Progress

Added a solver to my maze generator. And also hexagonal mazes.

Articles

• What's an Obelisk, Anyway? -- Science -- AAAS This is about the kind of virus, not the kind of stone.
• Gender differences in Dutch research funding over time: A statistical investigation of the innovation scheme 2012–2021 -- PLOS ONE: The measures taken to reduce the gender gap have been so effective that there is now still a large gender gap, except in the other direction. Hilarious!
• Deciphering Glyph :: Let Me Tell You A Secret: Everything in there is absolutely correct, but... did I miss the secret? Is it "listen to your employees"? Or is it "do something about your problems"? Or is it "listen"? Or something else entirely? I don't know. (via Jochens weeklog)
• Cubetto: A toy robot teaching kids code & computer programming
• The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children -- Gabor Torok
• Palworld: What other Nintendo games can we add guns to? – How To Market A Game
• Troy Hunt: Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
• Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: When I read this, at first I thought: "Ha, that can't happen to me, because I'm not a customer of such and such and my card doesn't do such and such." But that is of course, silly. It means I won't get hit by this exact scam, but instead by one that breaks through all the holes in my swiss cheese.
• Pluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Collision Detection
• Neat parallel output in Python -- Max Bernstein
• Switch Lite Boardview

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - nedbat/pkgsample: A simple example of how to structure a Python project (via Jochens weeklog)
• GitHub - pydantic/FastUI: Build better UIs faster.
• Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL - EXPLAIN EXTENDED at EXPLAIN EXTENDED

Games

• Factorio: it's been such a long time that the game is wholly different now. Also, playing with two juggernauts who build entire factories while I play with trains is... well... different. Also, I now have this on Steam, so I received the hilarious "Shezi has played Factorio for the first time" badge.
• Lucifer Within Us
• Walkabout Minigolf
• Neptune's Pride: started two more games.

Recipes

• Kekse
• Linsen und Spätzle
• gerolltes smoked BBQ

Other media

• Extreme Beachcombing - YouTube
• Cooking Hot Dogs With THERMITE - YouTube
• The bizarre patterns that emerge when you heat ANY fluid - YouTube
• Pop-up tents are weirder than you think - YouTube
• Mass Production Process of Making Wooden Shovels. Steel Plate Factory in Korea. - YouTube
• Process of Mass Producing Soju, a Liquor Loved by Koreans. A Huge Brewing Factory in Korea. - YouTube
• Watch this before making your first videogame - YouTube
• Inside a 3D firework LED lamp. - YouTube
• Making 3D prints actually waterproof - YouTube
• We Entered the World of Microsoft Excel eSports & Got Our Asses Beat - YouTube
• How to Write a Mystery - YouTube
• Mario Sunshine’s Mysterious Text - YouTube
• NO ONE is allowed to use this tennis racket - YouTube: Note that you're totally free to use this tennis racket as much as you like, but you cannot use it during major tennis competitions.