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440: Just Say No to M1 Nov 17, 2021

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We get some spicy emails, dig into why Mike just picked up another Linux laptop, and then share our real thoughts on Web3.

Plus, how we met, and why the future is probably not so bright for Apple users long-term.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — Hush! Nobody tell @ChrisLAS #Linux @system76
Unix Surplus Servers
Web3 For Dummies — Web 3.0 generally refers to the next generation of the worldwide web. Just like Web 2.0 started from an abstract concept of sending information on an open network, Web 3.0 goes deeper into building a fairer and more transparent internet. For this reason, Web 3.0 is often associated with blockchain technology.
Web3 Foundation Grants Program — As part of our commitment to promoting the Web3 ecosystem, we offer comprehensive grants programs focused on funding software development and research efforts related to Polkadot, Kusama and Substrate
What Exactly is Web3? by Juan Benet at Web3 Summit 2018 — Juan Benet, Founder & CEO of Protocol Labs, talks about what Web3 is and how it is a part of a larger movement going on in the Internet in which humanity is going from a pre-computing civilization to a post-computing civilization.
Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps — Apple is secretly buying Google ads for high-value apps to collect potentially millions of dollars in subscription revenue, multiple app publishers have told me. Apple is placing the ads without the app developers’ consent, and Google won’t delete them, they say.
Apple secretly buying ads for their apps, complain developers
Apple’s Ad Network Is The Biggest Beneficiary Of Apple’s New Marketing Rules: Report — “ASA is the only media source in iOS that functions independently of SKAdNetwork and deterministically attributes users,” AppsFlyer says. “It is therefore no surprise that it is the new #1 player among consenting users in both the Retention Index’s global power and volume rankings.”

439: Github NoPilot Nov 10, 2021

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Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.

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Yggdrasil Screen Reader — Yggdrasil is a new project that aims to create a better Linux screen reader, written in Rust.
Getting Started With Python On Windows 2021 Edition — Don’t Despair! This Is Gonna Be Easy! :)
Better Open With — With so many cool Android apps, Better Open With saves you the hassle of having to choose only one default app handler when you click a filetype, and without having to choose between "only once" and "always"!
Apple's Craig Federighi Says Sideloading on iPhone Would Open the Floodgates to Malware — Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi today expressed his opposition to a provision in Europe's proposed Digital Markets Act that would require the iPhone to allow sideloading of apps outside of the App Store.
WebSummit Video on LinkedIn — Craig is near the last 15-20 minutes.
Announcing .NET 6 — There are massive gains in performance, which we’ve seen dropping the cost of hosting cloud services at Microsoft. .NET 6 is the first release that natively supports Apple Silicon (Arm64) and has also been improved for Windows Arm64.
Performance Improvements in .NET 6
Early adopters can experiment with native AOT form factor
Visual Studio 2022 now available
.NET 6 deep dive; what's new and what's coming | OD485 - YouTube
Building the next phase of GitHub, together — This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers.
Thank you, GitHub

438: The Oppenheimer Problem Nov 03, 2021

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After a little async Ruby chat and developer morality struggle, Chris explains how macOS Monterey has lapped Linux with a critical workstation feature.

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Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete — Looking through the lawsuit, the scope and shamelessness of Google's greed would appear to be stark. Project Bernanke, for example, is claimed to take data from publishers' ad servers to boost Google's own services. Project NERA, to create a "not owned but operated" walled garden for users if they used any Google service. "Project Jedi" was allegedly meant to freeze out independent ad exchanges by using insider knowledge, and in "Jedi Blue", Google is alleged to have conspired with Facebook to parcel out the goodies between themselves.
fasterthanlime 🌌 on Twitter — "Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which."
Async Ruby — Async Ruby adds new concurrency features to the language; you can think of it as "threads with none of the downsides". It's been in the making for a couple of years, and with Ruby 3.0, it's finally ready for prime time.
Explaining Ruby Fibers — A fiber is simply an independent execution context that can be paused and resumed programmatically. We can think of fibers as story lines in a book or a movie: there are multiple happenings involving different persons at different places all occurring at the same time, but we can only follow a single story line at a time: the one we’re currently reading or watching.
How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling — This layout segregates the contents of the system into files which don’t change, except in a macOS update, and everything else which does.
Low Power Mode — The downside of any Low Power Mode feature will be reduced performance. This is generally easy to quantify via benchmarks, and the Mac's low power mode is not an exception
Erase all content and settings — Open System Preferences and check the menu bar to launch the Erase Assistant. In short, it retains the system data volume (originally introduced in Catalina) and formats the paired data volume, destroying your encryption keys in the process so that no data can be recovered from the drive.
Window management — Clicking and holding the green stoplight button when an app is in full-screen mode presents some additional options, too. In Big Sur, this menu will only offer to exit full-screen mode, but in Monterey you can send a Split View window into its own separate full-screen view, or you can replace one half of a Split View window with another app. And there’s also a setting that makes the menu bar stay at the top of the screen even when you’re using full-screen mode, instead of hiding-and-showing as it does by default.
Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey — At least ten separate posts (1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) on Apple Support Communities contain users complaining that as they were attempting to update their Mac to ‌macOS Monterey‌, the Mac went completely black and they're unable to turn it on.

