Labnotes
August 16th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ–‡ Office Story

This week we stack some cards, spot the fake plan, ask Bezos the hard-hitting question, frolic in the snow, and make unsettling eggs.

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August 8th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸŽ‚ Happy anniversary! πŸŽ‰

This week is this blog's 15th anniversary!!! We're going to short lipsticks but go long on bicycle shorts, liberate some bitcoin, and rename some genes.

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August 1st, 2020 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ”‡ You're On Mute! β€”Β Quote of 2020

This week we revisit the Macintosh Quadra, the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit, and great airplanes of the 80’s. We close with a stress reliever wallpaper.

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July 25th, 2020 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Charles Main Street

This week we got more GPT-3 tricks, CSS variable hack, ride appropriate masks, a singing cow, and realistic looking Holodeck 9.

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July 19th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🍰 It was a cake all along

This week, my window is your window, code freezes over, Twitter gets hacked, GPT-3 is the place to be, 2020 is all a cake, Illuminati bold.

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July 11th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ’Έ $50,420 for a Zoom meeting?

This week we get shamed by a bear, make friends along the way, scream inside our hearts, and let the market regulate itself! Also, mask up 😷

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July 4th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🧠 l know a spot!

This week we're the one *not* wearing red! We return our 3D printer for a refund, get fooled by ice cream, eyes on the problem, and where's my oven 🐐???

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July 1st, 2020 1 min read

Modern web development is just naming things

Modern web development is just naming things. Then naming them again. Then naming them some more. Using different letter case and hyphenation in each case. Also, more than one way to signal whether a name could be valueless. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ import type { NameA } from 'schema.ts'; export default NameA() { const

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June 26th, 2020 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” β€œThere's power in the unknown”

This week we spend 3 hours chasing a typo, find the answer to a simple yes/no question, name 3 concrete example, and dig into πŸ‘πŸ‘„πŸ‘.

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