When to Log Out
Coding Blocks
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
Coding Blocks
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?
Coding Blocks
For the full show notes please visit: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode239
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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my!
Coding Blocks
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
Coding Blocks
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
Coding Blocks
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
Coding Blocks
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:
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The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode232
News
- Thanks for the reviews! Want to help us out? Leave a review! (/reviews)
- ivan.kuchin, Nick Brooker, Szymon, JT, Scott Harden
- Text replacements are tricky, replacing links to "twitter.com" with "x.com" enabled a wave of domain spoofing attacks. (arstechnica.com)
Around the Water Cooler
- Ktor is an asynchronous web framework based on Kotlin, but can it compete with Spring? (ktor.io)
- docker init is a great tool for getting started, but how much can you expect from a scaffolding tool? (docs.docker.com)
- Logging, how much is too much? What if we could go back in time?
- Boomer Hour: Let's talk about GChat UX
- What do you know about browser extensions?
- ViolentMonkey is a modern remake of the infamous GreaseMonkey, but can you trust it? (chromewebstore.google.com)
- Can you trust any extensions?
- XZ Tools backdown timeline, wow (arstechnica.com)
- Bookmarklets still rock! (freecodecamp.org)
- Silent Key Tester for mechanical keyboards, you can specify a wide variety of switches (thockking.com)
- Joe's preferences:
- Durock Shrimp Silent T1
- Tactile Gazzew Boba U4 Silent
- Liner Kailh Silent Brown
- Linear Lichicx Lucy Silent
- Linear WS Wuque Studio Gray Silent
- Tactile WS Wuque Studio
- White Silent - Linear
- Tactile Kailh Silent Pink
- Linear Cherry MX Silent Red
- Joe's preferences:
Tip of the Week
- Feeling nostalgic for the original GameBoy or GameBoy Color? GBStudio is a one-stop shop for making games, it's open-source and fully featured. You can do the art, music, and programming all in one tool and it's thoughtfully laid out and well-documented. Bonus…you games will work in GameBoy emulators AND you can even produce your own working physical copies. (If you don't want the high-level tools you can go old skool with "GBDK" too) (gbstudio.dev)
- If you're going to do something, why not script it? If you're going to script it, save it for next time!
- Dave's Garage is a YouTube channel that does deep dives into Windows internals, cool electronics projects, and everything in between! (YouTube)