Progress

Work goes well.

I have started ayet another project for my own company.

We had to paint our staircase, because a spill had run down the entire length. Now that was fun! But I learned that good paint does make a heck of a difference. The paint we used was the professional paint the original painters had used when our house was built. It's great, great to work with, really great coverage, no streaks at all, and since it matches our original paint, there are no edges. It's nice that some of the experience I earned in my student life pays off now.

I was at the Brettspielverein in town this week, and it was very nice.

On the weekend I met an old friend for one of our funny little traditions. We did forget the pickles and sausages, though.

Articles

• Is the Square a Secure Polygon?
• Beware Of The "Lasagna Cell": The Danger Of Food And Metals - Meathead's AmazingRibs.com
• AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
• Zensusatlas -- Kartenanwendung
• you are in a box
• DOGWALK by Blender Studio
• The Solidity Language open-source package was used in a $500,000 crypto heist -- Securelist
• Shoggoth Mini
• Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process · eieio.games
• Git: share a full repository as a file with git fast-export - Adam Johnson
• How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop
• GitHub - pollen-robotics/AmazingHand: Code and model to control the AH!
• On Doing Hard Things -- parv bhadra
• BB(6) is Hard (Antihydra) -- sligocki
• Inside the Box: Everything I did with an Arduino Starter Kit - Byte Tank
• John Graham-Cumming's blog: Pimping my Casio: Part Deux
• Why your website should be under 14kB in size -- endtimes.dev
• Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
• wtf.ipynb - Colab
• Piano Keys
• Death by AI - Dave Barry’s Substack
• » The Year of Peak Might and Magic The Digital Antiquarian

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - YasserShkeir/django-smart-ratelimit: A flexible and efficient rate limiting library for Django applications
• Ventoy
• aws/pgactive - PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database
• httpx: “A complete HTTP toolkit for Python. Supporting both client & server, and available in either sync or async flavors.”
• fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz

Books

• When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger: Cyberpunk at its best, and from 1980!

Games

• Planet Crafter
• Walkabout Minigolf
• Islands & Trains: It's a diorama builder. I had expected a game. Meh!
• Lightyear Frontier

Backlog

• Civilization VI (free from EGS): maybe I should not play this.

Board games

• Grand Austria Hotel: again, finally. Sadly, might be the last round for a while
• Personality is very hard to play if you've only just met 7 out of the ten players.
• Der Widerstand
• Fischen

Other media

• The Assassin Puzzle -- Infinite Series - YouTube: see “is the square a secure polygon?”
• Walk up hills without getting tired - YouTube: “how to walk up a hill”
• I Drove My RV Off A Cliff: Featuring The Insta360 X5 - YouTube
• Making Metroboard -- The Pilot Run - YouTube
• What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 - YouTube
• Etiquette Expert Answers Etiquette Questions From Twitter -- Tech Support -- WIRED - YouTube