We discuss the things we’re excited about for 2021 as Michael prepared for a different show, Joe can’t stop looking at himself, and Allen gets paid by the tip of the week.
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Survey Says
News
- We really appreciate the new reviews.
- iTunes: 8BitToaster, NotResp, masterull
- We’re hosting a game jam January 21 – 24, 2021 – let’s make games!
- Follow all of our upcoming events! (/events)
Who’s Excited about What
- Joe
- Interactive online/streaming events
- DevOps and SRE technologies
- Python
- Game development
- Allen
- .NET 5
- DevOps technologies
- Kubernetes
- Game Jams
- Big Data
- Video content creation
- Presentations
- IoT
- Machine Learning
- Michael
- Kubernetes all the things
- Kotlin
Resources We Like
Must Buys
Tip of the Week
- Manning Publications has a lot of their books available in audio form on Audible.
- Top 9 companies that are hiring software engineers to work remotely (HackReactor.com)
- iTerm2 – A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things. (item2.com)
- Use
CMD+SHIFT+.
to edit the command being pasted before running it.
- Some helpful tips for the holiday season:
- Capital One Shopping: Save in seconds (chrome web store)
- Automatically find and apply coupon codes with Honey. (chrome web store)
- Use PayPal Key as a virtual credit card to use your PayPal account anywhere credit cards are accepted. (PayPal)
- Use Privacy to create single or limited use credit cards (privacy.com)
- Port forward services from your Kubernetes cluster for external access to debug and test, like
kubectl port-forward svc/svc-name 7000:8000
. - Use Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster (kubernetes.io)