2024 Week 12 - Weekly Notes

• Introducing the next generation of Claude
  • I switched over, but the limits are so much more than ChatGPT. I’m going to see what happens after a month
• New JS runtime (WinterJS) - 1.0 announcement
  • Under Wasmer
  • Amazon’s LLRT - solving the cold start problem
  • Cloudflare’s workerd, which might not be the fastest, but also tries to solve the coldstart problem. Announcement
  • Now WinterJS came out, so let’s see
• Florida Train Rides Can Get You to Multiple Airports
• How I keep myself Alive using Golang
• April 4, 2024: Planetary alignment in the morning
• Help me understand towel terminology - Ask Metafilter (An old but good thread)
  • Archived version of the towel article
• Book ban efforts spike across US, new data shows: By the numbers
• Mike Pence Should Be the Biggest Story of the 2024 Campaign
• NYTimes - What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People’ Said About Him
• Astro DB: A Deep Dive
  • Planetscale talking about expand and contract migration - Safely making database schema changes
  • Prisma DB Push - an alternative to database migrations
  • Used by Planetscale (and Drizzle)
  • Turso is SQLite for production
    • Which is technically libSQL
      • libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
• Reflections from 40 years of programming
• Economist Tyler Cowen Explains Why AI Won’t Be the Revolution We Expect
• Pokémon GO: Architecture of the #1 AR Game in the World
• LLMs are not enough… why chatbots need knowledge representation | Anj Simmons
• The New York Times - Jonathan Kozol Is Still Fighting for Equal Schools With His Last Book
• Financial Times - Telegram hits 900mn users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO
• The New York Times - The Colorblind Campaign to Undo Civil Rights Progress
• Million Lint is in public beta | Million.js
• Cal Poly SLO: St. Fratty’s Day parties trash campus buildings | San Luis Obispo Tribune
  • Two things: (1) I had no idea Cal Poly is no longer a dry campus and (2) as much as I disliked the dorms, it doesn’t deserved to be trashed
• AI and Design Systems | Brad Frost
• How to Start Google
• Anthropic’s Prompt library
• AWS acquires Talen’s nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
• What to Know About the Clean Auto Rule: It’s Not a Ban on Gas Cars
• Therapy lesson: It’s better to be effective than being correct
  • Does it feel better to be correct? Most times no
• Pretending to be PostgreSQL: Part one
• How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
• myme.no - Produce, Don’t Consume
• When in doubt on where to find an article, use archive.is
• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story - by Steven Levy for Wired
• Glassdoor users urged to flee site after real names added
• Stability AI Is Falling Apart
• Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
• Github - ditn/interviewprep: A Obsidian.md markdown vault containing all of the study notes I made whilst prepping to interview in Summer 2021.
• Maryanne Wachter - Building OSS Map Apps With Observable Framework
• Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing - Redis no longer open source

Videos this week

• Instead of vertical format, which classes might tend to be presented with, you rewrite your concepts and smaller shots, especially when there’s a lot of information filled out to you lecture. This might be really good for understanding how to better study, especially when you go back to memorizing things for an exam and you Have to get better at the studying part of studying prepare for an exam