2024 Week 11 - Weekly Notes

I did a really big re-write of my contacts in my personal rolodex, which I covered as part of a blog post I wrote recently. I was thinking about dissecting this further and exploring what next avenues to do with that. I was super curious what other people had to say about this topic, but it led to further discussion about how it relates to sales and marketing for their business. Or focuses on a specialized tool, like Monica. I have a few notes about this that I could also share as well.

In other news, my sleep has been destroyed again by springing forward for Day Light Savings, and I can’t seem to get to bed at a consistent hour. And I’m out of shape, as proven by running and biking again. Going full speed after stopping for a long interval was not a great idea.

Notable of the week

• Gleam - Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale!
  • Running on the battle-tested Erlang virtual machine that powers planet-scale systems such as WhatsApp and Ericsson, Gleam is ready for workloads of any size.
  • I went through the language tour, and for the most part, it was straight forward. I learned about tail calls as recursion is used for looping.
  • Results are another thing I can’t really grapple with yet. As well as the left-handed arrow syntax for use, but I’m sure if I work with some Erlang, it will make more sense.
• Instagram as a dating app
  • I always wondered about that, especially when it came to “sliding into your DMs”.
• Interintellect - Attend or host conversations online and offline. The art of the French literary salon reimagined.
• Datasets at Hugging Face: fka/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
• OpenAI’s response to Elon Musk
• Nothing Should Be Running On “Life Support”
• Local-First Web Development
• On picking side-projects | Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate.
• The New York Times - Strong Winds Moved a Lake in Death Valley Two Miles
• Lernu - for learning Esperanto
  • A multilingual site for learning the international language Esperanto
• The Power of Framework Thinking
• Politico - How Raw Milk Went from a Whole Foods Staple to a Conservative Signal
• Cheap Charts - Movie and TV show sales
• Optimizing Technical Docs for LLMs | kapa.ai docs
• Rolldown
• Publishing an Obsidian vault with Hugo - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Astro DB
• Andrew Kean Gao reviewing an early access of Devin
• Runway ML
  • Runway is an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity.
• Python farming could offer one of the most sustainable sources of meat in the world, according to a new study 👀
• A Collection of Design Engineers
  • This list of 10 design engineers are really fucking cool. Need to put this in a note
• And Draw Fast
  • Uses Fal.ai, and specifically their Optimized Latent Consistency (SDv1.5) model that uses Stable Diffusion in the background
  • $10 starting cost gets you pretty far too. I got 82 requests, and it will go up to 5000, which is pretty good
• Bartosz Ciechanowski - Airfoil - This demonstration of physics and static/dynamics shows so much
  • It reminds me of the simulation work from my friend Teagan had about Computational Fluid Dynamics all of those years ago
• Why Databases Won’t Charge for Storage in the Future
• DHH - Developers are on edge
• The end of the MrBeast era - Jimmy Donaldson warped YouTube in his image — but YouTube is warping him back
• Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
• The Browser Company Values - Notes on “Values” Roadtrips
• Open Canvas Working Group on X

Videos of the week

The resources in this video are legit and should be read through