Frank Krueger
Co-Host of Merge Conflict
Frank is an independent mobile developer living in Seattle, WA. He started work as an embedded systems engineer, moved on to be a web developer, and eventually found happiness as an iOS developer. He has written iCircuit - an interactive electronic circuit simulator that runs on all the great platforms; Calca - the text editor that is also a powerful calculator; and Continuous - a fun and powerful .NET IDE for the iPad. All the while, Frank has enjoyed releasing open source projects and contributing as much as he can to the software development community. His programming interests include computer graphics, simulation, programming languages, and artificial intelligence. When he's not at his computer, you can usually find him hiking around some mountain or sleeping in a tent by a river.
Frank Krueger has hosted 409 Episodes.
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262: Your AI Code Copilot
July 12th, 2021 | 44 mins 27 secs
GitHub Copilot is here, and Frank goes hands on with the new service that provides code recommendations directly in VS Code.
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261: Windows 11 Insider Preview
July 5th, 2021 | 49 mins 32 secs
android, ios, windows, windows 11, xamarin
Windows 11 event ✅, Windows 11 developer event ✅, Windows 11 installed ✅
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260: Every question answered
June 28th, 2021 | 40 mins 13 secs
android, animal crossing, app store, freemium, ios, island tracker, paid apps, turnips, xamarin
We take your questions directly on another lighting topic episode of Merge Conflict
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259: Photogrammetry
June 21st, 2021 | 42 mins 30 secs
drones, ios, ios 15, photogrammetry, wwdc, xamarin
We dive deep into the latest APIs for mapping the physical world with macOS into 3D models.
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258: WWDC 2021 Recap
June 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 17 mins
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257: M1RACLES
June 7th, 2021 | 32 mins 23 secs
android, ios, m1, m1racles, mac, security, xamarin
We discuss M1RACLES (CVE-2021-30747) and new Xcode requirements.
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256: Microsoft Build 2021 Recap
May 31st, 2021 | 57 mins 19 secs
.net maui, blazor, build, build 2021, dotnet maui, gpt-3, microsoft, xamarin
This year's Microsoft Build was all about developer velocity! There was something for everyone from no code, low code, medium code, all the code, you name it, you had it! From .NET 6, to Power Platform, to all things Azure, we have you covered.
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255: What is encryption anyways?
May 24th, 2021 | 44 mins 42 secs
anker, camera, end-to-end, eufy, homekit, security
256-bit super duty encryption is what is sold now adays, but what good is it if it isn't end-to-end. In light of the most recent security camera bug via Anker's eufy line we talk about what encryption should be and what these companies can do to make it better.
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254: AirTag Development
May 17th, 2021 | 41 mins 10 secs
airtag, android, apple, eddystone, ibeacon, ios, xamarin
Apple AirTags are here, and Frank is ready to do some programming with them... but can he? What are Apple's mysterious APIs that should work with this wonderful device do?
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253: Past, Present, & Future of Ooui
May 10th, 2021 | 34 mins 55 secs
android, ios, ooui, web, xamarin, xamarin.forms, xaml
Frank discusses the Object Oriented UI Library, Ooui! He talks about where it came from and where it is going.
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252: Linux GUI Apps on Windows - WSLg
May 3rd, 2021 | 30 mins 50 secs
android, gui, ios, linux, maui, windows, wsl, xamarin
WSL is amazing.... but WSLg now enables you to run Linux GUI apps directly from your Windows machine!?!?! We discuss the possibilities.
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251: #AppleEvent - AirTags, M1 iMac, & Purple iPhone
April 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
airtag, apple event, imac, ios, ipad pro, m1, purple iphone, xamarin
No upgraded MacBook devices for us just yet, but the M1 is in full force on the new iMac and iPad Pro! We break down the entire apple event.
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250: To The Moon
April 19th, 2021 | 48 mins 40 secs
android, flutter, ios, mac book, react native, windows, wwdc, xamarin
We celebrate our 250th episode by answering as many questions as we can from YOU, our listeners!
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249: A Beautiful Disaster
April 12th, 2021 | 33 mins 45 secs
andorid, apple, ar, google glass, ios, mr, vr, wwdc, xamarin
WWDC 21 is officially happening and we sit down to speculate on what we think will be announced and reflect on some of our favorite tech devices we have been able to program on.
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248: Satisfying Business Requirements
April 5th, 2021 | 48 mins 2 secs
android, ios, winform, wpf, xamarin
Yes, this is the most boring title ever, but this podcast episode isn't!
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247: Generating UI with GPT-3
March 29th, 2021 | 54 mins 52 secs
code generation, gpt-3, xamarin, xaml
Frank goes hands on with GPT-3 for the first time and basically puts himself out of a job as he has it create his entire app for him. We discuss.