Progress

Back from vacation. I held one workshop which was both nerve-wracking beforehand and very satisfying afterwards. And then back to work, as usual.

Bravely, I've published a short story today.

Articles

• You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are: Control theory on unintuitive behaviour and how you can do nothing about it.
• Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
• What Actually Happened to the Concorde - YouTube
• Dream Factory by Greg Egan : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy
• I’ve locked myself out of my digital life – Terence Eden’s Blog
• The Real Miri on Twitter: "Falls ihr noch Platz im Garten habt: Die Felsenbirne. Freundlich zu Bienen und wenn du nicht schnell genug bist auch gut zu Vögeln. Die Beeren sind süß und schmecken leicht nach Holunder.: I'll definitely have one of these in our garden. They're not even too expensive.

Libraries, programming, etc

• Toit programming language: Toit is a modern high-level language designed specifically for microcontroller
• Valetudo -- Open source cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
• How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment - Liveblocks blog
• Hex-Words: Use ACCESS and ACIDIC for easy success/error colors!
• #HEXWORDS
• Gary's hacking stuff: Exploiting the Wii U's USB Descriptor parsing
• Maximising MicroPython speed — MicroPython 1.12 documentation
• Underjord -- What ID3v2 could have been
• Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC - A Raspberry Pi 400 alternative powered by Rockchip RK3399 - CNX Software
• GitHub - H4ckd4ddy/bypass-sentry-safe
• The true cost of linked lists · YKarroum
• SideFX Releases Five Custom Tools Made For Project Titan
• GitHub - jwilk/python-syntax-errors: no-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y

Books

• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Backlog

• Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

Games

• The Witcher 3

Backlog

• Space Haven (from waitlist)
• Planet Zoo (Humble)
• Spellcaster University (Humble)
• If found... (Humble)
• embr (Humble)
• Maneater (from free EGS, was already in Humble Monthly)

Other media

• Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans - YouTube: I love crows!
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Tacky" (Mandatory World Tour) - YouTube
• Drop Slides Morning Test and Check - YouTube: I want to go on these slides!
• J'ai testé la glissitude des bananes - Réponse à @SQUEEZIE - YouTube: Are bananas really slippery? Spoiler: Yes. Research on this also has won an IgNobel price. Sadly this video doesn't even get into the whole Cavendish/Gros Michel difference.