Andreas Matern

My lunchtime read In The Stacks (Maisie’s Tune) a brilliant short story by Robin Sloan which then brought me to the revel of the big red synthesizer.  What a great lunchtime find! #ShortStory 


Very cool - The UK is embarking on an ambitious plan to accelerate research into mRNA cancer vaccines, with German pharmaceutical company BioNTech. 


Happy First Friday of 2023!


What a dumpster fire.


Damp January?  An interesting take in Fortune. Via.  I’m still having some wine with dinner.  Just cutting back on the IPAs :) 


That game should have been cancelled sooner.  I hope that Damar Hamlin is OK. 


Merry Christmas all


Henrietta Lacks’ hometown is replacing a Robert E Lee monument with a statue of her. That’s awesome


Now it’s Christmas


Following a Thread on Hacker News about the Atari 2600 Basic programming cartridge, I found this.. and it brought back a flood of memories writing D&D character generation programs in Basic and saving them to cassette tape.  How times have changed!