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Simon Willison - Instant serverless APIs, powered by SQLite - PyCon 2019

¶ ↫ 2021-01-20 bookmarks video visualisation code

Very cool stuff.

Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data

¶ ↫ 2021-01-19 bookmarks

Cool talk by Simon Willison on collecting and mining personal data.

Trucks carrying wind turbine blades

¶ ↫ 2021-01-07 bookmarks video

This is epic and/or insane!

TabFS

¶ ↫ 2021-01-04 bookmarks code

A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.

Poaching - the daily threat to park rangers

¶ ↫ 2021-01-03 podcast thin-green-line

The Thin Green Line foundation is well worth your support!

https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2021/01/bia_20210107.mp3

Planet Money: Fork the Government

¶ ↫ 2021-01-03 podcast audrey-tang planet-money

Taiwan FTW!

https://edge2.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2020/12/20201223_pmoney_pmpod1054.mp3

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

¶ ↫ 2021-01-03 bookmarks video

This is some pretty impressive work!

Woodwork projects

¶ 2021-01-02 bookmarks wood

Basic list of recent wood work projects I've been working on.

Clickspring - Machining the Antikythera mechanism

¶ ↫ 2020-12-14 bookmarks video tools sculpture horology

I'm late to the party on these, but they are truly mesmerising...

Stephen Wolfram - Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics

¶ ↫ 2020-12-14 bookmarks physics video stephen-wolfram

Good and relatively modest explanation of what Wolfram has been up to.

Beau Miles - Junk Cabin

¶ ↫ 2020-12-14 bookmarks video architecture wood beau-miles

Great build, great story, great gift!

gron - Make JSON greppable!

¶ ↫ 2020-11-18 bookmarks code tools

This is a very nifty little tool. I like it.

Long Now: Julia Watson - The Floating Islands of Al Tahla (clip)

¶ ↫ 2020-10-16 bookmarks video longnow architecture

Very cool constructions.

Scale model of Grandpa Amu's bridge

¶ ↫ 2020-08-23 bookmarks wood sculpture posts architecture

I built a model of the traditional Chinese bridge constructed by Grandpa Amu.

Uri Tuchman: Making a Printing Press

¶ ↫ 2020-08-05 bookmarks video wood

Uri creates such lovely pieces, very cool.

TED: Audrey Tang - How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy

¶ ↫ 2020-07-08 bookmarks video audrey-tang

"This is not about the people trusting the government more. This is about the government trusting the citizens more".

https://stealthisshow.com/s05e13/

Making a Mini Low Angle Block Plane with Dovetails

¶ ↫ 2020-07-03 bookmarks video tools

This is very a satisfying build to watch, and a pretty and useful result.

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

¶ ↫ 2020-05-25 bookmarks video robots

This is a really neat design. And I did get a kick out of "And through the magic of buying two of them..."

SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW

¶ ↫ 2020-04-25 bookmarks video security

This is mind bending!

The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)

¶ ↫ 2020-03-27 bookmarks video robots

This is pretty epic. Debugging this must be a bit of a nightmare...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qRzKuskK0

Learn Git Branching

¶ ↫ 2020-02-13 bookmarks

An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!

Radiolab - There and Back Again

¶ ↫ 2020-01-14 podcast

One of those stand-out "huh!" Radiolab episodes about animal migration.

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast19thereandbackagain.mp3

Paul Graham: The Lesson to Unlearn

¶ ↫ 2020-01-10 bookmarks paul-graham education

A unified theory of sorts.

Gallery of ggridges examples

¶ ↫ 2020-01-05 bookmarks tools visualisation code

Useful chart style, seasonal temperature chart is cool. The "Evolution of movie lengths over time" examples is fascinating too.

Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme

¶ ↫ 2020-01-03 bookmarks security tools mathematics video

Useful page to split a secret into n parts such that k are required to reconstruct the original using the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ildEW9-Q

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