Weeklog for Week 52: December 26 to January 01
Progress
Christmas break!
Articles
- AstraZeneca vaccine: A rogue antibody and a mystery behind blood clots, study finds
- Why do bees die when they sting you?: Does not actually answer many of the questions it poses. Most of it this article is just auxiliary "bees are different because they are eusocial", and all of that is fine. Then it goes on to show schematics of the bees stinger with its barbs and autonomous muscles, and all of that is fantastic. But it doesn't answer the titular question: why do bees die after they've stung once? Or, to put it another way: why is there no evolutionary pressure for the bees to stay alive and help the hive in other ways after they've lost their stinger?
- All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters -- Hackaday
- APOD: 2020 July 19 - Rotating Moon from LRO
- Visually symmetric words
- The topologist’s world map – tafc.space
- Acid Personalities -- Science -- AAAS
- How Not to Do It: Liquid Nitrogen Tanks -- Science -- AAAS
- How Not to Do It: Hydrogen Bromide -- Science -- AAAS
- Our First Closeup Image of Mars Was a Paint-By-Numbers Pastel Drawing
- Ménage problem - Wikipedia
- Bundes-Schriften: "Die Hausschriften der Bundesregierung sind die BundesSerif, die BundesSans und die BundesSans Condensed. Die Schriften zeichnen sich durch Klarheit, Prägnanz und optimale Lesbarkeit aus. Sie ermöglichen den problemlosen Einsatz über alle Medien hinweg und gewährleisten einen modernen und zeitgemäßen Auftritt der Bundesregierung." Sadly, no license for us regular people.
- Report on an Unidentified Space Station
- Maps of current IPv4 and IPv6 allocations: There's a lot of empty space in IPv6. There's not a lot in IPv4...
Libraries, programming, etc
- Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why -- Cogito, Ergo Sumana (via Jochens weeklog)
- Boring Python: code quality (via Jochens weeklog)
- Draw SVG rope using JavaScript · Muffin Man
Books
- Rogue Moon
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Games
Backlog
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Humble Choice)
- First Class Trouble (Humble Choice)
- Greedfall (Humble Choice)
- Super MagBot (Humble Choice)
Recipes
- Creme Brûlée
- Kladdkaka
- Sopetti