Notes for the week of 2021-08-09 How we fix the climate This past week, the latest IPCC report on Climate Change came out and the news was bad in terms of projections, but there are still many things we can do. Hank Green laid out what we can do. In his video, he starts with carbon pricing, and then gets into the wide …

Backlinks 2021-08-09 This week, James Long wrote about and released absurd-sql, an implementation of SQLite based on SQL.js (actual sqlite compiled to WASM) and a backend that works on IndexedDB and is faster than IndexedDB. 2021-05-15 sqliteviz is a progressive web app that lets you create Plotly visualizations …

Notes for the week of 2021-08-02 Firemap The US government provides a fire map to show where wildfires and smoke plumes are located right now. The costs of selling COVID fear James Surowiecki wrote about coverage of CDC’s new mask guidance and the underlying COVID-19 data and how the press did not do a good job …

Notes for the week of July 26, 2021 Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers Steve M. Carroll has a handy collection of tips for pronouncing non-English names, with a specific focus on pronouncing those names with sounds we have in English. Some of the commenters on Hacker News have tips of their own, …

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does.

Backlinks 2021-07-26 Luke Edwards wrote up his experience creating a cross-platform desktop app using Svelte and a Desktop Web toolkit called Tauri, which is built in Rust and uses the platform’s web renderer instead of bundling its own, as Electron does. 2021-04-05 Lots of love for Svelte and Tailwind. …

Notes for the week of July 19, 2021 This week in The Dragon of DC I made a tweak to the end of episode 3 (“Arcmagius”), changing the speaking style of the mysterious dragon. This came as a result of being unhappy with how she sounded in episode 5. Speaking of episode 5: It went live on July 23rd! …

Status update As of June 2021, the first draft is done! I’m starting on the editing process. I’m writing a book! Are you? I’ve written or co-written five books already, and I’m working on a new book to help technical people with the publishing of their own books. I’m mostly thinking of …

The Dragon of DC (affiliate link, thanks for clicking!) is a Kindle Vella serial, with the story written in episodes. The first five episodes are the “series premiere”. Here’s what the series is about: With magic unleashed in the world, “politics as usual” is truly over in DC. Senator …

Notes for the week of July 12, 2021 Chrome extension for Excalidraw Luke Murray is making a chrome extension that lets you draw on any page using Excalidraw. It will persist your changes locally. GitHub Copilot links In AI news, GitHub Copilot made a big, and controversial, splash in recent days. Here is a collection …