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This week in dev - 1/1 - 1/5
Prompt of the year 2023. Good news stories of 2023. New antibiotics found via AI. Smart insulin. Humanoid robots getting to Work. What will happen in 2024.
This week in dev - 12/18 - 12/22
Pixie AI. DeepMind AI solves unsolved problems. Gene editing our future. Meta’s Ray-Ban add AI. Beeper app v Apple continues. Epic v Google. SSH vulnerability.
This week in dev - 12/11 - 12/15
Gemeni. Liquid AI. Beeper Mini. FDA approves first CRISPR therapy. FrankenPHP. ChatGPT Nova Mode. Google Year in Search. Wi-Fi 7. ChatGPT gets “lazy”.
This week in dev - 12/4 - 12/8
Tech Predictions for ’24. Google delays Gemini. Where are all the robo-trucks. Bipedal robot factory to open in Oregon. “Animate Anyone” deepfakes.
This week in dev - 11/27 - 12/1
Binance woes. Roots of the modern backend. AI doomers vs. boomers. All software has skeletons. Dog life extension drug. ‘Online’ AI from Perplexity.
This week in dev - 11/20 - 11/24
No more green bubbles. tldraw. Robo fast food coming. OAI turmoil – Sam Altman fired; Altman hired at MS; Altman back at OAI.
This week in dev - 11/13- 11/17
CAR T immunotherapy to treat cancer. Google’s ”default” lawsuit continues. GPT-5. Google Play tightens app store restrictions. MS creates new AI chips.
This week in dev - 11/6- 11/10
GPT-4 Turbo. Starlink achieves breakeven. Robovac from former Google engineers. SBF guilty on all counts. LLM’s prediction capabilities. Habits of a great SE.
This week in dev - 10/30- 11/3
AI can generalize language. Javascript frameworks short life. Quasiparticles make fastest semiconductor. X thinks it can replace banks. AI regulation introduced
This week in dev - 10/23- 10/27
Detect type II diabetes from your voice. Reddit may block search. Sergey's airship set to launch. CA robotaxi permit suspended. Too many levels of abstractions.
This week in dev - 10/16 - 10/20
Tesla opens up official API. OpenAI core value shifts to AGI. Software shipments are slower than they used to be. YT anti-ad blocking efforts continue.
Installing MySQL 8 on macOS for local development: Making the switch from MAMP to Laravel Herd
With MySQL 5 reaching end of life this year, and generally clunky and glitchy behavior from MAMP, we've finally decided to ditch MAMP in favor of Herd!