Progress

Using my own invoicing solution for the first time has shown me that I still have a bit of work to do before it is production-ready.

And then I became ill and didn't do much for the rest of the week. Awesome!

Articles

• Everyone knows your location
• codename goose -- codename goose
• 20250128-cdc-datasets directory listing: Did I have to download a copy? No! Did I do it anyway? Yes!
• Burrows–Wheeler transform - Wikipedia
• Why Developers Should Embrace Creative Coding Again -- Figma Blog
• The Moral Superiority Illusion
• Why using (and writing) a custom game engine
• A quote from Anthropic
• What I Use -- selfaware soup
• Siril is an astronomical image processing tool
• Ratchets in software development @ Things Of Interest
• Quote Origin: If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter – Quote Investigator®
• Developer philosophy @ Things Of Interest
• I ordered electric excavators from China. Here's what showed up
• Mitochondria as you’ve never seen them — January’s best science images
• Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910 - by Chester Lam
• Database Indexing in Django -- TestDriven.io
• Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world -- Live Science
• Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project - IEEE Spectrum
• Radiant Foam
• Game engines and shader stuttering: Unreal Engine's solution to the problem - Unreal Engine
• SIC-1 by jaredkrinke
• py-free-threading
• Urban Dictionary: clown computing: hey, that's what I do!
• The Slotted Counter Pattern — PlanetScale
• OmniHuman-1: Rethinking the Scaling-Up of One-Stage Conditioned Human Animation Models: scary!
• DoppelBot: Replace your CEO with an LLM -- Modal Docs
• Push notifications for decentralized services -- UnifiedPush
• Pinsetter - Wikipedia
• 'Go haywire': Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system - Raw Story
• Big Packages or Many Dependencies — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
• DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts – SemiAnalysis
• The government had been planning it for 7 years, beavers built the dam in two days and saved them $1 million
• “Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling (2022) -- by Bruce Sterling -- Medium
• Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored
• What really happens inside a dating app - My blog
• Bitburner v2.7.0 (fbe1546fd)
• publicdata/CDC-Data-2025: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data archive from January 2025. - Git for LSIT at UCSB
• What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF -- Science -- AAAS
• S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? - Tim Kellogg
• Raymarching The Gunk
• Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time ・ Daniel Hooper
• Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need To Generate A Random Number? -- Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
• Winnie Lim » minimum effective dose
• n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs
• WiiM -- Redefining Home Audio: Affordable, Innovative, Hi-Res Sound
• Koya Bound — Eight Days on Japan's Kumano Kodo: what a great map presentation!
• How pointy shoes created a moral panic in medieval London
• the sudoku affair • Buttondown
• the sudoku affair -- Lobsters
• More shell, less egg - All this
• Donald Knuth Was Framed • Buttondown
• blog dds: 2020-02-25 — Was Knuth Really Framed by Jon Bentley?
• That was quite unfair criticism, and even Doug McIlroy knew it (as he admitted l... -- Hacker News
• I spent five years building a web app, posted it on Hacker News, and got my first $1. -- codingcafe
• Simulating water over terrain -- lisyarus blog
• What's the deal with magnetic fields? - lcamtuf’s thing
• Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios
• SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated! -- Twilio
• Unexpected Benefits of Building Your Own Tools -- Alex Tiniuc
• [2502.03349] Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play
• Änderung der Art und Menge der aufgenommenen Nahrungsfette zur Behandlung von Gallensteinen bei Menschen jeden Alters - Madden, AM - 2024 -- Cochrane Library
• Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic Lake and River Simulation – Nick's Blog
• Missile vs. Laser: The Game of Terminal Maneuvers
• Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line -- SoraNews24 -Japan News-
• The Story of the PS2’s Backwards Compatibility From the Engineer Who Built It -- by Tom James -- Medium
• AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt - Ars Technica
• Visual explanations of mathematics — Agile
• Obscure Islands I Find Interesting
• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon
• GitHub - xajik/thedeck: The Deck: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Mobile, Turn by Turn Card Game Engine in Flutter
• You’re missing your near misses – Surfing Complexity
• We are destroying software - <antirez>
• How to gif (2025 edition)
• Your AI can’t see gorillas – Chiraag Gohel
• From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution -- Blog - Daniel Huang
• First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
• Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene and more
• European file hosting services -- European Alternatives
• How (not) to sign a JSON object -- Latacora
• Be Skeptical of All Code - Not Just the Funny Stuff · eieio.games
• Copilot stops working on gender related subjects · community · Discussion #72603 · GitHub

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - kspalaiologos/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.
• GitHub - google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner: arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
• mahmoud/boltons: 🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton. (via Jochens weeklog)
• Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
• GitHub - QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer: Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them.
• GitHub - drf-forms/drf-schema-adapter: Making using Django with frontend libraries and frameworks DRYer
• GitHub - AIFanatic/three-nanite: An attempt at reproducing unreal nanite in threejs

Books

• Snow Globe by Soyoung Park

Games

• Jedi Survivor

Backlog

• (free from EGS)

Board games

• 5-Minute-Dungeon
• Meisterwerke
• Love Letter
• Heck-Meck

Recipes

• Megaschokolade

Other media

• The ULTIMATE PETG adhesive test (Absolute test winner identified!) Cosmas Bauer - YouTube
• Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon - YouTube
• Handmade holograms are really weird - YouTube
• The bizarre flashing lights on a smartwatch - YouTube
• The most important number for your health (feat. ‪@MedlifeCrisis‬) - YouTube
• Can you trust your smartwatch? - YouTube
• Building a Supersonic Rocket Guidance System - YouTube
• Why don't movies look like movies anymore? - YouTube
• A Magic Square Breakthrough - Numberphile - YouTube
• A warning about hunting for 'Parker Squares' - Numberphile - YouTube