Merge pull request #644 from jermspeaks/content/2024-week-49

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Author: jermspeaks

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+description: "Best of 2024, LLMs as choose your own adventure, the guide to estimations, and the LED lights that blind you."
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+heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
+pubDate: "2024-12-21T15:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote", "lights", "transportation", "LLM"]
+title: "2024 Week 49 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+### US Department of Transportation
+
+I was watching an interview with Pete Buddigeg about the different transit programs
+
+[Transit Costs Project – Construction Costs of Urban Rail Projects All Over the World](https://transitcosts.com/)
+
+[Corridor Identification and Development Program | FRA](https://railroads.dot.gov/corridor-ID-program)
+
+[Corridor Identification & Development Program](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e1f1bd55cfad489a859cc8905d0dad16) - This is the OG of program development
+
+### Your own adventure
+
+[You Exist In The Long Context](https://thelongcontext.com/) - Steven Johnson
+
+- This is really interesting, creating an adventure game given the text of the book the author wrote about the fingerprinting system used in crimes back in the 1910s. I would **love** to simulate some other scenarios from history. Apparently, the author has done the same thing for the cuban missile crisis.
+
+### Costco says bye bye to books
+
+To be clear, they are going to still have books during the holiday season. From what I can tell, the [previous buyer](https://penniespick.com/) for Costco retired, and this might be one of those consequences.
+
+### Food Deserts
+
+The Atlantic - [The Hidden Cause of Food Deserts](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pJfxPpDVqT62mcpTAeqeyrk)
+
+### Estimations
+
+Dave Stewart - [The work is never just “the work”](https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/)
+
+The visuals are great (and I won't reproduce here). It goes over what is beyond the implementation and how it's visualized.
+
+Related: Twitter Thread - [~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859290734257635439.html)
+
+And something about complexity - [I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either](https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-google-cloud-run?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+While there is a reason we need to slow down. Ness Labs - [The Art of Wintering: How to Find Strength in Slowing Down](https://nesslabs.com/wintering)
+
+### The Next Day
+
+The Verge - [Dia is the The Browser Company’s AI-powered follow-up to Arc](https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/2/24310944/dia-ai-browser-video-arc-the-browser-company)
+
+### Photos of the year
+
+AP News - [Associated Press 100 Photos of 2024: An epic catalog of humanity](https://apnews.com/associated-press-100-photos-of-2024-an-epic-catalog-of-humanity)
+
+### Skill Trees
+
+I love skill trees. Here's a repo on [a repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.](https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree)
+
+And on mentorship - ShiftMag - [I have 30 years of experience and still need a mentor. You do too.](https://shiftmag.dev/continuous-mentorship-336/?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+### Meanwhile, in South Korea
+
+CNN - [South Korea president declares emergency martial law](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/03/asia/south-korea-martial-law-intl)
+
+While here in the states, [UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Is Fatally Shot in New York City](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/nyregion/brian-thompson-uhc-ceo-shot)
+
+### It's all opposite in the family
+
+The New York Times - [He Was One of New York’s Busiest Shoplifters. His Mother Was a Cop.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/nyregion/nyc-shoplifting-target-arrest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eU4.w7c5.9aVq5BS8wwpE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
+
+### Those damn lights
+
+The Ringer - [Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness](https://theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents). The wonderful and consequential issues with high beam LEDs
+
+### Finally, React has custom element support
+
+[Custom Elements Everywhere](https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/)
+
+### Oh, major news outlets
+
+[Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times](https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just-resigned-from-the-los?r=fhv5&triedRedirect=true)
+
+### Recommended
+
+Book - [Good Nature - Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Good-Nature/Kathy-Willis/9781639367641) By [Kathy Willis](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kathy-Willis/221385912)
+
+Book - Marcelo Gleiser: [The Island of Knowledge](https://www.amazon.com/Island-Knowledge-Limits-Science-Meaning/dp/0465049648)
+
+Podcast - The Nathan Barry Show - [How to Turn Your YouTube Channel Into a $100,000+ Business (2024) - Jo Franco | 050](https://thenathanbarryshow.transistor.fm/episodes/how-to-turn-your-youtube-channel-into-a-100-000-business-2024-jo-franco-050?ck_subscriber_id=1900202893)
+
+PDF - Seth Godin - [The Thanksgiving Reader](https://seths.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thanksgiving_v48.pdf)
+
+And the NYTimes Guide to [100 Notable Books of 2024](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241201&instance_id=141021&nl=the-morning&regi_id=197092347&segment_id=184536&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef)