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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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The Death Star... Who's To Blame
In this special Star Wars episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga debate the most catastrophic cybersecurity and IT Operations fail in the history of the Universe! The Death Star was the Empire’s ultimate secret weapon–a terrifying, moon-sized,…
Why Do Programming Paradigms Matter?
This is the episode where Chunga gets to help everyone gaze into the spook alley that is the mind of Thomas Hatch. The Hacks are getting philosophical and asking the question, “Why Do Programming Paradigms Matter?” Why does the language of software…
Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI and the broader US Government have conducted and concluded a multi-year study, beginning in 2016. The purpose of this study was to alert and provide better technical guidance for IT…
The State of "XOps"
Tom and Chunga may have just created the next, big, industry buzz term called “XOps” So… What is it? What does it mean? Basically, XOps is an umbrella term used to describe the generalized factions of all IT disciplines. Xops goes back to the root,…
Becoming a Rockstar Software Developer
Chunga got an email from a listener a few days ago asking Tom a question. This person some advice on becoming a rockstar software developer. The global pandemic has changed the lives of every single person on this planet in just a few short weeks. For…
What Aspects of Software Development Matter the Most?
Chunga is fairly new to the IT Automation industry. Even though he’s new, he can still hold his own in most cases. However, this episode of The Hacks has him feeling like he’s completely out of his league, why? He and Tom are talking about which…