Joe Zack articles - 30 total
Making Money with Code
Congratulations! If you know how to code, then you are a highly skilled worker. You can use those s...
Getting Started with K9s
In this post I’ll tell you a bit about K9s, which is an open source, command line interface for Kub...
The Scariest Bug (I Haven’t Written Yet)
Okay, so I promised to sing a song if Coding Blocks got enough podcast reviews and, thanks to you , w...
Getting started with Apache Beam and Kotlin
Are you looking for a simple getting started guide for working with Kotlin and Apache Beam? Well cong...
The Best Dev Audiobooks 🔊
I’m a big fan of audio learning, and of course there are tons of great, free, dev podcasts but did yo...
My 2020 (Dev|Re)solutions
New Year’s is my favorite holiday because I find the notion of periodic renewal invigorating. Let t...
Streaming process output to a browser, with SignalR and C#
I’m happy to announce that I’m taking part in the The Third Annual C# Advent t...
In Defense of Big O
One of the few things that developers can agree on is that the interview process is terribly broken...
Why Avro?
Apache Avro is an open source data serialization system that lets you send inform...
Analyzing Dev.to Git History with Elasticsearch
Importing Git History into Elasticsearch is not very much fun thanks to the lack ...
The Pragmatic Programmer: Investing in Your Knowledge Portfolio
Coding Blocks just began a new series of podcasts about my favorite all-time programmer-y book: The...
Quickstart Guide: Elastic Stack for Devs
Curious about the Elastic Stack? This quick guide will walk you through ...
Elasticsearch is not just for search
Elasticsearch is often described as an open-source, scalable, full-text search and analytics engine....
Coding Lessons…from Factorio?
Factorio is a game where you are a teeny tiny engineer has been stranded on a very large and hostile...
JAMstack Primer for Back-End Devs
The JAMstack is a methodology for building web apps that is based on client-side JavaScript, reusable...
Calling all Full-Stack Haters
There are plenty of posts that discuss the benefits of specializing in either f...
How do you start your side projects?
I’ve got a small project that I need to complete for an upcoming presentation on JAMstack. Since I wa...
Back to Square One
I recently published a website that was built with technologies I was unfamiliar with. I accomplish...
Dev Podcasts Dec 3 - Dec 10
Not many programming changes again this week, thanks to Advent of Code eating m...
Dev Podcasts Nov 25 - Dec 2
Exciting news (for me anyway), these podcasts were auto-tagged this week. That ...
Dev Podcasts Nov 18 - 25
Quiet week, presumably because everybody in the United States is still too full...
When is an array, not an array?
TL;DR: Don’t do weird stuff to JavaScript arrays. *ahem* What are arrays? In the...
Dev Podcasts: Nov 11 to 18
I noticed a couple interesting trends this week. Of course, JavaScript is still...
Dev Podcasts: 2018-11-04 to 2018-11-11
Major Trends: Web Development, JavaScript, Computer Science, Health/Lifestyle ...
Dev Podcasts: 2018-10-28 to 2018-11-04
Introducing a small project that aggregates the dev podcasts released by week, including the dev podcasts released between October 28th 2018 and November 4th 2018.
Cross-Platfrom Dev with RAD Studio
Coding Blocks just released our second Community Talk where we have gathered 5 ...
Is Docker the New Git?
Docker may not address your biggest concerns, but it might still be worth it.
4 reasons why the “10x Developer” is so controversial
The notion of the “10x Developer” stems from an infamous study that measured and compared the product...
Be Careful With Side Projects?
I recently wrote about the differences between programming knowledge and skill in a previous post....
Programming Knowledge vs Skill
What does it mean to be good at something? Knowledge is understanding of a subject, skill is your pr...