2024 Week 37 - Weekly Notes

This week was relatively quiet as my wife and I are house hunting.

Raise the Technosphere

• I guess move over AirTable? Here comes Confluence databases
• Cursor Raised $60M and is hiring
  • I tried cursor. I see its capabilities. I’m not sure how much I care to use it at this moment. Might be helpful when coding new projects. Let’s see.
• Free Public APIs
• ValTown - How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps
• FreeCodeCamp - What’s on my software engineering bookshelf
• Paul Graham’s Founder Mode
• Unraid | Unleash Your Hardware
• Senja - Collect, Manage and Share Testimonials
• Dynamicland intro - by Bret Victor
• Doug Turnbull - Your company needs Junior devs
• Crunchy Data Blog - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Postgres Style
• Egghead Podcast - Nitro, Vinxi, and RSCs - What’s Good with Dev Agrawal
• UnJS: Unleash JavaScript’s Potential
• OpenAI o1 Hub | OpenAI - Released this past week with reasoning
  • Learning to Reason with LLMs | OpenAI
• FreecodeCamp - How AI Agents Can Help Supercharge Language Models – A Handbook for Developers

Around the world

• Reuters - Dick Cheney says he will vote for Kamala Harris - Today in upside-down land…
• PMC - Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal
• Molly Reeder - Some of my favorite things…
• The New York Times - Reddit’s Celebrity Number Six Leticia Sarda Had No Clue She Was Viral
• MSN - ‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’
• The New York Times - Time to Say Goodbye to the B.M.I.?
• The New York Times - How Elon Musk’s Security Detail Has Grown Following Death Threats and Stalkers

Obits

• James Earl Jones Dead: Darth Vader Voice, Lion King Star Was 93