Tag: system76

You can't judge a book by its cover, and this week we surprised each other when we dug into the HP Dev One. Plus some insights on remote virtual dev desktops and the gotcha's from WWDC we missed.

We jump aboard Hair Force One and are a bit let down. We get into why. Plus Mike's first impressions of the HP Dev One laptop.

We get some spicy emails, dig into why Mike just picked up another Linux laptop, and then share our real thoughts on Web3.

Mike's got some strong feels about his new system, and Chris spent a week with Windows 11. And that's not even scratching the surface. It's a wild one, with some hard truths, so buckle up.

Big Tech's punishment train has been en route for years, but now that it's almost arrived, are we getting onboard?

Our takes on the important bits from Apple's WWDC 2021 keynote and State of the Union.

Our thoughts on the hardware Apple announced this week, and if any of it is suitable for professional workloads.

Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns.

Time to talk business, and Chris reveals his biggest mistake since going independent.

Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

We get nerdy about Blueprints, and then wary about the future of software distribution.

We reboot the show to capture Mike's love of coupons and update you on what we have been up to recently since the show's fake demise.

It's a Coder three-way as Chris checks-in with an eGPU update, and Mike shares his adventures with ReasonML.

We react to Apple's big news at WWDC, check in with Mike's explorations of Elixir, and talk some TypeScript.

Mike and Wes dive into Bosque, Microsoft’s new research language, and debate if it represents the future of programming languages, or if we should all just be using F#.

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 guys discuss the real last bastion of scratch your own itch, and debate the merits of recent C# functional programing fads that are transforming the language.

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.

Chris is back from his trip to Denver to tour System76’s factory, and what he discovered while he was there was the last thing he was expecting.

We answer how Chris and Mike started in independent contracting, and the lessons changes they’d make with some perspective of time.

Mike’s ordered a surprise new rig, Chris is getting particular, and do a first impressions of Qt Creator.

Mike and Chris find themselves at similar forks in the road with their business. And they both share raw observations from the front lines of some hard choices.