uijl's comments

On: Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965

[uijl]

For the ones interested, there’s a fascination book on the history of oil. The Prize, by Daniel Yergin [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354

On: Explore the Silk Roads

[uijl]

Nice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads

On: Writing Python inside Rust

[uijl]

At FOSDEM there was a talk about boosting Python with Rust [1]. Might be interesting for the people checking this.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/python2020_rust/

On: Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years

[uijl]

A Dutch professor created the "Herengracht index" to track the price of these canal houses back to when construction started in 1620.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herengracht_index [2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=598

On: Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

[uijl]

I really like this tutorial to get into Make files: https://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/.

On: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

[uijl]

In the Netherlands we, as hydraulic engineers, are working on something called 'Building with Nature'. This is a perfect example of that. If you guys like this, check out https://www.ecoshape.org/en/.

[spiderfarmer → uijl]

As a part of that there are several projects underway trying to get oysters to return, using artificial reefs:

https://www.platteoester.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Overv...