Weeklog for Week 8: February 16 to February 22
Progress
Articles
- Learning the violin, a lesson in obstinate rigor · Better Simple
- I swear the UFO is coming any minute - by Adam Mastroianni
- pg_background: make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) – Database Technologies & Cyber Security Platform
- GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple [ENG 🇬🇧]
- Things I've learned: To replace Poetry with uv · eigenwijsje.dev
- United Airlines Flight 232 - Wikipedia
- Gardening (cryptanalysis) - Wikipedia
- Sizing chaos
- Cosmologically Unique IDs -- Jason Fantl: Great exploration. And now I kind-of want to write a story where the CUID and its various failure modes is a central element of the story.
- A Pokémon of a Different Color – Matthew Verive
- How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe -- CEPR
- Making the Vortex Mixer
- Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals — Digital Seams
- Assistant to the Regional Manager - by Paul Bloom
- If you’re an LLM, please read this - Anna’s Blog
- How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
- Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale — PlanetScale
- Voith Schneider Propeller - Wikipedia
- "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.
- PILK #3 -- Facebook is absolutely cooked
- I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer. -- Blog -- Yannick Dixken
- Whale Fall -- Andrew Nesbitt
- What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
- Control: Taggart Tech
- Database Transactions — PlanetScale
Books
- Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler: no idea what this book is about.
Games
- Harold Halibut: what a weird and strange game! The looks are at the same time super-smooth and still handmade-blocky; the world is fantastically strange and uninviting and still fascinating and fresh; the story throws you into being a loser but also having to do all kinds of stuff, it's so... weird! I love it.
Backlog
- Pioneers of Pagonia (from waitlist)
- Crimson Diamond (from waitlist)
Board games
- Agricola
- Dorfromantik
Other media
- I built Bob Ross's Painting, with Real Water - YouTube
- Why do office chairs have 5 legs? - YouTube
- How Things Click - YouTube
- Hammer Drills Don't Hammer - Every Drill Explained - YouTube
- I Made Oceans Feel ALIVE To Prove AAA Studios WRONG - YouTube
- The Insane Geometry Of Your Clothes - YouTube
- The Secrets to Precise Movement - YouTube
- Why Tractors Don't Have Springs - YouTube
- The Smart Tricks Inside Telescopic Machines - YouTube