Progress

Finally got all the parts, soldered the adapter and installed Valetudo on my robot. This took a while, because it has a complicated over-the-network installation process, even though you need to plug in a USB stick. So I tried putting everything on the stick, and once I had done that correctly, it worked very easily.
I'm very happy with it and recommend you do the same!

Built a movable shelf. We don't have a lot of space in our basement, so this shelf is fitted into the room and can be moved everywhere without falling over

I finally did some recreational programming again, and I feel so refreshed. The thing I programmed was a maze generator: it creates a graph (right now, only a grid graph, but would work with any), then gives the edges random weights and constructs a maximum spanning tree. This means you can go from any node to any other node through exactly one path.

Other than that, not much.

Articles

• Revisiting Candle Flicker-LEDs: Now with integrated Timer – Tim's Blog
• Pluralistic: The long sleep of capitalism’s watchdogs (26 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (via Jochens weeklog)
• Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem -- Quanta Magazine
• A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert's writings (via Jochens weeklog)
• Murchison Murders - Wikipedia
• Brunost - Wikipedia: "In January 2013, a lorry caught fire in the 3.5 km (2.2 mi) long Brattli tunnel in Tysfjord. The temperature of the burning lorry rose so high that the 27 tonnes of brunost it was carrying caught fire also, its fats and sugars fuelling the blaze and preventing firefighters from approaching it until four days later, when most of it had burned out. The tunnel was severely damaged, and was closed for repair for several months afterward."
• True Tales of Survival: The $500 million dollar typo
• Tabletop game counterfeiters are getting faster - Polygon
• I don't want anything your AI generates • Cory Dransfeldt
• DeepSeek Coder
• Constructing a four-point egg – Tony Finch
• LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge -- LLaVA
• U.S. Survey Foot -- NIST: Hilarious! "Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter. The definition adopted at that time was the one specified by Congress in 1866, as 1 foot = 1200/3937 meter exactly (or 1 foot = 0.304 800 6 meter approximately)."
• [Long post]Tried Vision Pro. Here's what I thought : OculusQuest
• Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display
• Operative versus nicht-operative Behandlung des Karpaltunnelsyndroms -- Cochrane
• Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
• Google has another secret browser - Matan-h
• Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again. -- by Andrej Karpathy -- Medium
• EmuVR - Virtual Emulation
• Upside down rhinos and nose-clearing orgasm studies win Ig Nobel prize -- Science -- The Guardian: "Cem Bulut, a professor at the SLK Clinics in HeilbronnHooray! in Germany, and colleagues, won the medicine prize for research that suggests sex with orgasm is an effective nasal decongestant. Having developed suspicions based on “self-observation”, Bulut recruited a group of co-workers to investigate. The obliging couples were trained with a device to measure their nasal airflow before sex, immediately after sexual climax and at regular time points thereafter. According to the team’s report, sex was as effective at clearing blocked noses, for an hour at least, as commercial decongestants, though Bulut concedes he did not get firm data from everyone. “I think some people couldn’t focus on the device,” he said. How sex might unblock the nose is not entirely clear, but Bulut sees a number of factors in play. “I think it’s a mixture of excitement, physical exercise, and hormonal changes that come with orgasm,” he said."
• How to Replace Your CPAP In Only 666 Days
• Is Apple going to stop people from… -- Apple Developer Forums
• Write code for the web
• Naval Gazing Main/''Eilat''
• Naval Gazing Main/RAM

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - dabapps/django-zen-queries: Explicit control over database query execution in Django applications
• GitHub - dgllghr/stanchion: A SQLite extension that brings column-oriented tables to SQLite

Books

• Revelation Space

Games

• Raft: getting close to Utopia now!
• Walkabout Minigolf: always/still good.
• Neptune's Pride: very exciting. If you want to play a game with me, let me know.

Backlog

• Doors - Paradox (free from EGS)

Board games

• Set
• Wo ist das Gehirn?
• Monopoly Deal

Other media

• Unique Engineering - Battersea Lift 109 - YouTube
• The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China - YouTube
• The Game Prototype That Had to Be Banned by Its Own Studio - YouTube
• Why do all shapes lie in the Polyhedron Plane? - YouTube
• The Sydney Opera House Illusion - YouTube
• Squaring a Doughnut - YouTube
• Ambigram Art - YouTube
• Primitive Technology: One Way Spinning, Rope Stick Blower - YouTube
• Making American cheese to debunk a conspiracy - YouTube: It's two dudes who have never been in a kitchen before, melting cheese. I don't know why I'm watching NileX videos, they are not good.