This week (and the previous one as there was not enough for a full post), my world changed the following way:

• I discovered the joy of pentagonal tiling. New tiling discovered and the previous ones.
• Someone liked self-driving cars and wrote nicely about it. I love driving, however I feel like I’m ready for a self driving car for the daily (which does not exist) or long haul (3.5 hours ride while making sure I don’t drive over the limit (I usually fail at the second part)). Fine for the self driving car if I can have a non-assisted sport car for when I want to drive (and no cops, cause most of the cars will be smart enough to avoid me on a road rage). Overall, I’d like to be able to get a Seven 160 for example. Sport car but top speed of 160km/h and only 80hp.
• I (re)discovered the shortcut for readline and a nice cheat sheet
• Google published about its network, kind of a sneak peak to the numbers I’m dealing with on a daily basis.
• Lattice, Navier-Stokes, fluid simulation: what a great paper!
• I read about bluetooth LE
• Why calling COBOL from Node.js ? Because you can!
• I got promoted on stack overflow and got the guru badge. Yoohoo. That’s an answer I’m still proud of 🙂
• a SNES emulator written in Javascript. I guess I’m now officially from the previous century.
• I like how churches are able to prove constantly how much worship is about money. I’m amazed on a daily basis by the need most people have to believe in something higher (which is not the laws of thermodynamics). I guess I’m going to watch religulous again to have fun in a very non politically correct way.
• an interesting comparison of art and engineering with regards to portfolio. This goes into the bucket “show me code you’ve written” when most of your (interesting) code was professional and covered by NDA/secrets. Alternatively, I can show you some crappy hack I did a random evening and has no link to my value as a professional.
• In my quest to learn new vocabulary, word of the week is : Tramp Stamp

Sometime, I read what I wrote and I cry (for every line, replace double-quote with underscore and embed the line into double quotes (don’t ask)):

@line2 = map {'"'.$_.'"'} map {local $_ = $_; s/"/_/; $_ } @lines;