Progress

Vacation weighs heavily on my mind.

Articles

• How to Think About Time in Programming - Shan Rauf
• I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
• You Should Probably Leave Substack -- How to Leave Substack.
• An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe -- BMC Biology -- Full Text
• Can You Block It ? - A Simple Ad Block Tester
• The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn't a Doctor at All
• Jonas Pasche – Managed Hosting wie es sein sollte
• We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes: A load of slop this is. Cherry-picked examples of things that might or might not be better with 9-bit bytes, completely ignoring the cost. You could write this article for any number of bits. Now, the only actual argument for a differing digital system is trits, because the optimal base for numbers is e, and 3 is closer to e than 2 is. Also, balanced ternary is great. But, meh! Too late!
• 303 musical drone generator
• What is the average length of a queue of cars? -- Emilio’s Blog
• Tödlicher Titanic-Tauchgang: Vernichtender Untersuchungsbericht -- heise online
• New mRNA vaccine shows promise in malaria prevention
• Django: split ModelAdmin.get_queryset() by view - Adam Johnson
• Loopwerk: Why Django's DATETIME_FORMAT ignores you (and how to fix it)
• 6 Weeks of Claude Code - Puzzmo Blog: What a beautiful article about the AI situation. So many great feelings and suggestions. “It feels like we're doing so much more, everything is so much simpler! Just let it run, let it prepare some PR while you're doing something else!“ And then they measure it and... no change. This reminds me of when I prepared to write a thesis on project management and found a paperAndersen, E. S. (2010). Are we getting any better? Comparing project management in the years 2000 and 2008. Paper presented at PMI® Research Conference: Defining the Future of Project Management, Washington, DC. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. that essentially said: with good PM the people feel like everything goes better, but it's not measurable in any way. History keeps repeating!
• Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans -- EurekAlert!
• Credentials service in systemd: programming
• Programming Vehicles in Games
• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted: This describes a very narrow vision of self hosting wherein you actually host all the hardware yourself, in your own house,no outside connection allowed. And even in this simple and extreme model there is nothing stopping any federation model from working. The much harder problems here are incentive structures and permanence.
• Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made – Matt Lakeman
• Programming is Magic – es(S)kaliert
• I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C – Terence Eden’s Blog
• OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second
• The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality -- Culture -- EL PAÍS English
• A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
• The Framework Desktop is a beast
• It's a Beelink, baby
• Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? -- NBER: yes
• Blueberry Hill - kieranhealy.org
• My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
• How I use Tailscale · Chameth.com
• Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
• Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh :: The Mill Build Tool
• Ultraprocessed or minimally processed diets following healthy dietary guidelines on weight and cardiometabolic health: a randomized, crossover trial -- Nature Medicine

Libraries, programming, etc

• Frigate NVR
• Releasing Open Weights for FLUX.1 Krea

Books

• How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin: ah, a murder mystery, where the victim is also the detective and the protagonist is a silly little girl (and an obvious self-insert).
• The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts: Hilarious! Simply Hilarious! Might become my book of the year, thanks to its absurdity. And there's a proper mystery at the heart of it, too.

Other media

• How to animate cube in Houdini - YouTube
• 1-Bit LLM: The Most Efficient LLM Possible? - YouTube