Progress

Lots of work. Both at work and at home.

Wrote a quick article on rounding correctly in Python.

Articles

• Germany – lars' transport maps
• I'd rather read the prompt
• Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
• Putting The Axe To The 'Scram' Myth -- NRC.gov
• “And Breathe Normally”: Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being - ScienceDirect
• The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.
• Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day
• Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution
• The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky
• I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change -- HuffPost HuffPost Personal
• Replacing Kubernetes with systemd
• As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don't Use Generative LLMs Often -- Max Woolf's Blog
• Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust
• Possibly a serious possibility - by Adam Kucharski
• How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025? -- Vin01’s Blog
• Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove -- Quanta Magazine
• The DuckDB Local UI – DuckDB
• LOWρUFO 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽: "I found the most incredible graph on the other site" — Bluesky: A graph of cost per pound for vehicles and cheeses.
• Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC - mfkl
• So much blood
• Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools - by Tim Daly
• GitHub - EvanZhouDev/polycompiler: Merge Python and JS code into one file that can be run in both languages.
• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
• Coin-cidence? Have cashless payments reduced the incidence of upper aerodigestive foreign body insertion? A study of UK Hospital Episode Statistics - PubMed
• Latest photos from the Silvertown Tunnels ahead of opening to motorists
• /usr/bin/just do it
• We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica
• Quirks in Django's template language -- Lily's Blog
• Fragebogen an US-Botschaft: «Sind bei Ihnen Fälle von Zollwut bekannt?» -- Berner Zeitung
• Zach Bellay -- Takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025
• LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text
• A First Glimpse of the Starlink User Ternimal -- DARKNAVY
• absorptions: Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
• From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." -- #haymanSplaining
• Robotics meets the culinary arts - EPFL
• Vulcan Robots: Amazon's Stowing Game-Changer - IEEE Spectrum
• Rust Dependencies scare Me
• Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive' -- Science -- AAAS
• Under the microscope: The Lost World – Jurassic Park (Saturn, PlayStation)
• In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors - Michael Stapelberg
• Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it!)
• Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked Right Now
• NOT a 3 year old chimney sweep – Fake History Hunter
• GitHub - nkantar/neapolitan-stubs: Type hints for Neapolitan: oh no, we have reached Typescript levels of typing madness!
• QR Code Not Scanning? We'll Try to Help!
• Gonzalo Guerrero - Wikipedia
• DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak
• Bike Helmets: Stupid Hat or Essential Protection? - Canadian Civil

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

Books

My ebook-reader broke, so now I can't read as well any more. On that device, I mean, of course there are more devices!

• Eric by Terry Pratchett

Games

• Throw Cubes into Brick Towers To Collapse Them: well, what can I say? The game delivers on its name!

Board games

• Trickerion: next time we're going to play with the Dark Alley!

Recipes

• Cheese cake with chocolate swirleys

Other media

• JEFFREY ROBINSON - The Lexus Lighter Story - YouTube
• Fixing Rookie Mistakes in Godot - YouTube
• Wallace & Gromit contraption in real life! - Joseph's Machines - YouTube
• Kmart Lied to Me, So I Hacked Their Lamp - YouTube
• I Put Sheet Music Into Smart Glasses! - YouTube
• How Hoover Dam Works - YouTube
• Making Solar Bankable 2018: Amy Herman - The Art of Perception - YouTube
• How I recreated Hoover Dam in 3D (historical accuracy, research, modeling, and more) - YouTube
• Inventing a New Kind of Ice Cream! - YouTube
• KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu -- Sweden 🇸🇪 -- Official Music Video -- #Eurovision2025 - YouTube: So, uh, the next Swedish contestant in the Eurovision song contest are three Finnish men singing about their love for sauna?
• Dishwasher updates pt. 3 w/ ​⁠‪@Plumberjohn‬ #dishwasher #kitchentech - YouTube
• How OK Go Used Robots for the Mirror Effects in "Love" - YouTube
• Unzipping the Zipper: The Secrets of Setup Revealed - YouTube
• This Himalaya Ride fits on 1 truck! - YouTube
• I Found the Weirdest Place in America Using Data Analysis - YouTube
• Wernher von Braun's HUGELY Controversial Legacy - YouTube
• I hate my phone so I got rid of it - YouTube: I mean, really? Is that the best solution you could come up with? Can you not just put your phone down? Also, simply do not stupidly fold the QR code down the middle a few times!