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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420: Life, VS Code, All The TOPS, and .NET 9
July 22nd, 2024 | 53 mins 19 secs
It is time for lightning topics! We talk about .NET 9 and the latest previews, finalizing Mac development setup, too many pop ups in VS Code, Life off Twitter, Dark Icons, and new HP AMD laptops!
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419: An Ideal Mobile Developer Setup on macOS
July 15th, 2024 | 38 mins 36 secs
James is setting up a fresh macOS install and is ready to get .NET MAUI ready to go. Now the question is how... Xcode, VS Code, Android Studio, SDKs, emulators, simulators, and so much more!
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418: Is AI Really Intelligent?
July 8th, 2024 | 35 mins 17 secs
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417: How Starlink Really Works
July 1st, 2024 | 37 mins 22 secs
After a year of Starlink was it worth it? How do you set it up? How does the technology work? Frank breaks it down.
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416: Going Light + How Spatial Video Really Works
June 24th, 2024 | 43 mins 48 secs
We talk about James going "light" with the light phone and also going big on 3D and taking an in-depth look at Spatial Videos.
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415: Apple Intelligence & WWDC 2024 Recap
June 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
It is that time of year again and it is infused with AI... Apple Intelligence and all sorts of goodies for iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, and more! Let's get into WWDC 2024!
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414: x86 is BACK!
June 10th, 2024 | 32 mins 34 secs
Intel and AMD are back with their latest CPUs and NPUs and are Copilot+ PC Ready!
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413: Google Takeout in Action
June 3rd, 2024 | 43 mins 21 secs
It's time to cut the cord... I mean streaming music service? James is going on a journey of getting rid of all music services. How is it going?
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412: Copilot+ PCs & Everything .NET at Build 2024
May 27th, 2024 | 48 mins 31 secs
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411: AI 4o, Google I/O, .NET Aspire, & #XamarinGaveMe
May 20th, 2024 | 42 mins 5 secs
OpenAI and Google are back with some new AI models that can talk to each other! .NET Aspire is getting close to release and Xamarin end of life is here, so we reflect back.
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410: The New AI Powered iPad Pro
May 13th, 2024 | 56 mins 30 secs
Apple had it's big event, but what do these new devices mean for developers? Are we impressed, is thin to thin? Why can't we have the M4 in our development machines? We discuss.
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409: Let's Discuss AI Devices
May 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
The Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin are here! Is this the future of AI devices? We discuss what we really think and what we really want.
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408: Fine Tuning Minimal App Requirements
April 29th, 2024 | 34 mins 43 secs
With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers.
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407: What the heck are tokens, embeddings, and GPTs anyways?
April 22nd, 2024 | 37 mins 6 secs
We are talking AI this week and trying to get to the basics. We take a look at what goes into GPTs and how these models figure things out.
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406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps
April 15th, 2024 | 39 mins 41 secs
It is time to make our console apps look beautiful! There are some amazing libraries out there to help us out. We discuss!
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405: 30 Seconds to Wow
April 8th, 2024 | 37 mins 9 secs
Frank is getting ready to release an app and we talk through paid vs freemium, onboarding, and that magical 30 seconds to wow moment for his app.