437: Microsoft War Stories Oct 27, 2021

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Chatting about the week's .NET news leads us into a blue-tinted tale of woe. When Microsoft taketh, they also giveth. But is it enough?

Plus, which MacBooks we did or did not buy.

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Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry — .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms
Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP — Going forward, UWP will only receive “bug, reliability, and security fixes,” and not new features, Microsoft says, indicating that it is now deprecated.
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web — Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding.
Apple Announces 'Tech Talks' Where Developers Can Interface With Apple Experts — Apple says that developers can use the sessions to dive into technical content, get answers to questions, and seek one-on-one meetings for guidance. Sessions will be held online from Apple locations around the world in multiple time zones, including Bengaluru, India; Cupertino, California; London; Mexico City; São Paulo; Seoul, South Korea; Shanghai; Singapore; Sydney; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Tokyo.
MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max impressions — New chips, familiar ports, and actual volume buttons — it might be love
14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack — I’ve spent the last week with a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Max processor with 32 GPU cores and 64 GB of RAM. And I’m happy to report, it’s true—all of it.
PTP Changes by SpaceX

436: The Diablo is in the Details Oct 20, 2021

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Why mastering your development environment can be a tricky feat, and a server outage brought to you by the late 1990s.

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Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro — The M1 Pro chip is an upscaled version of the M1 chip, with up to 200 GB/s memory bandwidth, up to 32 GB RAM, and more than double the number of transistors. Apple said the CPU performance is about 70% faster than M1, and GPU performance is about double. M1 Max doubles RAM to 64 GB, and doubles the GPU size to 32 cores.
Diablo II: Resurrected Outages — tl;dr: Our server outages have not been caused by a singular issue; we are solving each problem as they arise, with both mitigating solves and longer-term architectural changes.
Blizzard Reveals Source Of Diablo II: Resurrected Server Issues — Blizzard has published a detailed post about the issues and hoo boy, they're complicated
THE DECLINE OF DJANGO — Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
Python Programming - The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic
Facebook Newsroom on Twitter — Right now 30+ journalists are finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents. We hear that to get the docs, outlets had to agree to the conditions and a schedule laid down by the PR team that worked on earlier leaked docs.
Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts — AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports
Facebook posts strange thread suggesting major revelations about to come out

435: Ask Alice Oct 13, 2021

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Mike just launched the secret project he's been working on for months and shares all the details.

And Chris has a surprise for the end of the show.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Excited to share Alice from @TheMadBotterINC. She's an #automation #nocode tool that understands all kinds of different data formats and can help your business run more efficiently. Think of her as a Rosetta Stone for data! Got a problem? #AskAlice
Apple is appealing the Epic Games ruling it originally called a ‘resounding victory’ — Apple has filed for an appeal of the ruling in its major trial against Epic. While Apple largely won that case (the company went so far as to call the ruling a “resounding victory”) with Judge Gonzalez Rogers ruling in favor of Apple in nine of the ten claims Epic brought against the company, it did lose in one important way: the judge found that Apple violated California’s anti-steering rules, and demanded that Apple let developers link to outside payment systems. That policy would have taken over in December, but it may be pushed out beyond that — and it seems that’s the point.
Justice Department Makes Quiet Push on Antitrust Enforcement
Understanding all of Python, through its builtins — Python as a language is comparatively simple. And I believe, that you can learn quite a lot about Python and its features, just by learning what all of its builtins are, and what they do.
Alice - Mike's new project! — The AI Bot Designed to make your business more efficient.
PyO3 — Rust bindings for Python, including tools for creating native Python extension modules. Running and interacting with Python code from a Rust binary is also supported.
Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Does anyone know of a way to get @TwitterSupport / @Twitter to review a site and relive that it shouldn’t be blacklisted? Kind of need this resolved for Monday"
Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows — The streaming platform, best known for its videogame streamers, has paid out $889 million so far this year through September, up from $517 million over the same period in 2020.

434: Coding Gungan Style Oct 07, 2021

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It's final push time on a big project for Mike, but Chris is the one who is exhausted. Still we've got some new insights into testing and thoughts on an emerging category of developer.

Plus, why the hermit developer is alive and well, some important feedback, and a Python tip.

