New sculpture by Kelpies artist unveiled in Edinburgh
That time I turned up in the background of a photo on the BBC news website; if you know where to look.
Public
Designing a Lego orrery
Pretty amazing build with Lego.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
It's a Forth. It's a Lisp. It's lambda calculus. It looks like fun and also something I'd never actually really use.
Hay fever hangovers: why you feel groggy after high pollen
A plausible reason why I find that from May through July or so I tend to wake up feeling pretty rubbish.
What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor
Someone's love letter to how everything is a command in Emacs. I tried to sell this approach for Textual, especially when the idea of a command palette was first raised. Sadly it never came to pass.
I think it would still be an excellent idea.
SketchyBar
FOSS alternative to something like BarTender (even more useful now that BarTender seems to have gone a wee bit rogue).
Astronomical Algorithms
PDF of a book I've long wanted to get my hands on!
Boto3 1.34.129 documentation
"You use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to create, configure, and manage AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The SDK provides an object-oriented API as well as low-level access to AWS services."
PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python | peps.python.org
A proposal to change the way that Python's version numbers work.
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968)
The document that introduced the graphical representations of control characters.
The Effectiveness of Trigger Point Dry Needling for Musculoskeletal Conditions by Physical Therapists: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - PubMed
Review of evidence for how effective, if at all effective, so-called "dry-needling" is.
Evaluating & Debunking Dry Needling as an Injury Recovery Method
Article with references that talks about how efefctive, if at all, dry-needling is as a treatment.
eplot: Emacs library for creating charts
Library for doing pretty nice-looking plots in Emacs.
Stop using Brave Browser
Some problematic history relating to the Brave browser.
Build Your Own Lisp
A book all about building your own Lisp.
Intrinsic function reference - AWS CloudFormation
The guide to CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
Pseudo parameters reference - AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation pseudo parameter reference.
What we know about microdosing candy illnesses as death investigation underway
While I've read on and off about the possible benefits of microdosing, I hadn't realised that (in the US anyway) you could actually buy edible things that implement this. This also suggests it's not been done well or clearly.
Wrong license · Issue #16 · mdmintz/pynose
This looks like a really great example of not now to handle the licnece of a fork, and also how not to handle the feedback you get when you make such a change.
Obsidian URI
Obsidian has a URI that can do a bunch of differen things. Very handy, especially if you want to kick off stuff from other code and apps.
How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions | tecRacer Amazon AWS Blog
An analysis of how boto3 affects the code start times of AWS Lamdas.
wyuenho/emacs-pet: Tracks down the correct Python tooling executables from your virtualenvs so you can glue the binaries to Emacs and delete code in init.el
What looks to be a module for Emacs that helps find the right venv for a project; I think. Saving this to look at at some point in the future.
Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct - Python Software Foundation Policies
Just like it says on the tin:the code of conduct of the Python Foundation.
(glisp) - Online iteractive Lisp playground
A fun-looking online interactive Lisp playground; feels like the turtle graphics environments of old but with a Lisp.
BSoD maker
Build your own Blue Screen of Death!
Home - Lambda Forge
A tool for quickly building Lambda functions.
UK Fossil Collecting
Good resource for background information on fossil-hunting in the UK.
DORA | Get Better at Getting Better
"DORA is the largest and longest running research program of its kind, that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. DORA helps teams apply those capabilities, leading to better organizational performance."
The Wrong Way to Use DORA Metrics - The New Stack
A source of concerns and counter-points to getting too excited about using DORA to measure things.
Measuring Software Delivery With DORA Metrics - YouTube
Video introducing DORA metrics.