Random find of the day. This Github repo gives us a Blockbuster Video VHS insert template. I made one of The Matrix.
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- 2024 Week 39 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
- 2024 Week 38 - Weekly NotesPosted
Light because of house hunting. Churn, o1 news, Founder Mode reviewed, so long ad support, designing for your appropriate user size, and surviving misinformation.
- 2024 Week 37 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
- 2024 Week 36 - Weekly NotesPosted
Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.
- 2024 Week 35 - Weekly NotesPosted
!!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.
Filed: βπΌ Writing - Newsletter - An Ode to the Seasonal PlaylistPosted
Newsletter - We dive into my decade long habit of creating seasonal music playlists and lament on how music streaming services have made it harder to find and create original mixtapes.
Filed: βπΌ Writingπ newsletter season_4 - 2024 Week 34 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
- Blockbuster SVGPosted
- 2024 Week 33 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
Filed: βπΌ Writing - EnshittificationPosted
Enshittification is when your product degrades over time because the company has spent more time squeezing out of the competition and curbing regulation. The product is gradually becoming less self-service and the employees no longer care about the product better.
- Personal Data PipelinePosted
Josh Cunningham wrote a piece called Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline. I started exploring his project, pdpl-cli, which helps you download your personal data and pipe it out to your desired output. Iβve been thinking extensively about this problem for a number of weeks now since Iβve exported my Google Contacts into Obsidian. However, with the lack of database support, I thought about self hosting it. Enter the Personal Data Pipeline.
Itβs essentially ETL jobs with integrations to third party services to βrecipesβ that you can write in yaml and customize to your desired outputs. I think this helps a lot more than determining data schemas for specific third party data integrations and having the raw data in a personal data lake. (Or really maybe a document store).
The idea is to have it local-first and maybe include a sync-thing or cloud syncing as an optional add-on. Thereβs an emphasis on privacy, although my bigger fear is vendor lock-in. Iβve become so reliant on Google, Apple, and other services that I donβt feel like I own my personal data anymore. Also, as a web developer, the hardest part is grabbing my own data from the sticky hands of these cloud services. Also, this emphasis on files over apps makes a lot more sense to me than the walled garden approach weβve become accustomed to.
Filed: π° Stream - 2024 Week 32 - Weekly NotesPosted
Current reading notes on Burn Book and Frostbite. Gallery of concept visualizations, transforming national park maps, how others use AI, doing quests, not goals, Intelβs Immiseration, going back on the high wire, and the first fitbit.
- 2024 Week 31 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
- Newsletter - Summer AblazePosted
Newsletter - We talk about the fires and the heat. I share some website updates with the home page. Then we go over Hushpuppies and consulting. Finally, I give a recap of what I'm currently reading - Frostbite.
Filed: βπΌ Writingπ newsletter season_4 - 2024 Week 30 - Weekly NotesPosted
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.
Filed: βπΌ Writing - TypstPosted
Typst is βa new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.β
It seems very interesting as an alternative to LaTeX. A lot of emphasis on typesetting. I havenβt gotten the chance to work with LaTeX, so Iβd be curious if jumping over that and learning this might be a good alternative. Plus, it has a multiplayer feature built.
Check out their Github, written in Rust.
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Newsletter Series
I have put back together my newsletter after years of absense! These are primarily updates on my blog, "Craft By Zen", and maybe some highlights to the new articles I've written. There might be some life updates as well. I'm doing away with the old format of weekly longform essays, and trying some new things with my newsletter.