Very low level plotter control; move the stepper motors

API for controlling the plotting robot. The low level Python API literally just lets you move the thing in straight lines and control pen up / pen down.

GAN smashes Youtube audio into something that sounds like choral or strings. Choral is sort of horrible and great on Alles in Allem.

Beautiful kinetic sculpture / light thing, a pulsing sphere of hexagons

A new visual search image; machine learning does "find more images like this"

Python library for doing some calculation and manipulation of SVG paths

Python library for creating SVG graphics

Various forms of JSON data in increasingly readable forms. Includes SEN form which is not valid JSON but 1:1 convertible

Google's outreach effort to a historically black university went poorly.

Texans bought into a cheap electricity plan with no limit to the price of power. Now it bit them in the ass. A story of why civilized governments regulate utilities.

Shows all the satellites and their footprints

A web social space being designed and built by Andy Baio, aka Waxy

Found in Alaska, before European settlers discovered the eastern coast. Trade is amazing

Houston, TX has to distribute 8400 vaccine doses in a hurry

A 13th century writing system for numbers 1-9999

Group of privileged tech dudes want their safe space to talk about dumb ideas without consequences

At least 40% of Covid deaths avoidable. Other deaths that were also the consequence of Trump and Republican policies

CPUC requiring 72 hours of working phone service even during power outages

Melancholy Orville Peck song

No surprise, but another Trump administration lie; his Covid-19 case was more serious than they said

Heart warming Tony Hawk video of him celebrating ordinary skaters

Excellent summary of the day's events from Trump's incitement to riot to the riot. Caution, there's a lot of brutal violence in this.

Web based UI for the AxiDraw plotter

A bipartisan group worked hard in the background to ensure a legitimate American election

List of code and resources for plotter

Modular outdoor sensor package for monitoring the environment

Photos of large vaccination centers

Details of the breakthrough in speed. Customized bus, hardware compression, other tricks make for 5-10GBytes/second data transfers

Very detailed list of games like Slay the Spire

Ridiculous right wing TV is increasingly ridiculous

Dec 18 meeting where the super conspiracy folks ran headlong into the vaguely sane Trump advisors

A remarkable coherent narrative of Trump's progress from lunatic lawsuits to actual armed insurrection

Laughably small settlement to cover over their system underpayment of women, other classes of employees

Mailbox shaped like a pistol, with an American flag cross underneath

Federal program to supply vaccines to nursing homes is very badly designed

Configuring WAN failover on the Ubiquiti Security Gateway, including with the Unifi LTE

First 10 days mired in trying to understand the mess the Trump people left behind