Friday Links: LibreOffice, rare skills, and art

Hey there.

Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:

#1. LibreOffice announced “no-ai” (2min) as a core feature and their downloads doubled. Not everyone wants AI and their hands on everything. I’m announcing “no-AI” on my posts, newsletters, books…just to see if visits and sales doubled. LOL.

#2. What do you have in your CV? Languages, tools, job experience? What about listing any of these 4 rare skills (6min)? Which one do you have? I think I’m a polyglot.

#3. AI won’t ever replace coders if you consider programming as an art (5min). Do you think programming is art?

#4. When everybody is doomscrolling and defaulting to AI, it’s time for de-brainrot vacations (5min).


And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about the signs I failed to noticed when I burned out (2min) and one habit I quit after recovering from burnout (2min).


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See you next Friday,

Cesar