2024 Week 15 - Weekly Notes
Iāve 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 didnāt 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 didnāt 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
- Iāve been listening to the podcast, Shit You Donāt 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
- Thereās a waitlist for Ali Abdaalās Productivity Lab. Iām debating it
- untrack.link - Privacy Link Redirect
- Pi-hole ā 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
- Iām not entirely sure how I feel about this. Comments are a brutal
- The lifecycle of a code AI completion
- Iām 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. Iām 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.
- 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 - Irinaās Version
- Ben Morris - How to make architecture decisions
- Duolingo - What Is the Right Level of Difficulty in the Language Youāre Learning?
- Iām tempted to try it.
- Addy Osmani - The Debuggerās Toolkit
- Alexey Guzey - lifehacks
- Commoncog - The Tacit Knowledge Series
- About the Component Gallery
- Stephen Hay - I donāt 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
- The UX of UUIDs | Unkey
Weekly Obits šŖ¦
Videos
- Iām really tempted to write a short history of middle class travel and travelogues.