2023 Resolutions

Michael spends the holidays changing his passwords, Joe forgot to cancel his subscriptions, and Allen’s busy playing Call of Duty: Modern Healthcare as we discuss the our 2023 resolutions.

The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode201.

News

• Thanks for the reviews CourageousPotato, Billlhead, [JD]Milo!
  • Want to help us out? Leave us a review.
• Game Jam is coming up, January 20-23! (itch.io)
• Thoughts on LastPass?
  • Check out the encrypted fields, as figured out by a developer. (GitHub)
  • LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands (Ars Technica)

Our 2023 Resolutions

Michael’s

• Learn Kotlin,
• Go deeper on streaming technologies, such as Kafka, Flink, and/or Kafka Connect, and
• Learn more music theory and techniques.

Drink!

JZ’s

• Of course Joe has categorized his resolutions into the following areas: finances, health, personal development, and career management,
• Go deeper on Spring and streaming technologies, and
• Do more game dev and LeetCode.

Q&A Round 1

• What skills are opposite and which are adjacent that can be picked up this year?
  • Angular unit testing,
  • Front end development,
  • Spring,
  • Big data concepts and technologies
• Any books, courses, or certifications?
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (Amazon)
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) (cncf.io)

Allen’s

• Spend more time focusing on health and fun,
• Updating the About Us page with recent info,
• Go deeper on streaming technologies and conepts,
• Go deeper on big data concepts such as data lakes, and best practices, etc.,
• Get back into making content again, such as YouTube, and/or maybe presenting.

Q&A Round 2

• What do you want to avoid in 2023?
  • Less Jenkins,
  • Avoid piecemeal Spring upgrades,

2023 Predictions

• Data, privacy … do we need it?,
• New languages, frameworks,
• Generated content (Dalle-2, ChatGPT, Copilot), and
• AI ethics
  • ChatGPT Wrote My AP English Essay—and I Passed (WSJ)

Resources

• Designing Data Intensive Applications (Amazon)
• Orlando Code Camp (OrlandoCodeCamp.com)
• Atlanta Dev Con (AtlDevCon.com)

Tip of the Week

• You can pipe directly to Visual Studio Code (in bash anyway), much easier than outputting to a file and opening it in Code … especially if you end up accidentally checking it in!
  • Example: curl https://www.codingblocks.net | code -
• Is your trackpad not responding on your new(-ish) MacBook? Run a piece of paper around the edge to clean out any gunk. Also maybe avoid dripping BBQ sauce on it.
• How does the iOS MFA / Verification Code settings work? We want MFA, but we we’re tired of the runaround!
• Jump around – nope, not Kris Kross, great tip from Thiyagarajan – keeps track of your most “frecent” directories to make navigation easier (GitHub)
  • There’s a version for PowerShell too – thank you Brad Knowles! (GitHub)