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Inspired by interactive exploded watch illustrations, the author aimed to create a tangible resin model of a mechanical watch movement.

Early resin casting (layered UV and two-part epoxy) faced issues: yellow tint, slow cure, visible seams due to refractive index differences.

Switched to suspending components on monofilament fishing line (nylon leader) with CA glue, matching resin’s refractive index and providing near-invisible support.

LibRedirect is a browser extension that redirects popular websites to privacy-friendly alternative frontends.

It supports major platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Twitter, and more.

Offers numerous frontends including Invidious, Nitter, SearXNG, and Jitsi for enhanced privacy.

Sapf is a Forth-like, postfix audio synthesis language using lazy lists.

Inspired by APL’s auto-mapping and Joy’s concatenative style for concise code.

Represents audio and control events as possibly infinite, immutable sequences.

TPUs are Google’s custom chips optimized for fast matrix multiplication and energy efficiency using systolic arrays and pipelining.

They rely on ahead-of-time compilation (XLA) and large on-chip scratchpad memories instead of traditional caches to reduce expensive memory accesses.

A TPUv4 chip contains two TensorCores with 128×128 matrix units, vector units, and high-bandwidth memory stacks.

Senate reconciliation bill includes provision to dispose of 2–3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands across 11 states

Over 250 million acres of public lands, including Wilderness Study Areas and critical habitats, would become eligible for sale with minimal exemptions

This measure threatens iconic intact landscapes and vital wildlife habitats such as the Arctic Refuge and Otero Mesa

LogHouse, ClickHouse’s internal observability platform, grew from 19 PiB to over 100 PB of uncompressed data and 500 trillion rows, requiring a more efficient ingestion strategy.

The OpenTelemetry pipeline became a performance and resource bottleneck at scale—incurring high CPU usage, latency, and data loss under spikes.

ClickHouse developed SysEx, a specialized system-tables exporter that streams native data byte-for-byte between ClickHouse instances, cutting CPU usage by over 90% and eliminating intermediate marshalling.

Aim to develop an open-source, modular 16 mm film projector using commonly available parts and proven mechanical elements.

Reuses existing claw, shutter and transport mechanisms from Eiki RT-2 and compatible optics from various brands.

Implements a high-density 800 W LED light source with water cooling, achieving up to twice the brightness of a 250 W halogen lamp.

Some employers draft confidentiality agreements so broadly they function as lifetime non-competes, forbidding you from working in the same industry after leaving.

These agreements rely on the ‘inevitable disclosure’ doctrine, claiming any use of experience or instincts violates confidentiality even without conscious wrongdoing.

Various jurisdictions counter these practices: China mandates 30% salary during non-competes, Brazil 100%, Oregon 50%; California bans non-competes entirely for most roles.

A working prototype of Balatro was built for the Nintendo E-Reader, playing in-round gameplay with a mocked blind selection and win screen.

Technical hurdles include displaying large scores within 32-bit limits, fitting many on-screen numbers given only four numeric draw slots, and accommodating 150 unique jokers’ graphics.

Sprite count limits (56 sprites) and background use require careful design or hand size restrictions to display cards.