Weeknotes: 2024-W51
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Summary
My last week at Meta (at least this time around), and then starting off a cabin trip vacation near Mount Rainier. Lots of goodbyes, admin, preparation, and so forth, as well as continuing to do Advent of Code until the vacation started.
I’m not good at vacations, so this is “vacation practice”. We will be trying a few short trips to get a sense of what works well for us.
Photos
(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)
Enjoying
- Reading:
- Watching:
- 📺📅 Shrinking season 2
- 📺🏃 Castle season 7
- 📺🏃 Perception season 1 (since I somehow had it downloaded to my iPad already)
- Playing:
- Nothing.
Newly discovered
Hardcover and The Story Graph
Unfortunately, Goodreads has been stagnating as a platform for years, and I was hoping that there were good options for replacing it. In particular, discovery would be something I’d love to have better options for. I read a reasonable amount, and I’m fairly “moody” in terms of what I feel like reading, so while I have a long “To be read” (TBR), I’d always appreciate some suggestions on what to read.
I discovered that Hardcover and The Story Graph are probably the current main competitors in the space. Unfortunately, the Kindle only supports read events being sent to Goodreads, and since there’s no API for Kindle or Goodreads, unfortunately neither Hardcover nor The Story Graph offer an API either, nor the ability to continuously sync from Goodreads.
So, I’m sticking with Goodreads for now, although I may just move everything to Obsidian at some point and build my own Goodreads sync via its RSS capability for read books. And maybe that’ll make using one of these easier.
Recommended
Timelapse of the 24 hour Antarctic sun - Dave McKeegan
The title says it all - nice, short, timelapse of something most people will never experience.
SNL VFX Mystery - Captain Disillusion
As usual, Captain Disillusion explores and explains visual effects with excellent visual effects, this time focusing on some VFX touch-ups performed post-broadcast on SNL.
The Anti-Parker Square - Numberphile
The Magic Square of Squares already elicited an entertaining video on Numberphile with Matt Parker back in 2016 (introducing the concept of the “Parker Square”) and now there’s another Numberphile video with Ayliean MacDonald with some additional mathematics about her exploration of the problem.
(I also enjoyed Ayliean’s “Hitomezashi Stitch Patterns” video on Numberphile in the past.)