Tftjs: Blowing out the hotel wifi, My new job, LangChain4j, and more
Tales from the jar side, for the week ending May 6, 2024! My talks at NFJS in Boston that crashed the hotel wifi, I have a new job as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Trinity College, the LangChain4j framework turns one year old, and the usual tweets and toots :)
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Welcome to Tales from the jar side! New newsletter every Sunday, new newsletter video every Monday, and additional technical videos (Java, Gradle, JUnit, Spring, and lots more) every week.
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▶️ Tella.tv: https://tella.tv/?via=tftjs
Tella is a great screen capture program. Very simple to use, but very powerful. :)
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This is a great program for transcribing videos and letting you edit them by editing the transcript. It also has several AI features like Studio Sound, Background Removal, Eye Tracking, Autodub, and more. I use it especially for YouTube Shorts.
▶️ TubeBuddy: https://www.tubebuddy.com/pricing?a=t...
This is about the best tool around for giving you statistics on YouTube videos.
▶️ CleanShot: https://cleanshot.sjv.io/Tftjs
I use this as my primary way of making screenshots. You can save them locally or to the cloud, crop and do other edits, add backgrounds, and more.
▶️ Manning Publications: https://www.manning.com/?utm_source=m...
This is where my first book, "Making Java Groovy", was published, but you can use the link for any Manning books
00:00 - Welcome to Tales from the jar side!
01:40 - The Perils of Hotel Wifi
07:26 - My new job at Trinity
22:31 - What this means for jarheads
27:52 - Tweets and Toots
30:40 - Bad Dad Joke
