Progress

The first week without hard projects and deadlines. I'm enjoying my tinkering immensely, even though it is not well-guided at the moment. Or maybe because of that.

I've added full-text search to this site. Client-site, statically hosted. Why? Because I'm tinkering.

I've also submitted my proposal for a talk at DjangoconEU in Dublin. Wish me luck!

Articles

• Jobs: In my life, I’ve witnessed three elite salespeople at work. You won’t like their secret.
• OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
• Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT – Answer.AI (via Jochens weeklog)
• What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs – Applied LLMs (via Jochens weeklog)
• Home Assistant Voice -- Awful Woman
• on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) -- McMansion Hell (via Jochens weeklog)
• B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know -- Ben Congdon
• Teredo navalis - Wikipedia
• All clocks are 30 seconds late -- Victor Poughon
• Parrot Anafi Drone Reverse Engineering -- HardBreak
• 225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
• Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. -- Xena
• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster - blag
• Dragonfly - The Fastest In-Memory Data Store
• Streets GL: Streets GL is a OpenStreetMap 3D renderer that allows to explore the whole world in great detail
• Why Tramway SDK -- Tramway Drifting and Dungeon Exploration Simulator Software Development Kit
• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases -- sean goedecke
• Belshazzar's Clock :: Mike's Blog — Technologist at Large
• Database optimization isn’t always obvious -- Whitesell on whatever…
• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University: Man, that reviewer is ruthless!
• GitHub - 2DGD-F0TH/2DGD_F0TH: [CC BY-NC-SA] A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development
• The erasure of Luigi Mangione - Evan Carroll
• Python: spy for changes with sys.monitoring - Adam Johnson
• Particles
• Playing Roborally with your friends over the internet: such a specific program to write!
• Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31 - Anna’s Blog
• Adrian Sampson: Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures)
• How OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's website ‘like a DDoS attack’ -- TechCrunch: huh, I guess giving techbros too much money and letting them do whatever on the internet is bad. OTOH, your shop should survive being crawled, so I don't know.
• Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity? - Our World in Data
• De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
• Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button – PracticApp – Hardware / Software Engineering: "In the end, it took about 8 hours to get this project finished, which was spread out over multiple weeks. Considering that I usually fill my bottle once a day, and it takes about 50 seconds to do so, this will have a positive return-on-investment after only about 1.5 years!"
• Six innovative ways to float skyscraper-sized wind turbines - MENA-Forum
• Obvious Things C Should Do - Digital Mars
• Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins - ScienceDirect
• It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
• Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs -- Organization Science
• Uv has a killer feature you should know about -- Lukas Valatka

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - samwho/spacer: CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops
• Fidget: "Fidget is a library for representing, compiling, and evaluating large-scale math expressions, i.e. hundreds or thousands of arithmetic clauses. It's mainly designed as a backend for implicit surfaces, but the library is flexible enough for many different uses!"
• GitHub - hn/linkplay-a31: Linkplay A31 WiFi audio module alternative firmware (OpenWrt) and device tree source file
• GitHub - r-follador/CubeTrek: Home for all your GPS Tracks: Visualize, share and manage your GPS tracks.

Books

• Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

Games

• Astroneer
• Taiji: I've looked up some of the puzzle rules and, well, even though I solved a good portion, I did not understand the rules.
• I expect you to die: playing a hapless spy in VR is fun. And that intro is absolutely fantastic! 8/10
• Patrick's Parabox: great puzzle game that will twist your brain into knots. 9/10
• Walkabout Minigolf: finally I got to playing mini golf again!
• Vampire Survivors: Wow, I did not expect to like this game. It's so simple, and repetitive. And cool! And enjoyable! And “just one more“! 8.5/10
• Dome Keeper: this one, however, is exactly like I expected it. A hectic switch between mining resources and defending your dome. It's not for me, though! 4/10

Backlog

• Turmoil (free from EGS)

Board games

• 5-Minute-Dungeon: It was nice to unpack this again after a few years, but three rounds was enough. It's just cooperative Ligretto after all.
• Inis: very nice and relaxed hard strategy game, but it would be nice to have played a few rounds to get into it. I'll play more of it again, soon (hopefully).

Recipes

• Morotskaka

Other media

• The Sandman: it's very Neil Gaiman.
• The Evolution of Avalanche Mitigation in Utah - YouTube
• Over-barreling in video games - YouTube
• 2326 Universal 3D Printed Bearing That Works - YouTube
• How To Make A Volume Audio Setting Menu In Unreal Engine 5 ( With Save and Load ) - YouTube: the tutorial is interesting, but the sound quality is so distracting
• 2276 DIY Cable Wrapping Machine - 3D Printed - YouTube
• TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet - YouTube
• What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? -- The New Yorker - YouTube
• The Sinking of the MV Princess of the Stars - YouTube