We discuss the things we’re excited about for 2021 as Michael prepared for a different show, Joe can’t stop looking at himself, and Allen gets paid by the tip of the week.

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Survey Says

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What are the least amount of bits (or smallest data type) your annual salary, in whole dollars, could fit in?

• 1 bit (boolean): Wait, you can make _money_ with this coding stuff?
• 8 bits (byte): I made a webpage for a friend one time.
• 16 bits (short): I'm an intern, or at least I get paid like one.
• 16 bits (unsigned short): I'm just getting started in my career.
• 17 bits: I like my company.
• 18 bits: My company likes me.
• 19 bits: My company _really, really_ likes me.
• 20+ bits: I _run_ my company.
• Some Qubits: My salary is in a state of flux.
• String: Because I only get paid in thank you messages.
• Negative numbers: Who needs to pay you for having fun? I pay for everything I use to write my open source project!
• Memory addresses: Because buffer overflow attacks are how hackers like me make money.

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News

• We really appreciate the new reviews.
  • iTunes: 8BitToaster, NotResp, masterull
• We’re hosting a game jam January 21 – 24, 2021 – let’s make games!
• Follow all of our upcoming events! (/events)

Who’s Excited about What

• Joe
  • Interactive online/streaming events
  • DevOps and SRE technologies
  • Python
  • Game development
• Allen
  • .NET 5
  • DevOps technologies
  • Kubernetes
  • Game Jams
  • Big Data
  • Video content creation
  • Presentations
  • IoT
  • Machine Learning
• Michael
  • Kubernetes all the things
  • Kotlin

Resources We Like

• 15 Kubernetes Tools For Deployment, Monitoring, Security, & More (phoenixNAP.com)
• Kubernetes Training and Certification (kubernetes.io)
• We’re sad to see you go, Azure Notebooks (notebooks.azure.com)
  • At least they list some alternatives.
• Announcing .NET 5.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Tip of the Week

• Manning Publications has a lot of their books available in audio form on Audible.
• Top 9 companies that are hiring software engineers to work remotely (HackReactor.com)
• iTerm2 – A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things. (item2.com)
  • Use CMD+SHIFT+. to edit the command being pasted before running it.
• Some helpful tips for the holiday season:
  • Capital One Shopping: Save in seconds (chrome web store)
  • Automatically find and apply coupon codes with Honey. (chrome web store)
  • Use PayPal Key as a virtual credit card to use your PayPal account anywhere credit cards are accepted. (PayPal)
    • Use Privacy to create single or limited use credit cards (privacy.com)
• Port forward services from your Kubernetes cluster for external access to debug and test, like kubectl port-forward svc/svc-name 7000:8000.
  • Use Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster (kubernetes.io)