Coding Blocks

When to Log Out

Well, this is awkward. Coding Blocks is signing out for now, in this episode we’ll talk about what’s happening and why. We have had an amazing run, far better than we ever expected. Also, Joe recommends 50 games, Allen goes for the gold, and Outlaw is totally normal. (And we’re not crying you’re crying!) Thank you for the support over the last 11 (!!!) years. It's been a wild ride, and the last thing we ever expected when starting a tech podcast was getting to meet so many fantastic people. View the full show notes here:https://www.codingblocks.net/episode242 Tip of the Week UFO 50 is an odd collection of 50 pseudo-retro video games made by a small group of game developers, most notably including Derek Yu of Spelunky. It's a unique and specific experience that reminds me of spending the night at your friend's house who had some console gaming system that you'd only ever heard rumors about. The games seem small and simple at first blush, but there is surprising depth. Favorites so far are Kick Club, Avianos, Attactics, and Mortol. (Steam) Use JSDoc annotations to make VSCode "understand" your data (jsdoc.app) Can you change your password without needing current password? (askubuntu.com) Did you know you can use VS Code for interactive rebasing? How to enable VS Code Interactive Editor (StackOverflow) GitLens (marketplace.visualstudio.com)

Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications

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Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar

Grab your headphones because it's water cooler time! In this episode we're catching up on feedback, putting our skills to the test, and wondering what we're missing. Plus, Allen's telling it how it is, Outlaw is putting it all together and Joe is minding the gaps! View the full show notes here:https://www.codingblocks.net/episode240 Reviews Thank you again for taking the time to share your review with us! iTunes: Yesso95 Spotify: Auxk0rd, artonus News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024https://www.atldevcon.com/ DevFest Central Florida September 28th, 2024https://devfestflorida.com/ Two water coolers walk into a bar... Several folks share their origin stories in the Coding Blocks slack - especially in episode-discussion Example of dealing with legacy code / hiring people that will work on it (Episode 239) Intentional architecture…what's the worst that could happen? What's the sentiment like on Hacker News? (outerbounds.com) Cat8 is not small! Why isn't anything easy? Kubernetes trivia, where are your blind spots? (proprofs.com) Ask Claude: Can you give me an example of the kinds of competitions that might exist in a humorous version of the Olympics for programmers? Data gathering and parsing - it doesn't seem to have gotten much better in decades…are we wrong? Tip of the Week 8 Top Docker Tips and Tricks for 2024 (docker.com) Have you tried Eartlhy, like Dockerfiles for all of your builds that you can run locally? (earthly.dev) Java's JavaAgent Explained (bito.ai) Mirrord is an alternative to Telepresence that makes working with Kubernetes easier (mirrord.dev) Kubernetes + Skaffold + Telepresence + K9s = Winning, it's a great combination of tools that work great together! https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine?hl=en https://skaffold.dev/ https://www.telepresence.io/ https://k9scli.io/

How did We Even Arrive Here?

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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my!

It's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers. View the full show notes here:https://www.codingblocks.net/episode238 News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024https://www.atldevcon.com/ DevFest Central Florida on September 28th, 2024 Interested? Submit your talk proposal here:https://sessionize.com/devfest-florida-orlando-2024/ Water Cooler How many programmers are there now? (statista.com) Are we still growing? What will it be like when we stop growing? What will people be doing instead? AI music generators are being sued! (msn.com) Curse of the Blank Page Naming things is important, gives them power…but also the power to defeat them! Don't make any one specific technology your hammer Client libraries that completely change with server upgrades What's the most important or relevant thing to learn as a developer now? Do you research or learn on vacation? Tip of the Week Curated, High-Quality Stories, Essays, Editorials, and Podcasts based around Software Engineering. It's more polished and less experimental than PagedOut (Github) Also, there's a new Paged Out, complete with downloadable art. It's more avant-garde than GIthub's Readme project, featuring articles on Art, Cryptography, Demoscenes, and Reverse Engineering. (pagedout.institute) Travel Router - Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is used to pass the authentication information between the supplicant (the Wi-Fi workstation) and the authentication server (Microsoft IAS or other) (Amazon) Comparison of Travel Routers (gi.inet.com) Carrying case for router (Amazon) Travel power cube - 6 power outlets followed by 3 (Amazon) Did you know you that Windows has a built in camera QR code reader? Guava caching libraries in Java (Github) Caffiene is a more recent alternatitive (Github) Generative AI for beginners - "Learn the fundamentals of building Generative AI applications with our 18-lesson comprehensive course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates." Microsoft has a course for getting into generative AI! (microsoft.github.io) Claude is better than Chat GPT? (claude.ai) How to Get the Most out of Postgres Memory Settings - thanks Mikerg! (temb.io)