Progress

This week is Python week for a customer. That means a lot of work hours soaked up, not much else to do.

Also, sick family. Great!

I've updated my weather-watcher, now with daily weather messages, and moved it to Gotify.

I've also transposed some of my weeklogs, but I'm not sure I like it. Parsing text, and parsing markdown, and doing stuff with it always feels very clunky. I have many more ideas for this, but I'll have to sit with that for a little longer.

How do I write weeklogs

As asked by @plantprogrammer: I've fought myself a long time over note-taking. I now have an http://obsidian.md open at all times and write as it happens, or shortly after. Every week, I use a template to create the next log file. This is the minimum solution I've found.

I hope to be able to refer to older logs at some point to make this more linked and Zettelkasten-styley. Also, I'll want to transpose my notes at some point, and slice along topics instead of time, but I'll have to find a clean way to do that still.

I'm also still annoyed that I now have to save noteworthy content more than once: in my pinboard and in my weeknotes. But on the other hand, this makes me much more aware of the media I consume and of the value of these media, so maybe it's not such a bad thing.

All of this also means that the primary consumer is intended to be me: I'm writing these notes for myself. If a single person outside of myself gets a benefit from them, that's just on-top.

PlantEd

No progress this week.

NTS

No progress this week.

Articles

• Cow magnets?
• Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era: Mapbox does cool stuff with map projections. From an outside first glance, if feels like there must be easier solutions, but I'm not an expert, so who am I to comment?
• L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department: A short story.
• I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business: Making websites from screenshots of notebooks, what a nice business idea.
• Plans you're not supposed to talk about: Some plans work better when you neither think nor talk about them. But how do you coordinate on those plans then?
• The Goldbeater, the Cow and the Airship: Airship air bags were made from a vellum-like substance and that was needed in quantities.
• I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind: On Aphantasia. Not very interesting, though.
• Understanding how silver objects tarnish
• Twitter-Post that is a comment on a screenshot of a display showing a book: "As the Jake Brake grew in popularity, Koenigsacker rose to head the Bloomfield facility. He became frustrated with its low productivity, sub-par product quality, and delays in getting product to customers. He believed the company needed a desperate change or it would fail. In 1988, as he struggled to control Jacob's spiraling problems, he learned that two architects of the Toyota Production System were in nearby Hartfort for a guest lecture. Their names were Yoshiki Iwata and Chihiro Nakao, two of the most well-regarded factory experts in Japan. Koenigsacker attended their lecture and convinced them to meet for dinner. He desperatey sought their advice, and as the wine poured, they men became curious about this mess of a factory the were hearing about. They spoke little English and traveled with a translator, the two men and the general manager hit it off immedietaley. They decided to visit the factory that same evening. The Japanese men were shocked at the poor workflow and bloated inventory levels. Even more surprised were the night-shift folks, a rough-and-tumble crew.
  Throughout the night, the crew watched the Japanese men move equipment around and suggest improvements, often mocking the American factory setup. After resting for a few hours back at their hotel, the experts returned and were impressed by how the Americans had immediately put ther suggestions into place. Rather than fight the changes as Koenigsacker had anticipated, the factory workers embraced them."
• That Cream Cheese Shortage You Heard About? Cyberattacks Played a Part: Apart from the hilarious headline, they really try to play it as "hackers stole your cream cheese" instead of "capitalists didn't invest in proper infrastructure". Which is also hilarious.
• I was stuck on a side project for 5 years. Here’s how I finished it.: Spoiler alert: just stop doing it!
• The longest train journey in the world – in 2021
• Isn't she just Misunderstood? The Casio Loopy!: A wonderful little dive into the history of a little unknown console.
• 3 Lines of Code Shouldn't Take All Day: Well, sometimes they do, and then you should really look for ways to improve cycle time, like test environments, unit tests, etc.
• Testing the strength of different wood species: heavier woods are stronger, lighter woods are weaker.
• Cyberpunk mod: Metro system: A fully-working metro system for Night City. If CDPR are smart, they license this off the guy and just include it in the game proper.

Libraries, programming, etc

• SQLite Session Extension: "The session extension provide a mechanism for recording changes to some or all of the rowid tables in an SQLite database, and packaging those changes into a "changeset" or "patchset" file that can later be used to apply the same set of changes to another database with the same schema and compatible starting data. A "changeset" may also be inverted and used to "undo" a session."
• Globster
• Gotify: a simple server for sending and receiving messages, open-source, self-hosted, with websocket interface and android client
• Wezterm: A great-looking termin emulator. Still does not have the most important feature I've never found in a terminal emulator: pre-sets for spawning windows/tabs in specific positions. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Games

• Genesis Noir: Still amazing visuals, still super-great soundtrack, still very chill game. 9/10
• while True: learn(): This is one of those programming puzzle games, or at least it wants to be. The puzzles are all a bit similar and not super interesting, and I don't know why I keep playing this. 4/10

Backlog

• The Shrouded Isle
• Unavowed
• Spiritfarer
• Beasts of Maravila Island
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Recipes

Other media

• Tabs or spaces?: Everyone has an opinion on that.
• Doing (a small version) of that 300.000km wire thought experiment: a response to Veritasium positing that current flows immediately after throwing the switch, even though the wire is 1 light-second long, due to electric fields. In this actual experiment we can see that this is sort-of true, because a small inducted current does flow immediately. It is, however, magnitues smaller than the current that arrives with the wave along the wire, which moves at light-speed along the wire. This conclusion is similar to the one that Electroboom arrives at.