Weeknotes #6 (December 14, 2024)

Posted on: Dec 14, 2024

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I wrote

I wrote about trying to start creating actions and habits to put down electronics earlier in the night before I go to sleep: Putting away the computer for the night

iOS 18.2 was out this Wednesday. The main features are Image Playground, Genmoji, and ChatGPT support. The image generation models feel like party tricks currently rather than actually interesting tech, and ChatGPT definitely I am unsure if it is adding anything beyond the app, but if it makes Siri slightly better than it has been for years, I'm for it.
As well, Google launched Gemini 2.0. They're pushing towards an agentic future of models acting on your behalf, but I feel personally that is still years away.
As part of OpenAI's "12 Days of OpenAI", on Day 7 they unveiled Projects where you can start creating groupings of documents and chats surrounding particular topics. I am unsure if I will use it for extrapolating data against files and documents, but it is definitely going to be nice to take the chronological listing of documents and start categorizing ones that I want to go back to reference in the future.
The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley's annual award show for video games, was this past week and one of this year's indie hits Balatro was nominated for several awards including game of the year. It won best independent game, best mobile game, and best debut indie game. I finally decided to pick it up and it is quite the engaging gameplay loop. Definitely going to be a good game that you can casually pick up and play a round of.