Coder Radio

How one clever developer has launched his own Appstore on iOS, our thoughts on how this was pulled off, and making a transition into development work late in life.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly! Promo Code: darthjarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes — FTC’s final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker wages, lower health care costs, and boost innovation The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store - The Verge — Developer Riley Testut finally brings his polished Nintendo emulator to the App Store.Riley Testut - Mastodon — We’d make everything free everywhere if it wasn’t for the CTF Core Technology Fee - Support - Apple Developer — Developers operating under the new business terms for EU apps will have the option to distribute their iOS apps in the EU via the App Store, Web Distribution, and/or alternative app marketplaces. Introducing AltStore PAL | Riley Testut — I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU.Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders – 512 Pixels — Version 1.70 of Logi Options+ launched last week with — I kid you not — AI tools you can launch anywhere your cursor is locatedSander van Vliet - Mastodon — This disables the process, removes the AI option from the Logitech Options+ UI and allows you to delete the folder without it returning.SteerMouse — SteerMouse is a utility that lets you freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported.

Google's controversial firing, Meta's AI chat bot, Microsoft's GPT-4 integration, VR & AR competition, IT budget management, tech giants' hardware strategies, audience support for the podcast, Amazon AI glitch, funding for open source projects, and platform history reflections.

Exploring the pitfalls of open-source revenue streams, the challenges of funding and migrating from outdated technology, and the need for fair compensation in open source projects. Discussions also include San Francisco's light rail upgrading from floppy disks, the xz Utils backdoor threat, and the benefits of local development strategies.

Topics include Meta giving away Llama for free, booming trades data, and declining coding jobs. Discussions on Google Vids in Workspace, Microsoft's ARM CPU confidence, and challenges of scheduling meetings effectively. Humorous speculation on Google project fate through naming and ARM-based laptops and processor specs. Exploring strategic thinking styles through Star Trek analogy, evolving technology landscape, and boosted listener appreciation.

Deception in Amazon's 'Automated' Store Operation, Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ devs, Amazon ditches 'Just Walk Out' checkouts, and the discussion on choosing the right programming language and Apple's focus on AI

Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone — The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.Helix — Multiple cursors as a core editing primitive, inspired by Kakoune. Commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing. importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. — With this approach you'll ship many small JavaScript files instead of one big JavaScript file. LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMsCarbon Language's main repository — An experimental successor to C++Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud — I am Sam Bankman-Fried's mother.Dad's Letter — 2¶ØVØ^~ƒŽ_ ØKV”ØV_؁”£ªb¹·‚ÎbØ£œÐb©·Øœi؏œ}\ØV•`Ø£c«·cÎc©Y–^c ØV•`audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast serverGPodder Sync - Nextcloud — Expose GPodder API to sync podcast consumer apps like AntennaPod

The antitrust gloves are off as Apple’s legal brawl with Uncle Sam kicks into high gear. We dig through the documents and are surprised by a few things that seem off.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case - YouTubeDOJ Apple Antitrust Suit PDFUS sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones - The VergeHere’s the U.S. Government’s Antitrust Case Against AppleThe idea behind antitrust lawsuits is to ‘hold America’s best companies’ feet to the fire’: Tim WuBen Thompson on X: “wut"Three decades ago…It is just hilarious that this nonsense is the lead item in a story about why the DoJ will sue AppleSo THIS is why GM said it will no longer support Apple CarPlay from 2026?!Apple’s response to the DOJ’s iPhone antitrust lawsuit. - The Verge

NVIDIA locks CUDA down further, and we ponder what it might take to break their stranglehold on the market, Zuck's brilliant move that put an egg on his face, and we take a minute to appreciate new developments with Java.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide — According to StatCounter's data, by the end of February 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.03% desktop market share.Pengwin — A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian.Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software — This language has been added to the EULA that's included when installing CUDA 11.6 and newer versions.Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it! — I’d like to showcase two Rust features that are part of what makes Rust excellent, and then compare them with recent innovations in Java.Brad Neuberg on X — Wow so evidently the quarter that Meta got slammed for expenses & earnings it turns out Zuck was actually massively buying available GPU compute on the market to be ready for scaling AI, increasing expenses. Joe Burnett (🔑)³ on X — Jeff Bezos: "You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 — You won’t be able to download new Android apps from Amazon’s Appstore on Windows 11 in March 2025.🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!

