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<p>In this episode we talk about several things that have been on our mind.  We find that Joe has been taken over by AI&#8217;s, Michael now understands our love of Kotlin, and Allen wants to know how to escape supporting code you wrote forever.</p>



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<h2 id="news">News</h2>



<p>Visited with Jamie Taylor from the .NET Core Podcast, Tabs N Spaces and Waffling Taylors</p>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://dotnetcore.show/">https://dotnetcore.show/</a></li>



<li><a href="https://tabsandspaces.io/">https://tabsandspaces.io/</a></li>



<li><a href="https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/">https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/</a></li>
</ul>



<h2 id="topics">Topics</h2>



<p>Should you own the work you created forever?</p>



<ul>
<li>How to mitigate this?</li>
</ul>



<p>Wiki vs Readme</p>



<ul>
<li>Both are good
<ul>
<li>Anything that is directly related to the code should be in the README</li>



<li>How to set things up, describe flows, etc. should be in a wiki</li>



<li>You can always link to wikis from the READMEs!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<p>Should you take on the work that nobody else wants and &#8220;take one for the team&#8221;?</p>



<ul>
<li>Are there upsides?</li>



<li>Do the cons outweight whatever pros there may be?</li>
</ul>



<p>Test coverage</p>



<ul>
<li>Setting coverage numbers too high can be completely counter-productive
<ul>
<li>Making these target numbers too high will also lead to &#8220;cheating&#8221; to achieve the numbers</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li>Getting 100% coverage on a method doesn&#8217;t mean that it was tested thoroughly or even well &#8211; it just means there is a test that references the method</li>



<li>Useful tests are more important than covering all methods</li>
</ul>



<p>What&#8217;s a technology that&#8217;s reignited excitement in you?</p>



<ul>
<li>Joe &#8211; all the various AI&#8217;s out there. ChatGPT and more</li>



<li>Michael &#8211; Kotlin</li>



<li>Allen &#8211; Big data streaming technologies</li>
</ul>



<p>javadoc != documentation</p>



<ul>
<li>Truer things may never have been spoken</li>
</ul>



<h2 id="resources-we-like">Resources we Like</h2>



<p>Kotlin documenation is excellent</p>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://kotlinlang.org/docs/basic-syntax.html">https://kotlinlang.org/docs/basic-syntax.html</a></li>
</ul>



<p>Microsoft still doing excellent documentation as well</p>



<ul>
<li><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/numbers-in-csharp?tutorial-step=1">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/numbers-in-csharp?tutorial-step=1</a></li>
</ul>



<h2 id="tips">Tips of the Week</h2>



<p>Warp AI is a (currently free) terminal for macOs that integrates an AI. It has several nice features such as those listed below, but one killer feature is that it has support for either a local or a cloud-based AI which helps navigate sticky legal, security, or company policies.</p>



<ul>
<li>Command Prediction</li>



<li>Quick error lookup</li>



<li>Integrated search</li>



<li>AI prompt</li>



<li>Supports either local or cloud-based AI, and they promise your data is never stored</li>
</ul>



<p>Thanks for the tip Dave Follett!</p>



<p>Recently mikerg suggested a really cool book in our #gamedev channel on the <a href="https://codingblocks.slack.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://codingblocks.slack.com</a>  It has chapters on things like vectors, fractals, celluar automata and other cool type topics for game or other graphical programming. It&#8217;s available free online or you can order a physical print-on-demand copy. <a href="https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-1-vectors/">https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-1-vectors/</a></p>



<p>Gson().toJson(mapOf( &#8220;key&#8221; to &#8220;value&#8221; ))&nbsp;<a href="https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/map-of.html">https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/map-of.html</a></p>



<p>IntelliJ &#8211; Kotlin Bytecode</p>



<ul>
<li>Tools &#8211;> Kotlin &#8211;> Show Bytecode</li>
</ul>


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