Link Diary August 2024
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- Rust Crash course
- Mechnical animation
- Tor browser and onion websites
- Math tornado
- Active user paradox (german)
- Wheat harvesting machine
- Less geometry, same visual
- Manual retopology
- Brain Massage
- Blender Modelling approach
- Tripsdrill is so swabian
- Spreadsheets with live stock data
- Ai-generate a 3D landscape
- Animated Pop-Star
Rust book
The Rust programming language comes with its own book.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
And here are some cheat sheets:
Emoticons to copy & paste
Sometimes on Linux you don't have emoticons on your fingertips and need to copy them from somewhere…
Format a LinkedIn post nicely
This editor helps formatting it visually, ready to post.
PICO-8
It emulates a old gaming console. For the nostalgic programmer (not me, just got a demo recently).
Try online. Press ESC to enter the code editor.
Each game's sourcecode is in the PNG file that is also the cartridge cover.
Play DOOM, uhm, I mean "POOM" here: https://freds72.itch.io/poom
Body of knowledge
For a diverse range of disciplines that are hard to teach as one subject there are BoKs.
They try to give an overview of the inner workings and the overall field of knowledge.
Examples:
- Systems Engineering: https://sebokwiki.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Systems_Engineering_Body_of_Knowledge_(SEBoK)
- Business Technology Architecture: https://iasa-global.github.io/btabok/
AI for your song about whatever
All it needs is a prompt with a topic, some context and a music genre.
Video Picks
All the basic concepts, easy to follow. Goes along the Rust book.
Great guide to not overdo bone complexity when moving mechnical parts like pistons or joints.
The socalled "dark web" can only be accessed using Tor.
A method to calculate the shape and motion of a tornado.
We harm ourselves by not wanting to really understand the tech that should make life easier. This was it won't for sure.
Oddly satisfying animation of the inner workings of a harvesting machine.
Examples on how to create shapes using very little geometry and hot to seemlessly combine objects.
Aligning simpler geometry on high-poly objects just got easier.
Oh these fingers. gave me the chills watching the movie.
He explains a workflow for modelling objects that really may just work for anything.
The swabian entertainment park with a lot of swabian german humor.
Google has discontinued their finance API but offers a function in Google Sheets.
It has its limits but bring quick results. Using a depth map in a controlNet to generate a scenery for.
Hatsune Miku has made quite an evolution in the visual design. The concept is simply amazing.
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