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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...

Episodes

20 of 547 episodes

539: Everything from GitHub Universe 2026

GitHub Universe’s big theme is bringing AI agents under one roof: James and Frank unpack a shared Copilot harness, sessions that sync across...

53:48Nov 2, 2026

538: AI Agents Rebuild My 13-Year-Old Blog

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 in...

56:16Oct 26, 2026

537: Going ULTRA with RTX Spark and New Surface Devices

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra pairs an ARM chip with NVIDIA RTX graphics and unified memory, promising workstation-class power for cr...

57:10Oct 19, 2026

536: Decisions, Microsoft-Decision-1, Decisions

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 de...

39:55Oct 12, 2026

535: Next-Gen Siri: Disappointingly Not the Chatbot We Wanted

James and Frank explore Apple's next-gen Siri and iOS 27 updates with mixed results—the chatbot fell short of expectations despite hype. The...

46:47Oct 5, 2026

534: Why Developers Are Obsessed with Budget LLMs (Jev, Luna, & more)

Discover the emerging classifier revolution with Jev—a radical new take on LLMs that ditches generation for lightning-fast categorization. P...

40:28Sep 28, 2026

533: iPhone Duo Development: Navigating Dual Screens and Layouts

Apple's new iPhone Duo promises a game-changing foldable experience, but developers face a minefield of technical challenges. James and Fran...

45:19Sep 21, 2026

532: HydraFusion: Multi-Model Orchestration Changes Everything

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...

42:38Sep 14, 2026

531: How AI Saved Our Lost Podcast Recording

In Episode 531 James and Frank recount a near‑disastrous data loss when local recordings died seven minutes in, forcing them to rely on Zenc...

37:54Sep 7, 2026

530: WinUI Goes Open Source & Mac Mini/Studio Upgrades!

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...

1:05:58Aug 31, 2026

529: Agent, MCP, and Tooling: Taming Cross‑Platform DevFlows

In this update-packed episode James and Frank dive into developer tooling: the VS Code Mobile Canvas that embeds emulators into your editor,...

42:38Aug 24, 2026

528: Build, Ship, Repeat: AI Tools Changing App Development

In episode 528 James and Frank riff on software updates, AI-powered documentation and rapid app-building—covering a WebAssembly Oh My Posh d...

40:29Aug 17, 2026

527: AI Agents Meet Mobile: GitHub Copilot Canvas Revolution

AI agents are revolutionizing mobile development! James and Frank explore GitHub's new Mobile Canvas extension that lets AI agents see and i...

50:01Aug 10, 2026

526: GitHub Stacked PRs: Managing Complex Code Changes

In this episode, James and Frank dive deep into GitHub's biggest release in years: Stacked Pull Requests. Learn how this long-awaited featur...

43:29Aug 3, 2026

525: Why Christopher Nolan's IMAX Vision is Fading

In this episode, James and Frank explore the bittersweet reality of experiencing cinema in 2026, starting with Frank's disappointing discove...

38:52Jul 27, 2026

524: A .NET MAUI AI Revolution

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 e...

37:47Jul 20, 2026

523: UI.md - Opinionated design rules for coding agents

Frank releases UI.md, a practical markdown guide distilled from 25 years of software development that captures essential UI/UX principles to...

46:01Jul 13, 2026

522: Our Thoughts on Slate: The $25K Modular Pickup Changing EVs

James and Frank dig into Slate’s modular electric pickup — a $24,950, 205‑mile, no-frills truck you can customize later — and unpack how fac...

37:19Jul 6, 2026

521: Polish Matters: UI, Icons, and AI Design Fails

Episode 521 James and Frank obsess over “polish”: the tiny design and packaging details that make apps feel finished. They start with impecc...

48:28Jun 29, 2026

520: Inside the New GitHub Copilot App: Sessions, Canvases, Automations

This episode dives into the new GitHub Copilot app — a hub for agent sessions, multi‑repo orchestration, PR‑first workflows, automations and...

58:05Jun 22, 2026