Progress

We finally deployed to K8s. Didn't work because of silly network settings, but we did deploy!

Did some small work on the bunnie kingdom. We're nearing completion there.

Articles

• Thoughts on my first machine learning project -- Holovaty.com
• The Universe of Discourse : Software horror show: SAP Concur
• Why Faulty Streetlights Are Turning Cities Purple — and Why It's Worrisome: Faulty laminations in LED fixtures can lead to them slowly turning more blue, and being replaced under warranty. Buying cheap stuff inherently carries that danger, nothing new or surprising here.
• Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences. - PsycNET: Captain Obvious finds out: "The meta-analysis revealed a stronger sex drive in men compared to women, with a medium-to-large effect size, g = 0.69, 95% CI [0.58, 0.81]. Men more often think and fantasize about sex, more often experience sexual affect like desire, and more often engage in masturbation than women."
• GitHub - zonination/perceptions: Perceptions of Probability and Numbers
• On Airline Mapping – somethingaboutmaps
• MapAnalyst - MapAnalyst -- MapAnalyst
• Rubber banding in Super Mario Kart -- GG: This was a question that came up recently: did the original Super Mario Kart have rubber-banding? Answer is: yes.
• Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller ‹ Literary Hub
• Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say
• In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub
• In 2048, information is unchained and even schoolgirls win Nobel prizes -- Times Higher Education (THE)
• Releases · NeoApplications/Neo-Store: Wonderful F-Droid-replacement with much nicer UI.
• CRDTs go brrr
• I was wrong. CRDTs are the future
• Making sense of generators, coroutines, and "yield from" in Python — Reuven Lerner: I did not consciously know that .send can return something back into a generator. This really makes them into Coroutines, passing information back and forth. Very, very nice!
• This to That (Glue Advice)
• Jet Automatic Hypodermic Injection Apparatus - Vaccine Gun -- National Museum of American History

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - cool-RR/PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again: "instead of carefully crafting the right print lines, you just add one decorator line to the function you're interested in. You'll get a play-by-play log of your function, including which lines ran and when, and exactly when local variables were changed."
• GitHub - dbader/schedule: Python job scheduling for humans.: "A simple to use API for scheduling jobs, made for humans. In-process scheduler for periodic jobs. No extra processes needed! Very lightweight and no external dependencies."
• GitHub - MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup: A Python library for automating interaction with websites.: "A Python library for automating interaction with websites. MechanicalSoup automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. It doesn't do JavaScript."

Books

• delta-V by David Suarez

Games

• Hot Wheels Unleashed

Backlog

• Saints Row IV: Re-Elected (free from EGS)
• Raji (Humble Choice)
• Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice (Humble Choice)

Recipes

• Weihnachtsgans mit Honigkruste, Spätzle, Rotkohl und Grillgemüse
• weihnachtliches Mousse au Chocolat

Other media

• Pandas/Arrow/Dask String Performance Improvements -- Matt Rocklin - YouTube
• Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Huge Deal - YouTube: Fantastic new features: * nanite foliage * leaf scattering * proper reflections * global illumination * path tracing and GPU light mass * larger worlds (88 mio km wide)
• Worlds hardest jigsaw vs. puzzle machine (all white) - YouTube
• True Facts: Animal Awards - YouTube
• How Big Budget AAA Games Render Clouds - YouTube
• Fred Dibnah How to erect a chimney scaffold - YouTube
• Contract Killers: What Developers Should Eliminate From Their Publishing Agreement - YouTube
• Solo Development: Myths, Reality and Survival Strategies - YouTube
• The Continuity of Splines - YouTube