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Weeklog for Week 25: June 17 to June 23

Jun 23, 2024

Progress

The big party was this week. We met a lot of old friends and had a really great time. Grateful to have this many good friends.

I'm also preparing for my AI workshop next week, and I'm only a little stressed out about it.

Articles

Building SimCity
What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
The Banana Pi M7 - Tao of Mac
Chris's Wiki :: blog/python/UnderstandingClosureOddity: I don't think there are as many "gotcha"s in there as the article makes it sound. You can deduct each of them yourself. But the names give to things here... phew...
2 GHz Active Probe · James Wilson
the Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi algorithm explained as simply as possible
KI-Desaster bei McDonald's: Chicken-Nuggets für 275 Dollar und neun Eistees, wie bestellt - DER SPIEGEL
Understanding the misunderstood Kessler Syndrome - Aerospace America
Tim 🎮: "It's Friday night, it's cold o…" - Mastodon
John Graham-Cumming's blog: Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino
Satellites Spotting Ships
jwz: Mozilla is an advertising company now: Better a browser-company becoming an ad company than an ad company becoming a browser company.
The World Will Soon Witness "One Of The Rarest Space Events Of Our Lives" -- IFLScience
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 - The Silicon Underground
This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive : ScienceAlert
Identifying leap years -- David Turner says…: no benchmarks, sadly.
Never* use Datagrams - Media over QUIC
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Libraries, programming, etc

Books

Oddjobs 2: this one wasn't as good as the first, mostly because of the "horror" vibe. 6.5/10

Games

Walkabout Minigolf: I talked a neighbour into buying a Quest, so now we play Minigolf together.
Dodo Peak: a puzzle game that is as silly as it is simple. Find and guide your dodo children through dangerous, moving levels. Not my thing. 4/10
Freshly Frosted: another little puzzle game. You draw "production lines" to create frosted and sprinkled and creamed and cherried donuts. Cute! The girl's voice makes this very relaxing. 7/10

Backlog

Freshly Frosted (free from EGS)
The Lullaby of Life (free from Prime)
Outcast - A New Beginning (waitlist)

Other media

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