Labnotes
March 11th, 2023 8 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ€— Hug a CFO

This week we talk about React hooks, CloudFlare caching, SVB’s fall from grace, AI winter, generated AI aesthetics, non-linear workdays, and how to leave work early.

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March 5th, 2023 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🧼 That well-worn look …

This week we celebrate cleaning products, a new timezone, predictive coding, Yiddish slang, and techno-linguistic chaos.

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February 25th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘Œ 6-finger deniability

This week we have a new search engine we’re actually excited about, the results from the 4-day workweek trial are in, and we have questions about craters.

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February 20th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ¦… Fly smarter, not harder

This week we talk software architecture: YAGNI, 80% ready, bad vibes, and LFI. We have some opinions about GPT, and 3 tools to screenshot and video demo your product.

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February 14th, 2023 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🎈 BRB, went ballooning

This week we have a cheat sheet for using React, we learn how to use negative prompts, and FaceID-lock our iPhone apps.

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February 5th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘‹ How many fingers to a hand?

This week we ask who’s responsible for technical decisions, dig into the origins of spaghetti code, discover a new dopamine loop, talk a lot (too much?) about generative AI, and wrap it up with a better chat UI.

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January 29th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 😎 Software is believing

This week is loaded with AI. We use it to summarize and de-summarize, help us SQL, spoken words, and handwritten notes. We also settle a semantic debate and cure our Python envy.

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January 23rd, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘Œ Ctrl-Salt-Delete

This week we load up on SVG, pay back tech debt, fight name complexity, learn how to build ChatGPT, and go in search of SF/Mission super burrito.

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January 14th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘‹ Shut the front door

This week we compare JS component libraries, steer clear of YAML, impressed by text-to-draw tech, and dream of a giant dog bed.

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