Earlier this year, I wrote a piece for the Stack Overflow Blog, slightly clickbait-y titled Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one. I also had a chance to discuss it with Ben and Ryan on the Stack Overflow podcast.

Today’s tools allow developers to be more productive than ever.

As a little fun side project, I’ve started a new YouTube Channel called One Minute Max. The basic idea is to produce a series of one minute long videos to demonstrate how quickly it’s possible now to write and deploy code and get something out.

Here’s my first playlist, Building and deploying an ASP.NET Core app with Docker containers - in 5 minutes:

The Commodore 64 (my first real computer) was released in 1982, so basically in the bronze age of computing. It’s far from dead though: more than 35 years later, there’s still an large active community out there, even developing new games and apps for it. A while back, I asked a Stack Overflow question about a Commodore Basic quirk which has always bothered me as a teenager, and of course I got an answer.