2024 Week 26 - Weekly Notes

I’ve changed the process in how I write these by placing all of the day’s note into this note and curating out the pieces that are clear they won’t make it to these weekly notes. It’s due to the random things we look up on a day-to-day basis that don’t matter on the weekly cadence. And it goes to show how much we leave out once we are done with our curation.

Personal Learning

• I’ve been trying to understand jscodeshift as React 19 is around the corner. With the help of Claude (and a little of ChatGPT, although their model was a lot worse) to explain how to crawl the AST. I wrote a stream about the trouble I went through
  • Here’s An Introduction to jscodeshift by Feifan

Societal

• Paper from 2017: Ed Gerrish and Shannon Lea Watkins - The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis
• NBC News - CDC warns of increased Dengue fever risk across the U.S.
• NPR - The brain makes lots of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
• The New York Times - Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine
  • It may depends on how discretionary and direct agencies have to be for it to be explicit vs implicit regulation.
  • Or, we could always have those agencies not listen to the court ruling and continue as they are operating until other court cases appear.

Tech Dev Related

• What a blow-back. Ars Technica - Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
• Octomind - Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
• Elicit - Adam Wiggins - Living documents as an AI UX pattern
• Scott Hanselman - Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%
• Leap Motion - Designing Single-handed Shortcuts for VR & AR
• Sunset Glow - Exposition of Frontend Build Systems
• Kent Beck - The Trough of Despair
• Greg Foster - From the 80’s to 2024 - how CI tests were invented and optimized
• Announcements at Figma Config 2024
  • What’s New in Figma
  • Slides (this might be a huge solution to design presentations)
  • Dev Mode updates
  • Code Connect
  • Figma AI
    • Make prototype
    • Visual search
    • Rename text
• Hugo Landau - The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
• Daniel Fedorin - Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites
• OpenAI’s CriticGPT - Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 | OpenAI
• SourceGraph describes A dev’s thoughts on developer productivity by talking about the inner vs. outer loops. Reminds me of the gestalt principles mixed with flow
• Johnathan Hills - Learning from popup villages

1% Better

• Discover 2nd Brain Setups
• Zvi Mowshowitz reflects On Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Go Team!

• Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the company’s new culture memo and ad ambitions - The Verge
  • Netflix culture memo there have been three of them one in 2009 2017 and 2024
    • It is a trifecta of culture, strategy, execution
    • 2009 - Culture (Original 2009 version) | PPT
    • 2017 - Culture At Netflix | Netflix Jobs
    • 2024 - Sharing Our Latest Culture Memo - About Netflix
  • Reed Hastings wrote a book based off the initial deck: No Rules Rules Book, along with co-author Erin Meyers

Recommendations

• Book: Chasing Fog - Finding Enchantment in a Cloud. A book by Laura Pashby
• Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter - by Liz Wiseman
• Book : Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
  • Recommendation comes from Sophie Fuji, who wrote “The book recounts how tourism took off in England. It concludes with the evolution of tourism from travel ‘regulating imagination with reality’ to ‘regulating reality with artifice’“.

Workouts to tune into

• The New York Times - A 20-Minute Core Workout for Strength and Stability

Of Video Interest

Cleo Abrams - Why Can’t Robots Check “I’m Not A Robot”?

Currently Logging

• Playing “Disney’s Dreamlight Valley”
• Started playing “Dave the Diver”
• Playing with my wife “Baldur’s Gate 3”