Month: September 2021

OffHeap 65. Helping your Boss Help You

Allright, on this OffHeap Episode, we invited no other than @kenkousen to talk us about his new book. Helping your Boss Help You! As most of us are really underlings and have managers that we report to, Ken walk us through the things that he discovered work well (and shared stories of what didn’t work so well) in a full-on, completely stuffed episode of OffHeap.

We also dive into some of our tech news around Project Loom and Apple Surveillance. All in all, a very interesting, possibly life-changing episode of OffHeap

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Upgrade your Maven Version
https://foojay.io/today/why-you-should-upgrade-to-maven-version-3-8-1-today-or-very-soon/

Apple Surveillance
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/06/1030852/apple-child-abuse-scanning-surveillance/

Project Loom
https://twitter.com/ptrthomas/status/1422780344701317122?s=21

Ken’s Book: HELP YOUR BOSS HELP YOU
https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/491578/ref=zg_bsnr_nav_b_4_491580

Pragmating Programmer’s version
https://pragprog.com/titles/kkmanage/help-your-boss-help-you/ (Prags site for ebooks)

Ken’s preview of the book
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/micromanagers-ken-kousen-93c1a97f29d7

OffHeap 64. Autobots…Rollout to the Bar!

Color me jealous! Most of the OffHeap crew (excepting me, Freddy) went back to our roots, and recorded Java Off Heap at the RoundHouse! (The local bar, where Episode 1 was recorded!). It was a great opportunity to be mostly zoom-less and let the conversation flow whenever it wants to flow!

In addition we got Cedric Hurst (@divideby0) to join us there! In all an interesting evening, with libations, Boston Dynamics Acquisition, a deep discussion on the “Right to Repair”, and the implications of GitHub Copilot (the auto-filler AI-powered, FOSS trained helper) on this field!

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JAX London 10/4 – 10/7 (hybrid)
https://jaxlondon.com/blog/java-conference/

EclipseCon 10/25 – 10/28 (online)
https://www.eclipsecon.org/2021

Jakarta One LiveStream 12/7 (online)
https://jakartaone.org/

Jconf.dev (In person) 12/8 – 12/10
https://2021.jconf.dev/

Boston Dynamics Acquisition
https://www.bostondynamics.com/hyundai-motor-group-completes-acquisition

Microsoft Pentagon contract cancelled
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/tech/defense-department-cancels-jedi-contract-amazon-microsoft/index.html

Big MS Security Update
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/tech/microsoft-security-update/index.html

Github Co-Pilot
https://twitter.com/kellabyte/status/1411449622288076801?s=21

Ruling on Google Gender Bias lawsuit
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-27/google-gender-bias-class-action-lawsuit-women?_amp=true

Right to Repair –
https://petapixel.com/2021/07/07/president-biden-will-order-ftc-to-create-right-to-repair-rules-report/