Weeknotes 2022-10-10

Weeknotes 2022-10-10

Oct. 10, 2022, Jochen

Not much interesting stuff going on besides work.

Articles

The Lesson to Unlearn | Well, there's at least one mistake I didn't make
The Illustrated Stable Diffusion | Earned a reputation for "The Illustrated Transformer" - this is good, too
Software engineering practices
Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore

Twitter

This is a f**king waste of public healthcare money during a pandemic. And it creates tons of electronic waste during an urging #ClimateCrisis. I hope you are proud of yourselves, @MLeyckDieken , @CGMeHealth and @gematik1 !
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One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order. 1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi 1/100
We need a website that explains the arguments for/against the "should you pin your upper bound for dependencies" question. | Upper bounds on dependencies have bitten me first using the django cookiecutter template and then again by being the default in poetry. I don't do this anymore, but it was quite a painful lesson.

Weeknotes

Software

🚀 Just released version 2 of my heroicons package
I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. | This is really cool - maybe the shop.co idea becomes finally possible

Podcasts

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots (Lex Fridman Podcast) | Fascinating stuff going on in biology..
Die Nerven (Reflektor) | New album is out. It's good.
Scaling Postgres Episode 235 Postgres 15 RC1, ICU Collations, Listen & Notify, Understanding TOAST (Scaling PostgreSQL)
Stuart Russell: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (The Gradient Podcast)
Was fasziniert Sie an Montaigne? (Das philosophische Radio)
Episode #303: This title is required or is it optional? (Python Bytes)
#69 Polymorphism Unbound (Happy Path Programming) | Good episode

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