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Things learned in 2024, care packages, home library, and Notre Dame.

Best of 2024, LLMs as choose your own adventure, the guide to estimations, and the LED lights that blind you.

Bitcoin attacks, post-political feelings, principled, and newsletter recommendations.

AIs appear better than doctors, influencer presented news, Bob Lee's murder trial begins, and poetry from Mary Oliver.

Throw away that black spatula, fence sitting, web clipping made cool again, the rough parts of kubernetes, and a doggy election rigged.

Week notes are back. There's a backlog of content. We are mostly busy from moving, so these will be more sporadic. We cover election week, a warning from the EFF, a look BTS for Google's NootbookLM, and some more obits and recommendations.

Looking beyond ozempic, Dublic halloween hoax, my dive into fabrics, radical covenants, and obits.

A break in format - the quiet art of attention, conferences, vercel and microfront-ends, and some recommendations.

Strawberry debuts, Milton lands, as well as a Space X Rocket. We re-explore adult friendships, the northern lights, and how to love better.

OpenAI shake-ups and announcement for Canvas, Hurricane season with Helene and Milton, new Meta AR glasses, a AI regulatory blow, Stackblitz bolt, and RIP Kris Kristofferson.

The Mom Test, making 50 things, 100 Days of Note-Taking, Crowdfunding a new country, WP Engine debacle, Duocon, Hyperkey, and surviving the misinformation age.

Light because of house hunting. Churn, o1 news, Founder Mode reviewed, so long ad support, designing for your appropriate user size, and surviving misinformation.

o1, Cursor, Townie, Software bookshelf, Senja, Postgres with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, unexpected endorsements, heightened security, and Mystery celebrity number six. RIP James Earl Jones.

Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.

!!Con 2024 recap, DIY Zines, the two-shot, Following Crypto's issues, How Townie was built, Listeria outbreak in Boar's Head, and RFK Jr. being someone's drug dealer. Also, a bunch of book recommendations.

The Mike Lynch mystery, follow-ups from Burn Book, FLUX.1, doing the hard work instead of trusting AI, effective changelogs, and asteroid mining seeing the light of day.

Bye bye, Chromecast, creating a personal Data Pipeline, heed the warnings of joining AI research, the new AI image generation king - Flux, a map of all bookstores, quitting spotify and starting self-hosting, and RIP Gena Rowlands.

Current reading notes on Burn Book and Frostbite. Gallery of concept visualizations, transforming national park maps, how others use AI, doing quests, not goals, Intel’s Immiseration, going back on the high wire, and the first fitbit.

Playing with htmx and migrating to the latest version of Ideaverse Pro. Using SQLite in CSV mode, bento slides, quantization visualized, and AI Friend domain sale. Using Little Sis, a photo of Gabriel Medina, Olympics long-term injuries, and welcoming Breaking.

A news break this week. Some old tidbits like the ten commandments of egoless programming, solitude and leadership. Some new things about knowledge management at NASA, visual programming, engaging over showing. Alexa is losing billions, and how large scale order emerges from complex systems.

Taking a break from the politics talk this week as there are too many things to be enraged about, we look instead around the technosphere. City walks, reading A System for Writing and coming up new ideas for my workflow, choosing boring technology, looking at new Claude dev and engineer, and how story points being pointless. Around the globe, we examine the 100 books of the 21st century, where the blogs are at, no more free weather reports, the Olympics costumes for summer 2024, and recreating Bell Labs today.

Negative vibes from the media's stream of political turmoi, the AI threshold, NYT React 18 migration, Ladybird, Chemical recycling, loneliness from a low-ranking tennis player, and Bark Air - the airlines for dogs.

