2024 Week 17 - Weekly Notes

With the protests happening on US university and college campuses, I want to give some time and pause to reflect on what’s going on nationwide. There’s a lot of political discourse and turmoil over the past month, and I might mix some politics with the next few weekly notes.

Note: this week and next week my notes might be late due to some last minute wedding planning.

• The Guardian - How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months - I did wonder if my Neopets have survived since 2001. One has to wonder, and I no longer have access to those accounts.
• A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (Matthew Green) - A quick post on Chen’s algorithm. A primer on Chen’s algorithm for quantum cryptography, although as of this writing, a bug has been discovered within it.
• A checklist to setup for larger projects by Alex Kladov - Basic Things
• Nadia Asparouhova writing in Asterisk - Manufacturing Bliss. I read her book, Working in Public. This seems to be a wildly different article about jhanas meditation and some Bay Area practitioners. Interesting read.
• Mackenzie Morehead - Is Attention All You Need?
• Ash Newman - Stop Acting Like You’re Famous - It’s a practice I think about when starting a small project
• The New York Times - How TikTok Changed America
  • Dear President Biden - Great letter. Terrible ending. He didn’t listen to the TikTok ban. Welp.
• The New York Times - A High School Reunion Reignites a 50-Year Crush
• The Atlantic - Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life
• Sequoia Capital - The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
• Max Hertan on X - Dave Pascoe is 61. Yet his epigenetic age is only 37. He’s aging at an annual rate of 0.66, narrowly outpacing Bryan Johnson. Here’s a breakdown of his biohacking protocol and how much it costs (it’s WAY less than you think
  1. Sleep - get 8 hours of sleep. No alarm. Previously using supplements: BIOOptimizers Sleep Breakthrough
  2. Exercise - Multiple times a day to remove cellular waste buildup and improve glucose and insulin regulation
     • BEMER (bio-electric-magnetics-energy-regulation) mat session to improve blood flow
     • Followed by circuit, then late morning CAROL (CARdiovascular. Optimization Logic) bike sprint, P90X, and TapoutXT for core
     • Evening balance board for body balance
  3. Nutrition - clean foods, proteolytic enzymes for enhanced digestion and nutrient absorption
  4. Supplementation - the man takes over 150 supplements daily. Holy crap!
     • Dave Pascoe - My Supplement List
  5. Limited environmental exposure
     • Filtered water and air
     • No toxins from daily use products, cookware
     • Limit exposure to exhaust, fumes, air fresheners, etc.
  6. Infrared Sauna - 25-45 minutes
  7. Cold Exposure - cold plunges and cold living spaces to reduce inflammation and improve immunity
• The New York Times - Golden Visa Programs, Once a Boon, Lose Their Luster - Spain to remove their Golden Visa program
• Chip Huyen - Measuring personal growth
• Benedict Evans - Looking for AI use-cases
• wesbos/hot-tips: The code behind my hot tips - I’m thinking of creating something similar. I started it called magic sand
• Val Town - Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript. Build APIs and schedule functions from your browser.
• The (Frontend||UI||UX) Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024
• Alex Steffen - The Snap Forward - Ruggedize Your Life.
• The New York Times - Scenes of Protests at Columbia, Yale, M.I.T. and N.Y.U.
  • The Atlantic - The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
  • The Irish Times - Gazans venting anger against Hamas in wake of death and destruction
• Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. - For some reason, I thought I was the only diligent one. Looks like others have caught on.
• Engineer’s Codex - 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
• Michał Poczwardowski - On Generating Ideas
• Daniel Hooper - Good Ideas in Computer Science
• Vicki Boykis - Redis is forked
• Syntax #759 - How to Easily Explore Coding Ideas
• The Cinematrix: Vulture’s Daily Movies Grid Game
• The Guardian - McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work
• Edward Zitron - The Man Who Killed Google Search
• Reuters - IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand in cloud - Welp Terraform
• NessLabs - 4 science-backed ways to build your own mental gym

There are still islands that are fake being debunked in the last decade?