This morning, Suzanne Rent wrote a about a birding trip for the Halifax Examiner. After reading that, I decided to look into the nighthawk a bit more. It’s sad to learn that they’re endangered because of pesticide use, but I’m afraid my biggest takeaway was slightly more crude.
Last night I woke up for no particularly good reason, and couldn’t get back to sleep. When this happens, I usually turn to Wikipedia and read for a bit. This time, I went down rabbit hole about fractals and ended up with typeface envy.
Steve Mould is a science YouTuber whose work I really enjoy. He recently posted a video showing off an OpenDrop device by GaudiLab. The device is mesmerizing, and he was able to get some simple games developed for it using CoPilot. He explains the physics behind the OpenDrop device, and shared his code on GitHub. Check out the video below, or on YouTube.
This morning, Ars Technica published a great piece looking back at the film Apollo 13. It was first released to theatres 30 years ago today.
On April 21st, the Bluesky team announced a new account verification system. In my opinion, one of the best bits about Bluesky was the ability to verify yourself using a domain name. This new system goes a step further, and I was curious about how it worked. This lead to me building a quick-and-dirty verifier listing tool.
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the late-2000s/early-2010s Twitter era.
Tom Scott is playing to win.
I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a deckbuilder where you build combos by manipulating the icons in your custom slot machine. I linked above to the Steam page, but it’s on just about every platform — I played through it on iOS.