On 17th September, the UK government announced an initiative called Sankore, with up to £1.9 million in funding to strengthen science, technology and innovation in Ghana and Nigeria through its West Africa Research and Innovation Hub. The press release also has a link to an information page on how to apply.

orama is a full-text, vector, and hybrid search module with a unique API and all in less than 2KB. Been seeing a lot of these JavaScript search modules pop up and while vector search isn’t all that new, it’s nice to see lightweight versions for smaller scale projects. And the docs are powered by Astro!

John D. Cook wrote an interesting blog post on mentally multiply by π should you not have access to a calculator. As someone who remembers π to 11 decimal places and used it as a chat-up line once (it kinda worked), this resonated with me.