Weeklog for Week 20: May 12 to May 18
Progress
A full work week. I'm getting into a groove, which is good.
Visited friends over the weekend, had a bit too much to drink, but it's fine.
Articles
- What is it Like to be a Thermostat? - David Chalmers
- How much information is in DNA?
- Dotless Domains
- GitHub - vapetrov/PCB_strain_gauge
- Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space
- 15 Years of Shader Minification - Ctrl-Alt-Test
- Puzzmallow
- 2025-05-11 air traffic control
- The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway
- No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » It Awaits Your Experiments.
- How To Build A Smartwatch: Picking A Chip
- Research shows fingers wrinkle the same way with every water immersion - Binghamton News
- It's 2025—Why Are Banks Still Getting Authentication So Wrong? -- Jamal Habash
- A Taxonomy of Bugs · Our Machinery
- 101 Rules of Effective Living
- What is HDR, anyway?
- Top 11 Prometheus Alternatives in 2025 [Includes Open-Source] -- SigNoz
- The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
- EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
- What is in a street name – Schoener leben mit Linked Data -- stk
- The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist - IT Notes
- How The Economics of Multitenancy Work
- The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding -- by fred benenson -- May, 2025 -- Medium: The main problem with this article is that it anthropomorphizes the LLMs way too much. Like, these statistical machines don't care about how many tokens they produce, they don't have incentives of that kind.
- A leap year check in three instructions: madness
- Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa – Pivot to AI
- Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
- The fastest Postgres inserts - Hatchet Documentation
- O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call -- mastdatabase.co.uk
- Push Ifs Up And Fors Down
- Coding Without a Laptop - Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android -- Hold The Robot
- Experts have it easy
- Confessions about my smart home
- Dead Stars Don’t Radiate -- Azimuth
- Bike-mounted sensor aims to improve safety on cycling routes
Libraries, programming, etc
- GitHub - blackrabbit17/xenolab: A monitoring station for carnivorous flora.
- Home -- RPG in a Box
- GitHub - pgjones/sql-tstring: SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries
Books
- The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch: I have no idea what this book is about.
Games
- Mars First Logistics
- Blue Prince: alright, alright, everyone was talking about this roguelike puzzle game where you explore a mysterious old puzzle house, so of course I had to get it.