Progress

I did two days of training, SQL for beginners, and all the participants were very happy. That is so nice.

Articles

• Electric Vehicle Charger – James Fotherby: As a German, where it's very illegal to work power lines carrying more than 40 V, this is horrifying. As a tinkerer, that's amazing!
• LLM Visualization: Amazing!
• Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere -- Hacker News: HN link because there are some funny shaders in the comments. Also, I am amused by the thought that the Sphere is just a regular HDMI display and there's some room down there that you can just plug a laptop into it.
• GLSL Sandbox Gallery: I just found a new art genre: NSFW GLSL shaders
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Unmanned, Aerial Flamethrowers - Heatmap News
• Troy Hunt: A Decade of Have I Been Pwned
• I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate
• Eclipse: The Demo that Sold 3D to Nintendo -- Video Game History Foundation
• Maths visualizations
• Pisa-Aufgaben Mathematik: Können Sie besser rechnen als ein 15-Jähriger? - DER SPIEGEL: Yes! Yes I absolutely can. And these tests aren't even very hard, so I doubt that they do much to 15-year-olds.
• Fake chips, I got stung – LinuxJedi's /dev/null
• How the Nintendo Zapper worked in Slow Motion : r/videos
• I'm Building a Self-Destructing USB Drive - Interrupt Labs Blog: The title is slightly misleading, since the drive doesn't destroy itself, it just doesn't reveal itself if not handled properly. However, a person in a lab taking the drive apart would get at the data very, very quickly. So always be aware of your threat model.
• You are never taught how to build quality software -- Florian Bellmann -- Be curious, explore and meditate.
• DIY Automated Christmas Tree Watering: very nice, but way too dangerous for my taste. Imagine the water sensor dropping somewhere dry, or the controller crashing while it's dispensing. I like the "overflow basin" designs, where the pump transfers water from a reservoir into a destination that can only overflow back into the reservoir. Wouldn't even be that hard here, simply put the entire tree stand into a bucket.

Libraries, programming, etc

• automerge/automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically.: How did I now know this before?!

Books

• A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Games

• Raft
• Walkabout Minigolf

Backlog

• Elex II (from Humble Monthly)
• Nobody Saves The World (from Humble Monthly)
• The Gunk (from Humble Monthly)

Recipes

• Käsespätzle
• Pizza

Other media

• The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong - Veritasium
• The Genius Design of Dutch Money - YouTube
• You'll never guess the most popular internet country code - MapMen
• Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about - MapMen
• Why British cities make no sense - MapMen
• How To Channel Your Road Rage Into Cold, Calculating Road Revenge - YouTube