Progress

Little.

Articles

• My Cat Alerted Me to a DDoS Attack: ref spurious correlations, ref frequency illusion
• Mysterious Moving Pointers - blomqu.ist
• Mike Swanson's Blog • Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Projection
• Top 10 VR cameras for creating amazing virtual reality video -- DeoVR
• ABB's cycloidal marine propellers: Efficient thrust in any direction
• Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers -- Phillip Tennen
• Building a GPS Receiver, Part 2: Tracking Pinpricks -- Phillip Tennen
• Building a GPS Receiver, Part 3: Juggling Signals -- Phillip Tennen
• Building a GPS Receiver, Part 4: Measuring Twice -- Phillip Tennen: I kind of want to do the same thing for Galileo now...
• Gender-Sternchen: Was Forschung zum Gendern ergab -- Apotheken Umschau: A good article on gendering in language, by the Apotheken-Umschau, of all places!
• APOTHEKEN UMSCHAU "RENTNER Bravo" - 66 Jahre Sonderausgabe, 15.01.2022, selten! EUR 3,00 - PicClick DE
• Economic Calculation in the RTS Commonwealth: There is so much wrong with this article that I need to write an entire article myself about the topic. The idea (comparing video game economies to real world economies) is a great one, but then picking a game that has no economy makes it slightly less appealing. It then also rambles on and tries to connect ideas in the weirdest of ways that I was looking forward to the end about half-way through.
• How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun -- Ars Technica
• A quick post on Chen’s algorithm – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
• Software Design by Example: Introduction (via Jochens weeklog)
• 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9 – Map Happenings
• This is a teenager: I disagree with some of the conclusions, but they visualisation looks great. Unfortunately, it could be much more informative if the columns were more comparable.
• Vast: The Mysterious Manor -- Board Game -- BoardGameGeek: I made the mistake of looking at board games this week. Now I want to play them all.
• Walk Monster - testing the walkable area of a game
• Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools
• #ScanAllFish — Comparative Biomechanics at Friday Harbor Labs
• GitHub - tbressers/WizardLM-2-8x22B
• Can You Grok It :: dade
• Lessons after a half-billion GPT tokens - Ken Kantzer's Blog (that's actually about 15-30k in cost, so not as impressive as it sounds)
• GitHub - loopj/short-stack: World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
• [2404.02305] Collapse of Self-trained Language Models
• Oolite: an open-world space opera
• Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs
• Finding and Fixing a Five-Second Stall
• On the fine art of technology reviews -- Ian Betteridge
• Constellation Harmony -- SPACE-BIFF!
• The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
• Wikipedia - Kiwix: wikipedia (Deutsch) de 43.55 GB 2024-04 all maxi
• randar-explanation/README.md at master · spawnmason/randar-explanation · GitHub
• I hate software: Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing
• absorptions: Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Meta.ai Oh My!
• Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit – I Code 4 Coffee
• Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
• Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
• Effort Engine
• How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
• GitHub - the-mirror-gdp/the-mirror: The open-source Roblox & UEFN alternative giving you freedom to own what you create. An all-in-one, real-time, collaborative game development platform built on Godot.
• Aufkleber, Sticker und Etiketten drucken - StickerApp
• Could A Video Game Developer Win The Nobel Prize For Literature? - Stuff South Africa
• Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol
• Grog's Gamut: Don’t bet on the joys of the pokies
• LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE CYBER-ATTACK British Library cyber incident review 8 MARCH 2024
• Is Crossrope’s smart jump rope worth $200? - The Verge: are they really asking the question: "is it worth to pay 200 USD plus a 12$ monthly subscription for a jump rope"?!?!
• The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap -- Imagico.de
• Search BioNumbers - The Database of Useful Biological Numbers
• Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
• Mailoji: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service -- Tiny Projects
• Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle - Berkeley Lab – Berkeley Lab News Center
• Braarudosphaera bigelowii - Wikipedia
• Metabolic trade-offs constrain the cell size ratio in a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - PIIS009286742400182X.pdf
• Baby Penguins Jump Off 50-Foot Cliff in First-of-Its-Kind Drone Footage -- PetaPixel
• The Great British Housing Famine - by James - Himbonomics
• Agile Otter Blog: Programming Is Mostly Thinking

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - nalgeon/redka: Redis re-implemented with SQLite
• GitHub - pgvector/pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
• JC - JSON convert cli tool: jc JSONifies the output of many CLI tools, file-types, and common strings for easier parsing in scripts.

Books

• Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything

Games

• Walkabout Minigolf
• Birth: relaxing little puzzle game and very weird style
• Factorio
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Backlog

• Birth (from waitlist)
• Park Beyond (from waitlist)

Recipes

• Kladdkaka

Other media

• Space-Cast! #6. Stellar Jamboree: yes, I did listen to an entire podcast, and just because it's about a game I really, really want to play.
• Coding Challenge 181: Weighted Voronoi Stippling - YouTube
• How to Play Sidereal Confluence in 13 Minutes - YouTube
• TORTURE (comedy movie) - YouTube
• Lie Detector (comedy movie) - YouTube
• SM64’s Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All - YouTube
• The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now - YouTube: Hilarious!
• World's First SCREW-BIKE - YouTube
• Coding Challenge 182: Apollonian Gasket Fractal - YouTube
• Wie man in einem TEDxTalk clever wirkt -- Will Stephen -- TEDxNewYork - YouTube
• Apple Explains How They Calculate Prices - YouTube
• Can you actually taste a difference between Onions? - YouTube
• Iain Banks shows his office
• Motion Control – Filmmaking with optical illusions & layers of time – Epic Episode #12 - YouTube