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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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390: The Gold Rust Dec 02, 2020

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After we geek out about keyboards, we answer some feedback and take a dip in the Rust lust.

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Das Keyboard Q software — The information you need - on your keyboard
Vortex Race 3 Mechanical Keyboard — Vortex's newest 75% keyboard, the 83-key Race 3! Do you need dedicated arrow keys that your 60% doesn't provide, but don't want the size of a TKL? A 75% may be just for you! Most of the keys are in the "normal" spot, so there's nearly no learning curve for this keyboard.
Vortexgear Race 3 - on Amazon
CODE Mechanical Keyboard — The CODE keyboard is designed to be timeless – but modern and unobtrusive as well.
Khaos Tian on Twitter — Ubuntu virtualized on M1 ;)
Linus Torvalds wants an M1 Mac — I'd absolutely love to have one, if it just ran Linux..
Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced tomorrow — The deal is expected to be about half cash and half stock, the sources said, and will price Slack at a premium.
Dear Microsoft — So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.
Source: Microsoft mulled an $8 billion bid for Slack — Microsoft eyed Slack as a potential acquisition target for as much as $8 billion, TechCrunch has heard
Slack Missed Out on the Pandemic’s Zoom Boom
Amazon: We're hiring software engineers who know programming language Rust — Open-source programming language Rust is a critical component of our long-term strategy, says AWS.
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

389: Smoked Laptops Nov 25, 2020

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Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Live purchases are fun right?"
Thoughts of Linus Torvalds on M1 Macs
Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st — Any developer that earns less than $1 million in revenue per year is eligible
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with Linux
Galago Pro - System76

388: MacOS Lincoler Nov 18, 2020

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The guys deploy their sage wisdom to answer your age-old questions and solve why the latest macOS is less appealing than ever to developers.

Plus our thoughts on youtube-dl's return to GitHub.

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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
Michael Dominick on Twitter: — "It has begun.... #macOS #BigSur @ChrisLAS the lengths I will go for show content....
Michael Dominick on Twitter — And the update has been hung for 45 minutes....
Abrodolph Lincoler — Abrodolph Lincoler is a humanoid experiment who debuted in Ricksy Business
Apple Responds to macOS Privacy Concerns — “Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked,” explains Apple. “We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices,” clarified the company.

387: ARMed & Dangerous Nov 11, 2020

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Our first reactions to Apple's ARM event, how these new systems will impact developers, and if we're buying one.

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Apple Event — November 10 - YouTube — Join us for a special Apple Event on November 10 at 10 a.m. PST. Set a reminder and we'll send an update before the show.
New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Still Have 720p Camera, But Apple Promises Better Quality From M1 — During today's event where Apple unveiled the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, there was a mention of a new image signal processor for the camera, which brings some improvements to camera quality.
MacBook Air and MacBook Pro M1 Chips Have Same 8-Core CPUs, No Upgrades Available — The newly announced MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models that Apple announced today are equipped with the same 8-core M1 chip that also offers an integrated GPU, with Apple offering no CPU upgrades.
M1 MacBook Pro Replaces Low-End Model, Higher-End Intel Options Still Available — The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 chip replaces the lower-end ‌MacBook Pro‌ models that were previously available, and Apple is continuing to sell it right alongside higher-end models that continue to feature Intel chips.

386: i386 Nov 04, 2020

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Chris attempts a Lizard intervention and gets sucked into Mike's Green tinted data center paradise.

Plus our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 400, and Apple's secret weapon.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Moving another server to #SUSE and it feels so good! @CoderRadioShow @ChrisLAS @openSUSE ;)"
Open Build Service — The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.
Apple Announces November 10 Event — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. Apple Silicon Macs Expected to Debut.
Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC — Raspberry Pi 400: a complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard.
Mike’s Hiring a Python Programmer — We are seeking a Python Developer to become an integral part of our team! You will be responsible for creating and modifying computer application software or specialized utility programs.

385: Edging the Fox Oct 28, 2020

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Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.

