November 2019
Airplane over a tree.
I just started reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb.📚
I’m working on some spaghetti code today. Let’s see if I can make the code a tiny bit better – without breaking anything.
An image of a creature drawn by my daughter. She was using her tape dispenser as a template for the shape.
The episode is highly exciting, and I’ve now also listened to some of the other episodes as well.
I just started reading The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1 by N. K. Jemisin.📚
Review of Composing Software
For a long time, I wanted to learn about the theoretical background of functional programming. But I always waited to do it. So, when I stumbled over a blog article by Eric Elliott (Composing Software: An Introduction), I decided to buy and read his book - Composing Software by Eric Elliott📚. I’m torn apart regarding this book. It has useful chapters introducing you to new concepts. And then there are chapters which feel like they were just added to “fill-up” the book.
Meeting: A unicorn and fish meet a dinosaur.
I just started reading Born of Embers (The Valdir Chronicles Book 2) by RA Lewis.📚
I bought the hardwood flooring for my bedroom today. Let the project begin.
⤑ Candle: The privacy friendly smart home.
The candle is a concept for a smart home that does not phone home and does not need an internet connection. The only downside is now that you need to build the parts yourself.
⤑ What your day will be like in 2039 (Mostly Pessimistic Version). ⤑ What your day will be like in 2039 (Mostly Optimistic Version).
These articles have an exciting concept, showing the duality of the future development of technology and our world. I usually tend to only think about the harmful outcomes of all these developments. But not everything needs to be bad. Unfortunately, I feel that the amount of people enjoying the beautiful sides will be smaller then the number of humans left out of this new world.
Review of Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
I finished reading Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith.📚 I quite liked the first half of the book, where the author shows how life has evolved from single-cell organisms to the complex multicell combinations we have now. The chapter about how the color change works in some of the squids was also exciting. I did not expect such a complicated mechanism to be present in animal life.⤑ Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery.
An article about exploding Amazon batteries. And who produces these products and where. I enjoyed this text a lot as it’s interesting how Amazon starts to create it’s own products while also selling products for other producers.
Transducers
While reading the chapter about transducers, I had quite some difficulties understanding how it works. So I made a cheat sheet of the concept.Review of The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
I decided to read The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood📚 after not being sure to read a book which looked for me like an unneeded sequel after the TV show. But I’m happy that I did read it because my fears did not come true. And you do not have to read the original book to enjoy this book. This book is a page-turner, from the first moment you get sucked into the world and the protagonists.I just started reading Composing Software by Eric Elliott.📚
@V_ I think I saw one of those in my yard yesterday.
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@V_ . Kind of makes me think of a James Thurber drawing also. https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/5459/documents/2015/2/TheNighttheBedFell.pdf
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@V_ www.newyorker.com/magazine/... Yeah, that copy was on a CDN and it expired.
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