Progress

I am debating on whether I should get a Quest 3. Purely for development purposes, naturally. Still, a lot of money.

TWIL

• When you go on reading one article after another on Wikipedia, you've fallen into a wiki rabbit hole.
• file locking in Git LFS: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking

Articles

• Is There Anything Good About Men? - Roy F. Baumeister
• What we Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Chinese Mold Maker
• Medieval staircases were NOT built going clockwise for the defender’s advantage – Fake History Hunter
• Help! Linux ate my RAM!
• UK Address Oddities! – The Unusually Named Blog
• Seedship: a game about finding a suitable new home for a colony ship
• [2310.04153] Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips
• A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't. -- nicole@web
• Building a 42-inch E Ink Art Frame
• DIY Automatic E-Ink Newspaper, using Rust and ChatGPT - Imgur
• Simulation Islands :: Box2D: Wonderful deep dive into how box2d is so fast and stable.
• Getting Started in KiCad -- 7.0 -- English -- Documentation -- KiCad: Alright, I think I got the basics. Now I need something to design and fabricate...
• The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines - by Brian Potter: Very interesting article about boring machines
• How I made a heap overflow in curl -- daniel.haxx.se
• updates - How to get rid of Ubuntu Pro advertisement when updating apt? - Ask Ubuntu: Some of these work.
• “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story – Marco.org
• Vine Robots – Learn to make your own!: They seem neat, but not very useful. Also, the larger models are patent-hampered.
• Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera - IEEE Spectrum: I should like to have one of these!
• Tech Notes: The Success and Failure of Ninja
• Why LSP?: LSP (language server protocol) is the technology that ties languages and VSCode together, and why indeed?
• LSP could have been better
• Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider: This is much better than LSP!
• Bentham's Mugging -- Utilitas -- Cambridge Core
• First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student -- Vesuvius Challenge
• NASA: Capillary Cup -- Vignelli Center -- RIT
• The midwit home - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER: Dumbhome instead of smarthome, but with more functionality. I like it!
• Can't Be F*cked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt – Pursuit Of Laziness – A blog by Jesse Duffield
• Desmos -- 3D Graphing Calculator
• The Cult of the Ellipse - by BLAP - Skunk Ledger (short story)
• Impossible Photo Feat Now Possible Via Holography - IEEE Spectrum
• Scrollbars are becoming a problem
• The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble - Julian Gough's website
• One Game, By One Man, On Six Platforms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: I really want to buy his game now. But I really don't want to touch it!
• iAskedAiForImagesOfProgrammingLanguagesAsHuman : r/ProgrammerHumor
• How to Fit a Large Program in a Small Machine
• Rodent Habitat – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station
• Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets
• Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator - by Daniel Vassallo
• Wildpinkeln am Meer: Legendäres AG-Urteil aus Lübeck
• ArbG Detmold, Urteil vom 23.08.2007 - 3 Ca 842/07 - openJur: Sehr lesenswert!
• These bubbles kill cancer - Michigan Engineering News
• Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V
• This Ultradense Asteroid May Contain Elements We’ve Never Seen Before
• Escape analysis hates copy elision – Arthur O'Dwyer – Stuff mostly about C++
• Daily Energy Expenditure through the Human Life Course — The University of Brighton: Note that this is only half the truth, because it talks about "fat-free mass-adjusted expenditure", which doesn't quite give you what you might suspect from the headline.
• The Datassettes
• mystery-o-matic: "Welcome to your daily destination for an exhilarating dose of mystery! Immerse yourself in a world of crime, suspense, and intrigue as we present you with a new murder mystery every day. What sets us apart is our cutting-edge technology that generates these captivating cases randomly, ensuring a unique and mind-boggling experience every 24 hours. "
• Three Hundred :: Mechanic #069 :: Ideas on how to procedurally generated a closed set murder mystery and the mechanics of how to solve it.
• MURDLE: Daily mystery puzzles by G. T. Karber: Sudoku-style murder mystery, new one every day
• MURDER TAROT with Inspector Irratino: And now interpret your MURDLE result as if it was a horoscope
• Industry Idle: OH NO! I TOUCHED IT!
• Background job queues and priorities may be the wrong path: I like the idea, but I have no idea how you'd implement such a system.

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - httpie/desktop: 🚀 HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.
• blog.davep.org – astare v0.8.0 released
• Neapolitan: "Neapolitan is a re-usable library for Django projects, that provides quick CRUD views for other applications.
  It helps you get your models into your web output as quickly as possible, and includes base templates and re-usable template tags.
  All kinds of applications need frontend CRUD functionality - but it’s not available out of the box with Django, and Python programmers often suffer while wrestling with the unfamiliar technologies and tools required to implement it. Neapolitan addresses that particular headache.
  If you’ve ever looked longingly at Django’s admin functionality and wished you could have the same kind of CRUD access that it provides for your frontend, then Neapolitan is for you."
• GitHub - scalar/scalar: Beautiful API references from Swagger files ✨
• GitHub - dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for Apple TV and (soon) for all YouTube TV clients.
• ChatGPT-AutoExpert/System Prompts.md at main · spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert
• GitHub - jrouwe/JoltPhysics: A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library, written in C++, suitable for games and VR applications.

Games

• Sea of Thieves with more Monkey Island. Very nice!
• Trackmania with a friend. Very nice!
• Kugelfuhr with friends. Very nice!
• Love Letter with friends. A short game of LL always goes. Very nice!

Backlog

• qube (free from EGS)
• qube 2 (free from EGS)

Recipes

Other media

• Tim Vine- Deep Song - YouTube: The ocean is very deep. Yes, it's silly, but it is!
• The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps. - YouTube
• ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE - a short film by Erik Wernquist - YouTube
• Douleur (θͬæͬɐ̃ͬχ̓ɤ̞̃ɐ̃ͬlͬ) -- Curse Conlang Circus 2023 - YouTube: This conlang has it all. And there's a punchline at the end.
• Geolaŋ: A Rock Based Language for Agma Schwa's Second Cursed Conlang Circus - YouTube: This conlang has rocks!
• The RISE & FALL of UNITY! -- Gaming Documentary - YouTube
• 2024 Chevy Goliath - AI TV ad - YouTube: Finally a good use for AI
• Collaborating on The Mysteries - Bill Watterson and John Kascht - YouTube
• Naoyuki Oi - Funny Interview After Win - Must See! - YouTube: Stay positive, just like that guy!
• Erik Wernquist - Short Film: "One Revolution Per Minute": Just imagine jumping into that pool at 0.5g...
• The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games