We crack open the time capsule and see how our spicy takes hold up.
Our take on big tech's return to office, AT&T's RCS boondoggle, and the concerning territory tech is racing towards.
Mike has some huge news and busted wifi, Chris spent a weekend in the Metaverse, and why Microsoft has us both upset.
Big promises are being made in Ruby land, but will they take hold? Plus, Tech Crunch says Open Source is dead, why we couldn’t disagree more.
After Chris gets a reality check from Mike, the guys answer some emails and admit a cold hard truth.
After a decade long fight, no one feels like a winner.
Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.
It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.
We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...
As Python 2's demise draws near we reflect on Python's popularity, the growing adoption of static typing, and why the Python 3 transition took so long. Plus Apple's audacious app store tactics, Google's troubles with Typescript, and more!
Mike rekindles his youthful love affair with Emacs and we debate what makes a "10x engineer".
Microsoft catches Mike’s eye with WSL 2, Google gets everyone's attention with their new push for Kotlin, and we get a full eGPU report.
We debate Rust's role as a replacement for C, and share our take on the future of gaming with Google's Stadia.
Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.
Mike breaks down what it takes to build a proper iOS build server, and leaves the familiar shallows of Debian for the open waters of openSUSE.
The gangs all together and cover your poignant feedback right out of the gate. Then we jump into the psychological trap of freelancing, and imagine a world where app stores are a true level playing field.
Mike breaks down the drama around nullable reference types in C# 8.0, and we debate what it means for the future of the language.
Apple wades into controversy after filing some Swift-related patents and we explore WebAssembly and its implications for the open web.
We ruminate on Python’s founder stepping down, and ponder if it was inevitable.
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?