chunter.me

Developers

For all developers out there at any stage. My #1 recommendation to everyone, regardless of language your using is: You need your "App" or "Project" that you can constantly go back to it and play with, re-build, try new things, try new languages, ect. As well if you can tie it into a hobby of yours and use it in your daily life, just makes it that much better.

For me, that's Kaizen Archives: archives.chunter.me, project, my personal Anime/Manga tracker. I'm a huge anime junkie and watch more than anyone should, lol. I started in 2006 right after I did my first web courses in college. It started as a ASP.Net Web Forms 2.0 no database or anything just raw hand coded pages. It's been through who know how many iterations and since then, with it, I've used: HTML4, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, BlackBerry Web Works, Win Forms, APIs, SQL Server, Supabase (Postgres), Azure Data Tables, IndexDB, LocalStorage, NPM, PNPM, Gulp, JSON, YAML, Multiple ASP.Net Web Form free hosting, custom domains, Azure App Services, Azure Key Vault, Azure Static Web Apps, Azure Functions, Photoshop, Cloudinary, Tailwind, Bootstrap, BootstrapVue, Headless UI, PrimeVue, MyAnimeList, VB.Net, C#, TypeScript, ASP.Net 6+ (Core), C# Console Apps, PhoneGap (before Apache Cordova), Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Brackets.io, Notepad++, SVN, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Vercel ... and I've probably missed a few. I'll never stop updating, trying things and re-building it.

I've also got a couple other projects I keep re-building. This site for instance is on version 6 and has only been live (production) since version 4 (2023), haha.

Books

All I used to wanted to do was just code and nothing else... Well that all changed when I started reading some of the business books recommended at a couple of the Aptify Conferences... Everything changed. These books changed the way I think and moved me up from just being the developer to wanting to be part of the entire organization.

Podcasts

This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte's long standing weekly podcast reviewing the weeks tech news with rotating guest.
Windows Weekly, Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell reviewing the weeks Microsoft news.
Intelligent Machines, Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau and Jeff Jarvis meeting the pioneers, inventors, and innovators at the forefront of this exciting field.
The WAN Show from LTT with Linus and Luke.
Run as Radio, is a weekly podcast for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products..

Blogs

Engadget - Everything tech.
Daily Dev - Personalized curated feed of all sorts of developer/tech topics.
Thurrott - Paul Thurrott, long long time Microsoft reporter.
Neowin - Everything tech.
Microsoft Developer Blogs - In the name, Microsoft developer focused articles.
GitHub Blogs - Some interesting stuff from GitHub.
Consoles - Weekly reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
DEV Community - Everything software development.

Videos

PluralSight is excellent! It's one of the best resources for developers/IT staff member period.
Theo - t3.gg Dev nerd (primarily Typescript full stack) YouTuber, entrepreneur, creator of t3 app and t3chat (AI chat app I actually like and use).
Nick Chapsas .Net YouTube. Excellent easy to follow live example videos. A great follow for .Net developers.

Conference