Progress

The client I'm working for has internal libraries for some of their common stuff, which are shared between teams. Now the original team does not want to deal with one of the libraries any more, so our team has picked it up (ie. me). I've updated the library and created and published new versions and everything was fine. Then I started integrating them into our project and everything looked fine. Turns out, there is another semi-abandoned internal library that we use that relies on the first semi-abandoned internal library. So now I get to choose between downgrading everything again or doing upgrades for that second semi-abandoned internal library myself (and getting it pushed through their semi-abandoned upgrade process).
What great fun!

Well, at least I finished my part.

Articles

• Traditional antivenom production. -- Download Scientific Diagram: Antivenom is produced by injecting horses with venom, collecting their blood and cleaning it. Here's an infographic about that.
• Are Rhubarb Leaves Poisonous?: Yes, in the right amountsEverything is poisonous or at least dangerous in the right amounts..
• What do Europe’s leading founders have in common?
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Copyrightable Character: I'm quite shocked that parts of the Sherlock Holmes character are still not in the public domain and companies can get sued for making Sherlock Holmes stories. Since Sherlock Holmes is obviously part of our common culture, copyright terms are obviously too long.
  Elect me and I'll change that!
• Everything you need to know about breastfeeding and intelligence
• Earth-Moon Fire Pole
• colorvote: Which color is the best one?
• The worst conference talk ever… – Casey Handmer's blog: Don't let it be yours!
• RC Submarine 4.0 – blog post series -- Brick Experiment Channel: What a fantastic build journey, meticulously and interestingly documented.

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - nitnelave/lldap: Light LDAP implementation
• “Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes: I disagree with this. I've seen what happens when you facade everything you use; worse still if you do it preemptively.
• GitHub - StefanUlbrich/design-by-contract: Handy decorator for elegant design-by-contract in 3.10+
• How to Get the First or Last Value in a Group Using Group By in SQL -- Haki Benita
• How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked – Lethal Guitar
• Six Programming Languages I'd Like to See • Buttondown
• Blackle Contraption: interactive thing with only CSS.

Books

• Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh: hard sci-fi from the 70's, with a fantastic intro covering the next few hundred years. Hard to read, and I have no idea where it leads me.

Backlog

• Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Gift From Earth by Larry Niven

Games

• Abriss: Fantastic game! However, it does have the same curve as many of these physical puzzlers: easy, easy, easy, impossible. Aaaand I finished it. It's just that good! 9/10

Backlog

• Wonder Boy The Dragons Trap (from free EGS)

Recipes

• Angel Food Cake: Nice, but turned out a bit rubbery for me. More research is needed.

Other media

• I Built a GIANT Cat Food Marble Run! - YouTube
• ÖBB Projekt - Weisse Schiene - YouTube: Here's the newest in heat reduction technology: paint things white. I wonder why white roof tiles aren't common anywhere.
• This $25,000 Rolex Explorer Was Exposed to Seawater! - YouTube
• The Trouble with the Many-Worlds Interpretation : r/videos: Some discussion on quantum physics. I might be misunderstanding quantum mechanicsSince I've not had any formal training on QM, the probability for my misunderstanding is, let's say, rather close to 1., but to me that problem is trivial. The point of collapse is not some magical measurement but it's during an interaction. Now, the same arguments apply to interaction as do to measurement, but indeed an interaction is not a single event (where "the world splits into many worlds" as before), but it's a myriad events. During each interaction, probabilities shift a bit so that it becomes more and more "definite" which branch you end up in. And with that, we're back to macroscopic statistical properties and entropy. Isn't that nice.
  Surely it can't be too hard to write all of that down mathematically.
• Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality? - YouTube: And there we are, exactly as I said in comment to the previous video. Which proves that I'm about as smart as Roger Penrose.
• Hyperactive and Amateur: wow, what a blast from the past!
• DIY Volume Control - YouTube: A nice short summary of how to turn a potentiometer into a volume control. I had expected more tbh.