Weeklog for Week 32: August 05 to August 11
Progress
Uh, nothing, really.
Articles
- Rewriting wipEout - PhobosLab
- Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes
- Replacing liquid metal in an Asus Zephyrus G15 :: François-Guillaume Lemesre
- Writing a tile server in python -- .:: Marcos Dione/StyXman's glob ::.
- Public Work by Cosmos: Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.
- UBC super-black wood can improve telescopes, optical devices and consumer goods
- Plunge for distance - Wikipedia: hilarious, this used to be an olympic sport.
- Prevention of HIV -- Science -- AAAS
- Negotiating Bastardry — /dev/lawyer
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now - Raspberry Pi
- Introducing the RP2350 - Dmitry.GR
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy – I Code 4 Coffee
- Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython
- FXRant: Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin
- Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions
- How the SNES Graphics System works
- A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g.
- GitHub - evilsocket/opensnitch: OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
- Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium -- Science -- AAAS
- GitHub - LostArtefacts/TR1X: Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1 (1996), along with additional enhancements and bugfixes
- Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and humans -- Journal of Experimental Biology -- The Company of Biologists
- Finite State Machine Designer - by Evan Wallace
Libraries, programming, etc
Books
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovski
- Hieroglyphs
Games
- Walkabout Minigolf
- Sifu
- Tunic: I have more to say on the difficulty of this.
Backlog
- Sifu (from Humble Monthly)
- High On Life (from Humble Monthly)
- Blacktail (from Humble Monthly)
- Universe For Sale (from Humble Monthly)
- This Means Warp (from Humble Monthly)
Board games
- Werwölfe: Vollmondnacht
- Colt Express
Other media
- Destroying Lego Towers - YouTube
- Corgi Juniors James Bond 007 Lotus Esprit Restoration - YouTube: another category I did not know: cheap toy car restorations
- How to Rip Off the Dealership - Bastard Negotiating Tactics - YouTube
- Building and riding increasingly small bikes - YouTube
- Precision guided launcher turns noobs into pros - YouTube