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

2024/7/7
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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.

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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](https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine Caffeine alternative)))

  • 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))