Coder Radio

Mike busts the myth of the daily standup meeting & tracks it back to its origins. Then we play a little defense for Electron, share the mind of a PMO & wax on about TypeScript.

Plus a little taste of Mike’s busy week, an update on Alice & Chris’ upcoming trip.

A special guest and creator of PiCluster joins us to discuss the open source Docker cluster management project. PiCluster is a bit of a community hit & seems to strike a great balance compared to other solutions.

We’ll dig into the technologies they use and what it's all built on, what they love working with & thoughts about growing a community.

Plus some of our personal projects that are brewing & more!

Mike has a huge announcement towards the end of the show. Leading up to it we discuss the case against Kotlin, the next tech after Flash to die & the obvious reason Bots are going to be big.

We solve some problems, and then go down the rat hole of self hacking to increase work, productivity & our health.

Then we gleefully watch as Coding Bootcamps begin to collapse & discuss the misleading metric that led them to their doom.

Plus Mike shares some straightforward code that solved a very annoying problem.

Wes sits down with Mike to talk about Starbucks not-so-secret API, the state of the developer ecosystem & difficult challenges faced by FOSS vendors in the medical field.

Plus some fantastic feedback, Mike's true feelings about Swift & a whole lot more!

Microsoft slips a little Windows 10 into your Office365 & we discuss the huge shift they just pulled off, plus a little real talk about growing pains and doldrums & the pains of over building a system.

Plus your feedback & much more!

Mike updates on spinning up his business in Florida, we debate limiting the use of the GPL & try to better understand the recent System76 Pop!_OS news.

Plus the industry is going all in on AI & spending less and less on other types of research. Mike discusses the huge potential issue that could be facing developers down the road.

We ponder the ethical dilemma of a developer who has replaced himself with a bot, debate the possibility of ever making money from bots & have some tough love for Apple on the iPhone’s 10th anniversary.

Plus discuss System76’s new Pop!_OS & Mike’s adventures in Florida.

We discuss the week’s developer hoopla & the beard joins us to share his insights. It's a fun episode with a range of topics, including the recent rush to GitHub by a number of open source projects.

Mike shares some insights into building bots & a little sample code to get you started. Plus we discuss the week’s developer news & spend a bit of time on feedback.