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 ResolutionsMichael’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)