Martin PROKS


Week 23 (02-08/06/2025)

👾 IT

  • This is why data structure matters, hashmap to reduce tracking of duplicates decreased backup runtime. Fix was submitted to upsteram git repo (link).
  • Analysis of Cloudflare’s Claude-Generated code documented by the team via commit history (link).
  • Machine Learning Mastery back with some useful 10 one-liners in python (link).

🔬Science

  • Likely not surprising but race and ethnicity do align so well with genetic background (link).
  • Bell Labs was all about science and innovation (link).
    • “How do you manage genius? You don’t.” And it worked. - Mervin Kelly
  • Fibers on the surface of cotton seeds dissolved in lithium bromide-water and heat up to high temperature creates transparent material similartly strong to a polycarbonate. It’s biodegradable and can reduce half of CO2 emissions compared to plastic (link).
  • Titanium dioxide which is in food, was shown to dysregulate endocrine system in mice. Although banned in Europe, America still watis for government’s response to the current research (link).
  • Great to Simon’s journey to self-hosting (link).
  • Let’s Encrypt tackles zombie clients with pausing/unpausing approach (link).
  • Did you know you can store your data on paper with the right conversion (link)?
  • MonsterUI packs FastHTML with Tailwind to generate quickly web-apps with Python (link).

🔧 Tools