Weeklog for Week 18: May 02 to May 08
Progress
Held a seminar on pytest, with more than 20 participants. Doing these things is exhilarating, lots of preparation goes into it and then it all comes together. It's a weird and wonderful feeling, like "firing on all cylinders"I dislike that figure of speech. Do you think during normal operation, not all cylinders are firing?, I'm talking and planning time and fixing little mistakes and live-coding, and observing my own patterns of speech and trying to adjust them.
Apart from that, work. I'm somewhat down a bit.
I've also had my first run-in with covidiots. Apparently, it's too hard to stick to a mask mandate while dropping off your children, but not too hard to argue about it. I'm both fascinated and shocked by coming into contact with the underclass and by how weird they are.
PlantEd
The plants are growing, I guess. They're not producing flowers or anything, so I don't know.
NTS
Paused.
Articles
- Donald Knuth Was Framed • Buttondown: Maybe I need to try literate programming again sometimes. The problem is that LP is mainly useful for programs that are hard, that need algorithms and deep thinking. Most of the software written today is boilerplate and business-requirements driven.
- Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant: It seems that this plant can somehow see the plants around it. But the experiment is rather weak (n=4) and should be repeated a few times before we believe it.
- FAQ -- Unpaywall: "We do not harvest from sources of dubious legality like ResearchGate or Sci-Hub." and you should not use those sources!!!!!
- Hot Banana: How to power your house with nuclear bananas.
- endoflife.date - tracking end-of-life for software versions: That is so useful. Thank you kind internet stranger!
- A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner -- Nature Communications: oooh, now I want to build one!
- How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the earth
- Misusing TypeScript Assertion Functions for Fun and Profit — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
- Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski: An absolutely fantastic tutorial on how mechanical watches work.
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software: An Open Source Lecture #GIS #Maps - YouTube
- FerrarGIS -- Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data.
- Grumpy Gamer - When I Made Another Monkey Island
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- Midnight Library by Matt Haig: It's nice, and it's a bit self-helpy, and I really did not want to stop reading it. The only thing that annoyed me was the half-sciency mumbojumbo they added to make it sound "more realistic".
Games
- Horizon Zero Dawn: the snow in The Cut is beautiful. I've also found out that there are now Lego sets of Horizon animals. And board games.
Backlog
- Sea of Craft (from waitlist)
- Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe