Progress

Started on a new project. As always, it's a mixture of painfully finding out how bad the tools are out there, how little I know and of gloriously doing interesting stuff right away.

Also, more games nights!

Articles

• STONE Steam Deck Button Set 🗿 – Deck Buttons
• Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension - Nautilus
• What's the difference between uv pip install and uv add · Issue #9219 · astral-sh/uv: “You can think of this as a slightly "lower-level" API: you tell uv pip to install a specific package, or remove a specific package, and so on.”
• Reinventing feathering for the Vectorian era
• The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos - The Hustle
• Japanese fishermen start morning wake-up call service to help you get your lazy butt out of bed -- SoraNews24 -Japan News-
• How “deleting multiplayer from the engine” can save memory – Larst Of Us
• How does a pipe organ actually work? -- Anna Lapwood -- Classic FM : r/videos
• The Greatest Motorcycle Photo Ever - LIFE
• Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K - Gustavo
• The Best Programmers I Know -- Matthias Endler
• Quality-of-life on Tetris games • Carlos Roldán
• Thread by @dieworkwear on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
• What is Gelato? What ISN’T Gelato? -- Underbelly
• Daniel Sada Caraveo – Part 3: No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons – Software, Notes & Culture
• Uncovering a 0-Click RCE in the SuperNote Nomad E-ink Tablet
• Dice and Queues -- Justin Cartwright
• Hacker News Hug of Deaf - Susam
• Elliptical Python Programming - Susam Pal
• Post-Mortem SSH Probleme 02.04.2025
• The Barium Experiment: writing an entire gui toolkit out of anger and spite
• How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
• Playing in the Creek — LessWrong
• How to make a Longbow
• But what if I really want a faster horse? -- exotext
• The PS3 licked the Many cookie
• Why do Swedes count "1, X, 2"? - The Old New Thing
• Microspeak: Cookie licking - The Old New Thing
• Blue Prince is a Roguelike Puzzle Masterpiece – mssv
• Every picture from Venus' surface, ever -- The Planetary Society
• VERT.sh - The file converter you'll love.
• RPS-101 on umop.com
• GlyphDrawing.Club - Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
• I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened -- Tom's Guide
• Fuma Nama -- Some Nice Things with SVG
• How to NOT build a two stage model rocket -- vgecrocketry

Libraries, programming, etc

• Apache ECharts - Open Source JavaScript Visualization Library

Books

• Die Farben der Magie von Terry Pratchett: Ich muss sagen: nicht so gut wie ich erwartet hatte. Dafür, dass es eine ungeheuer lange und erfolgreiche Serie gestartet hat, ist es doch irgendwie... mittelmäßig? Vielleicht liegt es auch am Alter, oder dass es das erste Buch dieses Autors war, aber... naja...

Games

• Mars First Logistics

Board games

• Trickerion
• Import/Export

Other media

• BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python's BDFL - YouTube
• Viscous fingering - YouTube
• The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel - YouTube
• Why Austria's New Skyscraper is a Game Changer - YouTube
• Typhoon class submarine...living large in a submarine...checkout the indoor swimming pool - YouTube: the submarine has an indoor pool
• The masterful design of the two-liter plastic soda bottle - YouTube