Craft By Zen

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  • Newsletter - The Sisyphean Task of Writing
    Posted

    Newsletter - Why writing can be so difficult and an exploration of streaks. We talk about the two latest books I read and end on a somber note about note-taking for books.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– newsletter   season_4
  • 2024 Week 39 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    The Mom Test, making 50 things, 100 Days of Note-Taking, Crowdfunding a new country, WP Engine debacle, Duocon, Hyperkey, and surviving the misinformation age.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   websites   bitcoin   misinformation   AR
  • 2024 Week 38 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Light because of house hunting. Churn, o1 news, Founder Mode reviewed, so long ad support, designing for your appropriate user size, and surviving misinformation.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   books
  • 2024 Week 37 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    o1, Cursor, Townie, Software bookshelf, Senja, Postgres with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, unexpected endorsements, heightened security, and Mystery celebrity number six. RIP James Earl Jones.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   books   postgres   security
  • 2024 Week 36 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   music   biology   zines
  • 2024 Week 35 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    !!Con 2024 recap, DIY Zines, the two-shot, Following Crypto's issues, How Townie was built, Listeria outbreak in Boar's Head, and RFK Jr. being someone's drug dealer. Also, a bunch of book recommendations.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   crypto   postgres   conferences
  • Newsletter - An Ode to the Seasonal Playlist
    Posted

    Newsletter - We dive into my decade long habit of creating seasonal music playlists and lament on how music streaming services have made it harder to find and create original mixtapes.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– newsletter   season_4
  • 2024 Week 34 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    The Mike Lynch mystery, follow-ups from Burn Book, FLUX.1, doing the hard work instead of trusting AI, effective changelogs, and asteroid mining seeing the light of day.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   notes   postmortem   memory
  • Blockbuster SVG
    Posted
    Filed: 🚰 Stream
    πŸ”– video   vhs
  • 2024 Week 33 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Bye bye, Chromecast, creating a personal Data Pipeline, heed the warnings of joining AI research, the new AI image generation king - Flux, a map of all bookstores, quitting spotify and starting self-hosting, and RIP Gena Rowlands.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   data_pipeline   self_hosted   books
  • Enshittification
    Posted

    Enshittification is when your product degrades over time because the company has spent more time squeezing out of the competition and curbing regulation. The product is gradually becoming less self-service and the employees no longer care about the product better.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– concept   TIL
  • Personal Data Pipeline
    Posted

    Josh Cunningham wrote a piece called Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline. I started exploring his project, pdpl-cli, which helps you download your personal data and pipe it out to your desired output. I’ve been thinking extensively about this problem for a number of weeks now since I’ve exported my Google Contacts into Obsidian. However, with the lack of database support, I thought about self hosting it. Enter the Personal Data Pipeline.

    Overview of the data pipeline
    Overview of the data pipeline

    It’s essentially ETL jobs with integrations to third party services to β€œrecipes” that you can write in yaml and customize to your desired outputs. I think this helps a lot more than determining data schemas for specific third party data integrations and having the raw data in a personal data lake. (Or really maybe a document store).

    The idea is to have it local-first and maybe include a sync-thing or cloud syncing as an optional add-on. There’s an emphasis on privacy, although my bigger fear is vendor lock-in. I’ve become so reliant on Google, Apple, and other services that I don’t feel like I own my personal data anymore. Also, as a web developer, the hardest part is grabbing my own data from the sticky hands of these cloud services. Also, this emphasis on files over apps makes a lot more sense to me than the walled garden approach we’ve become accustomed to.

    Filed: 🚰 Stream
    πŸ”– pkm   self-hosted   data-pipeline
  • 2024 Week 32 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Current reading notes on Burn Book and Frostbite. Gallery of concept visualizations, transforming national park maps, how others use AI, doing quests, not goals, Intel’s Immiseration, going back on the high wire, and the first fitbit.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   ai   reading   visualization   maps   Intel
  • 2024 Week 31 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Playing with htmx and migrating to the latest version of Ideaverse Pro. Using SQLite in CSV mode, bento slides, quantization visualized, and AI Friend domain sale. Using Little Sis, a photo of Gabriel Medina, Olympics long-term injuries, and welcoming Breaking.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   htmx   pkm   journalism   ai
  • Newsletter - Summer Ablaze
    Posted

    Newsletter - We talk about the fires and the heat. I share some website updates with the home page. Then we go over Hushpuppies and consulting. Finally, I give a recap of what I'm currently reading - Frostbite.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– newsletter   season_4
  • 2024 Week 30 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    A news break this week. Some old tidbits like the ten commandments of egoless programming, solitude and leadership. Some new things about knowledge management at NASA, visual programming, engaging over showing. Alexa is losing billions, and how large scale order emerges from complex systems.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
    πŸ”– weeknote   order   knowledge_management   leadership
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I'm currently leading application development at Clear Labs.

I write essays on eclectic topics, from programming, cooking, and strange habit of collecting obituaries.

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Newsletter Series

I have put back together my newsletter after years of absense! These are primarily updates on my blog, "Craft By Zen", and maybe some highlights to the new articles I've written. There might be some life updates as well. I'm doing away with the old format of weekly longform essays, and trying some new things with my newsletter.

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