Week in review 2023-05-01

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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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podcast Being a productive Developer - Nick Janetakis

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about New work week! ✨ As with every change of jobs the first week has been a set up week, from setting up everything in my new computer, the development environment, gaining access the systems, and so on. As part of the set up, I tried to configure VScode, it didn’t go well, had to make multiple configurations and download various plugins to get it to half the state that I wanted. Vim + PyCharm are still the winning combo for my development needs, and now I'm up and running with the new set up 🤖. I'm impress by the Apple chips, this things fly, and are very quiet!

I have my new tasks, and now I'll be tipping my toes into FastAPI, looks very interesting. I'm looking forward to start coding and getting to learn more about it. It feels different from Django, but also has some similarities. I’ll make sure to write some TILs about FastAPI.

Now to the urban and personal side. A good week with friends and family, finally we are getting some good weather, thus enjoying it and getting to spend more time outdoors, although we tried a picnic and an hour into it, it started to rain quite heavy. It was a good storm with proper thunders and lightings, it felt like being back home; at the end we finished with an indoor picnic.

Around the week I collected some interesting links, give them a look:

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mastodon [I don't understand the appeal of #bluesky - yet another closed platform/proprietary platform. Apparently, Jack Dorsey is behind it. That doesn't give me confidence either.

I understand the wish to leave Twitter due to all the sh*t that's going on due to Musk, but why leave for something that's basically the same?](https://hachyderm.io/@sbr/110310421441831030)

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web The Hague introduces €50 flat fee for parking to deter drivers // Great news, and great quote from the mayor:

We want the primary way of transportation to be your legs, and then the bicycle, public transport, and, last, cars

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twitter New function in Google Maps. Allows you to see the area covered in a 15-minute walk, assigning a point of origin. Via Carlos Moreno // Good for getting 15-minute cities more into the mainstream.

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twitter [the future is going to be very weird.

but i would absolutely watch the wes anderson remake of the matrix](https://twitter.com/blader/status/1652726228665921537?s=46&t=dWgRoYgxGqD-MGp2oa6tYQ) // I would too

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mastodon [I don't understand the appeal of #bluesky - yet another closed platform/proprietary platform. Apparently, Jack Dorsey is behind it. That doesn't give me confidence either.

I understand the wish to leave Twitter due to all the sh*t that's going on due to Musk, but why leave for something that's basically the same?](https://hachyderm.io/@sbr/110310421441831030)

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mastodon Product idea: a site that auto buys plane tickets for you if they go below certain price, within a date range and with max number of stops. Something like stock limit buys but for flights✈️

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podcast De Fiets is Niets - 99% Invisible // On the history of the Netherlands getting to be a bicycling paradise.

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weeknotes Jochen’s weeknotes 2023-05-01 // Thanks for the good wishes, Jochen!

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podcast De CDMX a la capital de la galaxia de Star Wars // Great podcast (in Spanish) about using Star Wars to understand modern cities. Thanks mom for the recommendation!