Weeklog for Week 11: March 09 to March 15
Progress
Work, and then some health problems. Like usual.
Articles
- Ultimate guide to tqdm library in Python
- MXmap — Email Sovereignty of Swiss Municipalities
- Some Words on WigglyPaint: “The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated.” BRUTAL!
- Negative outcomes evoke cyclic irrational decisions in Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Scientific Reports
- Accusation in a mirror - Wikipedia
- Tilings with Tetris pieces, and squared Fibonacci numbers -- Blog: well, “more elegant proof” for certain values of “more”
- U+237C ⍼ is Azimuth · Jonathan Chan
- Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
- LEGO's 0.002mm Specification and It's Implications for Manufacturing - Productivity - The Wave
- howisFelix.today? · Felix Krause
- Using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50× slower: I actually encountered the DNS errors once.
- Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters -- Ipsos: They took the questions from a comedy sketch about how question design can influence outcomes and tried them out.
- Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout - Yale E360
- I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me -- La Vita Nouva
- You gotta think outside the hypercube - lcamtuf’s thing
- Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
- “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold: Cute, but why would that kid get a new Macbook (even a cheap one) which is so dangerously close to a chromebook that it's just not funny, when that kid could also get a used 200 dollar laptop?! People are so mac blind, they don't even notice that there are options beyond corpo boxes.
- gist:291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0 · GitHub: Like any good employee!
- Spousal Loss Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia, Mortality among Men, but Not Women -- SPH
- Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
- Bumblebee Queens Breathe Underwater to Survive Drowning, Revealing How They Can Live Submerged for a Week
- Thousands of executives aren't seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox -- Fortune
- Baden-Württemberg: Mehrere Menschen bei Dachstuhlbrand in Pleidelsheim evakuiert -- tagesschau.de
Books
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Games
- Astro Colony: with the boys
- Foundation: almost done
Other media
- This Marble Clock Fits on Your Desk - YouTube
- can tic-tac-toe, with hexagons? - YouTube
- Stand Up Meetings Be Like - YouTube
- Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love (In the style of Queen) - YouTube
- We spent 4 years designing a lid. - YouTube
- Why doesn't this exist everywhere? - YouTube
- Why Doesn’t This Wrench Exist Yet? - YouTube
- Making A Product From Start To Finish - Desktop Charging Pad - YouTube
- How a joke sound defined 90s rave - YouTube