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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https://www.codingblocks.net/episode238
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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)
