Experts advice on risk levels for summer activities From Camping to Dining Out NPR has had some experts rate the risk of getting COVID-19 from some common activities.

Banana cream pie with meringue The temperature is over 80 degrees here today and I thought it would be nice to have something cool. We don’t have any ice cream, but we did have a frozen pie shell. And a couple of bananas that should be used before they become too ripe. Here are the Recipes I used: I made the …

The Discworld Reading Order Guide 3.0 I enjoy reading (and writing) Fantasy, and I have never gotten around to reading Discworld. I plan to start soon. This Discworld Reading Order Guide 3.0 should be super handy. I had already planned to start with Guards! Guards!, so I guess I’m fine.

Microsoft using AI to generate code This demo of an ML model generating Python code is impressive, but I’d like to see someone unrelated to the project try it. This strikes me as a “self-driving car” kind of problem… it can look impressive for specific examples, but quickly break down. This is not to …

The Miracle Sudoku I’ll admit that I didn’t watch all 25 minutes of The Miracle Sudoku that has been traveling around social media, but I did watch more than I expected and quite enjoyed it. This is clearly a person who loves Sudoku and is very good at it. Also worth noting that the site he’s playing …

Backlinks 2020-05-20 Pete Hodgson provides a rundown on Twitter of Uber’s approach to Feature Flags, which I think is a very important technique for frequently deployment and delivery. Specifically, this thread is about how to clean up flags over time.

Recovered coronavirus patients who test positive aren’t infectious New COVID-19 research out of South Korea has found that people who tested positive after recovering from the coronavirus did not go on to infect others. Awesome Obsidian Since I’m using Obsidian now, I should collect interesting tips and …

Just starting with Obsidian I was just invited into the beta for Obsidian and my first reaction is wow. The specific bit of wow for me is that I had been using nvALT to edit my notes and generate my website, but Obsidian plugs right in to the way I was already using notes for Knowledge Management including daily notes. …

Scholagladiatoria YouTube fighting videos In Brandon Sanderson’s latest BYU lecture, he mentioned using Matt Easton’s videos to learn about various aspects of sword fighting for your Writing. The channel is Scholagladiatoria and it looks awesome.

Backlinks 2020-05-16 In Brandon Sanderson’s latest BYU lecture, he mentioned using Matt Easton’s videos to learn about various aspects of sword fighting for your Writing. The channel is Scholagladiatoria and it looks awesome.