It’s weekend and it’s raining. Time to play some computer games. Bikrash In meatspace I try to avoid crashing with my bike. But in this free game they are rampant. And you can actually win by causing them, by kicking other racers. Also watch out for the road spanning, Read more
I have to say, I’m a fan of long summer nights where I can ride my bike for hours after work in short sleeves. This is not that time. The sun goes under at 16:45 now. So if I do decide I want to ride my bike after work, I Read more
Last weekend I was too busy either cycling or celebrating that I rode 10,000 kms this year. Nevertheless, here are this weekend’s links. Rickrolling your high school by hacking the IPTV system This student managed to gain access to his high school’s IPTV system. And he carefully prepared a Read more
Question I’m pondering I was listening to Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviews Daniel Kahneman. You might have heard about Kahneman: he wrote the influential book “Thinking Fast and Slow”. It is about the two modes of thinking our brain: System 1 (fast, instinctive and emotional) and System 2 Read more
I’m back for a wonderful cycling holiday in the Vercors and Drôme regions of France. And this is what it looked like: But enough of that. Let’s have some weekend links. One little RNA change: Boom! 50% more potato for you Scientists found that by changing one methyl group Read more
I won’t end this week without a few weekendlinks. This time: SciBabe, an ugly rock from Mars and Have I Been Powned Domain Search.
Yvette d’Entremont, also known as SciBabe, writes daily about either adorable creatures, strange deceases, monstrous chemicals, nuclear f%$k-ups and ways Australian flora and fauna can harm or kill you.
https://scibabe.com/daily-mos-the-ferocious-lemming/
The weather is looking good for this weekend. Time to do some cycling after a creative, but also hectic week. Talking about cycling…
You think my 160 km bike ride was crazy? How about a guy who did every kilometer in the Tour de France plus the distances between race starts and finishes (for which the riders take trains, busses and airplanes). A distance of 5500 km and double the altitude gain! That is the Alt Tour that Lachlan Morton rode.
All this with no support team or teammembers to keep him out of the wind. In fact, without hotels even. He has to gather his own food. And his nights of sleep were also less than to be desired. But nevertheless he made it in half the time of the real Tour de France.
Here is the third weekendlinks edition.
In the previous weekend I rode the Vael Ouwe bike ride. We had lots of luck with the weather. My video, made with my Sony actioncam, turned out really nice. The ride through the heather with wildflowers was beautiful and at the halfway point we rode past Radio Kootwijk, a large art deco style building that has been used for radio transmission. Near the end we climbed the Posbank twice. You can find details of the route here.
This is my second Weekendlink post with interesting links for you to enjoy in the weekend.
I’ve written many years ago on my old Oracle blog how important it is to be able to give good, clear presentations. Garr Reynolds’s Presentation Zen blog and book have been very influential on my presentation techniques. I was wondering what he was up to nowadays, apart from the 3rd edition of his Presentation Zen book. Turns out he has some good advise for your next online presentation on Zoom or WebEx.
Back when I worked for Transfer Solutions we had an internal weekly newsletter that appeared every end of the week. At the end of it there was a small section by me called “weekendlinks”: 3 or 4 things I found on the Internet that were interesting, funny or thoughtprovoking for people to look at on the Friday afternoon. When I left Transfer Solutions I’ve been on the lookout for a place for my weekendlinks, but either the company where I worked didn’t have a similar newsletter, the culture was too serious or “not a good fit” otherwise.
But since this is my blog and I might just as well do as I please here, I decided to revive my weekendlinks here. It will be my Five Bullet Friday. So here goes:
Teaching complex matters to people is an art. Explaining modern software concepts to children is even more a challenge. But there are people who try it. There already was a Children’s Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes. Well, now there’s one for Apache Kafka too. Expect some tortured analogies though.
https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/
Maybe I should write a children’s book to data engineering one day?