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**Coder Radio**

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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430: Steamy PostgreSQL Shower Sep 08, 2021

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We are coming in hot, literally. It's a day of spicy takes.

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A Cloud Guru: In this course, ACG will quickly cover how to connect to various database types. Then, we will jump into using the pandas Python package for data preparation.

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Python in Visual Studio Code — We are pleased to announce that the September 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available.
Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features — We have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.
Apple’s dangerous path
Rising chip prices expected to continue into 2022 — The company is expected to prepare its biggest price hike in a decade, which could impact a lot of tech businesses.
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429: Apple Fools Everyone Sep 01, 2021

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Recent reports would have you believe Apple has made significant concessions to developers. Don't be fooled! We read between the lines and break down what is and what is not changing.

Plus, some thoughts on environmental PCs and the question we hate the most.

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Colony Tracker - Live Tracker — Use the live tracker (powered by Linode) to check the current location. If we're going to be in your area, hit that micro-meetup link.
Apple makes App Store concessions to settle developer suit — Apple said Thursday it will relax some App Store rules in order to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by U.S.-based developers over its store terms.
Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates - Apple
Apple tweaks app pay rules in $100m settlement - BBC News
The App Store is too big to change - The Verge
Apple developers can't escape the 30% toll, because the lawyers took it — The settlement agreement proposes that the plaintiffs will make
Election Day Linux Desktop Contest — I am happy to announce that The Mad Botter INC is once again hosting an open-source software development contest for US students.

428: Epic's Receipts Aug 25, 2021

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Things are worse than we ever thought, but that doesn't prevent us from taking a victory lap.

Plus, Chris levels up his Mac skillz and gets his MacBook Pro under control.

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The Unicorn Project — The Unicorn Project reveals the Five Ideals: The First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity; The Second Ideal of Focus, Flow, and Joy; The Third Ideal of Improvement of Daily Work; The Fourth Ideal of Psychological Safety; and the Fifth Ideal of Focus on the Customer.
The Effective Manager — The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today.
URLSession — The URLSession class and related classes provide an API for downloading data from and uploading data to endpoints indicated by URLs. Your app can also use this API to perform background downloads when your app isn’t running
Objective-See: LuLu — LuLu is the free, open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, protecting your privacy and your Mac!
Little Snitch — Little Snitch makes Internet connections visible and puts you back in control!
Apple Actively Considers The Competitive Profile of 3rd Party Apps
Don’t Feature Competitors in The App Store
Sucks to be BigFish Games
Great to be Netflix
Jeremy C. Owens on Twitter — After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

427: Second-Class Desktop Aug 18, 2021

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Chris makes a big mistake on the road, and Mike drops some reality-based sage wisdom.

But it's really all just a ruse to get you to email the show.

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Denver Meetup | Meetup — This meet up starts at 4pm MDT but you are welcome to (encouraged even) to trickle in anytime between 4-7pm
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 — In May 2021 over 80,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.
Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter — The Mac is in the best place it’s ever been, fresh off a CPU transition, new design language, and beautiful new hardware, w/ 2 brand new UI frameworks, universal apps, and a popular new programming language. If all that’s not enough to convince devs to make native apps, what is?
Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version — The forthcoming 1Password 8 for Mac is now in beta, but instead of a regular Mac app, it uses the resource-intensive Electron system — and users are objecting.

426: The Thoughtful Triangle Aug 11, 2021

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Is there a secret motive behind Apple's announced plans to scan iMessage and iCloud Photo Library content?

Plus how using a common SDK just cost Zoom $85M.

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Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse — Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.
Edward Snowden on Twitter — No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow. They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—without asking.
An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
Epic Games CEO warns of Apple 'state surveillance'
Daring Fireball: Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained — Apple Inc AAPL.O dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google — Zoom users to get $15 or $25 each in proposed settlement of class-action lawsuit.

425: Ruby in the Rough Aug 04, 2021

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Big promises are being made in Ruby land, Tech Crunch says Open Source is dead, and we have thoughts to share about both!

We also discuss Google's Time Crystals. They have the power to fundamentally change our lives, but what the heck are they?

