Ready to speed up your cross-platform development? Carl and Richard chat with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic about Uno Hot Design. First shown at .NET Conf in 2024, Hot Design brings the Hot Reload experience to UX onto your various client devices. Francois talks about the evolution of the Uno Platform into a place where you can use a variety of client libraries to build your app and deploy your client of choice. But when it comes to iterating the implementation, Hot Design speeds your dev cycle so you can get more done in less time!

How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. Richard discusses building a data cooperative between customers and merchants using ethical data handling techniques and technology to create mutual benefit. The conversation dives into how to get merchants to migrate from their loyalty programs into this more constructive and broader model.

Steve Sanderson, a developer on the .NET team at Microsoft, dives into the exciting realm of AI in application development. He discusses the practical use of the Microsoft.Extensions.AI toolset for OpenAI and oLlama, highlighting innovative AI features beyond just chat. Steve shares ideas for enhancing user experience, like dynamic UI changes and smart form suggestions. The conversation also touches on the transformative impact of AI in coding tools and the potential for .NET developers to easily integrate sophisticated AI functionalities into their projects.

Ready for a migration story? Carl and Richard talk to Nathan Westfall about his experiences moving an application for school buses from Xamarin Forms to Blazor. Nathan describes the interplay between a tablet on the bus for the driver, cloud services in AWS, and parent smartphones. The discussion dives into the advantages of Blazor on the client from a server resources perspective when dealing with hundreds of thousands of parents, plus being compliant with all of the rules and expectations of a public service sector product. Great insights on how to make apps people use every day!

What's a Microsoft DevBox, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Isaac Levin about the power of DevBox to help you get up and running fast with a development project. Issac describes a virtual workstation designed for software development with much more processing, memory, and storage options. With the management tools, you can quickly build templates to create new instances,and only pay for what you use. You can have instances for different projects, even different versions!

A visit from one of Scott Guthrie's Ninja Army! Carl and Richard chat with Rob Conery about his latest work with Microsoft technologies, including a VS Code extension for Copilot to understand Postgres databases! Rob talks about spending time in other programming platforms besides .NET to expand his horizons, which led him to create a tool called Viper.NET, similar to the tool from the Go platform, to help manage configuration. The conversation also visits and revisits the impact of GitHub Copilot, now with a free tier, and how it is helping software developers - and generating controversy!

Thomas Betts, a Laureate software architect at Blackbaud, dives into the world of AI and its practical applications in software architecture. He debunks the myth that AI is magic, clarifying it’s just another API to harness. The conversation reveals innovative uses of large language models for UX design, document review, and summarization. Betts emphasizes the importance of human oversight and critical decision-making when integrating AI, advocating for a balanced approach between technology and creativity in architecture.

Kick off the year with a deep dive into the latest advancements in energy generation! From the resurgence of nuclear power to the impact of global interest rates, the discussion highlights innovative technologies in solar, wind, and geothermal energy. Learn about virtual power plants and the exciting developments in floating energy systems. Explore the future of energy storage with solid-state batteries and the potential of sustainable aviation fuels. Plus, get insights into the clever use of geothermal energy from volcanoes. Power up your knowledge!

Get ready for a cosmic deep dive! Discover how SpaceX continues to shatter records, including record-breaking flights and the innovative booster catch. The exciting saga of Starliner unfolds as astronauts extend their ISS stay. Lunar exploration is heating up, while Artemis faces delays and new space stations confront financial hurdles. Plus, explore interplanetary missions and the revelations from the James Webb Space Telescope that are reshaping our understanding of the universe. 2024 is proving to be another stellar year in space!

What's coming for GitHub? Carl and Richard talk to April Yoho about the recent announcements from GitHub Universe and how they will roll out in 2025. The biggest topic, of course, is all the large language models coming to GitHub - there are a bunch of copilots! April talks about original GitHub Copilot, Copilot Workspace, and Copilot Chat - so many options! Now, you can choose your language model to move beyond OpenAI. And there are other changes at GitHub, including EU residency, new features in the enterprise cloud, and new instrumentation - 2025 looks awesome!