# Joyful shorts 03

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Another year, another shorts. Looks like we will be another exploration year. We are having stuff like ralph wiggum loops in our lifes that still feel a lot like we are throwing spaguetti to the wall to see what sticks. What a time to be alive.


This post on how to workflow image generation with nano banana is amazing. It is giving me a lot of inspiration for some tooling I want to create for my children.

Alcohol consumption is decreasing but there are unintended consequences. https://www.freddyvega.com/p/alcohol

I read a post in Reddit about a desperation score and some dark patterns some companies used. To be honest, having worked in the food delivery industry that sounded like an absurd thing to me and it finally happened to be a hoax. It was fun to read how the scammer used AI to fake his evidence... Come on, a company using latex for its documentation?

I've been using this form of interviewing lately to refine specs. It is a nice way of using AskUserQuestion. Another way of using claude as a rubber duck.

I have a lot of fatigue on the concept of personal productivity. This piece summarizes a bit how I tend to feel about it.