Progress

Not a lot of work got done this week thanks to the holiday and other circumstances. It's also unbearably hot, which doesn't actually increase my working speed.

Articles

• The hunt for the cluster-killer Erlang bug -- by Dániel Szoboszlay -- Klarna Engineering: Who doesn't love a great murder mystery?
• The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?
• Sim Central Bank
• Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part I: Reports – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox -- (Not Boring) Software: gotta juice it!
• The Animated Elliptic Curve
• Cool desktops don’t change 😎 - Tyler Cipriani
• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)
• How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need? -- Pedestrian Observations
• ⚡️ The computers are fast, but you don't know it -- 🌚 Computer Science After Dark
• Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era
• How James Patterson Became the World’s Best-Selling Author -- The New Yorker

Libraries, programming, etc

• fresh - The next-gen web framework.
• sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS/JavaScript UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Application
• GitHub - wailsapp/wails: Create beautiful applications using Go
• What is Tauri? -- Tauri Studio: "Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust, and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyglot approach to creating and maintaining great apps."
• redbean 2.0 release notes: "redbean is a webserver in a zip executable that runs on six operating systems. The basic idea is if you want to build a web app that runs anywhere, then you download the redbean.com file, put your .html and .lua files inside it using the zip command, and then you've got a hermetic app you can deploy and share. I introduced this web server about a year ago on Hacker News, where it became the third most upvoted hobby project of all time. "
• Bundling binary tools in Python wheels: A neat trick: putting binaries into python wheels will automatically select the correct package for you and install it seamlessly. Even on hard-to-work-with platforms like Mac and Windows.
• Minsky – ProfSteveKeen: "Minsky is a system dynamics program with a unique feature I invented that makes it easy to model monetary dynamics. Called a “Godley Table”, this lets you model financial flows using the accountant’s tool of double-entry bookkeeping."

Games

• Trailmakers (with Anton): I've had this for ages, since before it released on Steam even. It's a wonderful physics sandbox game where you build cars and planes and boats. We had a great time building and destroying our different vehicles, and finding weird and wonderful constructions on the workshop. After two hours, however, I feel that we've seen everything I wanted to see from this game. 6/10
• The Witcher 3: There is so much world here, and it's so detailed and full and rich and consistent, it has regions with discernible flavour and real conflicts between parties that you can influence. I'm overwhelmed with it. I'm also, strangely, done with it. So I'll focus on the main quests now.

Backlog

• Supraland (from free EGS)

Recipes

• Tigerkuchen
• Swimming Pool

Other media

• Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney (Part 2) - YouTube
• 10 Levels of Sleight of Hand: Cheating at Poker - YouTube
• Red Notice (Netflix): In this heist movie, Ryan Reynolds plays Deadpool, Gal Gadot plays Wonder Woman and Dwayne Johnson plays The Rock, and the goal of this movie is to find the Holy Meta of Metaness. Each of the characters is improbably smooth and witty and smart and fearless and so extremely meta that at some point, Deadpool whistles the Indiana Jones melody. The movie is enjoyable if you have enough popcorn and your BAC is above 1.2, otherwise I'd suggest another drink. 5.5/10