Weekly Links

Welcome to a mid-summer edition of the Weekly! I spent the July 4th weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This trip was the first time I’d spent more than 24 hours in the Bay in almost ten years. Working in tech, I’ve obviously heard a lot about SF and the surrounding suburbs in that time — access to nature; much milder weather than the east coast (especially pronounced when weather topped 95 degress in NYC for most of the weekend). It was nice to see it all firsthand as an adult and understand a bit more intimately what people appreciate about being out here.

It honestly feels like it’s been way longer than six weeks since my last Weekly. This winter has been defined by lots of travel for me. All exciting and fulfilling, but not all energizing. It’s hard to find a rhythm without routine!

LLM-assisted programming has crossed the chasm. Across the IndieWeb I see skeptics either being won over or at least acknowledging the changes to our shared craft. Adam Levanthal calls the feeling Deep Blue. There’s little doubt that programming is undergoing an industrial revolution. Where we go from here is more up for debate.

Another batch of links, coming your way! While I’m a little sad this weekly didn’t follow on the heels of #29, I can’t complain too much. I spent some time working on a new side project!

I’m working on my own little algorithmic newsfeed prioritized by what I think is most important. I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds that all publish on different frequencies. I want to make sure that infrequent publishers are never drowned out by more frequent posters. Whenver I check the feed, I want posts from weekly authors for this week to show up alongside posts from monthly authors for this month before any content from daily newsletters. At this point I’ve set up a lot of the infrastructure to ingest RSS feeds and spit out a ranked version. Next is actually working on a good algorithm!

Anyways, I’ve still got a lot of thoughts on articles I’ve read over the past few weeks. Time to get to it!

Welcome to Weekly 29, six days after Weekly 28! Crazy how that works. I’m back in the Pinboarding habit, which means we have a full and fresh newsletter this week!

Colder weather means November’s the first month with two newsletters in a long while. Let’s hope I can keep up the pace as we head into the holiday season!

Happy November! I spent the weekend visiting friends in Cambridge, MA and am on an Amtrak train back to New York. We’re a bit past peak fall-foliage season, but I’m hoping for a good view over the water between Providence and New Haven.

Welcome to The Weekly, back from summer vacation! While I did miss posting I’m still not beating myself up about getting out of the routine.