Weeklog for Week 42: October 16 to October 22

Oct 22, 2023

Progress

Not a lot, as usual.

I talked to a friend about a game and its weird art. We both think it is too weird, so now I have to make my own.
Similar with another game that I played with another friend. Too few features, and one could make so much out of it. Now I have to do it myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Articles

Peregrine Falcon image wins bird photo award - BBC News
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr
Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for your Resume
AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies -- Open Core Ventures
Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
BB(3, 3) is Hard -- sligocki
Encrypt. Now. — blog.tripu.info
Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System - Schneier on Security
Can We Build Trustable Hardware? « bunnie's blog
Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it: Agree with some, disagree with others
'Patlabor 2: The Movie' has stunningly realistic aerial combat
4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab - Wikipedia
What Are Accessibility Overlays? (Webbed Briefs) (via Jochens weeklog)
1000 hours of ChatGPT: here are the best 3 techniques to become a better prompt engineer!: that's not a lot of learnings for 1000 hours of doing (via Jochens weeklog)
What Django Deployment is Really About - Google Präsentationen: There's a lot of stuff in here. My takeaway is this: deployments have been a problem for a long time. Once you've done one, it's not that hard.
GaussianDreamer: Fast Generation from Text to 3D Gaussian Splatting with Point Cloud Priors
Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B -- PiCockpit -- Monitor and Control your Raspberry Pi: free for up to 5 Pis!
How would we know whether there is life on Earth? This bold experiment found out
How Do We Clean Up the Scientific Record? -- Function -- Oxford Academic
First Impressions with LLaVA-1.5
GPT-4 Vision Prompt Injection
Ex Astris Scientia - Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek
USB-C head-to-head teardown
Winsorized mean - Wikipedia
Write more "useless" software -- nicole@web
Mathematical Magic Mirrorball: how fantastic is this! I've gone to a large online retailer and downloaded product images of polished balls. They work with this.
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
The Generous Space of Alternative Game Engines (A Curation) -- The Candybox Blog
OpenRA - Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Godot is not the new Unity - The anatomy of a Godot API call -- Sam Pruden Does Stuff: What a weird argument to make: "GD is not the new Unity because they made some technical choices differently."
GitHub - hyperdxio/hyperdx: Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors.
Frankenstein's monster - Wikipedia:

The creature is a vegetarian. While speaking to Frankenstein, he tells him, "My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment...The picture I present to you is peaceful and human." At the time the novel was written, many writers, including Percy Shelley in A Vindication of Natural Diet, argued that practicing vegetarianism was the morally right thing to do.
Early Europeans Ate Seaweed for Thousands of Years -- Smart News-- Smithsonian Magazine
The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet). For as long as I’ve been writing… -- by Ben Golus -- Oct, 2023 -- Medium
A Good Enough Guestbook: I drew some art and it got printed. Yay!
Pluralistic: Amazon’s bestselling “bitter lemon” energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss (20 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting the largest Russian XMPP (Jabber) messaging service —
Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
Bumble bees drop to shake off Asian hornets
Nakatomi Space – BLDGBLOG
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia: I'd also scale this by the length of the article (which automatically gets rid of redirects), to find the least-read words on Wikipedia. I'm also surprised that
Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool -- Ars Technica
Making CRDTs 98% More Efficient -- jakelazaroff.com: And also 98% slower!
A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer -- Andrea Yip
Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil
Darren Aronofsky Says it Takes 12 People to Use the 18K Sphere Camera -- PetaPixel
Ultra FP64 – The Worlds First FPGA N64
The white furnace test – Light is beautifulLight is beautiful
Nanofiche — Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.

Libraries, programming, etc

GitHub - mgarciaisaia/JavaScript-Is-Weird-as-a-compressor
Quick Start: Deploying to Fly.io - django-simple-deploy: always wanted to do something with fly.io, because it looks quite awesome
GitHub - kwkr/feed-remover: Remove annoying feeds from popular websites

Games

Walkabout Minigolf: just sooo nice.
Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka: very, very tricky!

Backlog

Eternal Threads (free from EGS)
The Evil Within (free from EGS)
Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka (from waitlist, DLC because the main was so good)

Recipes

Lasagne