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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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400: Bad Request Feb 10, 2021

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After reflecting on more than 8 years of the show, we get into solving problems and taking names.

Plus a couple of special announcements, and some Hoopla we've just got to talk about.

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Coder Radio Episode 1 MP4 - Direct Download — Michael and Chris introduce our new weekly software development podcast. We start with a look at ways beginners can get started with development. Plus we chat about the issues new developers face entering a market dominated by App stores. Then – How platform vendors are feeling the need to reclaim greater control from developers.
Gateways to Programming | Coder Radio Episode 1
Coder Radio Episode 400 Poster — Celebrate 400 episodes of Coder Radio with this word cloud tribute poster. Every title turned into one cool poster.
The Coder | Official Coder Radio Robe — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.
Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say — The hacker tried to drastically increase sodium hydroxide levels in the water, Pinellas County, Florida, officials said on Monday.
RabbitMQ Message Server One-Click App | Linode Marketplace — RabbitMQ is a highly available intermediary for messages to scale applications and prevent impacts to performance due to message processing. Monitor message status and performance stats in the simple interface, or control entirely in the command line. Message queuing ensures that your server is optimized for your application’s load time, reducing performance impacts due to too many message requests. Use plugins to connect to other tools, including Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Rust Foundation - Hello World! — Today, on behalf of the Rust Core team, I’m excited to announce the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem,
Congratulations, Rustaceans, on the creation of the Rust Foundation! | AWS Open Source Blog
Mac utility Homebrew finally gets native Apple Silicon and M1 support — There aren't bottles for every package yet, but the work is in progress.
Why I Still Use RSS — I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS.
Newsboat, an RSS reader — Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

399: Better Living Through Bots Feb 03, 2021

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Microsoft is working on a bot that can deepfake you real good, and we have thoughts.

Plus some insights into testing, and a special friend returns to the show.

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Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios — Google will close its two game studios, located in Montreal and Los Angeles. Neither had released any games yet. That closure will impact around 150 developers, one source familiar with Stadia operations said.
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 - Slack Engineering — As if this was not already an inauspicious start to the New Year, while we were in the early stages of investigating, our dashboarding and alerting service became unavailable.
After You Die, Microsoft Wants to Resurrect You as a Chatbot — In a December 2020 patent, Microsoft outlines a process for uploading data about a person—even the deceased—to turn their likeness into a chatbot.
Data of the dead: Virtual immortality exposes holes in privacy laws
Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain= — A warning went up on the perl.org infrastructure weblog overnight notifying users that perl.com now directed to a parking site and advised against visiting "as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past."
Huginn: Your agents are standing by! — Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server.

398: Testing the Test Jan 27, 2021

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The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

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Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. — Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.
Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installed
Probabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.

397: Electron Ennui Jan 20, 2021

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Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

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Electron package guidelines — Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.
Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO — “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”
Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com
MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors — This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.
The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

396: Everyone Fools Around with Linux in College Jan 13, 2021

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Mike and Chris discuss the recent JetBrains FUD and ponder the impact of recent AWS policy enforcement.

Plus a bunch of cool setups sent in by our audience.

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code-server: VS Code in the browser — Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.
Homebrew on Apple Silicon — The biggest issue for me was Homebrew. According to this issue “There won’t be any support for native ARM Homebrew installations for months to come.” No big deal though. Homebrew can work just fine with Rosetta 2 and some things work natively.
Download Visual Studio Code Insiders — Get the latest release each day.
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking - The New York Times — Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.
Question on Quora that Captures the Impact — Are creators of IntelliJ, the JetBrains company, a project of Russian secret services stealing secrets from all the Western software shops?
Parler is officially offline after AWS suspension — True to its word, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suspended services to Parler
Amazon Is Suspending Parler From AWS
Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet — Parler compares itself to ‘a hospital patient on life support’
Apple M1 Docker Tech Preview — This tech preview is aimed at early adopters of Apple M1 machines, who would like to try an experimental build of Docker Desktop.

395: 50 Shades of M1 Jan 06, 2021

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Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.

