A Minimalist Start Page

Got this from Paul Thurrott’s end of year wrap up. It’s a chrome extension to do a very pretty and minimal start page. It also works with Edge and should work with other Chromium based browsers.

Bonjourr – A minimalist start page.

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Hey! FAQs about leaving the cloud

I’ve said for years I never want to build another data center… and this blog post validates that… but it doesn’t mean that going all in on the cloud is always the right choice.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

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New Yorker – A Coder Considers AI

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft

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Having a Problem Pinning Something to QuickStart?

For some reason my Documents shortcut was missing from the quickstart side panel in file explorer. No matter what I did, I couldn’t add it back (but I could add / remove others).

This trick from SuperUser.com fixed it:


There is a file in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, with name f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms. This file stores the information about the folders you’ve pinned. What I think is, this file somehow got corrupted on your computer, yk, since Windows 11 is still under development. When you delete this file, it is automatically remade within second — And you’ll get desktop, documents, downloads, and pictures pinned by default.

Note that the file isn’t recreated “within a second” until you do something with File Explorer – in my case I didn’t have it open at all, I opened it, and all was right in the world.

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The Startup CTO’s Handbook

I’m past this point in my career but I’m hanging onto this to forward to people who might need help or guidance beyond having a chat with me! Don’t let the github link hold you back – it’s also available from all book sellers as a printed book instead of a pdf or .md file.

As of today I have not read this book, so don’t consider this a recommendation (yet).

https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

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Turn off Google’s new tracking “feature”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

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Want a temporary email address?

Found this in my notes from 6 years ago, they’re still around!

https://trashmail.com

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Running SQL Server in Docker on MacOS

I run a mix of environments, but this might be handy someday:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/development-with-sql-in-containers-on-macos/

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Blog post and video about the strange world of LLMs

Not mine, just keeping track of it here if I want to refer anyone to it. I especially liked the bits about how to trick the LLMs.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/

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Google has no moat for AI

Interesting copy of an internal Google memo. There are a lot of callouts in there for “AI” implementations that are happening outside of the tech biggies… Amazing how much stuff is going on, and how quickly things are progressing. I wonder if we have “AI” helping to write AI yet… It won’t be far off.

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

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