Progress

It was a normal week.

I started installing a solar panel on our shed, but then I noticed that the battery doesn't work any more. Very annoying!

I bought some flooding sensors for my home. I can run them either on a foreign cloudThe shelly cloud which wouldn't be so bad. But I oppose clouds for home automation on principle. or on a home server that I haven't yet thought through. So they will sit on my shelf for a little while.

Articles

• The Handy Playing Cards That Taught 17th-Century Cooks to Carve Meat Like a Pro - Gastro Obscura
• Money in the Bank - Lightspeed Magazine: short story about cryptobros and aliens, very entertaining
• Charlie Loyd: "Okay, fine, @jonty@chaos.social cajoled me into i…" - Horsin' Around: great OSM visualization
• Paul Norman: "#OpenStreetMap Standard Layer …" - OSM Town -- Mapstodon for OpenStreetMap: more great OSM visualization
• Stable Audio - Generate
• Framework -- Sustainability
• Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications
• Numbers, measurements, dates and time - NHS digital service manual: Exemplary, even with a GitHub link for improvements
• gokrazy is really cool - Xe Iaso: I'd read about gokrazy a long time ago and the idea is really nice. Having a reduced-need runtime for statically linked binaries is great, if your use case is statically linked binaries coming from Go. All the examples are tailscale services, and, sure, that's nice, but what exactly is the point of putting them on a gokrazy-rpi and not hosting them anywhere else?
• Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour describes 'phenomenal' results - ABC News
• Tracing: structured logging, but better in every way -- Andy Dote: Will have to try this out!
• Getting Started -- OpenTelemetry with Python
• Publius Enigma - Wikipedia
• I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser: What's the opposite of rage-quitting? Rage-starting? Rage-creating?
• The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A" -- Papers With Code
• Nedelin Catastrophe: The Worst Space-Related Disaster -- Amusing Planet
• Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't
• Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more • Buttondown
• Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate Differentiable Rendering with Algebraic Surfaces
• Ig Nobel Prize Winner Higashiyama Atsuki and the “Between-Legs Effect” Mystery -- Nippon.com
• PyPI Data
• Calibre replacement considerations - anarcat
• My favourite Erlang program — Joe's Blog — a non-linear personal web notebook: If you expected it to be some "universal program" BS, you'd be absolutely right.
• What every systems programmer should know about concurrency - concurrency-primer.pdf
• The Untapped Potential of Human Programming: Well, I wouldn't call it untapped, but maybe not-enough-tapped.
• Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner - Works in Progress
• Together AI, VMs configured for inference and training
• [2309.00610] CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities
• Council not amused as solar panels spell out penis - DutchNews.nl
• Evolutionary Computation - Part 1 - Alan Zucconi
• The Crystal Programming Language
• Potato Pavé - pav post - Imgur
• News Feature: Cleaning up the hygiene hypothesis - PMC
• MetaArXiv Preprints -- Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
• Generation of advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations -- The Visual Computer
• Entire Screen of One Game: you can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
• The Design and Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook: A Reflective Analysis
• Falcon 180B: Can It Run on Your Computer?: Yes, if you have 360GB of RAM.

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - zqqqqz2000/shshsh: a bridge between python and shell
• GitHub - pdfminer/pdfminer.six: Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
• Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.
• Kanaries/graphic-walker: An open source alternative to Tableau. Easily embedded in any web apps.
• Kanaries/pygwalker: PyGWalker: Turn your pandas dataframe into an interactive UI for visual analysis
• aatishb/patterncollider: A web interactive for generating and exploring quasiperiodic tiling patterns
• GitHub - Vonng/pigsty: PostgreSQL in Great STYle, Battery-Included Free RDS Alternative!
• ReVanced: Vanced is a youtube client for android that doesn't show ads

Books

• The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane: I don't know why this was in my open tabs, but it was.

Games

• Otxo: this was recommended by a 40-minute Raycevik video, so I put it on my waitlist and one day later acquired it. I'm not quite sure about it yet. Yes, sure, it fulfills that void left by Hotline Miami and it's also betterexcept for the vault, which is less than useless, but it's also much harder during the game and much less forgiving between games. So, jury is still out.
• Sea of Thieves with the usual landlubbers.

Recipes

• Walnuss-Whisky-Eis: fantastic
• Pflaumeneis
• Cookie-Eis

Other media

• Taskmaster Series 10
• 5-Megawatt Nitinol Engine by Mcdonnell Douglas - YouTube: What a misleading title: it's an engine technology prototype that might be able to scale up to 5MW. I quite like it the other way around, though: what if you could harvest tiny amounts of energy with an engine like that?