Patrick Tanguay

Ok that's weird, I don't have the right url at all in the newsletter, not sure where that came from. I'll fix it on the website, thanks for the heads up

So if I understand correctly, every app icon "upgrade" for IOS now needs to look like 💩. Did I get this right?

I wonder how many of the thousands upon thousands of Youtube and Medium productivity and growth hackers and whatever who keep using "development goals" as examples and inject it into their prompts, vaults, courses, tricks, tips, etc. actually, you know, ... develop?

New Blanc drops soon, rejoice! ⚪️ 🔍 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hc8yz5-d5Y

Who could have possibly predicted this? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/

Unrelated, I'm sure.

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Hmmm. I wonder where they'll stick it then?
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/openai-s-first-ai-hardware-isn-t-a-wearable-docs-reveal/story

A first for me, but maybe I'm an olds. Overheard someone saying out loud “just give me the TL;DR.”

Here we are, the loudest ever instance of Betteridge's law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20lwedn23o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Less Altman.
More halt, man.

I have a simple solution to this trade war. The rest of the world stops shipping to the US anything gold-colored or with gold in it. He'll fold soon enough.

Eras of webdev? (For websites, not webapps.)
- Hand crafted html/css
- CMSes
- Frameworks, javascript galore
- No code
- No coder

Gotta say, an Artificial Super Intelligence taking over the world is sounding pretty good right now.

US SOTA in AI
Tired: State Of The Art
Wired: Shoved On Their Asses

Oh, and don't forget Google.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/google-announces-android-xr-platform-will-launch-first-on-samsungs-project-moohan-device/

I have a interview done with someone with a very unique career path. Do you prefer to read it as a cleaned-up and shortened Q&A, as it was spoken, or as a much more edited and even shorter article format with quotes?

Q&A
Article

Microsoft and Samsung are in a perpetual combat to see who can out-copycat the other v Apple.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-may-go-the-apple-route-and-brand-its-ai-features-as-windows-intelligence/

The mind, it boggles.

Three of the last four people I had coffee with.
- "I’m starting a PHD"
- "I’m preparing to submit for my PHD at {...}"
- "I’m basically doing a PHD on my own."
🤔