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Hermit programmers are dead — However, with the advent of cloud computing and AI, the scenery may change soon for this profession. It’s time for programmers to mutate into sociable software engineers, recap and re-adapt, and take advantage of the only thing that machines cannot overtake: our human nature. Otherwise, I believe misfit programmers will perish… for sure.
Why OpenAI’s Codex Won’t Replace Coders — It might create a new specialty, too: "prompt engineering," the often-complex process of crafting the textual prompts which allow AI systems like Codex to work their magic.
Majority of developers spending half, or less, of their day coding, report finds — If you only get four hours max to code during the work day you're not alone, according to ActiveState's 2019 developer survey.
Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness · It Will Never Work in Theory — We found that code coverage is a poor predictor of how effective a test suite is at detecting bugs once the size of the test suite is accounted for.
Internal Tech Emails on Twitter — Apple execs describe a "unique arrangement" with Netflix
Python Sample for Tip of the Week — This is an example of being able to use type hinting on a return < Python 3.10. In 3.10 the from future will not be required. This requires Python 3.6+
What’s New In Python 3.10
Python 3.10 Release Stream — with Pablo Galindo - YouTube — Python 3.10 is set to be released on 4 October 2021. Join us live in our Python 3.10 Release Stream with Pablo Galindo, CPython Core Developer and Python 3.10 Release Manager, and Leon Sandøy.

433: Falling for FastAPI Sep 29, 2021

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Mike's falling in love with FastAPI and gives us a hint at the next project he's building.

Plus, our thoughts on employee machine monitoring and building a transition plan when you are ready to quit your job.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — The newest addition to the @TheMadBotterINC team, he’s a QA Engineer with keen eyes and sharp claws to testing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook addresses workplace issues, pay equity, more in all-hands meeting — Cook, along with SVP of Retail and People Deirdre O'Brien, addressed a range of subjects from pay equity to Texas' new abortion law in a meeting broadcast to employees around the world, reports The New York Times. Activist employees told the publication that Cook answered only two of a number of questions they wanted to ask. The report fails to detail what those two questions were, but notes the Apple chief did comment on pay equity, at least in part.
FastAPI — FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Starlette — Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services.
pydantic — Data validation and settings management using python type annotations.
Typer — Typer is a library for building CLI applications that users will love using and developers will love creating. Based on Python 3.6+ type hints.
SQLModel — SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.
Street Coder — Software development isn't an "ivory tower" exercise. Street coders get the job done by prioritizing tasks, making quick decisions, and knowing which rules to break.
Coder to Developer — Coder to Developer helps you excel at the many non-coding tasks entailed, from start to finish, in just about any successful development project.
Will Monitoring the Workplace Improve Productivity? — According to technical talent recruiting company Apollo Technical, here are a couple of key research findings about remote workers and productivity.

432: That Time We Stepped In It Sep 22, 2021

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We’ve really had a week, one of those makes ya feel old kinda weeks.

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Companies may not want to hire in Colorado due to labor law — A 9Wants to Know investigation found at least 10 companies may be avoiding hiring Coloradans to get around a new labor law.
Colorado Revises Guidance on Job Posting Requirements
Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 — A new Focus mode cuts down on distractions by limiting what's accessible and who can contact you, and notifications can now be grouped up in daily summaries.
iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review - Section on Focus — What stood out to me when I started playing around with Apple’s presets for Focus (which include the basic Do Not Disturb, Driving, and Sleep, plus templates for Fitness, Gaming, and Reading) is the number of personalization options that were previously hard to find or not available at all with the classic Do Not Disturb.
Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS — These are the type of questions that the Microsoft Research team was trying to answer around 18 years ago and it was then when they came up with a pretty cool name for their new OS — Singularity.
singularity GitHub — Clone of the MSR Singularity Project
PDF: An Overview of the Singularity Project — “what would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?”
As A Solo Developer, I Decided To Offer Phone Support, And This Is What Happened — As a matter of fact, when it comes to large problems, offering phone support enables you to understand that inconveniences that occur when the app’s behaviors and messages are hard to understand are more frequent than bugs in the programming (when bugs crash the application, it’s easy to identify them through the log, and no reports are made with a phone call).

431: Success is not Illegal Sep 15, 2021

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The more you read into it, the worse it gets.

At least we have new devices to keep us happy.

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GitKraken — Legendary Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux
Apple Unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — Apple today announced the iPhone 13 Pro and ‌iPhone 13‌ Pro Max at its "California Streaming" event, featuring brighter Super Retina XDR displays with ProMotion, improved rear cameras, a more powerful variant of the A15 Bionic chip, up to 1TB of storage, a new Sierra Blue color option, and more.
All-new iPad Mini announced with 5G, USB-C — The big news is that it’s larger than the iPad Mini 5 with an 8.3-inch display
Breaking down the Epic v. Apple Fortnite trial ruling — Rogers clearly considers much of Epic and Apple’s behavior silly and many of both companies’ arguments bad.
Epic has appealed Friday’s ruling in the Epic v. Apple case — The court ruled Friday that Epic should pay damages
Java 17 / JDK 17 — JDK 17, the reference implementation of Java 17, is now Generally Available. We shipped build 35 as the first Release Candidate of JDK 17 on 6 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then. Build 35 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use.
K-Duo — This versatile brewer is the best of both worlds, using both K-Cup® pods and ground coffee to brew a cup and a carafe of your favorite varieties.
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show — Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public

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