Comsysto’s Fast & Curious #4
Welcome to the fourth edition of Comsysto’s Fast & Curious blog post! As always: Sharing is caring. Check out the interesting articles, blog posts, events, and further contents the Comsysto colleagues collected this month.
Are you familiar with the spacing effect? If not, Slaven shared an interesting article about that topic as well as he had a look into visual processing of information and data by including diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid and visualizing troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments. Lars was impressed by a system that writes competitive programs with AlphaCode, while Robert delved into authentication in SPAs. Tomi and Sung had their focus more on IntelliJ tips and tricks. Then Sven shared some insights about cloud diagrams from (Python) code and Eugen dealt with soft skills. In the end Lars, Sebastijan, and Christian left some input in our random and funny category.
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Especially I like this quote (which can be found in the article below) from a famous writer. Exactly this thing “helped me” forget stuff during the past decades: https://fs.blog/spacing-effect/
Check this fancy k8s troubleshooting flowchart:
Google/Deepmind announced AlphaCode: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode
A system that writes competitive programs by itself just by reading the problem description like on Codeforce (https://codeforces.com/).
Will be interesting to see if it’s “just” a new layer of abstraction (to write specifications that can be interpreted by AlphaCode) or something more. Anyway quite impressive!
In case you’re interested in how Authentication usually works in SPAs, this is a nice intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLc3cTlypwM
Maybe it is common knowledge for some of you, but I started with a clean state on the new mac, and configuration for IntelliJ settings was painless with IDE Settings Sync
Want to learn all keyboard shortcuts in IntelliJ? Then the key promoter plugin is your tool of choice: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9792-key-promoter-x
Get to know more about Cloud Diagrams from (Python) Code:
https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/docs/getting-started/examples
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. (Benjamin Franklin)
Book recommendation: Soft Skills:The software developer’s life manual
Random and funny stuff
Have a good the week with some 8-bit versions of popular music:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWVr03NrIUlx5
What’s your favourite? Which version doesn’t work (like Chop Suey?)
Signal protocol creator’s take on Web3. Interesting if you’re into the crypto hype: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
https://twitter.com/EddyVinckk/status/1357772983981510659
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