Plus our trouble with Gnomes, your feedback, and martinis on the moon.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Ugh of course it's #Gnome extensions! I disabled Backslide, rebooted and all of a sudden it all works again."
Building A Better GNOME Extensions Experience — With the advent of the new release of GNOME 3.38 – we want to start focusing next cycle on improving the GNOME Extensions experience.
Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions. Going forward, we plan to release weekly builds following our typical Dev Channel cadence alongside our other supported platforms.
Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code — Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of the new Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code extension,
Introducing the Storage Access API
‎iSH Shell on the App Store — Linux in your pocket

384: Leaping Lizard People Oct 21, 2020

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It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Today's @CoderRadioShow is brought to you by the Lizard people who love @openSUSE! #Linux #SUSE thanks for the SWAG!
Follow up on Oracle v Google — Oracle's best claim for copying of actual code is a complaint that Google improperly combined GPL code into an Apache-licensed software suite, but not even that - it is that Apache Harmony did this and Google copied it inadvertently.
Top Stories: iPhone 12, HomePod Mini, MagSafe Accessories, and More — Apple's media event obviously dominated the news this week
Apple Announces HomePod mini With Spherical Design — Apple today announced the HomePod mini with a new spherical design and the S5 chip at its "Hi, Speed" event.
Dropbox is letting all employees work from home permanently — The company plans to convert its existing offices to coworking spaces to aid in team building and collaboration.
Mike's .vimrc
Micro - Text editor — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

383: Java Justice Oct 13, 2020

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We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

Plus we answer great feedback and chew on the future of Windows 10.

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record — After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.
The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux — The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. - Wikipedia
Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google — Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.
Oracle vs Google - Android chief Rubin quizzed over Java emails
Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name
The Mike Dominick Show Episode 39: Martin Wimpress of Canonical

382: Hacktoberbust Oct 06, 2020

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We examine the deeper problems in Open Source development the recent Hacktoberfest drama has exposed.

Plus some great feedback, failures to launch, and more.

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Jonathan Meek on Twitter — Does this count as BBQ or no? Some chicken w/ a homemade BBQ sauce & others w/ a honey brown sugar thyme sauce. Figured I would ask since I am listening to Coder Radio while I sit in the cool air.
Futhark - Ready to take the challenge? — Futhark is a small programming language designed to be compiled to efficient parallel code. It is a statically typed, data-parallel, and purely functional array language in the ML family, and comes with a heavily optimising ahead-of-time compiler that presently generates GPU code via CUDA and OpenCL
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust — Since then, Linus Torvalds and other core kernel maintainers have expressed openness in principle to supporting kernel development in Rust
Tim Cook: Apple is now the No.1 watchmaker in the world — Tim Cook revealed the big news alongside the unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 3, which comes packing LTE as was expected.
How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama — Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to Open Source repositories and as a reward you get a T-Shirt.
Join the CoderQA Team — Our first Coderly report is out for our members!

381: Flamewar Feedback Frenzy Sep 30, 2020

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We provoked quite a response and cover the feedback that puts us in our place. Then we dive into the wild era of text editor of yore and solve an age-old question.

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Install Sosumi for Linux using the Snap Store — This will boot to the macOS recovery system.
Google to enforce 30% cut on in-app purchases — Google said Monday it will enforce rules that require app developers distributing Android software on the Google Play Store to use its in-app payment system.
Android Developers Blog: Listening to Developer Feedback to Improve Google Play
Coalition for App Fairness — The Coalition for App Fairness is an independent nonprofit organization founded by industry-leading companies to advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem.
Ruby 3.0.0 Preview 1 Released — We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
Swift System is Now Open Source — Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.
Introducing Swift on Windows
The Era of Visual Studio Code — I believe the era of new text editors emerging and quickly becoming popular has now ended with Visual Studio Code. VS Code has reached unprecedented levels of popularity and refinement, laying a foundation that could mean decades of market dominance. If, like me, one of your priorities for your tools is longevity2, then that means VS Code might be a great text editor to invest in learning today.

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