Weeklog for Week 40: September 30 to October 06
Progress
Still slightly ill, still no progress on important things.
I'll need to start up soon, though, since some projects are moving forward.
Articles
- NASA Will Soon Grow Plants on the Moon
- Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants -- CIO: how suprising!
- Epic v. Apple Hixson extension denied - DocumentCloud: Hilarious!
- Neue mathematische Kachelformen zum Auslegen von Flächen entdeckt - Natur - derStandard.de › Wissen und Gesellschaft
- The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction – War Fantasy
- Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
- The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t – Michał Górny
- Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack
- Linguistic humor
- Language Log » Is English a "creole language"?
- McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened -- CNN Business
- Signalbox - Live Train Map: A map of all trains in Britain, with information on delays.
- First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope -- ESO
- Bomb pulse - Wikipedia
- A Trail Gone Cold • Damn Interesting
- The Fastest Mutexes
- Gefährliche Resistenzen: Homöopathische Arzneimittel immer häufiger wirkungslos
- Comedy Theory -- RPGAdventures
- date - Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
- Magic isn’t real - Inside thoughts
- Chebyshev approximation calculator
- Szymon Kaliski — Cartographist
- BB84 - Wikipedia
- Reverse Engineering and Dismantling Kekz Headphones
- Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks -- Space
- the IT failures of Jurassic Park
- I Solve Problems - IT Notes: now I kinda want to learn BSD...
- When did your kidney stone start growing? ANSTO scientist carbon dated his to find out - ABC News
- htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx
- Search for Charts by Data Visualization Functions
- HPy - A better C API for Python -- HPy
- GitHub - komrad36/CRC: Fastest CRC32 for x86, Intel and AMD, + comprehensive derivation and discussion of various approaches
- Speeding up CRC-32 calculations in Mojo – fnands
- Defense Against The Dark Arts
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- The Nature of Code by Daniel Shivman
Games
- Factorio
Backlog
- Jusant (from Humble Choice)
- Station to Station (from Humble Choice)
- Dome Keeper (from Humble Choice)
- The Spirit and the Mouse (free from EGS)
Other media
- Building an open-source full-frame CCD camera PART II - YouTube
- I made an umbrella that rains - YouTube
- Making Satellite Calls With A 1973 Telephone (And Inmarsat Mobile Terminal) - YouTube
- Is English just badly pronounced French? - YouTube
- Automated Guided Vehicles, Storage and Retrieval Machines, 2XL N.V., Warehouse Automation - YouTube
- Water Boiling at Everest - Periodic Table of Videos - YouTube
- Boiling Water - Periodic Table of Videos - YouTube
- Is GEN ALPHA SLANG just NONSENSE? - YouTube
- Forbidden words: How we navigate linguistic taboos - YouTube
- The most controversial creature in linguistics - YouTube
- Make Pottery At Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) - YouTube
- Who WINS the SILENT Propeller WAR? - YouTube
- I Built a Marble Machine that Makes Pixel Art - YouTube
- Can I Build an Endless Bubble Machine? - YouTube