2025 Week 03 - Weekly Notes
Notes
Some news articles from this past week
- US Norovirus cases: One chart shows why everyone is barfing right now | Vox
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 | MIT Technology Review
- āSchool of Rock āsweethearts Caitlin Hale and Angelo Massagli are married ā and the cast reunited to celebrate
- Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump
- DeSantis appointee to university board says women should become mothers, not pursue higher ed | WUSF
- PDF: Jack Smith to the people of the US -Ā Final Report on the Special Counselās Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One
- āStomach bugā cases surging in the Bay Area in biggest spike in years
- FBI raids home of San Leandro councilman | KTVU FOX 2
As it feels like the world turns inward, Iām going to try to take the opposite approach and meet people again.
Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs AI | Harimus blog
- sometimes what we as humans think is hard is not actual to robots. The inverse is similar
Iāve been messing around with Cursor AI a bit this week, thanks to some Egghead videos.
- Search All of GitHubās Code and Pass the Results to AI Agents in Cursor | egghead.io
- The composer tool is really powerful
- Generate Custom .cursorrules for Your Project Based on Community Examples | egghead.io
Browse for me. Can you export the playwright code after running so you can?
What the author is noting is there are no climate refugees because we are all at some climate risk, which is made worse with climate change. He lived through the 1978 fires where his father would hose down the house in case the nearby fires spread. Itās also an ode to the Palisades. Also, thereās an action plan at the end on how to be more fire resistant.
Two articles about living with chronic pain. I wanted to see what these five things are and how we can shift public attitudes
- Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses - The New York Times
- Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. Itās Time for a Revolution. - The New York Times
I read through this and am convinced Matt Mullenweg is on some trip no one else wants to be on. To rip apart the ideals of open source and make things more closed to the community tell me his own ideals have shifted.
Iām curious about this video. Novati no longer works at Meta. He is credited for the most number of commits, which should always be taken with a grain of salt. Iām sure they will talk about develop productivity.
An excerpt of the new Tim Ferriss book is out
Huh the tea rooms directory eh?
Recommended
A sleeper podcast that should be looked at. Birbiia interviews Ira Glass 3 times
New podcast from PJ from Reply All (even if that ended poorly). Ira Glass episode is worth listening to
This short film: The Second
Podcast recommendation from Alex Steffen for the Snap Forward
This new OK Go music Video
Obits
Perry the Donkey, Model for āShrek,ā Dies at 30 - The New York Times
This one hits a cord. Itās time to re-watch Mulholland Dr David Lynch - It is with deep regret that we, his family, announceā¦ | Facebook
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