Craft By Zen

jscodeshift notes, Dengue risk warning, SCOTUS latest rulings including overruling Chevron Doctrine, Dell's backlash for return-to-office, pop-up villages, Netflix's culture memo, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Perplexity AI lying about their user agent, senior engineer fatigue, creating my first VSCode snippet, cutting an onion, and RIP Donald Sutherland and Willie Mays.

As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.

Keeping a dev journal, book recommendations, how computers reduce efficiency, introduction to jhanas, some podcast notes about AI companies, and how do dogs see color.

An explainer for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

A change in format for weekly notes.

Newsletter - Short Edition

Just Married!

Bye bye, corporate open source, spaced repetition explained as a in cartoon, cyberattacks on healthcare, AI Developer marketing ploy?

Just start.

Newsletter updates for April 2024 - nature messing with its switch

A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.

Neopets revival, TikTok ban, how Dave Pescoe stays young, scenes of pro-Palestine protests, and phantom islands.

Editing Advice, advice advice, second passports, sign posting, load balancing visualized, Figma's framework 2024, and the Hyperkey.

An introduction to feature management using LaunchDarkly and if I use them as advertised.

Film finds, SunoAI, Boeing and the Suicide Mission, Debugger's Toolkit, and OJ.

April Fools Round-up, primer on .xz hack, the web dev market, Taiwan's earthquake, and the sad stories about the A's move.

My personal stream of thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.

Inspirations draw from all over the place.

On Robert Caro, Obits, people ruining the Internet (thanks SEO), Facebook and Netflix were in bed with your DMs, and the Baltimore Bridge fiasco.

Newsletter updates for March 2024

This Chrome Extension allows me to quickly copy the current webpage's title and URL in Markdown format.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

When designing from the ground up, create small, atomic components that can be combined into bigger components.

How to be not distracted, blizzards in California, local-first movement, and emembering David Bordwell and Akira Toriyama.

My personal tool for keeping track of people and interactions tailored for my own needs.

What's new with React, Not a Designer, Meeting again after 77 years, Scale yourself, and happy leap day.

Gwern Branwen is a freelance American writer & researcher.

Newsletter updates for February 2024

Time on the Doomsday Clock, Personal website spaces, and AT&T outage.

Debra is the author and illustrator of many award-winning picture books including On the Day You Were Born and Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster.

Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes.

Instructions on changing remote and local git branches from master to main

Classifieds have been added to the website

Mini website updates and reflecting on digital creativity and curation.

Creating a regular expression for decimal points

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Learning Models, Getting Fired live on TikTok, last week's storm, the boring stack, and recontrer.

Using the rename utility

A newsletter offering a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.

Over a decade ago, Buster Benson started his "Codex Vitae" or book of beliefs.

"Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics."

Intro to emotional intelligence (EI) and mindfulness.

The political and social entanglements of technology in rural China.

While I wrote my first Svelte application 4 years ago, I wanted to test my Svelte knowledge by solidifying it into a blog post.

My weekly review breakdown with annotations.

Josh Waitzkin shares his unique systems of thematic learning, idea generation, building resilience, and mastering the art of performance psychology.

Obsidian gems of 2023, another terrible thing happened in Florida, restoring children deafness, giant parasol could alleviate Global Warming, and Tailwind criticism.

We are officially migrating off the old platform and onto a new one.