A good inspiration on ambitious projects:

• iPod. Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001. Steve Jobs greenlit the project in March 2001. They hired a contract manufacturer in April 2001, announced the product in October 2001, and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started. Source: Tony Fadell.

• COVID-19 vaccines. On January 10 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published. 3 days later, Moderna finalized the sequence for mRNA-1273, its mRNA vaccine candidate; the first batch was manufactured on February 7. On February 24 (45 days after genome publication), Moderna shipped the first batch of mRNA-1273 to the NIH for use in their Phase 1 clinical study. 266 days of clinical trials and regulatory coordination followed. On November 16, Moderna announced that the vaccine's efficacy was 94.5%. Source: linked materials. Note: the BioNTech vaccine was produced on a similarly impressive timeline but I haven't yet tracked down sufficiently granular information about its development—pointers appreciated.

Two impressive AI creations I saw in the last few days. Billionaires on crack is created by Brazilian cisma and I first saw in an Adbusters magazine.

Also, Wes Anderson's The Shining. The Twitter thread has other scenes:

For a while I wanted to embed code with previews in a good way in this website. I finally spent a couple of hours adding Sandpack to it.

export default function App() { 
  return (
    <>
      <h1>VANCOUVER</h1>
      <h2>CANADA</h2>
    </>
  );
};

Sandpack is the playground used by CodeSandbox. It uses different templates (react, react-ts, vue, vanilla, etc) and it supports different themes (I'm a big fan of the GitHub light theme).

I am not going to write a tutorial about adding Sandpack in a React app because Joshua Comeau and Chris Nicholas already did a great job showing how to interact with the components. Their posts were very helpful to add to the good documentation of the project. Despite not writing a tutorial, I can still show what I did if you check this website repository. Or you can read the Pull Request.

I initially thought in creating something more elaborated with resizable panels and custom toolbars like Joshua did but I ended up with something smaller.