Articles

• How to Enter a City Like a King - by George Dillard
• Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000 - lcamtuf’s thing
• Your Review: Joan of Arc - by a reader - Astral Codex Ten
• On AI and the golem – Going Medieval
• Is Postgres Read Heavy or Write Heavy? (And Why... -- Crunchy Data Blog
• I want to see the claw -- ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
• My first months in cyberspace (Phil Gyford’s website)
• Working in Between Public and Private - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Build Your Own Database
• Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? -- Artificial intelligence (AI) -- The Guardian
• YASA smashes own unofficial power density world record pushing state-of-the-art electric motor to staggering new 59kW/kg benchmark - YASA Limited
• The Myth of Outrunning Your Diet - by William J. Barry, PhD
• How Complex Systems Fail
• Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
• Mathematik in der Schule: "Am Ende können sie halt nichts" -- DIE ZEIT
• Code like a surgeon: Would you want to have personnel that gets stuff wrong half the time and in subtle ways assist you as a surgeon?
• First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself -- Quanta Magazine
• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade -- Nature
• The future of Python web services looks GIL-free -- Fluxus by gi0baro
• Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
• The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
• Event Notification Report for October 22, 2025 -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission: an individual fell into the reactor cavity
• You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog)

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - CuriousLearner/django-keel: A versatile, production-ready Django project template for any use case Build SaaS applications, API backends, web apps, or internal tools with one template.
• CloudNativePG - PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes
• GitHub - AnasMalas/pcb-edge-usb-c: Use your PCB itself as a USB C connector! Including 10 and 14 Pin versions

Books

• Infomocracy by Malka Older: I don't know why I keep reading theseProbably because I have them lying around here already.. The world-building is super-interesting and novel, but the characters are so thin, and they're either an author's self-insert or her Mary Sue. I know that characters are hard to write, and they're hard to make interesting and “real” or “full” at the same time, but these here are just paper cutouts!

Games

• Planet Crafter: finally finished that
• Lego: Voyagers it's soooo cute!
• Mind over Magnet
• Garden Story

Board games

• Halt ma kurz: the game tries to be funny so hard and fails equally hard. And that's really all one can say.
• Die Tavernen im tiefen Thal

Other media

• DEF CON 33 - Cash, Drugs, and Guns - Why Your Safes Aren't Safe - Mark Omo, James Rowley - YouTube
• [ICFP/SPLASH'25] Orchid Plenary Ballroom - SPLASH OOPSLA (Oct 17th) - YouTube: Savitha Ravi: Should we recommend using property-based testing? Did: a categorization of PBT into 12 categories; experiments assessing the effectiveness of PBT. Found: PBTs are 50x more effective at finding bugs (i.e. mutations) than unit tests; PBTs need less than 20 inputs to find more than 75% of mutations.
• Optical diffraction patterns and almost-holograms made with a MOPA laser engraving machine - YouTube
• This liquid is too dangerous to transport - YouTube
• So how does the Mechanical Organ work? - YouTube
• Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee - YouTube
• Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble - YouTube
• NASA tested my chain theory in space - YouTube
• Language Expert Answers English Questions -- Tech Support -- WIRED - YouTube
• Spray Cooling – Recreating Supercomputer Cooling on a Desktop CPU - YouTube
• It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken - YouTube
• Weird maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained - YouTube
• The Voting System That Actually Represents Everyone - YouTube