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I made numerous small fixes and improvements to django-cast. I also dabbled in Rust game development again and can now draw 2D maps in LDtk and load them into a game. It's just a small step forward, but I didn't struggle with the compiler as much as I anticipated - I'm starting to like Rust.

The weather has been lovely lately, so we bought a barbecue and visited a nearby zoo.

Articles

• How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors
• The time for designers to learn to code is now | Do it.
• Situational Awareness- The Decade Ahead | Overly optimistic in my opinion, because trendlines can just stop for all kinds of reasons (GANs are not stable and kind of dead by now, there are good reasons to believe that generative models have some fundamental limitations, and semisupervised learning does not yet work for anything but textual data...). But still interesting.

Videos

• Language models on the command-line | Fantastic talk
• Whole Earth Flashbacks | Whole Earth Catalog documentary
• Web Design Engineering With the New CSS | Matthias Ott | CSS Day 2024 | Solid talk - and yes, I'm looking into CSS for the same reason atm.

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 25: June 17 to June 23 | Johannes
• Weeknotes for Week 25: June 17 to 23 | Jeff Triplett

TIL

• Unwrapping functools.wraps: How to Remove Decorators from a Python Function

Fediverse

• Periodic reminder that NIST does not approve of expiring passwords.

Software

• LLM - A CLI utility and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models, both via remote APIs and models that can be installed and run on your own machine
• files-to-prompt - Concatenate a directory full of files into a single prompt for use with LLMs
• ttok - This tool can count tokens, using OpenAI's tiktoken library.
• Django 5.1 beta 1 released

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