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πŸ”₯ Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading β€” Human Slots Machine

This week we learn a new Postgres trick, write JavaScript for MS-DOS, we answer phone calls on our washer, go big on monospace fonts, we teach you how to market, Rickroll our customers, name our wifi Stinky, and cross the street in the modern world, and vote for the Tara Iti.

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Weekend Reading β€” Home office the way I like it

This week we run a search through Postgres, wear our Mac on our wrist, font with the Z80, hyperfocus through this post, remember Quiznos, close the circle of grift, watch Cybertruck in its habitat, lay off our wizard, make way for the ostrich, and blow on our wine.

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Weekend Reading β€” Florida clown

This week we learn how to Zod, we draggy and swappy, we interview our internal customers, don’t get anything completed on time, lay off our energy healer, decode the ToS, guard our headphones, walk around with normal human items, and visit the Mullet state.

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Weekend Reading β€” Very demure, very mindful

This week we get our dev docs offline, color the windows, guesstimate our credit score, sue an ice cream, honk like a self-driving car, experiment on a lion, cancel our Disney+ account, and reuse our unexpired N95 mask.

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August 10th, 2024 13 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Momala and Popala

This week we do a screen recording, restart WordStar, take our printer to space, play medieval tunes, sample the LLM, and watch out for the blow-nado.

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August 3rd, 2024 11 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Emotional support billionaires

This week we watch the olympics, make a todo list, propose new password rules, purchase a domain for > $1M, get an AI massage, shot with hand in pocket, save 100% by not buying anything, and measure our height in corgis.

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July 27th, 2024 9 min read

Weekend Reading β€” πŸ₯₯🌴 Canadian Dogs

This week Jupyter and Notion have a baby, we play mockup in the browser, we can’t talk much β€” fish in the car, we get to keep our cookies, we use an LLM to do math, and we embrace our childless cat lady hero!

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July 20th, 2024 9 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Bumpy safety yellow

This week we test a new test framework, get a smartwatch from 1984, become a pet psychic, use AI to get funnier, realize Cellebrite is not breaking into our iPhone, not fall in love with our first theory, drink Modelo Negra, and tour through an underground village.

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July 13th, 2024 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Tactical Assault Shiba

This week we’re headed to the JSON station, we find a lighter and faster alternative to lodash, steal like an artists, generate better prompts than an Oath Keeper, discover Britain’s new ruler, and read the funniest Reddit story about cheese.

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