Progress

Not much.

Articles

• How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series -- Quanta Magazine
• A Coin Flip by Any Other Name…
• 9 Things Every Fresh Graduate Should Know About Software Performance - Johnny's Software Lab
• How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
• Ig Nobel prize for study showing that drunk Germans speak Dutch better than sober ones -- NL Times
• Reality Check - AI Photo Detection Game
• Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
• KVICK SÖRT
• Pluto’s Close-up, Now in Color - NASA
• A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled -- Quanta Magazine
• What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?
• Biconnected Components - emi-h.com
• Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular?
• How can I influence others without manipulating them? -- Andi Roberts - Executive Coach -- Leadership Trainer -- Facilitator
• Testing is better than DSA -- Ned Batchelder
• Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks - Obsidian
• These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species
• I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster -- Jeff Geerling
• EU-ID -- Open North
• RTO: WTAF
• The Wind, a Pole, and the Dragon
• dys2p › Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
• Tally stick - Wikipedia
• Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
• Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds
• AI isn't replacing radiologists
• Python: fix BrokenPipeError when piping output to other commands - Adam Johnson
• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
• Everything I know about good API design
• The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 - Raspberry Pi
• The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review - meks.quest: I am not convinced: when I do programming, I will often have many, many, many commits that don't do narrative work, but help me checkpoint my own work and my thinking and my finding-things-out. Re-organising this into a coherent narrative with intermediate steps sounds like doing it all over again. If you're in an organisation that values this, more power to you; I am usually not.
• Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground? - Sadiq Jaffer
• Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres -- Dizzy zone
• mjg59 -- Investigating a forged PDF
• Tobs40's Blog • There is no reachable chess position with more than 218 moves. • lichess.org
• my Deus Ex Lipsyncing Fix Mod: making of – joe wintergreen internet zone
• Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D – VAZGRIZ
• pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
• ESPHome voice assistant with local wake word – Tristam
• Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr - tudor’s website
• Finding Hidden Risks in the Battery Supply Chain
• RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter?
• The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II] -- Terra Incognita: wow, I wish I understood differential geometry better now
• How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 2 - Backups and Disaster Recovery - IT Notes
• Your Review: The Russo-Ukrainian War - Astral Codex Ten
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• 2025 Small World in Motion Competition -- Nikon Small World
• The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign: well, 500 years, but still
• Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Turkey abandons food fight to force doner kebab rules on Europe
• Messenger, a 3d game in the browser: soo smooth!
• When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order" -- Sebastiano Tronto
• Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco -- justin․searls․co: this entire situation is hilarious

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - sqliteai/sqlite-sync: SQLiteSync is a local-first SQLite extension using CRDTs for seamless, conflict-free data sync and real-time collaboration across devices.
• Data Viz Color Palette Generator (for Charts & Dashboards)
• Natural Number Game - Lean Game Server: learn you some Lean for fun and... uh... fun!

Books

• Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Games

• Planet Crafter
• LEGO Voyagers: so cute, but the ending is really mean. My second player was very sad.

Other media

• The Synths Behind OMD's Enola Gay - YouTube
• How To Sharpen A Knife In About 5 Minutes With ONE Stone -- EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FAST! 2023 - YouTube
• Making a working Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy prop from junk - YouTube
• Why Fictional Religions Feel So Fake - YouTube: There are some good ideas here, but there's a reason most people don't know what “Syncretism” is, is because it's just not a thing we think about. So maybe adding that to a book isn't all that important?
• This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech - YouTube
• 2016502858579884466176 - Numberphile - YouTube
• The Hyper Moser (and other Mega Numbers) - Numberphile - YouTube
• Game of Cat and Mouse - Numberphile - YouTube