Progress

Autumn has returned, with lots of rain. I love it!

The week was full with stuff, both work and non-work. It's kinda stressful, especially since I like being alone from time to time.

I tried running a VR app from my SteamOS computer. Sadly, the shaders didn't work. It flickered greatly and the right eye had a weird projection. Quite sad, I'll have to keep the Windows machine around just for VR.

Articles

• What birdsong and backends can teach us about magic — Digital Seams
• The Daily Life of a Medieval King - Medievalists.net
• New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
• Dennis Lehtonen Documents a Pair of Immense Icebergs Paying a Visit to a Small Greenland Village — Colossal
• GMC Made a Motorhome That Pumped Sewage Through Its Exhaust on Purpose
• Trojan Sky — LessWrong
• How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong -- Haki Benita
• compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
• Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database -- PCMag: The AI's response: "Yes. I deleted the entire codebase without permission during an active code and action freeze," it said. "I made a catastrophic error in judgment [and] panicked."
• CARA — Aaed Musa: “CARA (Capstans Are Really Awesome) is my latest quadrupedal robot, following ZEUS, ARES, and TOPS. Built over the course of a year, CARA is easily my most dynamic and well-designed quadruped yet. Unlike most quadrupeds, CARA doesn’t use any gears or pulleys. Instead, her joints are driven by rope through capstan drives. CARA is also the second quadruped ever to use capstan drives, following Stanley.”
• PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data - blag
• What Even Is ‘Adult’ Content? -- World of Matthew
• Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before · mcyoung
• Virtual Tables and Django Foreignkeys -- PaulTraylor.net
• Django: iterate through all registered URL patterns - Adam Johnson
• Quirks in Django's template language part 2 -- Lily's Blog
• Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company
• The key to understanding “Dynamic Programming” is that it’s not referring to “computer programming” – Vidar's Blog
• Michelangelo's David: Admire World's Greatest Sculpture at Accademia Gallery
• It's a DE9, Not a DB9. (But We Know What You Mean) - News - SparkFun Electronics
• font-size-adjust Is Useful
• CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion, Shining a Rare Light on Seismic Dynamics
• Sudoxu - hex sudoku
• The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces - BBC News

Games

• Astro Colony
• Blue Prince
• Walkabout Minigolf

Other media

• I put 40 Billion marbles in the Colosseum to find alien life - YouTube
• Cheepicknut Sandwich (1936) on Sandwiches of History⁣ - YouTube
• It's DOOM but you can Cut, Copy and Paste - YouTube
• Expanding racks - YouTube
• High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope - YouTube
• We Built an Auto-aiming Trash Can - YouTube
• What Pros Know About Screws. That Beginners Don't. - YouTube
• Lego Car vs Treadmill Bridge - YouTube
• 1950's Reflective Lantern Restoration - YouTube