June 22, 2025

Weekly Distractions For June 22, 2025

🧠 Links

• Pretty Colors

  • Maya Blue

  • POLINE: Some sort of PRETTY generative palette library thingy.

  Astronomy

  • Found the missing matter!

  Water

  • Scientists at Virginia Tech build a better fog harp

  Resume

  • The dude behind POLINE. Sooo Swiss. Look at the bottom - I bet the clock is accurate (in Switzerland that is)!

  AI

  • The future is devs running AIs running AIs.

  • Determining how much energy it uses is challenging.

  • Avoid admitting ignorance

  Math

  • Elliptical Curves (with pretty pictures)

  Recipe

  • Adding recipes because… why not. Anyway: Toffee Cornflake Cookies

📖 Currently Reading

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith

• This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler