Semidán Robaina, Ph. D. @robaina@qoto.org

Things I’ve learned about building CLI tools in Python

I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up for other people to use too. Here are some notes on what I’ve learned about designing and implementing CLI tools in Python so far.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/30/cli-tools-python/

Due to human activity, including agriculture and climate change, large scale algal blooms have become more and more of a runaway problem in oceans and water sources.

Finding ways to deal with them though without harming the surrounding environment is tricky however.

Chinese scientists have made a specialized sponge composite with biochar catalysts that can destabilize 90% of surrounding algal blooms.

#Algae #AlgaeBlooms #Science #Biology #Engineering #Scicomm

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00202

If you want to learn how harmony is "hard-baked into the physics of our universe", you can't do better than this video. Some people manage to make this stuff seem complicated. David Bennett does not.

He starts provocatively by asking "why is your piano out of tune? why is your tuner out of tune?"

And he answers it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhVcGtT8z4