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11/24/2024
1 : 14
Weekend Reading — More time to write
More Time to Write A fully functional clock that ticks backwards, giving you more time to write. Tech Stuff Martijn Faassen (FWIW I don't know how to use any debugger other than console.log) People
11/16/2024
19 : 54
Weekend Reading —
Sure is Tech Stuff What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres If you're just starting with Postgres, make sure to not repeat past mistakes. No GPS required: our app can now locate underground
10/26/2024
18 : 14
Weekend Reading — Voting time!
Halloween humor Hello and welcome back. If you missed me, I went on a trip for three weeks, so didn't have time to post. But I did enjoy delicious food, beautiful sites, and super fast trains. Now
9/14/2024
23 : 54
Weekend Reading — Concept of a plan
This week we play Tetris on our database server, learn BASIC again, upgrade to a Victorian iPad, avert the shoplifting crisis, turn HTML back to Markdown, replace the podcast bro with AI, get unlimited
9/8/2024
0 : 14
Weekend Reading — Human Slots Machine
This week we learn a new Postgres trick, write JavaScript for MS-DOS, we answer phone calls on our washer, go big on monospace fonts, we teach you how to market, Rickroll our customers, name our wifi
8/31/2024
20 : 14
Weekend Reading — Home office the way I like it
This week we run a search through Postgres, wear our Mac on our wrist, font with the Z80, hyperfocus through this post, remember Quiznos, close the circle of grift, watch Cybertruck in its habitat, lay
8/24/2024
19 : 54
Weekend Reading — Florida clown
This week we learn how to Zod, we draggy and swappy, we interview our internal customers, don't get anything completed on time, lay off our energy healer, decode the ToS, guard our headphones, walk
8/20/2024
2 : 24
Weekend Reading — Very demure, very mindful
This week we get our dev docs offline, color the windows, guesstimate our credit score, sue an ice cream, honk like a self-driving car, experiment on a lion, cancel our Disney+ account, and reuse our
8/10/2024
21 : 14
Weekend Reading — Momala and Popala
This week we do a screen recording, restart WordStar, take our printer to space, play medieval tunes, sample the LLM, and watch out for the blow-nado. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading —
8/3/2024
19 : 34
Weekend Reading — Emotional support billionaires
This week we watch the olympics, make a todo list, propose new password rules, purchase a domain for > $1M, get an AI massage, shot with hand in pocket, save 100% by not buying anything, and measure
7/27/2024
21 : 54
Weekend Reading — 🥥🌴 Canadian Dogs
This week Jupyter and Notion have a baby, we play mockup in the browser, we can't talk much — fish in the car, we get to keep our cookies, we use an LLM to do math, and we embrace our childless cat
7/20/2024
18 : 34
Weekend Reading — Bumpy safety yellow
This week we test a new test framework, get a smartwatch from 1984, become a pet psychic, use AI to get funnier, realize Cellebrite is not breaking into our iPhone, not fall in love with our first
7/13/2024
17 : 14
Weekend Reading — Tactical Assault Shiba
This week we're headed to the JSON station, we find a lighter and faster alternative to lodash, steal like an artists, generate better prompts than an Oath Keeper, discover Britain's new ruler,
7/6/2024
21 : 4
Weekend Reading — Gesturing wildly and in every direction
This week we kick start the Slow Software Movement, CTRL+F the Spice Rack, walk over the kitchen table, slop the book, hide behind a tree, skip leg day, and hide under the weighted blanket. 😎 Labnotes
6/29/2024
18 : 24
Weekend Reading — Legally prohibited from complaining
This week we write 200 lines of code, play breaker with the calendar, sprint plan our week with the spouse, teach Claude to SQL, blur the cat's face, patch our Oreo cookies, and apologize for how
6/22/2024
17 : 34
Weekend Reading — Occam's shaving kit
This week we work around our ErrorBoundary, ignore our \\TODO, write in Sans Bullshit Sans, pay $500/hour to dress the same as always, count succors borne every minute, and name a dinosaur after Loki.
6/15/2024
18 : 4
Weekend Reading — Move slow and improve things
This week we upgrade out clock, get a bumper sticker, practice the RTO of layoffs, convince HP to buy us for $25B, listen where we look, have a sad day indeed, enjoy spicy ramen, and ravel at the new
6/8/2024
19 : 14
Weekend Reading — Video should have been a blogpost
This week we get the Homebrew App Store, dump Bartender, get AI to do all our work, elect an LLM mayor, avoid using Windows 11, watch the Raven diagram, make tea in the tank, and travel in style. 😎
6/3/2024
10 : 44
Weekend Reading — Don't give eeffoc
This week we turn web app into desktop app, discover a new tablet, stop chasing our dreams, review the new Google “No Intelligence” Search, Microsoft spying on you, OpenAI's ties with News Corp,
6/3/2024
8 : 18
Weekend Reading — All romes lead to roads
This week we get cranking on our indexes, keep our focus on iOS, change jobs on first day of the month, find the Google Search leaked documents, check our boss for signs of AI, twist our hands, and