h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

For the vegan in your life: fake cheese that really does taste like cheese #violife

Chemists constantly finding new ways to do chemistry https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/02/22/birch-reduction-without-tear-or-ammonia-or-metals

Adding two numbers together in C https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/INT30-C.+Ensure+that+unsigned+integer+operations+do+not+wrap

Lots of talk about Opportunity's time on mars, but what's Curiosity been up to? Quite a lot! http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/curiosity-update-sols-2257-2312.html

How to destroy London https://www.roads.org.uk/ringways/

Number of people in the world without electricity falls below one billion https://ourworldindata.org/number-of-people-in-the-world-without-electricity-access-falls-below-one-billion

Because of issues like https://lwn.net/Articles/779542/rss it's a good idea to change make root inside the container have a different uid than root on the host. https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/userns-remap/

New version of PyPy got released - looks like improvements to gc and cffi https://lwn.net/Articles/779432/rss

Planted onions and early carrots today. Delicious onion smell protects the carrots against pests. I should have planted the onions in December, but it was cold and I regret nothing. Next: tomato seeds into windowsill pots.

What do people do all day? For 20 random people in UK:

👶 Pre-school
👧👦👩 In school
🎓 In education
🍼 At home
🛏 Unwell
🏡🏠🏡 Retired
Work…
🚑🏫 In public sector
🔨 Self-employed
🏢🏭 Part time
💼🖊💻 In a office
🛠📦 Elsewhere

Making silk in beer using yeast and gene editing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx8TcGrCOSI Literally everything about modern genetics seems insane.

Set up a Mastodon server today, including (hopefully) cross-posting to Twitter. Hurrah!

Hello world!