Mike and Wes are back to debate the state of developer tools and ask where Jenkins fits in 2019.

Plus some some anger at Apple, and Mike reveals the latest language that's caught his eye.

Links:

• Dokku — A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications.
• Jenkins — The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
• Jenkins Evergreen — Evergreen is an automatically updating rolling distribution system for Jenkins. It consists of server-side, and client-side components to support a Chrome-like upgrade experience for Jenkins users.
• Jenkins Blue Ocean — Blue Ocean is a project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins, modelling and presenting the process of software delivery by surfacing information that’s important to development teams with as few clicks as possible.
• Introducing Jenkins X — Jenkins X automates CI/CD and DevOps best practices for you.
• Jenkins Helm Chart — Jenkins master and slave cluster utilizing the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin.
• Jenkins Chef Cookbook — Installs and configures Jenkins CI master & node slaves. Resource providers to support automation via jenkins-cli, including job create/update.
• Why on earth did we choose Jenkins for 2019? — This article tries to explain why the hell Rookout, a relatively new SaaS company, chose to use Jenkins, and what the big advantages are that make Jenkins so great even now, eight years in.

Wes joins Mike for a special Coder. They share thoughts on the costs and benefits of Optionals in Swift, uncover Mike's secret love affair with F#, and debate the true value of serverless.

Links:

• Mark's IoT Feedback
• IOKit — The I/O Kit framework implements non-kernel access to I/O Kit objects (drivers and nubs) through the device-interface mechanism.
• Does iPad Pro (2018) support IOKit? — IOKit has included iOS support since 2.0
• Elixir — Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.
• Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
• NervesHub — NervesHub helps you manage firmware updates for Nerves devices.
• Elixir Mix Podcast — A weekly discussion with Elixir developers.
• Optional - Swift Standard Library — A type that represents either a wrapped value or nil, the absence of a value.
• Swift optionals explained simply
• F# Software Foundation — F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language
• Datomic Ions — Ions let you develop applications for the cloud by deploying your code to a running Datomic cluster.

Mike’s just had the talk, and now it's time to make some changes. Including admitting he was wrong about Swift.

Plus we read some feedback, answer some questions, and destroy another computer.

Links:

• Year of Structure Feedback
• Sleep Feedback
• Can PWAs Do This?
• Ionic Native - BLE
• Swift - Apple Developer
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Well I am starting the new year with a bang it seemed I nuked another laptop @ChrisLAS #CoderRadio"
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "With Apple Care protection this time... #macBookAir #CoderRadio @ChrisLAS… "

Don’t call them resolutions, lets just call them reasonable goals. Mike and Chris share their plans for 2019’s ground work, and why every single thing is fair game.

Links:

• The VHS of Software...
• OmniGraffle — Create beautiful diagrams and designs with this powerful and easy to use app.
• iA Writer — iA Writer removes distractions, giving you a calm, focused writing space.
• Working Copy, Git on iOS — The powerful Git client for iOS that clones, edits, commits, pushes & more.
• Year of Theme inspired by the Cortex Podcast
• Turning Pro (Audiobook) by Steven Pressfield — Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

The guys drink some Liquid Christmas Tree and reflect on the major trends of 2018, and the stuff they are preemptively freaking out about for 2019.

Chris is back from his trip to Denver to tour System76’s factory, and what he discovered while he was there was the last thing he was expecting.

Links:

• Thelio - System76

Estimates can be a very tricky thing to get right, but they are vitally important. Peter Kretzman joins us to make it all a bit easier and clearer.

Plus Chris thinks he knows why Microsoft is willing to kill off their Edge browser engine and switch it out for Chromium. But can he convince Mike?

Special Guest: Peter Kretzman.

Links:

• Electron — The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Atom editor and many other apps.
• Visual Studio 2019
• Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements
• The case against #NoEstimates: the bottom line
• Recommended reading for the CTO/CIO
• LinuxFest Northwest

Mike and Chris don’t claim to have a time machine, but they still have a major problem to solve.

Links:

• To old to start?
• How to Evaluate open source libs/frames/software?
• Top programming languages of 2018

iPad Pro is a great machine for people that don’t want to get too much work done.

But ultimately this week’s episode is about the guys catching up after a long couple weeks apart.

Links:

• Ferrite Recording Studio — Ferrite is the tool many podcasters and journalists reach for when they’re away from the studio.
• ‎LumaFusion video editor — Pro video editing and effects
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Was running out of drive storage on my desktop, so I did the unthinkable @ChrisLAS. I opened it up and installed an additional HDD! What madness is that? #CoderRadio"

We answer how Chris and Mike started in independent contracting, and the lessons changes they’d make with some perspective of time.

Plus System76’s new Thelio hardware looks great, but would the Mac Mini be the wiser purchase? The guys debate. And a tool of the week, some news, and more!

Links:

• Mac mini
• Thelio
• ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework — Microsoft yesterday (Oct. 29) said that going forward, ASP.NET Core 3.0 -- the Web framework part of the "Core" platform offerings -- will only run on the base NET Core 3.0 platform, not the traditional .NET Framework that has been a Windows-only mainstay for some 16 years.
• Erick Roberts on Twitter — "@dominucco I went way back in the @coderradioshow archives hoping to get some back story on how you and Chris both started your independent contractor lives. Can you or @ChrisLAS point me to a blog post or a podcast episode. It cuts me off at episode 55."
• Gogh — Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal