Progress

Worked a lot for a client. Nice! Worked some more for another client. Did only a little work on other things.

Had a phone call with Thomas about future work. Nice!

The weekend was really good. I got a lot of stuff done and enjoyed myself. I even went to the Spieleverein and played a few games, if only for a few hours.

Articles

• Mystical
• $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener
• There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look
• TerrorOfWarReportUpdate_May2025.pdf
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• Ditching Obsidian and building my own
• For many, patience is the killer LLM feature -- sean goedecke
• A shower thought turned into a beautiful Collatz visualization
• Troy Hunt: Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live!
• Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time -- University of Cambridge
• Charles Petzold: The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation
• WHAT THE HELL ARE PEOPLE DOING?
• A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• PG&E Sucks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Building my own Solar System -- by Joe Eklund -- May, 2025 -- Medium
• I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
• My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (part I)
• Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) - Noel Berry
• Estimating connection pool size with PostgreSQL statistics
• Unravelling t-strings
• [2505.15806] Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201
• A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
• Decibels are ridiculous - lcamtuf’s thing
• Global EV Outlook 2025 - GlobalEVOutlook2025.pdf
• Animated Factorization Diagrams – Data Pointed
• Planetfall – somethingaboutmaps
• Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory
• how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice
• How direct TLS can speed up your connections
• Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene and more
• That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years – Chris K. W. – Computer stuff and things tangentially related to computer stuff
• Grandma's Cooking Secret -- Snopes.com
• CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) - pretix – behind the scenes - Behind the scenes of pretix, your friendly open source ticketing system from next door. Might contain traces of technology and business.
• Bell Labs’ CMOS chip changed microprocessor design - IEEE Spectrum
• newtonian gravity - Does Earth really have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? - Physics Stack Exchange
• Lie-to-children - Wikipedia: A lie-to-children is a simplified, and often technically incorrect, explanation of technical or complex subjects employed as a teaching method. Educators who employ lies-to-children do not intend to deceive, but instead seek to 'meet the child/pupil/student where they are', in order to facilitate initial comprehension, which they build upon over time as the learner's intellectual capacity expands. The technique has been incorporated by academics within the fields of biology, evolution, bioinformatics and the social sciences.
• On 1,145 pull requests per day
• Caesar's Last Breath -- Charlie Sabino
• Migrating to Postgres. Since early 2022, Motion was on… -- by Sean Callahan -- May, 2025 -- Motion Engineering Blog
• Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance -- Slate Star Codex
• Thunderbirds Are Go: South London homeowner wants an underground helicopter lair
• You’re a little company, now act like one
• Reinvent the Wheel -- Matthias Endler
• ChatGPT is dumber than it looks -- Seth's Blog
• The Making of a Huge Kit Kat - Barnorama
• Why old games never die (but new ones do) – Pawlicker's Blog
• Radiator Blog: Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design
• From Sci-Fi to Superpower: These Contacts Let You See in the Dark With Your Eyes Closed
• solhsa.com - blog
• Why Top Posting Has Won
• Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python - pretix – behind the scenes - Behind the scenes of pretix, your friendly open source ticketing system from next door. Might contain traces of technology and business.

Libraries, programming, etc

• is-even-ai - npm
• raagin/django-streamfield: This is a simple realisation of StreamField's idea from Wagtail CMS for plain Django admin or with Grappelli skin. (via Jochens weeklog)
• GitHub - rept0id/ratatoi: 🐀🥄🍲 an evil "atoi" that crashes when it must (C lib).
• GitHub - Dowsley/GodAmp: Cross-platform Winamp reimplementation built with Godot.
• GitHub - derekeder/csv-to-html-table: :arrow_down_small: Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

Books

• Sealfinger by Heide Goody and Iain Grant: look, I just need something not-serious, alright!

Games

• Mars First Logistics: the last game in our series, we unlocked all the parts and built the ultimate cars. That means cargo capacity, holding bays, suspensions, cranes, rockets and air control. Or, in the case of one player, just wheels. Super-nice game, very enjoyable, and janky in just the right ways.
• Walkabout Minigolf: played a few rounds.

Backlog

• Deliver At All Costs (free from EGS)

Board games

• Seven Wonders at the Spieleverein
• Die Tavernen im Tiefen Thal

Other media

• Ted Lasso Season 3: it's nice and smooth, still, but you can see it become a real sitcom now. They just have to do all the combinations and all the drama that they can get.
• PLAY UNO WITH YOUR KEYBOARD - YouTube
• Cibo Matto - Sugar Water (Official Music Video) -- Warner Records - YouTube
• Cibo Matto - Sugar Water behind the scenes with Michel Gondry - YouTube
• Vectorable Thrust Control for Multimodal Locomotion of Quadruped Robot SPIDAR - YouTube
• Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile - YouTube
• How America's Trucks Became Inferior to Europe's - YouTube
• Southwest’s $25 Billion Airline Disaster…What Happened? - YouTube
• DEF CON Safe Mode: Password Village - Sam Croley: What the Shuck? Layered Hash Shucking - YouTube
• Windows Was The Problem All Along - YouTube: what a surprise!