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Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org — Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co.
Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
Fava - web interface for Beancount — Fava is a web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount with a focus on features and usability.
Michael Dominick on Twitter — Interesting! It looks like @jetbrains is already on the M1 train.
Dell.com/linux — With Canonical and Red Hat certification, Dell validation, and factory install options, you can be assured that your system just works.
Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show — “Tiger Lake” 11th-gen CPU up to 4.2 GHz Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (more on this) 16GB 4267MHz LPDDR4x Memory Onboard (Max of 32GB possible) 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Max of 2TB Possible) 1080p touch edge to edge infinity display (4k optional)
XPS 13 vs ThinkPad X1 Carbon Machine Learning Benchmark
XPS 13 ML Base Benchmark - Compare your system to this one — Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 2101015-FI-CODERRADI28
Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan — It's quite a straight-forward comparison with the Gen9/11/12 all using the Dell XPS of their time and running Ubuntu 20.10 with the above mentioned graphics driver stack configuration
Intel's Iris Xe Graphics Preview: Is Real Gaming Power in Reach for Thin-and-Light Laptops?
Intel Xe Graphics: Puts its GPU Stakes in the Ground

394: SaaS is a Blast Dec 30, 2020

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Services and subscriptions get a bad wrap, so we flip the script and talk about the ones we're grateful to pay for.

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Variety-slideshow — A pan-and-zoom image slideshow in Python, using Clutter. Integrates nicely with Variety.
JÄRVFJÄLLET Gunnared beige, white, Office chair with armrests - IKEA — All bodies are different. JÄRVFJÄLLET swivel chair is designed so that you can adjust the headrest, lumbar support and the seat height and depth.
SaaS we happily pay for — We try to run a lean operation at Mailbrew, but we are suckers for great tools that improve our daily workflows, so we pay for quite a few of them each month.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 — In February 2020 nearly 65,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

393: The Snake in the Room Dec 23, 2020

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Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns.

Plus a bunch of workspace improvement ideas, feedback, and more.

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Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder

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Mechanical Keyboards Matrix Chat
ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II — The ThinkPad TrackPoint II Keyboard translates the ThinkPad notebook’s iconic typing experience into a stand-alone device.
Gooseneck Tablet Holder — Flexible Arm Clip Tablet Stand Bed Desk Mount Compatible with iPad Pro Mini Air, Galaxy Tabs and More
Portable Monitor — UPERFECT 15.6" 100% DCI-P3, 99% Adobe RGB, 500 Nits Brightness, FHD 1920x1080 IPS Screen
Chris’ WFH Setup Pics on Instagram
Welcome to Flask
FastAPI — FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Qt for Python | The official Python bindings for Qt — Qt for Python is the project that provides the official set of Python bindings (PySide2) that will supercharge your Python applications. While the Qt APIs are world renowned, there are more reasons why you should consider Qt for Python. The first official release of the PySide2 module is available now!
Pylance - Visual Studio Marketplace — Pylance is an extension that works alongside Python in Visual Studio Code to provide performant language support. Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool. Using Pyright, Pylance has the ability to supercharge your Python IntelliSense experience with rich type information, helping you write better code faster.
pylance-release: Documentation and issues for Pylance
microsoft/pyright: Static type checker for Python — Pyright is a fast type checker meant for large Python source bases. It can run in a “watch” mode and performs fast incremental updates when files are modified.
Jeremy Soller on Twitter — "I can no longer let things like this go. While System76 has been a part of the process, this should not be interpreted as consent to the new GNOME Shell design. We will do whatever possible to improve Pop!_OS UX even if it breaks significantly from GNOME's defaults."
Carl Richell on Twitter — Yes, we were involved but our involvement had no impact on the design. Our design ethos and reading of the research differs. We raised our concerns and proposed a different design. We’re continuing our research and building prototypes.
GNOME on Twitter — System76 was part of the entire process: setting up the research, doing polls, evaluating the results, suggesting changes
KDE Architecture — Human Interface Guidelines documentation
Plasma/Architecture - KDE Community Wiki

392: Seduced by The Snake Dec 16, 2020

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Mike recalls how he accidentally converted his development shop into a Python house, and Chris experiments with his Minimum Viable Robe.

Sponsored By:

A Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.
Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder

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Men's Rugby Robe, Flannel-Lined, Hooded — Perfect for lounging around the house, this flannel-lined robe offers incredible comfort and warmth.
Model 01 Keyboard – Keyboardio — The Model 01 is not like other keyboards. We mill the Model 01's enclosure from solid maple
Keyboardio Atreus — Until you see an Atreus in person, it's hard to comprehend just how compact it is.
ErgoDox EZ: An Incredible Mechanical Ergonomic Keyboard — The world's most powerful ergonomic keyboard
QMK Firmware - An open source firmware for AVR and ARM based keyboards — The goal of the QMK software project is to develop a completely customizable, powerful, and enjoyable firmware experience for any project - keyboard or otherwise
Qt 6.0 Released — The mission of Qt 6 is to enable Qt to be the productivity platform for the future.
New Features in Qt 6.0 - Qt Wiki
Qt for Python 6 released
Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset — RF Gaming Headphones