Week in review 2022-09-19

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This is an automated issue to track the weekly post for luisnatera.com/blog. The issue works as a repository for the links and thoughts to be published by the end of the week.

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Things to cover in the weekly post

• [ ] 🗓 Overview of the week
• [ ] 🐦 On Twitter
• [ ] 📼 Youtube
• [ ] 🧑‍💻 Around the web

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twitter 🎶 Municipal heroes // A twitter thread, and spotify playlist, with songs that star a city employee as the protagonist. Interesting to think about city employees as part of songs, and how the experience that someone might have had with one public servant might end in a song.

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twitter 💳 How does Apple and Google pay works // An overview on how the technologies behind Apple Pay and Google Pay works, the main difference: Google stores the credit card in their servers, while with Apple the information is stored in a chip in the phone.

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YouTube 🍎Jony Ive, Lauren Powell Jobs, and Tim Cook with Kara Swisher at the 2022 Code Conference // An interesting talk reflecting on Steve Jobs from three of the closest persons to Jobs.

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about This past week was a quiet one. It started with COVID, fortunately the symptoms remained very mild, like a normal cold. So I spent mos of my week inside my home. On the work side it was also a good one, the code I worked on for the first six months of the year was open sourced, and a report where I participated (with the code for the simulations) was published. It is a nice feeling to see it out in the open. I'll make sure to write a dedicated post on the project and the results.

By the end of the week I tested negative again, so I went out. The biggest discovery of the week was a local taco stand in one of Amsterdam's markets. The tacos were really good, and the taquero, Luis, is a very cool guy. I'll definitely be coming back 🌮🤤

Finally, the latest improvement in the blog: Comments! 💬✨ It is now possible to leave comments, the only requirement is to be registered with GitHub, as they way they work are by using GitHub issues to store the comments and then display them in the site. So feel free to leave some comments bellow.