Progress

Work week. Lots of work.
And also a few parties. Nice!

I finally got around to playing some chemistry with a friend. We made white paint. It was great.

Ok, I'll have to address the growing backlog for my games. I guess I'm not that much of a game player anymore, except/even when I get the time. Since my income now exceeds my free time, I have transitioned into a collector of games. Sure, I could play an exciting new game any time I like. But, you know, let's leave them shrink-wrapped in the box for some other, more special day.

Articles

• Catching up on the weird world of LLMs (via Jochens weeklog)
• Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru -- Smithsonian Institution
• How trees guard their seeds: Unlocking the secrets of mast seeding
• LLM Tools for the distracted developer -- the scapegoat dev (via Jochens weeklog)
• Announcing Python in Excel (via Jochens weeklog)
• Utopia Clicker: I won!
• MagicEdit: High-Fidelity Temporally Coherent Video Editing: Some of these are really good, some are really bad, in wonderfully subtle ways.
• The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes - The Old New Thing
• How far can you jump from a swing?
• Lesson Directory -- Programming Historian: "We publish novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching."
• Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe Iaso
• OSM River Basins
• VPN Relationship Map - Windscribe
• The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
• High-speed AI Drone -- Challenge Accepted: High-speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
• GPU Cloud - VMs for Deep Learning -- LambdaLabs: Nvidia H100 80GB for 2 USD/hr, NVidia A100 80GB for 1.1 USD/hr
• Photogrammetry on Commercial Flights · Leif Gehrmann
• The boy who stole Half-Life 2 -- Eurogamer.net: He was an idiot.
• Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: probably, but one should be a bit sceptical if claims like "population dwindled to 12 800 individuals and stayed that way for 300k years" collide with "created new science to find out about this time frame".

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - ESP32-COOP/ESP32-COOP-DOC: Create an affordable and accessible automatic coop door using ESP32. DIY your chicken coop with customizable behavior based on time and light levels. Control it through a dedicated Bluetooth-enabled app. Find comprehens
• GitHub - eschluntz/compress: Text compression for generating keyboard expansions
• obra/Youtube2Webpage: I learn much better from text than from videos

Books

• Providence by Max Barry: Gave me some nightmares this week.

Games

• word factori: A factorio-like, stripped down to the very minimum. There is some potential for addiction here.
• Last Call BBS: Of all the Zachtronics games, this must be the weirdest.
• Kill The Crows: a bullet-hell shooter. Nothing special.
• Heavenly Bodies: such a silly physics game. You control the arms of an astronaut and the physics do the rest. Very enjoyable and very silly.
• Trackmania: The newest in the series is just soo smooth, but the money-grabbing and begging and the ads and everything is so fucking annoying. I bought all the Trackmanias before, but I'm not going to give them any money for that shit.
• Sea Of Thieves with the gang: the Monkey Island event is sooo nice. They managed to capture the spirit of Monkey Island and of a point-and-click adventure in Sea of Thieves.

Backlog

• Whispers in the West (from GMTK video)
• Lucifer Within Us (from GMTK video)
• A Hand With Many Fingers (from GMTK video)
• Kill The Crows (just because it looks neat)

Recipes

• Kekse
• Zitronenkuchen

Other media

• Semlor: The Dessert That Killed A King - YouTube
• Exclusive Etihad A380 Hangar Visit: Heavy Maintenance on the Superjumbo! - YouTube
• Three ways to FIX a STOP LIGHT (so drivers ACTUALLY STOP!) - YouTube