Mike and Chris find themselves at similar forks in the road with their business. And they both share raw observations from the front lines of some hard choices.

Plus some weekly Hoopla, listener questions, and more!

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• Question: What are your opinions about manufacturers ... — Breaking the X86 Instruction Set
• Follow Up: Just wanted to say I love the updates to the show — Just wanted to say I love the updates to the show, specifically the chapter markers (easy to use in PocketCasts) and links in the show notes.
• Mike's Weekend Fun
• Amazon’s new GameOn API helps developers add eSports competitions to their games — GameOn is built-on top of AWS and designed to work cross platform; as long as the system your game is running on can make API calls — be it mobile, console, or a computer — it should all work just fine.
• Facebook lets all PC games live stream and reward viewers — The potential for viral growth and sales could convince tons of game developers to bake in Facebook’s new SDK, while players could use the simple broadcasting feature to reach a big audience
• Coder Radio 300 Shirt and Hoodie
• Coder Coasters
• Coder Radio 300 Poster

It’s a special Coder Super show with big announcements and we look back at five years of Coder Radio.

We have witnessed a massive shift of power. And it’s been happening right under developers noses. From the slowly won battle for control of the server, to Amazon’s to control over the Internet.

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• Noah aks about side project
• coder.show/rss
• Coder Radio - New Fancy Contact Page
• Coder Radio 300 Shirt and Hoodie — Get your celebratory shirt or hoodie now!
• Coder Radio Coasters — Coder Radio is celebrating episode 300 in style with these awesome coasters!
• Coder Radio 300 Poster — Celebrating 300 episodes of Coder Radio from Jupiter Broadcasting with this awesome titles poster!
• Calendar 2 made $2K in 3 days mining cryptocurrency, but Apple says it violated Mac App Store guidelines — Magarshak says that Qbix was able to earn about $2,000 worth of the cryptocurrency Monero during the three-day period that mining was live in the application. For comparison’s sake, Qbix has made around $700,000 from its apps over the last 7 years:
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 — Each year, we ask the developer community about everything from their favorite technologies to their job preferences. This year marks the eighth year we’ve published our Annual Developer Survey results—with the largest number of respondents yet. Over 100,000 developers took the 30-minute survey this past January.

Chris is on the road & Mike’s been reflecting. Plus we answer some of your questions, which snowball into some much larger discussions.

Then Mike’s made a list & he’s checking it twice.

Mike’s back from a conference in New York & to say he’s got a few things on his mind is putting it mildly. Strap in as we rip through myths, lies & salesmen.

Mike may have cracked the testing pitch, the harsh reason the Junior Developer is dying & a nice batch of audience questions and follow up.

This week’s Coder Radio is just like mom’s cookin', but with a taste of Kotlin.

Why the hell did Microsoft open source PowerShell Core, .Net Core, Visual Studio Code? What could possibly be in it for them? Chris goes onsite to ask what’s been on everyone’s mind & figure out what their angle is.

Plus the massive leaps Kotlin seems to be making, your questions, our answers & more!

Mike's got a Greenfield project he’s fired up & a tale of woes to go along with it. Chris inspires a mini-revolt over the weekend & both the guys have some remarks for the week’s Hoopla.

A special live on location edition of the show, we talk new gear, workflows & how developers can turn a bad situation around.

Mike and Chris review predictions from years past & check on how well they’ve aged.

Plus we take a look at Microsoft’s big picture strategy with .Net & now PowerShell for every system.

Code linting is a way to increase code quality & Mike’s standardized his team on one tool. He shares what they’re doing, why they're doing it & the impact it has made.

Plus the brutal life cycle of JavaScript, the exaggerated death of microservices & more!