Progress

Some house-stuff. Boring and, well, boring.

A surprising amount of work appeared quite suddenly. So that's great. Also, I'll be working with more technology that I'm not perfect yet, so I'll get to hone more new stuff, which is also great.

PlantEd

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NTS

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Articles

• Backpressure explained — the resisted flow of data through software: "Aside from scaling up your available compute resources, how you handle backpressure can pretty much be summed up with three possible options:
  Control the producer (slow down/speed up is decided by consumer)
  Buffer (accumulate incoming data spikes temporarily)
  Drop (sample a percentage of the incoming data)
  Technically there’s a fourth option — ignore the backpressure — which, to be honest, is not a bad idea if the backpressure isn’t causing critical issues. Introducing more complexity comes at a cost too."
• HyperStyle: StyleGAN Inversion with HyperNetworks for Real Image Editing
• Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist: so, uh, there really is a strategic maple syrup reserve in Canada. And a few years ago, there was a heist and 3000 tons of it were stolen‽ And there's a Netflix documentary about it, that is absolutely hilarious‽‽
• This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
• Supersonic Projectile Exceeds Engineers Dreams: The Supersonic Trebuchet: Someone made a supersonic trebuchet, because of course they would. Comments say things like: "It's more of an onager!!!!1"
• Fixed transport link between Great Britain and Northern Ireland: technical feasibility: A tunnel between Great Britain and Northern Ireland would probably cost 209 billion pounds, a bridge would cost 335 billion pounds (but would have a road).
• Food Scan is inspiring the next generation of cooks, and it’s as easy as pie: So, uh, Snapchat can recognize food items now and will suggest recipes to you.
• Procedural storytelling is exploding the possibilities of video game narratives
• I wish I'd self-published sooner: Books! Write books!
• Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL: Great title, great research, boring outcome: it's hard, they don't know it yet, and programming is finicky.
• Disappearing Bicyclist - Sam Loyd
• Infektionsrisiko mit FFP2-Maske minimal: It's unclear to me how they arrived at their estimate of 0,1% infection probability for 20 minutes of close contact: was this measured? Or modelled? I don't think one can rely on these numbers.
• It's official, ADSL works over wet string
• False Proof – All Horses are the Same Color: how to wrongly apply induction
• Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws

Libraries, programming, etc

• Apache Superset: "Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform". This looks really, really nice, and I'll have to try it out soon.
• StackOverflow: Set $PROJECT_NAME in docker-compose file: This has annoyed me for a long time.
• Unpoly: The unobtrusive JavaScript framework for server-side web applications
• slippers: Build reusable components in Django without writing a single line of Python
• Okhsv and Okhsl: Two new color spaces for color picking
• \<ruby>: The Ruby Annotation element: Doesn't have anything to do with the language, but aligns some box above another.
• Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.: That's crazy!

Books

• Typescript in 50 lessons (25%): recommendation by Jochen, very nice and smooth read. Also, beautifully printed hardcover book.

Games

• Super Mario Oddyssey: I've finally made it to the darkest side of the moon, which is this super-hard, punishing level at the end of the game. I don't know whether I'll be able to finish this. 10/10
• Craftopia, still nice, and loads of funny automation stuff. This is what I came for!

Other media

• Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work - Veritasium: I like Veritasium videos, but not all of them equally. This one... eh, medium.
• I can't ride a bike. How fast can Mike Boyd teach me? - Tom Scott Plus: It took him about 30 minutes to ride a bike, which is amazing, and much quicker than most childrenI guess? More research is needed!. I wonder why that is? Are adults just more experienced with balancing themselves and stuff? Is it really the verbal explanation that he got? Is this just a really stable bike?
• The Sun in 4K
• How can ski chain lifts have curves in both directions?