Progress

Work, feels good.

I bought a variety of headphones and will use them for some time to see which ones are good. I'll write a review soon.

There is a also war going on. This is scary and horrific, obviously. I am going to mostly ignore it, because there is very little I can do about it, except for the obvious donations. I have read on acoupI read two articles, so now I am naturally an expert on all things war and Ukraine! about some possible ways that this could go. We're only a week into this war, and it already looks to me like it's going to go on for years.
These are going to be scary times and I definitely hope we won't have to live in a post-nuclear apocalyptic wasteland.

There is one thing, however, which we must absolutely not do, and that is hate on Russians. There is only a very small number of people that are actively responsible for this, and while those are Russian, most Russian people aren't in any way responsible for any of this. The Russian people will, however, bear the weight of the sanctions made against Russia, so not only are they governed by a dictator, led into a war they mostly don't want, but will also have to live through very hard economic times for their oligarchs. Those oligarchsmay lose a few points on their high-score accounts, but they certainly won't have to change their lives in any significant ways.
Let us show some compassion with our russian-descended fellow humans.

PlantEd

Prepared some more, and I think next week I'm going to do the first planting.

NTS

No progress this week.

Articles

• ’A global financial pariah’: how central bank sanctions could hobble Russia (Financial Times)
• The Definitive Guide that You Never Wanted: Backpack Fabrics — by Geoff C — Pangolins with Packs
• The True Story of the Viral False Teeth That Fooled the World — WIRED
• Collections: How the Weak Can Win – A Primer on Protracted War – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Linked Bagel Halves: The only thing that's worrisome about this is that they cut bagels with a straight-edged knife.
• IBM open sources $300* fully-functional LEGO®microscope design — by Inside IBM Research — Medium: Yes, I am going to build one of those!
• A Boke of Gode Cookery
• Ascaridole - Wikipedia: Ninja turtle molecule!
• Nukemap: Stuttgart: Dammit, just inside the radius.

Libraries, programming, etc

• Lists vs. Tuples — Ned Batchelder
• Analysing the AI of Super Mario 64
• GitHub - wolfgarbe/SymSpell: SymSpell: 1 million times faster spelling correction & fuzzy search through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm: This definitely needs a closer look. I enjoy smart algorithms!

Games

• No Man's Sky with Dominik: this game is beautiful, and full of wondrous stuff. Flying around the universe and discovering planets and monsters and relics and mysterious space stations and stuff is really quite amazing. It is also much better when playing with cheats. I respect the grind, but it's not what I'm looking for in a game.
• Starbound with the gang: again, great.

Backlog

• Black Book, from Humble Choice
• Per Aspera, from Humble Choice
• Before We Leave, from Humble Choice
• Paradise Lost, from Humble Choice
• Borderlands 3, from Humble Choice
• Black Widow: Recharged (from free EGS)
• Centipede: Recharged (from free EGS)

Other media

I also watched a lot of content on Nebula, not all of which I'll link below. I've had a Nebula account for a long time, but didn't use it. The app is hilariously half-finished, and the service doesn't have many of the features all the other ones have. But that's okay.

• Can I make money counting cards? - YouTube: How to learn and use counting cards at blackjack
• Twos-Day Tuesday! 22 YouTubers celebrate all things "two" and nothing goes wrong. - YouTube: Loads of self-referential math humor.
• Hello Future Me: On Writing: Subtext!
• The Closer Look: The Hidden Genius Of Cyberpunk 2077's World — How To Do Exposition