Progress

I'm preparing a seminar on pytest. It's not as easy as it sounds.

PlantEd

The plants have had their dry period. Now they grow again. I don't know?

NTS

Paused.

Articles

• I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government: Hilarious! Someone who has $20.270 in their account thinks it's a great idea to buy bonds to the value of 10k -- and then proceeds to do it wrong, twice.
• welcome. -- maya.land (one of the cool things people do with their blogs)
• Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs -- Brain Baking
• I've Used All The Notebooks - Tyler Cipriani
• Maslow's Imaginary Pyramid: Who really invented the pyramid?: Of course, it was the business people!
• Betrayal Legacy -- Board Game -- BoardGameGeek
• Pianist SHOCKS Audience With Moonlight Sonata Dubstep Remix - YouTube
• Collections: Fortification, Part V: The Age of Industrial Firepower – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• The Evolution of Snap Spectacles Pt. I — Craft reveals conviction -- by Tyler Mincey -- Teardown Library -- Medium
• Teardown Library: a community of product designers searching for inspiration
• GridFrameStudio -- Etsy.de: Deconstructed technology as art
• High Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference (Archive.org): They're beautiful!
• High-Security Mechanical Locks - Swift -- Silent -- Deadly
• Bob Wachter on Twitter: "I’ve been gratified hearing from many people who have said that they’ve followed my lead in deciding what they'll do, and not do, in various stages of the pandemic. It’s a particularly confusing time now, so today’s 🧵: here's a calm and rather objective report on "how I deal with covid risk" (via Jochen)
• Kanazawa Ice: Japan has engineered an ice cream that "doesn’t melt", and it's available in stores in Osaka, Tokyo, Kanazawa — Quartz
• Jana Marie Hemsing on Twitter: "Wait what? https://t.co/E2BlbH7cO7" / Twitter: This medical device uses a Game Boy Advance as its LCD display.
• A career ending mistake — Bitfield Consulting: "career ending mistake" as in "I chose the wrong ending of my career."
• Jigsaw Puzzle 19 -- Packing Puzzles -- Puzzle Master Inc

Libraries, programming, etc

• Alpine.js
• Datasette Plugins
• GitHub - reloadware/reloadium: Advanced hot reloading for Python

Books

• Seeing like a State by James C. Scott

Games

• Horizon Zero Dawn: I still enjoy this very much, and now that I've completed most side-quest items, the story is really picking up. The reveal SPOILER that we're 350.000 days into the future is... wow!

Backlog

• Pistol Whip (VR bundle)
• Vacation Simulator (VR bundle)
• Traffic Jams (VR bundle)
• Vanishing Realms (VR bundle)
• Ragnarock (VR bundle)
• PowerBeats VR (VR bundle)
• Labyrinth City (some bundle)
• Rubber Bandits (some bundle)
• A Juggler's Tale (some bundle)
• TOEM (some bundle)
• Paradigm (from free EGS)

Other media

• Interview with a Senior Python Developer in 2022: "The python ecosystem is a jungle! Which, to be fair, is the native habitat of a python."
• How to Pick Up a Duck - YouTube
• Ryobi has GOT to be joking with this soldering iron - YouTube: Simply put a complete power brick inside of a different device.