Progress

Short work week, but lots of stuff to do. Still have to prepare the workshop I'll be holding, and an old customer is starting up again.

We're planning on buying a garden plot. We'll see whether we can snag it. Exciting!

We also met some old friends for a mini-vacation, which was very refreshing.

PlantEd

The plants are growing. I've received the suggestion to let the plants dry out a bit, to entice them into growing flowers and seeds. I can do that!

NTS

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Articles

• One Foot Tsunami: The Ever Loving Hell
• HN title moderation is more consistent than it may appear. It all follows from t... -- Hacker News
• Melting KiCad - mitxela.com
• Google AI Blog: Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance
• A Web Renaissance (via Jochen)

Libraries, programming, etc

• fstring.help: Python f-string guide

Books

• Seeing like a State by James C. Scott

Games

• Starbound with the gang: very chill.
• Horizon Zero Dawn: yes, I am really hooked now. The graphics are excellent, the characters are great, the worldbuilding is first rate and the game is really great in general. Also, even though the main character follows the Hollywood convention of "all women wear perfect make up all the time", she's not overly sexualized. There's even a situation where she confronts a creep. Of course, single men on the internet see this differently.

Backlog

• Abriss (from wishlist)
• Backbone (from waitlist)
• Amnesia: Rebirth (from free EGS)
• Riverbond (free from EGS)

Recipes

• Mousse au Chocolat with friends, always great.

Other media

• Why Hero quest is so Great - YouTube: It really is the best board game of all times!
• Silver nanoprisms grown into structural colors by high power LEDs - YouTube