Progress

Work was slower than before, now we're just cleaning up the mess we made last week.

Oh, and it was also Christmas.

Articles

• Why is 2.4GHz chosen as the unlicensed frequency that is now used in ubiquitous wireless technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee? Why not 1.4GHz or something else? - Quora
• IQ - feedback for participants -- GuidedTrack: I'm in about 90th percentile for most things, except "word connections" and the one test that is most closely associated with IQ score, "hidden patterns", where I'm in the 40th percentile.
• Safety Comes First › DG Aviation EN
• Daring Fireball: I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter (via Jochens weeklog)
• Bouba/kiki effect - Wikipedia
• ESCUERZO RESUCITADO auf Tumblr: What notes on signs actually sound like.
• Rotary Keyboard -- Squidgeefish
• What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap? -- Andrii Holovin – Blog
• A German Museum Tried To Hide This Stunning 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. Today You Can See It for the First Time
• Takeaway Tuesday - On Old Age - But What For?
• The Overlords Finally Showed Up: On AI that can finally hold its own.
• General guidance when working as a cloud engineer

Libraries, programming, etc

• Installation - Takahē documentation: "Takahē is a new ActivityPub server, designed for efficient use on small- to medium-size installations, and which allows you to host multiple domains on the same infrastructure. It’s currently in an alpha state, meaning things work (and it will talk ActivityPub to Mastodon and other servers), but there’s still a lot of features left to add." (via Jochens weeklog)
• Akkoma - Be very cool on the internet: "Akkoma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3. It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Akkoma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE. It also includes the Mastodon frontend, if that's your thing. It's part of what we call the fediverse, a federated network of instances which speak common protocols and can communicate with each other. One account on an instance is enough to talk to the entire fediverse!" Written in Elixir.
• Reverse engineering yet another ebook format
• Never write a Bash command again (with the help of GPT-3)

Books

• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout: Fantastic! Brilliant! Every software engineer should read this!

Games

• Hot Wheels Unleashed
• Steep

Backlog

• Encased (free from EGS)
• Death Stranding (free from EGS)

Other media

• How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging! - YouTube
• Animation of 2018 Ethylene Release and Fire at Kuraray America in Pasadena, Texas - YouTube
• "Weird Al" Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks -- GQ - YouTube
• Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0 - YouTube
• Bret Victor The Future of Programming - YouTube
• How do Hard Disk Drives Work? 💻💿🛠 - YouTube