~/logs/January & February 2024
Updated Feb 29, 2024

🧭 January & February 2024 Thursday, Feb 29, 2024

Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit

LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command -

The crazy market for the world’s most expensive pet fish - The Hustle

Asian arowana - Wikipedia

Waiting on Tests · Evan Todd

Financial Forecast Center - Financial Market and Economic Forecasts

An app can be a home-cooked meal

GitHub - GuntherRademacher/rr: RR - Railroad Diagram Generator

Clicks for iPhone

A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages - Edward Donner

Swiss Railways Network

Pikchr: Documentation

Nestflix

What Happens in The Dark Knight (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)

The Secret Life of fsync

Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself

qrcodes.tools

Top New Year’s resolutions: I started intermittent fasting. I quit drinking. I cut out caffeine. Here’s what happened.

Turing Complete

Does Capitalism Beat Charity? - by Scott Alexander

British Post Office scandal - Wikipedia

About Us | Udaan - B2B Buying for Retailers

GitHub - Sjlver/psst: Paper-based Secret Sharing Technique

McCheapest

Best Wine Key – Craighill

Data Broker Watch | DataBrokersWatch.org

Free unexpected MIT courses to kick start the new year | by MIT Open Learning

kffl/speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand:

Setting up Nix on macOS

The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains - BBC Future

Lens Protocol

Farcaster social

Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) - Wikipedia

Space born, Earth bound • Varda Space Industries

ChatGPT - Universal Primer

Keycloak

Taylor Swift does not exist

Massviews Analysis

Virtual tour of Museum of Failure

At least five interesting things to start your week (#25)

tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈

Dizzying Gifs by Etienne Jacob Infuse Mathematical Equations into Endless Loops — Colossal

bleuje ❤️

Presently - intuitive insights into your time commitments.

The Library

How To Be Successful - Sam Altman

Solar Chimneys: Viable Energy Solution Or A Lot Of Hot Air?

Street Level Surveillance

Forging signed commits on GitHub

The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power

Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems–Simple Cells Can Do It | Scientific American

Which Shows Got Their Finale Right, and Which Didn’t? A Statistical Analysis

FreeTaxUSA® Pricing

The Psychopolitics Of Trauma - by Scott Alexander

Pong wars ❤️

I Need To Grow Away From These Roots

Summer of Love: Two Sonoma Communes’ Psychedelic Rise and Fall - Sonoma Magazine

The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

Jepsen: RavenDB 6.0.2

EUROMOMO

My favourite Git commit

caronc/apprise: Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

seaweedfs/seaweedfs: SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files

Practical betterments

Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi netork

Zellij

Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites

The Leadership Myth in Replicated Databases | mahesh’s blog

Cloud Egress Costs

The sinusoidal tetris | andreinc

Douglas MacArthur - Wikipedia

Context Control in Go

TinyCode | Some of my best size coding releases ❤️

50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die - Atlas Obscura Lists

IdreesInc/Miracode: A sharp, readable, vector-y version of Monocraft, the programming font based on Minecraft

The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell

Used Car Price Trends - CarGurus Pricing Index research

How I Grew My Substack From 439 to 451 Free Subscribers In Just 11 Months

Congratulations On Your New Money Pit!

EncroChat - Wikipedia

Popular git config options

A bunch of handy charts about climate change

1933 WIR Home Comfort Manual & Cookbook

charlax/professional-programming: A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers

Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip

The steep rise of Hackernews in Google rankings

At least five interesting things to start your week (#28)

Stonelifting Etiquette — liftingstones.org

Singulatron search

Inside Fort Botox, Where a Deadly Toxin Yields $2.8 Billion Drug - Bloomberg

Free for Developers

Projects - mitxela.com

Car Buying Strategies, Tips & Advice. w/Prices, Reviews & Tools

Pleasures by Aldous Huxley

Perplexity search research

About Ideas Now | Search 1000s of personal sites


Podcast

How to Succeed at Failing Archives - Freakonomics

Academic Fraud Archives - Freakonomics

A Low Moment in Higher Education - Freakonomics

Axact – Darknet Diaries

Reinventing the Restaurant | What’s Your Problem?

Making Dam Good Hydropower | What’s Your Problem?

Movies & TV

For All Mankind

RuPaul’s Drag Race (season 4)

1670 (TV series) - Wikipedia

Tacoma FD

Scavengers Reign ❤️

The Tourist

Books

Pride and Prejudice

Misc.

Windows95man - No Rules! | Eurovision 2024

Behzad Razavi (Long Kong) - Razavi Electronics

Thunderbird Wine Review: Well, Let’s Say “Wine” - YouTube