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The Mad Botter

A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.

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Sam's Checkmate: How Open Source AI and Silicon Valley Kingmakers dethroned the OpenAI emperor! Plus, Tesla's API Apocalypse has arrived.

599: GPU Game Theory

We’re taking a victory lap down memory lane. From spooky-accurate predictions to "did we really say that?" moments, this one’s for the history books.

600: Mikestrodamus

Some debates never die, and this week, we’re reigniting one of our spiciest from the archives. Plus, our boldest 2025 predictions yet.

601: The 10X Exec

CES 2025 Secrets Revealed: A developer’s dream or just more hype? Plus, NVIDIA flexes its AI muscles, and we're admittedly impressed. Then, our thoughts on Dell's historic rebrand.

602: Dude, You're Getting a Dell Pro Max Micro Plus!

The CEO who bet on SwiftUI—and lost their job. Then poke some fun at Rust stans, SalesForce claims they're not hiring any developers in 2025, and more!

603: COSMIC Defenders

We dig into the Rails 8 Solid Trifecta, our thoughts on why fewer developers are taking jobs at startups, and a new buzzphrase: Framework Fatigue.

604: The Startup Myth

DeepSeek has everyone freaking out; we'll look at what's legitimately fascinating, what bits have been an overreaction, and the big mistake that made this all possible. 
Plus, there's some bad news for Java fans.

605: The Democrats Behind DeepSeek

A brief important update from Chris about some upcoming changes to the podcast.

606: Coder's Next Steps

Warp (https://warp.dev)
Zach on X (https://x.com/zachlloydtweets?lang=en)
Mike on X (https://x.com/dominucco)
Mike on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/dominucco.bsky.social)
Coder on X (https://x.com/coderradioshow)
Coder on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/coderradio.bsky.social)
Show Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp)
Alice (https://alice.dev)

607: Warp's Zach Lloyd

House Keeping
Google / YouTube Update
Join the Discord!
Feedback
Rust in the Linux Kernel.
R Stuff
What is R Again?
Great presentation by John Chambers at UseR! 2006 https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf 
The times have changed, now R is very much suited for production use and not just an academic research language
Highly recommend reading Advanced R for more comprehensive details on the quirks of the language https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html 
R VS Python for Data?
Different philosophies on the use of the language
CRAN vs PyPi 
Interoperability becoming more mainstream now
Visualization: R has always been leaps and bounds ahead (Grammar of Graphics, interactive widgets, etc)
R Dev Stack?
IDEs: RStudio, now Positron https://positron.posit.co/ 
Managing package installations with renv https://rstudio.github.io/renv/ 
Building web apps with Shiny: https://shiny.posit.co/ (I got so engrossed in this space that I created the Shiny Developer Series because of it)
Early adopter of using Docker with R in devcontainers with VS-Code. 
New tech I’m excited about to enhance dev stacks and sharing apps
WebAssembly with webR https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ 
Shiny apps in webR? Yes you can https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webR 
Managing dev environment combined with Nix: The rix package https://github.com/ropensci/rix 
(More organized links for show notes)
R Language: https://r-project.org
Posit (formerly RStudio): https://posit.co 
RStudio IDE https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/ 
Positron (still in beta): https://positron.posit.co/ 
History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006: http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
Advanced R (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html 
Shiny - Easy interactive web applications with R: https://shiny.posit.co/ 
renv - Project environments for R: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/ 
R Markdown: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ 
WebR - R in the browser: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ 
Rix - Reproducible Data Science environments for R with Nix: https://github.com/ropensci/rix 
Chromatic by ModRetro
Chromatic: https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle?variant=47637522579758
FPGA
Mike’s Review
Eric’s Thoughts
Eric's Socials
R Weekly Highlights: https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights 
Shiny Developer Series: https://shinydevseries.com/ 
R Podcast: https://r-podcast.org 
Bluesky: @rpodcast@bsky.social
Mastodon: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/ 
Coder's Socials
Mike on X (https://x.com/dominucco)
Mike on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/dominucco.bsky.social)
Coder on X (https://x.com/coderradioshow)
Coder on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/coderradio.bsky.social)
Show Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp)
Alice (https://alice.dev)

608: R With Eric Nantz

Steve Ballmer’s legacy at Microsoft is controversial. We look over the long list of big and quiet successes and failures under his watch as CEO. Plus what we think the big problem facing Microsoft is going to be long term, and if they can really transform into a “devices and services” company.

Plus we’ll discuss the big problem with SourceForge, self taught programing vs structured schooling, your emails, and more!

Bye Bye Ballmer | CR 64

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