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🔗 The first open source 3D atlas of human anatomy

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In less than two years, 'Z-Anatomy' gathered more than 5.000 tridimensional anatomical structures and labels with more than 3500 definitions in two fully functional open source viewers.

Available for free in 5 languages, it progressively becomes an open alternative to all the students, the Health Professional and the Researchers willing to use 3D models; promoting the collaboration in Sciences through its CC-BY-SA license.

🔗 What is a “now page”?

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What is a “now page”?

Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page that tells you something about the background of this person or business. For short, people just call it an “about page”.

Most websites have a link that says “contact”. It goes to a page that tells you how to contact this person or business. For short, people just call it a “contact page”.

So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.

See examples by browsing nownownow.com.

Although it’s normal to make the web address “/now”, just like it’s usually …

🔗 Calendar

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👋 Hello! If you print this page, you’ll get a nifty calendar that displays all of the year’s dates on a single page. It will automatically fit on a single sheet of paper of any size. For best results, adjust your print settings to landscape orientation and disable the header and footer.

Take in the year all at once. Fold it up and carry it with you. Jot down your notes on it. Plan things out and observe the passage of time. Above all else, be kind to others.

🔗 Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.

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Gödel proved in 1931 that mathematics is not decidable, an earth-shattering result. He proved that there are statements in mathematics, which are true but not provable within the system. Worse yet, it turns out that you can’t build a more powerful mathematical system. Once a system becomes sufficiently complex, there will always be statements which are undecidable. You’re left with a choice: either have weak system of mathematics or accept that there will always be theorems out of reach. A rough analogy to incompleteness Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which shows that physics makes it impossible to determine both the position and velocity of a particle with exact precision.

A third major theme of the book is isomorphism, which is unique to Hofstadter’s vernacular. In formal …

🔗 Pixel Art

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On the C64, you always have access to all of the fixed 16 colours provided by the hardware. I like working in Hires, which on the C64 is 320x200 pixels. This is divided into "chars" of 8x8 pixels and each such char can only contain two colours at any one time. This limitation provides for quite a bit of fun and challenging puzzles.

🔗 How to Quit Capitalism

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The first layer to peel back is the assumption that greed and selfishness are innate human traits that any system must accommodate. In reality, people naturally demonstrate cooperation, compassion, and social responsibility — capitalist competition is what brings out individualistic instincts. Our altruistic nature surfaces when we design systems that appeal to humanity’s ethical core rather than its transactional periphery.

The second layer is the belief that jobs generate, affirm and organise life’s meaning and purpose. Imbalance is inevitable when work governs identity and dictates time allocation across society. People sacrifice relationships and downtime that nurture overall wellbeing. Post-capitalism must diversify sources of purpose across family, hobbies, and community — a richness impossible when working relentlessly to afford basic needs.

The third layer: we assume capitalist hierarchy reflects …