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NSCoder Chicago

NSCoder Chicago

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Season 1

RIP Mac Pro

Today we mourn the loss of the Mac Pro 🙏 The Power Macintosh G3 of my high school english classroom 65Scribe's Power Macintosh G5 video explains it all The end of the "trash can" - Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives Sean Wolter is your host and editor for this episode. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

it's important you think your time matters here

Today we're joined by Kevin Donnelly to talk about engineering management topics! Kevin's presentation at the last NSCoder The silly Financial Times GDP chart Sean mentioned Lorraine Boissoneault's upcoming book Body Weather. David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

with apologies to Jason Snell, Apple's year in review

Today we're rating Apple's hardware and software performance for 2025, following the format of Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card. David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

the technical term is "nuts"

Today we're talking about Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic codingRemember to turn on the new agentic features! Continuing development of Sean's Contacts app replacement Steve Yegge's The AI Vampire and the promise of industrialization/automation Existential career dread in the face of automation David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

to boldly go where no one has gone before

Today we're talking about The "Star Trek Economy", the hedonism treadmill, and universal basic incomehttps://staygold.us https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/ What's the point of work? And economic and technological growth?https://doughnuteconomics.org And a lot of rambling. This may be our least structured episode so far. Let us know what you think! David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

grab whatever seat you can

Today we're talking about OpenClaw (previously known as Clawdbot)Introducing OpenClaw A Bot that Scams People [Michael Reeves youtube] Clawd Bought a Car! Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw is a security nightmare [youtube] Is it possible to avoid AI in software development?https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai https://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-01-22-the-saas-layer-will-dissolve/ That David Foster Wallace quotation I couldn't remember Losing faith in Applehttps://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/29/amazon-melania-spending https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/28/tim-cook-memo https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/27/ceo-captured https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html Hypercritical Podcast about Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography: "Episode 42: The Wrong Guy" David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

look at this graph

Today we're talking about AirTags 2.0 AI AI AI AI AIClawdbot is now called MoltbotMacstories' Clawdbot article More about Clawdbot Maggie Appleton's coverage and critique of Gastown 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents More AI!Sean's new old Contacts App David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Squirrel, Person, Box, Chair!

Today we're talking about Apple Creative Studio - will we buy it? what does it mean? Apple Home (formerly known as HomeKit) and home automation adventures And a diversion into data privacy and security in cameras and TVs David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

your problems are your problems

Today we're talking about When to refactorJoel Spolsky Never Rewrite podcast Some of our worst job experiences A first try with AI. Sean starts on his MacOS Contacts replacement app. David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

live your life so any screenshot could be poster-worthy

Today we're talking about Our software role modelsHaxies and Unsanity Delicious Monster and Wil Shipley Hyperjeff's Mac OS X page Ellen Shapiro Monument Valley Riley Testus Imposter syndrome One of us is so frustrated with Tahoe he's starting a new app David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts. NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

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