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Things are worse than we ever thought, but that doesn't prevent us from taking a victory lap.

Plus, Chris levels up his Mac skillz and gets his MacBook Pro under control.

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• The Unicorn Project — The Unicorn Project reveals the Five Ideals: The First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity; The Second Ideal of Focus, Flow, and Joy; The Third Ideal of Improvement of Daily Work; The Fourth Ideal of Psychological Safety; and the Fifth Ideal of Focus on the Customer.
• The Effective Manager — The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today.
• URLSession — The URLSession class and related classes provide an API for downloading data from and uploading data to endpoints indicated by URLs. Your app can also use this API to perform background downloads when your app isn’t running
• Objective-See: LuLu — LuLu is the free, open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, protecting your privacy and your Mac!
• Little Snitch — Little Snitch makes Internet connections visible and puts you back in control!
• Apple Actively Considers The Competitive Profile of 3rd Party Apps
• Don’t Feature Competitors in The App Store
• Sucks to be BigFish Games
• Great to be Netflix
• Jeremy C. Owens on Twitter — After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

Chris makes a big mistake on the road, and Mike drops some reality-based sage wisdom.

But it's really all just a ruse to get you to email the show.

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• Denver Meetup | Meetup — This meet up starts at 4pm MDT but you are welcome to (encouraged even) to trickle in anytime between 4-7pm
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 — In May 2021 over 80,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.
• Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter — The Mac is in the best place it’s ever been, fresh off a CPU transition, new design language, and beautiful new hardware, w/ 2 brand new UI frameworks, universal apps, and a popular new programming language. If all that’s not enough to convince devs to make native apps, what is?
• Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version — The forthcoming 1Password 8 for Mac is now in beta, but instead of a regular Mac app, it uses the resource-intensive Electron system — and users are objecting.

Is there a secret motive behind Apple's announced plans to scan iMessage and iCloud Photo Library content?

Plus how using a common SDK just cost Zoom $85M.

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• Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse — Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.
• Edward Snowden on Twitter — No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple

They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—without asking.

Big promises are being made in Ruby land, Tech Crunch says Open Source is dead, and we have thoughts to share about both!

We also discuss Google's Time Crystals. They have the power to fundamentally change our lives, but what the heck are they?

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• Sorbet Compiler — For the past year, the Sorbet team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we’re sharing the source code for it.
• Patrick Collison on Twitter — We're big believers in multi-year infrastructure bets. After a few years of Ruby infra work, our in-house Ruby compiler is now 22–170% faster than Ruby's default implementation for Stripe's production API traffic. If interested in working on such problems, we're hiring!
• Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby — Sorbet is 100% compatible with Ruby. It type checks normal method definitions, and introduces backwards-compatible syntax for method signatures.
• Time crystals — But time crystals want to be coherent. So putting them inside a quantum computer, and using them to conduct computer processes could potentially serve an incredibly important function: ensuring quantum coherence.
• White paper: Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor — Here we implement a continuous family of tunable CPHASE gates on an array of superconducting qubits to experimentally observe an eigenstate-ordered DTC. We demonstrate the characteristic spatiotemporal response of a DTC for generic initial states. Our work employs a time-reversal protocol that discriminates external decoherence from intrinsic thermalization, and leverages quantum typicality to circumvent the exponential cost of densely sampling the eigenspectrum. In addition, we locate the phase transition out of the DTC with an experimental finite-size analysis. These results establish a scalable approach to study non-equilibrium phases of matter on current quantum processors.
• First ‘Time Crystal’ Built Using Google’s Quantum Computer
• Time crystals could be the miracle quantum computing needs
• The end of open source? — I think the “hypocrite commits” contretemps is symptomatic, on every side, of related trends that threaten the entire extended open-source ecosystem and its users. That ecosystem has long wrestled with problems of scale, complexity and free and open-source software’s (FOSS) increasingly critical importance to every kind of human undertaking.
• Facebook allegedly tried to buy Pegasus spyware to track iPhone users — The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices,” Hulio said in his declaration.

Mike shares his adventures coding while riding Amtrak, Chris is trying to get DOS running while he still can, and many of you wrote in sharing your concern for GNOME.

