189 / Your elusive creative genius

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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.