Hey hey, hope you had a good week! ✌🏻
Skeet of the Week
men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy — @annabower.bsky.social
Software
- The Best Programmers I Know (endler.dev)
Matthias Endler lists traits they see in great engineers.
- The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer (0x1.pt)
Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira about the rise of full stack engineers and generalists.
AI
- Introducing MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby (worksonmymachine.substack.com)
Scott Werner embraces LLM's "hallucinations" and created a web framework build purely with prompts.
- A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products (hamel.dev)
Hamel Husain shares advice for building AI products, with a focus on analysis.
Cutting Room Floor
- Your elusive creative genius (ted.com)
Elizabeth Gilbert gives a TED talk about creative genius and provides a way to cope with creative success or failure.
- But what if I really want a faster horse? (rakhim.exotext.com)
Rakhim looks back at early Netflix and Spotify and the Cascinisation of software to become TikTok-shaped. Thanks, Eric!
- Sleep is essential — researchers are trying to work out why (nature.com)
Tammy Worth about Dragana Rogulja, a neurobiologist who found out that 90 % sleep-deprived animals die after 10 days, and theories why sleep is essential for survival.
- Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses (terriblesoftware.org)
Matheus Lima explains how strengths and weaknesses are heavily connected and often context decides which it is.
- Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra (youtube.com)
Fascinating performance by both Jacob Collier and the orchestra.
