2024 Week 45 - Weekly Notes

This was election week. And frankly, one that was a hard pill to swallow. There are a range of responses, but I’m going to keep my head down as we move into our new place.

Federated Learning Coming

Lucy Bellwood and Scott McCloud created a comic about AI and privacy for Google.

Deceitful Manifest v3

EFF issued this: Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

Misc. Dev Related

Josh W. Comeau - A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

Bluesky Starter Pack - Diversify Tech: Starter Pack

• And Joel Hooks’ Starter Pack

Behind the product: Google’s NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

The architecture of a conference application built with Expo

Rohan Ganapavarapu - MOATs Aren’t Useful

Engineering Codex - 7 simple habits of the best engineers I know

Right to fix those McDonald’s Ice Cream machines

Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines - iFixit

Your News, Reduced Bias

Find Your News - Match me with nonprofit newsrooms

While nowadays I don’t read much from news websites, it’s really nice to find the hyperlocal websites that I am interested in.

On the feed

Newsletter (Substack) - Embedded by Nick Catucci - My Internet: Jasmine Sun - Jasmine is the Substack core product leader and Reboot cofounder

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian – The Marginalian

AI for Startups - Microsoft On the Issues - This is on re-evaluation given the election results

Vox - Denaturalization, explained: how Trump can strip immigrants of their citizenship

Obits

Quincy Jones dies: Music titan produced Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ among others | AP News

• Quincy Jones, In Conversation

Bernie Marcus, Home Depot Co-Founder, Is Dead at 95

Recommendations

Book - We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships by Kat Vellos

• And don’t forget the newsletter - The We Should Get Together Newsletter

Newsletter - Reboot

Newsletter - Dan Pfeiffer’s Substack - The Message Box