davecanderson

Nature is such a good source of inspiration, the "perturb" approach reminded me of [fixational eye movement][1] but maybe that's only a clear link in retrospect.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(visual)

I just finished reading A Deepness in The Sky by Vernor Vinge which I totally enjoyed and as I read it reminded me of the scale and depth of Banks' Culture novels.

Love the sight of the Oz Harvest[1] bright yellow trucks combating food waste here in Australia.

1. https://www.ozharvest.org/fight-food-waste/

A much shorter article covering the same map: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pa...

[ServiceStack OrmLite][1] does just that, all our development is done locally using SQLite but then deployments use MySQL. We do fall into the 'program is simple enough' category though.

[1]: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite

The second guess was "Is it Grandma?" but that was definately a bit of a joke. Just not many other candidates they could come up with for lady of prominence that would make it on a coin.

My seven year old was looking at some (commonwealth) coins and asked who the lady (queen elizabeth II) was on the back. I asked who they thought it was, first guess was "Is it Siri?"