Stuff that I have found interesting over a few weeks of avoiding work.
Dev
Win32 is the only Stable Linux ABI
So true.
https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
Physically Based.
Interesting database for physics basec rendering
Technology
Transcend Posix.
Seems more like Posix just needs to get some new abstractions to me?
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending-posix-end-era
Love the dedication to the 8bit
Apple II Desktop updated.
https://www.callapple.org/vintage-apple-computers/apple-ii/apple-ii-desktop-updated-3/
Quantum Hype
https://futurism.com/the-byte/oxford-physicist-unloads-quantum-computing
Display Port cables are bollox just like USB-C
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32627484
Shouting at JBODs changes their peoperties
Something any manager should know, shouting doesn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Klipper 3D printer firmware
Another rabbit hole do fall in to.
https://www.youmaketech.com/klipper-on-ender-3/
Technical Reasons to Chose FreeBSD
An article where linux readers start to sound like Windows users from 1990 on HackerNews.
https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html
Human
Book Sales aren’t what they seem
Another tale of statistics getting in the way of a story
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-only-a-dozen
Sneakers
30 years old
https://thecomeback.com/pop-culture/sneakers-movie-30th-anniversary.html
Countering the Achievement Society
Long but some wise words.
https://iai.tv/articles/should-we-rediscover-education-as-leisure-auid-1109
Why are D-sharp and E-Flat two different notes.
I hate music
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/why-are-d-sharp-and-e-flat-considered-to-be-two-different-notes/
TokTok is stealing all your data
This is a surprise to no one.
Tired Brainz Study
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02161-5
Medieval people bathed.
We always like to think that we are better than those that strove before us. Often we are not. We aren’t that much more intelligent than our ancestors if at all.
https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
Software
Ghostwriter - Markdown Editor
I’m using VSCode to write my markdown but this looks good
https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
JetBrains Space
I’ve got a lot of time for JetBrains tools. They seem to actually write developer tools for developers… not because they have to.
https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
JSON Visio
Look at json as trees?
Clip Champ for Windows
Edit videos, is this iMovie for Windows? Windows has long needed something like this.
https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/
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