OpenAI and Google are back with some new AI models that can talk to each other! .NET Aspire is getting close to release and Xamarin end of life is here, so we reflect back.

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Apple had it's big event, but what do these new devices mean for developers? Are we impressed, is thin to thin? Why can't we have the M4 in our development machines? We discuss.

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The Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin are here! Is this the future of AI devices? We discuss what we really think and what we really want.

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With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers.

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We are talking AI this week and trying to get to the basics. We take a look at what goes into GPTs and how these models figure things out.

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• But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning - YouTube
• OpenAI Platform

It is time to make our console apps look beautiful! There are some amazing libraries out there to help us out. We discuss!

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Frank is getting ready to release an app and we talk through paid vs freemium, onboarding, and that magical 30 seconds to wow moment for his app.

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Templates, templates, templates. Project templates, item templates, default templates, custom templates, and beyond.

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Whoops Apple broke Java and some .NET local development in macOS 14.4.

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• Fix exporting certificate keys on macOS 14.4. by vcsjones · Pull Request #99768 · dotnet/runtime
• Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update
• libsosplugin.dylib: CoreCLR host crash on macOS Sonoma 14.4 on arm64 · Issue #4551 · dotnet/diagnostics

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