Sunday, 11. May 12025
p3k dots

How to get a feel for the data

In this post, we'll look at the best plots for getting a feel for your data and what to look for in each one.

Covert messages in spam e-mails.

Any email message would work, but spam was ideal. The sender could re-use any spam message as camouflage. The unintended recipients (regular people) had already been trained to see and delete spam, so nobody (well, except me) would look closely enough to see the covert message.

Skåpa, a parametric 3D printing app like an IKEA manual.

To use it, head over to skapa.build, specify the dimensions (width, height & depth) and click the download button. Open the downloaded file in your slicer of choice (PrusaSlicer team here) and print. Voila!

Source: nmattia.com

Beautifully designed interactivity.

Overengineered anchor links.

Learn about the 'overengineered anchoring' pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.

I 🫶 Yunohost!

Top 10 European open-source projects to watch in 2025.

How Open-Source European Innovation is Changing Digital Sovereignty, Privacy, and Security.

99% resonates with me.

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything.

I have written entire applications just to avoid thinking about why I was unhappy. Programming gives you instant feedback. You run the thing, and it works. Or it doesn’t, and you fix it. Either way, you’re doing something.

Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND?

Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.

Source: substackcdn.com

{}.toString.call(v) 🧐

Converting values to strings in JavaScript has pitfalls.

„Chippers“ in Irland: Fish and Chips? Pesce e pattatine fritte!

Frittierter Fisch mit Pommes, Essig und Salz gilt als Leibspeise in Irland. Dabei waren es Italiener, die das Gericht dort verbreitet haben.

Die Betonung liegt allerdings auf »verbreitet«: Die Geschäftsidee kam aus Nordengland, wo die Mahlzeit vor den Fabriktoren verkauft wurde.

This is not the European Space Agency you are looking for.

Liste der Bankeninstitute mit Mitgliedstatus bei der Einlagensicherung Austria.

Of course I want to get away from Bank99 after their shit show of reorganizing their banking infrastructure.