Weeklog for Week 14: April 01 to April 07

Apr 7, 2024

Progress

I'm thinking about adding a Bluetooth interface to one of my micropython projects. It seems possible, but bluetooth is such a mess that it's hard to even see what it can do, much less what one should do.
Also, Mozilla will not support WebBT, as they outline on their positions page.

I've had to do a lot of kubectl stuff this week and the command line interface for it is both good and bad. It is good because it'll show you everything, in whatever format you want to see. It is bad because all the other functions necessary for working tabular data are just not there -- just you try sorting output descending, and the only answers will be grep or awk or tail or tac or sort or some very simple script solution.
What I really actually kind-of want is some sort of SQL-for-cliand don't tell me that this is awk, because it isn't, where I can simply do something along the lines of kubectl get pods | where (restarts > 0 or age < 100m) | order by age desc. That should be possible. I am this close to just writing myself such a tool, so I guess I'll put it on the list as "side project #952".

TWIL

Mozilla has a page showing their positions on web standards.

Articles

Whatever happened to programming, redux: it may not be as bad as all that -- The Reinvigorated Programmer
Coding a pitch/roll/altitude autopilot in X-Plane with Python - Austin's Nerdy Things
OpenCat - Programmable Open-Source Robotic Pet Quadruped Framework – Petoi
Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally — that got caught by chance
LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs
A person in Texas caught bird flu after exposure to cows that were thought to be ill
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
Shostack + Associates > Magic Security Dust
GitHub - AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot
The Tale of Daniel: Where does the name "Daniel" come from, and is it very old? Cute idea, but I'm not impressed with the research.
PaperBack: "PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps. If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet."
[2403.17297] InternLM2 Technical Report
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers - The Verge: I have such a one, and I suggest you get one, too.
4 billion if statements -- Blabbin’
How the XZ backdoor works [LWN.net]
Talker’s block -- Seth's Blog (via Jochens weeklog)
Every dunder method in Python - Python Morsels (via Jochens weeklog)
The Django admin is a CMS - Matthias Kestenholz
Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas – Terraform Industries Blog
[OC] Most cost-competitive technologies for energy storage : r/dataisbeautiful
Build a Live Search Feature with Django using HTMX and PostgreSQL FTS (in 10 minutes)
Row Level Security for Tenants in Postgres -- Crunchy Data Blog
Polars — Accelerating Polars DataFrames
great_tables - The Design Philosophy of Great Tables
Xr0: "Xr0 is a verifier for C. It eliminates many stubborn instances of undefined behaviour, like use-after-frees, double frees, null pointer dereferences and the use of uninitialised memory."
A first look at Europe’s alternative iPhone app stores - The Verge
Mario meets Pareto
The Venetian antibandito humps or pissotte: what exactly are they? -- Visitvenezia.eu
We can slay giants: Meta and Google and Apple: they can be slain.
Glory is just 11 MB/sec away · thmsmlr: "Reduce the HTML size, increase the number of requests, either way, with a CDN serving your JS, CSS, and images, you can have a top 1000 website if your app code can produce 11MB/sec of HTML. That’s an incredibly low bar."
Is the frequency domain a real place? - lcamtuf’s thing: Yes it is, just like all the other domains are. It's just the most-used one.
Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? -- Hacker News
Gakken EX-System - Wikipedia
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe -- Climate crisis -- The Guardian
I am not a supplier -- Musings about software
Productivity Paradox: Background
Adventures Making Vegemite ⸺ Dave on Design
It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now -- Andrew Norman Wilson

Libraries, programming, etc

Games

Astroneer again with the guys: this game is so different from what we played five years ago, but it's still the same game. It's fantastic to see a small indie do such a great job with their product. I want to play it all the time now. 10/10
4D golf, released recently, is such a weird gameFor a slightly more discrete multidimensional game, see 5D chess with multiverse time travel. I flutter between "there is no way anyone can understand this" and "this is obvious and I'm wondering whether I'm misunderstanding anything". I'll have to put in some more time to see if I really get it, or if I'm just completely missing the point.
Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Backlog

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