Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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It's frustrating that nearly every niche interest and hobby's main online community exists on Reddit, because Reddit is fucking terrible for fostering genuine communities. If you go into any subreddit - I will pick on /r/3DPrinting for...
Podcast is the best medium for horror fiction If you ever watch horror movies, you know that the anticipation is scarier than the reveal. The scraping noise against the window beats the monster reveal on the terror factor every time....
I want to talk about advertising for a second. Why does it exist? If you are in a intro to business class you might say: "Advertising exists to educate the consumer about the options on the market so they can make an educated decision" a...
Whoops, thought I fixed my RSS feeds last week, Turns out I just broke it again in a new way. This time, they should be working. I think.
Another reason why libraries are great Everyone knows the main reasons why libraries are great. You get to read books for free. It is the only place left in our world where you can exist - I mean loiter - without the expectation of...
I tried to compress Yanis Varoufakis "Technofeudalism - What Killed Capitalism" into 4 poorly drawn comic panels License: Treat it like some bathroom graffiti
Quiet few months. Turns out my RSS feed was broken. Sorry for the spam of todays three posts. Two Important Updates: I fixed the RSS functionality of my site. If you missed anything from this year, feel free to go back and read my older...
One of my favourite sites on thie IndieWeb RainbowSpec focuses entirely on learning everything you could possibly want about the optics of rainbows. From the visible spectrum to double rainbows, and glories. Worth a good read!
Its kind of wild that Quantum tech has gotten to the point where folks are sharing Open Source schematics for N-V Quantum Magnetomer's with a total BOM of >$250AUD. The construction seems (relatively) accessible as well. Read about it on...
It is well known that Physicists have a special relationship with beer. There is just something magical about the amber fluid. Here I want to discuss the ways in which beer and the desire to improve the brewing process furthered...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction This is a complicated one to recommend. It was a bit of a slog to read, and parts of it were quite confronting. Without going too much into my own political ideology, I don't think it would be that surprising...
1 On the role of technical skills in fighting power I've been reading Yanis Varifakis's Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism and have been thinking about the pessimism a lot of progressives have in opposing oligarchy. Specifically,...
So, what on Earth do I actually work on? Lets explain it at 5 different levels. 1 Primary School I use lasers to talk to astronauts Credit: NASA 2 High School We use lasers to communicate to communicate with satellites and other things...
I dont care about how it works, what do I need to do? Scroll to the bottom, and grab the code and instructions there. Embedding Mastodon Posts into your Static Web Page There are a few tools for embedding Mastodon toots into a webpage....
1 Background A while back, I wrote a quick explainer on how to set up your own RSS feed for your site. It was pretty straightforward, and showed you how to hard-code it. Then I got lazy, updating the feed.xml file every time I wrote a...