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Weeklog for Week 12: March 17 to March 23

Mar 23, 2025

Progress

It was... a week? A bit of work, a bit of stuff, quite nice, all over?

I did some more home improvement however, in the form of more window screens. That was nice.

Articles

Goodbye Tracker - Welcome Trackers!: (on the replacement of Pivotal tracker with other trackers)
Ejectable Apps
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
gemma3: “The current, most capable model that runs on a single GPU.”
History of maths for beginners! -- The Renaissance Mathematicus
lincolnloop/django-layout: Django project template layout
Coolify - Self-hosting with superpowers - An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
CapRover · Scalable, Free and Self-hosted PaaS!: "CapRover is an extremely easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager for your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and etc...) applications!"
suitenumerique/docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.
MetaCheck – Easily preview your website’s OG image, meta tags, favicon, and more.
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter: “Businesses on Strope generated $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024, up 38% from the prior year, [...]”
Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub – Terence Eden’s Blog
Django components: sometimes an include doesn't cut it
Colin Burrow · Ogres are cool: Grimm Tales
Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption -- Tom's Hardware
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available For Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming Soon - Phoronix
[2503.02113] Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
OpenTimes - database of pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies: precomputing is the future
The High Heel Problem -- Simonschreibt.
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning - by Will Lockett
Six mistakes I made and one I avoided
Home -- PrintedLabs
Big LLMs weights are a piece of history - antirez
CARI -- Aesthetics: a database of design aesthetic archetypes
Wikidata Query Builder: I did not know that one can query Wikidata in such an easy way. As an example, here are higher education institutions with mastodon accounts.
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
DSHR's Blog: Archival Storage
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night -- Dafydd Vaughan
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them · GitHub
Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025
[2503.14393] On the clustering behavior of sliding windows
How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon -- fastcall's blog
Starcruiser Resurrected: Could Disney’s $1 Billion Star Wars Experience Make an Unexpected Return? -- Exclusive
A068994 - OEIS - Powers of 2 with all even digits.
ニュートン銃 / Newton Gun - 明和電機 - Maywa Denki明和電機 – Maywa Denki
Can LLMs learn from a single example? – fast.ai
Re: need for macros (was Re: Icon): "And some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state. :-) :-) :-)"
Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds
Fine-tune Gemma 3 with Unsloth
The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-changing Sci-fi Larp – mssv
City Creator II on Scratch
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – mssv
Crown of Corellia Dining Room Restaurant -- Menu & Full Info
OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators?
On The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon - Dhole Moments
Performance optimization, and how to do it wrong -- Just wing it
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary • The Register
SQL Premier League - Master SQL with Sports Data Challenges
The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars -- Max Woolf's Blog
Wheel Reinventor's Principles // Tobias Løfgren
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten
MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw
Frink
[2206.13446] Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning
The Whiskey Rebellion. -- Broken Piano for President
Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd
When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via ssh – Tinyhack.com
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
John Skiles Skinner: "I helped build a government AI…" - Mastodon
Showing Local Timezones in Javascript - Bill Prin
Magical instant bullets – Military Realism Report
EmptyEpsilon - Multiplayer Spaceship Bridge Simulator
The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code - The Old New Thing
Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means and how to choose the number of clusters instead: "ABSTRACT A major challenge when using k-means clustering often is how to choose the parameter k, the number of clusters. In this letter, we want to point out that it is very easy to draw poor conclusions from a common heuristic, the “elbow method”. Better alternatives have been known in literature for a long time, and we want to draw attention to some of these easy to use options, that often perform better. This letter is a call to stop using the elbow method altogether, because it severely lacks theoretic support, and we want to encourage educators to discuss the problems of the method – if introducing it in class at all – and teach alternatives instead, while researchers and reviewers should reject con- clusions drawn from the elbow method."
Homeworld 2 – Backgrounds -- Simonschreibt.
LLMs, But Only Because Your Tech SUCKS
A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium - by Corrado Nai

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