Week 17 - 2023
grow⌗
Simply Email Yourself From a Google Sheet (blog.bettersheets.co) | [💬 discussion] - I wanted to share with you one of the simplest apps scripts that has immense power. Email! You can email others, but you can also email yourself.
Peruvian archaeologists unearth 500-year-old Inca ceremonial bath | Reuters (reuters.com) - LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling empire than once dominated large swathes of South America. { #ancient }
The Social Radars (pod.link) | [💬 discussion] - Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started { #startup }
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike – Dan Quach Blog (dquach.com) | [💬 discussion] - West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island { #hiking }
Young workers missing proximity (archive.is) | [💬 discussion] - What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’. One of the first major studies on remote work shows a hidden penalty of flexibility: less supervision. { #remote }
Double descent in human learning · Chris Said (chris-said.io) | [💬 discussion] - In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon where increasing the number of model parameters causes test performance to get better, then worse, and then better again. { #data #learning }
The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com) | [💬 discussion] - How can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? How can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world help us to create digital worlds? This book focuses on the programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems using Processing. { #book }
Some Things I Think · Collab Fund (collabfund.com) | [💬 discussion] - by Morgan Housel { #wisdom }
Álvaro Ramírez (xenodium.com) - Álvaro Ramírez blog { #interesting }
GitHub - vpavlenko/study-music: An “awesome music theory” kinda wiki (github.com) - An “awesome music theory” kinda wiki { #music }
Startup Playbook (playbook.samaltman.com) | [💬 discussion] - We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies. { #startup }
tech⌗
All Quiet, an App for Incident Escalation and Collaboration (allquiet.app) | [💬 discussion] - We built All Quiet to make your incident escalation as soothing as yoga at the beach. Or a margarita at the beach. Whatever soothes you.
AUGMENTAL - Home (augmental.tech) | [💬 discussion] - MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad { #trackpad }
Featurevisor - Feature management for developers (featurevisor.com) - Manage your feature flags and remote configuration declaratively from the comfort of your git workflow. { #cicd }
GitHub - Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. (github.com) - Automated data exploratory analysis and visualization tools. { #data #tool }
Meet the people using Notion to plan their whole lives | MIT Technology Review (technologyreview.com) | [💬 discussion] - The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.
Nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL (philbooth.me) | [💬 discussion] - The common thread linking most of these gotchas is scalability. They’re things that won’t affect you while your database is small. But if one day you want your database not to be small, it pays to think about them in advance. Otherwise they’ll came back and bite you later, potentially when it’s least convenient. Plus in many cases it’s less work to do the right thing from the start, than it is to change a working system to do the right thing later on. { #database }
Neat CSS (neat.joeldare.com) | [💬 discussion] - Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework { #css }
Linen | Slack alternative designed for communities (linen.dev) - Google-Searchable and community focused - Slack alternative { #tool }
OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS (orbstack.dev) - Run Docker and Linux on your Mac seamlessly and efficiently. Docker Desktop alternative that helps you work faster. { #tool }
scrapscript (scrapscript.org) | [💬 discussion] - A tiny functional language for sharable software { #tool }
Val Town (val.town) - If GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun { #tool }
mmm.page — Dead Simple, Drag & Drop Websites (build.mmm.page) - Dead simple, drag & drop websites for anything { #tool }
hyperspace (hyperspace.so) - A massively collaborative, open platform where anyone can participate and you can create just about anything. { #tool }
MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere (mrsk.dev) | [💬 discussion] - Deploy web apps anywhere. From bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime. { #tool #devop }
Google Cache Search: View Cached Pages & Websites (clickminded.com) - The Google cache search tool will let you easily view cached pages and websites in Google’s search index. You’ll be able to view the content of the page as it was last cached. This is great for a number of things, like checking when Google last indexed a page you’ve recently updated, or finding old content that you might need. { #tool }
GitHub - Textualize/frogmouth: A Markdown browser for your terminal (github.com) | [💬 discussion] - A Markdown browser for your terminal { #tool }
switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software) - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software { #oss }
misc⌗
How Did the Chess Pieces Get Their Names? - Atlas Obscura (atlasobscura.com) | [💬 discussion] - One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was the virgin, and rather powerless.
Space Elevator (neal.fun) | [💬 discussion] - Scrolling up will take you on a trip to Space while exploring the atmosphere and its many layers, past high-dwelling animals and cruising altitude for aircrafts and different types of clouds. There’s even a press play button for elevator music along the way as you ascend.
Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? - IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org) - Digital voiceprinting may not be ready for the courts { #voice }
Egypt builds world’s largest man made river (constructionweekonline.com) | [💬 discussion] - The construction of an artificial river in the midst of the arid desert may appear implausible; however, it has now evolved into a viable project in the Western Desert of Egypt. { #build }
The Effects of Noise on Health | Harvard Medicine magazine (hms.harvard.edu) | [💬 discussion] - Noise pollution is more than a nuisance. It’s a health risk. { #health }
ox | Sesquiotica (sesquiotic.com) | [💬 discussion] - “Why is it called oxtail if it’s from a cow?” { #creative }
Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map (satellitemap.space) | [💬 discussion] - Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map { #starlink }
GitHub - Genymobile/scrcpy: Display and control your Android device (github.com) | [💬 discussion] - Display and control your Android device { #tool #android }