The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads
Ever dreamed of riding a bike down winding gravel roads without ever having to pedal along a paved road again? Romance aside, it’s a fascinating question: how far can you travel along unpaved roads before you end up bumping into a long stretch of pavement? Could you possibly ride from one side of the state […]
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
Photovoltaics are set to meet over 40 percent of Switzerland’s electricity needs by 2050. But solar power isn’t always available when it’s needed: there’s too much of it in summer and too little in winter, when the sun shines less often and heat pumps are running at full tilt. According to the Swiss federal government’s […]
Is my vision that bad? No, it’s just a bug in Apple’s Calculator
While programming on my Mac and converting decimal numbers to hex and binary and using Apple’s Calculator for it – because it is built-in and works decent – I thought, I saw some wobbly lines of numbers. My first thought was: my eyes are getting tired. But it looked annoyingly wobbly and there went my […]
Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and ‘convert’. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also […]
Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next
So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine books. 3939 pages […]
Cassette Tape Archive
Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There’s an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60’s functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70’s audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the […]
Bresenham’s Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021)
Once upon a time I was given the following problem for a technical programming interview: Write a function draw_circle(r) that draws a circle with radius r. Use the given method draw_pixel(x, y) which takes a 2-dimensional point (x, y) and colors it in on the computer screen. For the solution, you can either collect all […]
Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
Explore Crows and ravens, which belong to the corvid family, are known for their high intelligence, playful natures, and strong personalities. They hold grudges against each other, do basic statistics, perform acrobatics, and even host funerals for deceased family members. But we keep learning new things about the savvy of these birds, and how widespread […]
Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring a Rising-Star Engineer to Champion Customer Success
Overview: We’re looking for an entrepreneurial Customer Success Engineer to serve as the primary bridge between our customers and our product. As our first CX hire, you’ll play a critical role in defining the culture, processes, and eventually team that comprises Hadrius’ relationship with our customers. As such, you’ll get to wear multiple hats as […]
UK researchers find Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in long Covid patients
LEXINGTON, Ky (Aug. 30, 2024) — New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, highlights a potential commonality in […]