- Mendeley’s “API Binary Battle” (http://dev.mendeley.com/api-binary-battle/) was shared as a developer competition for building tools on top of Mendeley’s academic-paper API.  
- A participant asked for literature on the qualitative and quantitative effects of weightlifting on the central nervous system, highlighting interest in quantified-self approaches to strength training.  
- kanzure reported traveling from Vietnam → Hong Kong → Austin, noting a 40-hour wake streak that included an 18-hour coding sprint and 21 hours of flight time, illustrating the community’s intense work habits.  
- Los Angeles airport/hotel networks were observed to block port 22 (SSH), a practical data point for traveling technologists.  
- iorodeo’s open-source Python-to-OpenSCAD bridge, py2scad (https://bitbucket.org/iorodeo/py2scad), was mentioned as a tool for programmatic 3-D modeling in hardware projects.