Merge Conflict
Join Frank & James for a weekly discussion on the world of technology and development including C#, F#, .NET, web, mobile, and more.
About the show
Merge Conflict is a weekly discussion with Frank and James on all things development, technology, & more. After years of being friends, Frank and James finally decided to sit down and start a podcast about their lives as mobile developers using C#, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI. Much more than just another mobile development podcast, Merge Conflict, reaches all areas of development including desktop, server, and of course mobile. They also cover fun things happening in the world of technology and gaming and whatever else happens to be on Frank's and James' minds.
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Episodes
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356: Sunsetting software, libraries, & APIs
May 1st, 2023 | 39 mins 28 secs
When is the right time to sunset software from the app store? How about a library up on NuGet? What is the right way to do it for your customers and folks using your software? We discuss in this weeks podcast.
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355: Previewing the Preview of C# 12
April 24th, 2023 | 38 mins 45 secs
.net, c#, csharp, dotnet
It is that time of year again! New C# features! That is right, .NET 8 Preview 3 just dropped and with it is the first preview features of C# 12 including Primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters. We break them all down!
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354: .NET Native AOT Apps Fit on a Floppy Disk!
April 17th, 2023 | 43 mins 41 secs
.net, aot, dotnet, microsoft build, native aot
With Microsoft Build and .NET 8 right around the corner, the team is hard at work optimizing the runtime to fit full Native AOT apps down under 1.44MB! That is right, it fits fully on a floppy disk! We discuss all things AOT and what you need to know.
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353: Exploring & Analyzing Bing Chat
April 10th, 2023 | 40 mins 5 secs
Let's get deeper into ChatGPT and GTP-4 this with Bing Chat and the newly integrated side bar of Microsoft Edge.
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352: Analyzing The Twitter Algorithm
April 3rd, 2023 | 39 mins 45 secs
They did it! The Twitter Algorithm is open source! We break down how it works, what is in it, and how why you should care (or not).
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351: What are F# Discriminated Unions?
March 27th, 2023 | 34 mins 46 secs
Frank tries to explain his favorite F# feature and also discussion the C# proposal for union types!
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350: Multimodal GPT-4
March 20th, 2023 | 45 mins 56 secs
It is time for some lightning topics and we go big on AI with GPT-4, infused ChatGPT everywhere, and we answer your questions from the past few months! Oh... and Sauna... and SVB discussion!
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349: Packaged with external location or unpackaged
March 13th, 2023 | 32 mins 11 secs
We figured our how to run a windows exe on windows with .net maui!
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348: ChatGPT Comes to the Command Line
March 6th, 2023 | 42 mins 39 secs
.net, askgpt, chatgpt, dotnet
Frank builds a command line interface for ChatGTP with .NET!
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347: Converting Star Wars Dark Forces 3DO Files with .NET MAUI
February 27th, 2023 | 34 mins 17 secs
Franks heads back to create apps for games from the 1990s with .NET MAUI.
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346: Calling .NET Libraries from Rust with Native AOT
February 20th, 2023 | 33 mins 28 secs
dotnet, native aot, rust
Native AOT can be used for more than just making super fast apps... you can compile your libraries down to C and use them anywhere!
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345: Backwards Compatible .NET
February 13th, 2023 | 29 mins 47 secs
We talk about .NET Standard, XamarinLegacyCompat, Android Support, and all sorts of forward/backwards compatibility.
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344: Exploring CoreData and CloudKit
February 6th, 2023 | 32 mins 41 secs
Frank journeys into Swift with a little CoreData and CloudKit.
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343: A Mac Mini To Rule Them All!
January 30th, 2023 | 43 mins 28 secs
We celebrate iCircuit Pro, Frank's long await update to iCircuit with a subscription! Then we break down the latest Apple hardware event with new Mac Book Pro models, Mac Minis, and oh... the HomePod?!?!
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342: Democratizing AI... and GPT3
January 23rd, 2023 | 35 mins 17 secs
ai, dall-e, gpt3, machine learning, ml, openai, vall-e
OpenAI as a service is here! We discuss!
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341: Frank Masters In-App Subscriptions
January 16th, 2023 | 38 mins 37 secs
Finally Frank goes all in on in-app purchases in his apps and talks about how he went about implementing subscriptions in iCircuit.