iamcal.com Since May 2000

Jan 14th: I haven't used it for anything yet, but automerge looks like a really nice library for doing CRDT/OT-like multi-player interactions

Jan 13th: If MixBox is too much, Spectral.js is a little more straight forward for browser work.

Jan 11th: I score higher in the US (84 points) that the EU (49 points) on the visited-places map. There are a lot of states though.

Jan 11th: Random esolang I bookmarked a few years ago: Olympus

Jan 11th: Some day I need to visit Miniatur Wunderland. And maybe build my own version

Jan 11th: A genre of scientific papers I love are "plausible but obviously wrong", like Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?

Jan 11th: I haven't used it yet, but Gource seems like a good evolution of whatever it was we used for visualizing the evolution of codebases 20 years ago.

Jan 11th: As we approach the possible shutdown of TikTok in the US, it's worth re-reading the Monolith paper. Realtime adaptive recommendation is the secret sauce.

Jan 11th: The paper behind mixbox is really interesting reading - pigment mixing is hard to simulate in computers and previous techniques don't mimic how paints actually behave.