To those in the US: Happy MLK day! The fact that I, an immigrant Asian, can live without discrimination or fear in the US owes a lot to Dr. King. The progress has been too slow, and challenges are still innumerable, but let’s use today to remember his legacy.
Software Engineering ⚙️
The State of JS 2022
I always learn new things from this report. This time I learned the following:
- Some new language features I didn’t know about (such as numeric separators)
- Ember’s falling usage now at 7.5%
- How mainstream Typescript is (more people write Typescript full-time than those who write Javascript full-time)
- A library called tRPC to guarantee end-to-end type-safety
tRPC Introduction
After learning about this library in the survey, I read about what tRPC is. It reads like it’s simpler than GraphQL to adopt for full-stack developers who work on a monolith. But it won’t give you GraphQL’s flexible APIs.
People ❤️
Finding Fulfillment
This article made me look back at my past decisions. Did I make them out of ego? Did I sacrifice my true fulfillment to satisfy my ego at the time? How can I make better decisions for myself in the future?
Shopify encourages employees to say no to meetings
Shopify canceled all non-1:1 meetings at the beginning of the year. This was intended to force all meetings to be re-evaluated on their merits. I like this. All meetings should be able to justify their existence.
Business 💰
Every book deserves to be heard
Apple announced a pilot program to create audiobooks with AI voices. As an avid audiobook listener, I got very excited as I often wanted to get interested in an old book without an accompanying audiobook. Unfortunately, this will also upend many narrators’ livelihoods, and only the author-narrated books will survive as collector’s items.
CNET Is Experimenting With an AI Assist. Here’s Why
CNET, a major tech media, started publishing articles created by an AI system and edited by a human editor. I am actually not surprised, I suppose, because I’ve already seen ChatGPT.
My lawyer, the robot
This is the most advanced and high-stakes AI in today’s post. DoNotPay, a legal tech company, is looking for a person to use its AI to argue their case.
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