Camp NaNoWriMo, blog updates, consulting firms are winning at AI, embeddings using Pokemon as an example, programming advice and beliefs, RIP Bill Cobbs and Martin Mull, why modern refridgerators don't last, and excitement for The Second short film.

jscodeshift notes, Dengue risk warning, SCOTUS latest rulings including overruling Chevron Doctrine, Dell's backlash for return-to-office, pop-up villages, Netflix's culture memo, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Perplexity AI lying about their user agent, senior engineer fatigue, creating my first VSCode snippet, cutting an onion, and RIP Donald Sutherland and Willie Mays.

Keeping a dev journal, book recommendations, how computers reduce efficiency, introduction to jhanas, some podcast notes about AI companies, and how do dogs see color.

A change in format for weekly notes. Local rumblings like H5N1, international splashes with China's Internet disappearing, could AI solve science, the smart web could use our support, and engineering the slow internet from a user from Antarctica.

Just Married!

Bye bye, corporate open source, spaced repetition explained as a in cartoon, cyberattacks on healthcare, AI Developer marketing ploy?, and a bunch of lay-offs and obits.

Neopets revival, TikTok ban, how Dave Pescoe stays young, scenes of pro-Palestine protests, and phantom islands.

Editing Advice, advice advice, second passports, sign posting, load balancing visualized, Figma's framework 2024, and the Hyperkey.

Film finds, SunoAI, Boeing and the Suicide Mission, Debugger's Toolkit, and OJ.

April Fools Round-up, primer on .xz hack, the web dev market, Taiwan's earthquake, and the sad stories about the A's move.

On Robert Caro, Obits, people ruining the Internet (thanks SEO), Facebook and Netflix were in bed with your DMs, and the Baltimore Bridge fiasco.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

How to be not distracted, blizzards in California, local-first movement, and emembering David Bordwell and Akira Toriyama.

What's new with React, Not a Designer, Meeting again after 77 years, Scale yourself, and happy leap day.

Time on the Doomsday Clock, Personal website spaces, and AT&T outage.

Mini website updates and reflecting on digital creativity and curation. Better thinking tools, the role of luck, productivity loss on Apple Vision Pro, jQuery v4.0, SORA, and the 7 C's of consulting.

Learning Models, Getting Fired live on TikTok, last week's storm, the boring stack, and recontrer.

Obsidian gems of 2023, another terrible thing happened in Florida, restoring children deafness, giant parasol could alleviate Global Warming, and Tailwind criticism.

Getting excited about Chess, Shiny object syndrome, Viral Tunnels, and GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer.

Impact of 23andMe data breach, Pocketbase, how Apple built iCloud, and AlphaGeometry.

Stanley Cups Out of Stock, a guide to ZIRP, displaced jobs from AI, and the reason there's no improvement on rebuilding Lahaina.

New Year for digital movies, digital nomad history, and Dunky's guide to streaming services.

My fiancée's article, PHOLEDs, fall of the American Chestnut, EVs in China, and how the US is not normal

Holidays - weekly notes including Trump's Disqualification tracker, the mysterious cough, and are outliners ruining our thinking process?

The Advent of Code, Ologies, a history of Taquerias in Redwood City, and things hackers once knew

Henry Kissinger dies at 100, exaggerations from an AI Founder, interview w/ Emma Chamberlain, and 23andMe hacked

Post-Thanksgiving reflections, respiratory illness, Charles Munger, Q*, and reflections on Rust that wasn't

Thanksgiving week, packed with 4D Chess, EA vs. e/aa, Data Viz Guidelines, American Symphony, and an electric home composter.

Resonance calendars, how long can you keep things in the fridge, James Webb Telescope images, long Covid, and OpenAI drama

Closing of downtown Berkeley cinemas, the pains of daylight savings, EFTs, and Tyson recall

Health updates, Song Embeds, and SRE Lessons

Of dishwashers, starting NaNoWriMo, the pangenome, workflows and mental models

Sharing your calm, freewriting, the myth of learning styles, and dealing with conflict from 2 UC Berkeley professors.

Return from Strangeloop, OSM Topo Map, Dying Languages, and Martin Kleppmann

No relief from nasal decongestant, depression support list