2024 Week 13 - Weekly Notes

Honestly, I didn’t know there was a community called Web of Weeknotes that posts on Medium and gets picked up by this filter. Right on. I stopped posting on Medium after everything got locked up in paywalls. I don’t feel right having to make people pay for a platform they don’t own. I thought freely writing on a platform means you should be able to share it with anyone. But then again, this isn’t Blogger or LiveJournal of yesteryear.

• 99 Percent Invisible’s Mini-series: The Power Broker #01: Robert Caro
  • What’s interesting is when they mentioned the two party system in the early 1900s was not all that much different.
    • Progressivism wasn’t a thing yet, or was still its own party
  • Presidents were giving people jobs. The merit system wasn’t a thing yet either. Robert Moses wanted to enact a point-based system (much like how we use algorithms today)
• The Verge’s Amanda Chicago Lewis reports The people who ruined the internet
  • Which prompted this podcast on Decoder: Why Google Search feels like it’s gotten worse with Mia Sato
    • House Fresh — How Google is killing independent sites like ours
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• The New York Times - A New Chapter for Sports Illustrated, With Plans to Keep Print
• Github - Awesome OSINT
  • OSINT = Open Source Intelligence
  • OSINT Wikipedia article
  • OSINT Framework
  • Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources. In the intelligence community (IC), the term “open” refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources)
• Humanitarians of Tinder - Who knew humanitarians were so “hot”
• Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory Of Cognitive Development
• The New York Times - Israel-Hamas Live Updates: UN Security Council Passes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
• Menu Bar Customization
  • Go to System Settings -> General -> Login Items -> Allow in Background
  • Here’s a link that can walkthrough this
• Simon Trevarthen on Medium - Leadership in a Box: 3 Rs “Results, Relationships, and Reputation”
• Showcase: Using Eagle to manage images and video in Obsidian and more with Jason Storey
• Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit | Ars Technica

By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users’ private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients). … In August 2013, Facebook provided Netflix with access to its so-called “Titan API,” a private API that allowed a whitelisted partner to access, among other things, Facebook users’ “messaging app and non-app friends.”

• Valkey: The Open Source Alternative to Redis Backed by AWS, Google, Oracle - Cyber Kendra
• How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU - IEEE Spectrum
• Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it
• Andrei N. Ciobanu - My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try
• Who Is Podcast Guest Turned Star Andrew Huberman, Really?
• The New York Times - Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Coast Guard Ends Search for 6 Missing Workers
• The State of Engineering Productivity in 2024 📊

Obit Watch ⏱️🪦

Honestly, I’m not depressed. I remember Austen Kleon’s book inspired me to read more obituaries. There’s some notable people (and throw in an aspect of design) that have passed away this past week.

• The New York Times - Joe Lieberman, Senator and Vice Presidential Nominee for Candidate, Dies at 82
• The New York Times - Louis Gossett Jr., 87, Dies; ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’ Actor
• tonsky.me - In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox - This brings me back to the old terminal screens at my library
• The New York Times - Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
• The New York Times - Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90

The 2 pillars of strong relationships: High expectations and high support.
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High expectations are the belief that the other person is capable of excellence, that their potential is only limited by their own views. High support is the ability and willingness to provide the love, support, and engagement to help the person meet those high expectations. Both are necessary to achieve a strong relationship.

— Sahil Bloom

Notable Videos

• I didn’t realize how relatively new this all was with our switch to Natural Gas. And how much we’re shipping. This “bridge” seems quite permanent to me.