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The guys deploy their sage wisdom to answer your age-old questions and solve why the latest macOS is less appealing than ever to developers.

Plus our thoughts on youtube-dl's return to GitHub.

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• Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. 
• Michael Dominick on Twitter: — "It has begun.... #macOS #BigSur @ChrisLAS the lengths I will go for show content....
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — And the update has been hung for 45 minutes....
• Abrodolph Lincoler — Abrodolph Lincoler is a humanoid experiment who debuted in Ricksy Business
• Apple Responds to macOS Privacy Concerns — “Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked,” explains Apple. “We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices,” clarified the company.

Our first reactions to Apple's ARM event, how these new systems will impact developers, and if we're buying one.

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• Apple Event — November 10 - YouTube — Join us for a special Apple Event on November 10 at 10 a.m. PST. Set a reminder and we'll send an update before the show.
• New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Still Have 720p Camera, But Apple Promises Better Quality From M1 — During today's event where Apple unveiled the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, there was a mention of a new image signal processor for the camera, which brings some improvements to camera quality.
• MacBook Air and MacBook Pro M1 Chips Have Same 8-Core CPUs, No Upgrades Available — The newly announced MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models that Apple announced today are equipped with the same 8-core M1 chip that also offers an integrated GPU, with Apple offering no CPU upgrades.
• M1 MacBook Pro Replaces Low-End Model, Higher-End Intel Options Still Available — The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 chip replaces the lower-end ‌MacBook Pro‌ models that were previously available, and Apple is continuing to sell it right alongside higher-end models that continue to feature Intel chips.

Chris attempts a Lizard intervention and gets sucked into Mike's Green tinted data center paradise.

Plus our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 400, and Apple's secret weapon.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Moving another server to #SUSE and it feels so good! @CoderRadioShow @ChrisLAS @openSUSE ;)"
• Open Build Service — The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.
• Apple Announces November 10 Event — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m.

Apple Silicon Macs Expected to Debut.

Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.

Plus our trouble with Gnomes, your feedback, and martinis on the moon.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Ugh of course it's #Gnome extensions! I disabled Backslide, rebooted and all of a sudden it all works again."
• Building A Better GNOME Extensions Experience — With the advent of the new release of GNOME 3.38 – we want to start focusing next cycle on improving the GNOME Extensions experience.
• Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions. Going forward, we plan to release weekly builds following our typical Dev Channel cadence alongside our other supported platforms.
• Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code — Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of the new Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code extension,
• Introducing the Storage Access API
• ‎iSH Shell on the App Store — Linux in your pocket

It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Today's @CoderRadioShow is brought to you by the Lizard people who love @openSUSE! #Linux #SUSE thanks for the SWAG!
• Follow up on Oracle v Google — Oracle's best claim for copying of actual code is a complaint that Google improperly combined GPL code into an Apache-licensed software suite, but not even that - it is that Apache Harmony did this and Google copied it inadvertently.
• Top Stories: iPhone 12, HomePod Mini, MagSafe Accessories, and More — Apple's media event obviously dominated the news this week
• Apple Announces HomePod mini With Spherical Design — Apple today announced the HomePod mini with a new spherical design and the S5 chip at its "Hi, Speed" event.
• Dropbox is letting all employees work from home permanently — The company plans to convert its existing offices to coworking spaces to aid in team building and collaboration.
• Mike's .vimrc
• Micro - Text editor — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

Plus we answer great feedback and chew on the future of Windows 10.

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• Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record — After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.
• The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
• No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux — The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
• Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
• Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. - Wikipedia
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google — Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
• Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.
• Oracle vs Google - Android chief Rubin quizzed over Java emails
• Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name
• The Mike Dominick Show Episode 39: Martin Wimpress of Canonical

We examine the deeper problems in Open Source development the recent Hacktoberfest drama has exposed.

Plus some great feedback, failures to launch, and more.

