July 07, 2024

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

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1 hour 47 minutes

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, 2024
https://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)

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July 07, 2024

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

Listen Later

1 hour 47 minutes

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, 2024
https://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)

...more

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