Week in Review 2023-01-23
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This is Luis, with the latest issue of my newsletter. I write this newsletter to share my passion for photography, cities, and technology, along with interesting links I find over the week(s). This newsletter will be (as long as possible) free, but if you like to support it feel free to become a paid subscriber (pay what you want), or buy one of my photos.
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Last week was a deep dive into Django forms, actually, the deep dive started since the week before, but last week continued to be into it. I developed multiple tests to work with a form that needed to validate some data inputs, and create a new entry of a model. It was a good experience to refactor an old hack, set the code in the appropriate place, have tests covering the new code, and clean the code base.
From the urban perspective it was an interesting week too. Sunday we went to check out the Amsterdam Light Festival, 20 light art installations in the Amsterdam canals, that could be visited by boat or walking around the city. We did it by boat, a different point of view of the city. The installations combine technology with different urban elements, like the Hourglass piece, by Wilhelmusvlug, a Timelapse of the location where the piece is exhibited, showing a window in time to the location.
Also this week came with a collection of interesting links, give them a read:
Web
- Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite // A tutorial on using SpatiaLite and Datasette to build an API
- Extremely Hardcore // The Verge’s loans read about Elon Musk and Twitter
Weeklogs
- Open sourcing strategy and resources // Definitely companies should have plans about open sourcing and how to ensure the maintenance and contributions to the projects work.
- McKinsey sees urban sprawl as a “benefit” for autonomous vehicles // Come on, really. 🤦 It is incredible that they publish these things.
Mastodon
- How many Hiroshima bombs per second // A frightening view on the equivalent in Hiroshima bombs per second on how fast the planet is heating up.
Thanks for reading!
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About this newsletter
I'm Luis Natera, a software developer, network scientist, and data/cities/tech nerd. I have an interdisciplinary trajectory (architecture -> sociocultural studies -> network science -> software development), you can read more about me and my career here.
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