2025 Week 02 - Weekly Notes
Summary
Mostly a return to work this week. We ended the week going to a vinyl night at our local coffeehouse. And doing yard work during the weekend, leading up to the housewarming.
Notes
Iāve discovered a way in Obsidian to make it possible to create these notes much easier using a feature called transclusion. Thatās where you can link the contents of one note to another.
I found a redditor who did this for their monthly review reviewing the summaries. Iām hoping this weekly review process helps me out.
Birding! I loved Ed Yongās XOXO talk that I wanted to read through this article and get started with birding.
- Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place - The New York Times
- Yong talks about how to be a public persona both online and off-line. How do you behave and act around people who are trying to reach out to you? How do you mute them all because it can always feel like a floodgate?
Khan Academy now has a financial literacy course that I want to take!
This comedian reflects on how much focus time is spent on social media work like reels, shorts, and TikTok. Thatās a full time job instead of working on the art (comedy in this case)
Two from Sam Altman on reflecting about the year, and a Bloomberg focus on interviewing him. The reflection is about 2 years of ChatGPT.
I took a slow dive into RISC-V, which use an architecture that Framework is spearheading. If true, this could be huge in making modifications in the future where we only need to upgrade a little bit at a time. And can still be performant for a work machine. More to come.
Add this to the Zuckerberg Czar comment, and weāre right on track. Iāve heard it before and Iāll echo it again. Facebook doesnāt care about our privacy or trying to do good. Thatās a fact. They are in the profits business.
- Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates - The New York Times
The emerging wedges are: content generation, voice, verticalized search, and unstructured data parsing
This was a NYTimes article that goes through Jessica Harperās acting career and the twists and turns it took
Casual Viewing | Issue 49 | n+1 | Will TavlinĀ - an article about Netflix
- Netflix has disrupted the traditional film industry by prioritizing scale and subscriber growth over quality filmmaking.
- Netflix has abandoned traditional film marketing, instead relying on its algorithm to recommend films to viewers.
Egghead released a new video about using Cursor. Itās been a roll with these
- AI YOLO - Sit Back and Watch Cursor Automatically Run Terminal Commands | egghead.io
- Generate Charts from Current Events with Geminiās Structured Output and Code Execution | egghead.io
CES kicked off this week!
ValTown has a retro about competitor analysis and what they want to include in their own code editor
āHow I program with LLMsā - which helps me with understanding how I could be using LLMs as well. Really, thereās three ways this developer does it: autocomplete, search, and chat-driven programming. I already do all of these, and itās nice to see someone else break them down. Authored by David Crawshaw, co-founder of Tailscale
This is to remain no need features in 2025. I love the attitude.Ā htmxĀ doesnāt work for all use cases, but it sure has made it easier for prototype development
This is an easy test for PRs. āHow do you like the new behavior?ā This can help snuff out anything that I need to fix before releasing to production
The Palisades fires rage on, and have spread to Altadena
Martin Fowler talks at length about codemods
Slack talks about using puppeteer for accessibility testing
Dillon Shook, a developer, talks about getting laid off twice in one year. Thereās some job resources here too.
The DJI store has this camera, the Osmo Pocket 3, which focuses on you. Costs around $868, might be good to save up for in the future. Looks really cool
Iām not sure how this pairs with my current read of the biography of Judith Jones, but this is worrisome if true.
I submitted mine last year. Diving in, it looks like vitest is worth taking a look at.
Justice isnāt served.
James Altucher writes about writing down 10 ideas a day. I think I used this forĀ Idea GenerationĀ in the past. I donāt think generating ideas has been my shortfall. Itās the necessary follow-up required.
Flexoki is this color palette generator of sorts that fits with theĀ TailwindĀ scheme of 50 step increments. The output is specific to prose and code, so the colors are simply put for those aspects.
Nick Miloās failed year of sustainability
Work in terms of complexity versus complicated.
- ==Complexity refers to something that is hard to control and predict, while complicated refers to something that is difficult to understand==.
- Complicated might require a lot of parts, but it is knowable. Complex is not knowable.
Recommendations
Book recommendation:Ā Learn More Faster: How to find your bullseye customer and their perfect product
Recommended blog:Ā Human, being | Erin Nystrom | Substack
Human, Being is all about exploring and celebrating what it means to be human. I (hi šš»āāļø, Iām Erin) share musings and reflections, grounded by over a decade in the health and wellness space and guided by my insatiable curiosity about the human experience, on how we might be able to make the most out of our time here on Earth.
Movie: Flow (2024) - no dialogue animation that follows a cat that has to survive a flood. Along the way, the cat meets some other unexpected animals to face the flood. Warning: some sadness with animals (mostly no deaths, if you are worried about cats or dogs dying)
Podcast:Ā Road Journal #3: Midnight in Provo - by Lea Thau
Newsletter: Escape to the Bookshop | Sarah Bringhurst Familia | Substack
Iām documenting my quest to start a tiny bookshop on a cobblestone street in a quaint hill-town in Umbria. Narni is a place of long, light-filled days, birds crying overhead, cats napping on warm stone. Itās a magical city where dreams feel like they might just come true.
Written by Jeremy Wong and published on .