vacation rabbit holes 🥕
whenever I go on vacation and don't have work using up my mind space (technical term), usually the caffeine results in rabbit holes on my phone's browser. here's a bunch of random stuff
- [https://kagi.com/assistant/35d5ca55-e7a9-4100-b00d-f540e724f5eb](why is duckduckgo free?) there is also the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo](DDG Wiki article) which explains that DDG delegates most search to providers
- https://herman.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene-emails/
- https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-solution/issues/497
- https://www.shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-collection/2023/9/30/review-byung-chul-han-non-things
- "“the history that things acquire in the course of being used for a long time gives them souls", things didn’t mistreat humans, but were unpredictable with wills of their own residing in “interstitial spaces.”"
- reminds me of David Graeber's descriptions of spectral something something in Fragments
- https://docs.openwebui.com/features/plugin/functions/pipe this stuff is moving fast
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57705/the-lovers-56d23b74887b3
- https://www.printables.com/model/252630-legend-of-zelda-master-sword-botw-totk-full-scale
- https://www.prusa3d.com/fr/product/original-prusa-xl-2/ too pricey even for fun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleepwalkers:_How_Europe_Went_to_War_in_1914
- https://www.cjr.org/special_report/the-abcs-of-jacobin-socialist-magazine.php
- https://jacobin.com/2021/02/french-socialism-francois-mitterrand
- https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/into-the-abyss
- https://marsactu.fr/suivez-le-guide-une-visite-a-laube-dans-le-ballet-bien-orchestre-du-marche-des-arnavaux/
- https://github.com/esp32beans/ESP32USBMIDI
- https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/acid-japonisme
- https://github.com/multiscale-cosim/TVB-NEST/pull/22
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm
- https://www.koalasampler.com/community/
- https://goose.game/
- https://www.npr.org/donations
- https://www.korg.com/us/products/computergear/nanokey_fold/
- [https://nmaahc.si.edu/](a museum I wanted to visit) while in the US but didn't have time
- Mistral AI job ad which looks interesting and close enough
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
- https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/
- https://guardianbookshop.com/the-anxious-generation-9780241647660/
- https://lifeafterbabel.com/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_For%C3%AAt_de_Mogari
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_altissima
- https://marsactu.fr/tops-et-flops-des-oeuvres-empruntees-a-la-bibliotheque-lalcazar/
- https://www.croptrust.org/news-events/news/climate-proofing-the-carrot-where-flavor-meets-stress-tolerance/
- a nice water heater that we used at a hotel
- Zen in English Literature by R H Blythe
- What Makes Heat So Hard to Cover? interesting CJR piece on complex systemic effects of heat
- https://www.sortiramarseille.fr/
we could cluster them along a few broad lines
- journalism: marsactu, guardian, cjr, tribunemag, jacobin, atlantic
- general curiosity (wikipedia), tech/music junk
unfortunately, no tabs on the latest southpark episodes, since one needs a subscription to watch it..