The story about the "aha!" moment inspires me to find ways to physically play with ideas more:
> When the workshop returned the wooden balls, he tested building some molecules. This was when he had a moment of insight: there was a vast amount of information baked into the holes’ positioning. The model molecules automatically had the correct form and structure, because of where the holes were situated. This insight led to his next idea: what would happen if he utilised the atoms’ inherent properties to link together different types of molecules, rather than individual atoms? Could he design new types of molecular constructions?
In Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman tells the story of how he managed to end a dry spell where he couldn't come up with good research ideas.
He was in a cafeteria, someone slipped, and accidentally threw a plate into the air. Feynman could see it spinning, and could see that it had a wobble that spun, and wondered if he could figure out the ratio between the two.
The piece of mathematics that he worked out had no particular purpose. But having it turned out to be essential later in the work that earned him a Nobel prize.
I'd say neither fork as made great strides since then, but I'm also biased here as the maintainer of pdoc.
There is no pdoc-specific library for link checking as far as I'm aware. It's all plain HTML though, so you can use a more general tool like https://lychee.cli.rs/. :)
I'm glad that the author mentions Systemantics because their line of thinking seems heavily influenced by that book. I noted all the main ideas here: https://biodigitaljazz.net/systemantics.html
This paragraph from the article is probably a bigger story than the August headline:
> August’s job report also included a downward revision to June, which showed the US economy lost 13,000 jobs that month. It’s the first negative employment month since December 2020, and it brings to an end what was the second-longest period of employment expansion on record.