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• Jonathan Meek on Twitter — Does this count as BBQ or no? Some chicken w/ a homemade BBQ sauce & others w/ a honey brown sugar thyme sauce. Figured I would ask since I am listening to Coder Radio while I sit in the cool air.
• Futhark - Ready to take the challenge? — Futhark is a small programming language designed to be compiled to efficient parallel code. It is a statically typed, data-parallel, and purely functional array language in the ML family, and comes with a heavily optimising ahead-of-time compiler that presently generates GPU code via CUDA and OpenCL
• Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust — Since then, Linus Torvalds and other core kernel maintainers have expressed openness in principle to supporting kernel development in Rust
• Tim Cook: Apple is now the No.1 watchmaker in the world — Tim Cook revealed the big news alongside the unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 3, which comes packing LTE as was expected.
• How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama — Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to Open Source repositories and as a reward you get a T-Shirt.
• Join the CoderQA Team — Our first Coderly report is out for our members!

We provoked quite a response and cover the feedback that puts us in our place. Then we dive into the wild era of text editor of yore and solve an age-old question.

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• Install Sosumi for Linux using the Snap Store — This will boot to the macOS recovery system.
• Google to enforce 30% cut on in-app purchases — Google said Monday it will enforce rules that require app developers distributing Android software on the Google Play Store to use its in-app payment system.
• Android Developers Blog: Listening to Developer Feedback to Improve Google Play
• Coalition for App Fairness — The Coalition for App Fairness is an independent nonprofit organization founded by industry-leading companies to advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem.
• Ruby 3.0.0 Preview 1 Released — We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
• Swift System is Now Open Source — Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.

We get nerdy about Blueprints, and then wary about the future of software distribution.

Pour a glass of milk and prepare for some hot takes!

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• jblive_radio: A simple stream listener — This is a simple, dumb, stream listener I made in a few minutes as an exploration into electron.
• Trump admin orders TikTok, WeChat gone from app stores on Sunday — Turns out the list of “transactions” is “anything that makes the app function.”
• Apple asks to block iOS Unreal Engine development in new court filing — iOS maker says it's worried Epic could insert another "trojan horse" if allowed.
• YouTube’s website now blocks iOS 14’s picture-in-picture mode unless you pay for Premium — Picture-in-picture still works on iPad for free and paid users, though
• There Are No Silver Bullets For This Werewolf — The phrase “No Silver Bullet” is widely used in the industry.
• People Powered Book — How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
• The Mike Dominick Show Episode 37: Jono Bacon

Is it a Post-Open Source world now that the mega-clouds are here? We share our thoughts on this renewed idea.

Plus, our reactions to Nvidia buying Arm, your feedback, and much more.

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• C++ Developer Feedback
• Steve T on Twitter — I do have a question about the latest episode; there was a lot of talk about code being safe.
• What is memory safety? — For the purposes of this post, we are generally considering whether a program execution is memory safe or not. From this notion, we deem a program to be memory safe if it all of its possible executions are memory safe, and a language to be memory safe if all possible programs in the language are memory safe.
• Software Engineer- Networking / Privacy- - Jobs at Apple (DE) — Do you have a passion for developing secure, high-performance systems-level software? We develop and deploy software which forms the foundation for some of Apple's most important services, including iCloud, Maps, iTunes, and more. Our software ensures that Apple's services are reliable, scalable, fast, and secure. In this role you will have a unique opportunity to participate in delivering some of the world's largest-scale cloud services.
• Rust 1.46.0 Released
• Apple hiring Rust engineers for storage and networking groups
• Microsoft Senior rust engineer Jobs
• Epic says ‘Sign In with Apple’ will keep working for Fortnite after all — Yesterday, Epic said Apple was removing the ability to use ‘Sign In with Apple’ for Epic accounts
• Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
• Blazing 7 | Coder Radio 67 - Mike was Right — iOS 7 is landing and Mike and Chris discuss what’s in store for developers, and the real reason to put a 64bit CPU in a cell phone.
• Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm acquisition is about bringing AI down from the cloud — Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm is a hugely significant deal for the tech world, with implications that will take years to unravel spanning many areas of the sector.
• Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter — The central thesis is that the actual programming language (syntax, semantics, paradigm) doesn’t really matter. What matters is characteristics of the runtime — roughly, what does memory of the running process look like?
• Post-Open Source — Imo, open source as a community endeavor is falling apart right before our eyes, and being replaced by open source as Big Corp entrenchment strategy.

I mean it’s been happening for a while, but seeing Mozilla sinking like this is just driving the point home for me.

FOSS is dead