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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Signup to Generate a PitchMerge 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, MAUI.
Recent episodes include "538: AI Agents Rebuild My 13-Year-Old Blog" (26 October 2026, 56 minutes), "537: Going ULTRA with RTX Spark and New Surface Devices" (19 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "536: Decisions, Microsoft-Decision-1, Decisions" (12 October 2026, 40 minutes).
Merge Conflict publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 545 episodes.
Booking probability for Merge Conflict is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Merge Conflict requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Merge Conflict's contact route on record: verified email.
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Merge Conflict is a technology podcast with 545 episodes published.
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James shares how Copilot CLI helped rebuild 13 years of blog posts as a faster, customizable static site—and how AI can turn spoken ideas into polished posts and launch videos. Along the way, the hosts cover new...
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra pairs an ARM chip with NVIDIA RTX graphics and unified memory, promising workstation-class power for creators and local AI—at a premium price. The conversation explores why CUDA...
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This week we look at decision models, which have gone from a novelty to something every AI lab is now building. We start with a practical detour: where do you actually sell a high-end Mac mini these days? We compare...
James and Frank explore Apple's next-gen Siri and iOS 27 updates with mixed results—the chatbot fell short of expectations despite hype. They dive into AI agents, smart home automation potential, and why Apple's...
Discover the emerging classifier revolution with Jev—a radical new take on LLMs that ditches generation for lightning-fast categorization. Plus, deep dives into the latest model releases (Luna, GPT-6 Sol, Claude Opus...
Apple's new iPhone Duo promises a game-changing foldable experience, but developers face a minefield of technical challenges. James and Frank break down the critical app adaptation work required—from handling...
In this week's episode, James and Frank dive deep into how their approach to working with AI models has fundamentally shifted over the past few months. We explore a game-changing realization: you don't always need the...
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In Episode 531 James and Frank recount a near‑disastrous data loss when local recordings died seven minutes in, forcing them to rely on Zencastr's cloud-recovery button and a hopeful rescue email. They walk through the...
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This episode kicks off with WinUI’s shift to open‑source‑first—what the GitHub‑centric workflow means for Windows devs—and James and Frank’s hands‑on tales modernizing apps, CI/CD, and the surprisingly smooth Microsoft...
In this update-packed episode James and Frank dive into developer tooling: the VS Code Mobile Canvas that embeds emulators into your editor, MAUI DevFlow’s rewrite enabling plain .NET/native (and desktop AppKit)...
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In this episode, James and Frank dive deep into GitHub's biggest release in years: Stacked Pull Requests. Learn how this long-awaited feature finally solves the challenge of managing massive, complex code changes by...
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In this episode, James and Frank explore the bittersweet reality of experiencing cinema in 2026, starting with Frank's disappointing discovery that Seattle's Pacific Science Center—home to a true IMAX theater—has...
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On episode 524 James and Frank dive into the new .NET MAUI developer stack—covering the MAUI CLI/Maui Doctor that auto-provisions SDKs and emulators, the Maui Sherpa GUI for device/Xcode/provisioning management, and...
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Frank releases UI.md, a practical markdown guide distilled from 25 years of software development that captures essential UI/UX principles to help AI (and developers) build better interfaces. The hosts dive deep into why...
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Episode 521 James and Frank obsess over “polish”: the tiny design and packaging details that make apps feel finished. They start with impeccable.style, product.md and design.md (and why agents.md and readme aren’t...
This episode dives into the new GitHub Copilot app — a hub for agent sessions, multi‑repo orchestration, PR‑first workflows, automations and the new canvas metaphor for triage and planning. James and Frank unpack how...
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James and Frank break down WWDC’s developer-focused news—from Apple’s AI push (local models, a new private cloud for foundation models, and a command‑line API) to Xcode’s new agent integrations, the device hub/simulator...
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Microsoft Build 2026 brought a major shift: homegrown AI models designed for efficiency and real-world developer workflows. From the cost-effective MAI Code 1 Flash to sandboxed code execution and Windows developer...
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Episode 517 starts with a light chat about AI avatars and new text‑to‑speech deepfakes before diving into LLM “thinking” modes—what baked‑in planning actually does, why it multiplies token costs, and when it helps or...
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<p>James and Frank unpack AI-driven development shifts—agent SDKs, session management, and the rise of agent-first UIs like Google’s anti-gravity and GitHub Copilot—showing how VS Code’s Agents window, worktrees...
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