Coder Radio

We knew they'd be petulant, but even our expectations were higher than this. We dig into how Apple dunked on devs after last week's show, yet another Microsoft hack, and more.

They are building AI into toilets now; CES was a clown show. But we put our business hats on and find the bright side. Plus, Epic's major loss to Apple that just rolled in, and where we think the next fight will be, and how developers can get ahead of it.

A prominent developer has brought the anti-trust heat against Apple to the public, kicking off a chain reaction that could have gone very wrong for Apple. Plus, why the Apple Vision Pro is destined for the Friend Zone.

Mike shares his adventures and process of coming from mobile app projects to working with Unreal Engine, and why he realized a laptop just wasn't going to cut it.

We reflect on how our work has changed over the last year and get some sage advice from buff Uncle Jeff.

The clever way one developer hacked an online game, why we're not buying the latest round of cyber war fear, and we finally have our Babylon 5 vs Star Trek debate.

The fantastic opportunity Google is letting slip through its hands, and why Apple might win the consumer LLM race.

After years of resistance, Mike finally surrenders to Xcode. And the secret Apple envy leaked to the public this week.

The messy details and tidy excuses we noticed in all this OpenAI upset, and some fundamental problems that have been plaguing desktop Linux for years.

OpenAI's weekend coup, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's gambit and their looming risk.

Yet another thing Microsoft was early to, and still somehow missed the boat. Plus, building a PC is rare; it's a solved problem. If AI tools excel as expected, will coding face a similar fate?

New AI "regulation" from on high this week, a few signs you might be pissing in your own pond, and the game dev team that's been together for 40 years.

We've all made mistakes and tried to play dumb, but this week history is being made.

Rumors of internal panic at Apple, and concerns about the future of RISC-V. Plus, the software update of the century.

We're about to see a wave of big tech AI features "inspired" by third-party developers at a scale that makes the Sherlocking on Apple's platform seem like chump change. Plus, how Dropbox turned around their dev retention rates, and more.

Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.

How does your first major programming language/technology still shape your work and career? Then grab some popcorn and let's watch the next epic tech titan battle unfold.

Our unique take on the Unity outrage, thoughts on RustRover, and Mike shares a very annoying mistake.

The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

Did Apple's event live up to our expectations? And our thoughts on what new goodies for developers might be in the new hardware and software.

Azure suffers a big outage, and Microsoft blames faulty automation; why we think there might be early signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro and more.

U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source? Plus, Mike's thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.

Mike hits the limits of ChatGPT's knowledge, a chat about editors and what we'd do for a living if it had to be outside of tech.

Java developers are getting the Oracle shakedown, openAI is running out of money, and more.

Did we get this one wrong? It seems consumer AI is eating the lunch of some web's biggest names.