NSCoder Chicago

By NSCoder Chicago

The official podcast feed for NSCoder Chicago. THE meetup for Mac, iOS, and Apple enthusiasts in Chicago.

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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

NSCoder Chicago episodes:

March 05, 2026it's important you think your time matters here
Today we're joined by Kevin Donnelly to talk about engineering management topics!
Kevin's presentation at the last NSCoder
The silly Financial Times GDP chart Sean mentioned
Lorraine Boissoneault's upcoming book Body Weather.
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 33min
February 26, 2026 with apologies to Jason Snell, Apple's year in review
Today we're rating Apple's hardware and software performance for 2025, following the format of Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card.
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 24min
February 19, 2026the technical term is "nuts"
Today we're talking about
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding
Remember to turn on the new agentic features!
Continuing development of Sean's Contacts app replacement
Steve Yegge's The AI Vampire and the promise of industrialization/automation
Existential career dread in the face of automation
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 12min
February 12, 2026to boldly go where no one has gone before
Today we're talking about
The "Star Trek Economy", the hedonism treadmill, and universal basic income
https://staygold.us
https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/
What's the point of work? And economic and technological growth?
https://doughnuteconomics.org
And a lot of rambling. This may be our least structured episode so far. Let us know what you think!
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 3min
February 05, 2026grab whatever seat you can
Today we're talking about
OpenClaw (previously known as Clawdbot)
Introducing OpenClaw
A Bot that Scams People [Michael Reeves youtube]
Clawd Bought a Car!
Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw is a security nightmare [youtube]
Is it possible to avoid AI in software development?
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai
https://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-01-22-the-saas-layer-will-dissolve/
That David Foster Wallace quotation I couldn't remember
Losing faith in Apple
https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/29/amazon-melania-spending
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/28/tim-cook-memo
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/27/ceo-captured
https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html
Hypercritical Podcast about Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography: "Episode 42: The Wrong Guy"
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 12min
January 29, 2026look at this graph
Today we're talking about
AirTags 2.0
AI AI AI AI AI
Clawdbot is now called Moltbot
Macstories' Clawdbot article
More about Clawdbot
Maggie Appleton's coverage and critique of Gastown
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
More AI!
Sean's new old Contacts App
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 23min
January 22, 2026Squirrel, Person, Box, Chair!
Today we're talking about
Apple Creative Studio - will we buy it? what does it mean?
Apple Home (formerly known as HomeKit) and home automation adventures
And a diversion into data privacy and security in cameras and TVs
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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59min
January 15, 2026your problems are your problems
Today we're talking about
When to refactor
Joel Spolsky
Never Rewrite podcast
Some of our worst job experiences
A first try with AI. Sean starts on his MacOS Contacts replacement app.
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 9min
January 08, 2026live your life so any screenshot could be poster-worthy
Today we're talking about
Our software role models
Haxies and Unsanity
Delicious Monster and Wil Shipley
Hyperjeff's Mac OS X page
Ellen Shapiro
Monument Valley
Riley Testus
Imposter syndrome
One of us is so frustrated with Tahoe he's starting a new app
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 4min
January 02, 2026Talkin' Tradeoffs until we all have an LLM writing our code
Today we're talking about
Is "clean architecture" really necessary?
More deep thought on the future of software with "AI" writing your code
Our best of 2025
More about backing up your iCloud data
David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.
Mentioned in this episode:
BookPlayer open source audiobook player
TailScale VPN and more
Teenage Engineering makes cool stuff!
The Orchid chord machine has a cool promo video
Eclectic Light Company's Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
Immich – an open source, self-hosted alternative to Photos
NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!
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1h 14min

FAQs about NSCoder Chicago:

How many episodes does NSCoder Chicago have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.