Merge pull request #474 from jermspeaks/content/2024-w25

Add 2024 Week 25 week notes

Author: jermspeaks

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+description: "Perplexity AI lying about their user agent, senior engineer fatigue, creating my first VSCode snippet, cutting an onion, and RIP Donald Sutherland and Willie Mays."
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+pubDate: "2024-06-24T20:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weekly", "reflection"]
+title: 2024 Week 25 - Weekly Notes
+heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80
+heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
+---
+
+> Be a cycle maker, not a cycle breaker
+> -- Jatee Kearsley, owner of [Je T'aime Patisserie](https://www.jetaimebk.com/) Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yk2eqRWzEA&list=LL&index=12)
+
+This idea of forgoing cycle breaking to making new cycles, like being the first grad to your family, or running your own business. Jatee talks about being the first business owner in her family, and I loved her enthusiasm and spirit.
+
+Reflection - I'm using these weekly notes to remind myself what I've been reading and consuming over the past week and reminding myself why these things are important to me. I've felt myself being pulled in too many directions, and the heading in this note help me understand what overall topics are interesting me as of late. Hopefully I want to string these together into more cohesive themes that I can thread from week to week.
+
+### Social Interest
+
+- [Women Are America’s Safety Net - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/06/holding-it-together-jessica-calarco-book-review/678673/)
+
+### Pertains to Dev
+
+- Alex Martin - [Good code is rarely read](https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/06/06/good-code.html?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+- Robb Knight - [Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent](https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+- Anthony M Simon - [The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup](https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+- luminousmen - [Senior Engineer Fatigue](https://luminousmen.com/post/senior-engineer-fatigue?utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+- Mihail Eric - [How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet](https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/how-alexa-dropped-the-ball-conversational-ai/?utm_source=changelog-news)
+  - Beaurucratic management stalled releasing new features, LLMs before
+- Henrique Yuji on The Miners - [How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower](https://blog.codeminer42.com/how-react-19-almost-made-the-internet-slower/?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+- ADP Research Institute - [The rise—and fall—of the software developer](https://www.adpri.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-software-developer/?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+  > Because of \[Google Maps\] global scale, even a small shift in maps routing from a seemingly-innocuous (and frankly very useful!) feature could create a reinforcing feedback loop with spatial inequality. Inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities.
+  > [Thread by @kaseyklimes](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1802431551671603375.html?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+- Will Larson on Irrational Exuberance - [How to create software quality.](https://lethain.com/quality/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+- Ask HN: [Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723302&utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+- Benjamin Sandofsky - [Fast Crimes at Lambda School](https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+  - A long piece I found worth reading as a DevBootcamp grad. Ben breaks down the issues with ISAs and the background with BPPE, as well as management at Lambda School / Bloom Institute of Technology and their untrustworthy CEO.
+- I created my first Snippet in VSCode
+  - More information: [Snippets in Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets)
+- [State of JavaScript 2023](https://2023.stateofjs.com/en-US/)
+
+### Tools of Thought
+
+- Tooling from Every - [Spiral](https://spiral.computer/) - Automate 80% of repeat writing, thinking, and creative tasks. Your voice and style included.
+- Tiago Forte on Forte Labs - [Digital Attention Spans: AI as a Source of Infinite Patience](https://fortelabs.com/blog/digital-attention-spans-ai-as-a-source-of-infinite-patience/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Will%20AI%20give%20us%20infinite%20patience?%20-%2014202143)
+- r/ChatGPTPro - [Compilation of creative ways people are using ChatGPT](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPro/comments/1dfqzva/compilation_of_creative_ways_people_are_using/?utm_source=www.theneurondaily.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=runway-gen-3-alpha)
+- Andrew Chen - [The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings](https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/10x-work-versus-1x-work?utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+- Mushtaq Bilal, PhD shares his [AI Apps for Academic Writing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16wuQlVjBJI6QBDww5IKud3XQINBeAUytvMk2-w4AMtE/edit)
+- Celine Nguyen - [research as leisure activity](https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity)
+- Jamie Tanna - [Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/)
+
+### Obits
+
+- [Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/sports/willie-mays-dead.html)
+- [Donald Sutherland Dead: 'Klute', 'Ordinary People', 'Hunger Games' Star Was 88](https://deadline.com/2024/06/donald-sutherland-dead-1235978933/)
+
+### Podcast Notes
+
+- [Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Changelog Interviews #595)](https://changelog.com/podcast/595)
+  - Takeways:
+    - Fractional CTO, outbound CTO
+    - Be methodical, not faster
+    - Who am I - test your beliefs
+
+### Culinary
+
+- NYTimes - [How to Cut an Onion](https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-cut-onion.html) - J. Kenji López-Alt
+  ![Angling your knife at an imaginary point about six-tenths of an onion’s height below the surface of the cutting board yields a more even dice.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/12/dining/10kenji-onions-test-04/10kenji-onions-test-04-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp)
+- [Lavender Latte Recipe | Starbucks® at Home](https://www.starbucksathome.com/recipes/lavender-latte)
+
+### Recommended
+
+- Book - [Hyperfocus](https://chrisbailey.com/hyperfocus/) by Chris Bailey
+- Book: [The Laws of Connection](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Laws-of-Connection/David-Robson/9781639366484) by David Robson
+  - An excerpt and explanation found in his article for WIRED - [The Science of Having a Great Conversation](https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-of-having-a-great-conversation-research-social-connection/)
+- Cookbook: [Big Night: Dinners, Parties & Dinner Parties](https://bignightbk.com/products/big-night-book-dinners-parties-dinner-parties) by Katherine Lewin
+
+### Papers We Love
+
+- [[2406.12430v1] PlanRAG: A Plan-then-Retrieval Augmented Generation for Generative Large Language Models as Decision Makers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12430v1?utm_source=tldrai)
+
+### Share the love with these videos
+
+Map Men - There are NOT 195 countries
+
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+Log's Carving Club - How to Use Every Dremel Bit
+
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+Jenny Nicholson - The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hote
+
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+
+Someone mentioned in the comments how much research she's done in this experience and how that service has already flopped. The amount of research into this topic is nuts.