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 479 Episodes.
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476: GPT-5 Is Here, What's next?
August 18th, 2025 | 46 mins 24 secs
OpenAI has unleased GPT-5 to the world, what is our take, and what is next?
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475: We Built 6 Apps with GitHub Spark
August 11th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
We took GitHub Spark for a spin to build apps in minute and publish them out to the world! In just a few hours we created 6 apps! What was the experience, what was the good, what was the bad, and how are we going ot use this in the future?
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474: Apple Intelligence for C# and .NET
August 4th, 2025 | 35 mins 40 secs
Frank brings apple intelligence APIs to C#! We discuss!
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473: The Catalyst for Frank's new Kitty!
July 28th, 2025 | 28 mins 2 secs
Frank got a new cat! Let's discuss!
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472: How I Vibe Coded a SaaS with VS Code
July 21st, 2025 | 59 mins 37 secs
James has been vibe coding a full production site completely with VS Code and walks us through his steps to get to production and almost to the point of accepting money from customers!
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471: Cracking Open VS Code AI Agent Mode Code
July 14th, 2025 | 55 mins 48 secs
Frank has explored the VS Code AI Chat Agent Mode code base. We discuss.
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470: AI Assisted Coding, .NET MAUI 10, and CarPlay for Everyone
July 7th, 2025 | 59 mins 28 secs
It's lightning topic time! AI Assisted Coding, Archiving a Library, .NET MAUI XAML in .NET 10, 1 Month of Switch 2, CarPlay Live Activities, and new .NET MAUI 10 features.
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469: New MCP Server Features
June 30th, 2025 | 43 mins 40 secs
Resources, sampling, prompts, and more!
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468: aspire CLI, dotnet run app.cs, C# 14 field
June 23rd, 2025 | 36 mins 6 secs
We are revisiting some of our favorite recent previews for .NET developers that you may have missed out on!
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467: There was AI at WWDC 2025
June 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
A little Nintendo Switch 2 review and then we go full on with WWDC 2025!
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466: When James Made Xbox Games
June 9th, 2025 | 49 mins 2 secs
There was a time when James made games professionally, Frank dives into James' past!
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465: Learning how web development works
June 2nd, 2025 | 52 mins 41 secs
James is coding several apps a month and Frank is coding inside the Apple Vision Pro... what could go wrong.
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464: Microsoft Build 2025 Recap + A Little Google I/O
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
Wow! What a week at Microsoft Build 2025 for GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio, .NET, and so much more. We get into it!
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463: Good and Bad Vibes
May 19th, 2025 | 40 mins 51 secs
James has some great vibes and Frank hits some stumbles and is looking for some guidance and next steps.
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462: Are Apps Dead?
May 12th, 2025 | 55 mins 26 secs
AI is everywhere and evolving quickly. How is it transforming our lives, our development process, and what does the future hold?
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461: Merge Conflict REACTS - 7 Programming Myths
May 5th, 2025 | 53 mins 46 secs
We break down Fireship's 7 programming myths to see if we agree.