Weeklog for Week 36: August 31 to September 06
Progress
Not a lot, just doing the work.
Articles
- “I just chose words carefully.” – Unsung
- Bug blindness
- sometimes.digital / experiments with plotter art
- Art – Chris K. W. – Computer stuff and stuff tangentially related to computer stuff
- Michael Fogleman: Plotter Drawings
- Matrox - by Bradford Morgan White - Abort Retry Fail: I used to have Matrox cards and they were great.
- NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU -- Wilson Harper
- The Alleged Dimethylmercury Incident -- Science -- AAAS
- AI could cause global economic downturn, Andrew Bailey warns G20 - BBC News: The governor of the Bank of England has warned G20 finance ministers that artificial intelligence could cause a global economic downturn. Think about that when you vibecode some silly thing next!
- Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test
- Finger fluting - Wikipedia
- Lion-man - Wikipedia
- Saezuri — a living collage of the birds you're hearing
- Solving the Flat Cube --
- How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
- Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life -- by Greg Hadfield -- Aug, 2026 -- Medium
- Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH · brennan.day
- I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
- On Poisson Disk Sampling -- Stripe Across
- A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 -- by Admiral Cloudberg -- Medium
- A Fun DIY Science Goodie: Proof Yourself against Sensationalized Stats -- Scientific American
- Puzzle -- Tuesday Boy Paradox - GeeksforGeeks: this is infuriating, and I have so many arguments against it. But I wrote a simulation and it's unfortunately true.
- Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility: Design through physics and differential equations -- PNAS Nexus -- Oxford Academic
- Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior -- PNAS
- Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory - KED Global
- Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners - Ars Technica
- Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study -- Ig Nobel prizes -- The Guardian
- Can AI design circuit boards yet? — EEBench
- Aida Contemporary Glass
- Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please -- Larvitz Blog
- The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education by David Stromberg, Victor Lei, Yanhui Wu :: SSRN
- > Perhaps you can think of a way to design an alerting system which cannot be ab... -- Hacker News
- And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog
- Palomar – a registry of Lean verified mathematics -- What's new
- [2608.20186] Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
- I Built an AI Companion That Actually Plays With You
- German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy
- How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
- Delidded Intel i9-14900KS CT Scan -- LTT Labs
- Small World - Futility Closet
- Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil -- Space
- Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone -- Cloud in a Bottle
- Terence Tao: "Fundamentally, problems in pur…" - Mathstodon
Libraries, programming, etc
- step-ca Certificate Authority Overview -- Smallstep: local ACME-compatible CA -- awesome
- GitHub - iczelia/balrogg: demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor · GitHub
- EUPL text (EUPL-1.2) -- Interoperable Europe Portal
Books
- Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter
Games
- Star Wars: Squadrons: a space shooter
- Database Detective: this game is hilarious! And it gets hard after a few cases! Go play it now!
Backlog
- LibrARian (from waitlist)
Other media
- Ludwig: the puzzle gets more complicated, and there's a new murder in Cambridge every day
- Cinematographer deconstructs THAT shot in 'Contact' -- Don Burgess - YouTube: This is actually... disappointing. I mean, of course it's a great shot, but I always thought they'd film into the mirror and then “just” stop and pull out when they're in the right location. Didn't think it was composited. Still, great shot.
- The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew - YouTube
- Spectrum launch - YouTube