I took the goodreads challenge this year and aimed at 26 books. I aimed higher last year and failed and wanted to have a reachable goal. It's currently begin of september and I got the notification that I had completed it: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/2424656 While reading 26 books in itself is not much of a challenge, it allows …
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keyboard vs skill
I've been using a computer keyboard for the best of the previous 30 years. However, I never properly learnt to type and I'm still hammering my keyboard with mosrly 2 to 4 fingers. Of course, I have a bad wordage per minute and my error rate is touching the skies.I have tried various kind of …
Books and drone
I've just read a book which left me a strange feeling. I have micro drone that I love flying - actually I need to repair it to fly it again but that's a different problem. Beware that some spoiler might be incoming. There is a lot oof ppublic feeling against drones, either RC or autonomous. …
Misc Week 15-33/24
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 …
Misc Week 15-32
This week, the following happened: Very nice woodwork We made water rockets with the kids. Need to find a way to put pressure in them now, currently, mostly a fail (except the excitement of actually building them). Next time, I'll try to work it in advance and have correct bottles. Next steps: be awesome!. It seems …
Misc Week 15-31
This week, the following happened, on line and IRL: new website to procrastinate : https://microcorruption.com/cpu/debugger Have fun disassembling and hacking for glory. Did the tutorial and a few challenges, don't have enough time to make actual progress puzzle week at work : more procrastination. Each day, 3 puzzles to solve. Had fun, solved 10 of 15 Youtube is …
Misc week 15-30
Not much happened for me on-line last week, cause I spent an awful amount of time travelling: ZRH -> ZRH airport: tram + train ZRH - airport -> Milan airport: flying Swiss Milan airport -> Shanghai airport: flying Air China, need to get my luggage and checking in again forced me to spend 6 hours …
Misc Week 15-28
This week, quickly: I looked for a parametric 2D design tool : I currently use inkscape for preparing design to laser cut, but switching from one thickness to another requires mostly a full redesign. I want to be able to draw with parameters and change easily thickness without having to do a full redesign. I found an …
PC cooling
I had a Corsair H60 cooling kit which used to be quite silent. It died: pump did not pump any more and it led to overheating. I changed the kit to the superior Corsair H80, which is a crank higher. Ever since, the noise has been really loud. The H80 is using a pump and a …
Misc week 15-23
This week's highlight, in real life and on the interweb Juvenile prisons in the states : Scary as hell, not for the soft-heart. Not sure about the situation in Switzerland on this matter I did some cool stuff, posted on thingiverse and had positive feedback I'm crushed with allergies to pollens, hoping for rain Canon has …
Bruce's hideout 