Labnotes
March 5th, 2023 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🧼 That well-worn look …

This week we celebrate cleaning products, a new timezone, predictive coding, Yiddish slang, and techno-linguistic chaos.

Read more
February 25th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘Œ 6-finger deniability

This week we have a new search engine we’re actually excited about, the results from the 4-day workweek trial are in, and we have questions about craters.

Read more
February 20th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ¦… Fly smarter, not harder

This week we talk software architecture: YAGNI, 80% ready, bad vibes, and LFI. We have some opinions about GPT, and 3 tools to screenshot and video demo your product.

Read more
February 14th, 2023 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 🎈 BRB, went ballooning

This week we have a cheat sheet for using React, we learn how to use negative prompts, and FaceID-lock our iPhone apps.

Read more
February 5th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘‹ How many fingers to a hand?

This week we ask who’s responsible for technical decisions, dig into the origins of spaghetti code, discover a new dopamine loop, talk a lot (too much?) about generative AI, and wrap it up with a better chat UI.

Read more
January 29th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 😎 Software is believing

This week is loaded with AI. We use it to summarize and de-summarize, help us SQL, spoken words, and handwritten notes. We also settle a semantic debate and cure our Python envy.

Read more
January 23rd, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘Œ Ctrl-Salt-Delete

This week we load up on SVG, pay back tech debt, fight name complexity, learn how to build ChatGPT, and go in search of SF/Mission super burrito.

Read more
January 14th, 2023 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ‘‹ Shut the front door

This week we compare JS component libraries, steer clear of YAML, impressed by text-to-draw tech, and dream of a giant dog bed.

Read more
January 8th, 2023 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ§„ Garlic expressions

This week we draw with SVG, learn garlic expressions, watch an epic battle unfold, explore AI as assistive technology, replace .env with 1P, and bake an octopie.

Read more