Apple is pissed, and we'll dig into why. Plus, there are some big hints at Apple's AI plans; Meta's had a rough morning, and Sergey Brin popped back up at Google and proceeded to blow it immediately.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Victoria Nuland, third-highest ranking US diplomat and critic of Russia's war in Ukraine, retiring — She had been a candidate to succeed Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State and had served as acting deputy since Sherman’s retirement seven months ago but lost an internal administration personnel battle when President Joe Biden nominated Kurt Campbell to the no. 2 spot. Campbell took office last month.The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market - Apple — The primary advocate for this decision — and the biggest beneficiary — is Spotify, a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify has the largest music streaming app in the world, and has met with the European Commission more than 65 times during this investigation. Will Oremus on X — - Apple complains there was no "credible evidence of consumer harm" - Spotify is pleased but says “it does not solve Apple’s bad behaviour iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU after all — Apple is now walking back that decision and says it will “continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU.” Apple launches new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, support for two external displays, faster Wi-Fi — As far as specs are concerned, the M3 MacBook Air features a faster 8-core CPU combined with up to 10-core GPU. Apple is also calling the new Air the “world’s best consumer laptop for AI” thanks to the inclusion of a faster 16-core Neural Engine. Teslaconomics on X — Google hackathon to stop racism & sexism in Gemeni and the founder of Google, Sergey Brin, shows up to get front row seatsTe𝕏asLindsay™ on X — Co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, seems to think they only messed up on their image generator and fails to acknowledge that Google’s chatbot is just as broken.Sergey Brin Says Google 'Definitely Messed up' With Gemini Images — Sergey Brin said Google "definitely messed up" with Gemini's image generation. Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X — And they are lobbying as a group with great intensity to establish a government protected cartel, to lock in their shared agenda and corrupt products for decades to come. Donations - Panther Pride Boosters — As many know, funding for the arts is abysmal. That is actually a major part of the primary mission of this booster club, to raise funds to allow our students to get the experiences they deserve. 100% of all donations support the Ridgeview High School Panther Pride Band and Color Guard.

Why we're awe-struck by Google, and NVIDIA's CEO says no one needs to learn how to code anymore.Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarTrusteebook: TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: CODERLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Mark Gurman on X — BREAKING NEWS: Apple cancels the Apple Car project after a decade-long, multi-billion effort to rival Tesla. Some employees shifting to Generative AI teams.Florida Man Games poke fun at state’s reputation — Promoted as “the most insane athletic showdown on Earth,” the Florida Man Games poke fun at the state’s reputation for bizarre stories that involve brawling, drinking, gunfire, reptile wrangling and other antics carrying a risk of time in jail or intensive care. Alphabet execs upset after Trump election, leaked video shows  — The release of the video comes as Google and other major tech companies have been accused of having a liberal bias. Google parent loses $70B in market value after 'woke' AI chatbot disaster — Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its heavily promoted AI tool.Nate Silver on X — They need to shut Gemini down. It is several months away from being ready for prime time. It is astounding that Google released it in this state.While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish — In fact, I think there is a precedent for Gemini; like many comparison points for modern-day Google, it comes from Microsoft.Leftism on X — The head of Google's Gemini AI everyone.samir arora: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, will be fired or he will resign, says this market veteran — Responding to inquiries on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Arora expressed his belief that Pichai's tenure might come to an end soon, asserting, "My guess is he will be fired or resign - as he should. After being in the lead on AI he has completely failed on this and let others take over."Dare Obasanjo🐀 on X — Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code. AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation — Over the past two years AMD has quietly been funding an effort though to bring binary compatibility so that many NVIDIA CUDA applications could run atop the AMD ROCm stack at the library level -- a drop-in replacement without the need to adapt source code. Sid Sijbrandij on X — If forced back into the office and needing a break: play these meetings fullscreen without sound and listen to a podcast on your over ear headphones. Nobody will interrupt your break :)Will Oremus on X — Spotify's antitrust suit against Apple in the EU ends with $2B fine for Apple. Peter Steinberger on X — Apple playing hurt baby. The App Store helped Spotify so much!! We provide all the API!!1!