 
  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 489 Episodes.
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    422: An Introduction to Continuous Integration & DeliveryAugust 5th, 2024 | 51 mins 31 secsLet's take a step back and talk about CI/CD. 
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    421: .NET Aspire 8.1 Is Here! Let's GOOOOO!!!!July 29th, 2024 | 40 mins 41 secsPython support, new dockerfile support, and so many new components! We discuss .NET Aspire 8.1's release 
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    420: Life, VS Code, All The TOPS, and .NET 9July 22nd, 2024 | 53 mins 19 secsIt 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 macOSJuly 15th, 2024 | 38 mins 36 secsJames 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 WorksJuly 1st, 2024 | 37 mins 22 secsAfter 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 WorksJune 24th, 2024 | 43 mins 48 secsWe 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 RecapJune 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 minsIt 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 secsIntel and AMD are back with their latest CPUs and NPUs and are Copilot+ PC Ready! 
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    413: Google Takeout in ActionJune 3rd, 2024 | 43 mins 21 secsIt'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 2024May 27th, 2024 | 48 mins 31 secs
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    411: AI 4o, Google I/O, .NET Aspire, & #XamarinGaveMeMay 20th, 2024 | 42 mins 5 secsOpenAI 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 ProMay 13th, 2024 | 56 mins 30 secsApple 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 DevicesMay 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 minsThe 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 RequirementsApril 29th, 2024 | 34 mins 43 secsWith 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 secsWe 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. 
