🍔🧠 2024 Guide to Goals: Maximizing Success for Software Engineers

🍔  THIS WEEK’S MENU  🥗

• 📚 How to set goals for 2024, master LLM training techniques, and the planned CSS features for 2024

• 🗞️ OpenAI launching GPT store, housekeeping robot Aloha, and Copilot keys for Windows.

• 👨🏻‍💻 Quick byte: Partial types in TypeScript enable flexible and safe type manipulation.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week

Mindset: This quote emphasizes the importance of passion and enjoyment in achieving remarkable results in your work.

Example: Google, known for its innovative and groundbreaking products, encourages employees to pursue their passions through initiatives like "20% Time" which allows them to dedicate a portion of their workweek to personal projects.

Action item: Today, take a moment to reflect on what aspects of your work you truly love and find ways to incorporate more of them into your daily tasks.

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The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead

💾  SIDE DISHES  💾

ARTICLE (anything LLMs) → A primer on LLMs

GITHUB REPO (shiny Spotify) → Open source Spotify client with minimal requirements

ESSENTIAL (frontend dead?) → The ‘end of frontend development’ by Josh Comeau (and how AI will create software jobs)

ARTICLE (CSS in 2024) → What next-gen features are planned for CSS this year

TUTORIAL (LLM training) → Train a high-quality SDXL LoRA in a breeze

ARTICLE (more AI this week) → Estimating light settings by inpainting a large Chrome ball

The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time

💡 OpenAI to Launch Store for GPTs, Custom AI Apps (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, AI apps based on its text-generating models, allowing developers to easily create and share custom AI applications without coding experience.

Takeaway: This move by OpenAI reflects the company's shift towards becoming a platform and democratizing AI app creation, enabling developers to leverage OpenAI's models and expertise to build and distribute their AI-powered applications.

🤖 Meet Aloha: The Housekeeping Humanoid That Can Cook and Clean (1 min)

Brief: Aloha is a cutting-edge housekeeping humanoid system that offers the ability to cook, clean, and be teleoperated holistically.

Takeaway: Aloha represents the future of housekeeping as it combines advanced robotics and teleoperation, providing efficient and versatile assistance for everyday tasks. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the hospitality and domestic service industries.

🔑 Microsoft Introduces Copilot Key to Windows PCs and Laptops (2 min)

Brief: Microsoft is shaking up the traditional PC keyboard layout with the introduction of the Copilot key, which provides quick access to the AI-powered Windows Copilot experience, a chatbot that can answer queries or perform actions within Windows.

Takeaway: This move by Microsoft reflects their goal of making 2024 "the year of the AI PC," as they strive to integrate AI technology into everyday computer interactions, positioning themselves at the forefront of the evolving AI market.

💡 Google Plans to Introduce Paid Upgrade for Bard Language Model (2 min)

Brief: Google is set to launch Bard Advanced, a paid upgrade for its chatbot, Bard, which will likely be offered as a part of Google One and available for free for the first three months before users have to pay. Releasing this paid tier allows Google to recover costs and monetize its popular language model.

Takeaway: With the introduction of Bard Advanced, Google aims to enhance its language model's capabilities, potentially positioning it as a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT and capturing a portion of the language model market. By offering a paid upgrade, Google demonstrates its commitment to providing top-notch AI services while also generating revenue from its cutting-edge technology.

🔍 Leaked Video Shows Browsing Safari in Apple Vision Pro Is Super Smooth (2 min)

Brief: Apple Vision Pro, the rumored web browser for Apple's upcoming visionOS, offers a customizable and multitasking 3D browsing experience that enables users to have multiple windows and tabs in a virtual workspace, with smooth operation and the ability to incorporate 3D objects into the browser.

Takeaway: This leaked video highlights Apple's innovation in creating a more immersive and productive web browsing experience, indicating their focus on integrating augmented reality and enhancing user multitasking capabilities in their upcoming visionOS.

🚀 The Long-Awaited Bitcoin ETF is Probably Almost Here (2 min)

Brief: Voices from the bitcoin community and Wall Street analysts predict that various versions of a bitcoin ETF will soon be available, making investing in bitcoin easy and safer, potentially attracting a flood of money and driving up the price.

Takeaway: The potential arrival of a bitcoin ETF reflects growing mainstream acceptance of digital currencies and could lead to increased investment in bitcoin from both retail investors and institutional players, further boosting its price and the overall market for digital currencies.

The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all

TypeScript's utility types, like Partial, Readonly, and Pick, allow for more flexible and safe manipulation of type definitions. These utilities help in creating variations of existing types without altering the original types, improving code maintainability and type safety.

Wen?

• API Response Handling: Useful when working with subsets of model properties, e.g., when receiving partial objects from API responses.

• State Management: Enhances flexibility in state object manipulation while maintaining type safety.

• Types out of control: When you don’t own the types that you consume but still want to comply with part of their definition

Why?

• Code Reusability: Avoids the need for repetitive type definitions, promoting DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles.

• Flexibility: Enables the creation of type variations without altering original definitions.

• Maintainability: Facilitates updates and changes to types by centralizing modifications.

The Job Feast
A fresh cheese job board if you’re looking for a change

• Software Engineer - All Levels @ FedEx

• Software Engineer - Recent Graduate @ PayPal

• Software Engineer - Backend @ Microsoft

• Software Engineer (L5) - TV User Interface @ Netflix

• Software Engineer, Remote @ GitHub

• Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure @ Tiktok

• Software Engineer, Emerging Talent @ Coinbase

• Software Engineer I @ Disney

Burp-A-Laugh
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