Progress

Finally finished the barbecue build. It's fantastic.
What now?

Articles

• githublog/2024/5/10/cordic.md at main · francisrstokes/githublog · GitHub
• So We've Got a Memory Leak… -- Steven Harman — Maker & Breaker of Things
• I Coded Something Dumb And I'm Proud of It -- Pier-Luc Brault - Personal Website
• In medicine, what’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? - The Straight Dope
• Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more -- Tom's Hardware
• Making a Postgres query 1,000 times faster - Mattermost
• SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?
• Earth’s Rotation Limits IBIS Performance to 6.3 Stops – The Center Column
• The Higher States of Bromine -- Science -- AAAS
• Blog von StephaneP -- You thought OpenStreetMap data uses the WGS84 datum? No it doesn't! -- OpenStreetMap
• Why not to use two axes, and what to use instead
• Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen Email – Gabriel Sieben
• I hosted a spectacular 20-acre game of Capture the Flag [#61]
• Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates -- Centauri Dreams
• Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count -- Quanta Magazine
• AliceVision -- Meshroom - 3D Reconstruction Software
• The Paris Review - Scrabble, Anonymous - The Paris Review
• Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" -- Electronic Frontier Foundation

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - likejazz/llama3.np: llama3.np is pure NumPy implementation for Llama 3 model.
• GitHub - google/wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

Books

• The Library at Mount Char: sometimes when you finish a book and the entire thing is revealed, you think to yourself: "you could've known, if you just had paid attention". I like this kind of bookYes, I like books that make me feel stupid., and this is an excellent example. There's really just one question: when will I be able to read part 2?Seeing as the book was released in 2015 and remains the author's only work (next to classics such as "BEA Weblogic Server Administration Kit" or "Essential Apache", the answer is probably "never".

Games

• Astroneer: this is such a cute game! It does have a few UI issues, and I wish that the interface wouldn't be so entirely skeuomorphic (which is also cute, by the way) and instead show proper graphs and stuff. Having to move to one of the twelve different but similar-looking machines to get the next research printed is just tedious. None of that outweighs the absolute cuteness though, so I love it!
• Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

Backlog

• Dragon Age: Inquisition (free from EGS)

Board games

• Catan Junior

Other media

• The process of making a mirror ball. The last remaining mirror ball manufacturing factory in Japan. - YouTube
• Fabio and the Goose - YouTube
• Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama - YouTube
• Non-Euklidische Welt Engine - YouTube
• True Facts: Pigeons Are Tricking You - YouTube
• Why do Cars Suddenly Look Like Putty?? - YouTube
• How This 300-Year-Old Pastel Stick Maker Creates Nearly 2,000 Colors — More Than Its Competitors - YouTube