> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://labnotes.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Weekend Reading — The Zoom meeting crowd - URL: https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-the-zoom-meeting-crowd/ - Published: 2024-02-10T18:11:07.000Z - Updated: 2024-02-10T18:11:07.000Z - Description: This week we tally the most in-demand frontend frameworks, learn how to PDF using an iPhone and no 3rd party app, make luck and avoid the paradox of goals, and wish you a happy new year and a wonderful Valentine’s Day. - Author: Assaf Arkin **[Uncle Duke](https://universeodon.com/users/UncleDuke1969/statuses/111879254606721272?ref=labnotes.org)** “some shit is about to go down” --- ## Tech Stuff **[Sohan Murthy](https://freeradical.zone/users/sohan/statuses/111886241339768716?ref=labnotes.org)** “wow github is absolutely tired of my shit” ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-43.png) **[The Most Demanded Frontend Frameworks in 2023](https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/the-most-demanded-frontend-frameworks/?ref=labnotes.org)** > Discover the top frontend frameworks of 2023 with an in-depth analysis of over 500,000 job listings from LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and more, identifying the highest demand and best-paying technologies in the industry ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-39.png) **[How Should We Talk About the Mental Health of Historical Figures?](https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/lost-women-science-klara-dan-von-neumann-mental-health.html?ref=labnotes.org)** Today I learned: > The first modern-style code ever executed on a computer was written in 1948, by a woman named Klára Dán von Neumann, or Klári to her friends. The code itself is a narrow column, 30 pages long, of numbers and letters written in pencil, with occasional corrections, like a 6 turned into a 7 with two urgent exclamation points. **[John Kennedy](https://hachyderm.io/users/GrantMeStrength/statuses/111879940014846212?ref=labnotes.org)** “Special keyboard for Mondays” ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-48.png) **[Free document to PDF scanner.](https://shojiwax.com/2024/02/04/free-document-to-pdf-scanner/?utm%5Fsource=labnotes.org)** > A quick tutorial for using the document to PDF scanner that already exists on your iPhone. No need to pay a subscription to use an app for simple PDF creations. ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-54.png) **[Hacker Memes](https://infosec.exchange/users/i0null/statuses/111901429690807895?ref=labnotes.org)** `F(nachos) = F(nachos-1) + F(nachos-2)` ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-24.png) --- ## Business Side **[How to Create Luck](https://www.swyx.io/writing/create-luck?ref=labnotes.org)** Doing. And Telling. > Jason has a really simple model of how to grow your LSA - do more things, and tell more people about it. Doing and Telling. Already this embodies a more active attitude toward how you can orient your life for more positive random events. ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-35.png) **[Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech](https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/hell-is-other-people-performance)** > The kicker is that across the industry, the perception of this Google-originating process isn’t necessarily any better than that of what it sought to replace. At a great cost, we merely traded the accusations of manager-level favoritism for grander conspiracy theories — sinister corporate agendas divined from the garbled words of secretive, shapeless committees. **[The Paradox of Goals](https://nesslabs.com/the-paradox-of-goals?ref=labnotes.org)** > Here lies the paradox of goals: Setting goals is a guarantee for disillusionment whether we reach the desired state or not, and yet working toward goals is an important part of evolving as a person. How can we resolve this paradox? ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-36.png) --- ## Machine Intelligence **[Axios](https://mastodon.social/users/axios/statuses/111896889761596639?ref=labnotes.org)** Yes! I don’t dislike AI, but definitely, this use case had to be regulated out of existence as soon as possible. “The FCC has declared the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls illegal, effective immediately.” **[One big benefactor of the AI boom: The tiny island of Anguilla](https://thehustle.co/one-big-benefactor-of-the-ai-boom-the-tiny-island-of-anguilla/?ref=labnotes.org)** Perhaps unsurprisingly, sales of island-owned “.ai” domains have increased significantly as of late. --- ## Insecurity **[Kevin Beaumont](https://cyberplace.social/users/GossiTheDog/statuses/111896379679480226?ref=labnotes.org)** > If anybody remembers the UK company called DROP TABLES "COMPANIES";-- LTD, I just noticed that this has happened - before and after. [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519?ref=labnotes.org) ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-31.png) **[Dgar](https://aus.social/users/dgar/statuses/111726180221522687?ref=labnotes.org)** ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-32.png) --- ## Everything Else **[Curious Moopsy](https://tenforward.social/@moopsy/111908134246802760?utm%5Fsource=labnotes.org#.)** Happy Year of the Dragon to all who celebrate! ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-23.png) **[Amish Super Model](https://mastodon.social/users/AmishSuperModel/statuses/111885029942276799?ref=labnotes.org)** Darn. > So, apparently, according to some people called “doctors”… > > Vodka is not considered a healthy coping strategy. **[Jimmy Biscuits](https://mstdn.social/users/Kickpedal/statuses/110244507353217968?ref=labnotes.org)** 💪 > Guys I just won another argument while I was in the shower. Alone. **[George Takei](https://universeodon.com/users/georgetakei/statuses/111879257564653040?ref=labnotes.org)** The perfect candle holder doesn’t exi… ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-45.png) **[Janel Comeau](https://mas.to/users/VeryBadLlama/statuses/111862370437202110?ref=labnotes.org)** > I respect screaming babies on airplanes because they're the only ones providing honest feedback about the overall air travel experience **[Assaf](https://mas.to/users/assaf/statuses/111880158173831635?ref=labnotes.org)** I remember this movie … ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-46.png) **[Profane tmesis](https://writing.exchange/users/ptmesis/statuses/111905945130469130?ref=labnotes.org)** > David Attenborough: And here we see the bonding ritual of the modern human. Each recommends to the other a "podcast" that they enjoy. > > Neither will take up the other's recommendation, or even consider it. This is something both are well aware of. > > Why this ritual exists, and what it is meant to accomplish, is something that still puzzles scientists to this day. **[George Takei](https://universeodon.com/users/georgetakei/statuses/111903506754454950?ref=labnotes.org)** “The memory's a little Fozzie.” ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-28.png) **[Shoshana](https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/111893876641059136?utm%5Fsource=labnotes.org)** “Damn, men really don't like people's kids in Zoom meetings” ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-30.png) **[Archive Buttons](https://www.archivebuttons.com/?ref=labnotes.org)** Remove paywalls on any news article with Archive Buttons. This Free online paywall remover works on hundreds of news sites. ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-34.png) **[Squeezy Word Game](https://imsqueezy.com/?ref=labnotes.org)** SFit the letters to complete new words, eg TINKER + H → THINKER. This is quite a fun game. Good luck! ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-44.png) **[Doc Impossible](https://hachyderm.io/users/Impossible%5FPhD/statuses/111890385887513730?ref=labnotes.org)** > And this one is absolutely heartbreaking. > > 79% of all trans people are under 44. > > Want to see what the savage policing of identity by the Boomers, combined with the AIDS crisis did? There it is right there. ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-37.png) **[LEGO Roses Botanical Collection Building Set 40460](https://www.target.com/p/lego-roses-botanical-collection-building-set-40460/-/A-89211149?ref=labnotes.org)** For Valentine’s Day, how about a bouquet of roses made from pieces of LEGO? ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-52.png) **[Ben](https://beige.party/users/TheBreadmonkey/statuses/111889329476789554?ref=labnotes.org)** I really like Wildlife Photographer of the Year. For anyone who hasn't seen them, here are some of the images… ![](https://labnotes.org/content/images/2024/02/image-33.png)