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Cake day: November 17th, 2024

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  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin.

    The history of oil is so much more interesting than it might appear at first glance. It’s part technological history, corporate intrigue, political thriller, and more.

    Honorary second place to The Long Shadow: the Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. WWII tends to get a lot more attention in popular histories, but WWI really set the stage for the trajectory of Europe in the 20th century and the end of colonialism.






  • I use openscale and a Beuer BF700 (I think that’s the model #, it’s a model listed in the github wiki) and it works great, although I had to do the initial setup on their proprietary app to get the profiles to work right, and the scale had to be imported/was a bit hard to find. The wiki includes instructions for modifying a scale to add an arduino and the necessary bits to DIY one if you’re at all technically inclined.

    I recommend it, but YMMV if you try to use a newer scale. If I ever have more time I would like to try to extend the drivers to support more scales, because openscale is very good software.