What I learned this week Software Mock data/api calls Slopsquatting the new bucket sniping Business/Finance “the de-rating from a premium multiple to a normal one eats every cent” Interesting Links On Bear spray’s effectiveness Japan bear problems solved? SA Search and rescue Being someone who does things Math/Stats Travel Other Each good intention of unification creates another variation Korean artist that I liked: kim gwang suk - 바람이 불어오는 곳

What I learned this week Software Jevons paradox “when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource’s use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource” “It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas." Business/Finance Interesting Links Why power in Spain is so cheap

What I learned this week Software I like what Manus are trying to do here. It feels like they’ve got some good tooling/steering to have the LLM traverse the surface of the human internet. It’s a bit rough but I didn’t use the pro models. I think this hammers home in my mind how critical tooling/harness/testing is, it takes usefulness to another level. Also RIP Facebook acquisition. Business/Finance American Mushrooms

What I learned this week Software ps -p <PID> -o comm= Looks up a specific process by its ID and prints the executable path Laws of Software Engineering ggsql looks pretty cool Exe dev from tailscale’s founder Remotion looks like a fun way to generate videos Flipbook… kind of cool, idk about increasing the nondeterminism of websites though, but maybe it works for some stuff https://flipbook.page/n/d2e274458fba498ab57f59b39f11796a https://flipbook.page/n/826db532ec2e441ba4891ffc02c4a7b9 Business/Finance Interesting Links How decaf works

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links Gas tax by state Wood powered car Cat5e Cable Math/Stats Travel Other Juggling machetes

What I learned this week Software Ngrok looks cool Debug your LLM Cloud flare tunnels are dope. python3 -m http.server 8080 & cloudflared tunnel –url http://localhost:8080 On profiling a git repo before reading it Business/Finance Interesting Links They’re made out of meat!? Brainstorming is about making yourself look good, not the THING actually good Math/Stats Travel Other recalcitrant Focaccia recipe

What I learned this week Software Python cad library Build a GPU Business/Finance Interesting Links Pallet camper Rescue fraud Fun fusion overview Poker lecture at Harvard Math/Stats Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Alan M. Turing allowed himself to be drawn into the discussion of the question whether computers can think. The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim. The goat Copy all rendered html copy(document.documentElement.outerHTML) Common Design Diagram Mistakes Eggs… and high token cost Business/Finance Interesting Links John Rawls 18p hard lemonade Hotels but only during the day

What I learned this week Software Voltage glitching 7x better because “composition” Bellman equation Business/Finance Suno AI music… Autonomous driving might have the biggest positive impact on the world this decade Interesting Links Plant watering: Making things shitty Billiken One Trillion brackets Math/Stats Travel Other “the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

What I learned this week Software SQLite skip scan Dead internet arrival Namespace prevents bucket squatting Business/Finance Interesting Links Wow, 21 years off grid Clacker news Math/Stats Travel Other Doom