Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar…

Coding Blocks

Grab your headphones because it’s water cooler time! 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:
https://www.codingblocks.net/episode240

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Two water coolers walk into a bar…

• Several folks share their origin stories in the Coding Blocks slack – especially in episode-discussion
• Example of dealing with legacy code / hiring people that will work on it (Episode 239)
• Intentional architecture…what’s the worst that could happen?
• What’s the sentiment like on Hacker News? (outerbounds.com)
• Cat8 is not small! Why isn’t anything easy?
• Kubernetes trivia, where are your blind spots? (proprofs.com)
• Ask Claude: Can you give me an example of the kinds of competitions that might exist in a humorous version of the Olympics for programmers?
• Data gathering and parsing – it doesn’t seem to have gotten much better in decades…are we wrong?

Tip of the Week

• 8 Top Docker Tips and Tricks for 2024 (docker.com)
• Have you tried Eartlhy, like Dockerfiles for all of your builds that you can run locally? (earthly.dev)
• Java’s JavaAgent Explained (bito.ai)
• Mirrord is an alternative to Telepresence that makes working with Kubernetes easier (mirrord.dev)
• Kubernetes + Skaffold + Telepresence + K9s = Winning, it’s a great combination of tools that work great together!
  • https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine?hl=en
  • https://skaffold.dev/
  • https://www.telepresence.io/
  • https://k9scli.io/