Weeklog for Week 33: August 14 to August 20
Progress
Another vacation week. Still no progress, as it should be.
Little bit of catching up to do afterwards.
Articles
- I Created the Nerdiest Game Ever -- Pier-Luc Brault - Personal Website
- How the Nintendo Wii Security Was Defeated -- 0x7D0
- How to run a miserable code review - by David Tate
- Tears in the Rain: The 2002 Überlingen midair collision -- by Admiral Cloudberg -- Medium: for some reason I read about plane crashes during my vacation
- Tim Gadanidis - Caught by MuseScore's dark patterns
- cohost! - "The Big Chronicles Audio System"
- Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration – Tristam: very nice, but not enough for me.
- Why Darwin Admired the Humble Earthworm - Nautilus
- The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool -- Techdirt: That is absolutely ridiculous.
- Fill & Flush - A Better Way to De-Plane: Yes, very nice idea but I doubt that it'll actually work in real life.
- The Long Way Down: The crash of Air France flight 447 -- by Admiral Cloudberg -- Medium
- Short session expiration does not help security
- research!rsc: C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
- cohost! - "hahaha we live in hell"
- Clone-a Lisa 🎨⏱️ art forgery game
- Preclinical safety and biodistribution of CRISPR targeting SIV in non-human primates -- Gene Therapy: An actual HIV medicine is in animal trials! Amazing!
- The Real Cost of Good Movies (And How To Pay For It)
- Evolving the Game: A clientless streaming tool for reMarkable 2 - Unladen swallow - Olivier Wulveryck: Very nice, I'll have to try it out.
- Shit life syndrome - Wikipedia
Libraries, programming, etc
- GitHub - spandanb/learndb-py: Learn database internals by implementing it from scratch.
- GitHub - continuousml/Awesome-Out-Of-Distribution-Detection: A professionally curated list of papers, tutorials, books, videos, articles and open-source libraries etc for Out-of-distribution detection, robustness, and generalization
- GitHub - varunshenoy/opendream: An extensible, easy-to-use, and portable diffusion web UI 👨🎨
- GitHub - rivet-gg/rivet: Open-source solution to deploy, scale, and operate your multiplayer game
Books
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour by Hank Green: I don't know what I should think about this. On the one hand, it's modern and current and well-written and cute. But on the other hand, it's... strange? Like, for example, a main indicator for the success of the group is "the economy"? I mean, given the tools that come up in the book, who cares about "the economy", when humanity could actually move to a post-scarcity society. So, I don't know. Still enjoyed it quite a bit. 8/10
- Lexicon by Max Barry: What a great book with a great and scary premise, ie. that words carry power and you can actually optimize this power and fully control other people, on so many levels. And there are many fun twists. I loved it from start to finish. 10/10
Games
Backlog
- such art (from Humble monthly)
- Tin Can (from Humble monthly)
- Airport CEO (from waitlist)
- Last Call BBS (from waitlist)
- word factori (because it looks just like the stuff I do)
- Dodo Peak (free from EGS)
Recipes
- Fondant Baulois: I've tried and failed many times. I'll have to try and fail many times more.