Progress

Kind-of vacation week. Did some work around the home network, and we now have Wifi in the garage. That was important!

Articles

• Melting KiCad, part 2 - mitxela.com: Rounding the corners of Kicad routes even more!
• Robin's blog – Friends don't let friends export to CSV
• A Brief History of Inkjet Printers - IEEE Spectrum
• Who killed the network switch? - Cliffle
• Everyone is John -- Everyone-is-John a role-playing game
• GitHub - carlosefr/spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for arcade Arkanoid, Tempest, etc.
• Manipulating Chess-GPT’s World Model -- Adam Karvonen
• How fast can we process a CSV file (via Jochens weeklog)
• Generating music in the waveform domain – Sander Dieleman
• Foone Turing — We keep finding space stations, and we don't know...:
• Foone Turing — The rules are simple: Two wizards. Two pistols. No...

• The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine

• An orally bioavailable SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor exhibits improved affinity and reduced sensitivity to mutations -- Science Translational Medicine

• Coding a wing leveler autopilot in X-Plane with Python - Austin's Nerdy Things
• The Knuth/Plass line-breaking Algorithm
• oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
• Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
• oss-security - Re: backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
• Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
• Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel With PostgreSQL? -- by Denis Magda -- Mar, 2024 -- Medium
• Jeff Triplett's Micro.blog - xz update: Don't do this
• Roll-Invert-Unroll: An Easier Way to Replace a Duvet Cover -- A Danver Braganza Extravaganza
• Ragdoll studio: "Create, interact with, and deploy AI personas with scoped knowledge and distinct personalities. Run models on your own machine. No accounts or API keys required."
• A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
• Whatever happened to programming? -- The Reinvigorated Programmer: This is one of the reasons why I like hacking around on ESP32 and micropython projects. No frills, no bullshit, very few libraries, but a working piece of hardware afterwards.

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - andrewgodwin/django-singlefile

Games

• Neptune's Pride: The game has become much more funny, since I stopped caring. Now I've built an auto-submit script so I won't even have to check in to submit my moves any more.
• Crime O'Clock

Backlog

• Islets (free from EGS)
• Firmament (from VR bundle)
• 7th Guest VR (from VR bundle)

Other media

• Plotter Fun - YouTube
• TIMING - The 12 Principles of Animation in Games - YouTube
• Moral Panic - Legion - YouTube
• I Own Danaher - YouTube
• Wie funktioniert eine Donut-Maschine? (Krispy Kreme) - YouTube
• It’s Never Turtles All the Way Down -- Fate & Fabled - YouTube
• Audiences Hate Bad Writing, Not Strong Women - YouTube
• I Ran a Chess Programming Tournament, Here's How it Went! - YouTube