Articles

• 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties: those are very different parties to the one I am used to
• Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action -- Open Culture
• Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again and - Jana's cozy corner
• I ✱✱✱✱ing hate Science • Buttondown: this is a very weird rant against... uh... human nature? And the complexities of modern incentives? Because they can't find what they want to find out easily enough? Ok?!
• Color distribution of Color-Names in various color models 🛰
• Tunnel diode - Wikipedia
• Gunn diode - Wikipedia
• Simon Meier-Vieracker: "Ich habe von 1700 über Instagr…" - Mastodon
• You can't cURL a Border -- Vadim Drobinin - iOS Expert
• Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads
• Things you can do with diodes - lcamtuf’s thing
• The Shadows Lurking in the Equations
• Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
• The Trampoline on the Great Pyramid
• What Are the Types of Fun? The Fun Scale, Explained
• Startup Lessons from my Piracy Website
• Why CIELAB doesn’t improve median cut
• Troy Hunt: 2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
• Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you: “The Church, mindful of how to keep a population from rebelling, enforced frequent mandatory holidays.”
• Why I don’t test different designs at the same time – Adam Silver – designer, London, UK
• Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition - Casey Primozic's Homepage
• Innovative paint cools homes and harvests fresh water from air
• Game design is simple, actually – Raph Koster

Libraries, programming, etc

• sijokun/PyByntic: PyByntic extends Pydantic with binary-typed fields and automatic byte-level serialization. Define models using familiar Pydantic syntax and turn them into compact binary payloads with full control over layout and numeric precision.
• GitHub - jax-ml/jax: Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more

Books

• This Way Up by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman: very great!
• Exiles by Mason Coile: I enjoyed this when it started out, because it was sci-fi. But it turned into psychological horror quite quickly, with a bit of sci-fi-window-dressing. And the ending is just... let me say, they do a lot of stuff that leads absolutely nowhere.

Games

• Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
• Garden Life: very quiet and enjoyable. I found a bug where I could get billions of one item, but I lost it again when I tried to make money out of it.

Board games

• Civolution
• Red 7
• Blueprints
• Mind Bug
• Castle Combo
• Faraway

Other media

• A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird - YouTube
• The amazing invisible detail. - YouTube
• Making Gromit with a 3D Pen - YouTube
• Why Don't You Sing Opera Like A NORMAL Person? - YouTube
• Why You Can't Understand Opera (Even In Your Own Language 💀) - YouTube
• Hole Becomes a STICKER! - Tutorial - YouTube
• Building the Impossible Lightsaber - YouTube
• MMOs are dead and we're all tired. - YouTube