10. Stop Publishing Garbage Data, It's Embarrassing (successfulsoftware.net)

Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data. The first instance is the UK government’s fuel finder data. This is a downloadable CSV file of fuel station locations and prices fr…

11. Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (gwern.net)

Cats are not humans, but we design things like they are, for our convenience. What are the design patterns for cat-architecture? One missing design pattern: <em>progressive concealment</em>, for cat ledges, flaps & window boxes.

15. When Do We Become Adults, Really? (www.newyorker.com)

Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological termsβ€”but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up.

23. Stop picking my Go version for me (blog.howardjohn.info)

The go.mod file contains a mandatory go <version number> directive. Since Go 1.21, when a change was introduced to make this include a full patch number (1.21.0 instead of 1.21), a number of projects have started using this wrong, hurting everyone.
The version is the minimum version your project can be compiled with. It is not the version you use to compile your project, but the minimum version that anyone can use to compile your project.

25. Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring (grieve-smith.com)

Introduction



In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic I learned that we can estimate our level of risk by checking the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air, because when infected people breathe out virus aerosols, they also breathe out CO2.Β  I recently wrote about some limitations on this

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