2024 Week 16 - Weekly Notes
I’ve become a lot more cognizant of how those first six words might be the only thing that show up in the notification panel on their phone, so I need to make sure that those words are a succinct and accurate overview in their own right.
— Eleanor Konik, Prompt Engineering Gave Me Empathy for My Bosses
This past week, I’ve been busy at work finishing up loose ends for the next major project. At home, we’re three weeks left until my wedding. We’ve got all major purchases out of the way for the event, as well as booking tickets to Maui for our honeymoon. 💒
- Jason Liu - Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself
- Eva Parish - What I think about when I edit
- CNBC - Rich Americans get second passports, citing risk of instability
- Signs things are not going well in the US.
- Also: The New York Times - Golden Visa Programs, Once a Boon, Lose Their Luster
- Spain to follow suit
The golden visa program brought Spain billions of euros in investments. But property prices paid by rich foreigners are well beyond the earning power of locals.
- Spain to follow suit
- React, Solid, htmx | bobae kang
- Sign posting: How to reduce cognitive load for your reader
- Load Balancing
- An excellent visualization of different load balancing strategies
- Hackaday - Why X86 Needs To Die
- Yorick Peterse - How to write a code formatter
- The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
- The visuals of the article are amazing
- Figma Blog - What We Launched at Framework 2024
- Today, I have my caps lock key remapped to escape. Hyperkey is an interesting proposition to have the cmd + option + control + shift key down at the same time to unlock more shortcut keys. I’m tempted.
- The Boring JavaScript Stack 🥱 - This week’s JS Party episode is convincing me maybe build something using the SAILS stack and bring your own database. Easy JS development
- The Numbers - Where Data and the Movie Business Meet - How did I not know this was a great resource! Holy crap!
- Steve Klabnik - How Does BlueSky Work?
- Nat Bennett - Why you need a “WTF Notebook”
- This goes beyond site incident reports. I used to do this for testing as a quick way to determine if we had any weird testing debug outputs. But of course, Sentry bugs should fall under this too. We need to write this in.
- No Mercy / No Malice - Prof K on Ketamine Therapy and Ketamine Seizures
🪦 Obit-like. Layoffs, of course
Notable Videos of the Week
He talks about the hyperkey!