Weeknotes 187
26th January, 2025
“Oops, I did it again”
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It’s a tonic to meet up with friends. You should do that, if you can.
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A friend told me about the shorts by Oats Studios, a studio started by Neill Blomkamp. So far I’ve watched Rakka, Zygote, and Praetoria.
Rakka and Zygote are impressively full-on. I think this format is perfect for me for me because they don’t demand the concentration a longer film needs.
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Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
There are indeed a lot of “fun facts” about SQLite and in particular the way the core developers operate.
Unlike most open source project that uses standard licenses (like MIT or GPL), SQLite does not come with a OSI-approved license. Instead, SQLite is released into the public domain and it has even fewer restrictions.
As lot of software people think that you are somehow obliged to submit to their whims and release software as they desire. The SQLite team have chosen to do it their way. Are some of their modes of operation bit odd? Sure. But they can choose to act as they please with their software that they wrote.
I found this fascinating too:
SQLite is so fast, they compete with fopen. For some use cases, you can use SQLite instead of a filesystem, that can be 35% faster.
SQLite can be faster than writing to disk!
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Oops, I did it again. I fell down some stairs. This time outside, and with added mud and a bruised hip.
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We have have some architects drawings for our upcoming house renovations and we wanted to get some paper copies to hand out to contractors who might need them. I found out that the local University’s printing department accept jobs from external customers, not just current students. This is very convenient when you need something printed in some format other than black and white A4 – it cost me £1.50 for 5 copies of A3 in colour – very reasonable.
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We took a copy of said documents to two different kitchen design appointments 🥱 Status: Expense incoming.
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It was the local monthly Ruby meetup this week. It’s always nice to see the few (two) regular people who show up even though I frequently think that this should be a proper meetup with talks and pizza. It remains a bit of a catch 22 anyway because I don’t think we can realistically put on a talk for an audience of two people.
The truth is that I’m not really interested in Ruby (or computers) enough at the moment to even think about giving my own talk, and that’s if I put aside my aversion to public speaking (can 2 people be considered “public”?).
The others who join me at this monthly meeting seem fine to continue with the current situation, so maybe I just let it be.
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This is interesting.
The computer, de-invented Meet DC-1. A new kind of computer, designed for deep focus and wellbeing.
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I have developed a dangerous addiction – buying non-working Nintendo Game Boys in some vain hope that I will be able to “fix” them. I currently own 7 fairly shitty examples in various states of disassembly. Will I get any of them working again?
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Still don’t want to work for living.