Progress

The week starts with two free days. Aaahh, so relaxing! Then one work day. Then two days of seminar at the Linuxhotel. Ahhh, so relaxing!
Then weekend-stress. Not relaxing at all.

Then we had a bit of a scare with our mail server. Turns out, it's old enough to not need fixes. Our strategy of just never updating stuff has paid off once again!

I installed HomeAssistant and now I have no idea what to do with it. At least I'll get flooding messages if that happens (and the sensor can reach the WiFi from the basement).

I also played around with VLANs. I managed to get one segment of my network detached, but it can still reach the gateway, which is exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately, when I segment off my WiFi networks, they cannot reach the gateway/internet any more. So frustrating!

Articles

• Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices — Stability AI
• nomnoml: A tool for drawing UML diagrams based on a simple syntax. Try and edit the code on the left and watch the diagram change. Any changes are saved to the browser's localStorage, so your diagram should be here the next time, (but no guarantees).
• It's tubes, okay?: Making a jam game with Python in the browser using PyScript (via Jochens weeklog)
• James Webb Space Telescope's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) @ tonsky.me
• List of sandwiches - Wikipedia: German classics include: Butterbrot! Döner! Bratwurst! Fischbrötchen! Mettbrötchen! Toast Hawaii! Leberkäse! I feel seen.
• Ten weird things you can buy online (and why you would)
• A 20th-century society on a Ringworld – The restless technophile
• Get accurate counting results consistently: An app that counts things in images.
• 1.3B Worldcat scrape & data science mini-competition - Anna’s Blog
• 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine -- Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
• F3D - Fast and minimalist 3D viewer
• An Interactive Intro to CRDTs -- jakelazaroff.com: FANTASTIC!
• Introducing django-unique-user-email
• The missing middle in game development – How To Market A Game
• The recessive genes that make a carrot orange
• One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling - The Hustle
• Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition - Wing Commander CIC
• Pineapple ONE: Open source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home
• history - Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
• Auto Xylophone with homemade solenoids
• How far did my post go on the Fediverse? – Terence Eden’s Blog
• Living Stingy: Dude! Where's My Cybertruck?
• New taste: Sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami and … ammonium chloride?
• Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code -- by Brian Di Croce -- Medium
• A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders
• siderea -- How to Compete with Patreon [New Media, Tech, Patreon]: I'm almost tempted to try it. I guess one thing that still holds me back is the bookkeeping requirements in Germany.
• VeroRoute download -- SourceForge.net: "Cross-platform software for producing Veroboard (stripboard), Perfboard, and 1-layer or 2-layer PCB layouts. Automatically prevents short-circuits and checks for open-circuits. Pre-compiled versions available for MS Windows and 64-bit Linux Mint 20.3 (should also run on other 64-bit Linux systems that are based on Debian and support Qt version >= 5.12.8). Android APK available (tested on Android 7 and Android 10) and requires device resolution of at least 1280x800."
• Is There Anything Good About Men? - Roy F. Baumeister

Libraries, programming, etc

• hynek/svcs: A Flexible Service Locator for Python. (via Jochens weeklog)
• evidence-dev/evidence: Business intelligence as code: build polished data products with SQL and markdown (via Jochens weeklog)
• okuvshynov/slowllama: Finetune llama2-70b and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization

Games

• Whispers in the West: a coop murder mystery game. The controls are weird and uncooperative. But the writing was great, and we actually missed some vital clues because we didn't properly listen to each other. Great fun! I immediately bought all the DLCs, so I'll definitely play this again. 10/10.
• A Hand With Many Fingers: what a creepy political investigation game. I couldn't wrap my head around it entirely, so I'll have to try again at some point. The game is quite bare, but it's still very well-written, has a deep mystery and some proper figuring-out and the atmosphere is just... wow! 9/10

Recipes

• Gaufres de Liége

Other media

• I bought the shoes that make you walk faster - YouTube: They aren't good. Who would've thought?!
• Fly Over in Tikibad, Duinrell - YouTube: A submerged waterslide, what an absolute horror. Fortunately, it doesn't exist any more.
• We Ate the Squares - YouTube
• Why Do Trucks Keep Smashing Into This Bridge? -- Montague St Bridge - YouTube: Still no one knows. It's fantastic how oblivious truck drivers are to even the bollards hitting their roof before going under the bridge.
• I picked up 10,000 bottles and cans because of Seinfeld - YouTube: What a beautiful story that goes nowhere. Their optimism and happiness is enviable, though.
• Blind Students Learn Lockpicking (w/ Deviant Ollam) - YouTube
• Mind Blowing Welding in Super Slow Motion - YouTube
• Training an unbeatable AI in Trackmania - YouTube