Weeknotes 17

Tech

• Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam | YouTube. Just learned how insane Honey is. To me, it feels like straight up fraud. And worse, Honey doesn’t deny it and Linus Tech Tips knew about it some time back and didn’t really say anything.

Engineering

• Surely not all code’s worth it | by Thorsten Ball. An argument for using LLMs while coding. I say the same thing to myself when not using LLMs for some personal projects.
• Visualizing a Codebase | GitHub Next. A really cool way of visualising a codebase. Tried it on one of the repositories I’m working on, and it was really insightful. They have a online interface to try it out. I recommend you do.

Tools

• DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system. Recently used it to perform some analysis on some data collected during an experiment. Not going back to any other DBs for analysis.
• Supermaven: Free AI Code Completion. This is my code completion service for Zed. It is much better than the built-in autocompletion and free.
• JetBrains AI Service and In-IDE AI Assistant. I am trying this out now, and it is wonderful. I will most probably buy a subscription for this.