Space

I just finished watching the season five finale of For All Mankind. No spoilers, but the whole show is filled with people in spacecraft stuck, slowly running out of resources of one variety or another. And, shortly after, I happened to catch this video on the World War II buoys anchored out in the English Channel to rescue downed pilots. My brain just decided to staple the two things together and do some napkin math to see if the idea would actually hold up. ...

The other half of the title. None of this is work. It is what happens when an idea is interesting enough to spend an afternoon and some order-of-magnitude math on, whether or not it goes anywhere. Concert Porter Site: mickdarling.github.io/concert-porter | GitHub: mickdarling/concert-porter | Write-up: The agents did most of this one A friend has years of concerts logged on Concert Archives and wanted them on What I’ve Heard. My agents worked out the interesting part while we were still on the phone: What I’ve Heard keeps no database of its own, it reads the setlist.fm archive, so moving a history is a matching problem. They built the matcher, the site, and the relay almost entirely on their own; my whole contribution was four requests. ...