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)