Progress

I don't know. Normal, I guess?

Articles

• Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings - Matan-h
• Text Rendering Hates You - Faultlore
• Mofi - Content-aware fill and trim for music!
• The Paella Model for Fast Image Generation, Explained
• Rare unbroken Enigma radio messages
• Ninth Dedekind number discovered: Scientists solve long-known problem in mathematics
• Dart: Detect Adulteration with rapid test
• The Password Game: Very good! I had to give up when the daily wordle was TRACT, which sums up to more than 35. But then I learned that you can write it as "tract" as well, controlling which characters are roman literals...
• Combinatorial coordinates for the aperiodic Spectre tiling: now where can I get actual physical tiles? (via Jochens weeklog)
• valberg.dk - Bringing Locality of Behaviour to Django Views and URLs: I hate it (via Jochens weeklog)
• Kondyor Massif - Wikipedia: #notACrater
• Richat Structure - Wikipedia: #notACrater
• You Can Have It All – Cloud Four: dare to dream! (via Jochens weeklog)
• cohost! - "how (not) to write a pipeline"
• Long Sequence Modeling with XGen: A 7B LLM Trained on 8K Input Sequence Length
• Background Removal Web -- CE.SDK Demo -- IMG.LY
• An aperiodic monotile
• Anna’s Archive
• Inside Xbox, PS5 & SNES Controllers: Interactive CT Scans
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/CoolUrlsGoInaccessible
• Fast machines, slow machines - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
• FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia: Multiplayer top-down shooter made from scratch. Comes with an in-game Editor!
• oauth - Why use OpenID Connect instead of plain OAuth2? - Information Security Stack Exchange
• GitHub - jetpack-io/typeid: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
• OpenOrca: "The Open Orca dataset is a collection of augmented FLAN Collection data. Currently ~1M GPT-4 completions, and ~3.2M GPT-3.5 completions. It is tabularized in alignment with the distributions presented in the ORCA paper and currently represents a partial completion of the full intended dataset, with ongoing generation to expand its scope. The data is primarily used for training and evaluation in the field of natural language processing."
• GitHub - everythingishacked/Gamebody: Full-body game controller built with Python, OpenCV, Mediapipe
• GitHub - bmork/defogger: D-Link DCS-8000LH usage info and defogging tools

Books

• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Games

Backlog

• Buccaneers (from waitlist)
• Shadows of Doubt (from waitlist)

Recipes

Other media

• Making a PCB Motor spin 30,000 RPM FASTER - YouTube
• Game Development Budgets and Customer Value - YouTube: It's all about the A-ness!
• Epic Cycling: Wheelless Bike - YouTube: it's so stupid that it's brilliant
• Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated - YouTube
• ASTRA Flyover Bridge - Future of motorway rehabilitation - YouTube
• Conspiracy Theorist promises to concede, if I photograph the ISS ... So I did - YouTube