Weeklog for Week 4: January 20 to January 26
Progress
Work is excellent, and I'm doing a lot of stuff I had missed for a long time. One client project started with a workshop and during the workshop we could implement the first feature they required. What a fantastic feeling.
The other work works as well.
Some other opportunities are arising, and I'm really glad that I can take advantage of them.
Met a friend from an old workplace and it's still the same kind of hit show over there. I am glad I don't work there any more.
I've stopped frequenting Reddit and now have much more time to do other thingsYou might have noticed the volume of links on these pages has gone up in response..
Then I nerdsniped myself into Project-Euler-ing and gone was my time again.
Since I'll have to produce E-Rechnungen soon, I implemented a tool for it. I had to search for my project template and that took a long time, but it still works.
Perfection: “Yesterday, we witnessed the inauguration of a man whose ideology embodies everything the EU was founded to reject. The EU cannot just stand for our values when it is easy, it matters most when it comes at a cost. And standing up to Trump will come with a cost. But it is much less than the cost of letting this poison win.
I am done with niceties from EU leaders to Trump while his techbro buddies call for our laws to be undermined. I am done with the Taoiseach of Ireland with our historic understanding of immigration and oppression promoting Trumps golf links in County Claire in response to its inauguration. And I am done with the so-called strong men who, if they had to live for ONE DAY in the shoes of an immigrant, a woman, or a transgender person, would quiver with fear.
Anyone who believes in the founding principles of the EU should be appalled by what we witnessed yesterday. I am appalled. So I resist. And Europe must resist, because our history demands it.”, spoken by the Irish MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’. We must resist, and so we will.
TWIL
- Python's
os.putenv
does not actually put things in the env. It just puts things in sub-envs that you may start later. “So it is actually preferable to assign to items ofos.environ
.“ - Peter Shor, of Shor's algorithm, is very active on some StackExchange sites. For example in this question, where he answers about whether Shor invented Shor's algorithm himself.
- Here's a very dirty trick to run a script in a django context:
bash ./manage.py shell --command="exec(open('c.py').read())";
I mean sure, you could use django-extension's runscript command, but it didn't want to work for me. So, I had to use the above hack, I was forced to use it! Right? - You can get quite far with
document.getElementsByClassName
. I had to delete 200 photos from an online thingie, so I made myself 20 lines of JS that selected and clicked the buttons for me.
Articles
- Viewing images · wolf@nereid.pl
- So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
- GitHub - tomhea/c2fj: Compiling C to FlipJump
- disk - What does "supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
- Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
- Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect - Consumer Action Taskforce
- anderspitman/awesome-tunneling: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
- Dark Patterns Detective - Product Artistry Games: Uncover the hidden design tricks that manipulate user decisions online.
- Groundwater Movement - High-Adventure Science Interactive
- The Derelict • Damn Interesting: The Morro Castle burns down at sea.
- 417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Took Over a Decade to Make -- PetaPixel
- Regency Sex Ed — History News Network
- David A. Wheeler's Review of "Debugging" by David J. Agans
- Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith - Vincent Schmalbach
- These Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them -- Scientific American
- Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform · GitHub
- Fascinating Cab Numbers by Shyam Sunder Gupta
- Rondam Ramblings: I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts
- AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages -- Tom's Hardware
- Apple-Mitarbeiter laufen gegen Glaswände: Verletzungen in Cupertino - DER SPIEGEL
- SeaWedding2769 comments on what are these dots on tin can lids? and the concentric circles relief. different shops/brands, uk
- Pickle’s nine flaws -- Ned Batchelder
- ribbon mic – kHz
- Truncating timedeltas in Django · Applied Cartography
- Japan: Aquarium sticks human photos on tank for 'lonely' sunfish
- MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security
- Tech Takes the Pareto Principle Too Far – Bobby Lockhart
- BishopBlog: Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI
- Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
- The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History – Terrible Software
- Catching memory leaks with your test suite
- Nach Strafanzeige: Söders CSU des Plakatklaus beschuldigt -- NOZ
- KiCanvas: KiCanvas is an interactive , browser-based viewer for KiCAD schematics and boards. You can learn more from the docs. It's in alpha so please
- Creation -- anyon_e: Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. It’s got a 4K AMOLED display, a Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, plays Minecraft at 4K, runs +7B LLMs, surfs the web, and has ~7h battery life. All open-source. No price information, however. Also note that this is a high-school senior project.
- Orbit spirograph
- You should write "without bugs"
- Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells -- MadPsy's Place
- The Most Mario Colors
- DIY Video Hosting – tyler.io
- Christian Walther: "@gvy_dvpont Got me thinking… c…" - Mastodon 🐘
- almost_pwned.md
- tele-present wind — David Bowen
- New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection -- Quanta Magazine
- The fizzbuzz that did not get me the job
- You could have invented Fenwick trees -- Journal of Functional Programming -- Cambridge Core
- A physicist’s guide to ice cream: the complex science behind one of the world’s most popular desserts – Physics World
- Quba-Viewer – Quba E-Invoice Viewer
- Dual QR Code Generator
- Downtown Doug Brown » The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up
- AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back -- Ben Congdon
- No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port. -- Steam Brick Mod
- The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family
- The hunt for error -22 - Blog - Tweede golf
- Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1 - by henry
- This is the Only Photo of the Concorde Flying at Supersonic Speed -- PetaPixel: quite disappointing, to be honest.
Libraries, programming, etc
- GitHub - Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2: High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation with Large Scale Hunyuan3D Diffusion Models.
- fatedier/frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
- GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
- marshmallow 3.25.1 documentation
- Stratoshark
- runevision/Dither3D: Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
- CDN Pricing -- Affordable Pay As You Go CDN -- bunny.net
- PeerTube documentation
- pCloud - Developers
- GitHub - lightpanda-io/browser: Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
- GitHub - Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero
- Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy Your Own Qwen with Context Length up to 1M Tokens -- Qwen
Books
- The Steerswoman's Road by Rosemary Kirstein
- Fluent Python
Games
- Astroneer we finished the game. Now we don't know what to play.
- Factorio
- Planet Zoo
- Jedi Survivor
Board games
- Colt Express
Recipes
Other media
- Slow Horses, finished season 1, very thrilling! Oh noes, there are seasons 2, 3 and 4!
- Shrinking: great fun!
- OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video) - YouTube
- How I Animated a Stop-Motion Chair - YouTube
- One of the Most Dangerous Jobs of the 1980s - YouTube
- Servo vs steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy - YouTube
- Trying To Reach Speed Of Sound At Home 3D Printed Gears - YouTube
- How I Made A Laptop From Scratch - anyon_e - YouTube
- The experiment that revealed the atomic world: Brownian Motion - YouTube
- How I Built A LEGO Treadmill That Moves In EVERY Direction - YouTube
- The Most Tedious LEGO Instruction Steps - YouTube
- [256] Unpickable lock by Works By Design picked - YouTube
- The Lever Paradox - YouTube
- Subpixel Snake: The Web's Smallest Game - YouTube