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4/27/2024
19 : 4
Weekend Reading — The Bob Ross of programming
This week we use coffee tasting as our design practice, get as close to and as far away from the metal as possible, find an easier way to write documentation, discover why Google Search is getting so
4/20/2024
18 : 4
Weekend Reading — WD40 smells so delicious
This week we got a new incarnation of Norton Commander, the best flopping electric vehicle, a reason to keep everyone happy, conscious invertebrates, a 420 cat, and colorful eggs. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf
4/13/2024
22 : 34
Weekend Reading — If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe
This week we have an app for managing group trips, and one for recommending and following podcasts, we're unsure about the size of a minute, appreciate the new nutrition labels, have a lot of
4/6/2024
17 : 14
Weekend Reading — Healthy living isn't available in your country
This week we got a great app for hikers, a way to threaten our code, place to put our cursor, another story of a dying startup, some really bad tales about AI, a shirt to commemorate the earthquake,
3/30/2024
18 : 34
Weekend Reading — Ctrl click back
This week we deploy a real-time server app, mute our keyboard, apply ethical social proof, run LLM on our computer, of all things in Excel, and uncover the most insidious backdoor. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf
3/23/2024
19 : 24
Weekend Reading — Hurkle-Durkle
This week we play the songs of Vim, double performance every 2 years, draw a manual wheelchair properly, learn about the reality of a Silicon Valley Unicorn, discovery the uncanny history of AI, and
3/16/2024
17 : 54
Weekend Reading — The magic word
This week we got a UI for writing markup and securely reading emails, we avoid context switching, and seek out optimism, find our traffic sources, get more realistic about artificial intelligence, and
3/9/2024
18 : 54
Weekend Reading — Bill for unused domain names
This week we got tools for URLs and PDFs, a better search engine, semantic HTML, some ideas for running your business, reversed engineers prompts and biased AI, a honest password form, problematic
3/2/2024
18 : 24
Weekend Reading — That escalated quickly
This week we discover new way to publish blogs and manage our tasks, stick to memory-safe programming languages, discover Japanese design show, improve developer experience, understand the difference
2/24/2024
19 : 4
Weekend Reading — Places where I've lost my glasses
This week we catalog the risks we're addressing, run Postgres in the browser, modernize our app using generative AI, learn about focus and ADHD, stop trusting product reviews from Google search,
2/19/2024
1 : 43
Weekend Reading — The real luxuries
This week we over infrastructure decisions, plea for lean software, find some interesting productivity apps, remember good old Lander, meet the world's most responsible AI model, revisit the World
2/10/2024
18 : 14
Weekend Reading — The Zoom meeting crowd
This week we tally the most in-demand frontend frameworks, learn how to PDF using an iPhone and no 3rd party app, make luck and avoid the paradox of goals, and wish you a happy new year and a wonderful
2/3/2024
17 : 34
Weekend Reading — Put � in random text fields
This week we have some disappointing metrics from Copilot, revisit React, learn how to write a Git commit message, did you know about Font Variant Numeric?, speculate the fastest growing software
1/27/2024
17 : 44
Weekend Reading — Never again is now
This week we remember how to write quality software, add true vintage look to our modern web app, play PowerPoint Karaoke, design digital instruments for our car, hire Boss as a Service, correct and
1/20/2024
18 : 34
Weekend Reading — Where's my car?
This week we find the missing car, test with cats, remember old computing machines, follow the layoffs on TikTok, ask the chicken the question, and build our Mac with Lego bricks. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf
1/13/2024
19 : 14
Weekend Reading — Layoffs, explained
This week we have a collection of interesting software, Windows 95 for React, a brief explanation of layoffs, a beautiful AI device, a caffeinated Jupiter, and a mouse to clean our house. 😎 Labnotes (
11/12/2023
0 : 34
Weekend Reading — Sorry, nevermind
This week we debate: to Next or not to Next? We recall of the future was imagined, many years ago. And we catch a break in the Minecraft bedroom. Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
10/29/2023
17 : 34
Weekend Reading — Happy "let’s circle back after the holidays" season
This week we tell jokes about programmers, return to COBOL, change traffic lights to blue, hear voices, discover embeddings, ride a tricycle from 1936, and sleep like a whale. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf
10/21/2023
19 : 4
Weekend Reading — Sketching a wardrobe
This week we look at an open-source read-it-later app, how the world is designed against the elderly, the placebo effect, being a fast moving company, buying a place, and sketching a wardrobe. 😎
10/19/2023
4 : 14
Weekend Reading — One minor bug
This week we have some more comics, talk about software development bugs, pretend to be Columbo, obsess over creativity, find Star Trek on a map of the universe, and yes, I just had a cup of coffee … 😎