals in the realm of digital design.
Adobe’s Figma acquisition is a $20 billion bet to control the entire creative market
Figma — Figma is the only platform that brings together powerful design features you already love and a more efficient workflow to boot.
Why Figma is Worth $20B — Figma had crossed the ‘this matters to Adobe’s future’ rubicon. They hit $400m ARR and were continuing to double. Figma revenue, independent of margin, was increasingly displacing revenue that might have gone to Adobe, or more specifically, creating pricing pressure on Adobe. It was a product designed natively to be collaborative, to be easier to use than Adobe’s professional tools, and without the baggage of features and nomenclature leftover from years of software releases, platform shifts, and business model changes.
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Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver — A simple, light weight audio receiver with Bluetooth (A2DP), AirPlay 1, and Spotify Connect.

483: Objective D Sep 15, 2022

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

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What’s new for Apple developers - iOS 16 — Learn about the key technologies and exciting capabilities available in the latest SDKs
iOS 16 Launches — Apple is set to release iOS 16 this Monday, September 12
Apple iOS 16 review: unlocking the lock screen — Apple’s trying to turn your phone into more than just a bunch of apps
iOS 16: The MacStories Review — Customization is back, and Apple’s having fun again.
All the iOS 16 Features You Won't Get Until Later This Year
iOS 16 - New Features - Apple
iPhone 14 Pro Models Feature Improved GPS Accuracy — The new iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature dual-frequency GPS support for more accurate location tracking, according to Apple's tech specs for the devices.
iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On Display Intelligently Turns Off When You Leave the Room With an Apple Watch — The always-on display on the iPhone 14 Pro and ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ Max will intelligently and automatically turn off when a user leaves their iPhone in a room and walks out while wearing an Apple Watch.
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GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
Moon Cards — Pay at millions of online merchants with secure virtual cards.
Instacart Plans to Focus IPO on Selling Employee Shares — Most shares listed will come from employees, in a move that could help the delivery company retain and recruit talent

482: Building Your Light Saber Sep 07, 2022

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

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — Hope my @PlayMTG & @MTG_Arena had a blast! For the first time out "for real" in a while, I think I did JarJar good :) Standard: 5-0 Sealed: 5-3 Thanks for all the great content to get me up to speed after years off of #MTG
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Apple’s iPhone overtakes Android with more than half of the US market share — It's been a long road for Apple, but the iPhone finally overtakes Android in smartphone market share.
Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available for Developers — 25 compute hours per month is free at the current time, but will later cost $15 per month. 100 computer hours per month is priced at $50/month, 250 compute hours per month is priced at $100/month, and 1000 compute hours per month is priced at $400/month.

481: Apple's Metal Tax Aug 31, 2022

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

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — Had a blast chilling with Chandra at #TCGcon Tampa!
CoderRadioMascot on Twitter — @ChrisLAS, here is another big advantage of having a podcast mascot. Imagine the next podcast convention. You walk up to a fellow podcaster you do not particularly like. Casually ask him: “how is your podcasts mascot doing?” 1/2
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The silent majority — In software development, the silent majority are the engineers who write the code, debug the programs, and solve the complex issues behind the scenes. They do not participate in controversial discussions about Visual Basic or Pascal — they just do their work in those languages without even knowing that there’s so much controversy surrounding their language of choice.
What’s Coming at Apple’s (AAPL) Sept. 7 Far Out iPhone 14 Event? — Apple makes it official and will hold its big product launch event on Sept. 7. Also: The company confirms it will delay iPadOS 16 until after the release of iOS 16
What Will Apple Call Its AR/VR Headsets? Reality One, Reality Pro Names Emerge — The iPhone maker is aiming to enter the new product category next year.
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