# Before Coder

URL: /show/coder-radio/332/
> We answer how Chris and Mike started in independent contracting, and the lessons changes they’d make with some perspective of time.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 332
- Date: 2018-11-07
- Hosts: chris, michael
- Duration: 00:54:45
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/397c4638-ae20-4c57-b3fd-e53cbfba8aeb.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbSFZI7dIOc





### Episode Links

  * [Mac mini](https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/ "Mac mini")
  * [Thelio](https://system76.com/desktops "Thelio")
  * [ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2018/10/30/aspnet-core-plans.aspx?m=1 "ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework") — Microsoft yesterday (Oct. 29) said that going forward, ASP.NET Core 3.0 -- the Web framework part of the "Core" platform offerings -- will only run on the base NET Core 3.0 platform, not the traditional .NET Framework that has been a Windows-only mainstay for some 16 years. 
  * [Erick Roberts on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ErickLrob/status/1057977837636980736 "Erick Roberts on Twitter") — "@dominucco I went way back in the @coderradioshow archives hoping to get some back story on how you and Chris both started your independent contractor lives. Can you or @ChrisLAS point me to a blog post or a podcast episode. It cuts me off at episode 55."
  * [Gogh](https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh "Gogh") — Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal