November 20, 2023

Week in Review 2023-11-20

A week of work, a book recommendation, and picturesque memories from Scotland captured on camera.

Hello, regular readers, and welcome to the new ones!

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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One more week gone, one week closer to 2024. Last week was a good one, at work I got to create new API endpoints, do some merge request reviews, and review data for a new project. Working with FastAPI has been interesting, I still miss Django for some things (migrations specially), but on the other hand it's good to have so much flexibility with FastAPI. At the end of the day I think both are really good.

I got the new book by Adam Johnson, Boost your Git DX and it has been a great read. Highly recommended to anyone working with Git in the terminal.

This week, I got to edit the pictures I took while on holiday in Scotland. Here are a couple of them, you can see all them in my instagram. I enjoy taking pictures with a DSLR camera, the process of selecting the appropriate aperture, speed, and iso has something special, that cannot be replicated with a smartphone.

And now some interesting links from the week:

Mastodon

• I recently heard about this novel in which Schrodinger's cat and Pavlov's dog team up for an epic adventure, so I went down to my local library to see if they had a copy. The librarian said that my description of the book rang a bell but she wasn't sure if it was there or not ... // hehehe good one.

Newsletters

• Hatching great teams through reflection. Via Werd/IO from Ben Werdmuller // Good read, I do appreciate getting to read the thoughts of other people in my teams.

Weeknotes

• Jochen's weeknotes 2023-11-13
• Dan Catt weeknotes Q4 week six

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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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