weekly reel July 14, 2024
Hi friends, and music with Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke - Confidenza original soundtrack (youtube-nocookie.com)
News
[fr] Clément Viktorovitch : Pour une nouvelle constitution.
Asianometry: China’s sinking land problem.
Not Just Bikes: The secret to Japan’s great cities: good zoning, street design, traffic & parking restrictions, kei cars.
Pixel Mirror, “a faceted crystal that turns everything viewed through it into pixel art”. Via waxy.
SMBC: Like that.
Software
Jacob Kaplan-Moss: All I need to know about engineering leadership I learned from “Leave No Trace”. Also, Just use PostgreSQL for everything.
Booting Linux off of Google Drive, via Brodie.
xkcd #2958 - Remote cod execution.
AI
Simon Willison: Jevons paradox applied to AI + software engineering.
Simon Willison: Quoting Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs.
Maggie Appleton @ Local-First Conf: Home-cooked software and “barefoot programmers” (YouTube video).
Shitty tech ℹ️
Time: Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town, via jwz.