Saturday, 21 February 2026

How whey is made

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUZmojH7p8

  1. Start with Milk, homogenize, pasteurize. It is 87% water, 5% lactose, 3.5% fat, 3.5% protein of which 80% is casine and 20% whey. So there is 0.7% whey in milk. Use around 10l milk for 1kg cheese.
  2. Whey is a byproduct from making cheese which is made from the casine protein. You need to sperate that caseine from the rest of the milk. Add acid or bacteria that eat lactose and secret acid. Curdling happens and the milk gets firm as the casine separates from the rest, including the whey protein which stays in the water.
  3. Now it is one big curd with all the other milk components trapped inside. Cut it in small pieces an press it. What comes out are the curds for the cheese and whey liquid.
  4. The whey liquid contains protein, lactose and fat. 
  5. Filter out the fat, lactose and minerals. Then dry it. You get whey
In short: Milk -> Filter out casine via curds -> filter out fat, minerals and lactose -> dry it -> whey powder.

Thursday, 19 February 2026

smartphone holder bicyle

Factor 1.75: I assume 430 ckal/h on long distance cycling. 760 ckal/h on long distance running.

So I need to cycle 1.75 times long than running. I want to have the equivalent of 100km running. I would plan 12h for this. So I need to cycle 21h or about 500km. Nice, 12 to 21 is easy to remember. I need to consume 9000 ckal.

Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Maing capslock useful

tap to esc, hold with hjkl for arrows

git clone https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
cd keyd
make && sudo make install
sudo systemctl enable --now keyd
cat /etc/keyd/default.conf
[ids]
*

[main]
# Create a dedicated navigation layer called 'vim_nav'
# Tap = Esc, Hold = Activate 'vim_nav' layer
capslock = overload(vim_nav, esc)

[vim_nav]
# Map hjkl to arrow keys
h = left
j = down
k = up
l = right

# --- Optional but recommended ---
# Map other useful navigation keys to this layer for convenience
# Example: Caps + u/i = PageUp/PageDown
u = pageup
i = pagedown
# Example: Caps + n/m = Home/End
n = home
m = end
sudo keyd reload

Monday, 16 February 2026

OpenWorm

Would be fun to work on. OpenWorm.

Dont be the strongest ant

Move into another category. The strongest ant is not as strong as a human. Humans moved in another category when they formed groups and again when they formed societies. Terrorists are groups, nations are societies. The first can not cause real damage - compared to an army. Here is a funny example of category change: Epic final moments of Kung-Fu Panda 3

Sunday, 15 February 2026

democratizing sharing of insights

It would be nice if all insights travel into the right brains at the right time. Existing solutions are not there yet. On youtube, you have to do your videos about one area only. This is the same problem with other follower-based platform as well. It would be strange to get a video in your feed about 3blue1brown on insights about cheesecake backing in his specific oven type. Blogs are ok, but when you have RSS, it is the same problem. Tiktok goes in the right direction. Content is king, nothing else, followers dont count. But due to insentive problems tiktok is aweful. Google might be good, but where to publish. In a dream world of a decentralized web with a search engine on your side it could work. LLMs, maybe with sources, are a very promising candidate for such a database. But there are currently no insentives to share your insights.

Motivating EVERYONE to share EVERYTHING slightly useful for SOMEONE and then bringing that to the right person at the right time is an important unsolved problem.

How whey is made

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUZmojH7p8 Start with Milk, homogenize, pasteurize. It is 87% water, 5% lactose, 3.5% fat, 3.5...