Progress

The week after a vacation is always a stressful one, because there's so much to do.

But at least we used the good weather and public holiday for food and drinks with our neighbours.

Plus, we had to get a new washing machine because ours leaked our basement full of water while we were away. It is so nice to come back to a basement with standing water and without the ability to do laundry after a few days away! Fortunately, the puddle didn't touch anything that could rot, but meh, not great in any case. And of course the water sensor I had placed in the room was in a high spot, completely dry and happy! It did start beeping when I mopped up, though! NICE!
Anyway, the new washing machine is very nice.

Articles

• Zach Bellay -- I just want to code
• Reverse Geocoding is Hard – Terence Eden’s Blog
• AI Horseless Carriages - Pete Koomen: If AI agents act on my behalf, I should be able to edit their system prompt. And not just for the silly reason that I want them to sound like myself (ie. hiding that I've used AI to reply to emails from my wife), but because they flipping act on my behalf
• Naval Gazing Main/Aurora Tutorial Part 1: “Aurora is a unique game. It's the hobby of one man, Steve Walmsley, who shares it with the world for free. It's a game where you handle everything from the highest levels of strategy to the finest details of the design of your spacecraft. It has depth unmatched by just about anything else I've ever played, although the learning curve is steep, and there's no official tutorial. Also, no graphics, and no win condition.”
• drawDB -- Online database diagram editor and SQL generator
• 14 Advanced Python Features -- Edward Li's Blog
• GitHub - shannpersand/comic-shanns: a classy font
• Comic Helvetic Font -- dafont.com
• How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone -- Rambo Codes
• Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
• Hashing
• PyXL - GPIO Benchmark
• Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background? - The Old New Thing
• Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster -- Qwen
• One line of code that did cost $8,000
• America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart
• Perplex City - Wikipedia
• Masquerade (book) - Wikipedia
• I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
• My Sourdough Starter Has Twins -- Brain Baking
• Passing a Language Through the Eye of a Needle – Communications of the ACM
• The Fourth Circuit's Opinion in the Abrego García Case — /dev/lawyer
• A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers – alexwlchan
• There's one question that stumps North Korean fake workers • The Register
• dbt Labs -- Transform Data in Your Warehouse
• 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python -- Jonathan Protzenko
• dltHub: ELT as Python Code
• Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution - Emily F. Gorcenski: I've self-hosted most of my services for a long time. But the idea of adding some tools around, like the flight-tracker thing, is great.
• Reversing the Fossilization of Computer Science Conferences – Communications of the ACM
• reject.pdf
• Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad -- Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Bloom filters - Eli Bendersky's website: I love bloomtive filters and use them wherever I can, which is rarely.
• Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica
• How Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence
• The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack
• Mathematician solves algebra's oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences
• How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects – Diff
• The Cannae Problem
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes – mssv
• Viewfinder – mssv (I'd found this page through reading about Blue Prince, and then there was so much good content that I had to read it all. And also it's by the designer of Perplex City 😲
• How to live an intellectually rich life - by Utsav Mamoria
• VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber’s Fun Isn’t What You Think
• Why Is the Kiwi’s Egg So Big? -- Audubon
• Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery
• Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka – mssv
• Pentiment – mssv
• Terra Nil – mssv
• We’re All Going to the Conclave Larp – mssv
• Cyberpunk 2077 – mssv
• Eye of the Temple – mssv
• Jusant – mssv
• Cityscapes: Sim Builder – mssv
• Finity – mssv
• Ghost Detective – mssv
• Subpar Pool – mssv
• Seeking an Answer: Why can’t HTML alone do includes? – Frontend Masters Blog
• Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests - Ars Technica
• The Invincible – mssv
• Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective – Fantastic Theming, Poor Puzzles – mssv
• Old Vintage Computing Research: What went wrong with wireless USB
• Mother of Frankenstein: Volume One – mssv
• Sunset – mssv
• Pacific Drive – mssv
• Against the Storm - by Adrian Hon - Have You Played?
• Mosaic-Making as Game Design – mssv
• Disney unveils 'HoloTile' floor for omnidirectional VR -- blooloop
• Tonight with the Impressionists  – mssv
• ESA - A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray
• Oxford American -- The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing
• PostgreSQL BM25 Full-Text Search: Speed Up Performance with These Tips
• Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython -- PyPy
• What if your website had business hours? — Bobbie Chen
• It’s easy to be neutral if you don’t exist. : r/SwitzerlandIsFake
• In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more – Pivot to AI
• Frontiers -- Listening habits and subjective effects of background music in young adults with and without ADHD
• Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results • Manuel Kießling
• ‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe -- Russia -- The Guardian

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - zumerlab/snapdom: snapDOM captures DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed avoiding bottlenecks and long tasks.
• GitHub - hcengineering/huly-selfhost: Huly for Self Hosting
• GitHub - colibri-hq/colibri: Colibri is a simple web application to manage, read and download your ebooks.
• Welcome to Nox — Nox 2025.5.1 documentation
• GitHub - gsuberland/switch_bouncing: Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches

Books

• Eric by Terry Pratchett

Games

• Mars First Logistics: so good, still. But, you need a second and probably a third person, otherwise the challenges will be very... uh... challenging!
• Abriss

Recipes

• Lasagna
• Icecream
• Zimtschnecken

Other media

• Minnesota Drivers Hated Ramp Meters (Until They Were Gone) - YouTube
• Vibe Interview with King of AI Coding (Replit CEO - $1.2bn) - YouTube
• More than you ever wanted to know about tape - YouTube
• Is Godot Actually Good? -- One Year with Godot - YouTube
• Yahtzee Reads the Lore of Kingdom Hearts - YouTube
• Venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more - YouTube: “Venture Capital is fucked, AI is fucked, there is only one hope for them: that OpenAI comes through” but “OpenAI is a scam”