Weeknotes 17

I made sourdough again this week. It’s getting really good now and I’m finally enjoying the whole convoluted process.

I expect you’re sick of the sight of other people’s bread so, instead of a picture, here’s the sound of yesterday’s loaf crackling as it cooled.

This isn’t necessarily going to be the next big ASMR craze but I do find it soothing in these uncertain times. (It’s a loop. You’re welcome.)

I’m getting a lot out of Grant Sanderson’s Lockdown math livestreams. The content itself is great, but what’s most interesting to me is the progression of concepts: the overall theme is the complex numbers, but it takes two hours before he really talks about them, and they’re nicely situated among many other motivating ideas. Ostensibly the lectures are targeted at “high schoolers” but his focus on the intuition behind each topic is teaching me loads.

After what feels like decades of grudgingly tolerating macOS’s refusal to control the volume or brightness of HDMI displays (“Mac computers don’t support using CEC to control HDMI devices”) I ran out of patience and installed MonitorControl which turns out to work perfectly. Oh.

It appears to be using DDC/CI (versus HDMI-CEC) to do this, which I didn’t know about before. Although it’s quite important that I’m now able to control my monitor, it’s much more important that I learned something about wires.

The Oculus Quest is getting daily use. At the moment I’m enjoying A Fisherman’s Tale which is a very nice mindbending recursive puzzler.

I want to go outside.