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Tech companies are taking over cities and becoming more powerful than some nations. Is there a moral stand developers inside these huge corporations should be taking? Or is the shift to a chicken farmer economy truly best for all? It's a very introspective edition of the Coder Radio show.Links:Making rent in Silicon Valley How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities - The New York Times

Mike's got a dream, and it's a dream where Microsoft saves us from Electron. Now historically speaking, he's been wrong every single time. But this week we'll make the case why we all need to collective pull for his vision.Links:Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference: Ben Evans, David Flanagan: 9781492037255: Amazon.com: BooksJava: The Complete Reference, Eleventh Edition: Herbert Schildt: 9781260440232: Amazon.com: BooksModular Programming in Java 9 - O'Reilly MediaJava 9 Modularity - O'Reilly Media

We chat with GitLab’s CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij, about the GitLab model, the changes they’ve made since Microsoft purchased GitHub, his thoughts on that acquisition, and his compelling case for 100% remote work.Special Guest: Sid Sijbrandij.Links:Michael Dominick on Twitter — "The more I did into the #WWDC sessions and docs, the happier I am with it. They keynote was just bad or perhaps more directed at consumers. @ChrisLAS #CoderRadio #Apple"Michael Dominick on Twitter — @ChrisLAS is going to have a lot of fun making fun of me on the next #CoderRadio… I gave up on the onsite thing already. #remotework"Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)Sid presenting Remote Work Best PracticesTeam Handbook | GitLab

Microsoft is buying GitHub, Apple just kicked off WWDC 2018, and we've got a packed show!Links:MSHub == FOSS Love? - dominickm.comGitLab on Twitter — "We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM We're scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on https://t.co/hN0ce379SC and @movingtogitlab"Microsoft on GitHub👋 Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman — Who am I? My name is Nat and I’ve been a developer since I was six. I’ve been active in open source since the 90s when I discovered Linux. I was blown away to discover a free operating system that came with an editor, compiler, and debugger—all of the tools you need to be a developer, and all of the source code! It was an incredible opportunity for a teenager in a small town in Virginia to learn from the best developers in the world. I spent 15 years working with Linux and founded a couple of open source companies. My first commit to GitHub was in 2009, when GitHub was a year old.Apple unveils iOS 12 for iPhone and iPadApple announces Shortcuts app for SiriApple adds camera effects like stickers, filters and Memoji to messagesSteam for Windows soaked in WINE and Snapped

After a bit of CoffeeScript reminiscing we get down to data and design.And discuss why the bot market has collapsed, and how Google is running the table in AI. Plus a few classic Coder moments, feedback, and more.Links:CoffeeScriptThoughts on Dart?Google Facebook Face GDPR Privacy Complaints on 1st Day — Europe’s sweeping new data privacy regime came into effect this morning, and privacy activists are not wasting time in flexing their muscles. One organization has already made official data protection complaints about Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, while another is going after the shadowy data brokers that trade people’s information behind the scenes.Android Creator Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone — Company cancels development of second version of smartphone Google Home Outsells Amazon's Echo for the First Time Ever — Google knocked Amazon out of the top spot for the first time by increasing sales of Google Homes a staggering 483 percent year-over-year to 3.2 million units versus 2.5 million Echo devices for AmazonData and design are tools that, together, build great experiences for your users

The future is JavaScript and Mike’s seen the way. Plus we answer a listener's questions about career changes, discuss the week’s hoopla, and share a cautionary tale.Links:veritanuda says we missed the ROM ProbPeter is ready for a change of jobMicrosoft acquires AI company to make Cortana and bots sound more humanThe End of Third-Party Twitter Clients?1Password 7 Going Subs

We get fired up about cloud lock-in, and attempt to find some common ground. But the overall framework for today's conversation is the important bits for developers from this years Microsoft Build and Google I/O events.Links:Microsoft partners with DJI on a new Windows 10 drone SDK - The VergeMicrosoft's Visual Studio Live Share collaboration service available to testers | ZDNetVisual Studio Live ShareAndroid Jetpack  |  Android Developers — Jetpack is a set of libraries, tools and architectural guidance to help make it quick and easy to build great Android apps. It provides common infrastructure code so you can focus on what makes your app unique. Google Developers Blog: Introducing ML KitWhat's new in Android security (Google I/O '18) - YouTube — Attend this session to learn about security features in Android and how they affect your apps. It will cover new APIs and best practices for protecting the integrity of your app and the privacy of your data.Google will soon require OEMs to roll out ‘regular’ Android security patches | 9to5Google

Focusing on a niche can catastrophically backfire when the market shifts, and Mike goes into full reviewer mode this week. Plus fresh out of Build the guys share the initial impressions of Microsoft’s big event, discuss their growing fear of Amazon, and resources for learning .Net Core.Links:Amazon Is Finally Helping Developers Turn Alexa Skills Into Money — Amazon is announcing general availability in the U.S. for in-skill purchasing, which allows the creator of a skill to sell content to an Alexa user–both one-off purchases and monthly or yearly subscriptions, with the entire transaction handled inside the skill via voice on a deviceASP.Net Core 2 Book / Resource Recommendations — I'm looking for some good book / website / youtube channel covering ASP.Net CorePop_OS! 18.04 Review: Developer Perspective - dominickm.com — The marketing around Pop is all about developers and makers. I like the general message especially after Apple’s neglect of the developer community over the last few years. However, there’s basically nothing that makes Pop really for developers any more than stock Ubuntu 18.04 or really any other mainstream Linux distro.Hey guys, I need your advice....

Mike and Chris have a workflow hangover, hit rock bottom, and bounce back with a new understanding. Plus the creeping revelation that our future is embed. Links:Azure Sphere PDFKubuntu 18.04 has been released, featuring the beautiful KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS | KubuntuPop!_OS by System76

The death of desktop apps has reached the next stage, but the long transition to WebAssembly is going to hurt, and why the crushing demand for good enough will force us all to live a life of "Progressive Webbie Things".Links:Design Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps - UWP app developer — Fluent Design guidelines and UI code examples for creating app experiences on Windows 10