2024 is a crazy year in tech. We saw Devin (anybody know where he is now?), then we saw PHP rising like a phoenix again. We also saw some tech drama unfold on X. Overall, it was an exciting and fun year, and we still have 3.5 months left!

That aside, how are you doing this week? Any new projects or gigs you are working on?

The side project with the girls at CtrlSheClub is almost ready for launch, and I can't contain my excitement!

Enough gossip, let’s get back to business!

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Major tech update for this week

• OpenAI has dropped its newest models - OpenAI has introduced o1 - a new series of reasoning models designed to solve complex problems by producing a detailed internal chain of thought before responding.

  Internally, it is known as Project Strawberry/Q*. Rumor has it, they named it strawberry after the entire strawberry drama that happened a few weeks back. It looks like the new model can finally count the number of r in strawberry.

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Resources that can help you learn and grow

Before we get started, here’s a thread that you must read:

• Articles by Arpit Bhayani that can help you grow in career.

• Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships - wisdom from Linus Trovalds.

• 40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) by Peter Wang

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Software tips and tricks

Typescript plugin in Next.js and how to enable it:

• Reducing tech debt effectively - an article by Greg Orosz and Lou Franco.

• 90% of performance is data access patterns

• GitHub Repositories Every Software Engineer Should Know

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That’s a wrap for this week! I hope you had fun reading it. I am always looking for feedback, so feel free to shoot them in the comments below.