Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 11 (03/13/23)

Augmenting Long-term Memory
Codon

Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 100x or more, on a single thread. Codon supports native multithreading which can lead to speedups many times higher still.

The Big Lebowski Turns 25: “People Didn’t Get It,” Jeff Bridges Says

Twenty five years ago, The Big Lebowski blew into theaters like a tumbleweed on an empty street.

Domestic audiences barely showed up, with the comedic detective tale only earning $18 million. Audiences gave it a B CinemaScore. Critics sniffed that it wasn’t as good as Joel and Ethan Coen’s last release, the Oscar-winning Fargo.

But that was just, like, their opinion, man.

“I thought it was going to be a big hit,” star Jeff Bridges tells THR, along with sharing some of his personal behind-the-scenes photos from the film’s set, many of which appeared in his 2003 book, Pictures. “I was surprised when it didn’t get much recognition. People didn’t get it, or something.”

How to date a recording using background electrical noise | Robert Heaton

Super cool post on how to use electric grid frequency variations to match them into recorded sound clips, and basically allowing to timestamp the clip.

6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023