Weeklog for Week 51: December 16 to December 22

Dec 22, 2024

Progress

One hectic week before Christmas break. I'm leaving my current jobHint: hire me!, and it's a weird feeling to know that I'll see some of those people for the last time in my life. That kind of goodbye always makes me thoughtful and weird inside. I mean, there are hundreds of people I've met and interacted with that I'll not see in my life again, from the bus driver and the waiter to teachers and coworkers and colleagues and friends. Sometimes you know you won't see someone ever again and that makes for quite a weird feeling!
But also, new things are starting and that's always nice! Also, vacation!

I've decided I'll be at DjangoCon next year. I don't have any ideas for a talk (which might be an idea in itself), but if anyone knows a topic I should talk about, let's hear it!

Articles

Hacking physics from the back of a napkin – David Wakeham – QML researcher
Mirror Bacteria: An AMR threat of unprecedented magnitude • AMR.Solutions
Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How randomly skipping tests made them better! -- daniel.haxx.se
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer, part 1 - baby step with an overengineered webcam raiser – Fang-Pen's coding note
Building forms with the Django admin - Matthias Kestenholz
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
Sam Altman is a dunce -- deadSimpleTech
How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click – Krebs on Security
Laws of holes - Wikipedia: if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging, or "you can't dig your way out of a hole"
ANTON: Datenschutzfreundlich und verantwortungsbewusst – Schul-Apps Teil 3 • Kuketz IT-Security Blog
Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown – A Useful Fiction
Italy's privacy watchdog fines OpenAI €15 million after probe into ChatGPT data collection -- Euronews
Stacking Chairs -- jonafato
Silk – Interactive Generative Art
Charlie Marsh: "Part of maturing as an enginee…" - Mastodon: Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"
We Don’t Really Know How Many Birds Die in Structural Collisions
Draw all roads in a city at once
Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"
A data table thousands of years old

Libraries, programming, etc

django-tomselect · PyPI
Tom Select: Tom Select is a dynamic, framework agnostic, and lightweight (~16kb gzipped) <select> UI control. With autocomplete and native-feeling keyboard navigation, it's useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on.
GitHub - XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home: Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
huey/README.rst at master · coleifer/huey: huey is: a task queue written in python clean and simple API redis, sqlite, file-system, or in-memory storage example code. read the documentation. huey supports: multi-process, multi-thread or greenlet task execution models schedule tasks to execute at a given time, or after a given delay schedule recurring tasks, like a crontab automatically retry tasks that fail task prioritization task result storage task expiration task locking task pipelines and chains
Bogdanp/dramatiq: A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.: A fast and reliable distributed task processing library for Python 3.
closeio/tasktiger: Python task queue using Redis: TaskTiger is a Python task queue using Redis
django-money/django-money: Money fields for Django forms and models.: A little Django app that uses py-moneyed to add support for Money fields in your models and forms.
eyeseast/python-frontmatter: Parse and manage posts with YAML (or other) frontmatter: Jekyll-style YAML front matter offers a useful way to add arbitrary, structured metadata to text documents, regardless of type. This is a small package to load and parse files (or just text) with YAML (or JSON, TOML or other) front matter.
karlicoss/orgparse: Python module for reading Emacs org-mode files
GitHub - aceinnolab/Inkycal: Create awesome e-paper dashboards within minutes! Modularity? Check! Python3? Check? Works on Raspberry Pi Zero W? Check! Support for own modules? Check!

Books

88 Names: inside of the book, it slyly calls itself ‘It’s like Ready Player One meets The King and I’. For the most part, that's a good-enough description. Unfortunately, the ending is devastatingly boring and useless. 6/10
Influx by Daniel Suarez: wow, that story is bleak, much more so than the other Suarez books. It reminds me a bit of Providence by Max Barry, in that the story seems entirely pointless most of the time. We'll see whether any of it makes sense once I finish it.
A Curious Moon by Rob Connery: I'm using my free time and catch up on all the things I want to read and learn, and this one is really, really nice! Learning Postgres and data analysis and life-sciences and a bit of sci-fi all rolled into one.

Games

Astroneer
Taiji: a weird game with weird puzzles on a weird floating island. I like it, even though I barely understand only a very small part of the puzzles! 8/10
Widget Inc: wow, what an engaging idle game. Soo complicated! 8/10
Pro Office Calculator: weird!

Backlog

Vampire Survivors (free from EGS)
Tiny Glade (from waitlist)
Moon Mystery (from waitlist)

Board games

Lovecraft Letter
Coup
Love Letter

Recipes

lots of Plätzchen