Progress

Someone pushed an issue to the airmtp library that I maintain. It's an actual, real issue and I think I can solve it. Wooo for open source!

Not much else. Holidays start this week, so work is going to be harder.

Articles

• How not to use box shadows
• EndeavorRx® - ADHD Video Game Treatment for Kids -- FDA-authorized
• Automerge CRDT -- Automerge CRDT
• AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
• Never update anything -- blog.kronis.dev
• BBC Sound Effects
• GitHub - AgentOps-AI/tokencost: Easy token price estimates for 400+ LLMs. TokenOps.
• The Lure of the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper
• Worklog - Kawaii -- BitBuilt - Giving Life to Old Consoles: Keychain-sized wii
• Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA -- Nature: apparently a method that's better than CRISPR
• 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod: It's a tiny ipod, but actually just a hull for your apple watch. Not sure if it's satire or not.
• Shadow Lord Chancellor - Wikipedia
• Night Czar -- London City Hall
• Wikipedia:Long-term abuse - Wikipedia: Hilarious descriptions of long-term vandals
• KI-Ampel in Essenbach verärgert Autofahrer -- heise online: Das Problem mit Artikeln im Internet ist, dass man nicht weiß, ob es Satire sein soll oder nicht. "Die Ampel arbeite aber, wie sie soll, erklärt Stephan Stroh, Leiter des Verkehrsmanagements der verantwortlichen Landesbaudirektion. Er bittet um etwas Geduld, damit die hinter der Ampel stehende KI auch lernen könne, zitiert ihn der BR. Das habe das System auch bereits getan. Allerdings stehen im Fokus der Anlage weniger Autos und ein schnelles Überkreuzen der Straße, sondern vielmehr die Sicherheit der Verkehrsteilnehmer" Die hinter der Ampel stehende KI "muss also erst lernen", dass wartende Autos warten?! Wofür soll diese KI denn dann gut sein?
• curl - Vulnerability Table: what a fantastic record!
• Large Enough -- Mistral AI -- Frontier AI in your hands
• Retaining flavor while removing caffeine − a chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
• Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games - AV
• Finding a Random Seed That Solves a LeetCode Problem
• Grumpy Gamer - Why Adventure Games Suck
• 35% Faster Than The Filesystem
• Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?: not much of an explanation, because what it comes down to is "because that's what the curves look like".
• Was early modern writing paper expensive? -- Folger Shakespeare Library: not very
• Covering all birthdays - Lior Sinai
• Lightweight neural network enables realistic rendering of woven fabrics in real-time
• Beyond Clean Code -- Tobeva Software: I'm not sure I entirely agree, but I'd have to write my own longer rant to explain why. Not sure I should, though.
• GitHub - ionworks/how-to-debug-your-battery: A guide on how to understand the performance of your battery with modelling and improve it
• computers - What can a time traveler use to generate an encryption key to encrypt information so it's only decryptable after a given time period - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange: supernovae and technological progress
• The irrational hungry judge effect revisited: Simulations reveal that the magnitude of the effect is overestimated -- Judgment and Decision Making -- Cambridge Core
• Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf, the Prison Food for Misbehaving Inmates – Chicago Magazine: I guess this hits some people harder than others. I'd definitely like to try it.
• My Favorite Tools + Techniques for Procedural Gamedev - Casey Primozic's Homepage
• GitHub - CelVoxes/ceLLama: Cell type annotation with local Large Language Models (LLMs) - Ensuring privacy and speed with extensive customized reports

Libraries, programming, etc

• Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service
• GitHub - postgresml/korvus: Korvus is a search SDK that unifies the entire RAG pipeline in a single database query. Built on top of Postgres with bindings for Python, JavaScript, Rust and C.

Books

• Unsong

Games

• Factorio
• Viewfinder: such a fascinating puzzle game, you edit the world by placing (or finding) photographs. There is a meta-world, which is... I don't know, not super-useful? Also, it's beautiful. 9/10
• Walkabout Minigolf: I find more an more people that I can play this with, and it's wonderful. Also, the Wallace&Gromit DLC is nice, even though I had expected a little bit more of it.

Recipes

• Mirabelleneis
• Meloneneis

Other media

• I made Games with Python for 10 Years... - YouTube
• Heating a metal dish scrubber on two piezo contact mics (stereo piezo ASMR) - YouTube: This is the weirdest thing ever, you can hear the internal stresses and movings of the metal parts. I wonder what else you could hook up to these contact microphones. Guess I'll have to get some myself...
• Finally a HUGE Return! Gold Paydirt Challenge pt 2 Treasure Hunting & Prospecting #gold #prospecting - YouTube: Some people have weird hobbies. And that this is an actual product?!