Weeknotes 90

Arc from The Browser Company continues to impress and I’m now using it full time. Organisation-wise, it’s a game changer - a single window for everything. The muscle memory developed from years of other browsers is hard to beat though, so I’m occasionally tripping myself up.

I’m excited to see what their mobile browser might look. Also, Easel is cool, see Collect Your Internet with Easel.

Embed and broadcast Whisper speech-to-text in your Phoenix app in 15 minutes

In this screencast, I show just how quickly we can add audio transcription to the open-source LiveBeats application we saw in a previous video. There’s no third-party APIs to call out to, no background jobs to kick off, and no JavaScript to write. The only external dependency is ffmpeg.

Pretty incredible

I’m a very slow thinker

I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response.

Anxious first week of work, but mostly self-induced. I was happy with how it went, and with what I contributed given it was my first week. My brain has me thinking this was a fluke, but I’m hoping to prove it wrong.

Bobby Fingers' Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama (via Tom Stuart) – I don’t know what to say about this other than it’s well worth your time.