Week in Review 2023-04-03
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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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I'm back! Took off a couple of weeks as I was in Mexico, and then had to catch-up coming back. But here I am. I guess, this will be a week(s) in review 😉.
Two weeks in Mexico, it was great to be back home, get to see so many people, and enjoy the warm weather. As every time we go to Guadalajara, the time wasn't enough to catch-up with all the friends and family, but I think we managed well.
On the work life, the last weeks were working on some translations and making use of Django built-in machinery for working with different languages. It was a good learning experience on how complicated it can get between the frontend and backend. Glad that we figured it out.
Last week, I had one of those mini-heart attacks when deploying. Let's say that I brought down the production server for a couple of minutes. Luckily everything was brought back to life with the help of Jochen, and there was not a real impact. Lesson re-learned to be extra cautious when deploying 😅.
On the personal projects, during the last weeks I was invited by Fannie, from the WTF4Cities podcast to record an episode, it was a great experience, and I'll make sure to share it once it goes live. Beside the podcast, I got back to do some coding for a personal project, and decided to leverage ChatGPT to help with the development, it was a good experience, I'm not sure we'll be replaced by AI, but for sure AI can be a great copilot for different tasks, for example debugging error messages, or improving searching for some references/code. Looking forward to the future.
And a final note, is great that we are getting into spring 🌷, not only the trees and flowers are starting to bloom, but also the days are getting longer, and enjoying the extra hours of sun is a great feeling.
Enjoying the extra light coming in
Now on the links:
Web
- DIY open source espresso machine // This has the potential to become one of my side projects. Tinkering with electronics to get the perfect espresso.
- WTF4Cities podcats
- Amsterdam launches stay away ad campaign targeting young British men
Weeklogs
Mastodon
- And let’s face it, once GPT7 is given deep fakes capabilities, we’ll be having entire meetings that involve no people. The future is indeed bright.
- The future of mobility is already among us
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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