Progress

Lots of work. Lots of work.
And just when I thought we were through... more work!

Then the weekend hits and... uh... more work.

Might also have had a few too many beers on Friday.

Articles

• Optimizing Django Docker Builds with Astral’s uv -- Rob's Cogitations
• Estimating Logarithms - Niklas Oberhuber
• Nitrogen Triiodide
• Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive
• New Jersey beach bones IDed as shipwrecked captain Henry Goodsell
• Sguaba: hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms for engineers with other things to worry about than linear algebra -- by Helsing -- May, 2025 -- Helsing Blog
• Mooncake Blog: HTAP is Dead
• Grass Rendering Series Part 1: Theory -- hexaquo
• Grass Rendering Series Part 2: Full-Geometry Grass in Godot -- hexaquo
• Grass Rendering Series Part 3: Animating and Interacting With Grass in Godot -- hexaquo
• Airborn – Trees -- Simonschreibt.
• There is no Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman – Key Material
• 21 observations from people watching - by shani
• Unique games conjecture - Wikipedia
• Writing that changed how I think about PL -- Max Bernstein
• UI Density ---- Matthew Ström, designer-leader
• Maps with Django⁽³⁾: GeoDjango, Pillow & GPS
• CVE 2025 31200 -- A Strange Blog
• ABSURD.website - We are creating absurd products and services!
• Towards an API for the Real Numbers - 3385412.3386037.pdf
• Google Logo Ligature Bug
• Movies: I spent a year trying to figure out the weirdest mistake in recent Hollywood history. I succeeded.
• Is it okay?
• Dead Man's Switch
• GenAI is Our Polyester
• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
• [ On -- No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language
• Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying? - Our World in Data
• Destination: Jupiter by Andrew Liptak : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Don’t just check errors, handle them gracefully -- Dave Cheney
• The Small World of English: Building a 1.5M Word Semantic Network for Language Games
• Consider Knitting – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
• When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa? -- Space
• Thrive in obscurity
• The iPhone 15 Pro's Depth Maps
• I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization
• MeTooSlow's Blog • Is this the end or the beginning? • lichess.org
• Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public - Core77
• Binary Wordle
• Occasional paper: The impossible predicament of the death newts — Crooked Timber
• Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat
• The Order of your Model Managers is Important-- stuartm.nz
• Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting - iFixit
• Steam Deck Teardown: Everything Valve Said Not to Do! - iFixit
• Unfuckit AI
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
• List of IATA-indexed railway stations, bus stations and ferry terminals - Wikipedia
• Jezero (crater) - Wikipedia
• Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R -- Rasmus Bååth's blog
• Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold With Glass - Atlas Obscura
• Occasional paper: The interesting home life of the Blue-Ringed Octopus — Crooked Timber
• Re: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts -- Ramblings of a cloud engineer
• Sorry, You Don’t Get to Die on That “Vibe Coding” Hill -- The Internet Review (via Jochens weeklog)
• Flying into a new era with Wagtail 7.0 -- Wagtail CMS (via Jochens weeklog)
• A year of funded FreeBSD
• Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work
• Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)? - BSD How To
• A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library – Neil Madden
• The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Libraries, programming, etc

• spyoungtech/json-five: Python JSON5 parser with round-trip preservation of comments
• Introduction - django-simple-deploy
• 5 steps to N-body simulation - grav_sim
• GitHub - iamgio/quarkdown: 🪐 Markdown with superpowers — from ideas to presentations, articles and books.
• jpochyla/psst: Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI: the native Spotify client on Linux is just... let's say, bad. This one is much better, even if it is much less feature-rich.

Books

• Sealfinger by Heide Goody and Iain Grant: continues to be not-good, but I'm stuck with it. This would be the third or fourth book I have to abandon in the middle because it's not good enough for me. What is happening?!

Games

• Planet Crafter
• Trackmania United Forever: just like the old days... 10/10
• Everspace 2: with Heroic Installer played on the deck. The game looks great, but the feeling of the controls is soo spongy and soft that I can't lock on to anything. Which is kinda bad for an arcadey game about precise control. 5/10

Backlog

• Ogu and the Secret Forest (free from EGS)
• Islands and Trains (from waitlist)
• Dig VR (VR bundle)
• The Last Worker (VR bundle)
• Lightyear Frontier (from waitlist)
• Harold Halibut (from waitlist)
• The Last Starship (from waitlist)

Recipes

• Muffins

Other media

• Detective Pikachu: meh, too much Ryan Reynolds/Deadpool for a Pokemon movie.
• Recreating Early Colour Outside Broadcast - YouTube
• Adam Savage Visits Where Hollywood Gets Its Spacesuits! - YouTube
• TINY LIES: My $55 adventure in internet factchecking spiky Chinese benches - YouTube
• 1978: Simon Groom's DEATH SLIDE -- Blue Peter -- BBC Archive - YouTube
• Inside the Arnett, OK tornado - May 18, 2025 - YouTube
• Why is PS3 emulation so fast: RPCS3 optimizations explained - YouTube
• Is this what door handles should have looked like all along? - YouTube
• Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow - YouTube