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2023 Holiday Season Developer Shopping List
It’s that time of year again when the three of us reflect on the things we’ve bought and loved, or the things we want to get…and want to love…So, come join us in this episode for our usual amount of fun while seeing if there’s anything that might make your shopping list! A small note – we forgot to get this episode out before Black Friday but we’re releasing a day early so you can at least make Cyber Monday! And who are we joking nowadays? Black Friday seems to run from Nov 1 to Nov 30. Remember, if you’re going to do some shopping, please do use our links as they help the show out – you’ll pay the same as if you went directly to the sites but we’ll make a few pennies for showing you the way! Happy Holidays and shopping to all!
The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode223.
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For anyone new to our shopping lists. There are some things that are absolutely every-day developer focused, but then we throw in things that bring us joy regardless of the relationship to life as a developer. Hopefully you enjoy what we’ve shared this year and as always, if you use the links below it’s greatly appreciated as it helps the show out with no cost to you!
Joe’s List
| Price | Description | |
| Biohacking…kinda | ||
| $97.46 | Withings BPM |
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| $53.00 | (Alternate) OMRON Silver Blood Pressure Monitor |
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| Unavailable | (Alternate) Greater Goods Bluetooth Connected Bathroom Smart Scale |
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| $199.95 | Withings Smart Scale |
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| $79.95 | Withings Smart Contactless Thermometer |
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| $117.99 | Withings Sleep Tracking pad |
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| $99.95 | Fitbit Watch Charge 6 |
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| $269.00 | Oura Ring |
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| Tests | ||
| $129.35 | Everlywell Food Sensitivity Test |
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| $198 | Gut Health Test w/ Microbiome Wipe |
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| $129 | 23 and Me Health and Ancestry Service |
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| Subscriptions | ||
| $230 / month | Soylent (yes, really) |
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| $135 / month | Signos (continuous glucose monitoring for non-diabetics) |
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Allen’s List
| Price | Description | |
| Quality of Life | ||
| $449 | Kinesis Advantage360 |
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| $75 + $75 | ACM Membership + Skills Bundle Add On |
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| $30 / month | Linked In Premium |
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| $120 to $180 | Logitech Combo Touch Keyboard / Case (iPad 11 Pro Linked – make sure you pick the right one for your device) |
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| $13.98 / year | Vanity Domain Name w/ Namecheap |
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| free! | Discord servers on investing |
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| $60 to $120 | Capital Audio Fest |
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| $400 | Elac Debut Connex |
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| $23 | Apple Air Pod Pro 2 Comply Foam Tips |
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| $119 | Wiim Pro |
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| $175 | Wiim Pro Plus |
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| $549 to 649 | Steam Deck OLED |
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| $300 | Logitech GCloud Portable Gaming | 00
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| $750 | Lenovo Legion Go Z1 Extreme |
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Michael’s List
Tips of the Week
- Ever thought about getting into synthesizers? Synthesizers are a really cool way of making sounds and music that you can do right from your computer, with no accessories needed, right now!
Vital is a spectral warping semi-modular wavetable synth. The functionality is almost 100% free (aside from text-to-wavetable) or you can pay up to a max of $80 to unlock discord access, support, unlimited text-to-wavetable, and surprisingly important…Presets!
Why are presets so important? Because working with synths is not easy, it’s really technical and there are a lot of ways to sound really, really bad.
Guess what else is cool, you can do a no-upcharge “rent to own” subscription for $5 a month where you can use the money you put in to buy preset packs..or eventually just save up the $80 to buy the pro version. Cool, right?
One last perk, Vital will totally run as VST/VST3 plugin like most other digital synthesizers..but it also has a standalone version which makes it really easy to get started without learning a whole bunch of other stuff before you get to what you want.
https://vital.audio/#getvital
- Send yourself a reminder in slack…
https://slack.com/help/articles/208423427-Set-a-reminder
- SOMETIMES debugging is just too much
What do we mean? Well, there was a situation where there was a debug.log() statement that had if statements wrapped around it – if logging level is debug, then debug.log(). That had Outlaw scratching his head – like this is totally unnecessary!!! There happened to be a good reason for it – the logging statement was doing some heavy string interpolation which means that statement was going to run all the necessary string formatting, then it was going to call the log method, and then once inside that log method it would all get thrown away, which points to potentially expensive operations that are being done for nothing. There may be times when relying on your log output level may not be enough to save you from some expensive tasks even though you might think otherwise.
