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Friday 2024-04-12 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2024-04-12

12-Apr-2024 – Git Good, By Playing a Gamified Version of Git

Brief Summary: “What better way to learn to use Git than a gamified interface that visualizes every change? That’s t”

12-Apr-2024 – Beating IBM’s Eagle Quantum Processor On An Ising Model With a Classical Tensor Network

Brief Summary: “The central selling point of qubit-based quantum processors is that they can supposedly solve certai”

12-Apr-2024 – Lizzy McAlpine – Older

Brief Summary: ”
Label: Columbia RecordsReleased: 5th April 2024

Basking in the afterglow of a viral hit can be a”

12-Apr-2024 – The Future Looks Bleak for Alexa Skill Development

Brief Summary: “While the average Hackaday reader is arguably less likely than most to install a megacorp’s listenin”

12-Apr-2024 – Dua Lipa has released a new single inspired by knowing what you’re getting into, ‘Illusion’

Brief Summary: ”
Dua Lipa released a new single, ‘Illusion’.

The track coincides with tickets going on sale for h”

12-Apr-2024 – Make Your Music Simpler With the User-Unfriendliest Cassette Deck Ever

Brief Summary: “Call us crazy, but music was a whole lot more fun when it was on physical media. Or perhaps just eas”

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Thursday 2024-04-11 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2024-04-11

11-Apr-2024 – Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership

Brief Summary: “theodp writes: From a Wednesday press release: “Code.org, in collaboration with The Piech Lab at Sta”

11-Apr-2024 – Garage Door Automation With No Extra Hardware

Brief Summary: “Home automation projects have been popular as long as microcontrollers have been available to the ge”

11-Apr-2024 – Taylor Swift’s music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, after UMG pulled its catalog over an ongoing licensing dispute with TikTok (Variety)

Brief Summary: ”
Variety:
Taylor Swift’s music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, afte”

11-Apr-2024 – 3Blue1Brown: Attention in transformers, visually explained

Brief Summary: “3Blue1Brown: Attention in transformers, visually explained
Grant Sanderson publishes animated explai”

10-Apr-2024 – McDonald’s China Brings Back Fujifilm QuickSnap Disposable Camera On Members’ Day

Brief Summary: “From McDonald’s Japan, we cross the East China Sea to China where, on March 31, 2024, the American f”

11-Apr-2024 – Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza evolves into a nagashi somen noodle delivery system【Pics】

Brief Summary: ”
A super-effective way to get a taste of Japanese summertime food culture.

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Journal

In 2017, I took a trek with my parents down to Carbondale Illinois to view the total solar eclipse. While these are reasonably common occurrences, they are not super common in an area where it’s easy to go see them. At this point, I’ve been fortunate to have two of them come nearby within a few years. We had vague plans to go back to Carbondale again for the 2024 eclipse but instead opted to go to my aunt and uncle’s place in Indiana. With one big benefit being that it meant avoiding excessively pricey hotels. Last Eclipse, we stayed in my parent’s camper, but they don’t have the camper anymore so that wasn’t an option this round. It also meant it was much easier to stay an extra night and avoid the stress of the traffic leaving the area.

Aside from visiting my relative’s new house for the first time, my main draw is trying to take photos of the event. It’s also just, neat to be here. My pics from last Eclipse came out pretty well, and I wanted to give it another go. I also tried a little experiment this time using my laptop and a spare webcam I had to try to take a video of the while thing. This… sort of worked out, but it’s not exactly amazing footage. It was still a fun experiment though.

The actual eclipse photos themselves came out alright, though I am not sure why they have such a blue tint to them. It looks pretty cool though. I tried a variety of F-stop and shutter speeds to try to get some of the different layers based on some reading online but they all kind of just came out pretty similar. For these photos, I used my Pentax K-3 DSLR and a 300mm telephoto lens.

I really should look into a better lense at some point, this one is quite old I had a bit of trouble with it zooming out on it’s own while pointed upwards because the weight would cause it to collapse back into itself. I “fixed” it with a spot of tape on the barrel, but it’s been a bit of an issue off and on for a while. For a filter I reused the one I had from 2017. I’d kept it in good shape stored in a small plastic box.