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Joe Zack was on a brief holiday so Allen and Michael took over the helm for an episode. What would a new episode be without a little something regarding AI, some more love for Kotlin, and a number of excellent tips throughout (as well as at the end of) the episode.

Reviews

• iTunes: ivan.kuchin

News

Atlanta Dev Con
September 7th, 2024
https://www.atldevcon.com/

Topics

• People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition?
  https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt
• Obfuscate data dumps with PostgreSQL
  https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask/
• Kotlin Coroutines
  https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-overview.html
  https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutine-context-and-dispatchers.html#dispatchers-and-threads
• Reminded Outlaw of the Cloudflare Workers we mentioned a while back
  https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/

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• You can control if YouTube keeps track of your history (at least that you can see)
• 100 Things You Didn’t Know About Kubernetes
  https://www.devopsinside.com/100-things-you-didnt-know-about-kubernetes-part-1/
• Do the IDE AI’s really make you more productive?

Random Bits

• Tesla Las Vegas Loop
  https://www.lvcva.com/vegas-loop/
• What actually happens when you overfill the oil in a vehicle?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTbfvzNbxQ
• Fisker Ocean totalled after a $900 door ding…really
  https://jalopnik.com/fisker-ocean-totaled-over-910-door-ding-after-insurer-1851451187
• A Ford Mustang painted with the blackest black paint available
  https://youtu.be/Ll27OkWuE1g

Tip of the Week

Docker Blog is pretty excellent

• https://www.docker.com/blog/

Car Research

• Car reliability information
  https://www.truedelta.com/
• Actual problems logged with car models by year
  https://www.carcomplaints.com/
• Great search engine for finding cars and more metadata about the listing like how long the car has been listed
  https://caredge.com/

Utilizing wood sheet goods by utilizing cut lists

• https://www.opticutter.com/cut-list-optimizer

Docker’s chicken-n-egg problem

• Use a multi-stage Dockerfile where an earlier stage has the tools you need
• Manually dearmor a PGP public key
  (Hint: it’s the opposite of: https://superuser.com/questions/764465/how-to-ascii-armor-my-public-key-without-installing-gpg)

Download the file using the server suggested name With wget …
--content-disposition
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/wget.1.html

Wth curl …
-JO
-J, –remote-header-name
-O, –remote-name
https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-J