Coding Blocks

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

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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.

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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)
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