Simon Willison - Instant serverless APIs, powered by SQLite - PyCon 2019
Very cool stuff.
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Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
Cool talk by Simon Willison on collecting and mining personal data.
Trucks carrying wind turbine blades
This is epic and/or insane!
TabFS
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History
This is some pretty impressive work!
Woodwork projects
Basic list of recent wood work projects I've been working on.
Clickspring - Machining the Antikythera mechanism
I'm late to the party on these, but they are truly mesmerising...
Stephen Wolfram - Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics
Good and relatively modest explanation of what Wolfram has been up to.
Beau Miles - Junk Cabin
Great build, great story, great gift!
gron - Make JSON greppable!
This is a very nifty little tool. I like it.
Long Now: Julia Watson - The Floating Islands of Al Tahla (clip)
Very cool constructions.
Scale model of Grandpa Amu's bridge
I built a model of the traditional Chinese bridge constructed by Grandpa Amu.
Uri Tuchman: Making a Printing Press
Uri creates such lovely pieces, very cool.
TED: Audrey Tang - How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy
"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
This is very a satisfying build to watch, and a pretty and useful result.
The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
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
This is mind bending!
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
This is pretty epic. Debugging this must be a bit of a nightmare...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qRzKuskK0
Learn Git Branching
An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!
Paul Graham: The Lesson to Unlearn
A unified theory of sorts.
Gallery of ggridges examples
Useful chart style, seasonal temperature chart is cool. The "Evolution of movie lengths over time" examples is fascinating too.
Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme
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
Finding HIGH POWER 240V in a 120V Country
Another amusing Electroboom video.
Grandpa Amu - wooden arch bridge
Genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgEf3eWqA
Generating Fractals… With SQL Queries!!!
A bit like wingsuit flying or longboard downhill runs: Impressive achievement, but not something that should be copied!