2024 Week 15 - Weekly Notes

I’ve been enjoying micro-blogging a lot more than I anticipated. It lowers the barrier for writing a quick post and sharing it. An essay is something that is a much heavier lift, and goes through many edits before I publish.

• Film finds:
  • Eastern European Movies in English Online - I didn’t know there was a subscription service. Plus, there are separate services for Soviet and Asian movies.
  • Same goes for 35mm.online
  • Criterion Channel presents: Criterion24/7
    • Reminding us all it can be like cable all over again :)
• Readwise got a major facelift. Loom: Using the new left panel on web
• A true WTF moment with Suno AI - Bob Ross Love Letter
  • I didn’t realize where we were with AI-generated music.
• Besides the Fuzzy Search, VSCode also now has locked scrolling when you have two windows side by side
• I’ve been listening to the podcast, Shit You Don’t Learn in School. There are a lot of gems, especially around finding business ideas. I might take the patent one at some point
  • Also, if anyone would like to collaborate with me for a potential business idea brainstorm, let me know
• There’s a waitlist for Ali Abdaal’s Productivity Lab. I’m debating it
• untrack.link - Privacy Link Redirect
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking - Someone let me know how this worked for them
• The American Prospect - Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
• Age Gap Relationships: The Case for Marrying an Older Man
  • I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. Comments are a brutal
• The lifecycle of a code AI completion
  • I’m going to use this as a reference article for some AI apps I want to build
• High-Functioning Workaholism
  • I love the design of this website. I’m going to add it for my inspiration list.
• I collect Hacker News threads, and this one I came across really irked me, but something I can relate to.
  • Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
• The New York Times - How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
  • And its follow-up: Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
• The Library of Consciousness
• Releasing Common Corpus: the largest public domain dataset for training LLMs
• Managing Up: How to Meet The Unspoken Needs of Your Manager - Irina’s Version
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• Ben Morris - How to make architecture decisions
• Duolingo - What Is the Right Level of Difficulty in the Language You’re Learning?
• I’m tempted to try it.
  • Google Vids: Online Video Creator and Editor | Google Workspace
• Addy Osmani - The Debugger’s Toolkit
• Alexey Guzey - lifehacks
• Commoncog - The Tacit Knowledge Series
• About the Component Gallery
• Stephen Hay - I don’t care what Airbnb is doing. (And neither should you.)
• Martin Heinz - Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool
• The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
  • I gotta give these extremely niche articles
• Podcast: Solicited Advice with Alison Roman
• Pew Research Center - Americans increasingly using ChatGPT, but few trust its 2024 election information
• NPR - Consumer Reports asks USDA to pull Lunchables from school lunch menus
• Decoding Auto-GPT - Maarten Grootendorst
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• The UX of UUIDs | Unkey

Weekly Obits 🪦

• O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76 - ABC News

Videos

• I’m really tempted to write a short history of middle class travel and travelogues.