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Weeklog for Week 14: March 31 to April 06

Apr 6, 2025

Progress

Relatively normal week, but I might get to work on another project soon, so that's exciting.

Also, games night!

Articles

OKA – Disseminating free content on Wikipedia and open platforms through targeted funding
The average college student today - by Hilarius Bookbinder
Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.
There’s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn’t Mold – The PhCheese
Why You Need Subtyping -- Considerations on Codecrafting
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack -- WIRED
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible -- sgnt.ai
The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital
The Egg
Get started with Nue - Nue
Self-Hosting like it's 2025
Old Vintage Computing Research: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
How Silica Gel Took Over the World
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
Published Doesn’t Mean Paid.
Johannes Enevoldsen - Excitable cells
AV nodal reentrant tachycardia - Wikipedia
Improving licence metadata · Hugo van Kemenade
Converting a go-kart into a deathtrap -- Making stuff
A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
Why Is the World Losing Color? - The Culturist
✱ dori the giant ✱: 13 Animals Made From 13 Circles
Laurence Tratt: The Fifth Kind of Optimisation
Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad -- Pilledtexts.com
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
The Classic 2 is here! – The Ploopy Blog
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA - Schneier on Security
The Reality of Working in Tech: We're Not Hired to Write Code
Are People Bad At Their Jobs....or Are The Jobs Just Bad?
63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale - by Ed Conway
Troy Hunt: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
fi-le.net
OpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimens -- Open Culture
The Wizard and His Shell :: Terminal Click — Bringing Dead Text to Life
Technical books online: “Preserving the Knowledge of the Ancients? I've found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the "vacuum tube age" of electronics here.”
Give it five minutes – Signal v. Noise
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought - Ars Technica
8-pin Linux - Dmitry.GR
Overengineered anchor links - 35®
The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition -- The Digital Antiquarian
Why I Finally Embraced Event Sourcing—And Why You Should Too
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
Droppings -- Gas mileage is measured in square meters.
Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true. : r/BadMtgCombos
Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript :: dade
PhysicsScotland.co.uk - Universal Gravitation: "The video below shows a summary of the Schiehallion Experiment, on Schiehallion."
Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app -- Hacker News: this is hilarious!
Recipe Ninja: Gluten-free shark teeth delight
Recipe Ninja: Werewolf cream glazing

Libraries, programming, etc

NetBird - Open-Source Zero Trust Networking
GitHub - dfd-tud/deda
lincolnloop/django-alive: Healthchecks for Django (via Jochens weeklog)

Books

Die Farben der Magie von Terry Pratchett: Ich habe viel Discworld gelesen und bin ein großer Fan, aber einige der Klassiker habe ich ausgelassen.

Weeklog for Week 14: March 31 to April 06

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