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

  • Jul 7 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
  • Podcast

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

  • Summary

  • 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

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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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