Links for the Week of September 26

• Simon Willison lists some core engineering practices
• I wrote a little tool for turning youtube videos into gifs with ffmpeg and yt-dlp. Short twitter thread about it here
• Casey Muratori makes the case that turns are better than radians
• I've been considering giving the helix editor a serious try, but it's hard to even consider giving up my vim familiarity

Music

• I listened to Hot Rats a lot this week, one of my favorite albums:

• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new album is a fun jam