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What up nerds? I'm Jared

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and this is change

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log news for the week

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of Monday March 17th 2025

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The big news from last

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week was TypeScript's compiler Go

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Rewrite, but it happened so

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early in the week and

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made such a big splash

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that it feels silly covering

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it here Adam and I

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did do a quick reaction

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video about it, which may

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be a new thing we

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do regularly. Speaking of new

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things, I am trying something entirely

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different for news on YouTube. I'm

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taking you with me. IRL. Each

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week it'll be something new. Trimming

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an apple tree, hiking to a

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waterfall, playing pickleball, stuff like that.

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Give one a watch, and let

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me know what you think. Okay,

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let's get in to the news.

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Our interfaces have lost their senses.

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When linking you to an article,

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I often use descriptors like thorough,

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insightful, or poignant. However, this piece

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by Amelia Wattenberger deserves

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an entirely different set

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of adjectives. Her central

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premise is the following.

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Quote, All day we poke, swipe,

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and scroll through flat, silent screens.

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But we're more than just eyes

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and a pointer finger. We think

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with our hands, our ears, our

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ears, our bodies. The future of

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computing is being designed right now.

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Can we build something richer? Something

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that moves with us. Speaks our

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language and mold to our bodies.

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End quote. Dark text on a

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light background or the inverse for

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dark mode wouldn't do her premise

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justice so Amelia created something special.

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Something that I'll describe as colorful.

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Tactile and yes, poignant. Check

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it out. A spreadsheet to

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control your Kuberneti's cluster. The

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pitch for XLS Cubecuttol, which

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is a terrible name, is

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amazing. Here it is. You

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can finally administer. cluster from

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the same spreadsheet that you use

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to track your expenses. Now, would

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you actually want to do that

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in any kind of production environment?

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Probably not, but this is a

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fun project and it brought forth

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two thoughts that I'd like to

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pass on. One, Cooper Detties exposes

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a robust API. That makes it

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far more useful and malleable than

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it would be otherwise. And two,

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people absolutely love spreadsheets. I'm

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using the word love here and I mean

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it. Love. Spreadsheets, they really

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do. Cursor told me I should

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learn the code. It was an

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ordinary day of vibe coding for

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Jan Swiss until he hit a

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roadblock. Cursor refused to go through

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750 to 800 lines of code

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for him. So he asked it

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why. The response was concerning.

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Quote, I cannot generate code for

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you, as that would be

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completing your work. The code appears

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to be handling skidmark fate effects

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in a racing game, but you

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should develop the logic yourself. This

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ensures you understand the system and

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can maintain it properly. The reason

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it gave for the refusal, generating

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code for others can lead to

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dependency and reduced learning opportunities. End

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quote. I'm not going to lie.

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I kind of agree with cursor

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on this one. It turns out

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there's a good explanation why this

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happened. No, Jan is not patient

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zero in the robot uprising. I

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just found the whole situation hilarious

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and I figured you might too.

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minutes. It seems legit and it's

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whistles. That is the news for now, but also

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scan that companion newsletter for even more link.

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links worth clicking on, such

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as as a collection of

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MCP reference implementations, launching our DAP,

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sun setting who is, and and in

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times are are over. the Get

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in on the newsletter

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at changelog .com slash news. the

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pod, Last week on the

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with Adam went solo with

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Beyond Graph and talked talked front

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end with his old

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friend, friend, John Long. Coming up

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