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movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended. great monster movie with solid effects and an even better story. alien: romulus - solid effects, really did a pretty solid job of keeping things in the weyland-yutani universe. i was entertained throughout. a quiet place: day one - solidly entertaining. blink twice - actually, better than i was expecting. i’m surprised that the broligarchy hasn’t been protesting this one. the fall guy - i loved this way more than i should have....

goal target: 30 - read: 12 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something focused and high minded. like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note: this is a running list. (in reverse chronological order) how should a person be? (sheila heti) i added this to my queue based on reading the work of art last year. i was left with the impression that this sparked a fair amount of debate and/or there was a fair amount of discussion around the format (somewhere between memoir and fiction) and the depiction of women-women friendships....

links, etc Some things to expect in 2025 [LWN.net] this was stuck in my reading backlog. it’s kind of a low-key terrifying list of stuff that we should be on the lookout for in the software industry. Ask Not Wen Moon–Ask Why Moon this sequoia capital article says the terrifying part out loud. namely, they’re looking for the integration of cryptocurrency with the broader financial ecosystem as opposed to letting them stand alone....

links, etc Home | Kindle Modding Wiki i’m weirdly intrigued by this. Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey | web.dev more in WASM world. didn’t see this coming.

links, etc The Technium: 50 Years of Travel Tips some solid tips in here. some of these are gimmicky, IMHO, and feel like padding, but there are some nuggets here. worth picking through to see if there’s something that works for you.