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Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar

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2024 Week 43 - Weekly Notes

I changed up the format last week. In a way, itā€™s a little more freeing because I donā€™t have to group everything with like things, necessarily. Plus, it gives me a chance to play around with looser organization.

With everything we have to move, most of my time and efforts at home at spent on that and not on the blog. Which makes sense - life sometimes has other priorities.

Bill Wear - the quiet art of attention

Dario Amodei - Machines of Loving Grace

Conferences IRL

Local Ghost - You should go to conferences

My general rule is to go to one in-person conference a year, if possible. Iā€™ve certainly met my quota this year with !!Con. There are some I think I want to go to next year if possible, but of course, travel is a lot of work too.

blarg - Press Onward

How to microfrontend

Vercelā€™s Blog - How Vercel adopted microfrontends

How Computers will use us

Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku \ Anthropic

Ars Technica - De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts

Callback to learning

Kevin Li - Learning to learn

Some important learnings from my 20 years of engineering life

Matrescence

ā€œMatrescence,ā€ and the Transformations of Motherhood | The New Yorker

Building as fast as I can

Streamlit ā€¢ A faster way to build and share data apps

Recommendation Corner

Two books cropped up this week

  1. Endurance: Shackletonā€™s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing and Nathaniel Philbrick
    • This came up because thereā€™s this YouTube channel I started exploring about going to speed running every BART station stop. The current time to beat is 5 hrs 10 mins. I created my own wiki page to see how crazy this is and where people have attempted these riding challenges. Turns out, there are so many. Also, this book is a reminder in creating challenges for ourselves.
  2. Never Play It Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love by Chase Jarvis
    • Iā€™ve read at least one of Chaseā€™s book

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