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Sorbet Compiler — For the past year, the Sorbet team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we’re sharing the source code for it.
Patrick Collison on Twitter — We're big believers in multi-year infrastructure bets. After a few years of Ruby infra work, our in-house Ruby compiler is now 22–170% faster than Ruby's default implementation for Stripe's production API traffic. If interested in working on such problems, we're hiring!
Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby — Sorbet is 100% compatible with Ruby. It type checks normal method definitions, and introduces backwards-compatible syntax for method signatures.
Time crystals — But time crystals want to be coherent. So putting them inside a quantum computer, and using them to conduct computer processes could potentially serve an incredibly important function: ensuring quantum coherence.
White paper: Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor — Here we implement a continuous family of tunable CPHASE gates on an array of superconducting qubits to experimentally observe an eigenstate-ordered DTC. We demonstrate the characteristic spatiotemporal response of a DTC for generic initial states. Our work employs a time-reversal protocol that discriminates external decoherence from intrinsic thermalization, and leverages quantum typicality to circumvent the exponential cost of densely sampling the eigenspectrum. In addition, we locate the phase transition out of the DTC with an experimental finite-size analysis. These results establish a scalable approach to study non-equilibrium phases of matter on current quantum processors.
First ‘Time Crystal’ Built Using Google’s Quantum Computer
Time crystals could be the miracle quantum computing needs
The end of open source? — I think the “hypocrite commits” contretemps is symptomatic, on every side, of related trends that threaten the entire extended open-source ecosystem and its users. That ecosystem has long wrestled with problems of scale, complexity and free and open-source software’s (FOSS) increasingly critical importance to every kind of human undertaking.
Facebook allegedly tried to buy Pegasus spyware to track iPhone users — The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices,” Hulio said in his declaration.

424: Denial of DOS Jul 28, 2021

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Mike shares his adventures coding while riding Amtrak, Chris is trying to get DOS running while he still can, and many of you wrote in sharing your concern for GNOME.

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Warp terminal — Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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iDOS 2 emulator gets App Store takedown notice — Apple has issued an ultimatum: remove functionality or get booted from the App Store
Michael Dominick on Twitter — I missed Earth Day & it's time for me to give away a @system76 #Thelio. This one's got a 12GB @nvidia card. Open to middle and high-school students in the US. More details to come, but I want to see some #FOSS around civics and it's yours. Courtesy of @TheMadBotterINC
Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Awesome sight from the rails of @Amtrak #nofilter #landscapephotography
Michael Dominick on Twitter - Wifi Power Fix — If you're experiencing slow wifi on #Ubuntu or #PopOS #Linux, try editing /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf to wifi.powersave=2 ;)

423: Dead Desktop Disco Jul 21, 2021

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Has Microsoft figured out a way to invalidate the GPL? We're skeptical.

Plus, the Gnome project says the traditional desktop is dead, and extensions are niche. Do we agree?

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Qualcomm CEO Outlines Plans to Compete With Apple Silicon — Speaking to Reuters, Amon said that Qualcomm is capable of having the best chip on the market, thanks to a team of chip architects who previously worked for Apple but have since come to Qualcomm.
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Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs
Microsoft is bringing Windows to a web browser — Windows 365 will work in modern web browsers on Macs, iPads, Android devices, and Linux devices.
Microsoft announces Windows 365 Cloud PC for commercial customers — With Windows 365, organizations can choose the size of the Cloud PC based on their needs with predictable per user per month pricing.
Satya Nadella on Twitter — With Windows 365, we’re bringing the operating system to the cloud and creating a new category: the cloud PC, providing organizations with greater flexibility and a secure way to empower their workforce, regardless of location.
"Every Preference Has a Cost" — GNOME’s Tobias Bernard has a new blog post out and it’s an essential read if you’re interested in the direction of the GNOME desktop.
Community Power Part 4: The GNOME Way — In this post we’ll go over that ethos, both in terms of high level values, and what those translate to in more practical terms.

422: Don't Code in Bed Jul 14, 2021

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It seems AI isn't replacing developers just yet, and why we think you shouldn’t get too comfortable.

Plus the almost impossible story of how Mike defeated another laptop.

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421: Misdirected Request Jul 07, 2021

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Has Google already started its decline? Our surprising take.

Plus the trouble with Co-Pilot, and a lot more.

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A Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.
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(Most) Programmers are losing our jobs very soon — Instead of program computers we will show them our needs and they will figure out what to do.
Armin Ronacher on Twitter — I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.
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