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• Warp terminal — Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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• iDOS 2 emulator gets App Store takedown notice — Apple has issued an ultimatum: remove functionality or get booted from the App Store
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — I missed Earth Day & it's time for me to give away a

Has Microsoft figured out a way to invalidate the GPL? We're skeptical.

Plus, the Gnome project says the traditional desktop is dead, and extensions are niche. Do we agree?

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• Qualcomm CEO Outlines Plans to Compete With Apple Silicon — Speaking to Reuters, Amon said that Qualcomm is capable of having the best chip on the market, thanks to a team of chip architects who previously worked for Apple but have since come to Qualcomm.
• Drachinifel - YouTube
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• Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs
• Microsoft is bringing Windows to a web browser — Windows 365 will work in modern web browsers on Macs, iPads, Android devices, and Linux devices.
• Microsoft announces Windows 365 Cloud PC for commercial customers — With Windows 365, organizations can choose the size of the Cloud PC based on their needs with predictable per user per month pricing.
• Satya Nadella on Twitter — With Windows 365, we’re bringing the operating system to the cloud and creating a new category: the cloud PC, providing organizations with greater flexibility and a secure way to empower their workforce, regardless of location.
• "Every Preference Has a Cost" — GNOME’s Tobias Bernard has a new blog post out and it’s an essential read if you’re interested in the direction of the GNOME desktop.

It seems AI isn't replacing developers just yet, and why we think you shouldn’t get too comfortable.

Plus the almost impossible story of how Mike defeated another laptop.

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• Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot
• Live Share with Visual Studio Code

Has Google already started its decline? Our surprising take.

Plus the trouble with Co-Pilot, and a lot more.

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• (Most) Programmers are losing our jobs very soon — Instead of program computers we will show them our needs and they will figure out what to do.
• Armin Ronacher on Twitter — I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.
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Mike's got some strong feels about his new system, and Chris spent a week with Windows 11. And that's not even scratching the surface. It's a wild one, with some hard truths, so buckle up.

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• Windows 11 is a new and refreshing approach to an old and familiar home — The last significant change to Windows 11 that we’re able to test right now is the new Microsoft Store. To put it simply, Microsoft’s app store for Windows has sucked since it first appeared nearly 10 years ago. Microsoft is finally allowing developers to submit any win32 traditional desktop app, and Microsoft Store has already become far more useful during a beta than it ever was before.

Big Tech's punishment train has been en route for years, but now that it's almost arrived, are we getting onboard?

Plus Mike's recent tech woes and Chris' special surprise waiting for him in the studio.

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• Salt Lake City | Meetup — On our way to Denver, we are swinging through Salt Lake City, that is if we get enough people to sign up!
• Denver Meetup | Meetup — Many of the Jupiter Broadcasting cast are getting together in Denver for a much overdue reunion - and we'd like to spend an evening with you!
• Google is risk averse & has paralyzing bureaucracy, executives say — Several other Google executives told The New York Times that the company is suffering from a number of issues related to its size and maturity, including a "paralyzing bureaucracy, a bias toward inaction and a fixation on public perception."
• Sundar Pichai Faces Internal Criticism at Google - The New York Times — Despite record profits, a number of them are worried that the company is suffering from both its size and leadership from its C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.
• Apple's Tim Cook called Nancy Pelosi — Cook cautioned that the bills were rushed, would stifle innovation, and would hurt consumers by wreaking havoc on Apple services, according to the report. He also requested that the Judiciary Committee delay its process of consideration, a funnel through which the legislation must pass before reaching the full House.
• U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Antitrust Legislation — These measures are the culmination of a 16-month antitrust investigation into tech companies practices that kicked off in 2019, and which saw Apple CEO Tim Cook testify in an antitrust hearing alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
• Tech Giants, Fearful of Proposals to Curb Them, Blitz Washington With Lobbying - The New York Times — Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen groups paid by Big Tech have tried to head off bipartisan support for six bills meant to undo the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
• New poll shows voters favor tech regulation — A new poll commissioned by tech industry-funded group shows 53% of voters favor at least some tech regulation.