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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: Tip of the Week UFO 50 is an odd collection of 50...
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Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications
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Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar
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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: 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, 2024 DevFest Central Florida September 28th, 2024 Two water coolers walk into a bar... Several folks share their origin...
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How did We Even Arrive Here?
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For the full show notes please visit: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode239
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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. View the full show notes here: News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 DevFest Central Florida on September 28th, 2024 Interested? Submit your talk proposal here: Water Cooler How many programmers are there now? () Are we still growing? What will it be like when we stop growing? What will people be...
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Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka
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View the show notes on the web: In the past couple of episodes, we'd gone over what Apache Kafka is and along the way we mentioned some of the pains of managing and running Kafka clusters on your own. In this episode, we discuss some of the ways you can offload those responsibilities and focus on writing streaming applications. Along the way, Joe does a mighty fine fill-in for proper noun pronunciation and Allen does a southern auctioneer-style speed talk. Reviews As always, thank you for leaving us a review - we really do appreciate them! From iTunes: Abucr7 Upcoming Events Atlanta Dev...
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Nuts and Bolts of Apache Kafka
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Topics, Partitions, and APIs oh my! This episode we're getting further into how Apache Kafka works and its use cases. Also, Allen is staying dry, Joe goes for broke, and Michael (eventually) gets on the right page. The full show notes are available on the website at News Thanks for the reviews! angingjellies and Nick Brooker Please leave us a review! () Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Kafka Topics They are partitioned - this means they are distributed (or can be) across multiple Kafka brokers into "buckets" New events written to Kafka are...
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Intro to Apache Kafka
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We finally start talking about Apache Kafka! Also, Allen is getting acquainted with Aesop, Outlaw is killing clusters, and Joe is paying attention in drama class. The full show notes are available on the website at News Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 () Intro to Apache Kafka What is it? Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Core capabilities High throughput - Deliver messages at...
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StackOverflow AI Disagreements, Kotlin Coroutines and More
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Reviews iTunes: ivan.kuchin News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 Topics People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition? Obfuscate data dumps with PostgreSQL Kotlin Coroutines Reminded Outlaw of the Cloudflare Workers we mentioned a while back Please leave us a review! You can control if YouTube keeps track of your history (at least that you can see) 100 Things You Didn't Know About Kubernetes Do the IDE AI's really make you more...
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Llama 3 is Here, Spending Time on Environmental Setup and More
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Full episode show notes can be found at:
info_outlineIn this episode, we're talking about the history of "man" pages, console apps, team leadership, and Artificial Intelligence liability. Also, Allen's downloading the internet, Outlaw has fallen in love with the sound of a morrvair, and Joe says TUI like two hundred times as if it were a real word.
See all the show notes at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode214
News
- Thanks for the reviews!
- itunes: michael_mancuso
- DevFest Florida is a community-run one-day conference aimed to bring technologists, developers, students, tech companies, and speakers together in one location to learn, discuss and experiment with technology. (devfestfl.org)
What are (were?) man pages?
- "man" is a command-line "pager" similar to "more" or "less" that was designed specifically to display documentation - ahem, "manuals"
- "man" pages would show you documentation for many apps in a (mostly) consistent manner that was available offline
- Do people still use them?
- People would print these out in the 70's and beyond!
- How do you create a man page? (allthings.how)
- Uses an old markup language named "roff"
- Install to the proper location, typically /usr/man/man: (tldp.org)
How to Lead a Team (Anti-Patterns edition)
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (amazon)
- Hire Pushovers
- Ignore Low Performers
- Ignore Human Issues
- Be Everyone's Friend
- Compromise the Hiring Bar
- Treat Your Team Like Children
Terminal UIs
- A new frontier in programming?
- The Good:
- Keep your hands on the keyboard!
- Easily install on remote servers
- Often built by devs for devs
- Low overhead
- Purpose-built for their purposes (as opposed to IDE extensions)
- Looks ancient
- The Bad:
- Looks ancient
- Scriptability
- Each has it's own learning curve
Examples:
Meta AI
- Meta has been making serious strides in AI with LLAMA and...it's open source! Does that make them any more or less liable for the information? Does "publically available information" change things
Resources we like
- Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (amazon)
- List of awesome TUIs (github.com)
- AI at Meta (ai.meta.com)
- Download the AI Model (ai.meta.com)
Tip of the Week
- Want to learn something new while also making your life easier? Why not try writing a TUI!? Here's an article that will kindly introduce you to terminal user interfaces, libraries like "Clap", "TUI", and "Crossterm" that people are using to write them, and…you can get some XP with Rust while you're at it! (blog.logrocket.com)
- Are you looking to upgrade your Kubernetes cluster? Check for API problems first!
- Are you a browser tab fiend? Did you know you can reload all your tabs simultaneously with a simple shortcut? (groups.google.com)
- No more nasty wiring jobs, get yourself to the hardware store website and pick up some wire and splicing connectors. Keep things nice, tidy, and organized. (wago.com)
- Similar but not as good (no lever) (homedepot.com)
- Matt’s Off-road recovery channel is amazing if you're into cars or... beautiful-sounding things.
- Are you tired of manually correlating logs and events? No more! Check out the Open Telemetry project for your distributed tracing and analytics needs! (opentelemetry.io)