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First week of vacation. Very relaxing. Didn't do anything of note.

Articles

• GitHub - brannondorsey/rust-incompatible-transitive-dependencies: An example demonstrating how Rust and cargo support incompatible transitive dependencies (like Node.js + npm not Python + pip)
• How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made - Washington Post
• Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C
• Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
• Manifold Finances
• The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings
• Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit (And How Can It)? — MatthewBall.co
• GitHub - TomWright/dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.
• AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again. -- Max Woolf's Blog
• The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist -- Peter Eisentraut
• Modern AI Agents Directory - Discover Top AI Agents and Frameworks
• Hacking a Virtual Power Plant -- rya.nc
• What the hell is a luminiferous theremin ? - Extreme Kits
• U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW · Jonathan Chan
• The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology -- Quanta Magazine
• Astrophysik: Der Polarstern hat Flecken - Spektrum der Wissenschaft
• A History of the International Date Line - discovery of the IDL
• ESA - Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby
• How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press - by Brian Potter
• I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It
• DRAKON - Wikipedia
• mjg59 -- What the fuck is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
• GitHub - CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data: Surfer is the world's first personal data scraper.
• GitHub - w3c/epubcheck: The conformance checker for EPUB publications
• SnapDiagram - Use AI to Digitize Your Hand-Drawn Sketches
• GitHub - beac0n/ruroco: Ruroco is a tool that lets you execute commands on a server by sending UDP packets. The commands are configured on the server side, so the client does not define what is going to be executed, it only picks from existing commands.
• Sanitarium -- The Digital Antiquarian
• A Visualization Grammar -- Vega
• Accident Forgiveness · The Fly Blog
• Python's Preprocessor -- Pydong
• GitHub - instantdb/instant: The realtime client-side database
• Software Possession for Personal Use -- olano.dev
• Intro – vlcn.io
• Birds Aren't Real - How to Create Your Own "Bird"
• Generating Mazes — Andrew Healey
• Lidl’s Cloud Gambit: Europe’s Shift to Sovereign Computing -- by Dotan Horovits (@horovits) -- Aug, 2024 -- Medium
• GitHub - flxzt/rnote: Sketch and take handwritten notes.

Games

• Factorio
• Walkabout Minigolf