Progress

Didn't do a lot besides work.

At least I started doing some things in the garden, as my back will readily remind me now.

Articles

• Hyperbolic Blanket
• Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports -- NBER
• A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction – Retraction Watch
• RFC 1178 - Choosing a name for your computer
• Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software
• Politician's syllogism - Wikipedia
• Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game
• A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines -- grith: Someone prompt-injected the AI bot that handles Github issues for some unrelated library and installed OpenClaw on all developers' machines. This is hilarious! But it's also only the beginning.
• “It turns out” -- the jsomers.net blog
• A new breed of analyzers -- daniel.haxx.se
• this css proves me human · will keleher
• Analytic Fog Rendering With Volumetric Primitives – matejlou's blog
• Inside Health Wearables: CT Scans of Oura, Dexcom, Omnipod & Jabra
• Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) — The Public Domain Review
• Here's to the Polypropylene Makers — LessWrong

Libraries, programming, etc

• fastino-ai/GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction

Books

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Games

• Astro Colony: the game is still quite glitchy and it does a few things differently
• Foundation: still nicely building along. I've not opened up so many different things that it's getting more complicated. But I'll manage, thanks to the rather chill tempo and the quite forgiving systems. I still have a few UI issues that would make playing the game much better, but eh, such is life.

Board games

• SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: I now understand the systems better and don't make a complete fool out of myself.
• Greed
• Love Letter: geht immer!

Other media

• Barbie: this movie was surprisingly weird for a successful mainstream movie, and I liked it. The person I was watching it with, not so much. It was also surprisingly critical of Mattel, which is a genius marketing move. And finally, I don't think it was feminist enough, like, way too little.
• If This Dam Fails, It Pollutes Half of Europe. - YouTube
• Bridging Python and Apache Iceberg™: The Power of PyIceberg - Rushan Jiang - YouTube
• How I Accidentally Set a World Record in Opus Magnum - YouTube
• We set up the longest rope in the world - YouTube