Progress

Lots of work this week, which is good.

I also found out that I can print valid package labels on my little label printer, which is nice.

No time for much else, however.

PlantEd

No progress on PlantEd.

NTS

Just a little, tried a memory subsystem and mostly failed because of the environment.

Articles

• Ben Evans on the Future
• Supercharged high-resolution ocean simulation with JAX: "Our Python ocean model Veros (which I maintain) now fully supports JAX as its computational backend. As a result, Veros has much better performance than before on both CPU and GPU, while all model code is still written in Python. In fact, we can now do high-resolution ocean simulations on a handful of GPUs, with the performance of entire CPU clusters!"
• Why ISO was retired, ie. why the ISO file format isn't great nor that useful.
• Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
• A Mac For Mick: I love the subtle arrogance that swings in sentences like "Mick was polite, but he didn't seem to have heard of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs or the Macintosh."
• log4j: between a rock and a hard place: musings on the problems of open-source maintainers and "backwards compatibility"
• Arkham Quixote: Fixing long-standing bugs in commercial products carries with it feelings of superiority, righteousness and "to show them how it's supposed to be done".

Libraries, programming, etc

• Trumbowyg: Simple jQ-compatible html5 wysiwyg editor. Very easy to integrate, very simple, very nice!
• MailHog: "an email testing tool for developers:
  • Configure your application to use MailHog for SMTP delivery
  • View messages in the web UI, or retrieve them with the JSON API
  • Optionally release messages to real SMTP servers for delivery"

Recipes

• I did a variation on Boeuf Bourgignion inspired by Adam Ragusea, but I'll have to try that again.