Progress

A rather boring week, lots of work and stuff. It was quite stressful but not interesting, which is a theme of my recent work experiences. I guess that's part of the reason why I'm looking at more opportunities.

Friends are coming to visit on the weekend! Hooray!

Articles

• How to Make an Escape Room on Google Forms - Teach with Holly Rachel
• The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem -- Quanta Magazine
• GitHub - mawise/bookshelf: 3D animated bookshelf for ebooks
• It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest: it's been ten years' time we stop recommending clean code.
• Repair and Remain - Comment Magazine
• The Things by Peter Watts : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy
• The Ozempic boom: How the entire country of Denmark became a company town – POLITICO
• OpenSCAD CheatSheet
• Explosion waves and shock waves. Part I.—The wave-speed camera and its application to the photography of bullets in flight - payman-et-al-1997-explosion-waves-and-shock-waves-part-i-the-wave-speed-camera-and-its-application-to-the-photography.pdf
• Data Defense: Evaluating People-Search Site Removal Services - Data-Defense_-Evaluating-People-Search-Site-Removal-Services-.pdf
• Uncharted 4's really meta hidden Trophies revealed -- Eurogamer.net
• Making good on years of threats: praising Nippon Ichi Software's ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman as the best game ever
• So the Department of Energy emailed me -- daniel.haxx.se: The DoE emailed the maintainer of curl, whom they don't give any money, and order him to fill out lots of documentation for them
• Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine -- Arduino Blog
• WHO declares Mpox global health emergency
• Run Deep: I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
• How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
• Frontend ohne FOMO: ein Erfahrungsbericht • Peter Kröner • Webtechnologie
• Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
• First case of more dangerous mpox found outside Africa
• Underground reservoir, known as the underground cathedral, to be restored and reused - The Malta Independent
• Mixing Ethanol and Water -- Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: mixing 250 ml of water and 250 ml of ethanol results in 480 ml of mixture, and a rise of 8 °C in temperature
• Are you smarter than a language model?: yes, yes I am!
• How To Force The 'true' Command To Return 'false'
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2e: Dedication: “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.”
• Drawing boundaries -- hgrsd (via Jochen)

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - judofyr/spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig

Games

• Tunic
• Factorio
• Lullaby of Life: it's a simple sequence matching puzzle where you play a blue blob. I don't know, not my kind of thing.
• Hydroneer: It's... weird? In a good way? I mean, there are drawbacks: there is very little handholding; the "inventory" system is atrociousYou can only hold one item. No backpack, no money, no "I can actually hold two gem stones in my two hands", so you have to collect things in buckets and carry those around. Which is diegetic and would be nice if aiming weren't so bad, aiming is badYou have a crosshair which is for interactions, ie. picking things up, shoveling, pulling levers etc. You also carry one item, which is held at the top-right part of your screen in the world. When you drop an item, it gets dropped from its current world position, which is somewhere to your top-right. Collecting items or placing buckets or fetching water or dumping items into a machine are really all quite bad. and there are other small things as well. This is one of those 90's games that have awful UX but are still compelling enough that people play them for years. There's one worse thing, though, and that is that there's really no point to the game. It's a sandbox with a few nice toys in it but nothing else, really. If they had some mission or some world that is compelling enough, I'd probably be hooked, but as it stands... 8/10

Backlog

• News Tower (from waitlist)

Board games

• Red7

Recipes

• Megaschokolade
• Creme-Brulee-Eis

Other media

• Diablo 1 World Record Speedrun Exposed - YouTube
• I Wish I Learned This Sooner! -- Unreal Fest 2024 - YouTube
• The Different Types of Drawbridges & How They Worked -- The Anatomy of Castles - YouTube: I'll build a drawbridge in my garden!
• Why This Rocket Went Sideways Off The Launch Pad - YouTube
• The internet isn't as fast as it used to be. These towers are why - YouTube
• How Isometric Coordinates Work in 2D games - YouTube
• If Elon Musk Bought A Restaurant - YouTube
• Water powered timers hidden in public restrooms - YouTube
• Multiplayer in Unreal Engine: How to Understand Network Replication - YouTube
• The Weird Lies Of "Snapchat Influencers" - YouTube
• I Prove Hollywood Effects Aren't BAD, They're RUSHED - YouTube